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Tanya Anderson, originally sued for copyright infringement by the RIAA in 2005 and has since been fighting back, has filed an amended complaint against the RIAA. This case is getting more interesting as it continues. [...]
April 6th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, File Sharing, Financial, Internet, Misc, Movies, Music, Networking, Opinion, freenet, news | Comments Off
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Seems it wasn’t all that long ago when Comcast was caught deliberately spoofing reset signals to both clients and servers in the BitTorrent network, thus stopping transfers in progress.
Then there was a lot of noise made about it and unless I’m seriously mistaken, the folks over at BitTorrent started working on [...]
April 5th, 2008 | Posted in Business, File Sharing, Internet, Movies, Music, Networking, Opinion, news, software | Comments Off
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I stopped by my stumbleupon profile a while ago and I saw something I actually didn’t expect… Spam. It wasn’t even the kind of thing that you could say actually could be legitimate, like a website with tempting offers from an online car insurance company or a super cheap printer [...]
March 17th, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, Misc, Networking, Opinion, Websites | 1 Comment
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There’s an article on the Washington Post site that takes a look at the potential of a world with RFID chips embedded in just about anything you can name.
A world in which reader devices, most of which would be connected to the Internet, all over the place. These readers would [...]
January 31st, 2008 | Posted in Business, Electronics, Financial, Freedom of Speech, Hardware, Internet, Misc, Movies, Music, Networking, Opinion, Phones, Privacy, Tech, news | Comments Off
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This is hilarious. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), an organization that has become infamous for suing grandmothers and seven year old kids in their insane quest to control all music downloads and file sharing, was attacked Sunday by hackers that took advantage of an SQL vulnerability and apparently [...]
January 23rd, 2008 | Posted in DRM, File Sharing, Fun Stuph, Internet, Music, Networking, Opinion, Websites, news | Comments Off
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That’s right. In the case of Sierra Corporate Design, Inc., v. David Ritz, a judge found that it was illegal to issue a “Host -l” command. Anyone with a bit of networking knowledge knows (or can find out quickly) that this command initiates a “zone transfer“. That [...]
January 20th, 2008 | Posted in Freedom of Speech, Internet, Networking, Opinion, news | Comments Off
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This not only ought to be interesting, but it’s kinda important as well. I just saw an article on Arstechnica talking about how the FCC has opened rule-making proceedings over the huge amount of noise created when Comcast got caught blocking p2p traffic by sending false signals to both [...]
January 19th, 2008 | Posted in Business, File Sharing, Freedom of Speech, Internet, Networking, Opinion, freenet, news | Comments Off
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I just saw an article by Bruce Schneier on wired.com talking about Wi-Fi security. He’s advocating the idea of more people allowing their home LAN’s to be open to anyone within Wi-Fi range that can connect to the system. His basic argument is that a spammer or somebody is [...]
January 11th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, File Sharing, Internet, Misc, Networking, Opinion | Comments Off
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Any business environment these days needs email services in order to function at all. One solution that many use is a hosted exchange solution. It’s a service that allows people to do a lot with their email and messaging. Such as synchronizing email, blackberry and windows based smartphones.
Exchangemymail.com [...]
January 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Internet, Misc, Networking, Phones, Websites | Comments Off
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I guess most IT people know that Cisco is one of the leading suppliers of networking equipment such as Routers, Switches and security related stuff like hardware firewalls and intrusion detection gear. Well, it looks like it’s getting easier to get Cisco products. Today I saw a site, Network [...]
December 30th, 2007 | Posted in Business, Computers, Electronics, Hardware, Internet, Networking, Tech, Websites | Comments Off