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Chinese police have arrested three men for setting up a fake Olympic Games ticket website, the official xinhua agency has reported. Nowadays websites have been really controversial. Lots of people are trying to steal other people's money and even identities.
This is a great example. In China, three men created a website, which sold fake Olympic Games tickets online. This is just absurd. It's even more frustrating when 10 people have actually tried to buy the tickets through the site operated from south-eastern Fujian province since March. Some people have no idea that those sites might be fake. Innocent and naive people like that are only bringing these people into the web. People have to be aware of these things. They have to know which are real and which are real.
Beijing began taking orders for tickets for next year's Games last Sunday, promising "very affordable" tickets and strong security, with group or block bookings banned. Those men were very sneaky. They thought, by creating a fake ticket selling website, they could get away with the crime. However, they were bound to be caught.
It is said that prices range from 30 yuan ($4.20) for preliminary shooting events up to 5,000 yuan for the opening ceremony on August 8, 2008. Delibery will only begin in June 2008. This shows us that we need to be careful when we are spending and transacting money online. We never know who's at the end of the transaction line. From now on, we ALL need to be careful when dealing with money.
Sources:
CHINA SHUTS FAKE OLYMPICS SITE
PUBLISHED: April 23, 2007
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21603853%5E15331%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html
Once my Operating Professor told us that half of the internet could be affected by few teenagers with their computers in their basement. He told us that those kids could do so much damage since all they do is coming up with mischievous things to do while they play around with their computers. Some kids are geniuses. For example, some can make viruses that can crash hundreds of computers when infected, and some can even port-block computers so that people won't be able to connect to the internet.
On this post, a teenager pretended to represent the national broadcaster in demanding the removal of hundreds of video clips from the YouTube website. The 15-year-old boy sent YouTube a signed form saying he represented the copyright owner, ABC Television, and that he wanted the footage removed from the website.
It's crazy how one kid can affect so much on multi-billion dollar corporations. How can a kid pretended that he represent the ABC TV, and send a form to YouTube for demand? and he's only a 15-year-old kid. Apologizing was all he done, and he was let free. ABC TV said that it was not yet clear why the boy had decided to impersonate an ABC employee, but it's pretty obvious that he was just doing it for fun-and-games.
The funny thing was that YouTube was actually sending copyright infringement notices to people who have been uploading Chaser clips to YouTube, threatening to shut down their access to YouTube if they persist. YouTube had no idea that the form could have been fake. Advancing technologies nowadays... Is it a good thing? or a bad thing?
Sources:
TEEN FAKE POLICES YOUTUBE CLIPS
PUBLISHED: April 16, 2007
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21563838%5E27317%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html
MySpace blocks Photobucket videos and slide shows
Social-networking giant MySpace.com on Wednesday blocked Photobucket videos and photo slides shows from being uploaded to its pages. This is a great update from MySpace.com. My only reason of not using MySpace.com was 'cause of the slow load-up time for the pages and videos that pop up constantly every time I load up the pages.
The Facebook.com has been a hit. It generally went for the college social network, and it had so much success getting so many fans into the networking website. One of the main reason why Facebook.com succeeded was that it was very simple and ad-free. There were no user-added photo slide shows on the pages, and especially videos that drag the load-up time of the pages.
Furthermore, MySpace.com will no longer let users post such content from Photobucket in their profiles, blogs or comments section. Even though MySpace.com blocked Photobucket for violating MySpace.com's terms by encouraging users to post advertisements, it was a good move towards getting more users to join the network, I believe. As in the post, the move was said to be something akin to Microsoft blocking third-party applications from Windows. Scores from companies offer software tools, commonly referred to as "widgets," that allow users to post photos, music, video and other contents to Web sites, and many have built their businesses specifically around MySpace.com's 90 million users.
It's true that Photobucket is the largest photo-sharing site on the Web with more than 17 million monthly users, and has recently branched into videos. And the fact that MySpace has blocked Photobucket is a huge news. According to this post, the social-networking site never alerted Photobucket before pulling the plug on slide shows and video.
Sources:
MySpace blocks Photobucket videos and slide shows
PUBLISHED: April 11, 2007
http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-6175272.html
