Friday, March 2, 2012
WELLINGTON. - The founder of the website Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, indicted for fraud and violation of copyright, accused the U.S. authorities have mounted a case "misleading and malicious" against him, and said they will not win the process judiciary.
Released on bail last week in New Zealand after a month in jail since his arrest on January 20, Kim Schmitz, aka "Kim Dotcom", he was confident the charges removed filed against the Department of Justice United States the FBI.
"For every email that is included in the indictment, I have another hundred to refute," said Kim Dotcom to the New Zealand Herald in his first interview since being released on bail last week.
U.S. justice officials accused of having obtained Megaupload $ 175 million of criminal activity, and have caused damage of $ 500 million to copyright holders by proposing pirated copies of movies, television and other content.
Created in 2005 and installed in Hong Kong, Megaupload website, which boasted 50 million users each day, was closed on January 19 in order of American justice.
But according to Kim Schmitz, German 38, these accusations ignore the evidence showing that personally tried to prevent hackers access to Megaupload, and had a team of twenty people responsible for removal of pirated content website.
"How do you select (the information) in a manner so tricky and malicious?" He asked in the interview to New Zealand.
"I sat in my cell, I say, why are they doing this? You can not win," added the businessman, who spent a month in prison in Auckland before getting bail.
The extradition request submitted by the United States will be considered on 20 August. The U.S. authorities claim indicated that the maximum sentence of 20 years imprisonment, if the process in the United States ..
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In his first outing to the media after his release on bail , the cofounder of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, defended himself against accusations of piracy and said it is unfair and based on lies and false accusations.
The interview , conducted in New Zealand's TV3 channel that country, was released last March and first performed in the Dotcom mansion in the town of Coatesville. On January 20, Dotcomwas captured along with three people there, "the largest operation in the history of this country,"said John Campbell, the journalist who interviewed the defendant. According Dotcom, Megaupload paid the same services as other 'cyberlockers', some of which are operated by giants like Microsoft and Google. But, according to his version, the company and himself were persecuted for other reasons: "I'm an easy target. My extravagance, my history as a hacker, the fact that I am not American and I live somewhere in the world, I have fun in my car plates (...) I'm not Google, I have 50,000 million dollars in my account. "
When Campbell asked about the success and wealth Megaupload, Dotcom replied that his 'cyberlocker' "was popular because it allowed people to bypass barriers" and "solved problems" and that his money was derived precisely from the celebrity the site. Part of the FBI to charge is that he obtained money from partnerships with other sites to host content protected by copyright.
However, Dotcom defended himself: "I'm the king of piracy," he said. On piracy, said that far from being a problem caused by Megaupload, "born in the Hollywood business model, which released the film in one country but emit 'trailers' round the world to promote the film. (... ) If everybody had access to content at the same time, there would be no problem, "he said.
The defendant also accused the FBI and the U.S. authorities to protect "an outdated business model and monopolistic that no longer works in the Internet age."
Sunday, October 16, 2011
he premiere on DVD and Blu-ray of the movie "Horrible Bosses" today marked the debut of the UltraViolet platform, a system promoted by the major Hollywood studios to modernize its business of selling movies and TV series to the final consumer.
Fox, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner have joined forces to counter the gradual loss of revenues from home video and try to curb piracy through marketing rights for audiovisual content viewing.
Buyers of products with the seal of UltraViolet acquire licenses that allow them to see these productions for life that will be hosted in the cloud and be accessible from Internet-connected devices.
UltraViolet launched studies related to the acquisition of a film on a physical medium, but the goal of the platform is to offer users the ability to purchase and view content directly from an online library, as published on its website.
After "Horrible Bosses" will come over the next three months the following titles compatible with UltraViolet: "Green Lantern", "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2," "Smurfs" and "Friends with Benefits".
UltraViolet, which requires creating a user account, permission to download movies onto various media, and make copies of DVDs or memory cards at no extra charge although there will be a limitation of 12 different devices to enjoy the movie or series.
Up to six persons resident in the same household may associate your customer accounts and share content legally.
For now, Apple has not adopted the system so UltraViolet purchases through iTunes are not compatible with the platform of the studies.
Former CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, who died last week, was a major shareholder of Disney, a company that is developing its own digital content distribution is known as Keychest.
The consortium is also made DECE multinationals like Microsoft, IBM, Nokia, Intel, Motorola and Samsung, announced the arrival of UltraViolet as part of the largest international electronics show, Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held in January in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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A new study refutes the widespread notion that excessive Facebook use can affect student achievement.
The report, released last week at the "Computers in Human Behavior" (Computers in human behavior) analyzed data from a survey of nearly two thousand students on the use of Facebook and current grades.
The results of the report prepared by Professor Reynol Junco, University of Pennsylvania, were revealing, as published by the website Mashable.com.
On average, students reported spending 106 minutes a day on the social network. The study showed that each increment of 93 minutes beyond the 106 minutes reported correlates with a decrease of .12 points in the overall averages in the United States known as GPA (Grade Point Average), which seems almost insignificant.
"You'd have to spend a huge amount of time on Facebook so that your grades noticeably worse," said Reed, contrary to the maxim that the social network usage affects students.
Another finding was that depending on the activity you make when you're online is the way it impacts studies. For example, using Facebook and chat constantly update their status affects your performance at school to share links and review the profiles of your friends.
Reed says the social network itself can be utilized for educational purposes, so it tends to create groups within the online site to continue discussions on a topic.
At least 35 million cases of cyber spying are recorded each year, putting the offense level as the main computer, said the Mexican College of Graduate Studies Legal and Economic .
According to the institute's study, 80 percent of the crimes of this nature are used for financial wrongdoing, while 2.0 percent use it as a test for various offenses.
In that sense, the school principal leader in oral trials, Jorge Manrique, said that although it is illegal to intercept email communications because it violates private practice in Mexico has had significant growth.
In fact, this type of intervention 70 percent is used to report marital infidelity, 23 percent for industrial espionage and 9.0 percent for fraud.
But he said that although the email is an information-rich, 'is not a piece of evidence for violating individual rights. "
Broadly speaking, explained that legally it is understood that an email has been intercepted when it has violated the security password or key, without the permission of its owner, regardless of whether the interceptor print, save or just read the information.
He said that if a communication is inviolable, the message must be transmitted through a medium technical device developed by technology and who has a security system, whether it is a telegraph, telephone, email or any other means.
The advertising revenue from Google has grown in Latin America than anywhere else in the world and the company is committed to further increase their profits in the area.
"Latin America is the region that is growing for Google in the last two years," he said Thursday in an interview the CEO of Google for Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America, Adriana Noreña.
"Last year we grew by 80% a year and expect to grow at rates similar and support the growing online market in the coming years," he said.
However, the executive declined to reveal revenue figures and number of users that Google has in Latin America.
Google opened its first office in the region in Brazil in late 2005 with the aspiration to expand and attract advertising revenue and technology services offered to businesses.
In 2007 expanded its presence in the region in Argentina and Mexico, and in 2011 opened offices in Colombia, Chile and Peru, and in Miami and New York for the U.S. Hispanic market.
Due to its rapid growth, Latin America is among the three most important regions for Google, after the United States and Europe, said Noreña. He explained that there are over 200 million Internet users in Latin America, 40% of the population.
World Bank estimates, one in three Latin Americans have access to broadband connections Internet in 2014.
The executive noted that American Internet users spend nearly 24 hours a month on the network, but said that "companies are not making that huge potential" because "they are leaving on the table from one thousand to two billion dollars in sales incremental investments not what should be investing in the online world (of advertising), "he said.
According to company information in the United States between six and seven of every 10 Internet users prefer Google. That number increases to nine out of 10 for Latin America.
In Latin America, 97% of Google's revenue comes from advertising and the other percentage of Google Apps, which are applications that are sold to companies, said Noreña. He said the soccer club Boca Juniors is one of its customers Apps.
The most important countries for Google are Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, where are the headquarters for Latin America and Colombia, he said.
For the director, currently Argentina "is the most developed market in Latin America, for consumer and infrastructure. More than 67% of the population of Argentina is on the Internet, 26 million users, the country with more connectivity in the region."
Although all Google products that are released in America are created in the company headquarters in California, experts working in the region are in constant communication with their U.S. colleagues.
Thus, for example, worked together before launching the program's voice search Android Google's mobile phone for Latin America in order to recognize the different accents from different countries.
Google specialists stopped people in the main Latin American capitals and asked them to say a few keywords. Then sends that information to U.S. technical and refined computer voice recognition.
"So when you talk to the Buenos Aires accent and understand you when you speak with a Mexican accent understand you," said Alberto Arebalos, director of Google's global communications for Latin America.
"Although the product is the same, is particularized in order to recognize the inflections of the voices in each of those cities. Is the same system trained to understand the differences between American and Latin Americans, he said.
The Internet search engine Google reported net income of two thousand 730 million dollars between July and September 2011, up 26 percent over the same period last year according to the California company today.
The technology giant joined nine thousand during the quarter $ 720 million, up 33 percent over the same quarter of 2010.
"We had a great quarter. Revenue rose 33% and reached almost 10 billion," said Larry Page, CEO of the California company.
Page held that Google +, new social network launched by the company in late June, has gone "beyond the border of the 40 million users."
These data imply an earnings per share of 8.33 dollars, above analysts' expectations.
Revenues from the web pages were owned by six thousand 740 million, 69 percent of the total, and 2,600 million through external programs such as AdSense, which represents 28%.
Google reported that costs per "click" in the ads were up five percent over the same quarter of 2010, but fell five percent from the previous quarter.
Billing for "click" generated by the user visits the Advertisement of the Internet search engine, had a growth of 28 percent and their value fell, however, 13 percent in the comparison quarter.
Google added to its workforce by 585 this quarter, two thousand employees, in their expansion plans for 2011, which already exceed more than 25 000 workers.
The founder and CEO of Google, Larry Page, said Thursday that the network search engine that aims to compete with Facebook, reached 40 million users.
"People are coming to Google + at an incredible rate and this is only beginning," Page said during a conference on results.
The executive said that billions of photos are uploaded to the Google platform +.
Page said Google + features aimed at socialization, will be included in other search services.
"We're still at a very early stage of what technology can bring," he said.
"These online tools we use will look very different in five years and we are building these tools in Google +" he said.
The Internet giant launched the open version of google.com / + on September 20 as a strategy to challenge the leadership of Facebook in the world of social networks.
The advantages of Google + include the possibility of "meetings" video and chat on the platform through connections using smart phones or electronic tablets, or show video presentations to groups of people using the product "hangouts On Air" ( Live Meeting).
Among those who have used this system in recent weeks is the Tibetan leader, Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, former archbishop of Cape Town, who is also a leading activist for human rights.
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (14/OCT/2011) .-The Internet giant Google announced Friday the closure of several products of the company, including Buzz social network that was under heavy criticism since its launch in February 2010 , a reception very different from that enjoyed Google + platform.
"In a few weeks we will stop the operation of Google Buzz and Google Buzz programming interface, to focus especially on Google +", said vice president of brand product, Bradley Horowitz, a blog of the company.
"We learned a lot of products like Buzz and this experience served daily in our vision for products like Google +" added Horowitz.
At the time of the launch of Buzz, the service automatically created a contact list for users of Gmail messaging system, a list accessible to the entire system. After criticism, Google had to make some changes and then agreed to pay $ 8.5 million after receiving a complaint for violating the protection of confidentiality of data.
Closing Buzz comes nearly a month after Google universally open the new service Google +, a social tool for the Internet who was on probation since late June.
On Thursday, the founder and CEO of Google, Larry Page, the social network announced that the search reached 40 million users and noted that these services were intended to pull together for the Internet services launched by Google.
"We're still at a very early stage of what technology can bring," he said during a conference on results.
"These online tools we use will look very different in five years and we are building these tools in Google +" he said.
Page also said the Internet giant, which is in the process of refocusing its objectives had already removed 20 hospitals between June and September
