Thursday, 14 November 2013
By Andy, Via Torrent Freak.
City of London Police inform TorrentFreak that they have begun targeting sites that provide access to unauthorized content for “criminal gain.” The initiative is part of a collaboration with Hollywood studios represented by FACT and the major recording labels of the BPI. In letters being sent out now, police accuse site operators of committing offenses under the Serious Crime Act. The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau further warns that the crimes carry a jail sentence of 10 years.
“Intellectual property crime is a serious offense that is costing the UK economy hundreds of millions of pounds each year. Working with the UK advertising industry, City of London Police and rights holder groups FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft), BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) and The PA (The Publishers Association) are committed to tackling this problem.”
City of London Police inform TorrentFreak that they have begun targeting sites that provide access to unauthorized content for “criminal gain.” The initiative is part of a collaboration with Hollywood studios represented by FACT and the major recording labels of the BPI. In letters being sent out now, police accuse site operators of committing offenses under the Serious Crime Act. The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau further warns that the crimes carry a jail sentence of 10 years.
Authorities and entertainment industry companies in the UK are working together on a new initiative which targets sites said to be offering copyrighted material without permission, TorrentFreak has learned.
The first signs came last week when a major torrent site received a letter from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), a unit set up following the Government’s National Fraud Review. The unit has a mission to identify serial offenders and organized crime gangs in order to disrupt their activities.
The letter (copy below), sent to “The owners and/or operators of the website known as ‘XXXXX’,” states that the NFIB has become particularly concerned by websites causing harm to the UK’s creative economy.
“We are therefore currently working on an initiative with Government and industry bodies to help prevent, deter and disrupt the criminal activity linked to websites involved in online copyright infringement. In that regard, we have reasonable grounds to suspect that through your ownership and/or operation of the website known as ‘XXXXX’, you are involved in online copyright infringement,” NFIB explain.
So far TorrentFreak is aware that at least two torrent sites have already received letters from the NFIB. Their operations are detailed as follows:
“XXXXX is a BitTorrent website that – without the permission of the copyright holder – actively provides UK internet users with a bespoke directory and search engine for torrent files. This enables users to find and download copyright content which would otherwise be time consuming or impossible to locate,” the letter notes.
Even though neither site is located in the UK, police believe that sites’ operators are committing crimes there.
“We have grounds to suspect that as owners and/or operators of the XXXXX website, you are committing the offense of communication to the public under s.107(2A) of the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988 (“CDPA”). Section 107(2A) is an indictable offence punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment,” NFIB state.
But while allegations of copyright-related offenses are nothing out of the ordinary, in their letter the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau elevate the seriousness of file-sharing offenses to unprecedented levels.
“Further, we have grounds to suspect that as owners and/or operators of the XXXXX website, you are committing offenses under the Serious Crime Act 2007 by doing acts capable of encouraging and assisting communication to the public (under s.107(2A) of the CDPA); and/or distribution (under s.107(1)(e) of the CDPA) of copyright content seeded by others – intending or believing that those offenses will be encouraged or assisted.
“Such activity is an indictable offense under the Serious Crime Act 2007 and is punishable by up to ten years’ imprisonment (two years for encouraging/assisting communication to the public; and ten years for encouraging/assisting distribution),” the NFIB warn.
The letters conclude with advice for site operators to contact the NFIB immediately in order to “prevent the further commission of offenses.”
“If no contact is made before 14th June 2013 then you and/or the XXXXX website may face police action,” the letter concludes.
TorrentFreak contacted NFIB who confirmed that an initiative is indeed underway.
“City of London Police has begun an initiative to target websites that attract visitors by providing unauthorised access to copyrighted content for criminal gain. These websites are able to operate and profit from advertising on their sites without having licenses or paying the creators and owners of the films, TV programmes, music and publications,” a spokesman said in a statement.
“Intellectual property crime is a serious offense that is costing the UK economy hundreds of millions of pounds each year. Working with the UK advertising industry, City of London Police and rights holder groups FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft), BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) and The PA (The Publishers Association) are committed to tackling this problem.”
The BPI say that an NFIB officer was previously embedded with their anti-piracy unit.
“This appointment is the first secondment by NFIB into private industry, enabling City of London Police to develop a greater understanding of the illegal distribution and sale of music online by organised crime gangs,” the music group reveals.
The NFIB add that their initiative also seeks to protect UK consumers from “malware and other harmful programs that may be downloaded unwittingly from sites that provide illegally offered content.”
Any site or service in receipt of the NFIB letter can contact us in confidence at the usual address.
The letter
Thursday, 7 November 2013
Draft Idea
Surveys about Cyber Bullying:
http://www.ditchthelabel.org/annual-cyber-bullying-survey-cyber-bullying-statistics/
Pedophiliac: http://www.channel4.com/news/should-you-let-your-child-play-in-habbo-hotel
Adults log onto teenage social networking sites Like Habbo Hotel etc and inappropriately speak to underage persons. The link above shows an article about this topic specifically on Channel 4.
Hacking: A 26-year-old journalist has been charged with allegedly conspiring with members of the hacker group Anonymous to hack into the Tribune Co. TRBAA -0.51% system and alter a news story on the Los Angeles Times website, the Justice Department.
Situations like this are considered Technology related crime.
Surveys about Cyber Bullying:
http://www.ditchthelabel.org/annual-cyber-bullying-survey-cyber-bullying-statistics/
Pedophiliac: http://www.channel4.com/news/should-you-let-your-child-play-in-habbo-hotel
Adults log onto teenage social networking sites Like Habbo Hotel etc and inappropriately speak to underage persons. The link above shows an article about this topic specifically on Channel 4.
Hacking: A 26-year-old journalist has been charged with allegedly conspiring with members of the hacker group Anonymous to hack into the Tribune Co. TRBAA -0.51% system and alter a news story on the Los Angeles Times website, the Justice Department.
Situations like this are considered Technology related crime.
As i was progressing on in making our opening sequence, i wanted to create a technological themed texture for part of the sequence.
The first picture was more of like a journey and futuristic look due to the colours and also the actual animation of the texture.
The first picture was more of like a journey and futuristic look due to the colours and also the actual animation of the texture.
The second screenshot was essentially a comparison using extremely similar effects. This gave me a clearer insight on what texture looked cleaner and sleeker, while also being link as much as possible to the technology theme.
On this padlet wall we have various pictures and logos which inspired and enabled us to produce our own logo. We gathered and listed the similarities between all of these technologocial images and discussed how we could incorporate these similarities within our own logo. Created with Padlet
In today's lesson we discussed with our teacher and as a group how we should proceed in making our opening sequence and also thought about what our actual news package would consist of.
We came up with a conclusion that instead of having real "outside public" pieces of footage, we should have online screenshots and speedclips of social network's and spying agencies such as MI6, SIS and finally found inspiration for two video clips called "AngelDust thriller" and "GeekNews".
MI6 - <a href="https://www.sis.gov.uk/"></a>
SIS - <a href="http://goo.gl/AlrVUB"></a>
Angel Dust - <a href="http://goo.gl/7nzIiQ"></a>
Geek News - <a href="http://goo.gl/AR0gDY"></a>
We came up with a conclusion that instead of having real "outside public" pieces of footage, we should have online screenshots and speedclips of social network's and spying agencies such as MI6, SIS and finally found inspiration for two video clips called "AngelDust thriller" and "GeekNews".
MI6 - <a href="https://www.sis.gov.uk/"></a>
SIS - <a href="http://goo.gl/AlrVUB"></a>
Angel Dust - <a href="http://goo.gl/7nzIiQ"></a>
Geek News - <a href="http://goo.gl/AR0gDY"></a>
We are currently discussing what to use for our news package based on our target audience. This is going to be an important part of our news presentation because we have a variety of sub genres to produce under Tech-related Crime.
We decided primarily to use online/on-screen footage instead of actual people. We will use 10 percent of footage from already live sites online but the 90 percent will be 100 percent of our work. This lesson Antonio completed our Padlet and Akshay researched brilliant opening scenes which we used as inspiration for our News Package.
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
This post is regarding the planning of our logo, below you can see the first hand drawn draft, this just shows the outer and inner STROKE which is going to be the base of the logo.
The second hand drawn design below shows the outer bevel of the logo filled in a faint turquoise colours with a tough of a darker shading near the bottom and top corners of the logo. Then i added a small inner metallic blue to glow the outer circle to help give the logo a aesthetically pleasing look. After in the middle of the logo the text "TRC" has been drawn and centred inside the inner circle. The text is filled with a light to dark blue gradient with a slight inner bevel.
The final step of the planning hand drawn design of the logo was to fill in the middle of the logo, i went for a dark shade if blue so when actually creating the logo on Photoshop, it would allow for the text "TRC" to stand out more.
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