Microsoft Wants Google to Censor…. Microsoft.com

In an attempt to make pirated content harder to find copyright holders ask Google to remove millions of search results every week. While these automated requests are usually legitimate, mistakes happen more often than one might expect. For example, in an embarrassing act of self-censorship Microsoft recently asked Google to…

Tough Copyright Laws Chill Innovation, Tech Companies Warn Lawmakers

In a brief submitted to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, the tech industry warns that tougher copyright legislation may stifle innovation. The CCIA, which includes Google, Facebook and Microsoft as members, further points out that the devastating piracy numbers reported by the copyright industry…

CuBox:The World’s Smallest Desktop Computer Running BitTorrent

Billed as the world's smallest desktop computer, CuBox lives up to that billing with a very tiny 50mm all round displacement . We'll take a look at it running the GeeXboX Linux distribution along with XBMC and RUTorrent, which turns this little black box into a nifty torrent client and…

The Pirate Bay Stops Updating, Sort Of

TorrentFreak received a few emails from concerned Pirate Bay users, who haven’t seen any fresh torrents in a day or two. It appears that the category listings on the popular torrent site have stopped updating. The “recent” page on the other hand is still working. We have asked the Pirate…

UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal

This week prime minister David Cameron announced further details of his crusade to have adult material censored in the UK. It's a controversial topic for a number of reasons, with even those unconcerned about losing access to porn wondering what will be censored next. Apparently the government have already thought…

UK Internet Providers Start Blocking EZTV and ezRSS

UK Internet providers have now started to block access to the popular TV torrent site EZTV. The blockade follows a High Court order obtained by the major movie studios, and also blacks out the RSS service ezRSS. Since the court order hasn't been published it is not known if the…