ISPs don't work for the RIAA?
The EFF chimes in on the leaked RIAA letter that earlier this week exposed the industry's new effort to avoid the legal process in their campaign against p2p file traders.
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15.2.2007 Playstation 3 Launches in North America
Well the day has finally arrived for all the Sony fans and Playstation 3 hopefuls. The Playstation 3 has launched in North America. Of course the vast, vast majority of the units available worldwide are being made available in the United States since that is the biggest launch area for Sony at this point.
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18.11.2006 Europe Surpasses North America In Instant Messenger Users
Score Networks, the leader in digital media measurement, today released the results of an analysis of instant messenger (IM) usage in various parts of the world. According to the study, eighty-two million people, or 49 percent of the European online population, used IM applications to communicate online in February.
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11.4.2006US to North Korea: No iPods for You
In its continuing effort to
rout out North Korean dictator
Kim Jong-il, the United States
government is now trying a new
tactic: banning the sale of
iPods and other high-tech
items to the country...
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30.11.2006Korean Antitrust Regulators
Raid Intel
The Korean Fair Trade
Commission paid the South
Korean offices of Intel an
unannounced visit Wednesday to
seize more documents to
support an antitrust claim in
the country. The chipmaker is
fighting numerous antitrust
cases worldwide, and settled
with the Japanese FTC last
year...
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10.02.2006Korean iPod Rivals Cry Foul
Korean rivals of the iPod are
beginning to feel the squeeze
of Apple's strength in the
market, and some are even
going as far as to accuse the
company of collusion with
fellow Korean electronics
manufacturer Samsung. Similar
players made in Korea cost
much more than Apple's new
iPod Nano...
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09.09.2005New Korean Samsung HSUPA phones will upload at 2 Mbps
Samsung today unveiled its new HSUPA slider, the M470, in the company's Korean homeland...
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09.04.2008MS to Fight Korean Antitrust
Decision
The South Korean Fair Trade
Commission said Friday it
would finalize its ruling that
Microsoft engaged in unfair
business practices, a charge
the company vehemently denies.
Microsoft has since vowed to
appeal the ruling within 30
days, and may request a stay...
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25.02.2006Microsoft 'will not change
Windows'
Microsoft does not
plan to change the Korean
version of Windows, despite
demands from Korean trade
authorities and an impending
ban on Windows sales in the
country, the company told the
INQUIRER.
The software company must
remove its media player and
instant messaging programs
from products including
Windows XP and Windows Server
2003 within 180 days ??? or
stop selling them in Korea,
according to a ruling by the
Korean Fair Trade Commission
(KFTC) announced today. Future
products like Windows Vista
are also affected. The KFTC
ordered Microsoft to offer two
versions of its Windows
product line, one with the
messaging and media player
software removed, and one with
links promoting competing
products.
Microsoft
has yet to receive full
details of the required
changes from the Korean Fair
Trade Commission, but at the
moment, the company "will not
start" to make the requested
changes, said Asia Pacific
regional marketing manager,
Oliver Roll. The company will
appeal to the Korean high
court, and ask for a delay in
implementation of the ruling,
he said. If the ruling does
take effect, it will have a
negative effect on Korean
consumers and business, Roll
added. ..
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08.12.2005Sri Lanka Accused of Blocking Web Site
Sri Lanka is being criticized
for apparently ordering the
nation's ISPs to block a Web
site that supports the Tamil
Tiger rebels, a militant group
that supports secession of the
north and east portion of the
country into a separate state...
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22.06.2007EU proposal would task ISPs with blocking infected addresses
A paper will be published later this year with far-ranging recommendations for reducing cybercrime in Europe, including a statutory scale of damages
against ISPs that do not respond promptly to requests to shut out compromised machines...
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02.07.2008ISPs to Congress: Let us regulate our own privacy practices
Broadband service providers are perfectly capable of setting up appropriate safeguards for users who may be targeted by behavioral ad platforms, said
ISPs' executives this morning. It's the content providers we should be worried about...
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26.09.2008Paragraph against ISP throttling hailed as users' rights victory in EU
A simple recommendation that the European Commission consider not passing laws that help ISPs throttle Internet traffic, is being heralded as a stick
in the eye of French President Sarkozy, who has aims to require ISPs to do just that...
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11.04.2008BBC and ISPs clash over iPlayer
A row about who should pay for extra network costs incurred by the iPlayer has broken out between internet service providers (ISPs) and the BBC. ISPs
say the on-demand TV service is putting strain on their networks, which need to be upgraded to cope. Ashley Highfield, head of future media and
technology at the corporation, has said he believes the cost of network upgrades should be carried by ISPs. Simon Gunter, from ISP Tiscali, said the
BBC should contribute to the cost. He said the BBC did not understand the issues involved.
The popular iPlayer service lets users download
or stream programmes to a PC. In its first month of launching, the catch-up TV service saw 1m people download more than 3.5m programmes. According to
figures from regulator Ofcom it will cost ISPs in the region of £830m to pay for the extra capacity needed to allow for services like the
iPlayer.
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09.04.2008Rule change allows BlackBerry phones in South Korea
A slight modification in South Korean telecom rules has finally allowed RIM to offer its BlackBerry phones to users there. Now, after an agreement
with SK Telecom, BlackBerrys can be sold on the South Korean market...
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14.05.2008AT&T and Comcast are surprise participants in RIAA anti-piracy plan
Ironically enough, ISPs Comcast and AT&T are reportedly supporting the RIAA's new three-strikes plan, a quietly emerging measure to thwart music
pirating among US residents by disconnecting pirates from their ISPs...
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29.01.2009Microsoft Settles Daum IM
Bundling Suit
Microsoft has put to rest
another legal problem. The
company announced on Friday
that it had reached a
settlement with South Korean
Internet portal Daum. Daum had
complained to the South Korean
Fair Trade Commission in 2001,
accusing Microsoft of breaking
the law by tying its instant
messaging software to Windows...
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12.11.2005UK government forces ISPs to keep email records
With what is being considered yet another attack on the right to privacy, all ISPs in the UK will be obliged to store information about emails,
including spam, that people in the country receive and send. The UK government already makes telephone companies maintain databases of all fixed and
mobile calls, and now the information stored will include a timestamp and to/from details of each email. We reported on the UKs "spy database" in
August last year, ISPs will be obliged to store the information from March onwards. The reason? The Home Office believes such measures will help
combat terrorism. The monetary cost?
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10.01.2009South Korea Fines Microsoft
$32 Million
UPDATED Less than a
month after it reached a $30
million settlement with South
Korean Internet portal Daum,
Microsoft has been fined
another $32 million by the
country's Fair Trade
Commission. The Korean FTC has
also ordered Microsoft to
unbundle its instant messaging
client and media player from
Windows...
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07.12.2005Digital Music Market Triples,
ISPs Warned
Digital music sales tripled
during 2005 according to
figures released by the
International Federation of
the Phonographic Industry on
Thursday. However, the group
warned that more cooperation
was needed from ISPs to
contain piracy, and lawsuits
could be used to force their
hand...
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19.01.2006British ISPs align to build a targeted online ad platform
British Telecom, TalkTalk and Virgin Media, three of the largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Britain, have joined together to create a new
network that will offer targeted advertising to UK Internet users...
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16.02.2008Cross-site scripting vulnerability may affect Earthlink, other ISPs
Security research firm IOActive notes that several ISPs, including Earthlink, are using advertising servers to collect revenue on misspelled URLs, but
alleges that in so doing, they may have mistakenly exposed users to cross-site scripting...
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24.04.2008EU regulations block Italian ISPs from blocking Pirate Bay
In August, Italian courts ordered that local ISPs block popular BitTorrent destination The Pirate Bay, but the decision was later overturned in
appeal. This week, we found out why the Court of Bergamo ruled as it did...
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