» p2pnet World Headlines: Dec 15, 2009
15/12/09 19:52 from p2pnet.net
Dark-skinned Jesus upsets Italy\'s anti-immigration party Reuters A nativity scene featuring a dark-skinned Jesus, Mary and Joseph that has gone on display in a Verona courthouse has created heated debate in a city with strong links to Ital..
» Environment Canada: Agenda 2020 panic
15/12/09 19:32 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- A “major development” has been announced just before the final round of UN climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, “responding to the recent concerns expressed by the G77 bloc of count..
» EFF goes to bat for Stokklerk
15/12/09 18:28 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Earlier this year Yahoo user \'stokklerk\' did a criticised USA Technologies and its CEO George Jensen, Jr, in a Yahoo post. Stokklerk complained about “plummeting stock prices, high compensation rates..
» Liberals delete Harper assassination pic
15/12/09 18:05 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “A note to all viewers,” says a Liberal Party Choose our photo challenge winner post, going on >>> The photos here are created by visitors to our website, and do not always reflect the views of..
» Lady Gaga meets The Alien
15/12/09 17:38 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view Movies | Advertising:- “My vote for Advertisement of the Year 2009 is Lady Gaga\'s video ‘Bad Romance,\' a five-minute self-exploitation film that sells booze, high-end audio gear and stiletto heels as hard as it..
» Ashley Alexandra Dupre: The Sequel
15/12/09 16:57 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- You remember Ashley Dupre. Right? Just in case you don\'t, she\'s the online call-girl (former?) whose charms led ex-New York governor Eliot Spitzer astray, forcing him to resign . For a while she was going ..
» Radio Jayhaed goes off the air
15/12/09 16:19 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view | Radio:- MIX 91.9 FM, a pirate station run by George Saadé and his 14-year-old son, Jayhaed, in Ottawa, went down yesterday morning. Industry Canada “confirmed it had ordered Saadé to stop broadcasting after receivi..
» Woman uses Facebook to call cops
15/12/09 16:02 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view | Crime:- A woman in Sweden used Fa$ebook to call the cops when a “27-year-old male acquaintance” threatened her with a knife. “She apparently didn\'t have access to a telephone, but was able to use a comp..
» Open data initiatives: Canada drags its feet
15/12/09 15:46 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Earlier this year, I wrote about the budding momentum behind governments making their data more readily available to the public for reuse. Open data initiatives have generated dozens of commercial and non..
» White House, Big Music, Hollywood bullshit-fest
15/12/09 15:19 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view Politics | Music | Movies :- In case you ever doubted who\'s really running America, Hollywood vice president Joe Biden (right) is “leading a roundtable on Tuesday” with “Hollywood CEOs, music industry exe..
» Australia set to become net censor
15/12/09 14:30 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Australia is starting to look seriously like a police state where citizens will be able to see only what the government wants them to see. Australia will introduce a censor-system “just before next y..
» The Googlenet. Scary. Very scary!
15/12/09 13:58 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view P2P | Advertising:- If you\'re worried about giant online advertising company Google getting your personal data, you must be doing something you shouldn’t be doing, reckons Google boss Eric Schmidt. p2pnet posted that a wh..
» More grand-pianos.org comment spam
15/12/09 13:08 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view P2P | Advertising:- Is the saying any publicity, even bad publicity, is good publicity, correct? Polish comment spammer Tom Michalowski apparently thinks so. 3:15 am Pacific today, incoming Grand-Pianos.org comment spam o..
» Terra Firma sues Citigroup over EMI
15/12/09 12:49 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view | Music:- EMI owner Terra Firma is suing Citigroup, accusing it of misrepresenting “fundamental facts”. EMI is one of the Gang of Four labels which, to to all intents and purposes, control the corporate music i..
» 2009 Top 10 video games
15/12/09 12:45 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view | Games:- Britain\'s Telegraph newspaper has a 2009 Top Ten games list. Or, rather, it has six of them >>> Top 10 video games of 2009 Top 10 downloadable video games of 2009 Top 10 video game heroes of 2009 Top 10 time-stea..
» Google Countdown Clock mystery solved
15/12/09 12:11 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view | Advertising:- p2pnet is able to reveal exclusively the purpose of the mysterious ‘countdown clock\' which ticks ominously forward when one clicks the ‘I\'m feeling lucky\' tab on Google search. When it reaches &..
» p2pnet World Headlines: Dec 14, 2009
14/12/09 20:02 from p2pnet.net
Open-access internet rules take hits CBC MTS Allstream has lost its appeal for regulated access to parts of Bell\'s and Telus\'s internet networks.MTS Allstream has lost its appeal for regulated access to parts of Bell\'s and Telus\'s internet..
» Hugh Hefner on Tiger Woods sex scandal
14/12/09 19:44 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view | Games:- Is it true Playboy-in-chief Hugh Hefner never takes his pyjamas off? Or is it that never puts them on? Anyway, it “isn\'t really the sex,” Fox News quotes him as saying of Tiger Woods\' adventures. R..
» 530 China BitTorrent sites shut down
14/12/09 18:55 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Chinese downloaders have flooded and, in some cases, crashed major P2P and torrent sites “after rumors that the government would be effectively disabling all media downloads in the country,” sa..
» Canadian gets 20 years in kiddie porn case
14/12/09 18:26 from p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view | Crime:- A Canadian identified by the FBI during an investigation into file sharing has now been sentenced to 20 years in jail for producing and receiving child pornography. Michael J. Gilbert, 56, from Vancouver, “..