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 [...]
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 [...]
Anti Scientology sites adsense account suspended
This could be a totally innocent business decision or something else, but what the reasons behind the decision to cut the Google Adsense account of a web site which is dedicated to being one of the most influential sites against the Church of Scientology.
It has to be hard for all parties involved, on all [...]
FaceBook can get you into debt
The social networking site, FaceBook has come under fire not for its lapse in security where all your friend’s details can be harvested, but this time it is because they are allowing their advertisers to get their adverts in front of people.
Nothing wrong with that, but when these adverts are targeting impressionable young people who [...]
NSA 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 [...]
February 14, 2008US feel Second Life is a terrorist haven
It seems that nothing is sacred on the internet, and communities like Second Life are increasing coming under suspicion as being a place where terrorists can gather and organize their finances, plans and in general gather intelligence.
This information is coming from US intelligence officials who have be warning for some time that these places could [...]
Pirate 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 [...]
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 [...]
More users join the Pirate Bay
To the film and music owners the best news for them would be to see the likes of The Pirate Bay going under and yet the opposite has happened The Pirate Bay has seen an unprecedented growth in the amount users and the number of torrents being made available.
It would this is a classic case [...]
Is it time for change on piracy
Morals and regulations are not really the sort of the words that you would first think of when you are talking about piracy and software fraud. But there are people who are thinking just that at the moment, but before we get started on what is right and what is wrong, we have to try [...]
November 23, 2007Leaked emails cost $825,000
There would seem to something going terribly wrong with many of the nets anti piracy organisations, and MediaDefender is no different, they have seen some very sensitive information leaked out via email, letters and even phone, this has put the into a very unsteady situation.
In fact the total cost of this leak has cost them [...]
New PayPal secure credit card
A new service from PayPal will be launched tomorrow, the PayPal Secure Card will be one the new style virtual cards that generate single one use numbers that customers can use to make payments etc on sites that would not normally use PayPal.
This is a great system that will enable people to use the money [...]