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As you may have heard recently, Limewire has been ordered to finally shut its digital doors. Yesterday, a federal judge granted the shutdown request from the RIAA after a ruling in their favor several months ago. All searches, uploads and downloads through the client were ordered to stop. It was, no doubt, quite a shock to users when they fired
The names of thousands for BT & Sky broadband customers who had allegedly illegally downloaded adult material have been leaked on-line. The lists appear to have been obtained from servers of a law firm ACS:Law by the notorious 4chan group. ACS:Law had obtained the lists from ISPs Sky and PlusNet (owned by BT) and had been using the information to
On September 8th Switzerland's Federal Supreme Court handed down a ruling which could shake up copyright holders around the world and probably scared the heck out of such outfits as the RIAA and MPAA. In a nutshell, the Federal Supreme Court ruled that IP addresses are personal information, and therefore, fall under the country's strict privacy laws, and may not
If you want to share large files, then you already know that email is NOT your friend. Many email services have file size limits - frequently 10MB. If you have looked further then you also know of the services available to help you share larger files such as Rapidshare, Megaupload, EasyShare, FileSonic, and FileFactory. Some of these services actually pay
The Performing Rights Society (PRS), the approximate equivalent of the US's RIAA, recently published a paper outlining a proposed approach to the compensation of rights holders based on the level of unlicensed material passing through an ISP. The paper, snappily titled Moving Digital Britain Forward Without Leaving Creative Britain Behind, was written by Will Page, Chief Economist, PRS for Music
A nice item to have in your geek toolbox is a way to share files on the Internet. Sending large photos or videos through email is simply not possible so you need another way. There are a number of sites that allow you to do this, but there is one that I've been using that has some unique features. It's