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Crime

Tom Raftery responds to Cory Doctorow Web 2.0 Fiasco

I know Tom and like the guy, and I respect what he is doing in Ireland, being a little bit Irish helps me migrate to his side of the fence with the ongoing discussion about the way O'Reilly and CMP have responded to their legal actions. All of that aside I am against CMP claim of Web 2.0 as a

MPAA is charged with hiring a Hacker!

As you all know the MPAA sued Torrentspy.com some time ago but it is being alleged that the MPAA paid a hacker $15,000 to steal information from the company which supposedly included e-mail and company trade secrets. If these allegations prove to be true this could turn out to be a pretty big deal of corporate espionage of the worst

Call Records and the Political Flap

Anyone that takes a few minutes and studies what has transpired over the past few days will have to sit back and really ask themselves a couple of questions. First of all some political opponents of the President are standing up and calling for hearings and making conspiracy comments, yet at the same time it has been revealed that these

Why the Bells Need Net Neutrality it’s a Fight for Survival

If there is any article you read today the one linked to this article is it. The author is correct on so many different levels, great piece and if you care about the Internet as it is today and not what the bells want it to be then you need to be active and let your representative know what you

Infinology the gift that keeps giving

Over a year ago I out grew a shared hosting account that at the time was being hosted by Infinology, I pulled all of the sites I host off their service and over onto GoDaddy servers. I did have 2 small domains that were left on their service as the contract did not expire until Tomorrow. So over a month

PERFORM Act, S. 2644 Restricts Consumer Media Fair Use!

Seems Congress has some more legislation in the pipeline that is going to effect your fair use rights. The recording home coalition says: PERFORM Act, S. 2644 would prevent satellite radio subscribers from recording and listening to programming that they have paid for – you could not choose the artists and playback order for anything you have recorded for your

The add/drop scheme of Domain registrars

I like Bob Parsons that man tells it the way it is. Well it seem Bob is a bit pissed of and wants some resolution to the add/drop domain scheme which is in my opinion, illegally squatting on millions of domain names by outright pirates. The issue is getting worse and he wants it stopped. [Bob Parsons] (disclaimer Bob owns