The email scam claims that PayPal is trying to fight fraud, and therefore requires you to submit your personal data at a website the scammer controls for verification. The website you’re sent to uses graphics copied from the PayPal site and looks professional. The Register So, if you get an email from verification@paypal.com ignore it.
Archives for May 2003
Napster sued again..
EMI, Universal Music, and several others are suing Napster as usual, for $17 billion, claiming it was responsible for a 9 percent drop in global music sales. EMI and Universal Music are already suing Himmer Winblad Venture Partners for prolonging the life of Napster with their $13 million investment in 2000. The Register I guess [...]
RIAA vs The Economy
The news these days is plastered with stories of the untold billions of dollars the recording industry is losing to digital piracy. On a recent plane flight from coast- to-coast, after the main movie the airline showed a series of short films, including one about how digital pircay was wrecking the music industry. Hillary Rosen, [...]
How to fake working..
It has never been easier to be a white-collar slacker. While the uninitiated are still grousing about how mobile technology has created a 24/7 work culture and sabotaged their private time, a savvier crowd has moved on to a more rewarding pursuit: using technology to make it look like you’re working when you’re not. WSJ.com [...]
Verisign gets DNS lookup patent
Verisign has been granted a patent protecting the lookup of domain names. The patent protects the act of performing several look-ups at once, or "performing a multitude of searches simultaneously, transparent to the user. "Specifically, the improved query server searches for an existing domain name records in various domains and then displays the results in [...]
Lyric Sites Illegal
Ever searched for that infuriating song lyric you couldn’t quite make out? If the music industry gets its way, you had better sort it out while you still can. BBC NEWS | Technology | The joy of lyrics It seems that posting lyrics from songs without the authors explicit permission is illegal. According to the [...]
RIAA Apologizes??
WASHINGTON–The Recording Industry Association of America apologized Monday to Penn State University for sending an incorrect legal notice of alleged Internet copyright violations. RIAA apologizes for threatening letter | CNET News.com Not really that big a deal, as it should be common courtesy to apologize when you falsely accuse someone. Microsoft has also made an [...]
Another reason to use Mozilla
Some clever git has found a bug that crashes all versions of Internet Explorer since version 4.0. <html> <form> <input type crash> </form> </html> It doesn’t crash if you include a <body> tag, so it’s not widely exploitable in forums and such.
Students settle with RIAA
Four university students on Thursday agreed to pay thousands of dollars each to settle online music piracy charges, ending the record industry’s most aggressive thrust yet against individual file swappers. Campus file swappers to pay RIAA | CNET News.com The 4 students that were sued by the RIAA a bit back have all settled the [...]