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In the case of copyright infringement, which opposes the media group Viacom, YouTube feels compelled to provide its historical connection.

The case dates back to March of 2007. Viacom, a large group of American media holding, inter alia, Comedy Central, Dreamworks, MTV and Paramount, had filed a complaint against YouTube, the famous video portal owned by Google. The first accused the second violation of copyright with the dissemination of 160 000 videos that it owns the rights. These videos have been seen 1.5 billion times, which would consequently generating advertising revenue for YouTube, but also caused losses for Viacom.

A judge in a federal court in the city of San Francisco just to order YouTube to restore the historical connection of its users (4 TB of data) so that Viacom can prove that its videos were posted and views massively, in order to justify the billion dollars that is claimed as compensation. It has been clarified by Viacom that will not take the opportunity to identify users by their IP addresses.

However, Viacom has been dismissed for its request for obtaining the source code of the platform and tool for detecting illegal content.

The German publisher of security solutions displays the grid tariffs in the areas of cybercrime.

The security specialists agree that now is not the time for “hacker” with only reward a reputation that can sometimes cause him some tords. The time is now to the crime which is meant lucrative often say. To better realizing it, G Data shows the rates in force in the circles of cybercrime to the many economic models.

For information on a credit card, the price is variable depending on the value of information issued, or $2 to $25 for the date of expiration, the owner, the code. A PayPal account is trading at around $7 or less than $8 for a World of Warcraft, the online games category which attracts more and more cybercriminals. As for the shipment of spam, it reported nearly $495 for 20 million unsolicited email sent for 14 days.

An attack by denial of service is charged 25 to $100 with the first 10 minutes offered, then $20 an hour and $100 the day. The rates start to rise significantly for security vulnerabilities including the provision of an exploit can bring between 100 and $3000. The ratings soar with a security hole unknown paid up to 5000 to $50000.

The pranks of self-proclaimed largest BitTorrent site of the world have become legion. Last dated, a national struggle against large-scale legislation considered freedom. The program encryption massive private network for Swedish, and even leave Sweden to the Internet!

Before, they have celebrated the anniversary of their revival a few weeks ago, The Pirate Bay had already hit the headlines with the attempted purchase of the island of Sealand, to enjoy a zone without rights. Later, the site had launched its hosting service Uncensored images online, BayImg, and had wanted to do the same for videos, but without doing so.

Finally, in addition to a service for temporary e-mails SlopsBox, Bay launched two months ago BayWords order, they said, to fight against rampant censorship on the Internet. The last episode to date is no less ambitious, it is quite the opposite.

The pill tapping has not gone
The Pirate Bay has just begun a technological war against it’s country of origin, Sweden, or more precisely the FRA, the local military agency responsible for listening. The announcement follows the adoption of a law allowing the agency to spy on all means of communication used in the country and without having to go through the legal case.

The site intends to give itself the means to win this war. The plan is as follows. First, The Pirate Bay wants to move very quickly on its site secure access via SSL and the HTTPS protocol. This will make it much more difficult to identify which data exchanged between the bay and its visitors. The pirates also want to make it available to everyone to quantify how easily his hard disk.

Third stage and not least the establishment of a secure private network via VPN accessible to all Swedish. The goal is to ensure that users of this service can be monitored. Finally, the final step, The Pirate Bay wants to ask the ISPs to cut international communication with Sweden. Bay thinks he can convince them to make that choice for the protection of their own customers. The latter, by contacting Swedish sites or services could also be tapped.

After about two years of development, Dotclear Version 2.0 will soon be reality. Scheduled for this summer, we were right this weekend in a second release candidate.

Less popular at international level as his counterpart Wordpress, Dotclear is also distributed under the GNU General Public License. Currently in version 1.2.x (the stable branch), it has experienced virtually no major change since 2004.

Version 2.0 of Dotclear has been entitled to a first beta in July 2006. After nearly two years of efforts, the software has been released in a version RC2 - for Release Candidate. News since May and the first RC are as follows:

* The media manager has been reviewed. It can sort by name or date files but also to send a lot and see the progression of sending a file. Practice, however activate this feature advanced, based on Flash, may not work as host.
* The options were reorganized. Further have been established including the ability to set a maximum size for images. Some titles are given to images inserted and it is possible to manage the URL tickets.
* A configuration for referencing appears: the blogger now has the choice between leaving the site to be indexed and archived, refuse storage or simply indexing by search engines.
* A new spam filter called FairTrackbacks should protect more effectively against blogs unwanted advertisements via trackback.
* New translations are emerging, integrated plugins to n’activer than necessary.

A final version soon
The output of this second release candidate can make a point about the arrival of the final version 2.0. If the exact date is still unknown, it likely will appear this summer.

Recall that version 2.0 will be an opportunity to change quite interesting including metadata management, many editors or use other databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL SQLite. Dotclear 2 will also be able to manage multiple blogs from a single installation, a WYSIWYG editor and a brand new system for templates, plugins and widgets. This major overhaul will require the use of PHP 5.

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A man has decided to start from scratch by selling all his life for auction on eBay.

Following his divorce, Ian Usher, an Australian aged 44 years, decided to draw a definitive deal on its previous life to start from scratch.

That’s why he put his life on eBay, whether its large house, its physical assets (car, motorcycle, jet-skiing, parasailing, laptop, television, playstation, digital camera, barbecue, etc.). His work or his relations, hoping to recover much of this 500000 Australian dollars (305000 euros). Launched Sunday, the auction will last 7 days. And already, people are interested.

Whoever wins the auction will receive the keys to the house, which is 420000 Australian dollars (256000 euros), will be presented to the relations of Mr Usher, discover recreation latter will finally take its place in a store carpet for two weeks. Freedom of the employer to keep it or not. As the seller, it would retain only the bare minimum: his papers (portfolio and passport) and its habits.

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