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Anonymous continues its attack on government websites knocking the CIA offline

Susan Wilson — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Anonymous knocked the CIA website offline in one of its latest [...] Related posts:

Megaupload data saved… for now

John Lister — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:01:05 +0000

If you’ve got files stored on Megaupload and you haven’t got a back-up, you need to cross your fingers. The companies that physically host the files have agreed to keep them online for two more weeks, but after that they could start hitting delete.

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FBI faces MegaLawsuit over lost files

Dave Parrack — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:24:02 +0000

Whatever you think of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, and the way the site was being used for less-than-legal means, you should spare a thought for those who were using Megaupload completely legitimately. As they have lost out by the site’s takedown in [...] Related posts:

Megaupload’s Dotcom – The battle begins

Dave Parrack — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:26:18 +0000

The founder of Megaupload, a digital locker service taken down by the feds last week, has appeared in court in New Zealand. And so begins the long legal battle we’re all gearing up for.

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FileSonic closure will expose porn-sharing motives

John Lister — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:45:37 +0000

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 [...] Related posts:

Megaupload chiefs to defend legal action

John Lister — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:59:02 +0000

The operators of major filesharing website Megaupload say they’ll defend themselves against criminal charges. Their lawyer plans to argue that not only do the charges themselves not hold up, but the enforced closure of the site before trial is a [...] Related posts:

Twitter belittles Wikipedia blackout

John Lister — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:56:50 +0000

Wikipedia has narrowly decided a site blackout to protest against laws billed as combating piracy should be international rather than US only. That’s prompted Twitter’s chief executive to call the move foolish.

The blackout will last from midnight to midnight tomorrow (Wednesday) Eastern Standard Time, with [...] Related posts:

File-sharing an official religion, in Sweden

Dave Parrack — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:45:11 +0000

Sweden is either a forward-thinking country or a country where any crackpot can get a new religion officially recognized. It all depends on your point of view.

Anyone can start a religion, if they can persuade enough people to join [...] Related posts:

Louis CK is making ‘shitloads of money’

Ronald O Carlson — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:59:38 +0000

More 18,000 Likes and 11,000 Tweets for a media product not created by a big media company. The really, really cool thing about this story is the math underpinning it is easily understandable and, moreover, numbers of this size aren’t beyond what an average person can imagine. Is this enough to kill Universal, [...] Related posts:

European court rejects filesharing filter

John Lister — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:36:28 +0000

A Belgian internet service provider has successfully won its battle against government demand to block illegal filesharing. The verdict comes from Europe’s highest court and will have at least some effect on most ISPs across the continent.

The case was brought by ISP Scarlet, which [...] Related posts: