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Google Refocusing
Google has announced that they are discontinuing some of their products .
Closing Dates :-
Apart From these there are other products that are also closing or Closed - Google Wave , Google Video, Slide products . Also they have announced closing Google Labs in July 2011.
Source : Official Google Blog: Renewing old resolutions for the new year
MegaUpload Taken Down
The File sharing site is accused of having pirated content by the FBI. Seven employee of the company are charged and four are already under FBI custody. MegaUpload's is claiming that most of their traffic is legitimate. The message that the US government want to convey with this is that we don’t need SOPA or PIPA to get you sued. To know more about how this may effect YOU watch this Video
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tD1yaE0GfQ[/media]
Summary of the Above Video -
Source : Feds Kill Megaupload (Updated)
Anonymous Revenge
Anonymous , a hacking activists group have taken the arrest of Megaupload's employee's very seriously and attacked websites with Ddos attacks.
Here is a list of them
Russian news service RT claims this is the largest coordinated attack in Anonymous' historyâ€â€over 5,600 DDoS zealots blasting at once.
Anonymous has released a statement after the attacks.
Source : Anonymous Goes on Megaupload Revenge Spree: DoJ, RIAA, MPAA, and Universal Music All Offline
Dreamhost Hacked
They have detected Unauthorized activity in one of their Database so they are urging all their users to change their panel password. On the brighter side the Database does not contain Credit card info but on the other side it contains passwords to sites on which Dreamhost users have invested enormous amount of time.
Source : DreamHost Hacked, Password Changes Made Mandatory | TechCrunch
International Blackout Day
Websites all over the world has participated in the Blackout Day by blacking out their home pages & giving information about SOPA and it effects. It worked like a charm. The blackout day is dated 18th January ,2012. Before blackout Total supporters are 80 & Opposing this bill are 31 . After the Blackout day these numbers changed dramatically 63 supporters & 122 Opposing the bill .
Some Statistics about the Anti-SOPA Movement -
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p-TV4jaCMk[/media]
Info Graphic - http://gigaom2.files...pg?w=604&h=7425
Source : sopa | TechCrunch
OPEN - Online Protection & ENforcement of Digital Trade Act
This is a alternative to SOPA & PIPA proposed by the Critics of SOPA &PIPA.
Bill Provisions -
Bill - KeepTheWebOpen.com
Source - Can OPEN help Congress make peace with the Internet?  Tech News and Analysis
Google's New Strategy
Google has made it mandatory for every Gmail account to have a Google + account for new Registrations . This is a way of increasing the no of people in Google + which has not performed to their expectations. They are also dropping Google Labs which is a birthplace for new inventions . Also they are dropping many services and wanting their Devs to solely work on Google+ . Let's see how much good this will do.
Source : New Google Accounts Require Gmail And G+ Account Creation | TechCrunch
Vevo On Facebook
Reportedly facebook are in talks with Vevo to host their content on facebook . Facebook users can directly access vevo from their timelines. Another major blow for Google which is dying to get their social platform Google + on track.
Source : Possible Vevo Adoption Makes Facebook YouTube's Stiffest Competition
Click here to view the article
Google has announced that they are discontinuing some of their products .
Closing Dates :-
- Picnik - Browser Based Photo editing tool - April 19th
- Google Sky Map -Open Sourced
- Needlebase - Data Management Platform - June 1st ,2012.
- Social Graph API - Similar to the Rival facebook Social Graph - April 20th,2012
- Urchin - Google Analytics Written based on Urchin - March 31st,2012.
- GMC - Replaced by Google Apps.
Apart From these there are other products that are also closing or Closed - Google Wave , Google Video, Slide products . Also they have announced closing Google Labs in July 2011.
Source : Official Google Blog: Renewing old resolutions for the new year
MegaUpload Taken Down
The File sharing site is accused of having pirated content by the FBI. Seven employee of the company are charged and four are already under FBI custody. MegaUpload's is claiming that most of their traffic is legitimate. The message that the US government want to convey with this is that we don’t need SOPA or PIPA to get you sued. To know more about how this may effect YOU watch this Video
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tD1yaE0GfQ[/media]
Summary of the Above Video -
- ₨75.42 Million Dollars For every Copyright Infringement.
- 25% of internet Have used Mega Upload
- FBI has details of every file upload & Download.
- FBi will Extradict people from other countries.
- USA has the largest no of prisoners - 20% greater than 2nd place Russians.
- Corporations are using Prisoners for Forced Labour @ 25 Cents per hour.
- Actually Cnet have started Bit Torrent. They are not arrested because they are a Billion Dollar company. Other Investors are Many Major Companies in USA. Viacom Sworn testimony in Court.
- Most of the Piracy is Funded by Multi Billion Companies in USA.
Source : Feds Kill Megaupload (Updated)
Anonymous Revenge
Anonymous , a hacking activists group have taken the arrest of Megaupload's employee's very seriously and attacked websites with Ddos attacks.
Here is a list of them
- RIAA's site
- Universal Music Group
- MPAA.org.
- The US Copyright Office
- Major record label EMI
- La résistance est internationalâ€â€French copyright authority HADOPI
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation
Russian news service RT claims this is the largest coordinated attack in Anonymous' historyâ€â€over 5,600 DDoS zealots blasting at once.
Anonymous has released a statement after the attacks.
Source : Anonymous Goes on Megaupload Revenge Spree: DoJ, RIAA, MPAA, and Universal Music All Offline
Dreamhost Hacked
They have detected Unauthorized activity in one of their Database so they are urging all their users to change their panel password. On the brighter side the Database does not contain Credit card info but on the other side it contains passwords to sites on which Dreamhost users have invested enormous amount of time.
Source : DreamHost Hacked, Password Changes Made Mandatory | TechCrunch
International Blackout Day
Websites all over the world has participated in the Blackout Day by blacking out their home pages & giving information about SOPA and it effects. It worked like a charm. The blackout day is dated 18th January ,2012. Before blackout Total supporters are 80 & Opposing this bill are 31 . After the Blackout day these numbers changed dramatically 63 supporters & 122 Opposing the bill .
Some Statistics about the Anti-SOPA Movement -
- Mozilla's Anti-SOPA message reached 40 Million people & generated 360,000 emails to congress.
- Google collected 4.5 million anti-SOPA signatures.
- There were 2.4 million tweets related to this topic .
- Wikimedia foundation reached 162 Million people.
- Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Facebook posted on this topic which theoretically reaches 500+ million people. He also tweeted about this - Tweet.
- Some people took the protest the old school way & come out on to the roads in a peaceful rally .
- More than 115,000 websites have been blacked out for the day.
- Some of the protests were creative , For ex Anti-SOPA,PIPA song - The day The LOLcats Died -
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p-TV4jaCMk[/media]
Info Graphic - http://gigaom2.files...pg?w=604&h=7425
Source : sopa | TechCrunch
OPEN - Online Protection & ENforcement of Digital Trade Act
This is a alternative to SOPA & PIPA proposed by the Critics of SOPA &PIPA.
Bill Provisions -
- Doesn’t require service providers or search engines to remove websites, and therefore “the DNS System remains intact.â€
- The definition of targeted sites has been “significantly narrowed†and includes only those “dedicated to infringing activity.â€
- The International Trade Commission is tasked with investigating complaints, and it is typically “transparent, quick, and effective†and includes more protection for due process than SOPA or PIPA.
Bill - KeepTheWebOpen.com
Source - Can OPEN help Congress make peace with the Internet?  Tech News and Analysis
Google's New Strategy
Google has made it mandatory for every Gmail account to have a Google + account for new Registrations . This is a way of increasing the no of people in Google + which has not performed to their expectations. They are also dropping Google Labs which is a birthplace for new inventions . Also they are dropping many services and wanting their Devs to solely work on Google+ . Let's see how much good this will do.
Source : New Google Accounts Require Gmail And G+ Account Creation | TechCrunch
Vevo On Facebook
Reportedly facebook are in talks with Vevo to host their content on facebook . Facebook users can directly access vevo from their timelines. Another major blow for Google which is dying to get their social platform Google + on track.
Source : Possible Vevo Adoption Makes Facebook YouTube's Stiffest Competition
Click here to view the article