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Sony’s new hot legal defense goes after journalist & has a anti-Linux background. Ars gets hacked & why the big trend is the cord cutters friend.

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Sony Demands Press Destroy Leaked Documents – Slashdot

In an effort that may run afoul of the first amendment, Sony, through their lawyer David Boies (of SCO infamy), has sent a letter to major news organizations demanding that they refrain from downloading any leaked documents, and destroy those already possessed. Sony threatens legal action to news organizations that do not comply, saying that “Sony Pictures Entertainment will have no choice but to hold you responsible for any damage or loss arising from such use or dissemination by you.”

Sony Planned to Flood Torrent Sites With “Promo” Torrents

Sony Pictures’ TV network AXN developed a guerrilla marketing campaign to convert users of The Pirate Bay, KickassTorrents and other torrent sites to paying customers. The company planned to flood torrent sites with promos for the premiere Hannibal disguised as pirated copies of the popular TV-show.

The revelations are part of the Sony Pictures leaks which contain a discussion on the plan, framing it as a “brilliant anti­piracy social campaign.” The AXN employee describes the idea as follows.

“The idea is simple. We made a promo dedicated to Hannibal which is convincing people in very creative and no­invasive way to watch Hannibal legally on AXN instead downloading it from torrents.

“[T]his promo is supposed to be downloaded on the torrents sites, imitating the first episode of Hannibal season 2 but in reality would be only a 60 sec promo. The torrents sites are exactly the place where people just after [the] US premier would be searching for the first episode of season 2. So the success of this project is more than 100% sure.”

Unfortunately for the AXN Central Europe team the advertising campaign wasn’t well received at Sony Pictures’ headquarters in Los Angeles.

Sony Pictures Executive Vice President, who emphasized that it was a no go.

“Forget about a site blocking strategy if we start putting legitimate PSAs or promos on sites we’ve flagged to governments as having no legitimate purpose other than theft… PSAs being for public good, etc…”*

And so it never happened…

Ars Technica is the latest site to fall victim to hack | The Verge

There has been a lot of hacking news in the past few weeks, and now noted technology news site Ars Technica has fallen victim to a hack. The site’s front page has gone black, with white text reading “Ars Security” alongside a couple of Twitter handles, presumably of those who have taken control of the site. There’s also some music playing to keep you occupied while waiting for the site to come back online.

The issue doesn’t appear to be completely widespread, as some Verge staffers located in different points around the globe aren’t currently having issues connecting to the site. Ars itself is also aware of the hack; the site’s Twitter account indicates they should be back online soon.

NBC to Live Stream Network Shows – WSJ

NBC is launching a live stream of its broadcast network, part of a broader effort at parent NBCUniversal to make more of its content available online via computers and mobile devices.

Instead, to access NBC’s live stream as well as additional content the company plans to offer via an on-demand platform, consumers will have to provide proof that they already have a pay-TV subscription.

NBC’s live stream will debut Tuesday online, and mobile platforms will be available early next year. Walt Disney Co.’s ABC launched a live stream of its network last year.

Separately, NBCUniversal is also going to start making content from its Bravo and Telemundo networks available through Microsoft Corp. ’s Xbox One game console. USA and Syfy already have deals with Xbox One.

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Google is requiring developers to submit their physical address, and the Apple community has outed the manager behind the botched iOS 8.0.1 update. Are we seeing a dangerous threat or just a frantic response?

Plus some great questions, when to lawyer up & much more!

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Feedback / Follow Up:

• On the Viability of Crowd Funding

• Wrist pain

• PHP at a client

• Google wants to post my home address

• Law and Coding

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Person responsible for iOS 8.0.1 debacle also linked to iOS 6 Maps

A quality assurance manager responsible for this week’s botched iOS 8.0.1 release was also in charge of QA for iOS 6 Maps, sources tell Bloomberg. The man is identified as Josh Williams, who is said to have been removed from the Maps team after the app gave people bad directions and/or mislabeled important scenery. He has however been with Apple since 2000, and has been handling quality issues for iOS since the early days of the iPhone.

It’s reported that Williams has a team of over 100 people around the world, and that the company relies more on human discovery of bugs than automated testing. Partly because of these factors, it’s indicated that no single person can be held responsible for major software trouble. The company in fact has a committee called the Bug Review Board overseen by Kim Vorrath, VP of product management for iOS and OS X. She in turn reports to Craig Federighi, the senior VP for software engineering. To help with testing, the company relies heavily on feedback from third-party developers.

It’s at BRB meetings that Vorrath, Williams, and other people determine which bugs need to be solved immediately and which can be dealt with later. Bugs are labeled P1, P2, or P3; P1 can halt production of a device, while P2 or P3 items can be rolled into development of later updates even before the initial firmware is out.

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We chat with the creator of BitVegas, how it works, his plans for the future, and how he keeps users bitcoin\’s secure. Plus his thoughts on possible legal issues facing bitcoin gambling sites, Litecoin for gambling, and more.

Plus we run through some of the best Bitcoin news we’ve ever heard yet, using bitcoin for a cause, and some practical security tips.

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• PayPal president is fascinated by Bitcoin, says company is ‘thinking about’ including the virtual currency

So I\’ve been spending a lot of time looking at it, and it\’s truly fascinating actually: the way that the currency\’s been designed, and the way that inflation is built in to pay for miners, and all that is truly fascinating. I think that for us at PayPal, it\’s just a question whether Bitcoin will make its way to PayPal\’s funding instrument or not. We\’re kinda thinking about it.

• Chris Dixon: Why Silicon Valley Is Obsessed With The Bitcoin

Chris Dixon is co-founder and CEO at Hunch at a co-founder at Founder Collective. In the past he has served as CEO and co-founder at SiteAdvisor.

He has invested in technology companies including Skype, Foursquare and Kickstarter. In 2010, BusinessWeek magazine named Dixon the top angel investor in the technology industry.

Chris Dixon, like many other Silicon Valley investors, is really excited about Bitcoin. He says he\’s invested a significant amount of money into it.

Dixon spoke about why he and the rest of Silicon Valley are excited about Bitcoin, and what types of Bitcoin startups he\’s looking to invest in.

• Another Big VC Says Bitcoin Is \’Gold 2.0. It\’s a Huge, Huge, Huge Deal

Chamath Palihapitiya, venture capitalist, former head of the AOL Instant Messaging division, former Facebook executive, part owner of the Golden State Warriors (NBA)

Think the recent collapse in Bitcoin\’s value was the end of the experimental currency\’s, um, currency? Not even close, says Chamath Palihapitiya, the longtime Facebook executive who now runs The Social + Capital Partnership.

Likening Bitcoin to the \”red pill\” from the movie \”The Matrix,\” which exposes those who take it to a hidden reality, Palihapitiya sounded as bullish as could be during a Q&A at TechCrunch Disrupt NY on Monday morning.

BitVegas

• BitVegas: A casino, a faucet, and most of all, a community.

BitVegas is a Minecraft casino that operates on Bitcoins. It has a very friendly community as well as fun games.

If you enjoy gambling, bitcoins or socializing then you should come and join this server. It usually has at least fifteen players online during the day and up to forty at night (usually thirty). Upon joining you get 5 play BTC to gamble with. These can not be exchanged for any real Bitcoins. However, you also get half a real mBTC (possibly going up soon to 1 mBTC or more) per fifteen minutes. You can use these to gamble on games such as poker(still in beta), roulette, blackjack, pig racing(think horse racing with pigs), minefield, and a lottery (the lottery ticket seller is a chicken who usually hangs out in the roulette room).

The Bitcoins in this server can be exchanged for real Bitcoins to be sent to your wallet.

The player base is very friendly and we often have discussions and debates both related and unrelated to Bitcoins. It\’s a very friendly community as well as a source of free Bitcoins and entertainment.

— Litecoin —

• Mt. Gox delays plan to support virtual currency litecoin

The Tokyo-based exchange said in a news release it was planning to support litecoin two weeks ago \”but events derailed that plan. Right now we are focused on overall stability of the exchange and will launch LTC [litecoin] when we are ready.

• Sent in by James: Coinotron, ltcmine.ru, btc-e.com and give-me-ltc.com are experiencing massive brute force attacks.

A good reminder to use a different password at every pool you try, periodically check your payout address to make sure no one hacked you and changed it to pay them instead of you.

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Private citizen contractors engaged in the theater of battle might seem common place now, thanks to the war on terror, but in reality it’s one of the most transformational changes our Military has ever gone through, and most of us never noticed.

ACT 1: A new once a day drug can help prevent HIV infection, but it’s been announced during a major FDA Spying scandal, plus the biggest threat facing the United States of America, according to Lamar Smith.

ACT 2: How did companies like Blackwater get their start, what major policy changes were put in place to make this legal, and what the future looks like for these companies. We answer those questions, and a lot more.

ACT 3: It’s your feedback, and some of our follow up.

All that and much more, is coming up right now on, Unfilter.

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ACT ONE:

• FDA approves landmark HIV prevention drug

• F.D.A. Surveillance of Scientists Spread to Outside Critic

• Congress Now Trying To Outlaw Reporting On Government Corruption
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• A little reminder “Amendment 1

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
+ Lamar Smith, who is pushing for this new legislation, is the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee which (according to his website) \”is the second oldest standing committee in Congress. In the last Congress over one thousand bills and resolutions were referred to the Judiciary Committee on such subjects as terrorism, crime, immigration, bankruptcy, civil liberties, constitutional amendments, and patents and copyrights. Lamar Smith is the first Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee from Texas.”

• \’\’The greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.\’\’ – Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX)

• Treasury Department reports employee misconduct

• Mexican drug cartels’ spreading influence

• Families of Americans killed by drones file suit

ACT TWO: Blackwater

Basics

• How Erik Prince founded BLACKWATER – YouTube
• Blackwater Rebranded ‘Academi’
• 2009 Blackwater changed its name to Xe
  • 2011 Xe changed its name Academi
• Academi Contractors Randomly Killing Civilians Video
• 9/10/2001: Rumsfeld says $2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon – YouTube

Going Forward

• Canadian Soldiers Trained by private U.S. Contractors
• Blackwater illegally paid millions in taxpayer money
• ACADEMI buys back the contract that the company lost for the Nisour Square Massacre
• Monsanto hired Blackwater to infiltrate anti-GMO groups

ACT THREE: Feedback

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• Pro Water Fluoridation Video
• Another Pro Fluoride Email

Next week:

Headline edition of Unfilter. Tracking stories like:

• Two Buses With 40 Israeli Tourists Blown Up At Bulgarian Airport
• Breaking/Confirmed: Sec Clinton Assassination Attempt in Israel (updated)
• Iran says US can’t clear Gulf of mines
• HSBC ‘allowed drug cartels to launder money’
• Olympic Security Theater

Song pick of the week:

Mercenary by Of The I off their album Balance Instars which was ether released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license (which is what it says on songs page on Jamendo) or the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-SA 2.0) (which is what the license file says when you download the full album)

The Dick Song by Ministry off their album The Last Sucker
UK version

Further Reading:

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• Audible: Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army Audio Book
• Sourcewatch: School of the Americas
• Time Magazine: Is It Time to Shutter the Americas’ ‘Coup Academy’?
• NPR: Foreign Policy Junta: Trained in The U.S.A.
• Foreign Policy: U.N. embraces private military contractors

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