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Microsoft and Cisco Systems have defended their dealings with countries with poor human rights' records.

The work of the firms was the centre of a debate about openness at the Internet Governance Forum in Athens.
Fred Tipson, senior counsel for Microsoft, denied that some big businesses were "colluding" with certain governments.
Art Reilly, senior director at Cisco Systems, said the firm enabled the flow of information, not restricted it.
As the only two representatives of major business sat on the panel, they were the focus of accusations from some delegates that the companies were not doing all they could to enable freedom of expression.


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The growing popularity of online video has caught the attention of

malicious hackers and hi-tech criminals.

Some of the codecs let users play types of net-based video, but also

have spyware and adware wrapped inside.

Others, say experts, are outright fakes that just want to infect

victims with data-stealing programs.

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It will use a file-filtering application to scan old and new content to weed out any unauthorised material.

Illegal files, the company said, would be removed and persistent offenders would be banned from the site.

Online sites are coming under increasing pressure from the music industry to stop copyright infringment on their pages

via: bbcnews

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