The entertainment industry must be celebrating what may be a symbolic victory after four Pirate Bay guys were found guilty by a Stockholm court this morning “of being accessories to copyright infringement”, according to the local.
A server seized by the Swedish Police in a 2006 raid of The Pirate Bay’s premises has found a new home - The National Museum of Science and Technology, Sweden.
Read the museum’s press release translated by Google:
Read a press release translated by Google.
In a pretty eventful halfweek, which saw the passage of the IPRED law in Sweden, a resulting drop in internet traffic to an increased demand for anonymizers, the Police have began raiding suspected fil sharers. This raid was reportedly a part of an international sting operation that involved raids in Britian, Belgium, Netherlands and Spain.
Following the passage of the IPRED law in Sweden a few days ago, there’s been an increased demand for anonymizing services. The Pirate Bay has for instance started its own anonymizing service called IPREDator (you get the drift). Other anonymizers are also offering IPRED protection.
On April 1 Sweden passed the EU directive called IPRED (Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive) into law. That same day, internet traffic dropped by 30% according The Local, an online newspaper. The law will allow courts to order ISPs to hand over information that identify suspected illegal file sharers. The belief is that commercial infractions of intellectual property law within the EU will eventually be criminalised.
Symantec has published a survey - Underground Economy - detailing the activities of cyber criminals who through astute business models have managed to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in a year. The cost to victims of these activities easily runs into billions of dollars. What do they sell?
A US federal court judge has ruled that taking a cryptographic hash (fingerprinting) of a suspects hard drive constitutes a search and therefore a search warrant should be obtained first.
The judge ruled:
“To derive the hash values of Crist’s [suspect] computer, the government physically removed the hard drive from the computer, created a duplicate image of [...]
CAINE - Computer Aided INvestigative Environment -is a digital forensics project based on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. It comes complete with the full complement of Ubuntu’s traditional Gnome interface. On top of the Ubuntu kernel is an assembly of open source computer forensics tools held together by a perl wrapper. Tools included are:
Grissom Analizer
Automated Image & [...]
Its been widely reported here, here and here (and oh here too) that Apple went ahead to hire an IBM executive Mark Papermaster to head Apple’s iPhone and iPod division even though IBM had threatened Papermaster with a lawsuit. Now a US federal court judge in New York has ordered Papermater to stop working for [...]
