In July 2008 I had a accident at work. After the accident I had to undergo a drug test and to my surprise I was proven to be positive for athetamines. As some one who has never taken drugs of any type  was devastated and dumbfounded. The company who I was subcontracted to came about with a digital camera and photographed the test results and emailed it around saying that I had failed a drug test. It was later proven that the test  was faulty. The questioned remained about the distribution of the email as it already labelled me as a drug user and with my knowledge of how email distribution worked  concerned me. After obtaining an Independent drugs test I presented this to my employer who in the mean time had printed the email off and distributed it around the workplace. There is a couple of issue here.

1. Sampling for drugs in the workplace is classified under the health act as collection of medical records. When you collect medical records you have an obligation to provide security of those records.  An obligation under the privacy provisions of the act
2. The security of email communication to distribute medical records.

Email can be distributed in a viral like fashion once it is released into the wild. Something as Interesting as a person who failed a drug test creates a good reason for this email distributed as a viral email. I send you an email and you see that this may interest someone else so you forward it on  and this cycle of pass it on then becomes very broad based. Very similar to the way pyramids schemes work.

Living in a small community of 20,000 people it wasn't long before this email became a well known within the community and that I was a drug user. The devastation this caused me sent me into depression for many months. I would sit in a chair  day in and day out playing solitaire on my lap top.

Getting Educated

My son who had started his 1st year on university found that he chosen subjects where not what he thought  and decided that it was not the correct choice of careers. After discussing with him about his future goals he said “I am going to study online.”   I got interested right then. Not just for his future but for mine. Living in a rural community education opportunities was limited and I was critical about this for many years.

When I moved to Horsham in 2002  I was looking for work and was asked if I could teach IT to some agriculture students. I also thought I could use the time to get some qualifications and approached the local TAFE. They recommended I do CIV in information technology. I all ready had 10 years experience in IT but this gave me the opportunity to  to get qualified. The first assignment was to draw input and output computers components and label which was input and which was output. (Keyboard input, Monitor Output). Kindergarten stuff. I rang the coordinator and said come on this is rubbish. He advised me just do the assignments and send them in.  I did this for several months. All very simple stuff. I later found that I was required to get a CIV in Workplace Training to continue teaching.  Then one day I received a phone call from a teacher asking me why I wasn't in his class today. Oh I said was I suppose to go to a class? I never been to a class before why start now I told him. He did how ever convince me to attend this class and I was put into a group of 3 other students to do a project on documentation. I did the project and the other students did not contribute so I received the credit when the situation was explained.  I graduated CIV by doing 3 classes I think with about 13 distinctions of 24 units.   With CIV the next step was to get a Diploma. As the campus did not offer diploma would mean I need to leave town to study. That was not an option.

Back to the Online study. This was an option as I had every thing I needed to start now. I contacted Seek and they enrolled me in a Degree course of Information Technology. Considering this is what I do then that seem logical. I enrolled in 3 Units. Text and Context, Information Systems and Internet Communications (net11).  Been a little cynical about these 1st year unit I thought that I would have the skills to walk it in. The Text and Context had me a little concerned but systems and internet communications was my game what will I learn from these units?

Well yes Information Systems was a breeze. Read the prescribed text and did the work. Text and context was a little more challenging. Net11 however proved to be something different altogether. Yes we started doing basic internet task that I can do standing on my head and been cynical I plodded thorough with arrogance that this will be easy. I was required to start a blog to record my learning experiences. My son introduce me to blogging and I never really could get into it.  Now I blog almost every day.  My skill as a blogger has improved in the last 3 months as I continue to learn new techniques.

Beating the Depression

The people whom I collaborated with in net11 have been such a fantastic group of people who did not realise that the Chriso was suffering deep depression because they made me realise that I do have a contribution to make to this subject and I do have some worth. My past experiences and life skills I was able to become involved with this group.  I learned from them about social networking on a new dimension and how to be involved in projects with others on the Internet. I never discussed my depression with fellow students as I found that been involved with what they are doing made me feel good and of value. Simple little comments made by other students and teachers made a huge difference to my health. When I could jump in and offer my help and get responses of positive affirmations all contributed to getting out and becoming involved. Yet not one student realised that they helping me through when doing this as they posted their comments.  I must say I owe this to the group.

Is it reality

The discussion thread  “Is social network reality” on the net11 discussion board I posted a thread early in the unit that stated that by the end of this unit some of us will become very good friends by the time the unit is finished. I have seen this develop over the unit where communications between the group(Teachers and Students) often became emotional and  confronting.  As the group became more comfortable with one another their where post about people past and personnel experiences that either explained their view of a topic or just a place to express themselves.  Out of this relationship developed and collaborations started in many forms. We discovered new dimensions about each other and began to develop a picture of each other that probably very accurate.  Some will go on to be good friend for the rest of their lives. At the end of this unit you would have to conclude that social networking is reality.

The future of these skills

Some see this as a waste of time but considering that it is reality it places a whole new meaning on the use of the internet.  By developing a social network places you in a position to communicate ideas and share information with some incredible people. Common interest groups from that enables this development of idea and bring to the Internet to a new level of professional standards. The stumbling block I see at this point is education to the average user  who has a Facebook with 1000 friends and how to get value from those 1000 friends.  By saying value I don't just mean marketing but value can be in many forms. The recent events of the Victorian Bushfires seen groups develop in Facebook of many 1000’s of members to support the Appeals and the Fire Fighters.  One group collected Colouring in books to send to the children affected by the bushfires. This was a very effective way to use your Facebook account for value. There was no personnel gain other than the satisfaction that they had done their bit for the kids in the bushfires but gave value through the use of Facebook by creating an interest group.

I had some short discussion with Peter Fletcher about where this is leading and considered that we maybe emerging on a new world of social media. The use of these new tools brings with it new ways to do things and there is a emergence of corporate  and private operators scrambling to understand what happening here.

The students who continue with Curtin University Internet Studies will find that they will be the next generation of Hi Tech people required it no longer about software but collaborations and networking on the Internet. It is these skills that will be guiding the Internet to its future.  The Internet is a drifting sand but there is a force that is moving the sand and knowledge on that force is your key to success.

Net11

To my fellow students of net11 sp4 2008 I hope you have enjoyed the ride of this unit and found value as I have. I have changed my study career to do BA Internet Studies with Curtin University and believe there are some other coming for the ride as well. I look forward to the next study period with you all. For those who are heading in another direction I hope we cross paths again and be able to maybe meet in person.  For those who have an Interest in what I have conveyed here about Internet Studies contact Curtin University I recommend it.

With all the hot weather  we have been having in the Wimmera has also been the Invasion of ants. The lack of water tends to be the problem as they seems to be chasing anywhere there is moisture. Shower base, Baths and Wash Basins.

I asked for some suggestions on Twitter and @RhyseAtWork provided me the best answer. Virtual Cookie to  @RhyseAtWork  alcohol

Solution

Imagine a service centre that offered free fuel for your car. Never you say . but when it come to Google that how they get customers is that all there products and service are free. What makes Google  money when it all free.

Well Google not all free. They provide you free services  to capture a market of Internet users and present them opportunities to buy goods and service through Google ads The revenue from this supports Google.

So where is the free Petrol?

Well there no free petrol but you would think what would happen if your Local fuel outlet gave the petrol away for free. You would be spending days Lined up in the queue to get your share. Physically for a operator of a local fuel outlet would never be able cater for the demand. However lets take the hypothetical  situation on if there where a free fuel at the local fuel outlet. How would this be done As fuel is their prime source of income.

Well through Sponsorship. To get you free fuel you have to agree to apply for a CityBank Credit card. try out our new restaurant and when you pay for your meal you use your CityBank CC to pay and we will give you a free fuel voucher. When you make a purchase from a our retail outlet you will also get a voucher for free fuel. Do new mobile phone contract and every time you make a phone call you get free fuel. Get your Internet Service Provider Deal from the outlet.

Now these companies who want to be the sponsor would pay this fuel the outlet for the fuel he gives away. Ok so this will not happen you say. Your  is company is about to launch a major product. The want maximum exposure to the product but want people to experience the product live. The fuel outlet in a very populous area is approached by marketing to provide free fuel for one day only  in return the marketers dominate the outlet with there product launch. They would get media coverage and a captive audience to sell there wares.

Your an Internet Cafe and you offer Free Lunch to the first 50 people who com in to day and sign up to a new ISP. As most ISP would pay about $50 spotters fees then the Cafe would turnover $2500 for the lunch trade. No if most people spend $20 in a Cafe for lunch that a huge profit. The Cafe earns $50 for a $20 meal by giving his core business away for free.

You can earn 50% commission on pre paid phone cards so by supply free lunch to any person who buy a $100 phone card  would but you business way in front because you will turnover make $50 form a $20 meal.

So there is such thing as a free lunch. Its about exploring new options on how to get business when up against the big guys.

There has been a lot happening in the past few days with the recording industry having a few wins. The UK have legislated that ISP inform by letter and education that P2P file sharing of copyright material is illegal.

A Case in Dublin Ireland this week settled to the Recording Industry pressure to do similar with threats of disconnecting them from the service if the practice does not cease. http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20090129a.html

This report commissioned by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's(IFPI) the representing body is pushing the ISP's take the action to stop the P2P downloading of content.

http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_resources/dmr2009.html

Why should the ISP industry be responsible to Police the Music industry. Who makes them the police and do they really want to be the police. How do  ISP identify genuine P2P download against illegal P2P.

The Film and Music industry should take this as an opportunity to capture and audience as Mark Pesce point out to the live presentation of "Piracy Is Good?", delivered by Mark Pesce on May 6th, 2005 at the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. To down load his presentation you have to use a bittorrent but is legal. This was done to emphasise the value in bittorrent software and P2P protocols (Mark Pesce, 2005)

You can read his presentation here at http://www.mindjack.com/feature/piracy051305.html

Pesce point out how the BBC1 in the UK has used bit torrent to get attention to shows like the First episode of Doctor Who and how Television Programs distribution model is not meeting the demands of the consumer and that producers need to consider other distribution models to change with the new technology and give the consumer better choices .(Mark Pesce,2005)

This is a survey I took part in on National Recording Association Industry Professionals  web site http://www.narip.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1&limit=5&limitstart=5

Should ISPs require customers to pay a "music tax" to combat illegal downloading?

No

24
66.7%

Yes

12
33.3%

Number of Voters
:  36

First Vote
:  Friday, 25 January 2008 21:04

Last Vote
:  Thursday, 29 January 2009 20:38

(NARIP.Com, 2009)

So this is so crazy. They now want to place the burden onto the ISP's as Tax Collectors to support their industry. Its a bit like saying you should pay me a tax for reading my Blog.

Please Pay your Tax to Chris'o Blog at PayPal please

So clearly the so far is telling them that the idea is stupid from their own members.  Log on and have your say

The new market opportunities for these copyright holders in a fantastic one and should be embraced. The money you will save of lawyers  would fund the new model as you would only need a few million to get it up and running.

Here are a few comments I stolen from http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/42116  that are worth considering about this issue.

MartynDavenport

Jan 16, 2009

When is the music industry gonna get off it's high horse and accept that they're the criminals for the prices they charge? They can keep harping on about how wrong it is to share files, and how it damages musicians etc, but they're patronising people. Call me old-fashioned, but maybe bands would have to go back to earning their wages from doing what it is that bands are actually supposed to do, play live. Instead of only touring to advertise their over produced over-priced albums.

Hackneyman

Jan 16, 2009

Why is it, that the only people who can't work out how to make digital music downloads work for them .. are the record companies Their blanket condemnation of 'illegal downloads' and throwing arbitary figures about doesn't reflect the situation as us music fans see it.Surely some downloads, they might view as having being downloaded illegal, are just the modern equivalent to old fashioned radio play that would then lead to a 'sale'.Apparently 'legal' downloads had a very good year http://mp3.about.com/b/2009/01/02/digital-download-sales-gives-music-industry-a-boost.htm"In the top ten selling digital tracks, Leona Lewis's Bleeding Love was number one with 3.37 million downloads, followed by the track, Low, from Flo Rida Feat featuring T-Pain (2.94 million downloads). For digital albums, Coldplay's Viva La Vida triumphed in the top ten selling digital album charts with 617,000 units; Jack Johnson's Sleep Thorough The Static was number 2 with 325,000 units sold"According to their 95% of all downloads are illegal statement then those figures above = 5% of 'potential sales which means that we were conning Leona Lewis out of 57 million extra sales - it's all just rubbish and propaganda...If the record industry keeps wining like this, the day when all recorded music is free can't be too far away, and the artists can make their money from gigs, merchandise and sponsorship... it will be the record company's own fault.HM

The Felony

Jan 16, 2009

If the record labels weren't so greedy in the first place we wouldn't have this problem. It's appalling what they pay the artists. I'd rather not give my money to them. There is a benefit of illegal downloading; its caused listeners to find new music and not just listen to regurgitated rubbish in the pop charts.

I just note the figures from Hackneyman on legal music down loads and show how artist are becoming popular by producing their music for free and still enjoy strong sales.

For further reading have a read of the reviews on mp3.about.com

http://mp3.about.com/od/digitalmusicdelivery/a/mp3annualreview.htm

References

Mark Pesce,2005,"Piracy Is Good?",viewed 30 January 2009, from http://www.mindjack.com/feature/piracy051305.html

http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20090129a.html

http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_resources/dmr2009.html

NARIP.com, 2009,"Survey", viewed 30 Januarys 2009,from http://www.narip.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1&limit=5&limitstart=5

nme.com,"Music Industry Claim 95% of downloads are illegal",viewed 30th January 2009,from http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/42116

Netscape a released a comprehensive survey about the Federal Government Clean Feed policy taken from a sample of 10,000 participants with fairly predicable results.

http://www.netspace.net.au/filtering/results.php

Well worth a look

After my email to http://freeonlinesurveys.com/ (The Details of the email in my previous post about not letting me getting access to my data)they sent me an email and not only did they reopened my account but also gave me access to the Professional features of there site. 
Francesca Lacy wrote:

The first line of the FAQ states the limits.  

The limit is also stated on the first page that appears after registering.  

I fail to see how this is a scam.

I have extended your account until the 5th Feb.  

Please download your results until that time.
Kind regards,
Francesca Lacy
FreeOnlineSurveys.com

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Department: General
Priority: Medium
Status: On Hold

I have sent them an email to thank them

Hi Francesca
You are so kind  and have made a bunch of my fellow students happy. Thank you
Regards
Chris'o

Here are the updated Results.

1) Do you like Email List Collaborations

Percentage

Responses

True
17.6%
3

False
82.4%
14

Total responses:17Email list have some advantages but for the majority  it seems did not like the idea.

2) Did you do the Newsgroup Task

Percentage

Responses

Yes
41.2%
7

No
58.8%
10

Total responses:17

Close result here as 42% had a go at this. With new technologies like forums and social networks there seem to be little point to it.

3) What chat client did you prefer

Percentage

Responses

MSN

35.3

6

ICQ

17.6

3

GOOGLE TALK

5.9

1

IRC

0.0

0

Other

41.2

7

Total responses:

17

Comparison response:

- not really fussed as long as it works, I have used msn,skype and recently ICQ

- Adium (multi protocol)

- agent newsgroup reader

-

- Skype

- yahoo

- skype/twitter

Varied result show that users have a varied prefaces to what chat client to use. This I assume would  create some difficulties in finding and staying in tough with Internet contacts. Although one answered Adium that is multi protocol to consolidate their contacts .

4) If you could choose a communication tool which one would it be?

Percentage

Responses

Internet

17.6

3

Instant Chat

17.6

3

Video Chat

0.0

0

Audio Chat

0.0

0

Email

11.8

2

Facebook/Myspace etc

11.8

2

Telephone

17.6

3

In the post

0.0

0

Other

23.5

4

Total responses:

17

Comparison response:

- face to face, Internet, probably all of them in different settings, not fussed on Facebook type applications though

- A little of all of the above

-

- F2F

Very mixed response and looks as though we are equally divided between the telephone, Instant Chat,Internet and other methods.

5) Duane started a very hot debate about.
Should reality in the chat world stop?

Percentage

Responses

Yes
23.5%
4

No
76.5%
13

Total responses:17

Moving  onto the chat world and creating our own identity is obviously the new culture that most have become adapted to.

6) Jamie started a hot thread about the choice of Blogging sites and students in the class where divided by what Blogger they used.
Now we all chose our sites for one reason or another but to answer Jamie's question did you feel segregated from students on another blog?

Percentage

Responses

Yes
23.5%
4

No
76.5%
13

Total responses:17

  The nett11 SP4 2008 group have certainly become a very proactive group in participating and calibrating

7)
Mark started a debate about Virtual Personalities when your on line.
Do you think its your true self in your blogs?

Percentage

Responses

Yes
100.0%
17

No

0.0%
0

Total responses:17

Well stated @ 100%.  no other argument to this question.

8)

Peter Fletcher started a hot debate on reality on the Internet  that covered  cheating on partners to rape on the Internet.
Do you think the Internet is reality?

Percentage

Responses

Yes
76.5%
13

No
23.5%
4

Total responses:17

If you read this thread you will see some drifting sand here as student become more aware of the Internet. Some started saying no this question and and changed there minds over time as experiences set in.

9)

The last hot debate took place over the e-books  against the a real book.
Do you prefer to read a real book or an e-book?

Percentage

Responses

Yes
88.2%
15

No
11.8%
2

Total responses:17

Did Peter do the Survey twice?

For Cynthia and Tess your fantasies are real in 85.7 % of those surveyed. The traditional book lives on and Kindle has a small market still.  This would be an interesting public market survey where 1000s of samples would show the real answer to what the market for e-books where.

This is the results I have from the net11  survey. Unfortunately the web site  http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com is not free. Its a scam. They get you to set up the survey and then allow 50 participants over 10 days. I logged on at day 11 and to be told I need to pay then too get my data.  WHAT A SCAM.    I sent them an email about my view of there service.

Hi David
I am very disappointed that you have scammed me into creating an online survey only to find at day 11 I can not retrieve my data unless I subscribe to your paid subscription.
Let me point out to you what the word FREE means:
1 allowed to move as one pleases; not shut in. 2 not tied or fastened. 3 allowed to do as one pleases; not restricted, controlled or enslaved. 4 said of a country: independent. 5 costing nothing. 6 open or available to all
Your policy of Free Survey do not come under the definition of free:
Let me also advice you that your web site is not operating within the consumer laws of the UK and if I choose I could have your site removed.
http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/watch_out/scams/
http://www.oft.gov.uk/advice_and_resources/small_businesses/advertising/
But I think you should review your business model and allow creators of FREE online surveys to access their DATA FOR FREE. 
I accept that their are limitation you need to enforce for FREE services such as time  limits and number of participants but to hold someone's data to ransom after offering to collect it for Free is not only illegal but very unprofessional.
At least give them say 28 Days to collect the data and spell it out clearly to the user.
Regards
Chris'o

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Back to the survey

I did however manage to capture some data a couple of days before the survey ended and basically I got the results of 14 form the 17 participants. SO the Data represent only 14 people surveyed but very little changed as the percentages from 14 to 17 so I can assure you that the results are a fair indication to the feelings within the net11 group

1) Do you like Email List Collaborations

Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 20:46
Michael Started a hot debate  on the discussion forum about this topic

Percentage True  21.4%   False  78.6% 

Responses

Total responses: 14

True 3

False 11

  Email list have some advantages but for the majority  it seems did not like the idea.

2)

Did you do the Newsgroup Task
Total responses:14

Percentage

Responses

Yes

42.9%
6

No

57.1%
8

Close result here as 42% had a go at this. With new technologies like forums and social networks there seem to be little point to it.

3)

What chat client did you prefer
Total responses:14

Percentage

Responses

MSN

35.7 %

5

ICQ

21.4 %

3

GOOGLE TALK

0.0

0

IRC

0.0

0

Other

42.9 %

6

Comparison response:

- Adium (multi protocol)

- agent newsgroup reader

- Did not answer

- Sype

- yahoo

- skype/twitter

Varied result show that users have a varied prefaces to what chat client to use. This I assume would  create some difficulties in finding and staying in tough with Internet contacts. Although one answered Adium that is multi protocol to consolidate their contacts .

4) If you could choose a communication tool which one would it be?
Total responses:14

Percentage

Responses

Internet

21.4 %

3

Instant Chat

21.4 %

3

Video Chat

0.0

0

Audio Chat

0.0

0

Email

7.1 %

1

Facebook/Myspace etc

7.1 %

1

Telephone

21.4 %

3

In the post

0.0

0

Other

21.4 %

3

Comparison response:

- A little of all of the above

- Did Not Answer

- F2F

Very mixed response and looks as though we are equally divided between the telephone, Instant Chat,Internet and other methods.

5) Should reality in the chat world stop?

Percentage

Responses

Yes

21.4%
3

No

78.6%
11

Total responses:

14

Moving  onto the chat world and creating our own identity is obviously the new culture that most have become adapted to. 

6) Jamie started a hot thread about the choice of Blogging sites and students in the class where divided by what Blogger they used.
Now we all chose our sites for one reason or another but to answer Jamie's question did you feel segregated from students on another blog?

Total responses:14

Percentage

Responses

Yes

14.3%
2

No

85.7%
12

  The nett11 SP4 2008 group have certainly become a very proactive group in participating and calibrating.

7) Mark started a debate about Virtual Personalities when your on line.
Do you think its your true self in your blogs?

Percentage

Responses

Yes

100.0%
14

No

0.0%
0

Total responses:

14

Well sated @ 100%.  no other argument to this question.

8) Peter started a hot debate on reality on the Internet  that covered  cheating on partners to rape on the Internet.
Do you think the Internet is reality?
 

Percentage

Responses

Yes

85.7%
12

No

14.3%
2

Total responses:

14

If you read this thread you will see some drifting sand here as student become more aware of the Internet. Some started saying no this question and and changed there minds over time as experiences set in. 

9) The last hot debate took place over the e-books  against the a real book.
Do you prefer to read a real book or an e-book?

Percentage

Responses

Yes

85.7%
12

No

14.3%
2

Total responses:

14

Did Peter do the Survey twice?

For Cynthia and Tess your fantasies are real in 85.7 % of those surveyed. The traditional book lives on and Kindle has a small market still.  This would be an interesting public market survey where 1000s of samples would show the real answer to what the market for e-books where.

Please comment on the results and keep the debate alive.

I am on my bike again about the Music  & Film Industry's Hardliner approach to copyrighted music. With teenage kids of my own and all my mates kids all have pirated music on their mp3 players and hard drives. That world make every Kid in Australia criminal according to RIAA  (Recording Industry Of America) and MPIA (Motion Picture Industry of America). You would think that this Industry would wake up to themselves and start to get a better understanding of their market and how to use the P2P bitorrents to their advantage with compromising people privacy by getting courts to enforce that ISP's hand of IP Address Logs and logs. So are we going to local up every kid in Australia?

Let look a at a couple of more issues relating to this brute force mentality of trying to control the Internet.

Recording Industry Of America

They have a down loadable Pdf file Young People Music and The Internet 

On Page 5 it states

One of the risks with P2P is that children may come across
unwelcome content such as viruses, pornographic substance or
violent images. Some files are purposely misnamed to trick people
into downloading them. Because of the way P2P services work,
filtering tools that can block offensive content like porn or violent
images and video on websites are not effective in blocking the same
content when made available through P2P. This leaves children
at risk.(Childnet, 2008)

It also continues to advise about the risks of virus, spyware and malware risk associated with P2P file sharing and I agree with these risks so with the 10 billion turnover you guys make out of dead artist should contribute a little bit more than a pdf file and lawsuits on the average punters. I agree those CD factories need prosecution as there are ripping you guys off but as for all the kids it a cult practice that they see as not breaking the law but enjoying the benefits that file sharing brings. 

Motion Picture Industry Of America

Well MPIA haven't spent to much on the problem either  their like on the web site is to a another domain http://www.copyrightkids.org/ that is owned by the Copyright Society Of USA  yet they want you to put up your hard cash and give them billions of dollars and sue you because you watch the movie for free at your mates place. Now  that is customer service for you.  They can not get through their narrow minded heads what the Internet is about and how to capitalise on the problem. I have watched downloaded videos where some one sits in a theatre  with a camcorder. and walked away. but the industry still see this as a problem.  They should that those guys. I tried to watch Ocean 12 and the quality was so horrific that I became interested enough to rent the movie in high quality. I do not want to wait 3 days to down load 3 gig file to find out its rubbish so for $5.00 I can get the proper product from the local video shop. But with the Kids they do not care as one will be getting one movie and another will get another. Burn it to DVD and swap as required.

Its About Sharing

My other post about sharing on the Internet I talk about how the Internet successes is been about sharing yet these guy want to change that by using their obsolete copyright laws to convict innocent children for enjoying there product. RIAA  & MPIA should be more proactive in investing in these kids and befriend them. If P2P File share is so risky then take control of this by providing a better product for kids to access music for free. You guys own the copyright so you guys have control if you wish to take control. Set up you own P2P file share for kids to access and provide a safe haven for them. Give them what they want and nurture them to towards your artist and and become loyal fans of your copyright. Be like Macdonald's Family Restaurants who understand if they have sold the kids at a young age then they become customers for many years. Then educate the children that commercial use of the material is illegal and serious fines will results in any one who infringes on those laws. Use the down loads to promote this and make it so the illegal cd presses have no need to set up shop as it will be free anyway.

A wedding I went to last year the DJ owned a local Computer Shop and had a laptop and hired some speakers from the music shop and now he has a Mobile Disco Tech. Does he own the music? Maybe he does but I would have my doubts that any techno nerd has paid for the 1000's of songs on the hard drive.

Citation

Recording Industry Of America

Motion Picture Industry of America

Macdonald's Family Restaurants

Reference

Chilenet,2008,Young People Music and The Internet ,p5

When using the Internet to communicate and calibrate we become aware that at certain times we must be aware of protecting our privacy and the privacy of those we are calibrating with.

There are strict rules governing the privacy of information collected by organisations yet for smaller operators the guidelines in Australia are not so set in concrete .

The private sector provisions of the Privacy Act apply to organisations (including not-for-profits) with an annual turnover of more than $3 million. The provisions also apply to all health service providers regardless of turnover and some small businesses with an annual turnover of $3 million or less.( Privacy Commission,2009)

For small business with a turnover of $3 million or less are

• a health service provider?
• trading in personal information?
• related to a larger business?
• a contractor to Commonwealth agencies?
• a reporting entity for the purpose of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (AML/CTF Act)?
• an operator of a residential tenancy database? ( Privacy Commission,2009)

While you may not come under this category you do have an option to opt in to the national privacy principle by completing an application to the Privacy Commission

The Technical Realities of E-mail Use and Privacy

Information by the Australian Privacy Commission  advise that

Most e-mail is insecure. It should be regarded as insecure unless it has been encoded or encrypted. E-mail is often compared to a postcard in that anyone who receives it can read it. E-mail may also be read if it is stored on servers during transmission.

E-mails are hard to destroy. Many people think that if they delete their e-mail it is gone forever. This is not so as most electronic documents are backed up and recoverable.

Logging. Most software used to operate networks, including web servers, mail servers and gateways, logs transactions and communications. These logs will normally include the e-mail addresses of senders and recipients of e-mail and the time of transmission. The content of e-mails themselves would not normally be logged but may be stored on mail servers. Similarly, web server logs record information on the sites that people visit. The keeping of these logs is usually necessary for the routine maintenance and management of networks and systems. System administrators are also capable of reading the contents of e-mails sent and received by the corporate network. (Australian Privacy Commission, 2000)

This is only a basic view published by the commissioner in there is the other issue of  forward function of an email system. Any user can easily forward an email to another party with out your knowledge or consent and then they can forward to another party until it can become almost viral like and uncontrolled. The other issue is this case of the Privacy Commission about exposing other peoples Emails in the CC rather then BCC. 

Subject Heading:

Improper disclosure of personal information and failure to keep personal information secure

Law:

National Privacy Principles 2.1 and 4.1 in Schedule 3 of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)

Facts:

An individual notified the Privacy Commissioner that the direct marketer sent out a promotional email which displayed the email addresses of all recipients.  The Commissioner considered that where an email address amounted to 'personal information' in that the identity of the individual is apparent or can reasonably be ascertained, the privacy of a number of individuals may have been interfered with. While this Office did not receive any individual complaints, the Commissioner decided to conduct an investigation into the incident under section 40(2) of the Privacy Act.

Issues:

NPP 2.1 provides that personal information collected for a primary purpose must not be used or disclosed for a secondary purpose unless one of a number of exceptions in NPP 2.1(a)-(h) applies.

NPP 4.1 provides that an organisation must take reasonable steps to protect the personal information it holds from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

Outcome:

The direct marketer responded promptly to the Commissioner's investigation and the incident.  The direct marketer explained that individuals provide it with their email address specifically to receive information about upcoming promotions.  The direct marketer provided its promotional email list to a third party organisation to issue the promotional email.  As a result of human error, the third party organisation distributed to everyone who was on the email list an email showing those individuals' email addresses, rather than using the blind carbon copy or 'BCC' email function.   The third party organisation did not follow its usual data quality control procedures in this circumstance.

The third party organisation counselled the individual responsible for the error and staff undertook refresher training in its quality control procedures.  These procedures were also updated to prevent a similar incident in the future. 

The direct marketer acted quickly to contact all individuals who were on the promotional email list to apologise and explain what happened.  The direct marketer also committed to report to appropriate authorities any misuse of the email addresses including issuing spam emails.

Based on the information gathered during the investigation the Commissioner decided to cease her investigation into the incident.  In relation to NPP 4.1, the Commissioner noted that the parties had steps in place to ensure the security of the personal information and the incident appeared to have occurred as a result of a one-off error. In relation to the disclosure under NPP 2, the Commissioner also considered that the steps the parties were taking to remedy the situation were adequate in the circumstances.

The Commissioner noted that while her investigation had been closed, any complaints from individuals that she may receive about the incident will be dealt with on their merits.(Own Motion Investigation v Direct Marketer,2008)

While in this case the company was able to satisfy the commission as to how this incident occurred and what steps have been taken to prevent this happening again it does highlight the need for care of handling private information.

Its is one topic that should considers on a serious basis as it easy to think that the tools offered to us with new technology makes communication and calibration easy but also easy to over look what some basic procedure when it come to the privacy of other.

Further Reading

Australian Privacy Commission web site

Reference

Australian Privacy Commission, 2000,Private Sector - Business, Web Browsing and Privacy (30/3/2000),viewed 23rd January 2009, from http://www.privacy.gov.au/business/index.html

Australian Privacy Commission, 2009,Opting-in to Privacy Act coverage,viewed 23rd January 2009, from http://www.privacy.gov.au/business/register/index.html

Australian Privacy Commission, 2000,Guidelines on Workplace E-mail, Web Browsing and Privacy (30/3/2000),viewed 23rd January 2009, from http://www.privacy.gov.au/internet/email/index.html#Realities

Own Motion Investigation v Direct Marketer [2008] PrivCmrA 23

This page is how to make money from the Free Energy Market. This is a huge business that promises to save the planet, Put the oil cartels out of business, make government look like fools and line your pockets with loads of cash.

Before you start study this article on Wikipedia Cranks

Prerequisite

1. You need to have some good communication skill to promote what sceptics say are impossible.
2. Have a good design drawn up in CAD program to demonstrate your idea's. Plenty of FREE ones on the net
3. Create Animated gif's of your devices and place on the Internet making some claims over Free Energy
4. Buy some magnets and start playing with the energy of the magnets to get some ideas on how to make a Magnet Motor.
5. Get Some PVC tubing, Some Stainless Steel, Multi Meter, Wire, and some drain cleaner an start producing Hydrogen Gas,  (Brown Gas)
6. Get a Web Cam and Record you findings on YouTube.
7. Join a church and makes some new friends that have money. Southern Baptist, HillSide Church
8. Self publish a book on the subject.  PDF format is a cheap way to do this and sell it through EBay Or Amazon
9. Create some new form of mathematics that confuses the people who may find you out.
10. Join the conspiracy theory that the Government and the Oil Cartel are after you and want you to stop your research.

So how will this make money?

1. With the price of fuel there are people out there who are willing to give you money for your knowledge.
2. Investors with help you finance your next project for shares in the profits when you succeed.
3. Place some Google adds on you web site.
4. Set up a Pay Pal account and seek some donations to keep funding your venture.
5. Some countries government will give you funding for research into your project. See STERON

Things you don't do

1. Do not let out your secretes
2. Never show a working model of your device.
3. When making claims of free energy never give accurate figures on the data. Always make them up.
4. After arranging your launch. Never show up.
5. Have Power leads running all over the place.

How to build creditability

1. Invent a Professor from a fictitious University that backs you claims.
2. Get the TV and Radio Station to do a report on your product and let the world know how it will be changed with Free Energy.
3. Send out news releases of you progress to the media. They are desperate for save the world stories.
4. Create a mailing list so you can target the true believers in you project.
5. Do not allow sceptics to comment on your work. Delete their comments from You Tube so you do not disassociate your followers.
6. Join overunity.com forum. Plenty of customers there.
7. Get your followers involved in political issues. Convince them you have some large secretive benefactor.

How to use YouTube

YouTube.com is a fantastic media to generate followers of your Free Energy Device. How to Videos are the most popular video on YouTube and Free Energy Videos are very popular.

1. Create a catchy username "PowerForNothing"  Or  "NobelPeace99"
2. Show your parts you bought from the hardware store or your favourite electronic shop.
3. Introduce your Dog or Cat.. Most people love them.
4. Show how basic your workshop is on the video so as the viewer can see them selves making such a device.
5. Make a big deal that this is open source.
6. Flash blurred figures of results up on the screen.
7. Do not forget to include the conspiracy about the scientific world, Oil Cartels, Motor Manufacturers and Governments.
8. Never let your device run for more then 30 seconds. Make sure you stop it and restart it.
9. Add a couple of  Bible Videos.
10. Use the keywords throughout the video with lots of excitement. 
11. Talk about your valiant battles with the patent office or some government bureaucracy (that always warms people up)
12. Claim it already has been proven so you need not offer any proof Tell them you are done proving it and need big money to start mass production

Keywords and phrases

1. I am replication somebody else's failed attempt because?
2. Resonance
3. Litres Per Min by X = some Watt
4. Undiscovered Power
5. Sceptics are Narrow Minded
6. I have been threatened by the CIA
7. Someone stole my magnets
8. Volts= amps  Watts = Volts
9. Pulse Machine
10. PMM
11. x350az model ( Make up your own this ones is mine)
12. In My Next Video ???
13. HHO is not Hydrogen its Charged Hydrogen and Water with Oxygen
14. This is not an over unity machine but we are close
15. Free Energy
16. Vortex
17. Vacuum
18. The laws of the universe are out dated
19. Please Visit my Web Site and make a donation
20. rotational symmetry ???
21. We are not breaking the laws of thermal dynamics we are just improving efficiency.
22. Tesla
23. Scientist have missed this.
24. If your a Physicist you know what I am saying.
25. Let Congress know that you will change the world.
26. This law has been found in the nineteenth century to be a source of a great deal of difficulty
27. Electrolyte
28. conversion of energy

Warnings

There are people out there who think you are of the planet.  They will publish liable statements about you been a scammer and a cheat.  Make sure you have these people stopped by taking legal action against them. 

  Have a good contract for investor so you are not liable to give them back any money.  Tie it up tight.  They will start winning when you fail to get results and show returns.

How to deal with sceptics and detractors:

There are a number of approaches to deal with self righteous people who like to point out your flaws of reason, lists of previous victims, etc. out on the Internet:

1. Label your detractors as CIA agents, or stupid or part of the great conspiracy.
2. Say they are unqualified unless they are experts in your theory.
3. Try to restrict your message to newsletters and limited forums where the skeptical voice can be filtered out.
4. In a public forum deaden the audiences interest with tons of distracting counter "information".
5. Try to delete their pages from the search engines, or bury their objections in enough distractions to make people avoid the debate
6. Trying threatening your detractors with lawsuits - it will make some of them shut up
7. Give up and only try to market to people too old or stupid to get on the Internet. - or try selling to the Amish or more stupid ethnic groups.

Next What Devices can I build

Our new rap band One Dollar Ninety Nine  in the back garage  and have book a gig down at the local that we played last month to  a crowd of 300 people. The crowd like us so much that we where ask to play another gig other other side of town the following week.  The band has now had a gross turnover of $6000 and our web site has had 75,000 hit in 30 days. A small label Sony Music wants to record us and make us into rap legends and is willing to invest $50.000 of producing our first cd. Its all moving very quickly.

Our music is original written by our lead rapper Wazza and already our music is been shared by bit torrents all around the world. I am getting hundred of emails a day  from fans wanting us to tour  to their location. The whole this is out of control.

Our Manager

Our manager is telling us not to sign up with Sony but to develop our own web site so we can control our music , our fans and our merchandise through social networking. Our music will be free to download and through Creative Commons License and our fans will become registered users to our site. We will offer free news and updates with lots of photo of our tours for fans to access 

We can generate income by offering eStore products relating to the band create  hole new wave in the music industry.

Our reaction 

What give our music away why would we do that. 

Manager: The answer is to stop them from stealing it. By offering the genuine product free from virus or malware from a trusted source. This will attract fans to get the genuine product from us by joining our social network.  This now gives us the opportunity to get to know our fans and gauge what they want from us and how our music can serve them better. We have opportunities  to maximize ticket sales on our tours and offer fee for services and merchandise though the Internet.

Let me show you of an example where an Australian Band Augie March is using MySpace 

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=28662614

You can watch their video clips and listen to their music at MySpace for free

Disclaimer

This is a fictitious band and created to illustrate what can be done with the music industry

Last night I joined the Net11 students in a group chat that demonstrated its a mixed bag about the feeling of this unit as some have failed to see the value in it where others have taken it and ran with the experiences. I started out not really that interested in this unit until I came to realise what its about and how to look at the Internet in a different form. As the Internet is a major part of my life and could not see how I could live with out it I have friends that would not know what the Internet was apart from what there told on TV

I suppose some expected to do lectures and write an assignment and may do an exam  but the unit is more about experiences and evaluating those experiences and how these experiences can be used.

As an idea's person I have really got pondering about what I have learned and what I can do with this knowledge.

Sharing

Consider the Internet as a sharing tool. We collaborate with contacts over the Internet in many different forms. By looking at the many different forms what is the common thread of the user.

1. Email: With email we send and receive letters by mail in the electronic form. We able to SHARE information by attaching documents to the email and SHARE information with the recipient.
2. P2P: P2P in a SHARE system where users of the Internet SHARE files across the Internet directly from their hard drives. This could be music, videos, software or any other electronic document.
3. FTP: This is also like P2P SHARE where a file server  hold the files to SHARE
4. Facebook: SHARE your thought , activities, photos, views, family, friends and your darkest secrets.
5. Flicker: SHARE your photos
6. YouTube: SHARE your Video's
7. Google: SHARE your search habits
8. Google Docs: SHARE your documents
9. Trwitter: SHARE your every thought
10. Hotmail, gMail, Yahoo Mail: SHARE your email
11. Google Share Drive: SHARE your files
12. Yahoo Pipes: SHARE your news feeds
13. Blogs: SHARE your Ideas

And the list goes on. but as you can see the successfully sites are all basically Share tools that enable people to share.  In my Recent Post Music Industry Free Music Model I suggested that the Record Labels should look at supplying music for free under the Creative Commons License and gain control of their Industry and create a new model for sharing music. Other businesses  also have opportunities to refocus on how they share information to the clients and what possibilities can they open by been a part of the sharing. The gesture of good will  to open new business opportunities through the use of the Internet.

Problem

The problem with traditional business it the mind set that some assets of companies is viewed as the value of the company. This mind set restricts the possible though process of wanting to share those assets. Lets focus on the music industry who among a few major labels holds a major share of the popular music copyrights and considers that the sharing of there copyright through the Internet is an infringement of the copyright holder.

To think down the lines of giving this to public domain is hard to conceive by the label companies as they see it as there bread and butter. To get the music industry to change may be a difficult thing. However they need to look at what it is that drives every mom, dad , and child to break the law by stealing there products.  These moms dads and children are registered with YouTube, Facebook,Hotmail and Flicker. They are prepared to share the ideas, there taste in music and political idea's in a public sphere that allows these companies to collect data and profile the user to know how to market to them. Why not the music business do the same thing.

Kodak announced about 3 years ago about wanting to collect every photo ever taken in the world with there photo share web site. They see a changing market form traditional analogue film to digital that has change the dynamics of the market. The goal of cataloging every photo in the world and held on there servers then they have the opportunity to sell their digital print service. You go to Kodak web site find the photo you want and order the print on line.  They are also profiling the user as to the subject they are interested in and what type of print they prefer. This then allows them to make offers to you about other products and services they have.

The battle of the music industry with the bit torrent, file sharing,You tube and other Internet mediums over copyrighted material is been a long road for Labels, Artist and  copyright owners. Every method to date that has been tried has failed in some form or another. We had DMR in it various forms. Law suits against downloaders and companies sued for allowing people P2P File Sharing and threats of we are going to stop you.

The RIAA has filed about 20 000 lawsuits against Americans for illegally downloading music through peer-to-peer software, as of July 2006. (EFF,2009) This attempt only created more  P2P traffic and defeated purpose of trying to set example of what would happen if you illegally obtain copyrighted material. 

Success and Failures

First we need to look at what tactics the industry has implemented to protect copyrights and there success and failures. Has this reduced the amount of copyrighted material been distributed through P2P networks?

Electric Slide Litigation

The man who claims to have created "The Electric Slide" agreed to call off his online takedown campaign and stop threatening anyone using the popular line dance for non-commercial purposes. The agreement settles a lawsuit filed by EFF on behalf of videographer Kyle Machulis, who posted a concert video to YouTube that included a ten-second segment of audience members attempting to do the Electric Slide. Richard Silver sent a takedown demand to YouTube under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), alleging he owned the copyright to the Electric Slide and that the video infringed his rights.

Under the terms of the settlement, Silver will license the Electric Slide under a Creative Commons license -- allowing the performance, display, reproduction or distribution of any recorded performance of the dance in any medium for non-commercial purposes. Silver has agreed to post these terms on any of his current or future websites that mention the Electric Slide so that users are aware of the Creative Commons license. (EFF,2009)

MGM v. Grokster

EFF defended StreamCast Networks, the company behind the Morpheus peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software, in an important case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 23, 2005. Though the Court set aside the Ninth Circuit's ruling in favor of Streamcast, it also declined giving Hollywood what it truly wanted—a veto over technological innovation.

Twenty-eight of the world's largest entertainment companies brought the lawsuit against the makers of the Morpheus, Grokster, and KaZaA software products, aiming to set a precedent to use against other technology companies (P2P and otherwise). As we noted in our arguments before the Court, the case raises a fundamental question at the border between copyright and innovation: When should the distributor of a multi-purpose tool be held liable for the infringements that may be committed by end-users of the tool?

The Supreme Court's landmark decision in Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. (a.k.a. the "Sony Betamax ruling") found that a distributor cannot be held liable for users' infringement so long as the tool is capable of substantial noninfringing uses. This standard has served innovators, copyright industries, and the public for more than 20 years. Relying on this precedent, the Ninth Circuit ruled that the distributors of Grokster and Morpheus P2P file-sharing software cannot be held liable for users' copyright violations.

The Supreme Court set aside the Ninth Circuit ruling, but it refused to overturn the Betamax doctrine or to force technology companies to redesign multipurpose technologies. Hollywood's main objective thus went unfulfilled. (EFF,2009)

Proposal

May be the movie and music industry are having trouble to come to terms with the digital age and the focus more on trying to stop the unstoppable rather than gaining control of the creative rights. If Producers of entertainment material could  become more proactive and provide the product free via their web portal and maintain a relationship. Using the social network platform to create followers to their product and provide under the Creative Commons License free downloaded movies and music to the members. The companies can then generate revenue by offering tangible product relating to the artist   such things as photo albums, real cd's and DVD's, autographs, cups, mugs, and T-shirts.   Under the Creative Commons License commercial use of the material will still be protected by copyright.

I can see that there would be many benefits to the all parties as major parties would attract millions of users to their sites to download legitimate material  for free  and  have a cost effective method of promoting and distributing content. New Artist would have new opportunities though the portal.

Downfall of retail outlets

Retail outlet will no doubt have objections to this proposal as it will turn the wheel of the distribution process but I still see there is opportunities for this industry to adapt to change by becoming  retail outlets for the merchandise. At present there would still be a strong market for hard copy products for people who will remain with just buying the real product and the commercial users like as disk jockeys at the local night club but the face of the out lets would change. Rather than paying $20 for the latest CD you may pay $50 for a photo album of your favourite band with personnel autographs. 

Further Information

• Microsoft is the largest software company in the world today, with 44.3 billion USD in revenue in Fiscal Year 2006.
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• The RIAA has filed about 20 000 lawsuits against Americans for illegally downloading music through peer-to-peer software, as of July 2006.
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• In 2004, a survey conducted found that 24% of respondents from eight developed countries said that they have downloaded a movie before.
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• The first copyright act, the 1710 British Statute of Anne, granted authors a copyright protection of 28 years.
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• According to a 2004 study by Business Software Association of Australia, out of 84 countries, Vietnam had the highest software piracy rate of 92%.
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• Under the fair use provision, in the US, limited portions of copyrighted works can be used for certain purposes without contravening the law.
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• Music consumers as young as twelve have been targeted by the RIAA in its lawsuits against users who download music from peer-to-peer software.
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• As of early 2005, American TV series 24 ranked as the top pirated TV program worldwide.
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• Some researches have claimed that companies are able to profit from piracy of their own copyrighted products.
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• In late 2005, it was found that one of Sony’s Digital Rights Management software could compromise a user’s computer by exposing it to viruses.
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• Libraries, rental shops and second-hand retailers are all legal alternatives to copyright infringement.
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• Software companies Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec all require product activation in some of its titles; in principle, it would be impossible to install a single copy of the software onto more than one computer
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• The broadcast flag scheme, if implemented, could cause compability problems between old and new digital television devices like DVD players.
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• Legislation against digital copyright infringement is an ongoing process and the writing and passing of laws continue to take place in certain nations.
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• Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Intellectual Property Committee and the Interpol have both found evidence that many terrorist organizations are funded by the production or sale of pirated discs.
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• Users of pirated software often lack standard documentation, proper technical support and software upgrades for their pirated software.
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References

Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2009,Intellectual Property, viewed 17 January 2009, from http://www.eff.org/issues/intellectual-property

WOW!! This is something I did not know about is Yahoo Pipes. Yahoo Pipes allows you to get all you feeds into one feed and publish it anywhere you wish.

It is a little complex but with some practice it all falls into place. What it means is in my Silverlight work I can consume data form many sources and feed it into my Silverlight Applications.

The limitation in the past have been that there is a cross domain policy managed in Silverlight  that made it difficult to costume data form some sites that had not implemented a crossdomain policy. This also goes for Flash developers as well. Yahoo pipes have implemented  a crossdomain policy for Silverlight and Flash.

All you need to do is use Yahoo Pipes to collect the data through their domain and then consume that data in your Application by calling the URL of your pipe rather than calling the service

Basically your are using Yahoo to Consume data.