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It is done.

Several newspapers are reporting that Austria’s largest provider, Telekom Austria is working together with LF LAW, a law firm located in Vorarlberg. LF LAW represents some German porn producers and is serving notice to Austrian P2P users who are customers of Telekom Austria and where sharing porn. All this is resulting in automated warning letters with a 790 bucks price tag. Affected are eDonkey users - and I thought eWhatever is dead.

It is recommended to write a cease-and-desist declaration to LF LAW and not to pay the 790 bucks in first place.

Salzburg judge Franz Schmidbauer states

“Wenn jemand Auskunft gibt, dann gibt er freiwillig Auskunft”, sagte der Salzburger Richter Franz Schmidbauer, der die Website Internet4Jurists betreibt, zu ORF.at. Seiner Meinung nach besteht derzeit keine zivilrechtliche Auskunftspflicht für Provider.

“If someone provides information, then that happens voluntarily”, Salzburg judge Franz Schmidbauer, who is running the website Internet4Jurists said to ORF.at. In his opinion there is no duty for internet providers to give information according to civil law.

But it’s not about porn. It’s about data privacy. And a provider providing sensitive information to a company that writes letters to the bill payers. So if you love porn, your Grandma is paying for your internet access and she is customer of the Telekom Austria you should consider

• using Youporn, or
• kicking eDonkey and switch to the Bittorrent network.

Live at http://webcast.cern.ch/

Black holes brought to your home, live, in colour and dolby digital. Black hole sun won’t you come.

(via nerdcore.de)

1. Visual FX instead of real fireworks.
2. Playback instead of some girl singing.
3. Censorship everywhere.
4. Maybe doping everywhere.
5. Police punching Tibetan monks in the face.

Ah yes, China. Same assholes in charge, different day.

Says a cradle of filth merchandise shirt. And wearing that very shirt in Australia got one 16yr old guy arrested in Gold Coast/Queensland. Too blasphemic. Hot, masturbating nuns do rock and may lead to Australia’s very first bill of rights debate.

(via laut.de, thanks maniac)

Won’t you come? If you’d ask Walter Wagner, the answer is “no”.

Some background information: At the CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, scientists are building a device called, the LHC, the Lagre Hadron Collider. And with the LHC it could be possilbe, if Roger Penrose is right, to produce artificial black holes, which are a lot smaller than the customary black hole. Now some scientists fear that an artificial black hole could destroy our planet, the solar system, pretty much everything surrounding us at the moment.

Walter Wagner and Luis Sancho filed a lawsuit against CERN, aimed at reassessing LHC’s safety measures. Tiny black holes are not their only fears, stranglets and magnetic monopoles could also turn Earth into a piece of wobbling exotic matter.

According to my information and knowledge, black holes created in the laboratory do not exist long enough to suck up matter thus gaining mass and energy to expand into a king size hoover. Be that as it may, CERN released some information regarding the whole discussion.

When the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider got indtroduced at the BNL in New York, Wagner predicted yet another doomsday, he feared that scientists could create an artificial super nova, which would also kill everything in our solar system.

I believe that the LHC will bring us deeper insight in how the universe works. And if a black hole is created that sucks everything in, than at least we will not have enough time to be scared, we would get killed in the fraction of a second.

Those two do not really fit together, except Greg Simkins makes them to:

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