EU decides file sharers should be anonymous
The European Court of Justice gave all of those file sharers a bit of a boost when they declared that under EU law internet service providers (ISP’s) cannot be forced to reveal the personal details of anyone who has been caught of suspected of file sharing.
It was the Spanish telecoms company Telefonica who when to [...]
Pirate Bay to be charged on Thursday
The time has come for the Pirate Bay to answer the questions that are going to be put to them, they say that the Pirate Bay just helps people share music and films, via files. This practice is supposed to be illegal in many countries around the world including Sweden, but maybe illegal is a [...]
January 28, 2008Pirate Bay has ten million peers
Despite all of their problems, the Pirate Bay still expands its ranks, this time a couple of impressive milestones have been passed. Over ten million peers who all like to share their files between them and over a million torrents for them to choose from.
In order to keep up with this expansion they will be [...]
Filer sharers an IP not a person
A woman from South Carolina in the US is being sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for alleged file sharing. It is the legal language that is being used by the RIAA’s legal teams that is being put into question and is risking the whole legal case.
It seems that the RIAA issued [...]
College file sharers overstated
In 2005 a report was published by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), who wanted to expose the amount of damage student at college have been responsible for some serious losses to the industry due to file sharing.
In fact the report blamed student file sharing for a massive forty four per cent of film [...]
No chance for Pirate Bay
With the people behind the Pirate Bay still waiting for their time in court for being pirates and allowing other internet users to file share etc, it would seem that the Swedish authorities may have already made up their mind as to the fate of the pirates.
The Swedish police put on an exhibition of online [...]
Open ID with Yahoo
The idea behind Open ID is nothing new, there have been many rumours that some of the internets big guns such as Google, IBM and Verisign are interested in operating an Open ID framework where a user can sign in on just main account and in turn get access to all of the accounts that [...]
January 17, 2008The unstoppable pirates
Despite what we are told about online security, there is a growing amount of people that feel it is a direct competition that every time some security measure is put in place by an organisation that is their signal to attack and try to crack it.
Take media defender for instance, they are used by the [...]
Times up for Pirate Bay
The problems that saw the raid on Pirate Bay HQ by the Swedish authorities should be drawing to a close very soon, but for the people behind the Bay, this will not mean that they are going to get away with anything, in fact far from it.
It is believed that the Swedish prosecuting team will [...]
Prisoners to be chipped
We talk about computer security, where we protect our machines against outside attacks, but today we are hearing about the governments plans to implant prisoners with a chip that has a RFID tag. This can then be tracked and so therefore the prisoner can too.
These are worrying times for the ordinary person in the UK; [...]
Where to get free music
There was a time when the internet was free and easy, but times have changed which has meant that the whole theory of the free and unrestricted access of the net has disappeared and in its place has formed an internet police who track down anyone who file shares etc.
But there are still places where [...]
Copying a CD, legal or not?
According to the UK government it should be legal and the Intellectual Property Minister Lord Triesman has been saying that these laws should keep up with the times, as many people have been copying CD’s onto their computers for sometime now, even though this is against the copyright laws.
Even the industry itself has given a [...]
Hard drives in the dock
Electronic storage devices are being checked by government officials at airports as they believe that they are perfectly within their rights to do so, and the courts agree!
Yet people have many personal details on them, like photos, financial records, letters and diaries. These are personal and have nothing to with government, or do they? Obviously [...]
It pays to be a pirate
A film about file sharing “Steal this Film 2” which is about the history of file sharing past, present and future, is produced by the League of Noble Peers and is totally free to download. But should the viewers feel inclined to do so, they can make a donation.
In the first four days over 150,000 [...]
The top ten torrent sites
With 2007 in the past now it’s that time of year when we start to see lists of what has done well, and torrents are no different, they have their own little place on the net and there is a top ten of these sites that have got some serious traffic.
Here is the list, as [...]
Man stalks girls via Xbox
There has been a lot of talk of the openness of the Xbox Live service and this has finally come to light with the case of the twenty year old man who hooked up with young girl aged fifteen, through playing Halo online.
Through other sources the guy was able to find out the girls home [...]