“One has to wonder whether he would have received a more severe sentence had he been apprehended in another country and charged with more conventional cybercrime.”

IT security and control firm Sophos is questioning whether courts worldwide are giving consistent sentences to hackers following the news that a Japanese man has escaped jail, despite admitting writing a virus … via IrishDev.com/News

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Looking for Online Edu? Find it Now http://consumeronly.com online newspaper We’ve Found The Top 5 Sites About online newspaper Here. via Almaden Resident

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Experts are questioning whether courts worldwide are giving consistent sentences to hackers following news that a Japanese man has escaped jail, despite admitting writing a virus that wiped music and movie … via Hackinthebox.org

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Too little, too late? > Zune has reached 2 million in sales. Market share is coming from Creative rather than iTunes. via Hypebot

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“Anything in addition to that is outside the scope of what our network management goal is.”

P2P:- On the US side of what’s becoming an international scandal, Cox Communications has joined ComCast on the list of major ISPs said to be putting caps on bandwidth sold to customers who use P2P file sharing … via P2pnet.net

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US ISPs are generally perceived by users here to offer unlimited and fairly neutral connections to the ‘Net for a monthly fee. via Ars Technica

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“After carefully reviewing the record here, the court concludes that Andersen’s counterclaims involved the same conduct and were sufficiently related to her defense of the copyright infringement case”

Exonerated P2P defendant Tanya Andersen should be awarded $107,834 in court costs and attorney fees, a federal magistrate judge ruled yesterday. via Ars Technica

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“I was baffled by the entire exchange”

I’m a fan of live music and a patron of online communities such as eTree.org , where music junkies swap copyright-free music. via ComputerWorld

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“The commission finds that CAIP has not demonstrated that its members will suffer irreparable harm if the interim relief was not granted”

Bell Canada has won a major victory with the CRTC refusing to end its internet throttling. via CBC

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“It certainly is not a lesson for other search engines to look at what the rules are as they relate to dot-torrent files”

A day after a U.S. judge dinged TorrentSpy with one of the largest fines in copyright history, the lawyer for the torrent-tracking search engine said Thursday the $111 million judgment won’t get paid. via Wired Politics

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Worst viral outbreak in three years Hundreds of thousands of examples of a new Trojan that poses as a media file have flooded onto P2P networks. via Channel Register

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Federal lawsuits brought by the film industry against individuals alleged to have illegally copied and distributed movies online refer to several media distribution systems. via KDBC

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“Plus, these downloaders could be dynamically updated — they are in control of the hackers, essentially — so if they decide to put up a password-stealing trojan at a later date, they have the ability to do so”

Fake MP3 files have duped thousands of computer users into download annoying and potentially dangerous malware into their systems. via E-Commerce Times

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“This substantial money judgment sends a strong message about the illegality of these sites”

A Los Angeles federal judge has delivered a default judgement against the BitTorrent site finding it guilty of copyright infringement and forcing it to compensate studios. via BetaNews

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“The demise of TorrentSpy is a clear victory for the studios and demonstrates that such pirate sites will not be allowed to continue to operate without facing relentless litigation by copyright holders.”

A U.S. judge has ruled on a nearly $111 million copyright-infringement decision against TorrentSpy.com, the BitTorrent peer-to-peer search site. via Mac 911 Weblog

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