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In response to the country’s “3 strikes” Hadopi legislation, last week a French ISP began offering a service to block file-sharing on customer connections for ‘just’ 2 euros per month. It didn’t take long for awful vulnerabilities in the system to be found which breached not only the privacy of subscribers, but exposed them to new security threats.
France’s big, bad, scary Hadopi legislation and the systematic tracing, monitoring, reporting and disconnecting of file-sharers is all but here, so it seems there’s no better time for other companies to start making money from it.
Last week saw French ISP Orange take the opportunity to start providing a service which, at least on the surface, is designed to put the minds of subscribers at rest. For a 2 euro per month payment, Orange is offering a service which “allows you to control the activity of computers connected to your internet line, from downloading ‘illegally’ using peer-to-peer networks. You can protect up to three computers connected to the same internet line.”
The software, which is Windows-only, runs in the background and utilizes a blacklist maintained and updated by Orange. Precisely what is on that blacklist remains a secret.
http://torrentfreak.com/isp-attempts-to-block-file-sharing-ends-results-in-epic-failure-100614/In response to the country’s “3 strikes” Hadopi legislation, last... more
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MC Hammer, rap phenomenon and self-confessed geek, has kicked the major music labels in their over-sized pants with regard to their anti-piracy strategy. Hammer said that the labels’ decision to go after individual filesharers and ISPs has failed, because it only alienated paying customers.
http://torrentfreak.com/mc-hammer-stop-the-music-piracy-crackdown-091116/MC Hammer, rap phenomenon and self-confessed geek, has kicked the major music labels... more
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Unlike most people might think, piracy is not necessarily a bad thing for copyright holders. In fact, German pirate-tracking outfit DigiRights Solutions shows that copyright holders can earn 150 times more money from illicit downloads than from iTunes and other legal stores.Unlike most people might think, piracy is not necessarily a bad thing for copyright... more
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The Pirate Bay is going on a road trip through Europe, one they hope to end today in a former NATO bunker. After a move from Sweden to the Ukraine, The Pirate Bay has now arrived at CyberBunker, an ISP that can provide them with a facility that can resist a nuclear attack as well as electromagnetic pulse bombs.The Pirate Bay is going on a road trip through Europe, one they hope to end today in a... more
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Last Friday The Pirate Bay moved to Ukraine after its Swedish bandwidth supplier was forced to stop servicing the tracker. In the new setup, traffic to TPB is routed through The Netherlands, but anti-piracy outfit BREIN has now asked ISP NForce to stop handling TPB’s traffic. As a result the site is now down for most people.Last Friday The Pirate Bay moved to Ukraine after its Swedish bandwidth supplier was... more
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And the taxpayer won't be footing the bill.
Today the Prime Minister met with Francesco Caio, vice chairman of Lehman Brothers in Europe to discuss how the UK was going to modernise their internet infrastructure. The conclusion, that the private sector should foot the bill to cover the cost of laying fibre optic cables capable of 100mb/s.
"The case for a public intervention at this time is weak at best,” Mr Caio said. “There is little evidence in the short term the UK is going to suffer from the lack of an extensive next generation access network."
So that's one less thing the tax man has to worry about, our broadband subscription costs should be enough to cover the upgrade. My thoughts are this, laying cables is surely yesterdays news, instead of tearing up the country with cables, shouldn't we concentrate on getting faster wireless internet?And the taxpayer won't be footing the bill.
Today the Prime Minister met with... more
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