What would complete stranger have to do to make You tell Your whole life story? Well, on Facebook all he has to do it make You click “yes” to friend request. Check out MashTart [VIDEO]
Keep in mind “friends” on Facebook know everything about You. Literally.
Wall Street Journal investigation has discovered, that “many of the most popular applications, or “apps,” on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information — in effect, providing access to people’s names and, in some cases, their friends’ names — to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies”. About 25 companies gathered Facebook’s user ID and sold this data further to advertisers. Story also on CNET.
This means not only Facebook own privacy policy was violated, but many of other companies as well; like Zynga, maker of FarmVille – a game with over 59 million users base. FB officials said “it is taking steps to “dramatically limit” the exposure of users’ personal information.” Read more »
RIAA’s 2008 tax return has showed that the industry body spent $17.6 million on legal costs fighting online piracy, but only managed to bring in $391,000 in settlements and damages. And what they spent whooping $17M? Well, some of these:
We are so sorry for failing to see anything wrong here, it's like double promo and for free 
It has happened, EU Parliament adopted Gallo Report – controversal resolution for harsh restrictions on intellectual property infringements. France example we wrote about earlier is now likely to be copied to other EU countries as well.
It seems like nobody in EU Parliament does not notice or care, that HADOPI and other law alike are based on wrong assumptions ignoring fact, that IP address does not clearly identify it’s owner, and can be used by different person at a time. IP addres is like a rental car, can be used by many people legally, but if someone will rob a bank using it – does a rental car company is to blame for it?
Entertainment industry wasn’t able to turn back a river with a stick, they will try to do it now with a lash. Their agenda is very clear: “Either way, someone will pay“. Does it seems fair to You?
Read full story on TorrentFreak.
BSA new study is once again proves how greatly economy is suffering from piracy. What it actually proves is something else: how BSA manipulate numbers to mislead report readers. The BSA admits its estimate is based on the presumption that every dollar “saved” by using unlicensed software would now be spent on proprietary software. Apart from this presumption being worthless in real life, BSA is considering Open Source software (~12% marketshare) as.. stolen.
