Copyright Alert System gets started, ISPs ready to lay the smack down on P2P piracy

www.engadget.com Mark Hearn 84 days ago

The fight against online piracy just gained a new weapon in the form of the Copyright Alert System (CAS) aka the "six strikes" policy. Starting today, participating ISPs like Verizon, Time Warner Cable, AT&T and Comcast will begin issuing warnings to customers suspected of using illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing services that violate copyright laws. Initial notifications will be used to educate and direct customers to legal alternative content sources. If the first set of notifications go avoided, the ISP may take further action, which includes: throttling internet connection speed... Read similar

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Reddit's reworked privacy policy clarifies data handling, comes into effect May 15th

www.engadget.com Jamie Rigg 18 days ago

The online Aladdin's cave and AMA forum Reddit has revealed a revamped privacy policy intended to make clear exactly how it deals with users' data. Legalese is notably absent, with credit for that going to Lauren Gelman, a legal consultant who's previously worked with the likes of the EFF -- a member, like Reddit, of the Internet Defense League. Essentially, the new policy is geared towards allowing "your participation to remain as anonymous as you choose," with the website stating that any of your data won't be shared without consent, unless the law requires it. Even then, you will be notifie... Read similar

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Apologizes To China For Warranty Policies (AAPL)

www.businessinsider.com Jay Yarow 49 days ago

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Apple CEO Tim Cook has written an apology for the company's warranty policies in China. It is posted on Apple's Chinese site. The Chinese government's media outlets had been hammering Apple for the last week over its warranty policies, which it said were in violation of local law, and not comparable with its practices elsewhere in the world. Cook has said that he believes China will be Apple largest market eventually. The attacks from China's government put that in jeopardy. At first glance, this looks like an attempt to smooth things over. Here's a pretty terrible translation from Google Tran... Read similar

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Study Shows Censorship On Sina Weibo Is A ‘Sophisticated' And Very Speedy Operation

techcrunch.com Catherine Shu 55 days ago

Known as the Twitter of China, Sina Weibo is also infamous in the West for the number of high profile users who have had tweets censored, including Kai-fu Lee. The former head of Google China, who was once booted off Sina and Tencent Weibo for three days, recently made a graph of how often his microblogging posts have been censored. Computer scientists Jed Crandall and Dan Wallach conducted a study on how quickly censorship on Sina Weibo can work, with findings reported by the BBC and originally published on arXiv.org. The two researchers, who believe their study is the first “real-time ... Read similar

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Internet Sleuths Add Evidence to Chinese Military Hacking Accusations

bits.blogs.nytimes.com By NICOLE PERLROTH 82 days ago

In the last week, Chinese-speaking Internet users and amateur hackers have added further proof to a security report that tied a prolific Chinese hacking group to China's People's Liberation Army.Read similar

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Automattic Pulls A Customer’s Posts After Plagiarist Claims Copyright Infringement [Update]

techcrunch.com John Biggs 104 days ago

A blog called RetractionWatch has been hit by a DMCA copyright notice from an Indian website with a tendency to plagiarize, which claims ten posts about a disgraced doctor – all of them copied from RetractionWatch – were actually its own property. The posts are about Duke University cancer researcher named Anil Potti who has had 19 papers retracted or corrected during his career. The posts detailing Potti’s problems over the past two years reappeared on a site called NewsBullet.in (they are now gone). This is nothing new – plagiarists steal blog content all the time &#... Read similar

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Evernote Has 4 Million Users in China

feeds.mashable.com Tech in Asia 13 days ago

Evernote hit 1.1 million users just two months after its Chinese launch in July 2012. CEO Phil Libin revealed this week that his company now has 4 million users in China one year after its debutOn Tuesday at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing, Evernote's team in China — which has grown to 17 people — flipped the switch on the Chinese version of its Evernote Business serviceLibin also discussed China's integral role in Evernote’s strategy of becoming a long-term startup that can survive up against the world’s top web giants. Libin said, within the next deca... Read similar

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China's Anti-Apple Smear Campaign Backfires

feeds.mashable.com NowThisNews 52 days ago

The government of China launched a smear campaign against Apple in order to curb its popularity in favor of state-run companies. However, the Chinese people aren't biting, mocking these strategies on the Internet. In the last few years, Apple has doubled its Chinese salesSEE ALSO: Apple Lets Online Buyers in China Pay in Two-Year InstallmentsHomepage image courtesy of NowThisNews Read more...More about China, Iphone, Apple, Ipad, and Smear CampaignRead similar

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Google Talks Tough In North Korea, While Rolling Over In China

www.businessinsider.com The Economist 129 days ago

“AS THE world becomes increasingly connected, their decision to be virtually isolated is very much going to affect their physical world.” So declared Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, to a throng of reporters in Beijing. Given that his firm more or less abandoned China’s heavily censored internet search market a few years ago in order not to be “evil”, these sound like fighting words. Mr Schmidt went on: “The government has to do something—they have to make it possible for people to use the internet.” At first blush, such words wou... Read similar

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China’s Online Population Rises by 51 Million in 2012

feeds.mashable.com Stan Schroeder 125 days ago

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China has added 51 million new internet users in the last year, the Associated Press reports citing data from the China Internet Network Information Center.Compared to 2011, China's internet user population rose 10 percent, bringing the total number to 564 million. That's more than the entire population of Russia and the U.S. combined. The increase is largely due to a surge in mobile web surfing. The number of Chinese web surfers who access the internet from mobile phones, tablets and other wireless devices, rose 18.1 percent in 2012 to 420 million. China's huge web usage growth comes despite ... Read similar

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Editorial: Countering ID theft requires better awareness campaigns

www.engadget.com Brad Hill 76 days ago

Evernote's massive password reset last week was the most recent demonstration of leaky security around consumer locks and keys. Dropbox, LinkedIn, Twitter and others preceded the Evernote action. These anxiety-producing consumer annoyances occur over a backdrop of increased cyber-attack news. Chinese hackers are spotlighted in many recent disruptions, substantiated by Akamai's report of originating-attack countries for Q3 2012, which shows China's percentage of worldwide cyber exploits doubling from the previous quarter. Precautionary password resets, as in the Evernote case, are minor aggra... Read similar

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Apple apologizes to Chinese consumers, revises local warranty policy for iPhone 4 and 4S

www.engadget.com Richard Lai 49 days ago

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Over the last couple of weeks, Chinese consumers and media had been up in arms over Apple's lesser warranty coverage -- specifically over refurbished replacement devices for faulty iPhone 4 and 4S -- compared to that applied in other countries, and Cupertino's seeming arrogance from its lack of response at the time didn't help at all. But in an open letter addressed to Chinese consumers earlier today, CEO Tim Cook apologizes on behalf of his company and promises that "Apple's commitment and passion for China are no different than for other countries." After taking a closer look at China's "T... Read similar

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China's Smear Campaign Against Apple Isn't Working

www.businessinsider.com Melanie Lee 55 days ago

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese Internet users are crying foul over the perceived unfair treatment doled out to Apple Inc by state-run media which has actively criticized the smartphone maker for the past two weeks over its warranty policy. Apple and Volkswagen AG were singled out on March 15 by state-run China Central Television in its annual corporate malpractice expose. CCTV accused Apple of having discriminatory after-sales service in China compared to the rest of the world. Other state-run outlets have also run articles and editorials criticizing Apple. On Wednesday, the Communist Party mout... Read similar

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Opinions Differ Widely On The Effectiveness of Apple's Apology In China

techcrunch.com Catherine Shu 48 days ago

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Tim Cook’s apology to Apple’s Chinese customers has divided observers, some of whom claim that the public mea culpa might undermine the Cupertino company by giving credence to government criticism. Cook’s letter was posted (link via Google Translate) on the Chinese Apple Web site on Monday after two weeks of heated attacks by China’s state-run media. Cook focused on Apple’s communication over its warranty and said the company would change its repair policy for iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S devices sold in China. “We realize a lack of communication in this process h... Read similar

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Chinese Hacker Complains About His Job In Personal Blog

www.businessinsider.com Geoffrey Ingersoll 68 days ago

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Wake up, 7ish. Work till 5:30, or later. Back to the dorm. Instant Ramen noodles. Watch an episode of Fox's "Prison Break." Go to sleep. Repeat. This is a day in the life of one of China's "elite" military hackers, who actually regrets not becoming a lawyer or doctor instead. Barbara Demick of the Los Angeles Times reports that when the cyber security company Mandiant unmasked the Chinese Army's hacking unit, they also found and profiled many individuals within that unit. One such individual had a public blog, and posted 625 entries between 2006 and '09 — when it was discontinued —... Read similar

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Google Quietly Gives Up Its Fight To Combat Censorship In China (GOOG)

www.businessinsider.com Julie Bort 134 days ago

Google has quietly removed a feature that warned Chinese citizens when they were searching for terms banned by the Chinese government, reports Chinese censorship watchdog site, Greatfire.org. For instance, when people tried to search for the term "freedom" from mainland China, they would get a pop-warning from Google that said, "We've observed that searching for [freedom] in mainland China may break your connection to Google for a short while. This interruption is outside of Google's control," and it would give the person the option to change the search term or search anyway. At some point in ... Read similar

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China’s Communist Party Isn’t Really Afraid of the Internet

feeds.mashable.com Quartz 36 days ago

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Earlier last week, a Chinese propaganda official said China's Internet-based "new media" were threatening the Communist party. Using one of Mao Zedong's most famous phrases, Ren Xianliang, vice-minister of propaganda in Shaanxi province, wrote in an editorial (link in Chinese): "Just as political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, the Party's control of the media is an unassailable basis of the party's leadership."Indeed, it would seem that microblog Sina Weibo, video sharing sites, and other online forums used by millions of Chinese citizens have government officials shaking in their sho... Read similar

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Today’s Scuttlebot: Chinese Hackers and Accusers

bits.blogs.nytimes.com By THE NEW YORK TIMES 79 days ago

The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. For Friday, selections include a look at a Chinese team linked to hacking attacks at companies in the United States, a claim by China that the United States is trying to hack Chinese military Web sites and a top Google official's lukewarm assessment of Motorola's new phones.Read similar

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Microsoft Surface Pro’s warranty becomes a target in China

www.slashgear.com Brian Sin 41 days ago

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Last month, China’s most popular TV program, China Central Television, criticized Apple’s warranty policy for treating Chinese customers differently than it treats other customers from around the globe. The criticism sparked a lot of controversy, and Apple’s CEO Tim Cook issued an apology and announced that he, and Apple, will improve its warranty and repair Read The Full StoryRead similar

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The Depressing Lives Of China's Porn Inspectors

www.businessinsider.com Adam Taylor 7 days ago

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Despite China's ongoing sexual revolution, pornography is still illegal. Under Chinese law, anyone found to be producing and distributing obscene material can get three years in jail. The country requires many pornography censors to find and censor content considered obscene, and it's not always easy work. 70-year-old Liu Xiaozhen is one such censor, employed at Hunan province's "eliminate pornography and illegal publications" office. The office had to watch and classify 700 DVDs confiscated in April alone. Over the weekend Liu granted a rare interview to ND News, describing the stresses... Read similar

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