Appellate court upholds ban de vol à voile 'World of Warcraft' bot (PC Magazine)

A Court of appeal, this week confirmed lower judgment which prohibits the use of an automatic robot who played for users of "World of Warcraft" in their absence, but found that the use of the tool does not constitute a violation of copyright law.

Use the tool gliding format industries is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act anti-circumvention clause, the ninth circuit ruled. But violating terms of service, WoW, does not automatically equal a violation of copyright law.

Product theft sailing format facilitates the room unattended. FAQ page of gliding WoW admits that gliding is against the terms of service WoW because players must agree to a contract which, among other things, prohibits maintain "any connection not authorized for the game or the service. The bottom line: use at your own risk, said the gliding FAQ.

Blizzard and Vivendi Games, Inc. continued glider creator Michael Donnelly and format industries, in February 2008 for violations of intellectual property. Blizzard wanted the Court to stop the Donnellys gliding to distribute and to award monetary damages. In 2009, a district court ruled in favour of Blizzard, guilty of secondary copyright infringement format and delivered a judgment of $ 6.5 million.

Decision this week reversed part of copyright.

"We conclude that for breach of a contract to constitute an infringement of the copyright holder, there must be a link between the State and exclusive rights of the licensor of copyright", the Court said. "Here, WoW players not committed a breach of copyright for gliding in violation of the [terms of use]." FORMAT is not responsible for the violation of secondary copyright law which requires the existence of a direct violation of copyright law. »

The decision confirms however, an injunction because the gliding effectively bypasses anti-bot detection program Blizzard, called Director, in violation of the DMCA.

The Court "Aircraft has no function other than to facilitate the reading of WoW," said.

As a result, "We affirm entry of the district court of the of a permanent injunction against the format to prevent future violations," he concluded.

As regards the 6.5 million, the ninth circuit he transferred to the lower court, which will be reconsider how Donnelly and format will have to pay.

Gawker Hack prompt resets the password for LinkedIn, Yahoo, more (PC Magazine)

A hack of the Gawker comment boards would follow in several sites on the Web, including LinkedIn, Yahoo, and "World of Warcraft Blizzard" These and other companies have issued resets password clients that they believe may have been affected.

LinkedIn, said Tuesday that he has "a very small fraction" of members whose accounts were potentially compromised by an attack Gawker and instructions for a reset password sent.

"As we closely followed the situation, we decided that it was imperative to take preventive measures to ensure that these passwords in flight were not used to attack members of LinkedIn," Vicente Silveira, Senior Manager product to LinkedIn, said in a blog.

Yahoo and Blizzard has taken similar steps.

"As part of our ongoing security measures, we published a password reset for users." Yahoo makes this periodically to ensure the safety of users, "a Yahoo spokeswoman said in a statement."

"To minimize the effects of this compromise - for players who could use the same connection information for their Gawker media accounts and their battle.NET-we have published email reset password for multiple accounts," Blizzard said in a note on its Web site.

A spokesman for Blizzard has refused to reveal how WoW players have been affected.

At issue is a weekend hack comment database that accessed Gawker, home to about 1.5 million of usernames, emails and passwords. Gawker urged users to change their password immediately, especially if they use the same password on other Web sites. The vulnerability of password has led to a Twitter Monday spam attack.

The FBI confirmed Tuesday that he studied hack Gawker, led by a group called Gnosis.

Editor's note: This story has been updated at 2: 45 pm Eastern with the commentary of Blizzard.

How to install Windows on Google Chrome OS Notebook (PC Magazine)

The fact that the CR - 48 Google Notebook runs on an Intel processor suggests that it can run Windows or a different operating system full blown. But how to install Windows in the first place? It is not entirely clear. But we have the answer, or at least a part of it. Apparently, all portable CR - 48 are equipped with a developer, which, when activated, can potentially wipe and restore the partition provided the plant or break your current configuration of the chromium OS mode. This is no big deal, since all Web Store applications and browser settings reside in the cloud and it synchronize all worms laptop shouldn't take long. Point of this exercise is to show that if ever you decide to steal your laptop equipped chromium and to install another operating system, switch to developer mode is the way to do so.

First of all, to make the switch, Google recommends turning off the system. It also alerts you to this mode switching exposes system from malware and virus attacks, given that you are turning off tested boot (the ROM chip) on the motherboard. The rest is pretty simple: presentation of the black piece band under the battery, next to the power connector and remove to reveal a white switch. Flip the switch on the other hand and here, you are the developer mode. Then start the laptop.

Booting to a USB thumbdrive. We tried to connect this USB drive, but nothing happened. At any time if you f, you're presented two options: you can hit the space bar and proceed with a recovery mode. This allows to restore the laptop computer to its original state, will, if you download the software for recovery. If you feel uncomfortable doing so, you can return the switch to return and resume where you left in the chrome OS. If you leave the system sitting in the mode "sad face" for too long, the system will automatically delete and repartition your disk.

It takes about five to ten minutes of preparation for this mode and during this time, seeding system by removing the current solid state drive, or that the console is defined as "erase the partition with State." I presume that the partition, that is create is where Windows or any other operating system will reside, but it is all that can gather at this stage. The thing is the port USB is not aware of my devices or network, then how a to install Windows on this laptop is imprecise and probably a work in progress. Something for certain, though: the mere existence of the developer switch means that Google is not opposed to the development of programs for chromium, equipped with systems say, a dual-boot Windows and chrome OS.

Check out our slide show to look at how we have tried to install Windows in Google Notebook. For more information, see PCMag on the notebook CR-48 hands and analysis of operating system software team chromium CR 48 as well as the PCMag eye blow the 10 best extensions for Google Chrome OS.