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Some of you may recall last week the server which hosts the CastleCops wiki, German Wiki site and several other entities was shut down as a result of DDoS in order to prevent any ill affects to our hosts other clients. Some of those services have been restored while others are still offline. We are currently in the process of moving all CastleCops services which until now have been hosted at ApplicationX. This site and all of its holdings have become too large a target and we do not wish to see any further damage to other sites as a result of these attacks.
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At approximately 1:30 AM July 8, 2008 CastleCops Wiki, German site, Hashes, Volunteer Blogs as well as other services were taken offline due to a DDoS in excess of 100 m/s, which was negatively impacting the ISPs other clients. Both the sites are still currently offline while servers are prepared for them at a new location.
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Update - MS KB951748 breaks ZoneAlarm |
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Windows update KB951748 should not be installed. It will break your Internet connection. If you have it already installed, uninstalling it fixes the problem.
I have spent the day troubleshooting over 20 PCs and have found all installations to have the install date of 9 July 2008, which in my part of the world is tomorrow. I think that as of tomorrow it should work. If not then MS broke something again, but we are used to that.
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MPAA: actual P2P distribution often impossible to prove |
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Copyright holders shouldn't have to prove that an unauthorized distribution of their work occurred in order to collect damages, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.Both sides realize that the stakes are high and are throwing everything they've got Judge Davis' way. At the time of the Jammie Thomas trial, Thomas was found liable for $9,250 in damages per song for a collection of 24 songs that she made available online, for a total of $222,000 in total damages. In May, however, Davis said that he may have made a manual error of law when instructing the jury.
In its filing, the MPAA says that the mere act of making available a copyrighted piece on a P2P network should serve as sufficient evidence of copyright infringement. Therefore, anyone who makes files available over P2P networks should be deemed to have satisfied the requirements of actual distribution, even if proof of that actual distribution doesn't exist. It sees arguments to the contrary as mere technicalities designed to make it harder for rightsholders to prosecute infringers.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation shot back with its own amicus brief, arguing that the Copyright Act does not grant a making available right to copyright owners. It also said that trade groups shouldn't be allowed to claim that an actual distribution took place based solely on downloads from their own investigators.
According to the MPAA, providing this level of evidence is just too hard. It is often very difficult, and in some cases impossible, to provide such direct proof when confronting modern forms of copyright infringement, whether over P2P networks or otherwise, writes the group.
Another hearing on the case is scheduled for August, at which time Thomas may get the new trial that she has been asking for since last October. "
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NetDevilz, a Turkish hacker group has struck again and this time right at the top. Recently they hacked Photobucket and yesterday they attacked and defaced THE domains that should be secure – ICANN and IANA.
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