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TELECOM Digest     Sun, 11 Dec 2005 15:05:00 EST    Volume 24 : Issue 558

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Court Rules Against Mother in Downloading Suit (Ted Bridis)
    CNN Pours Into Broadband Pipeline (Paul Grough)
    Sprint Showing Full Length Movies (Robert McMillan)
    Privacy implications of Microsoft's Windows Live Local (Monty Solomon)
    Can This Man Reprogram Microsoft? (Monty Solomon)
    Re: One in Four Netters Get Phony E-Mails (DevilsPGD)
    Re: One in Four Netters Get Phony E-Mails (Steven Lichter)
    Re: FTC Do Not Call List (Mark Crispin)
    Re: FTC Do Not Call List (Lena)

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From: Ted Bridis <ap@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Court Rules Against Mother in Downloading Suit
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:18:48 -0600


By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer

A federal appeals court late Friday upheld the music industry's
$22,500 judgment against a Chicago mother caught illegally
distributing songs over the Internet.

The court rejected her defense that she was innocently sampling music
to find songs she might buy later and compared her downloading and
distributing the songs to shoplifting.

The decision against Cecilia Gonzalez, 29, represents one of the
earliest appeals court victories by the music industry in copyright
lawsuits it has filed against thousands of computer users. The
three-judge panel of the U.S.  Court of Appeals for the Seventh
Circuit in Chicago threw out Gonzalez's arguments that her Internet
activities were permitted under U.S. copyright laws.

Gonzalez had rejected a proposed settlement from music companies of
about $3,500. A federal judge later filed a summary judgment against
her and ordered her to pay $750 for each of 30 songs she was accused
of illegally distributing over the Internet.

Gonzalez, a mother of five, contended she had downloaded songs to
determine what she liked enough to buy at retail. She said she and her
husband regularly buy music CDs and own more than 250.

However, the appeals panel said Gonzalez never deleted songs off her
computer she decided not to buy, and judges said she could have been
liable for more than 1,000 songs found on her computer.

"A copy downloaded, played, and retained on one's hard drive for
future use is a direct substitute for a purchased copy," the judges
wrote. They said her defense that she downloaded fewer songs than many
other computer users "is no more relevant than a thief's contention
that he shoplifted only 30 compact discs, planning to listen to them
at home and pay later."

Gonzalez could not be reached for comment. Her lawyer, Geoff Baker,
said comparing Gonzalez to a shoplifter was "inflammatory" but
declined to comment further until he had more time to review the
decision, which was released late in the day.

Gonzalez was named in the first wave of civil lawsuits filed by record
companies and their trade organization, the Recording Industry
Association of America, in September 2003.

"The law here is quite clear," said Jonathan Lamy, a senior vice
president for the Washington-based RIAA. "Our goal with all these
anti-piracy efforts is to protect the ability of the music industry to
invest in the bands of tomorrow and give legal online services a
chance to flourish."

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press.

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From: Paul J. Gough <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: CNN Pours Into Broadband Pipeline
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:21:22 -0600


By Paul J. Gough

CNN has finally joined the broadband big leagues, lifting the veil on an
extreme makeover of its Web site that has been in the works for more than a
year.

The long-awaited premium broadband service, dubbed Pipeline, went live
December 5 and already has signed up a number of subscribers in its
initial week, though CNN executives decline to cite specifics.

The killer app for Pipeline is four live video streams, which offer
mostly unedited looks at news events throughout the world. These
streams -- or "pipes" -- can be played in a special video player and
chosen by Pipeline's editors in Atlanta.

On Thursday night, Pipeline offered video streams from CNN
International, a memorial service for slain Beatle John Lennon in
Central Park, the House of Representatives and a traffic cam on a
snowy Chicago night. That last pipe turned out to be prescient an hour
later when news broke out from Chicago's Midway Airport when a
Southwest Airlines jet slid off a runway. The third stream became
video live from the scene at WFLD-TV.

A day earlier, when a passenger was shot and killed by federal agents
at the Miami airport, Pipeline offered several live camera angles of
the scene.

"When the plane shooting happened, we had three different affiliates'
coverage. We had multiple angles on the story; you could select the
one you wanted," said David Payne, senior vp CNN News Services and
general manager of CNN.com. "I think even more intriguing, as that was
happening, there was a bank robbery in Oregon and a rescue in
Georgia." All were represented on the streams.

NEWSROOM'S-EYE-VIEW

Payne thinks this is the promise of Pipeline. He said the mostly
anchorless live streams show what the news is. The live coverage of
the plane shooting allowed viewers to see the same feeds that the
network control rooms were viewing at the same time.

"As the story was unfolding for the plane shooting, and it became
clear that that was under control, all these other events were
happening," Payne said.  "That really shows the power. On linear
television, you're so limited in what you can do and what you can
show. We have four times the capability."

Live coverage isn't the only hallmark of CNN Pipeline. The video
player offers users the ability to see the top stories in video, get
other news on demand and even browse CNN's vast archives.

But the one thing you won't see: whole programs. Payne doesn't think
that's a good thing, despite what others in the news industry are
doing on their Web sites.

"We think that showing shows, creating specific programing, is not the
right approach. Consumers are pretty loud and clear about that to us,"
Payne said.  "Our goal is to let the news take you to wherever it goes
and we're going to go along with it. I don't anticipate creating shows
or linear programing."

Payne doesn't think the $2.95 a month -- or $24.95 a year -- price tag
is a deal-killer, despite the evidence that consumers are generally
still resistant to paying for premium content on the Web.

"There's no question in my mind that there's a $2.95 value that can be
created of an entire month that would enable somebody or cause
somebody to this," Payne said. "I can't even find an analogy to
spending 9 cents a day."

More innovations are coming, predicts Payne, that will go far beyond
the mostly TV-centric news Web sites.

"We can do so much more than a set-top box or rabbit ears on a TV,"
Payne said. "Once you think about your computer as a set-top box, with
all the capability it has and all the advancements it has, I think in
the future what we see on our converging scenes is something that we
can't even dream of."

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.

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From: Robert McMillan <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Sprint Offering Full-Length Movie Downloads
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:16:53 -0600


By Robert MacMillan

Using a mobile phone to buy movie tickets and check showtimes is one
thing, but Sprint offers the whole movie.

Sprint Nextel Corp. is expected to announce on Monday that it has
begun selling a service which allows users of its mobile video phones
to watch full-length movies, television shows, concerts and comedy
specials.

Provided by vendor MSpot, the service offers unlimited shows and
movies for a monthly flat fee of $6.95, on top of regular service
charges.

The announcement comes as Sprint and other wireless phone services are
looking to video content like TV programs, music and sports to boost
revenue.

They also are spending billions of dollars building up their networks
for mobile video and speedy Internet service so they can grow revenue
despite cheaper calling plans and a shrinking pool of first-time
wireless phone subscribers.

The initial lineup includes films that are far from anyone's first-run
list.

Among them are "One-Eyed Jacks," the Marlon Brando-Karl Malden
Western, as well as "Angel and the Badman" with John Wayne. Other
titles include "Night of the Living Dead" and the most recent --
"Short Circuit" from 1986.

"This is what we could get rights to quickly," said Dale Knoop,
Sprint's general manager for multimedia services. He said the company
and MSpot are in negotiations for more current content, but declined
to say which studios are involved.

Sprint plans to debut seven new films a week.

Knoop also declined to say how many people have watched the films.

One question facing Sprint and the wireless industry is whether
handheld-device users want to watch a feature-length film on a 2-inch
or 3-inch screen.

Sprint found that many people have a shorter attention span when it
comes to mobile phone video, a Sprint spokeswoman said. Allowing for
that, the service lets viewers watch movies in segments, similar to a
DVD.

Apple Computer Inc. also is exploring longer video content. The
company earlier this week said it would offer iPod downloads of
full-length NBC-owned television shows, including recent ones such as
"The Office" and "Law & Order," as well as older shows like "Alfred
Hitchcock Presents" and "Knight Rider."

It also offers replays of ABC programs "Desperate Housewives" and
"Lost."  The NBC and ABC shows cost $1.99 each.

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.

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Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:29:20 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Privacy Implications of Microsoft's Windows Live Local


by David Pescovitz

Mike Liebhold, my colleague at the Institute for the Future, is deep
into the geohacking scene. He just took a look at Microsoft's new
Virtual Earth incarnation, Windows Live Local and found some big
privacy concerns. Below is the entirety of Mike's post to the
Geowanking listserv:

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/09/privacy_implications.html

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Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:33:03 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Can This Man Reprogram Microsoft?


By STEVE LOHR
Redmond, Wash.

THINK back to Round 1 of the Internet, when things really got rolling
in 1995. The computing landscape was shifting, and a cool,
fast-growing young company symbolized the new order: Netscape. At the
time, Microsoft looked to be a lumbering old war horse, trapped in the
yesteryear of desktop personal computer software, word processors,
spreadsheets and operating systems. It seemed, in other words, so
1980's.

But, of course, Microsoft emerged a winner. It embraced the Internet
and vanquished the Netscape threat with hard work, ingenuity and
strong-arm tactics that a federal court ruled violated the nation's
antitrust laws. Microsoft's shares soared to a record high at the end
of 1999.

The Internet, Round 2, is now under way. Again, the computing terrain
is changing remarkably, helped along by free software like Linux and
the spread of high-speed Internet access. Today, all kinds of
computing experiences can be delivered as services over the Internet,
often free and supported by advertising. Clever Internet software can
now turn flat, view-and-read Web pages into snappy services that look
and respond to a user's keystrokes much like the big software
applications that reside on a PC hard drive. New companies are even
sprouting up to offer Web-based word processors and spreadsheets,
products long regarded as mature - and long dominated by Microsoft's
desktop programs.

Champions of the Internet services model range from I.B.M. to
start-ups. But the totemic company in this next big evolutionary step
in computing is Google, the Internet search power whose ambitions
appear to be growing as fast as its profits.

And Microsoft? It once more finds itself surrounded by doubt and
dismissed as a laggard. Some of its own senior engineers have defected
to Google and elsewhere, and its stock price has barely budged in
three years, despite solid earnings growth, because others appear to
be winning the race for the future.

The familiar pattern of a decade ago begs the question that Bill Gates
was asked when he met last month with a group of executives and
journalists from The New York Times: Will you do to Google what you
did to Netscape?

Mr. Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and chairman, paused, looked down
at his folded hands and smiled broadly, as if enjoying a private
joke. "Nah," he replied, "we'll do something different."

The man whom Mr. Gates is counting on to make a difference is Ray
Ozzie, a soft-spoken 50-year-old who joined the company just eight
months ago. He has the daunting task of galvanizing the troops to
address the Internet services challenge, shaking things up and
quickening the corporate pulse.

The forces arrayed against Microsoft, analysts say, may well prove
more formidable than ever. "The problem Microsoft faces today is that
there is a totally different model emerging for how software is
created, distributed, used and paid for," said George F. Colony, the
chairman of Forrester Research, a technology consultant. "That's why
it's going to be so difficult for Microsoft this time."

Yet there are optimists. Big industry shifts, they say, create
opportunity. Inevitably, they note, Internet computing erodes
Microsoft's power to set technology standards, but the company can
still benefit as the overall market expands. That's what happened in
the 1990's. They say that if Microsoft shrewdly devises, for example,
online versions of its Office products, supported by advertising or
subscription fees, it may be a big winner in Internet Round 2.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/business/yourmoney/11micro.html?ex=1291957200&en=d6cd667b8d963552&ei=5090

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From: DevilsPGD <spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net>
Subject: Re: One in Four Netters Get Phony E-Mails
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:16:13 -0700
Organization: Disorganized


In message <telecom24.557.9@telecom-digest.org> kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

> Jennifer C. Kerr  <ap@telecom-digest.org> wrote:

>> About one in four Internet users is hit with e-mail scams every month
>> that try to lure sensitive personal information from unsuspecting
>> consumers, a study says.

> Who did this study?

> Pretty much all of my users get at least a couple dozen a day.  Some
> of them get a couple dozen an hour.

> Where can I go where only a quarter of the users get them a month?

Unplug your server from the internet and the phishes dry up :)

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From: Steven Lichter <shlichter@diespammers.com>
Reply-To: Die@spammers.com
Organization: I Kill Spammers, Inc.  (c) 2005 A Rot in Hell Co.
Subject: Re: One in Four Netters Get Phony E-Mails
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:26:33 GMT


Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <telecom24.556.2@telecom-digest.org>, Jennifer C. Kerr
> <ap@telecom-digest.org> wrote:

>> About one in four Internet users is hit with e-mail scams every month
>> that try to lure sensitive personal information from unsuspecting
>> consumers, a study says.

> Only one in four?  I figure almost all netters get spam, and at least
> 75% would get phishing spam.

> Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
> *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***

Shoot, every day I get at least 6 telling me they want to buy stuff
freom my store, I won a lottery; they I did not remember entering or
that my Ebay, PayPal, or other account is being violated.  Funny I
don't use the e-mail account for any of them.  It all started with
just one post here before I got my e-mail client to crunch my address,
before that never got one.  The Nigerians are going to have to do a
better job of killing off the scammers, now they are moving to Romania
and Russia.

The only good spammer is a dead one!!  Have you hunted one down today?
(c) 2005  I Kill Spammers, Inc.  A Rot in Hell Co.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: All you get each day is only six? I get
six each day from people doing bogus PayPal entries, and a couple
dozen more from people impersonating various other banks. Over all, I
get 30-40 phish attempts daily, an additional 20-30 viruses, and at
least 150-200 'regular' spams (many of which fall directly into my
spam file, but not all of them.) All the above is just my account here
at massis.lcs.mit.edu on behalf of telecom. A good thing about a text-
based account (like here at massis) is that those html-based items
(spam, scam and phish) stand out like a sore thumb; their size is so
large (even a very short spam can easily take 50-75 K) as opposed to a
legitimate text-based email (usually 3-5 K) that you can spot them
almost immediatly without reading anything other than maybe one line
or so. Now, with my personal Cableone.net account although the ratio
of virus/spam/scam is about the same as Telecom mail (85-90 percent junk),
at least cableone.net screens it out before showing it all to me. What
they percieve to be unwanted junk, they put in various folders for me
so that one click gets rid of it all even though it is all html-based.
What is amazing about some phishers and other con-artists there are
the ones who go to so much trouble to actually 'invent' an entire bank
(not just divert the front page in order to capture your data before
then turning you over to the real bank). These guys make up an entire
bogus bank to convince victims that the (bogus) bank is holding some
sum of money for them as 'next of kin' or associate of the 'bank
officer' who wants to transfer a huge amount of money to you, etc, as
long as you first part with your life savings to them. 

But Steve, I guess we should not complain, since after all, we live in
the United States under the governorship of ICANN and Vint Cerf, and
as one of the readers here would say (a real First Amendment nut if
ever one existed) we dasn't dictate how others 'run their sites' or
the contents therein. And as another old fool reading this message
would proclaim, it is wrong to return such mail to the _LEGITIMATE_
and _BONAFIDE_ senders of same, since doing so might be construed as a
Denial of Service for them and cause us to get sued or imprisoned for
causing _them_ grief for doing that. I don't know about you, Steve,
but I am about ready to pack a lunch and a clean pair of underwear and
report to the nearest prison. That probably is where I belong, as an
enemy of ICANN, and all the 'good and decent' things the net has
become under their governorship, taking all my complaints with me.
PAT]

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From: Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Subject:  Re: FTC Do Not Call List
Date:  Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:00:56 -0800
Organization:  Networks & Distributed Computing


On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Fred Atkinson wrote:

> Not just those who can't remember a four digit code, but how about
> those who never got your code?  I tried to call an old friend the
> other night whom I hadn't spoken to in years.  He's got that feature
> installed and I have no idea what his code is.  So, I didn't get to
> talk to an old buddy I hadn't been in contact with in a very long
> time.  And there's no way to leave him a message letting him know I
> called.

I sympathize.  But does he have the "*" emergency break-through
enabled?  If so, then you can break through the lock; you just have to
state your name and see if he takes the call.  If not, then he's
chosen to lock out people who don't have the code; and you'll have to
use email or buy a postage stamp.

Not long ago, I heard from two old friends from 30 years ago.  One
wrote a letter, the other sent email.  After that long a period of
time, it's probably better to use written contact rather than suddenly
barging in with a phone call.  You don't know how someone's life has
changed in the past several decades, much less whether a phone call
would be a burden or even unwelcome.

Note that in a true emergency, you can ask the phone company to make
an emergency contact with someone and pass along a message.  They pass
along "so-and-so is dying, call such-and-such number immediately" type
messages to estranged family members all the time.

-- Mark --

http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.

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From: Lena <lenagainster@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: FTC Do Not Call List
Date: 11 Dec 2005 06:25:15 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Fred Atkinson wrote:

> Lena wrote:
>> I think an amendment to the Telemarketing Laws is in order, to
>> prohibit any telemarketer, calling on behalf of any charity or
>> political organization, from calling any number more than once a year.

> They've done one better than that.  They've passed a law allowing you
> to have your number listed as a number that telemarketers are not
> allowed to call.  And when they do call, you can report it to the FTC.

Fred, I've done that; added my name to the "Do Not Call" register.
The telemarketers that call are part of the exemptions in the law that
allows political and charitable organizations to call, even those on
the "Do Not Call" list (as well as those businsses who have done
business with the person being called).

These are the ones I would like to see limited to one call per year.

Lena


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But Lena, when you limit those people
to 'one call per year', wouldn't that be like saying spammers and
scammers and phishermen should be limited to one spam, scam or phish
per year? Are you trying to dictate what people can talk about on
their phone?     PAT]

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