File sharing
UNESCO's bizarre World Anti-Piracy Observatory
Claude sez, UNESCO announced the launch of its World Anti-Piracy Observatory in a YouTube video on April 21, 2010, but according to French Wikipedia - an entry coyly started as "193.242.192.9" - the idea hearkens back to 2005, and reeks of it. Particularly notable: WAPO's " collection of national copyright laws ", where each country's page is linked to a "Disclaimer" in which UNESCO claims copyright on the content of the collection and restricts its use to educational, non commercial purposes - even though in most cases, they simply downloaded the copyright law from the official site, renamed the file and re-uploaded it on the UNESCO server. There are also some gems of inaccuracy in the countries' PDFs that are linked to in the sections of WAPO that are listed in the left column - but putting copyright laws that are either in the public domain or copyrighted to the country's parliament under UNESCO's own copyright is the next-to-worst one.As a world (in)famous technologist with the literal last name “Dotcom,” Kim Dotcom is a man whose swag is matched only by the damages sought against him by the U.S. government. His filesharing site Megaupload was long the ire of record companies and movie studios, who say it was a massive and sprawling repository of pirated content. If the accusations are true, it was one of the more successful pirate operations in history.
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File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents, or electronic books. It may be implemented through a variety of ways. Common methods of storage, transmission and dispersion include manual sharing utilizing removable media , centralized servers on computer networks , World Wide Web -based hyperlinked documents, and the use of distributed peer-to-peer networking .
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Source: ACTA : une mascarade à laquelle je ne participerai pas - Kader Arif blog http://www.kader-arif.fr/actualites.php?actualite_id=147 Kader Arif, rapporteur for ACTA in the European Parliament quit his role as rapporteur saying:
SOPA, Internet regulation, and the economics of piracy
Earlier this month, I detailed at some length why claims about the purported economic harms of piracy, offered by supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA), ought to be treated with much more skepticism than they generally get from journalists and policymakers. My own view is that this ought to be rather secondary to the policy discussion: SOPA and PIPA would be ineffective mechanisms for addressing the problem, and a terrible idea for many other reasons , even if the numbers were exactly right. No matter how bad last season's crops were, witch burnings are a poor policy response. Fortunately, legislators finally seem to be cottoning on to this : SOPA now appears to be on ice for the time being, and PIPA's own sponsors are having second thoughts about mucking with the Internet's Domain Name System.
Comparison of file sharing applications
File sharing is a method of distributing electronically stored information such as computer programs and digital media . Below is a list of file sharing applications. Note that several applications had adware or spyware tied in in the past and may have it again in the future. The same goes for clones of open source apps, e.g. eMule. This list attempts to display the current status only. [ edit ] Comparison pages
This is a timeline of events in the history of file sharing . [ edit ] Before 1970s [ edit ] 1970s 8-inch floppy disk drive compared in size to 3.5" floppy disk of 1984 1971 – The 8-inch floppy disk , the first removable magnetic medium and the first removable media , is developed by an IBM team led by David Noble. [ 2 ] It allows for manual file transfer .
Timeline of file sharing
Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Pour les articles homonymes, voir Partage . Le partage de fichiers est une technique consistant à distribuer ou à donner accès, à distance, à des données numériques . Il peut s'agir de fichiers de toutes sortes : logiciels , livres , vidéo , audio etc... Deux techniques de partage de fichiers existent actuellement : l'hébergement centralisé (modèle client-serveur ) permet de stocker les données sur un serveur de fichiers unique et d'y accéder sur celui-ci depuis un autre ordinateur (dit le client ). la technique pair-à-pair qui consiste à mettre des données en partage suivant un modèle de réseau informatique où chaque ordinateur client est aussi un serveur ;
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