Archive for the 'File Sharing' Category
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This is the first in a series of videos covering Freenet Classic OpenNet. This one is mostly an overview of what the Freenet network is.
Coming soon will be videos covering installation and use of Freenet and several freenet applications.
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September 9th, 2009 | Posted in File Sharing, Internet, Privacy, freenet, open source, software | Comments Off
In the “About bloody time” department, I ran into a piece on slashdot that gave the good news. The RIAA has finally backed down and dismissed the case in Atlantic Recording v. Brennan.
January 15th, 2009 | Posted in File Sharing, Music, Opinion, news | Comments Off
Whether you’re just putting up a “this is my world” personal page, hosting a blog, or anything from a simple single product sales page to a full out online store with the shopping cart, product information and reviews, newsletters and everything else, the one thing you’re going to need is a web hosting service to provide space for it to all live on.
January 14th, 2009 | Posted in Blogging, Business, File Sharing, Freeware, Internet, Opinion, Websites, games | 1 Comment
Powered by Max Banner Ads There’s an interesting turn in one of those seemingly endless lawsuits brought by the RIAA against just about anybody they decide to claim has been downloading copyrighted music. In St. Louis, Missouri in the case of Atlantic Recording v. Raleigh, the defense has filed counterclaims that accuse the RIAA of [...]
December 5th, 2008 | Posted in File Sharing, Financial, Internet, Music, Opinion, news | 3 Comments
Honestly, I think that they’re going overboard and have been for a long time now. Besides which, it’s long past time for them to realize that they’re infinitely better off going after the people who’re ripping off copyrights and making a profit doing so.
October 24th, 2008 | Posted in DRM, File Sharing, Internet, Opinion, news | Comments Off
That’s the question that more and more people are asking after Comcast and then others have been caught interfering with customers net connections by sending false reset packets to both sides of a bittorrent transfer.
August 7th, 2008 | Posted in Business, File Sharing, Freedom of Speech, Internet, Tech, software, surveillance | Comments Off
Powered by Max Banner Ads Looks like the RIAA is going to take another loss because of it’s tactics. Recently some students at North Carolina State brought to the attention of the court the illegal nature of the investigations the RIAA has been conducting through unlicensed investigators (can you say mediasentry scandal?)
Now, the judge who [...]
July 11th, 2008 | Posted in Business, File Sharing, Internet, Misc, Opinion, news | Comments Off
Bell was recently required to release some of it’s data that was supposed to prove how torrents and P2P in general was causing so much network congestion that it was necessary to throttle P2P connections to keep it under control
July 9th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, File Sharing, Freedom of Speech, Internet, Networking, Opinion | Comments Off
Powered by Max Banner Ads Ars Technica has a report about the latest RIAA strategy to get people to pay up instead of fighting the lawsuits. Now, students who feel (I dare say rightly so in most cases) that they’re being bullied by the RIAA in one of their many copyright infringement suits, had better [...]
July 6th, 2008 | Posted in File Sharing, Internet, Music, Opinion, news | Comments Off
Powered by Max Banner Ads That case where University of Maine students are going up against the RIAA is getting interesting. The RIAA submitted another of the ex parte (“ex parte” is legalese for “without notice”) discovery orders that they’re famous for. This time however the judge refused to go along with it saying:
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June 10th, 2008 | Posted in DRM, File Sharing, Internet, Movies, Music, Opinion, news | 2 Comments