Lockergnome's Net Patrol ~
January 1, 2005
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MPAA Contractor Infects Downloader's
Machines with Adware, Spyware (Pirates of Packets)
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Overpeer, a division of Loudeye, Inc., has been caught putting
infected files on peer-to-peer filesharing networks, and putting
attractive and likely sounding names on the files in order to induce
users to download the files. Thinking that they are downloading their
favourite songs or other media files, the users only too late discover
that the files actually contain... [Continued...]... [Continued]
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VoIP Internet Telephone Can't be Regulated by
State, Says Court (The Law)
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A U.S. Federal Court has ruled this week that the State of
Minnesota (and by extension all states) cannot regulate Internet
telephone usage, known as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), in the
same way that the states presently regulate traditional phone lines
and usage. This is bound to be good news for VoIP services such as
Vonage and Skype, who have been seeing a dramatic growth and adoption
as VoIP services become more mainstream. The... [Continued]
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Porn is Out, Drugs are In (Spam)
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Timothy Leary would be proud. As a nation we are turning away from
lurid sex displays in which women are debased and objectified, and
turning towards drugs. At least in our spam. According AOL, and based
on a recent analysis of their incoming spam (and they should know,
they get a lot of it, despite their recently announced 60% decline in
inbound spam), ads for online porn are no longer the #1 spam, and
have... [Continued]
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MPAA Lawsuit Target LokiTorrent Fights Back
(The Law)
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LokiTorrent, one of the latest targets of the Motion Picture
Association of America's legal crackdown on filesharing sites using
the BitTorrent technology to allow users to download copyrighted
movies, has vowed to fight the lawsuit, and is asking for donations to
a legal fund to help defray an estimated $30,000 per month in legal
fees. According to a story on news.com, LokiTorrent offered in excess
of 30,000 files to its users as recently as October... [Continued]
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Software Author Takes Down Copycat Pirate
(Pirates of Packets)
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Think that software pirating is just a problem for the big guys,
like Microsoft, or maybe not even so much of a problem at all? Try
telling that to Nigel Cross, owner of Xequte.com, developers of a
number of software packages including SmartPix Manager, Mega View, Ez
Pix, and Diji Album, among others. Unfortunately for Cross, one of
their software products, "MailList King", is just ripe for abuse by,
and therefore very interesting to, spammers.... [Continued]
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Is Verizon Blocking Incoming Email from
Non-U.S. Internet Domains? (World Wide)
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Rumours abound that Verizon.net, the ISP branch of
telecommunications company Verizon, Inc., is blocking inb0und email
communications originating from outside of the United States. Is they
are or is they aint? That's quite an accusation. However scores of
Verizon users have claimed to be unable to receive email from...
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Can-Spam didn?t, survey says (The Law)
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After almost a full year of living under the foresight of the
Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act
of 2003, a survey by MX Logic cleverly declares that Can-Spam didn?t.
According to MX Logic?s home page, 83.06% of all email transiting
cyberspace now is spam. That?s a lot of spam to clog up your inbox. It
seems that Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Montana) still doesn?t get it either.
According to his spokesperson, Jennifer... [Continued]
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Only 10 Filing Days Left for Windows Users in
California (The Law)
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January 8th, 2005, is the deadline for Windows users to file a
claim against Microsoft under the settlement in the class-action
lawsuit by the State of California against the software giant. The
settlement, arising from a lawsuit in which it was claimed that
Microsoft had violated California'a anti-trust law by charging too
much for Windows 95 ande Windows 98, provides that both corporations
and consumers located in California are entitled to refunds ranging
from $50.00... [Continued]
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Dutch Treat for Dutch Spammers (The Law)
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Dutch telecom regulator OPTA has announced a crack down against
several violators of EU anti-spam standards, including against both
individuals and small businesses accused of spamming. EU (European
Union) anti-spam standards are generally much tougher and tighter than
are those in the United States, and include a requirement that
recipients must... [Continued...]... [Continued]
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Top U.S. Export? Survey Says - Spam! (World
Wide)
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If you received spam today (and if you are reading this, and
therefore by definition online, the odds are about 99.99% that you
did), the odds are also very good that it came from the Good Old
United States of America. Yes, that's right, the spirit of
entrepreneurism which made this country so great is alive and well on
the Internet...among the spammer community (er..for certain values of
"community"). According to anti-spam software maker Sophos,... [Continued]
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Universal Boxing Manager - Winter Wolves' Universal
Boxing Manager is, as the name might clearly imply (unless you've
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