Zite news app accused of copyright infringement

 The Washington Post and other news organizations have accused iPad news reader Zite of copyright infringement and told the Canadian startup behind it to stop displaying their articles.

"The Zite application is plainly unlawful," the 11 media outlets said in a "cease-and-desist" letter sent on Wednesday to Zite chief executive Ali Davar, a copy of which was obtained by AFP.Vancouver-based Zite was launched on March 9 and claimed to have 120,000 downloads of the free application in its first week in Apple's App Store.n their letter, the 11 news organizations said Zite "intentionally and pervasively infringes on our copyrights" by publishing reformatted copies of articles and photographs without permission.

"Your application takes the intellectual property of our companies, as well as the hard and sometimes dangerous work of tens of thousands of people," they said. "It deprives our websites of traffic and advertising revenue."

There was no immediate reply from Zite to an AFP request for comment about the letter.
Zite is one of a number of news readers developed for Apple's iPad.

Libyan crisis comes in handy for cyber criminals

Emails said to be written by the sons of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are circulating in cyber space seeking assistance for transferring huge amounts out of Libya. Although the contents of the emails are the same, the names of different sons of Gaddafi are given in each email.

The assistance is being sought to transfer between $ 15 million and $ 20 million out of Libya. A good portion of the amount is offered as compensation to those who help transfer it through their bank account.

One of the loosely written emails reads as follows :

 "My name is Saif Al Islam Ghadaffi, the son of the present president of Libya. I am contacting for an urgent assistance. As you can read and see in the media, my family is presently undergoing tough time in the hand of the masses due to his long stay in power as the president of Libya for over 40 years now. Although there is no way you can satisfy human being, my father has done so many things to better the life of our people unfortunately they never appreciated his effort instead to resulted in calling my family bad names. The International community has reached a resolution for immediate seizure of our assets both in US and the UK. I want to request your humble assistance to receive a total sum of $20.5 million US dollars.

You will receive this fund directly and keep in a safe keep while I shall come down to meet you for necessary investment as may be suggested by you. You may call me on my UK satellite mobile on: 00447024035058. Do note that this transaction is legal and risk free, I shall wait for your urgent response to my Email id: saifal_islamghadaffi@live.com. Thank You, Saif Al Islam Ghadafi."

 FBI: Man Was Downloading Child Porn

Melvindale Man Charged With Pornography

 

MELVINDALE, Mich.  — An FBI raid on a Michigan man's home Friday has led to him facing child pornography charges.

During a detention hearing Tuesday, investigators from the FBI's said they executed a search warrant Friday morning at John Chiello's Melvindale home and found evidence he was downloading child porn on his computer. They said he was using his wife's broadband account to use a peer-to-peer network.

Watch: Melvindale Man Jailed After Child Porn Accusation

Chiello was arrested Monday night, and investigators said he confessed to possessing and distributing pornographic images of children.

Investigators said they found dozens of video files showing children, both girls and boys, engaged in sexual acts with adult men.

Neighbors told Local 4 Chiello and his family had only recently moved into the home, about two months ago.

John Sabino, a father of four, said he was shocked and saddened to hear of his neighbor's arrest.

"It kind of makes me angry. Until you know about it, there's nothing you can do about it," said Sabino.

The federal minimum mandatory sentence for child pornography conviction is five years in prison.

TJX hacker Gonzalez asks for withdrawl of guilty plea

Albert Gonzalez, presently serving a 20-year prison condemnation for hacking into the payment card networks from retailers to steal 130 million debit and credit card numbers, now says he was acting on the part of the government and was authorized to lead the illegal activities.He in 2009 declared guilty to multiple federal charges of conspiracy, computer fraud, access device fraud and identity theft for hacking intoTJX (which owns T.J. Maxx), Heartland Payment Systems, Dave & Buster's, BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes & Noble and Sports Authority.

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