Online privacy under threat
It has been called a “Cold War” but during the cold war there was an escalation of arms in order to bluff the opposition into thinking that one side was more powerful than the other.
The internet cold war is very different, on the one side there is money and power, these are the governments [...]
EU gives personal data to the US
Under an agreement the European Union are about to give US law enforcement and security agencies information about all of the citizens of the EU community and that includes all UK citizens too!
This agreement will allow the US agencies to access information regarding what we spend out money on, where we have travelled before and [...]
What’s in a name?
The future of domain names is going to be very different following a meeting in Paris by the people who oversee the domain name industry, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICCAN) have met and decided to relax the rules regarding domain names.
It all started with .com, the web addresses ending in a [...]
RIAA under attack from the EEF
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and The Electronic Frontier Foundation are locking horns on the subject of P2P.
The problems lies with the way that the RIAA are going about their legal cases, this is what EEF are looking to upset and it is all going to boil down to exactly what is copyright.
All [...]
Police in trouble with the PRS
The Performing Rights Society (PRS) have gone after the police in Lancashire over an alleged copyright infringement which has supposed to have been taking when place in Police Stations and on the phone when callers are being put in hold.
The PRS have issued a writ against in the High Court in which they are calling [...]
DVR’s may be able to record all programmes soon
The days of being able to record films on DVR’s, if The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) gets their way and introduces some security measures. This can easily be done by remotely blocking the film so that it cannot be recorded at all by using Selectable Output Control (SOC).
This it not just the matter [...]
XP lasts beyond sell by date
With the 30th June approaching very fast what is going to happen to all of the users of Windows XP? Well before you rush out and buy an expensive replacement, it is worth noting that the end of June is not going to necessarily be the end of the world.
In theory the operating system will [...]
Canada edits Wiki
Altering a Wikipedia entry that describes your own life has become very common, but just because it is about you, does this mean to say that this sort of practice is ok?
It seems that it probably depends on who you are, take one Jim Prentice, he is the Industry Minister of Canada and as part [...]
UK OiNK users arrested
The police in Cleveland have confirmed that they have arrested six people over the weekend with regards to being registered users of the OiNK file sharing site, where they are accused of uploading pre release music.
The five men and one woman who are aged between nineteen and thirty three were taken to their local police [...]
Internet freedom under threat
Google are calling it the end of internet freedom, while the media giant Viacom are calling it just good business.
But whatever they call it, the outcome for ordinary users if the internet could mean that they lose out on what have become normal everyday practices, like surfing and looking at interesting stuff!
What this all boils [...]
Internet user’s privacy to be limited
Could this be the end of the internet as we know it? Or are we just worrying about the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) which has been designed to put an end to the problem with file sharing once and for all.
But there are fears that if this is adopted, and there is no reason [...]
Pirate Bay and Police bribery
This case is going to cause so many problems for the Pirate Bay, the companies who are trying to shut them down and now it would seem the police investing the case, all of this is coming before there has even been a court hearing.
It turns out that one of the top police investigators looking [...]
The Pirate Bay in top 100
There has always been a feeling that any publicity is good publicity, and despite the actions of many organisations this would seem to be right when it comes to the Pirate Bay.
They have had so much adverse publicity coming from many organisations which should in truth know better, that the Pirate Bay have actually managed [...]
Religion to take on Wikileaks
Wikileaks may have survived a legal challenge from a Swiss bank over legal documents that were published on the super grass site, but will they be able to survive the combined might of the Church of Later Day Saints and the Scientologists.
Documents from both organisations have appeared on the Wikileaks site, and the both groups [...]
$110 million fine for Torrent Spy
Being found guilty of copyright infringement in the US is not a great thing, you know that it is going to cost you an arm and a leg. In this case the file sharing site Torrent Spy has been fined a massive $110 million by a Federal Judge in Los Angeles.
Clearly this aimed at anyone [...]
The throw away DVD
The future of DVD rental could be changing forever with the introduction of a new DVD system which is only viewable for forty eight hours. After this time the DVD is rendered unreadable and has no use at all and so can be thrown away.
It is estimated that these DVD’s could be sold for around [...]
The Pirate Bay seek compensation for lost traffic
It was back in February when a court in Denmark ordered the internet service provider Tele 2 to block all traffic from their customers to the Pirate Bay; this meant a huge drop in traffic and subsequently a drop in income too.
But in true fashion the Pirate Bay appealed against the decision and as such [...]
Failed Spiderman 2 screenplay online
There is one simple fact that of life and that is eventually everything turns up on the internet! And in the case of documents and all other pieces of text, it is far too easy for these simply just appear. One thing that has recently appeared in the internet is an old film screenplay.
Now this [...]
Pirate Bay moves to Egypt
The Pirate Bay are saying that they are moving their servers to Egypt, in fact the location is somewhere in the Sinai Desert in order to escape the clutches of the various copyright hunters that are being dispatched in order the collect their hard earned cash.
One thing that strikes us here is the fact that [...]
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 [...]