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Breakfast briefing: MySpace tightens up on scammers

Nov 04, 2009

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• After accusations that some social network application developers are acting unethically - making money by tricking people into paying for services they don't want - MySpace boss Owen Van Natta has said that such deceptive practices will be banned on the site.

• It wouldn't be surprising if you haven't heard of ACTA - the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that is currently under negotiation - after all, a number of governments have been fighting to keep the details secret. But according to Canadian law professor and campaigner Michael Geist, leaked details of the talks suggest that a global three strikes policy could be on the way and the dissolution of "safe harbour" or "mere conduit" rules for internet service providers. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has more detail.

• Hallowe'en might be over for this year (though in my house, it's never over for personal reasons - it's my birthday) but that doesn't mean you can't marvel at the great costumes people made. This big-head wireframe by Eric Testroete has had a lot of admirers, while this this baby Katam

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