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/ 23 November 2005
Hollywood negotiated an agreement on Tuesday with the creator of BitTorrent software, popular for downloading pirated movies over the internet, in a deal aimed at reducing illegal traffic in online films. The agreement requires 30-year-old software designer Bram Cohen to prevent his website, www.bittorrent.com, from locating pirated versions of popular movies.
As software rivals, Microsoft wants to wipe Apple Computer off the map. With Microsoft’s new web service for satellite photographs, did the world’s largest software company find a way to do exactly that? Anyone who uses Microsoft’s new ”Virtual Earth” website for a bird’s-eye view of Apple’s corporate headquarters sees only a grainy photograph of what appears to be a nondescript warehouse.
The CIA is conducting a war game this week to simulate an unprecedented, September 11-like electronic assault against the United States. The three-day exercise, known as ”Silent Horizon,” is meant to test the ability of the government and industry to respond to escalating internet disruptions over many months.
The Zimbabwe government has published a Bill that will allow the government to set fees for private schools, a state-run newspaper reported on Tuesday. The Education Amendment Bill is expected to be debated when Parliament resumes next month, the Herald newspaper said.
An investigation over the sourcing and accuracy of roughly 160 news stories by a freelance journalist at a leading internet news site concluded that the existence of more than 40 people quoted in the articles could not be confirmed. The stories appeared on Wired News and covered subjects that ranged from computer viruses to the September 2001 terrorist attacks.
The recording industry sued 477 more computer users on Wednesday, including dozens of college students at schools in 11 states, accusing them of illegally sharing music across the internet. The Recording Industry Association of America, praised efforts by colleges and universities to use technology and school policies to crack down on music piracy on their own networks.
Winning the guilty plea of an important former Enron Corporation insider, the Justice Department set sights on its biggest target yet in the massive fraud investigation: Enron’s former chief financial officer.