File sharers warning from ISP
Recently it has been found that the larger media companies have been contacting various internet service providers telling them to warm certain customers about their internet downloading activities.
How they can find out is simple, when you download use a bit torrent, you are connecting to different peers, it here where some media companies could if [...]
Music without copyright protection
Could the music industry actually becoming used to selling music online without any copy protection? With two internet giants Amazon and Apple have been doing so and have the top spots on music sales.
But although this is a bold move by the music industry and the music sellers, sales have not really been going through [...]
Some pirates are good
Despite all of the bad publicity that surrounds downloading copyrighted material, it would seem that the average person that may download the occasional piece of music, video or even software these people could actually be doing the copyright owners, normally those large media companies, a bit of favour.
How does this work? It is simple really, [...]
German win for file sharers
It would seem that the file sharers have gained yet another victory in the battle between the media companies and the end users who like to listen to music, but would rather not pay the prices that the media companies like to charge.
It looks like a serious blow to all the various European governments, who [...]
The Pirate Bay on the BBC
In a production that the BBC has been making regarding the history of piracy, they have not only been looking at Pirates of the Caribbean type piracy, but they have also been looking into the way that piracy has become such huge thing on the internet and in particular the affect that The Pirate Bay [...]
March 19, 2008Spam king faces lengthy jail term
The spam king is back in court again, this time it could be more serious than ever. For Robert Solway aged 28, who is known as the king of spam, could be looking at a prison sentence of anything up to twenty six years.
However this time the reason for him being in court is surprisingly [...]
Computer security risk to high for insurers
Insuring your computer against a security threat is virtually impossible, in fact the whole area of computing whether it be in business of personal computing, the risk is the same and there is in fact not much data available on what sort threats there are that can attack a users personal items. The problem is [...]
March 14, 2008By passing the sign up process
It seems that no matter what sort of problem you may have, the first process in finding a solution would be enter the terms into your favourite search engine. Within seconds there are a whole load of answers for you, and more or less every time you find the right answer it is on a [...]
March 13, 2008Inventor of email did not think about spam
Having the privilege of sending the very first email ever sent, is something that only the inventor of the system could claim, but when Ray Tomlinson thought up the email system one thing that never even popped into his mind was the fact that one day people would use this system to send junk mail [...]
March 11, 2008NSA monitors emails and online transactions
The National Security Agency (NSA) has been involved in something that could go beyond the big brother label in fact this goes well beyond it. So what are they doing that is so bad, after all the US and UK are fully at war with terrorist threat and so we should expect them to be [...]
March 10, 2008Safer Bit Torrents
It seems that there could be an easy way to elude the various rules and regulations that are being thought up by the copyright organisations and some governments too. There is even word that anyone found to be downloading pirated or other copyrighted material could fine that their internet connection is terminated.
With these thoughts in [...]
No choice is the cause of piracy
The digital entertainment survey 2008 has revealed some astonishing answers as to why people in the UK still going ahead and download pirated content, despite all of the industry and government warnings that are saying it can get them into very deep trouble indeed, and even find that they are unable to connect to the [...]
March 5, 2008Passwords by passed by Firewire
There seems to be a worrying trend with regards to how someone can access a computers RAM with another computer via the firewire connection, this can be done quite easily and within a few seconds which makes the whole thing very scary indeed.
Apparently all that is needed to attack a computer is another laptop with [...]
Wikileaks back online
Despite all of the recent problems that hit the whistle blower website Wikileaks which ended up with a Judge from San Francisco ordering the websites hosting company to have all of their completely removed from the internet forever, the website is now back up an running again as if nothing had happened in the first [...]