... average of 150,000 users each, with some of them drawing 4 million unique visitors in a single month.
However, as we highlighted ... that option has disappeared, last week saw Spanish prime minister JosĂ© Luis RodrĂguez Zapatero make his first visit ... - the first by a Spanish leader since the country‘s 2004 Iraq pullout, an event which didn‘t go down well with the US. Zapatero is now ...
October 20th, 2009
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... may sound like an impressive figure, but 300,000 kroner ($40,000) may not even be enough to cover the hardware and bandwidth costs, so it ... Svartholm of course questioned Kuik‘s denial, but he never saw his original question answered.
In the end, Kuik never answered any of ...
August 16th, 2009
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... for Windows saw its first public release in September 2005, and soon became the most widely ...
August 9th, 2009
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... this assessment though. When the indie rock band Barcelona saw one of its latest tracks featured in a viral video with nearly a million ...
July 27th, 2009
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... during an historic speech to parliament in June, yesterday saw a revised bill accepted by the Senate.
Aside from punishing actual ... power to issue a fine up to 1,500 euros along with a 4 week disconnection.
Now, according to Le Monde, some French hackers have ...
July 9th, 2009
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... largest Usenet community in The Netherlands with around 450,000 members. FTD and its software allows members to report material they ... news. That was a huge disappointment.â
The news saw BREIN declare that FTD was a criminal operation in an article titled “You ...
July 2nd, 2009
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... letter from their ISP, many were unmovable. A massive 41% indicated that they would take steps to conceal their identity, while only ... leads to problems.
The aforementioned Relakks saw its subscriptions double in just a month when the controversial Ipred law ...
June 22nd, 2009
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... One response (BVA/AAIPT) talks of 18,000 Nintendo Wii and 14,000 XBox ‘game files‘. However, assuming the files were in the standard scene ... cost.
5 Technological filtering doesn‘t work
As we saw first-hand with Comcast, attempts to disrupt a protocol can have unintended ...
June 16th, 2009
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... initiatives to raise funds for those affected. One project saw 56 artists and musicians come together to record a song called âDomani 21/4.09“ (Tomorrow 21/4.09).
Inevitably the song leaked onto P2P networks ...
May 27th, 2009
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... are. When the U.S. Navy was accused of paying Lockheed $640 per toilet seat for some of its aircraft, people were understandably ... the side of those who, out of greed akin to selling us $640 toilet seats, see an opportunity to freeze what should be a contingent and ... be used to decrypt their specific DRM scheme. Sony saw no problem with secretly installing a rootkit on users‘ computers, to ...
May 13th, 2009
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... The results of a Canadian study published today show that 45% of all those surveyed use file-sharing networks to download movies and ... 28% said they use it every day. Only 1% of the respondents saw downloading copyrighted files as criminal behavior, while 43% said that the ...
March 13th, 2009
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