ScamNailer – Anti-Phishing Filter : a generated set of SpamAssassin rules containing known-phisher addresses
(tags: scams phishing spear-phishing spamassassin rules anti-phishing)Endangered sites in Britain and Ireland to see before they die : including Roundstone Bog, burned to a crisp last week :(
(tags: roundstone bogs ireland connemara tourism endangered)Irish music blogs under attack over royalties | Music | guardian.co.uk : ‘If IMRO goes ahead with its plan, targeting music blogs around the world, there will soon be legions of frustrated bloggers. And it will be much worse if other regional publishers follow suit.’
(tags: imro ireland guardian news blogs music mp3 shakedown)Vending Spree : ‘I am going to consume and review every item in my office vending machine and there is nothing you can do to stop me.’
(tags: vending-machines funny blogs food daily)Why We’re Siding With The Bloggers and Why IMRO’s LOEL Blog License Won’t Work : good post from online music marketing site Amp.ie
(tags: music mp3 blogging blogs ireland imro shakedown loel)On The Record » “This music blogger IMRO licence thing” : Jim Carroll’s blog post on the IMRO mp3blog shakedown. Comment thread has some good stuff from Irish music heads
(tags: imro mp3 blogs music ireland jim-carroll shakedown)IMRO propose massive increase in indie cinema fees : what are they up to? ‘1 per cent levy on the gross box-office takings of every cinema in the country … Smaller cinema operators who attended a meeting … said the proposal amounted in some cases to a five to sevenfold increase on their existing royalties payments.’
(tags: imro wtf cinema movies ireland shakedown)Nialler9’s getting the IMRO shakedown : Irish music blogs apparently need to pay a minimum of EUR150/year to the collection agency for “making copyrighted music available online” — and they intend to ask _all_ sites who offer music, Irish or not, to pay this fee (!)
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