As filesharing websites begin covering their tracks after the closure of Megaupload, you might be forgiven for thinking it was doomsday for a particular method of piracy. In fact the technique remains alive and well, but may now be relying on the goodwill of those interested in freebies.
Where there’s sex, there’s money. And where there’s money, there’s lawsuits.
Internet regulator ICANN and ICM Registry are being sued in US District Court in Los Angeles over their handling of the recently launched .XXX domain. The case could have implications for the entire domain name system.
When it comes to competing in a new market, you can try to be better or you can try to be different. Google has decided on the latter for its TV service with a tie-up with a hardcore porn company.
Most members of the hactivist group Anonymous are generally in favor of freedom of expression online without giving up privacy. But everyone has their limits, and in this case it’s child porn.
Visitors to Sesame Street’s YouTube page were in for a shock yesterday. That wasn’t Elmo… and that wasn’t tickling.
There was a time when using your Apple PowerBook in an airport lounge was an open invitation to other Mac users to strike up a conversation. Those chummy days are gone, but the Apple family has grown immeasurably and there’s a certain comfort, not mention probability, in numbers.
You know you want to click on me, big boy. Go on, click away. My shiny new domain means I’m hot, wet, and ready for action…
An Internet service provider is offering tools to help parents stop children using Facebook when they are meant to be doing homework. The words chocolate and fireguard come to mind.
A British organization that tracks worldwide images of child pornography says net firms are getting much quicker at dealing with complaints. But it says such images are now more widely distributed.
If you’ve got an iPad, you’ll know that thanks to Steve Jobs’ family-friendly policies, there is absolutely now way of viewing adult material on the device; well, except on this thing called the web. That comical inconsistency has been further highlighted by the announcement that Playboy is launching an app on the device.
A senior British government minister has proposed a system by which all pornographic websites would be blocked to British users unless they specifically “opted in.” But the suggestion has met with a combination of political criticism and technical dismissal.
It did not take long for someone to look at all the possibilities and create a sex simulation game for Microsoft’s Kinect game controller, using hand gestures to control what happens on the screen.
Your laptop may be harming your ability to have children, possibly. At least according to a study looking at how temperature rises can harm men’s fertility.
St. Georges, University of London is part of a consortium that is developing a mobile app to self diagnose sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). STD kits similar to pregnancy kits would be available for use by the potentially infected. The kits would also allow the user to determine which STD by using a cell phone or computer.
Although the RIAA and MPAA have stopped suing P2P users for piracy, the porn industry has decided to take on the task of ridding the Web of file swappers. To show how committed they are the purveyors of porn have set a goal to stop P2P porn piracy within 15 months. That’s a pretty tall order considering that the RIAA and MPAA failed.
The owner of a URL shortening service says the Libyan government is cracking down on companies taking advantage of its national .ly domain. The move means foreign companies are blocked from registering some new addresses, while others could be banned instantly over seemingly arbitrary content rules.
You often hear stories of people suing for ridiculous reasons. But what many people forget is that there’s a difference between the right to sue and the right to win a case.
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