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BitTorrent Site Admin Sent to Prison at Torrentfreak
> The 23 year old Grant Stanley has been sentenced to five months in prison, followed by five months of home detention, and a $3000 fine for the work he put in the private BitTorrent tracker Elitetorrents.
I wonder why most torrent sites move to other countries, with a [...]
Wired News: Secrets of the Pirate Bay
> MALMO, Sweden — It’s Saturday night and I’m lounging on a living room sofa surrounded by lanky twenty-somethings in shorts and deep tans. Across from me, a wire emerges from a green Xbox — modified to stream movies from its hard drive — and snakes past two dusty [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Pirate Party Launches World’s First Commercial Darknet | Piratpartiet
> Today, the Swedish Pirate Party launched a new Internet service that lets anybody send and receive files and information over the Internet without fear of being monitored or logged. In technical terms, such a network is called a “darknet”. The service allows people to [...]
Washington sues movie download service for spyware – Network World
> The state of Washington has sued the owners of the Movieland.com, alleging that the company used spyware to strong-arm users into signing up for its paid movie download service.
> Consumers who dowloaded Movieland.com’s free three-day trial software would eventually be hit with frequent pop-up ads [...]
Ajax for Java developers: Exploring the Google Web Toolkit
> The recently released Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a comprehensive set of APIs and tools that lets you create dynamic Web applications almost entirely in Javaâ⢠code. Philip McCarthy returns to his popular Ajax for Java developers series to show you what GWT can do and [...]
ABC News: Online Identity Theft Ring Out of the ‘Shadows’
> June 29, 2006 ââ¬â The man who administered and co-founded what federal law enforcement officials described as one of the largest illegal online centers that trafficked in hundreds of thousands of stolen credit card numbers was sentenced Thursday to 32 months in prison.
The co-founder of [...]
As I get more and more spam, and Akismet is unable to catch it all, I’ve installed wp-hashcash which is a really good idea. I wish there was some similar functionality for phpBB, as my forum gets even more spam. And you don’t want to see my inbox, it’s horrible after a few years with [...]
Scandinavia pressures Apple’s iTunes – Yahoo! News
> STOCKHOLM (AFP) – Denmark, Norway and Sweden plan to force Apple Computers Inc to break the exclusive link between its iPod music players and online iTunes store.
> The three Scandinavian countries have decided to take iTunes to their respective government mediators, or ombudsmen.
> At present, the only portable [...]
The Local – Companies sue Sweden over Pirate Bay raid
> Ten companies which had their servers confiscated during the police’s raids against file-sharing site The Pirate Bay plan to demand compensation from the Swedish state.
> The companies say they will hand in demands for between 10,000 and 200,000 kronor each to the Chancellor of Justice [...]
Google Browser Sync
> Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings ââ¬â including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords ââ¬â across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.
More goodness from Google. They’ve been busy lately, but then, [...]