Tag Archives: p2p
Sky blocks the Pirate Bay – Pointless and hypocritical?
Its now a few days since Sky blocked its customers from Pirate Bay after the High Court ruling encompassing UK ISP’s. In the time its taken for ISP’s to get … Continue reading
Microsoft take-down requests – needs its own house in order first?
By now its common knowledge that Google has released publically, figures on the takedown requests it has recieved from copyright holders and their affiliates. Microsoft figured heavily in this release … Continue reading
“Piracy” & Privacy – Can the UK ever get it right?
With ACS:Law and its current issues that it has to deal with and the DEB which appears about as well thought out as the flight of Icarus, we learn that … Continue reading
Piracy Bill – Has Ed Vaizey actually considered this issue at all?
The Telegraph is reporting today on how the Digital Economy Act will be met in order to tackle online piracy or copyright infrigement. You can read the Telegraphs article here. … Continue reading
No P2P for Irish Vodaphone customers? – and then a change of mind?
Vodaphone, the provider of mobile and broadband services has allegedly prohibited the use of p2p protocols on its networks albeit verbally. Whilst a p2p blow to the phone service would … Continue reading
NewsBytes – Saturday 28th August 2010
XP RIP 25/10/01 – 22/10/10 It seems Microsoft is going to retire Windows XP on 22nd October – no, really this time! As reported by one of the few MVP’s … Continue reading
DCC, Bittorrent and Usenet – Is Bittorrent so great?
I’ve written many articles touching on this subject, but I wanted to look at it with a little more detail as whilst we see a massive surge in Net traffic … Continue reading
NewsBytes – Tuesday 24th August 2010
The 360 for at least another 5 years Microsoft is reported to have announced that the 360 is going to be around for the next five years, making it 10 … Continue reading
AFACT v iiNet – An appeal with no hope or something to be encouraged?
I love Australia, beautiful country, people and landscape. It’s nice to write about a place which next year I hope to visit. It’s being reported on Torrentfreak that AFACT (the … Continue reading
Ofcom and its Code of Practice
It’s been a busy few months here in the (now) sunny UK. Not only did we see the Digital Economy Bill rushed through parliament but also a coalition government with … Continue reading
