[PN] Hotfile is Next

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There is nothing much going on because of the launch of much hyped iPad , yes its just iPad not iPad 3 or iPad HD.

Hotfile is Next

The MPAA is making moves toward taking down Hotfile which is also one of the top 10 File-sharing sites.They said that it is similar to megaupload and its users mainly download copyrighted content . A research conducted by University of Pennsylvania professor Richard Waterman on behalf of the movie studios. Waterman concluded that 90.2% of all daily downloads on Hotfile are infringing, opposed to 5.3% that are clearly non-infringing.

Source: http://torrentfreak....s-court-120307/

30k WP blogs hit

Almost 30k Wordpress blogs have been infected by a group of cyber criminials whose name is not yet known. Their primary target was to distribute a rouge antivirus software. This resulted in 200k pages that redirected to a fake antivirus scan page. This is a part of a campaign that was going on for months.

Source: http://community.web...ress-sites.aspx

Anonymous Revenge for LulzSec

Two dozen websites owned by panda security were defaced by the Hackivists Anonymous stating that this is a revenge for arresting LulzSec. Panda said that nothing of importance was stolen and they did not get any access to internal servers.

Source: http://arstechnica.c...sec-arrests.ars

Large Scale Censorship in Pakistan

The pakistan government is advertising for all the ISP to install an Internet filtering system to block upto 50 million web addresses. The ad states that it wants a capable system that can shut down 50 million sites with a process delay of not more than 1ms.

Source: http://www.ndtv.com/...internet-184058

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So many politicians and corporates trying to show their might by censoring something or the other. Dec 2012 might not be end of the world but the end of the internets, judging by the rate at which governments are listening to a hand full of politicians and corporate companies to snuff out everything completely.
 
Seems like the pakistan govt. want to follow in the footsteps of its esteemed master, China
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The hotfile thing proves that inspite of providing a good DMCA tool, you can still get shut down. crap.
 
Since such precise stats are available, wonder I whether the govt or the corporations download every file from these sites?

If they do so are they infringing the privacy of the "5.3% that are clearly non-infringing". I mean clearly they might have stepped on someones toes....
 
what i do not understand is if piracy affects their bottom lines so much then how are the production companies still making huge profits every year? shouldn't they be in loss or almost bankrupt, judging by the amounts they claim they've lost to piracy?
 
what they are meaning is that their bottom(line)s would have been fatter, if not for these *@#^&#!

the way things are moving - the (cyber) world won't be flatter, it would be "bumpy" - each country would end up with its own customized, sterilized internet. And that may happen sooner than later.
 
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