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Microsoft confirms critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer H Online Microsoft has confirmed the existence of the critical security vulnerability that was reported over the weekend and released information on which systems are affected. According to the report, Internet Explorer 6 SP1 under Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 and Internet Explorer 6 and 7 under Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are all vulnerable

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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The European Commission says it’ll get tough with Spain if the country tries to disconnect “content pirates”.

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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Record labels are “pointing to the dramatic rise in music sales in Sweden, just months after the country introduced anti-piracy laws, as evidence of what a similar crackdown in Britain could do to the flagging market,” says the Guardian . Well —-  not really. The newspaper is but one of the means selected by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’IFPI (International Federation of Phornographic Industry) as a vehicle for its latest bullshit release

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p2pnet news view Politics | MPAA:- With their MPAA as the front, the major Hollywood studios have escalated their efforts to force ACTA, their secret copyright ‘initiative’,  into being. “Our interests in a robust ACTA are broad, ranging from providing ex-officio authority for law enforcement and customs officials to securing both the legal and practical tools necessary to protect intellectual property rights online,” says the LaLaLand enforcer. Ex-officio authority for law enforcement?

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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The outgoing British Labour government wants to leave as its legacy a law to victimise members of the P2P communities, including children, who share with each other online. “Initially the Government will aim to educate and those identified as downloading unlawfully, will be sent letters,” says the Telegraph . “If this proves insufficient, technical measures will be introduced — including the powers to disconnect pirates.” The ‘graduated response’ Three Strikes plan, touted as separate ‘initiatives’ by individual governments such as Britain’s, is  in fact a major component of a massive global entertainment industry scheme to acquire the net as an exclusive corporate marketing and distribution vehicle.

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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Last week Canadian officials travelled to Seoul for the latest round of closed-door negotiations on an international treaty called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). While battling commercial counterfeiting would seem like a good idea, the ACTA process has been marked by unprecedented secrecy as well as leaks revealing that the treaty is really about copyright rather than counterfeiting. From the moment the talks began last year, observers noted the approach was far different from virtually any other international treaty negotiation.

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The UK Home Office, which has just had its hopes of creating a vast Big Brother data base dashed, has also had its plans to restrict registered sex offenders from using the net similarly thwarted. In April the UK government said a new law would have applied to more than 30,000 sex offenders on the register, says the Guardian , going in failure to comply “would have carried up to five years’ imprisonment”. However, the Home Office has been “forced to climb down amid concerns that the plan is incompatible with the right to privacy,” says the story, continuing »»» There are fears that any move by the police to share the personal details and email addresses of registered sex offenders with the social networking sites would be open to legal challenges

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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- It would have tracked: 7.7 billion text messages sent a month (July 09); 2.7 billion personal emails sent a month (Sept 2009 – web accounts only: Gmail, Hotmail, etc. No figures available for work addresses); 111 billion minutes of calls made from UK mobile phones in 2008; 143 billion minutes of calls made from UK landlines in 2008.

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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “Big music and movie interests, and other content producers, are conducting a global campaign to put their interests ahead of citizens rights to use the internet and to not be subject to unreasonable and arbitrary penalties that do nothing for public interest.” The words belong to Jordan Carter, deputy executive director of Internet New Zealand. It “would not be in New Zealand’s best interest to sign a global treaty on copyright law, as each individual country should develop its own regulations,” he says, quoted by the National Business Review. His statement follows the latest round of anti-counterfeiting trade agreement ACTA, which wrapped up in Seoul , Korea, last week

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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Indie artist Indiana Gregg (right) became suddenly and instantly (in)famous when she had the temerity to launch a full frontal assault on The Pirate Bay. Like TPB is HOLY! No one attacks them! She and her husband, Ian Morrow, asked TPB to remove a .torrent linking to Gregg’s ‘Woman At Work’ album. And they suffered the wrath of the net as a result.

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