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Spamicles writes “The guys over at the Pirate Bay have launched a new, censorship-free image hosting website called BayImg. Users of the new service don’t have to sign-up in order to upload images. However, they can assign a ‘removal code’ to uploaded images, in case they want to delete the files after a while, and tags to categorize images. BayImg currently supports 100+ file formats, and supports uploading Zip and Rar archives. The maximum file size of uploads is 100MB. The article also discusses TPB’s plans for launching a video streaming service that will potentially compete with YouTube.”
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Yesterday we discussed Manhunt 2’s AO rating, and what it meant for the game’s retail outlook. Gamespot points out that effectively an AO rating means that the game will never be released in the first place. “Both [Nintendo and Sony] forbid licensed third-party publishers from releasing games rated AO for Adults Only on their various hardware platforms. Though Manhunt 2 isn’t slated for any of Microsoft’s systems, the company has also confirmed that it does not allow AO-rated titles on the Xbox or Xbox 360. The sole exception to this rule was in 2005 when the already released Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was retroactively rated AO, at which point retailers pulled it from shelves and Take-Two suspended production of the game.”
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slugo writes with a CNN article about young professionals increasingly aware of the small part of the internet they’re allowed to play in. Intelligent and internet-savvy, these users are frustrated by China’s overactive concern for internet health. “Yang Zhou is no cyberdissident, but recent curbs on his Web surfing habits by China’s censors have him fomenting discontent … Yang’s fury erupted a few days ago when he found he could not browse his friend’s holiday snaps on Flickr.com, due to access restrictions by censors after images of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre were posted on the photo-sharing Web site. “Once you’ve complained all you can to your friends, what more can you do? What else is there but anger and disillusionment?” Yang said after venting his anger with friends at a hot-pot restaurant in Beijing. The blocking of Flickr is the latest casualty of China’s ongoing battle to control its [...]
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westlake writes “Rockstar’s Manhunt 2 has been banned in the U.K. for what the British Board of Film Classification calls its ‘unrelenting focus on stalking and brutal slaying.’ ‘There is sustained and cumulative casual sadism in the way in which these killings are committed, and encouraged, in the game.’ The company has six weeks to submit an appeal. The last game to be refused classification was Carmageddon in 1997. That decision was later overturned via the appeals process.”
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Nom du Keyboard writes “When The Consumerist published 22 tips for getting the best deal from Dell Computers, according to a self-described former Dell sales manager, Dell fired back with a take-down notice. You might want to look quickly, in the event it does get taken down. The Consumerist’s lawyer’s initial response was to deny the takedown request.”
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An anonymous reader writes to tell us about Yaman Salahi, a UC Berkeley student and blogger, who lost a lawsuit brought against him by Lee Kaplan, a journalist for FrontPageMag.com. Kaplan had sued Salahi in California small claims court for tortious business interference and libel, in response to a blog Salahi had set up about him called “Lee Kaplan Watch.” Salahi lost in small claims court and then lost an “appeal” — which is essentially a retrial by another small-claims judge. No written opinion was offered with either decision, though all other court filings are available. From Salahi’s update on his blog: “…because [Kaplan] sued me in small claims court, I did not have the protections of the anti-SLAPP [Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Policy] statute… I will never know why I lost the initial hearing, or why I lost the appeal, because small claims judges are not obligated to release [...]
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slashthedot writes “In another instance of censorship against websites about anything anti-establishment in China, Flickr, popular among a growing class of digital photo enthusiasts in the world’s second-largest Internet market, has not shown photos to users in mainland China since last week, amid rumors Beijing took action after images of the Tiananmen massacre in early June 1989 were posted. “It is our understanding that Flickr users in China are not able to see images on Flickr, and we have confirmed that this is not a technical issue on our end,” a spokeswoman for Yahoo Hong Kong said in an email in response to a Reuters inquiry.”
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Matthew Skala writes “The BBC reports that Yahoo! has rejected a shareholder proposal to adopt an anti-censorship policy, as well as one to set up a human rights committee to review the impact of Yahoo!’s operations in places like China. The interesting proposals are numbers 6 and 7 in the proxy statement available through EDGAR. This news comes on the heels of jailed Chinese reporter Shi Tao, suing Yahoo! for its involvement in his conviction, and Google’s rejection of a similar proposal. The anti-censorship proposal was submitted by the same groups (several New York City pension funds) as the Google proposal. The proxy statement also includes the Board’s recommendations — “strongly oppose[ing]” both proposals — with explanations of their reasoning.”
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starkravingmad writes “The Economic Times is running a story on Hindu nationalists in India threatening to wreck internet cafes that don’t block parts of Orkut that the vigilantes find offensive. From the article: ‘”Orkut is used by many destructive elements to spread canards about India, Hindus, our gods and cultural heritage,” said Abhijit Phanse, president of Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena, the student group. “We are gently telling Internet cafe owners that it is their responsibility to see that surfers do not use their facility to carry out such hate campaigns … Or else, we will have to do that job for them.” Last week, dozens of Shiv Sena workers vandalised some Internet centres, saying they were not stopping their customers from accessing Orkut groups involved in sending hate messages.’”
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An anonymous reader writes “It would appear that the Chinese government is currently censoring all photos on the site Flickr. A notice has been posted in a Flickr help forum about this, but the service currently doesn’t have a fix for this. It would appear that China has turned on their Golden Shield Project to censor the site. ‘Jain Hua Li, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, said he hadn’t heard of Flickr until told about it in a conversation with a Chronicle reporter, and then suggested that the blocking may be because Chinese authorities are trying to protect children from racy images. Lucie Morillon, the U.S. representative for Reporters Without Borders, a French group that promotes free expression, said that the Beijing government often censors Web sites under the guise of protecting children or national security. She called the blocking of Flickr “one more blow against the [...]
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