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  1. G19, Suprnova is not dead at all, it only has a simple problem of updating.

     

    Btw, I read : the RetSpan association files a complaint against the suprnova web site.

     

    From : www.retspan.info/

     

    RetSpan files a complaint against the suprnova web site

     

    PARIS - November 5, 2004 - Following up repeated requests from many Net surfers, and because of the insufficient mobilization of the software and media industry, RetSpan (an association whose main purpose is to fight against online piracy) has filed a complaint with IFCC (Internet Fraud Complaint Center) regarding the suprnova web site, blaming it for illegally providing counterfeited and copyrighted contents.

     

    Not only the suprnova web site manages lists of tens of thousands of products available on the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network*, but it also distributes and hosts files known as torrent files that are necessary to initialize the download of these products. This web site deliberately provides its visitors with many movies, music albums, software and video games without any authorization, sometimes even before the commercial release of these products.

     

    "Once again, we are witnessing a phenomenon of massive piracy that is strongly growing. The BitTorrent network is becoming a piracy highway and web sites like suprnova are the access ramps to this highway. And there is obviously no toll charge here" declares Antoine Scoyoc, in charge of the investigation department at RetSpan. "Web users write to us more and more frequently to complain about web sites such as suprnova and they wonder why producers or the media industry do not react more promptly. Indeed, in order to limit the phenomenon, requiring the closure of web sites that illegally distribute torrent files is not a big deal."

     

    The traffic of data on the BitTorrent network has literally exploded during the latest months. Considering this alarming situation, RetSpan has watched more closely the BitTorrent network since the beginning of September 2004. Given that the popularity of the web sites that propose illegal torrent files is growing very fast, the decision to require the closure of the most popular web sites was quickly approved unanimously.

     

    "A web site such as suprnova generates nearly 80 million web pages on any given day**, and this provides every day several thousands of euros to its owner thanks to advertising banners. We cannot tolerate the fact that the owners of these web sites can live with impunity. This is like a Maffia!" denounces a RetSpan administrator.

     

    "suprnova's webmaster, who obviously wishes to stay anonymous, is supposed to live in Slovénie", explains Antoine Scoyoc. "The fact that this country is now part of the European Union is a good thing: the co-operation between European police services will make it possible to identify this individual more easily. In addition, servers that host many pages for this web site, as well as torrent files, are located in the USA, in the suburbs of Chicago and San Francisco. This makes possible an intervention from the American authorities in order to put an end to the copyright infringement."

     

    Other servers host integral copies of the web site, in the Netherlands for example.

     

    Having studied these elements, RetSpan thus filed on October 19, 2004 a complaint against suprnova with the Internet Fraud Complaint Center and local FBI agencies in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Phoenix. Hosting companies and Internet Service Providers dealing with suprnova were also contacted, along with other specialized services in Europe.

     

    "Very clearly, we are going to require the closure of other similar web sites in the weeks to come", says a spokesperson for RetSpan. "We regret that the media industry has not reacted earlier, as we spoke with them about the BitTorrent phenomenon. They should not always wait until it is too late to do something! We obviously need means and also support to win this fight. Fortunately, we are very confident that the software and media industries are supporting us in this case, because the investigations to come will surely make it possible to identify and dismantle more quickly organized groups whose goal is the plundering of copyrighted materials on the Internet. Moreover, we encourage producers and industry representatives to order summary procedures before the Court to request the immediate closure of web sites that distribute without authorization torrent files of copyrighted materials."

     

    * BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) network used by millions of web users to download and distribute computer files of all kinds

     

    ** according to statistics provided by the web site alexa.com

     

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    For further information: presse@retspan.info

    Web site: www.retspan.info

    Phone line: 0 871 717 919 (prix appel local)

    Attention, new address: RetSpan - 102 avenue des Champs-Elysées - 75008 PARIS - France

  2. Hi !

     

    I 've read this news about these criminal barbaric acts on CNN World :

     

     

    One worker decapitated, other had throat slit

     

    PARIS, France (AP) -- France's health minister is calling for hospitals and police to work more closely after two hospital nurses were found slain -- one decapitated and the other with her throat slit -- at a psychiatric facility.

     

    The killings in the idyllic southwestern town of Pau shocked France, and hospitals across the country were to observe a moment of silence Monday to honor the two murdered women.

     

    Investigators released five men who had been brought in the day before for questioning -- one of them a former hospital patient who the media had said was the prime suspect.

     

    State prosecutor Eric Maurel denied that, telling The Associated Press that "no evidence has been found against him at this stage."

     

    The two nurses were aged 40 and 48, both married and mothers of children.

     

    Their bodies were found at daybreak Saturday in the hospital's geriatric ward, where a shattered window indicated a possible break-in, Maurel said.

     

    The men who were questioned ranged from 30 to 40 years old and were drunk when arrested, Maurel said. One of them had called police the night before the bodies were found with "information about a violent scenario," Maurel said. He and three others at his home were questioned.

     

    A judicial probe was to be opened early in the week, he said.

     

    Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy held an urgent meeting Sunday with health workers and Interior Ministry officials, the Health Ministry said.

     

    "All emergency services, but also psychiatric services, must be linked directly to police stations," Douste-Blazy told reporters after the meeting.

     

    Union leaders faulted a staff and funding shortage. They said security had been a problem for months, dozens of jobs were to be cut, and violence at the hospital was a common occurrence.

     

    "It is horror, terror, fear, disgust -- fear of returning to work," Cathy Sanders, a regional official from Worker's Front union, told RTL radio. "Last night, the staff was doubled" as a precaution, she said.

     

    A front-page headline on Sunday newspaper Journal du Dimanche read: "Scenes of hospital horror."

     

    Pau is known as a charming town of sunny skies, gardens and palm trees, nestled at the foot of the Pyrenees. As the birthplace of Henri IV, this year-round tourist destination is as popular among history buffs as it is among winter sports enthusiasts.

     

    Douste-Blazy said last week that he would present a mental health reform package by March.

     

    From : www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/12/20/france.decapitate.ap/index.html

  3. you think that if prositution were legal all over the world and unionized like it is in holland, there would be less pedophiles and sexual weirdos running the streets for a cheap thrill?

     

    There would be less sexual weirdos but the epidemic wouldn't be eradicated. Infortunately, prostitution stays a very profitable business in the countries affected by the poverty & can't become legal.

  4. That's what sex-ed programs are for to EDUCATE people.

     

    Indeed, you were right in your previous post ; even with educated people, the epidemic won't be eradicated, coz lots of mothers or future mothers 're already infected, the prostitution won't disappear in the countries affected by the poverty & in certain countries, tourists will continue to use children as sexual slaves.

  5. abstinense based education

     

    I know it's sometimes difficult to masterize our emotions, but this's a nice solution to avoid the viral spread.

    Do you really think that an epidemic of the scale of aids in africa will be stopped by telling people not to have sex?

     

    No, the virus won't be eradicated easily coz it comes from SIV & it will stay transmittable by blood transfusions.

    Also, the minority of uneducated people will refuse to believe in safe-sex recommendations or in condom use measures.

  6. Thx for the link, Gryphon. In Ur 2nd article they mention what I've said in my previous post :

     

    The journalist Edward Hooper has suggested that HIV could be traced to the testing of an oral polio vaccine called Chat as batches of the Chat vaccine may have been grown in chimp kidney cells in the Congo, the Wistar Institute and Belgium. That could have resulted in the contamination of the vaccine with chimp SIV, the simian version of HIV-1. This vaccine was then given to about a million people in the Belgian Congo, Ruanda and Urundi in the late 1950s.

     

     

    This 's worrying :

    The researchers concluded that HIV could have crossed over from chimpanzees as a result of a human killing a chimp and eating it for food.
  7. In Ur article they only say they can't contract it :

     

    Zhu explained that the immune systems of some individuals may be capable of resisting HIV infection. These individuals who do not appear to be infected with HIV despite multiple sexual encounters with HIV infected partners are referred to as exposed seronegatives (ES).

     

     

    In Africa, HIV appeared the 1st time in 1956 in Belgian Congo when the poliomyelitis vaccine campaign started. HIV was present in the vaccine they inoculated to people.

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