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[News] Yahoo Punished for Suppressing Free Speech, Big Media Lobby Wants to Kill P2P

  • Subject: [News] Yahoo Punished for Suppressing Free Speech, Big Media Lobby Wants to Kill P2P
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:44:17 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Yahoo settles lawsuit with jailed Chinese journalists

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| Smith sponsored the Global Online Freedom Act of 2007, which would prohibit 
| U.S. Internet companies from cooperating with repressive regimes on censoring 
| the Internet and using Internet user account data to track down and punish 
| pro-democracy activists.   
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9815950-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Yahoo Settles With Imprisoned Chinese Journalists

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| Terms of the deal are secret, but Yahoo has reached settlements with two 
| Chinese journalists who were arrested based on information the company 
| provided to the ruling Communist government.  
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/13/2031243&from=rss

Yahoo also supppresses talks about (software) freedom in the West.

Anti-P2P bill gets warm welcome from Ruckus.com

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| Ruckus uses digital rights management (DRM) technology--Windows Media--to 
| limit the use of downloaded songs.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| The RIAA has lauded Ruckus as a way to wean students off of peer-to-peer 
| networks, calling the Web site and service an "innovative business model." 
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http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9815876-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Censored, pressured to /rent/ content, abused, and robbed. That's the vision
those vendors have for humans in the digital age.


Related:

Report: Yahoo exec apologizes to U.S. lawmakers on China

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| A senior executive at Yahoo has apologized for misleading U.S. lawmakers on 
| the company's cooperation with a request by China for details on a journalist 
| who was later jailed, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday in its 
| online edition.   
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6216579.html


Yahoo Censors Linux.

Yahoo! Answers is rejecting Open-Source options in answers

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| Someone got a computer from a friend that has some serious problems 
| with Windows. S/he has none of the disks (XP or restore) and was
| asking for recommendations.
| 
| [...]
| 
| How is recommending freely available and legal alternatives abuse?
| ImgBurn is also a perfectly legal program, so are Ubuntu and Kubuntu
| (they're Linux).
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http://amandakerik.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/yahoo-answers-is-rejecting-open-source-options-in-answers/
http://tinyurl.com/ywglv7


Yahoo helped China falsely imprison dissident

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| U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, D-Calif.,
| said on Oct. 16 Yahoo misled his panel at a 2006 hearing about the
| company's role in providing the Chinese government with information
| that sent journalist Shi Tao to jail for a decade.
|
| [...]
|
| "Our committee has established that Yahoo provided false
| information to Congress in early 2006," Lantos said in a statement.
| "We want to clarify how that happened, and to hold the company to
| account for its actions both before and after its testimony proved
| untrue."
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2199220,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594


Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government

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| Microsoft and Yahoo! have signed a pact with the Chinese government 
| that "encourages" the big name web players to record the identities of 
| bloggers and censor content. So says Reporters Without Borders, an 
| organization that fights for journalistic rights across the globe.   
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/yahoo_and_microsoft_ink_chinese_blogging_pact/


Microsoft, Yahoo Tailor Ads To Users' Behavior

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| Google will remain on the sidelines — at least for now. But its Web portal 
| rivals are stepping up their efforts to use behavioral targeting to make 
| display, or banner, ads more relevant to Web site visitors.  
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http://investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&issue=20070823


Comcast reported to FCC

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| P2P throttling breaks FCC 'net neutrality' policy
| 
| [...]
| 
| Among the consumer groups who have approached the FCC are the Consumer 
| Federation of America, the Consumers Union, the Media Access Project and 
| professors at the Internet practices of the Yale, Harvard and Stanford law 
| schools.   
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/02/comcast-reported-fcc


Yahoo in China human rights case

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| A human rights group in the US is suing Yahoo for alleged complicity in 
| rights abuses and acts of torture in China. 
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6966116.stm


Chinese Internet dissident committed to mental hospital

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| "It is not acceptable that Chinese authorities use such methods to silence 
| citizens who have merely peacefully voiced their opinions", expressed the 
| organisation in an announcement. Apparently authorities have not abandoned 
| the practice of punishing those who have exposed the abuse of power and 
| defied censorship by compulsorily committing them to mental institutions.    
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94864/from/rss09


Comcast's "We Don't Throttle BitTorrent" Internal Talking Points Memo

http://consumerist.com/consumer/leaks/comcasts-we-dont-throttle-bittorrent-internal-talking-points-memo-315791.php


Comcast Isn’t Net Neutral; Are They Liars, Too?

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| Following reports that Comcast isn’t net neutral, Consumerist blog has 
| acquired several leaks from Comcast insiders, claiming that they do indeed 
| use Sandvine for packet shaping, and that customer service representatives 
| are being told nothing about how the network technology works,   
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http://mashable.com/2007/10/26/comcast-isnt-net-neutral-are-they-liars-too/


Senators want probe of Comcast's BitTorrent 'discrimination'

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| The senators suggested the incidents indicate "Congress should consider 
| adopting targeted regulations to protect consumers and ensure a vibrant and 
| open communications platform."  
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9805308-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


Congressman to Comcast: Stop interfering with BitTorrent

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| While a class action lawsuit is definitely one way to get Comcast to behave, 
| another perhaps more productive way to do so is to have politicians step in 
| and regulate.  
| 
| On Tuesday, I discussed the issue of Comcast's anti-BitTorrent "network 
| management" with Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., who is a strong supporter of 
| consumer rights and has led the battle to undo the damage caused by the 
| Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA.    
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9804158-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


OiNK Down, Norwegian BitTorrent Trackers Next

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| With the BitTorrent world spinning on its heels after the shock takedown of 
| the huge OiNK tracker, there are now indications that the shutdowns may 
| continue. According to the lawyer who lost against ‘DVD Jon’, next stop is 
| Norway and raids are imminent.   
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http://torrentfreak.com/oink-down-norwegian-bittorrent-trackers-next-071024/


TorrentSpy Traffic Plunges After US Ban

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| The MPAA has caused TorrentSpy, once the most popular BitTorrent site, some 
| serious headaches. After a federal judge ordered TorrentSpy to log all user 
| data stored in RAM, they decided to block access to US users, consequently 
| their traffic dropped significantly.   
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http://torrentfreak.com/torrentspy-traffic-plunges-after-us-ban-071006/


BitTorrent Admin Monitored by US Government, Forced to Dump Linux

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| Sk0t, an ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker is to have 
| his internet connection forcibly monitored by the US Government. If that 
| wasn’t bad enough, the monitoring software is Windows based - which means he 
| is being forced to ditch Linux - or face being barred from the internet.   
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http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-admin-monitored-by-us-government-forced-to-dump-linux/


Is Comcast's BitTorrent filtering violating the law?

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| Assuming that the SYN packet goes through, the three-way handshake is allowed 
| to happen, then the two hosts will be able to begin communicating. Your ISP 
| can still kill the connection later, should they wish to, merely by blocking 
| the transmission of future packets.   
| 
| According to Torrent Freak, Comcast is not doing this. They are instead 
| sending a reset (or RST) packet to the Comcast customer, pretending to be 
| from the host at the end of the BitTorrent connection.   
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13739_1-9769645-46.html


Comcast Cuts Off Heavy Internet Users

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| Customers complain bandwidth limits are secret.
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http://consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/08/comcast_ban.html?imw=Y


Torrentspy Disables Searching For US IPs

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| Torrent indexing site Torrentspy.com appears to have disabled torrent 
| searches for IPs that originate in the United States. 
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/27/1541244&from=rss


Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic, Seeding Impossible

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| Over the past weeks more and more Comcast users started to notice that their 
| BitTorrent transfers were cut off. Most users report a significant decrease 
| in download speeds, and even worse, they are unable to seed their downloads. 
| A nightmare for people who want to keep up a positive ratio at private 
| trackers and for the speed of BitTorrent transfers in general.    
| 
| [...]
| 
| Last year we had a discussion whether traffic shaping is good or bad, and 
| ISPs made it pretty clear that they do not like P2P applications like 
| BitTorrent. One of the ISPs that joined our discussions said: “The fact is, 
| P2P is (from my point of view) a plague - a cancer, that will consume all the 
| bandwidth that I can provide. It’s an insatiable appetite.”, and another one 
| stated: “P2P applications can cripple a network, they’re like leaches. Just 
| because you pay 49.99 for a 1.5-3.0mbps connection doesn’t mean your entitled 
| to use whatever protocols you wish on your ISP’s network without them 
| provisioning it to make the network experience good for all users involved.”        
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http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttles-bittorrent-traffic-seeding-impossible/


Anti-Piracy Company Wants to Sell Patents to Protect P2P

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| Recently we reported that anti-piracy company Viralg is selling the patents 
| to its technology on eBay for $1,000,000. Most people didn’t think it was 
| value for money but Viralg have been in touch and they have a new idea - 
| selling the patents to P2P’ers to help prevent some future anti-P2P 
| technology.    
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http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-company-wants-to-sell-patents-to-protect-p2p-070927/


Studies: music industry overstating threat of P2P piracy

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| Or perhaps it's not all that amazing. A more likely explanation is 
| that the numbers aren't even right. As Canadian law professor Michael 
| Geist showed a few weeks ago, claims about piracy rates can be wildly
| variable and downright fictional. High numbers are often used to 
| support legal threats or calls for Congressional action, as in the 
| MRT case. MRT has a lot to gain by overstating the threat of 
| streamripping and, so far, has not showed its numbers. Both MRT 
| and NPD agree, though, that P2P is hardly the music industry's 
| biggest problem.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070531-studies-music-industry-overstating-threat-of-p2p-piracy.html


File sharing could threaten personal and national security

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| A recent government report says that the old adage "buyer beware" now
| even applies to those who are not technically buying anything at all.
| Despite the reputation of "free" downloads, much of the illegal file
| sharing done on the internet comes at a steep price: personal and
| national security.
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http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6424471&partner=eb&spacedesc=news


The European Parliament approves new, stricter anti-piracy directive 

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| The European Parliament voted yes on the new controversial directive
| Ipred 2 which concludes that all kinds of infringement of the 
| intellectual copyrights will be considered criminal. The directive 
| is actually stricter than that and even criminalizes attempts of
| infringing on copyrights. In theory this means that basically all
| video sites, P2P developers and other services used to spread
| material around the web is criminal.
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http://www.nordichardware.com/news,6197.html


Russian music site down, sister site up

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| Allofmp3 has been cast as the epitome of Russia's shoddy copyright 
| enforcement and repeatedly held up by U.S. trade negotiators as 
| imperiling Moscow's WTO bid.
| 
| But a sister site has quietly emerged from the wings.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070703/ap_on_hi_te/russia_music_downloads


AllOfMP3 Shut Down by Russian Government

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| AllOfMp3, the popular online music store, has been shut down by the
|  Russian government. Pressure from the United States, and a refusal 
| to enter the World Trade Organisation (WTO) convinced the Kremlin to 
| take the website down for good.
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http://torrentfreak.com/allofmp3-shut-down-by-russian-government/


File-sharing 'graveyard' still filling up

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| Now a new battle is heating up. The search engine TorrentSpy is accused 
| in a lawsuit filed last year by the Motion Picture Association of 
| America (MPAA) of allegedly helping users locate pirated movies online. 
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6194001.html

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