Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of hacking into computers at Logica, a company that manages data for the Swedish tax authority.
Warg was extradited to Sweden in 2012 from Cambodia. He began a one-year jail sentence after bein... [read more >>] Another two major torrent sites might end up on the blocklists of UK ISPs, several leading companies confirmed.
According to some reports, the ISPs are being pressured by rightholders to add two new file-sharing sites to their list of blocked addresses.
The two sites in question are EZTV, one of the lead... [read more >>] Kim Dotcom is outraged that LeaseWeb, a former Megaupload hosting provider, decided to delete all the data it had in storage and repurpose the servers that Megaupload used before the company was shut down by US authorities in January 2012.
Dotcom's frustration is understandable, as not only does this ... [read more >>] KickassTorrents has regained control over the Philippines domain, KAT.ph, after a temporary injunction due to a complaint filed by the local music industry officials.
Following the complaint of the Philippine record label association PARI, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines issued a restr... [read more >>] Feedly has announced that the "Feedly Cloud," i.e. the company's replacement for the Google Reader API, is now live. The new Feedly cloud makes it possible to sync feeds and read items between devices.
The cloud is also available to other apps via an API. Several developers are already working with it... [read more >>] Kim Dotcom’s defense case might have taken a hit as Leaseweb, a server hosting provider, has wiped all Megaupload servers. Dotcom says that all user data and crucial evidence to the company’s defense has been destroyed without warning. “While EFF is fighting for the rights of Megauploa... [read more >>] Once more, privacy concerns regarding Google Glass take the news as more countries address questions to Larry Page.
Six nations have contacted the company in a joint letter which asks a series of questions about the wearable tech.
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Switzerland and Israel officials ... [read more >>] Google's announcement that it was retiring Reader at the end of June was quite fortunate for at least some people, namely those working on Reader alternatives. The Digg team saw this as an opportunity to push forward something they had already planned to build, a news reader. So, in the three months s... [read more >>] Throughout the first few days of the NSA PRISM scandal, there was one detail that bugged me more than the entire avalanche of information, especially after Snowden made his statement on his motives for revealing the programs, namely why had he chosen to wait so many years to reveal the issue.
When he offe... [read more >>] Feedly has announced once more that it is on the verge of finalizing the migration from the Google Reader backend to the new cloud backend and that the transfer of the millions of accounts will take a few days.
The company says that it advises everyone to run version 16 of Feedly on all devices to assure ... [read more >>] |