Posted on 28 February 2009 by Laura.
TorrentSpy has formulated a novel way to get around the federal court ruling that ordered it to track users’ usage of the site: it simply banned all US usage of the search features. Hmmm. This was decided as the best course of action to ‘protect user privacy’.
A notice on the website stated:
Torrentspy.com, an International search [...]
Posted on 28 February 2009 by Laura.
Mininova announces that it has achieved its second billionth torrent – that’s almost 7 torrents per person in the US. Even more impressive is the timescale in which the second million has been achieved: less than five months has elapsed since Mininova announced it’s first billionth torrent.
In a coy understatement, Mininova’s blog says: “this [...]
Posted on 22 February 2009 by Laura.
French record companies are now legally entitled to track P2P users sharing more than 50 files within a 24 hour period, and, according to the country’s Council of State, “keep their records for further legal proceedings”.
The P2P Blog says on the subject: “The decision comes as a blow to the French National Commission for Data [...]
Posted on 14 February 2009 by Laura.
The spectacular blast, which occurred in September in the Carina constellation, produced energies ranging from 3,000 to more than five billion times that of visible light, astrophysicists said. The US space agency’s Fermi telescope has detected a massive explosion in space which scientists say is the biggest gamma-ray burst ever detected, a report published Thursday [...]
Posted on 14 February 2009 by Laura.
Wal-Mart is joining other large organisations in offering DRM-free music downloads from its online store. Joining Viacom’s MTV Networks and RealNetwork joint effort, along with LimeWire’s proposed online music store, Wal-Mart is the latest in a line of corporations wishing to cash in on what is clearly a very lucrative market. Unlike many of the [...]
Posted on 6 February 2009 by mike.
Apple has been making moves to increase its iPhone games net. Negotiations in Canada, Italy and 10 other countries mean that Apple’s reach before the launch of the second generation iPhone games – due soon – is getting all that much bigger. Apple’s campaign at the moment seems driven towards this imminent release (though the [...]
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