BitTorrent ethics: Punishing piracy or criminalizing sharing? — RT Op-Edge. Nile Bowie is a political analyst and photographer currently residing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
He can be reached on Twitter or at nilebowie@gmail.com Published time: October 19, 2013 20:26 Photo by Michael Zenke / flickr.com If you live in a densely populated modern city, there is a strong chance that wireless network transmissions that are in breach of copyright law could be around you at this very moment. The decentralized network architecture known as peer-to-peer (P2P) communications allows files of all kinds to be shared over the internet with other users without monetary exchange, and millions utilize this technology on daily basis. Most file-sharing is utilized through BitTorrent, and involves a host website that supports an index of .torrent files that can be downloaded in separate client applications.
Internet 2.0. Patriot Act Author Prepares Bill To Put NSA Bulk Collection 'Out Of Business' The conservative Republican who co-authored America’s Patriot Act is preparing to unveil bipartisan legislation that would dramatically curtail the domestic surveillance powers it gives to intelligence agencies.
Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, who worked with president George W Bush to give more power to US intelligence agencies after the September 11 terrorist attacks, said the intelligence community had misused those powers by collecting telephone records on all Americans, and claimed it was time “to put their metadata program out of business”. His imminent bill in the House of Representatives is expected to be matched by a similar proposal from Senate judiciary committee chair Patrick Leahy, a Democrat. It pulls together existing congressional efforts to reform the National Security Agency in the wake of disclosures by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Patriot Act Author Prepares Bill To Put NSA Bulk Collection ‘Out Of Business’ [continued] “Free Flow of Information Act” Targets Independent Journalism. James TracyActivist Post The fact that the US Senate is now defining what a journalist actually is sets a dangerous precedent threatening the present marketplace of ideas that in recent history has been greatly expanded by the internet.
How the NSA sabotaged the internet. Trust is the world's most valuable intangible commodity.
Economies, political systems, partnerships and marriages rise or fall based on it. All commerce – both online and offline – rests on it. And yet the US's National Security Agency (NSA) is actively and recklessly undermining the fabric of trust that holds the internet together. What Bradley Manning Revealed. “In no case shall information be classified… in order to: conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error; prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency… or prevent or delay the release of information that does not require protection in the interest of the national security.”
—Executive Order 13526, Sec. 1.7. Trusted Computing: Government warns of Windows 8. Connections Between Michael Hastings, Edward Snowden and Barrett Brown—The War With the Security State. By Christian Stork on Aug 7, 2013 At the time of his death in a mysterious one-car crash and explosion, journalist Michael Hastings was researching a story that threatened to expose powerful entities and government-connected figures.
That story intersected with the work of two controversial government critics—the hacktivist Barrett Brown and the on-the-run surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden. Any probe into Hastings’s untimely death needs to take into account this complex but essential background. Nazi Germany - Color Photos from LIFE archive. Anonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents. UK planned war on Syria before unrest began: French ex-foreign minister. A former French foreign minister says Britain had been planning a war against Syria some two years before to the unrest broke out in the Arab country.
The statement by Roland Dumas came during a recent interview with French Parliamentary TV network, LCP. David Brin on the Path to Positive Sousveillance. David Brin and Ben Goertzel Ben Goertzel dialogues with the author of The Transparent Society Isaac Asimov's classic 1956 story "The Dead Past" describes a technology that lets everyone spy on everyone else everywhere. The government tries to keep this technology secret and arrest the scientists moving to publicize it, but some rebels let the cat out of the bag. A government official, once he realizes the technology has been made irrevocably public, utters the following lines to the scientists who released it: "Happy goldfish bowl to you, to me, to everyone, and may each of you fry in hell forever.
Asimov’s government official assumes that “everyone sees everyone else” is a nightmare scenario. NSA Snooping Was Only the Beginning. Meet the Spy Chief Leading Us Into Cyberwar. Alexander runs the nation’s cyberwar efforts, an empire he has built over the past eight years by insisting that the US’s inherent vulnerability to digital attacks requires him to amass more and more authority over the data zipping around the globe.
In his telling, the threat is so mind-bogglingly huge that the nation has little option but to eventually put the entire civilian Internet under his protection, requiring tweets and emails to pass through his filters, and putting the kill switch under the government’s forefinger. “What we see is an increasing level of activity on the networks,” he said at a recent security conference in Canada. XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' Jimmy Carter: US “has no functioning democracy” Snowden's Dad SCHOOLS Obama, Pelosi, and Holder in Open Letter. Activist Post Re: Civil Disobedience, Edward J.
Snowden, and the Constitution Dear Mr. President: David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face. In a private viewing cinema in Soho last week I caught myself letting fly with a four-letter expletive at Bill Keller, the former executive editor of the New York Times.
It was a confusing moment. The man who was pretending to be me – thanking Keller for "not giving a shit" – used to be Malcolm Tucker, a foul-mouthed Scottish spin doctor who will soon be a 1,000-year-old time lord. David Miranda detention: a betrayal of trust and principle. Long before the partner of the Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald was detained at Heathrow airport on Sunday, the law that was used to hold him and remove his possessions had been effectively discredited in its present form.
Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 is a sweeping power to detain for up to nine hours. It gives border police a power of detention for questioning without specific suspicion or a right to be represented. 'Bomber? My son fell into US trap' 'Bomber? My son fell into US trap' Quazi Mohammad Ahsanullah, father of Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, holds a photograph of his son inside his residence at Uttar Jatrabari in Dhaka October 18, 2012. The FBI on Wednesday arrested Nafis, a Bangladeshi, in a sting operation on charges he attempted to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank with what he believed was a 1,000-pound (450-kg) bomb, federal authorities said.
Nafis, 21, faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to al Qaeda, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. The father of a Bangladeshi man accused of attempting to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank yesterday said his son was the victim of a "racist conspiracy". Sandy Hook hoax is falling apart - National Policy & Issues. The dam finally burst this week as the mainstream media was forced to begin addressing the many very serious unanswered questions regarding the alleged Sandy Hook elementary school massacre.
Despite the fact that people questioning the official narrative has become one of the hottest media topics of the week, there's a very real possibility the right questions may never get asked in any meaningful way, at least not publicly. But with so many openly obvious anomalies, ridiculous coincidences and projected media falsehoods surrounding the event, people are figuring out what's actually happening on their own and hundreds of the largest media outlets around the country have had no choice but to talk about or, depending on who you talk to, attempt avoiding those circumstances to mostly avoid being seen as complicit. Photos: Private military operatives hired to 'work' the Boston marathon with black backpacks, radiation detectors, tactical gear.
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