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Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:14:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://dog.beckament.net/2010/06/08/us-recording-industry-asks-for-15-trillion-dollar-judgement-against-limewire.html http://dog.beckament.net/2010/06/08/us-recording-industry-asks-for-15-trillion-dollar-judgement-against-limewire.html#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:09:07 +0000 Chris http://dog.beckament.net/?p=782 Now that judge Kimba Wood has ruled that the popular filesharing software Limewire infringes on copyright, the recording industry lawyers have asked US courts to order LimeWire owner Mark Gorton to pay $1,500,000,000,000 (that’s 1.5 Trillion) for 200,000,000 alleged downloads of the Limewire software as reported by the P2PNet news site (go there and read ]]> http://dog.beckament.net/2010/06/08/us-recording-industry-asks-for-15-trillion-dollar-judgement-against-limewire.html/feed 0 http://dog.beckament.net/2009/03/14/jailtime-for-copyright-violation.html http://dog.beckament.net/2009/03/14/jailtime-for-copyright-violation.html#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:01:08 +0000 Chris http://dog.beckament.net/?p=345 According to a recent Wired article; Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are seeking 6 months in prison for a man who pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of uploading pre-release Guns N’ Roses songs. I know it is making available and not downloading, but I always thought that copyright violations were (and should be) a ]]> http://dog.beckament.net/2009/03/14/jailtime-for-copyright-violation.html/feed 0 http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/12/america-may-create-copyright-police.html http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/12/america-may-create-copyright-police.html#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:33:05 +0000 Chris http://dog.beckament.net/?p=173 ARS Technica reports the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008 (s3325) got approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee by 14-4 vote. If passed into law this empowers the Justice Department of the USofA to litigate civil suits (and seize property) on behalf of IP owners (corporate interests). ARS Technica reports “Critics have blasted ]]> http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/12/america-may-create-copyright-police.html/feed 0 http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/09/voting-machine-hacked-video.html http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/09/voting-machine-hacked-video.html#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:19:17 +0000 Chris http://dog.beckament.net/?p=164 Watch the videos and read the article, I am really too busy to summarize this one, but if you live in the USofA it is important. This has to do with vote swapping on modern voting systems]]> http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/09/voting-machine-hacked-video.html/feed 0 http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/07/a-moment-of-sanity-or-why-i-dont-trust-diebold.html http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/07/a-moment-of-sanity-or-why-i-dont-trust-diebold.html#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:18:21 +0000 Chris http://dog.beckament.net/?p=109 Ohio sues Diebold over voting machines that ‘drop’ votes, finally! Election Systems & Software (formerly Diebold) manufactures voting machines and they have gotten a lot of bad press, but nobody I know really seems to care. A paper ballot system can be audited by any rational adult. An electronic ballot system can not… you can’t ]]> http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/07/a-moment-of-sanity-or-why-i-dont-trust-diebold.html/feed 0 http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/03/hushmail-no-longer-trustworthy.html http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/03/hushmail-no-longer-trustworthy.html#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:57:51 +0000 Chris http://dog.beckament.net/?p=95 Trusting your data to Hushmail, an email service that provides encryption may not be as secure as you may think. Recently Cryptome noticed that Hushmail’s encryption program is not actually the same as the source code that they make available. Hopefully this is an error and not an attempt to intentionally mislead their users. When ]]> http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/03/hushmail-no-longer-trustworthy.html/feed 0 http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/02/barack-obama-fisa-and-voting.html http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/02/barack-obama-fisa-and-voting.html#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:00:19 +0000 Chris http://dog.beckament.net/?p=81 Ok, I was going to vote for Barack Obama, he seemed like the ‘big-time’ candidate that had more of my interests at heart. Then he voted for the recent FISA Amendments Act of 2008 that grants telecoms immunity for helping the government break the law. This floored me… A law that protects lawbreakers. This just ]]> http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/02/barack-obama-fisa-and-voting.html/feed 0 http://dog.beckament.net/2008/07/30/why-are-the-olympic-games-in-china.html http://dog.beckament.net/2008/07/30/why-are-the-olympic-games-in-china.html#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:30:22 +0000 Chris http://dog.beckament.net/?p=31 I have tried to remain optimistic about the Olympic games being held in Beijing, China. Despite their repeated human rights violations, the policy towards Tibet, the horrible oversght on manufacturing quality in their exportable goods (melamine [poison] in the dog food, contaminated heparin, etc…). I had hoped that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) knew what ]]> http://dog.beckament.net/2008/07/30/why-are-the-olympic-games-in-china.html/feed 0