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Bittorrent site TorrentSpy loses court case to MPAA

Triston McIntyre — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:46:50 +0000

TorrentSpy, one of the larger Bittorrent indexing sites, lost a suit brought against it by the Motion Picture Association of America. How they lost might raise a few eyebrows, though: a judge ruled in favor of the MPAA on grounds that the defendants tampered [...]

Digg users flock to Mixx

Triston McIntyre — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:41:23 +0000

Conspiracy theories and unfair rankings have left many Digg users dissatisfied with the direction the popular site is heading. A new site, Mixx, looks to offer what Digg was originally all about, without all the underhanded practices and with a more positive environment [...]

French media groups strike back at online piracy

Triston McIntyre — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:10:50 +0000

Enough is enough, or so French media groups and net firms have decided. A new anti-piracy agreement has been reached that will ban users from their ISPs for participating in piracy and illegal sharing.

Though many European countries have been working to take down large [...]

Pepperidge Farm drops its cookies in the social networking basket

Triston McIntyre — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:02:07 +0000

Social networking sites being all the rage nowadays, why not have options to connect to people who have something in common with you? Like yummy Pepperidge Farm cookies?

Pepperidge Farm lovers rejoice: the cookie company, owned by Campbell Soup, has launched a social [...]

Dutch justice ministry employees hooked on Wikipedia

Triston McIntyre — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:25:30 +0000

As if working with the government in the justice ministry isn’t enough, the good people in the Dutch justice system perform their citizenly duties of…editing Wikipedia entries on the clock. The only problem with that is that the justice department doesn’t (at this time) particularly [...]

Facebook attempts $85 million jump into Chinese social networking

Triston McIntyre — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:38:13 +0000

Facebook is offering $85 million to the huge Chinese social networking site Zhanzuo.com. Why? Probably because Zhanzuo.com is home to over 7 million Chinese user accounts, and would be a huge stepping stone into global social networking.

According to the Times, [...]

MySpace peeping into Facebook’s playbook

Triston McIntyre — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:14:25 +0000

As Facebook’s popularity is climbing to new heights every day, MySpace is doing what it can to salvage its own image. Rumor has it the social networking site will be reworking itself from the ground up to become the spitting image of Facebook.

MySpace was once the [...]

EliteTorrents uploader faces 10 torrent-less years in the slammer

Triston McIntyre — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:12:07 +0000

10 years without a personal computer might cause any sane person to die a little inside. 10 years in prison without a personal computer and a $500,000 fine looming over that same person’s head might make them wish they could just give up [...]

Half of UK computer users found guilty of Wi-Fi thievery

Triston McIntyre — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:45:57 +0000

Though I think nearly everyone is guilty of a little piggy-backing at one point or another, a recent poll revealed that over 50% of UK computer users admitted to piggy-backing their way to the internet at least once.

These findings are result of a [...]

Microsoft Windows 7 ‘wishlist’ leaked!

Triston McIntyre — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:52:26 +0000

It appears that, although it is working hard to rectify the multitude of issues with its current Vista platform, Microsoft has largely redirected its focus on preparation and development for its next platform, Windows 7. An indicator of this would be what appears to be [...]