Open Letter to Steve Ballmer
Steve, I've heard you're making a tough decision about Yahoo. I know what you should do. It's time to step back and walk away. Yahoo's not worth the trouble. If you force an acquisition, your legacy will be mud not Mesh.
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2.5.2008 Open Letter from Steve Jobs
The August 2006 appearance, one of Jobs' 'weakest'
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In what is one of the most surprising moves from Apple's CEO this year, Steve Jobs has posted an open letter to the Apple Community, admitting health issues had to do with his not attending the Macworld Expo this year.
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6.1.2009 Open letter to Microsoft: It's time for a single version of Windows
An Open Letter to Microsoft:
Windows XP did a great thing. It united two operating systems - the Windows 9x codebase and the Windows NT codebase (including Windows 2000).
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12.6.2009 AT&T to start sending copyright warnings
AT&T Inc., the nation's largest Internet service provider, will start sending warnings to its subscribers when music labels and movie studios allege that they are trafficking in pirated material, according to an executive.
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28.3.2009 Microsoft to blast Google for its copyright policy
Microsoft Corp. is set to launch a blistering attack on rival Google Inc. on Tuesday for what the software giant argues is the Web search leader's "cavalier" approach to copyright protection.
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6.3.2007 MSN Soapbox reopens with copyright filtering
Today sees MSN Soapbox return to a public beta after having closed back in March. The reason given for the closure was that Microsoft needed time to deliver a technological solution to resolve the piracy issues that have plagued other user-generated video sites such as YouTube.
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2.7.2007 Microsoft confirms no Copyright Cop on Zune
We have seen some chatter in the blogosphere over the last 24 hours around a couple of posts speculating about what Zune may or may not do in terms of putting content filtering features directly into the Zune family of devices in future releases.
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8.5.2008 Pirate Bay copyright infringement trial begins, founders plead not guilty
Today marked the first day of the criminal copyright infringement suit against The Pirate Bay that was initiated in Sweden one year ago by Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, Sony BMG, EMI, Universal, Metro Goldwin Mayer and 20th Century Fox.
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16.2.2009 Windows 7 Milestone 2 M2 available on Torrent Websites
Windows 7 Milestone 2 is the next stage in the evolution of Windows Vista's successor.
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14.7.2008 Windows 7 Build 7201 Available on Torrent Rapidshare
Hype of the RC2 leak is increasing rapidly the time i m writing 503 peoples were active on a single thread over sevenforums.
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3.6.2009 Windows 7 M1 build shows up on various torrent sites
It was only a matter of time..
Not too long after Microsoft had released a developer build of the Windows 7 Milestone 1 release to a select few, review and opinion pieces started to leak onto Windows enthusiast sites by OEM employees or their beneficiaries.
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26.1.2008 Australia to test blocking all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic
Australia has been known to have high levels of censorship. It should come as no surprise to those in the land down under that the government is planning to filter P2P and Bit Torrent traffic in live pilot tests.
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23.12.2008 Microsoft: Don't Download Windows 7 Interim Builds from Torrent Trackers
Leaked builds of Windows 7 available for download via torrent trackers have been accompanying the development of the next iteration of Windows since the operating system was in Milestone 1 stage.
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16.4.2009 Windows XP SP3 RC2 Leaked and Available for Download on Torrent Websites
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 has been leaked and is available for download on torrent websites. Three days after releasing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing, Microsoft launched another development milestone of XP SP3.
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13.2.2008 Download Windows 7 Build 6956 VHD Image via BT Torrent
Windows 7 beta (or beta 1) is possibly been released in January or February 2009 which Keith Comb has even mentioned in a comment on his TechNet blog (has since been removed) that “we (Microsoft) are targeting to have the DVD’s in the materials from 1/13/2009 on”.
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5.12.2008 New Windows XP SP3 Beta Build 3205 Leaked to Torrent Trackers
The latest build of Windows XP SP3 Beta has been leaked to Peer-to-Peer file sharing networks. Following the availability of Release Candidate 0 for Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn as well as the first fully-fledged beta for Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft also dropped another beta version of the third and final Service Pack for Windows XP.
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11.10.2007 Windows 7 Beta 1 Build 7000 DVD ISO Image Torrent and NamiPan Download
f indeed the Windows 7 initial first beta release will have the build version number of 7000, the DVD ISO image of the 32-bit (x86) Windows 7 6.1.7000.0, 7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso, has been leaked to Internet.
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26.12.2008 Vista SP1 RTM Slipstream (Integrated ) DVD ISO Image - Leaked to Torrent Websites
hile Microsoft continues at a slow pace toward the general availability of Windows Vista SP1 RTM, the service pack has already slipped through the company's fingers, so to speak.
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4.3.2008 Download 64-bit Windows 7 6801 Pre-Beta ISO Microsoft.Windows.7 64Bit.Build.6801.DVD-WinBeta Torrent
Other than 32-bit edition of Windows 7 Pre-Beta build version 6801 that has been leaked to the Web for free download via torrent, the 64-bit edition of Windows 7 Pre-Beta with build tag 6801, which is also been distributed to attendees during the PDC 2008, has been leaked to Internet, and can be downloaded via fully seeded torrent.
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30.10.2008ThePirateBay owners may face prison time
ThePirateBay owners, Hans Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundströmare set to appear in court on Monday and could
face two years in prison and a fine as high as $180,000 fine each. The four owners of the very popular public torrent web site face charges of
copyright infringement. The servers are located out of Sweden and out of reach of law enforcement, meaning the site will likely stay online if the
owners go behind bars. ThePirateBay is known for hosting torrent files linking users to movies, software, games and other types of copyright material
that is illegal spread among users using P2P protocol and a BitTorrent client.
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14.02.2009Trojan, distributed over torrent, blocks torrent sites
A trojan named Troj/Qhost-AC, has been spotted on torrent sites labeled as a keygen for popular software. But in a strange surprise, the trojan would
modify the users host file, rather than generating a key, changing popular torrent web sites like, The Pirate Bay, Suprbay (The Pirate Bay forum) and
Mininova, the two most popular torrent sites on the internet to 127.0.0.1, making it impossible to visit these sites. The Trojan caused pop-ups on
users screens and played a sound file saying "downloading is wrong". The Trojan didn't install any other spyware or malware onto the victims
PC, other than blocking the three web sites, something that many users thought was strange.
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06.01.2009Office 2010 Has Leaked!
The Technical Preview of Office 2010 has officially leaked! WZor.net uploaded a torrent a few hours ago for both the x86 and x64 versions of the
new Office suite.
Without further ado, I present:
Microsoft Office 2010 (x86)
AND
Microsoft Office 2010 (x64)
The x64
torrent doesn't seem to be very active at the moment, but over time, as it gains more seeders, hopefully it will pick up. We were achieving speeds of
up to 1000kbps during our download of the x86 version, so the torrent is going strong... That is, until the rest of the world picks up on it...
Download quickly!
While you eagerly await the end of your download, check out a screenshot gallery from WZor as well (the version pictured
in the screenshots is the x64 version).
The links in this article were obtained from WZor's homepage, http://wzor.net/indexx.html
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16.05.2009Australia to test blocking all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic
Australia has been known to have high levels of censorship. It should come as no surprise to those in the land down under that the government is
planning to filter P2P and Bit Torrent traffic in live pilot tests. Senator Conroy went on the record saying "technology that filters peer-to-peer
and Bit Torrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial". It is a drastic
step to filter out all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic as it assumes that those channels are only used for piracy. One example of legitimate use is the
popular online game World of Warcraft.
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23.12.2008"txtor" tool circumvents basic torrent blockers
To the frustration of many students and other avid torrent downloaders, some universities and ISPs have been known to block the download of .torrent
files in an effort to curb illegal file sharing. This quick and dirty method of filtering Internet content is usually done through the use of a proxy
server that will look for a torrent mime-type in the file or, even simpler, the file extension itself. Although this method seems almost too simple to
take seriously, enough admins have found it effective enough to justify its use.
That's why a group of developers launched
txtor today, a site that makes it possible to download .torrent files as if they were text
files. As the site explains, from the user perspective, the service functions very simply. Plug in the URL of a torrent file, and it's translated to
a text file for you to download. For a moderately more technical explanation, the site merely takes the file and changes the mimetype and extension,
then spits it back out at you as a text file in order to bypass proxy-level torrent file blocks. Then, all you need to do is change the file extension
back from .txt to .torrent and open it up in your favorite torrent client. Based on our testing of txtor, we can say that the tool works exactly as
advertised.
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28.09.2007Controversy over new Pirate Bay Facebook feature
The Pirate Bay has added a small, but significant feature to their website which will almost certainly prove to be controversial. The new feature is a
link provided on each torrent page which allows users to post the link to the particular torrent onto their Facebook profile. Friends can then begin
to download the particular torrent straight from their Facebook page, assuming a torrent client is installed. Many websites allow their users to do
the very same thing – even Neowin allows its users to submit news articles to Facebook; however the controversy lies in just what users will be
sharing, with the use of this.
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30.03.2009Popular Torrent Site Suprnova Set to Return
Popular torrent site The
Pirate Bay says it will
relaunch Suprnova.org, one of
the most popular BitTorrent
sites on the Internet and
target of the ire of the MPAA...
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03.08.2007Sweden targets The Pirate Bay
Sweden's public prosecutor Hakan Roswall plans to charge the Pirate Bay's organizers with accessory and conspiracy to break copyright law,
which could lead to fines or up to two years in prison. The charges will be filed in a district court on January 31. The Motion Picture Association of
America and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry are among those who have called for action to shut down the site. No copyright
material is stored on Pirate Bay's servers. The Pirate Bay only manages torrent files, which contain the information needed to download film or
music files from others. That has not stopped copyright sentences before. As TPB grows, it is only a matter of time before they fall, and when they
do, it will be a huge blow to piracy. But it won't be a deadly blow.
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28.01.2008MPAA's student P2P sniffer pulled over copyright issues
In an embarrassing blunder for an organization that has made copyright one of its signature issues, the MPAA is now being accused of violating
copyright itself...
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05.12.2007Steal This Film 2 hits File Sharing Networks
Steal This Film 1, which was downloaded nearly 3 million times, has now been succeeded officially (as the sequel premiered and was ironically leaked
last month) by none other than Steal This Film 2. By producing this video, the League of Noble Peers, which features many prominent individuals from
the BitTorrent community, has the goal of “ bringing new people into the leagues of those now prepared to think 'after intellectual
property', think creatively about the future of distribution, production and creativity .” For those still confused, Steal This Film is a
series documenting the movement against intellectual property. The films discuss piracy culture as well as raids against file sharing websites. In the
spirit of piracy, the movie is completely free for download.
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30.12.2007Anti-Piracy Lobby Urges Sweden To Take Down The Pirate Bay
Several anti-piracy lobbyist organizations have joined forces in urging the Swedish authorities to take “swift and decisive action”
against The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay laughed away this attempt, and assures its users that they are not doing anything illegal according to Swedish
law. Unlike less democratic countries, Sweden is not too keen on lobbyists who try to manipulate the actions of their government, something the MPAA
did last year. Directly influencing Swedish authorities to intervene in this specific case, is considered illegal in Sweden (the term is
“minister rule”).
The letter is signed by several copyright protection organizations, and was sent to the Swedish minister of
communications. Noticeably upset they write: “We believe that, given the Pirate Bay’s cult popularity, this is a key opportunity for one
country to educate the global internet community about the need for respect of copyright and the importance of intellectual property.”
Brokep from The Pirate Bay
responded to this
letter on his blog writing:”They seem to think that TPB is actually illegal and are very concerned about this! But I can reassure you, the
site is not illegal so there’s no reason to be alarmed. It’s recognized worldwide as legal and helpful for the normal people around the
globe that have something to share with each other. And we all do want to share!”
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21.11.2007Google: Viacom Abusing Copyright Act
Google struck back at Viacom
through the media on Thursday,
responding to a March 24 op-ed
by Viacom's general counsel
Michael Fricklas in the
Washington Post with a
letter of its own from
Google's counsel for the
case...
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31.03.2007EFF sides with TorrentSpy in MPAA lawsuit
As expected, the Electronic
Frontier Foundation plans to
file a friends-of-the-court
brief in support of
TorrentSpy, the search engine
accused of copyright
violations.
The top
motion-picture studios filed a
lawsuit last year against
TorrentSpy and other search
engines that locate torrent
files. The studios allege in
their suit that these
companies simplify the illegal
sharing of copyright content.
The magistrate judge
hearing the case recently
ruled that computer RAM or
random-access memory, is a
tangible document that can be
stored and must be turned over
in a lawsuit. If allowed to
stand, the groundbreaking
decision may mean that anyone
defending themselves in a
civil suit could be required
to turn over information in
their computer's RAM
hardware. This could force
companies and individuals to
store vast amounts of data,
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21.06.2007First Russian BitTorrent User Sentenced
With rampant piracy across much of Russia, one could be forgiven for thinking they don’t care about copyright there. That assertion is now up
for debate as the first BitTorrent user in Russia is sentenced for illegally distributing software, with anti-copyright activists calling for people
to jump on a torrent in protest. According to a report from rusya.ru, a man has made history by becoming the first person in Russia to be convicted
for using BitTorrent to infringe copyright. Sergei Avramov appeared in court in the city of Rostov-on-Don, accused of the illegal distribution of
pirated software. Despite his actions being strictly not-for-profit, he was found guilty and received a 12 month suspended sentence.
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15.12.2007Pirate Bay Owners hit with legal action
In yet another stage of the ongoing legal saga between the film and music industries, the four owners of the popular torrent search engine have been
hit with another lawsuit for "Conspiracy to break copyright law". This suit directly targets the four owners, instead of the site itself, which
hosts none of the content, but links to .torrent files that allow users to download the content.
Co-founder Peter Sunde, and three others
could face up to two years in prison and a fine of 1.2 million kronor if convicted in this case. Many attempts have been made previously by the
industry to take down The Pirate Bay, but each has been defeated by the loose copyright laws that exist in Sweden. We can only wait to see how this
latest attempt to take down this giant of P2P bittorrent sharing pans out. Will it succeed at last, or be beaten down again?
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01.02.2008New Zealand Internet blackout protest against copyright law
Copyright infringement is wrong, but should people, schools, and hospitals have their internet connections and websites cut off due to accusations
of copyright infringement?
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16.02.2009Open Letter to Microsoft and the Community
Chris Holmes: I decided to write this letter with the help of various others in the community who agree with my assessment of current things relating
to Windows 7 and the way it is being handled. Enjoy the letter, I think we make a LOT of good points that need to be considered.
The growing number of atrocities committed by Steven Sinofsky as the Senior Vice President of the Windows group has been mounting week by week.
Recently, I think we saw the effect of this boil over. But first, before we get into that, I think we need to examine who he is and what he has
done.
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23.09.2008TorrentSpy, isoHunt to filter copyrighted content
It is being reported that
isoHunt, another US-based
torrent search engine that has
been battling against the
movie industry for some time,
also plans to use the
hash-based system to filter
pirated content from its
search results. With
FileRights, studios need to
submit the file's name and
hash code to automate the
takedown process, however,
hash codes can be altered and
files renamed, so the outcome
of this filtering tool remains
to be seen.
The
popular public torrent tracker
TorrentSpy, currently in the
middle of a legal battle
against copyright owners, has
decided to give in and start
showing some level of good
faith in the fight against
piracy by adding a content
filtering tool called
FileRights.
Pressure
is building on TorrentSpy
after a judge recently ordered
the search engine to log user
activity to be handed as
evidence. The company stated
that it doesnt keep any logs
and therefore cannot produce
any, but a judge has ruled
that the necessary information
is already stored temporarily
in server RAM and they just
need to record it. TorrentSpy
is still fighting this ruling
with the help of the EFF and
the Center for Democracy &
Technology. However, they
appear to have abandoned the
fight over filtering, hoping
to prove to the courts that
they have no desire to incite
infringement...
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27.06.2007Windows 7 leaks to Web, pirates downloading
Leaked copies of Windows 7 hit the Internet only hours after Microsoft Corp. handed out a preview build to developers last week, according to searches
at several BitTorrent-tracking sites. The notorious Pirate Bay site, for example, first noted the 32-bit version of the upcoming operating system on
Oct. 29, just one day after Microsoft unveiled Windows 7 to attendees at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. A 64-bit edition was
posted the following day.
As of midday Sunday, with several copies of Windows 7 available, downloading was brisk. One 32-bit torrent listed
on Pirate Bay showed more than 1,400 "seeders," the term for a computer that has a complete copy of the torrent file, and close to 5,300
"leechers," or computers that have downloaded only part of the complete torrent. The 32-bit torrent installs a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, according
to users commenting on the site.
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03.11.2008Copyright Alliance Director: We're Not Behind Policy Initiatives
Responding to our story
yesterday on Congressional
initiatives to impose new
royalty fees for both Internet
and terrestrial radio, the
director of the Copyright
Alliance, Patrick Ross, told
BetaNews it's a mistake for
anyone - including us - to
attribute certain advocated
copyright policies to the
Alliance, although they share
key members and supporters...
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