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 [...]
Terrorists use same tactics as US Military
The rise of social networking has taken many people by surprise; this would include the security services and military that have realised that these tools could be used by terrorists and their supporters in order to exploit weaknesses in some personnel who work for the government departments.
But it has also been noticed that if these [...]
$1 Billion to monitor P2P
In the states some people are taking the threat of file sharing and its links to crime very seriously indeed in fact on senator has mentioned that the police and FBI should be given more resources to purchase and use specialised software which can monitor the peer to peer networks for any illegal activity.
In order [...]
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 [...]
Zombies a treat to security
It is estimated that there are thousands of zombie computers out there all churning out spam and other nice stuff in an attempt to either gain the personal details of unwitting computer users, or in some cases they try to hijack traffic from websites and more worrying for the authorities is the attacking of government [...]
April 8, 2008One million viruses on the loose
It’s a frightening prospect but it has been estimated that by the end of the year there will an estimated one million viruses circulating around the internet, but while large companies can afford to employ the latest security measures against this threat. It is the smaller business and the private individual who are getting hit.
However [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
February 29, 2008Record companies like file sharing
It seems that it may not all be over for file sharing, as the battle continues between those who represent the interests of the record companies and those ordinary people who like to share their music with everyone else, it seems some record companies believe that file sharing or something similar could do their business [...]