People in power have always tried to prevent the common folk from obtaining knowledge that threatens their power. This happened in the 16th century, and it is happening now.
People in power have always tried to prevent the common folk from obtaining knowledge that threatens their power. This happened in the 16th century, and it is happening now.
The much anticipated rebirth of Megaupload took place in the last few hours with interest living up to expectations. In less than one hour the site picked up 100,000 new registrations, going on to 500,000 and beyond just a few hours later. As the site struggled to cope with demand…
Earlier today Kim Dotcom and his team decided to open up Mega to the public. Soon after the announcement thousands of people registered an account, every minute. “I have never seen anything like this. From 0 to 10 Gigabit bandwidth utilization within 10 minutes,” Dotcom wrote in a tweet. A…
The timeless plastic bricks of LEGO can be built into predetermined items such as a car or house but can also be formed into any shape, the options limited only by the creativeness of its builder. However, turn LEGO bricks into a controversial item and the company's lawyers could soon…
With the ever increasing efforts to spy on BitTorrent users, many downloaders are seeking ways to hide their traffic from the public eye. BTGuard is a platform-independent anonymizing service optimized for BitTorrent users. As expected, they are plucking the fruits of the increased threat of online surveillance.
Today a few dozen people were invited to try Mega, the new and improved version of the defunct Megaupload file-hosting service. With "The Privacy Company" as Mega's slogan, Kim Dotcom and his team are making it clear that they are doing their best to secure the files of their users.…
Today is Internet Freedom Day. After historic protests last year SOPA was shelved and the anti-piracy proposal eventually died completely, a big victory for the millions who protested. However, a year later we see that several of SOPA's provisions are being executed nonetheless, without any oversight or complaint from the…
Users of Firefox and Chrome may have a little difficulty access some pages on the Pirate Bay, or indeed any other site that uses the bayimg service provided by TPB. A series of malware alerts, sent to Google, have resulted in sites being flagged by their content advisory service. If…