DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 28, @04:00PM

from the the-attacks-keep-coming dept.

Hiawatha writes "The same sort of denial of service attacks that drove spam blocklist Osirusoft off the Internet are battering many other blocklist services as well." Apparently spammers aren't going to sit by and let people try to ignore their unwanted pitches.
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5:22:43 PM    

Plugin Patent to Mean Changes in IE?

Posted by michael on Thursday August 28, @09:19AM

from the speakeasy-has-spent-two-weeks-without-placing-my-order dept.

hexene writes "The W3C have issued an initial statement on the recent court case of Eolas v. Microsoft in regards to US Patent 5,838,906. The patent relates to the embedding of objects in hypermedia documents, and Microsoft has indicated they will have to make changes to Internet Explorer as a result of the ruling. There may also be far-reaching effects to both other web browser vendors and page authors. Check out the public mailing list to discuss the various issues." See the previous Eolas story for background.
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Potentially huge.  If what MSFT does with objects and pug-ins in IE is infringing this patent, then yanking it out and replacing it would likely be time consuming and costly. 

2:52:15 PM    

Small Webcasters Sue RIAA

Posted by michael on Thursday August 28, @11:50AM

from the even-writing-to-speakeasy's-ceo-gets-no-results dept.

killthiskid writes "The Webcaster Alliance, a small group of 198 webcasters has sued the RIAA. CNET has the news, along with a growing number of other sites (google news). As many /.'ers know, in 2002 the Library of Congress decided on .07 cents per song (retroactive to '98). After that another bill was passed to protect smaller webcasters. Aparently, many webcasters are still not happy." Their complaint is online.
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2:31:45 PM