‘Piracy doesn’t rob….politicians do!’
Bulgarians opposed to the recent BitTorrent crackdown have taken the time to create a pro-P2P video to spread their message of what’s happening in their country, and the words may be in Bulgarian but, the message is universal.
A Bulgarian “contact”(sounds so clandestine) who wishes to remain anonymous, has been kind enough to translate a [...]
Pinball software in P2P legal row
THERE ARE a large number of very confused people in the UK who have received a letter from a firm of solicitors claiming that they are P2P pirates.
The letters from a UK firm of lawyers Messrs Davenport Lyons claim that they have been caught distributing a piece of software called Dream Pinball 3D and that [...]
Bulgarian ISP speaks out on BitTorrent crackdown
The Bulgarian government has been cracking down on BitTorrent tracker sites as of late, and the people of that country are none to happy.
Just this last Sunday, as a matter of fact, Hundreds of people filled the streets of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, to protest against the closure of the country’s BitTorrent tracker [...]
Could BitTorrent Inc. be the next big dot-com IPO?
Some are contemplating if BitTorrent Inc could be the next big dot-com IPO since Google’s mad run caused a fever on on Wall St back in 2004 but, does the current and future state of the video download service look good enough to make it a successful bet?.
It’s been a while since Google went [...]
Another hub bites the dust: Italian DC hub ‘Discotequezone’ gets raided
The music’s over at “Discotequezone” as the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) announces that the Italian “fuzz” has shut it down.
Always on the prowl for “infringing P2P hubs,” the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), announced yesterday that Italian police had successfully shut down the Italian DC hub “Discotequezone.”
The Italian [...]
Proposal to erect XXX domain faces stiff opposition
ICANN is once again preparing to evaluate the possibility of creating a controversial top-level domain (TLD) specifically for pornography. The initiative, which is based on a proposal authored by ICM Registry, has been rejected by ICANN twice in the past after considerable public debate. The .xxx proposal is opposed by conservative religious groups, the American [...]
FCC begins testing mysterious “white space” wireless broadband device
Earlier this month, a consortium of companies including Microsoft, Intel, Dell, and Google submitted a device to the Federal Communications Commission for approval that would use the so-called "white space" in the analog television spectrum for wireless Internet access. The FCC is testing the new device and will have results ready [...]
US ‘no longer technology king’
The US has lost its position as the world’s primary engine of technology innovation, according to a report by the World Economic Forum.
The US is now ranked seventh in the body’s league table measuring the impact of technology on the development of nations.
A deterioration of the political and regulatory [...]
Retrial for Microsoft piracy case
A Russian court has ordered a retrial of a case against a rural head teacher accused of using pirated Microsoft software in his school.
Last month a lower court in Perm, some 1,000km (620 miles) east of Moscow, dismissed the case as "trivial".
But a higher court has ruled it should [...]
Mexico tries swapping Xboxs for guns in drug fight
Police who have raided vice-ridden Mexico City neighborhoods in a push against drug violence hope to take guns off the streets by offering to swap them for computers and Xbox video game consoles.
Launching the program on Tuesday in the notorious inner-city barrio of Tepito, which police stormed [...]
