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-------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: EFFector list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: EFFector list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: EFFector 20.11a: Hollywood Stars Present World's Brightest > Shiniest Object to Key Senate Committee > Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 11:34:17 -0500 (CDT) > > EFFector Vol. 20, No. 11a April 1, 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation > ISSN 1062-9424 > > In the 666th Issue of EFFector: > > * Hollywood Stars Present World's Brightest Shiniest Object > to Key Senate Committee > * RIAA to Parents: Pay When They're Toddlers and Save the > Bother Later > * American Travelers' "Risk Assessment" Score to Be Based on > Google PageRank > * NSA to Open Virtual "Black Box" Office in Second Life > * GoDaddy Admits Error: We Accidentally Protected One of Our > Customers > * miniLinks (5): YouTube Sues Viacom for Profiting Off Jokes > at Its Expense > * Administrivia and EULA > > For more information on EFF activities & alerts: > <http://www.eff.org/> > > Make a donation and become an EFF member today! > <http://eff.org/support/> > > Tell a friend about EFF: > http://action.eff.org/site/Ecard?ecard_id=1061 > > effector: n, Computer Sci. A device for producing a desired > change. > > : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : > > * Hollywood Stars Present World's Brightest Shiniest Object to > Key Senate Committee > > Washington, D.C. - Dozens of Hollywood celebrities and the > movie industry's finest pyrotechnicians gave their all in an > amazing pageant of music, dance and extremely bright hypnotic > light in an exclusive presentation to the Senate Judiciary > Subcommittee on the Internet and Intellectual Property last > Friday. > > The event, titled "Oh So Big And Shiny: Things More > Interesting Than Those Dweebs on Their Dumb Bleeping > Machines," was part of the subcommittee's scheduled hearing on > threats to security research in online commerce by > misapplications of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act > (DMCA). > > "We saw Senator Sununu's eyes wander to the written testimony > of some imprisoned cryptographer during the 'Our Reliving the > Explosions of the Die Hard Movie' sequence, but I think we got > him back," said the MPAA's Seth Oster, who organized the > display. The show was introduced by an eight-foot animatronic > version of MPAA President Dan Glickman, whose robot head > emitted a powerful strobe into the committee members' eyes > during the duration of the show. > > Due to encores and an extensive post-extravaganza cleanup > operation, two members of the consumer electronics industry, a > man whose family was allegedly kidnapped by DMCA-wielding > ninjas, and Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge were unable to make > their scheduled appearances. > > For this release: > <http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID=556> > > : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : > > > * RIAA to Parents: Pay When They're Toddlers and Save the > Bother Later > > The RIAA today sent a "settlement letter" to all parents of > children under 3 years old offering a toddler settlement rate > for online copyright infringement if they simply send payment > to major record labels before their children learn to read. > > "Our goal is to make this easier for parents," said RIAA > President Cary Sherman. "Everyone knows that in this era of > increasing hard drive capacity and new digital media > technologies, it is inevitable that every child in America > will infringe copyright sooner or later. With our 'toddler > settlement' rate, parents can avoid those pesky lawsuits. > Consider it a way to invest your child's future." > > The toddler settlement requires parents to log everything > their child ever does online and to make those logs available > to the RIAA at regular intervals. "It can just become a part > of every birthday celebration," added RIAA's counsel at Holme, > Roberts and Owen. "Blow out the candles and send your Internet > logs to Uncle RIAA!" > > For this post: > <http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID=556> > > : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : > > * American Travelers' "Risk Assessment" Score to Be Based on > Google PageRank > > According to a joint announcement by the Department of > Homeland Security and search engine giant Google, Inc., today, > all citizens of the United States traveling across borders > will be given a risk rating, to be based on the overall > position of their homepage when Transportation Security > Administration (TSA) representatives type the name into the > popular search engine. > > "Until now, we've been using an unduly complex metric to > deduce which innocent citizen will suddenly become > 'interesting' to our agents during routine inspections," said > a TSA spokesperson. "Finally we thought, why not just find out > who everyone else thinks is 'interesting' instead?" > > "You know, like, crowdsource it?" added a Google spokesperson > from a nearby office hammock. > > The RankInSecurity rating will take values generated by > Google's patent algorithm and TSA's own unique data mining > methods to determine whether the traveler will pass through > security checkpoints unhindered, be obliged to "volunteer" for > further screening, or simply sent back home until their online > popularity improves. > > When asked about the risks of scores being distorted by so- > called "Googlebombing," the TSA spokesman visibly blanched, > screamed for backup, and threw the questioner onto the floor. > Further calls to the TSA were not answered by press time. > > For this post: > <http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID=556> > > : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : > > * NSA to Open Virtual "Black Box" Office in Second Life > > The National Security Agency announced today plans to open a > virtual "office" in the popular online game Second Life. The > office will consist of a large black box located in an > undisclosed location. "We've already eavesdropped on most > Americans' first lives," said NSA spokesperson Narc Informer. > "Now we have a whole new world to listen in on." The > government also plans to build a virtual secret courtroom to > issue virtual carte blanche wiretapping orders and will > eventually add a virtual offshore interrogation island for > enemy combatant avatars to be held without trial. > > For this post: > <http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID=556> > > : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : > > * GoDaddy Admits Error: We Accidentally Protected One of Our > Customers > > The general counsel of Internet domain registrar GoDaddy > publicly apologized today for giving sufficient notice to one > of its customers before revealing her identity to a third > party. > > "I don't know how it happened," said Christine Jones. "We > somehow managed to inform a customer a month in advance about > a subpoena seeking her identity, including sending her a copy > of it. The customer actually had time to find counsel and > protect her identity." > > This falls on the heels of a previous event when GoDaddy > refused to take down its customers' domain in response to a > request written in crayon on a scrap of paper. "We would have > pulled the whole website down with two minutes notice as > usual," added Ms. Jones. "But it was written in yellow crayon > and you know how hard that is to read." > > For this post: > <http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID=556> > > For more on GoDaddy's disregard for users' rights: > <http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005168.php> > > : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : > > * miniLinks > miniLinks features noteworthy news items from around the > Internet. > > ~ YouTube Sues Viacom for Profiting Off Jokes at Its Expense > Daily Show, Colbert Report "systematically and intentionally > built a business model on the backs of YouTube and its user > community, making fun at our expense without just > compensation." > <http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID=556> > > ~ Court Smells a Copyright Violation > Plush "Fartman" doll infringes on "Pull My Finger Fred" > (seriously). > <http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/court_rules_for.html> > > ~ Dungeon Masters, Guild Members to Testify on Chaotic > Neutrality in Congress Next Week > Twenty-sided dice to decide legislation's fate. > <http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID=556> > > ~ FBI to Stop Using National Security Letters in Favor of BLTs > Instead of intimidating phone companies, Internet service > providers and librarians into revealing personal information > with these secret letters, the FBI will now entice disclosure > by offering a scrumptious sandwich. > <http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID=556> > > ~ NSA, FBI Debut Search Engine to Compete with Google > "We had so much of this data just layin' around, we figured > 'why not monetize it?'" says agency > official.<http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID=556> > > ~ Steve Jobs Announces new iPatch Product for Music Lovers > Apple revolutionizes the way people can sail the open sea. > <http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID=556> > > : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : > > * Administrivia and EULA > > EFFector is published by: > > The Electronic Frontier Foundation > 454 Shotwell Street > San Francisco CA 94110-1914 USA > +1 415 436 9333 (voice) > +1 415 436 9993 (fax) > <http://www.eff.org/> > > Editor: > Derek Slater, Zookeeper > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Membership & donation queries: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > General EFF, legal, policy, or online resources queries: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > By looking, glancing or thinking about EFFector, you hereby > agree to the following: > > You may not, without EFF's prior written approval, provide any > public commentary on this work or series of works within the > Document, including derivative works based on the concepts > expressed therein, throughout the universe in perpetuity in > any and all media, now known or hereafter developed, alone, or > together or as part of other material of any kind or nature. > > You agree that in order to protect the integrity of this > content, EFF and/or its licensors may provide for Software > security related updates that will be downloaded and installed > on your work laptops. 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