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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BMI site latest target of Anonymous DDoS attacks]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Anonymous announces its latest target: BMI.(Credit:http://anonnews.org/p=press&amp;a=item&amp;i=687)The Web site of Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) has been down since last night after being targeted by a distributed denial-of-service attack launched by the Anonymous hacker group as part of what it calls its &quot;war on copyright.&quot;  BMI took the site offline after the attack started last night, a spokeswoman told CNET today. It remained inaccessible as of 11:30 a.m. PT today. BMI handles licensing and royalty payment collections on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers. &quot;In a protective measure, BMI.com has been temporarily taken down due to a denial-of-service attack reportedly launched by a hacker group. The attack slows down external access to BMI.com. There has not been a breach of security into our systems in any form and access has not been obtained to any secure content,&quot; a BMI statement said.  &quot;We believe that this attack is part of their misguided campaign to attack creative rights,&quot; the statement said. &quot;Other than the website, operations are not impacted by the company's protective move. BMI plans to resume full service of all online services for its songwriters, music publishers and licensees shortly.&quot;  In a statement to BMI released publicly, Anonymous, a loosely organized grass-roots group, accused BMI of abusing copyright legislation.  &quot;Too long have the music and cinema industries, among others, abused copyright for their own gain,&quot; the statement said. &quot;Legislation serves to protect artists not the companies managing them and should never attempt to prevent the spread of creativity to the general public.&quot;  The group gained notoriety for organizing attacks on the Web sites of PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, and other companies in December in defense of whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks. The FBI has issued search warrants in the case, and British police arrested five people as part of the probe. Other targets of Anonymous have included the Church of Scientology' the governments of Egypt, Iran, and Sweden' the Westboro Baptist Church' and conservative activist billionaires Charles and David Koch. The group also recently targeted a security firm, HBGary Federal, that said it had been working with the FBI to identify the leaders of Anonymous. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Some LED lights spark concern over toxins]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Because it's energy-efficient, LED lighting is spreading into new areas, but an academic study cautions that some types of LED lights use hazardous metals. The University of California at Irvine last week published results of a study into the materials used for LEDs in Christmas tree lights and car brake lights and headlights. After crushing these types of lights, researchers measured the contents and found they contained varying amounts of toxic materials, including lead and arsenic.&quot;What our study showed clearly was that some LED lights qualify as hazardous waste, depending on color and light intensity, according to federal (US EPA) regulations, and State (California) regulations. The red, low intensity fixtures that we tested exceeded lead (Pb) standards for California regulation by about 8 times, and exceed the federal regulations by about 35 times,&quot; said Oladele Ogunseitan, chair of UC Irvine's Department of Population Health &amp; Disease Prevention via e-mail.Right now, these products are not classified as hazardous waste, but Ogunseitan recommended that people dispatched to clean up vehicle collisions use protective gear. Homeowners should also wear gloves and masks in the case of clean-up. The copper used in some LEDs can pose health hazards to river and lake ecosystems as well if disposed of in a landfill.Ogunseitan said that the move to LED lighting is a case in which there should be mandatory product replacement testing. He claims that the potential environmental health impacts were not sufficiently tested before manufacturers put them in products as a replacement for incandescent bulbs.Recycling recommended for large LEDs Large LEDs bulbs with a screw-in bottom designed for home use are just coming onto the market as replacements for 40-watt or 60-watt incandescent bulbs. In addition to good efficiency and long life, these bulbs are marketed as an improvement over compact florescent bulbs because they don't contain mercury. CFLs can be returned to many retail stores or municipal hazardous waste handling services for recycling. When LED maker Cree introduced an LED bulb it expects to come out later this year, I asked about toxins and disposal. Cree vice president of marketing Greg Merritt said that there were no hazardous materials used in its bulb and that it is expected to comply with the ROHS European hazardous material directive.UC Irvine's Ogunseitan is testing large LED bulbs but has not yet published the results. &quot;However, I can say that precautionary principle supports not throwing this in the regular trash for landfills,&quot; he said.Last month, I asked the Department of Energy about hazardous materials and large LED bulbs designed for home use. A representative said that, in general, these LED bulbs do not contain toxic chemicals in any significant amount. She added that consumers will face disposal only a few times in their lives given the long projected life of LEDs, which could be over 20 years, but it's best for consumers to recycle them.&quot;That said, like most consumer electronics, at the end of their useful life, LEDs contain materials that are both valuable and recyclable. Where available, LEDs should be recycled using municipal recycling programs,&quot; she said.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AudioMicro unleashes smarter way to download cartoons, tattoos, and more]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Content, content, everywhere! Nor any bits to download. With apologies to Coleridge, AudioMicro thinks it&amp;'s found a better way to deliver content.So AudioMicro is launching another four sites using the content delivery system it uses for its stock music and sound effect distribution site today, the company announced at the Launch Conference in San Francisco.The four sites include Cartoonsy, a place that sells stock editorial cartoons for news publications'ChooseTattoos, a place to buy tattoo patterns' ImageCollect, a repository for celebrity photos' and InfoGraphicStock, a stockpile of infographics.The content is reviewed by professionals a4&quot; for example, tattoos posted on ChooseTattoos are reviewed by people who are &amp;''tattooed head to toe,&amp;'' said AudioMicro founder Ryan Born. The content on any of the sites is posted online as soon as it&amp;'s approved. Visitors then buy AudioMicro credits to pay for tattoos, cartoons and anything else a4&quot; and the designers all receive credits as payment. The designers are then paid monthly through PayPal.Born said he wasn&amp;'t sure which of the services would end up becoming the most popular. But that didn&amp;'t really matter because they only needed one or two strong sites to pay for the rest of the sites. AudioMicro isn&amp;'t stopping there either a4&quot; other companies can whitelabel the service and use it to deliver other types of stockpiled content.&amp;''We&amp;'ll quickly find out which of these will be the leaders,&amp;'' Born said. &amp;''We&amp;'ll bury whichever one doesn&amp;'t work, we&amp;'ll bury the stuff that&amp;'s small.&amp;''The judges and advisers at the Launch Conference said they were impressed by the service. It was basically a &amp;''Demand Media for content,&amp;'' said angel investor Chris Sacca, referring to the Web content publisher which recently went public on the strength of its cheaply produced Web articles. The site has ideas for more than 25 other potential areas to distribute content, and Born said he would take the company wherever there was a profit.Next Story: Uh-oh: Graphight reminds salespeople to stay in touch Previous Story: Skyrim gameplay trailer proves Bethesda&amp;'s still got the epic touch (video)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: content delivery, content distribution, content farmCompanies: AudioMicro, Demand Media          Tags: content delivery, content distribution, content farmCompanies: AudioMicro, Demand MediaMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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