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KPN, a Dutch Internet service provider that has around two million account holders, discovered a data breach that affected their systems in January, but decided to keep everything a secret during the time in which the incident was being investigated.
Anonymous hackers took credit for the breach and even published a ... |
14 February 2012
11:11 GMT |
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The 'copyright industry,' meaning the US movie studios and major recording labels, represented by various 'anti-piracy' groups, is fighting a large scale war on piracy, or on the internet, depending on how you choose to interpret it. This war can mean laws like SOPA or PIP, 'trade agreements... |
30 January 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Finland’s Copyright, Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC), the organization whose website was taken down the other day by Anonymous Finland for ordering one of the country’s largest ISPs Elisa to block its account holders from accessing The Pirate Bay (TPB), claims they received a bomb threat from A... |
11 January 2012
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Wanting to stop Internet users from pirating their latest movie, Indian movie company Reliance Entertainment managed to obtain a court order which forces the country’s Internet services providers (ISPs) to block some of the largest international file-sharing sites, including Megaupload.
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28 December 2011
08:29 GMT |
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Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) decided that the three-strike anti-file sharing mechanism utilized by the Eircom ISP raised privacy concerns and ordered the practice to be stopped.
On the other hand, to make sure copyright holders won’t be upset, the Irish government is preparing to set up ... |
20 December 2011
09:52 GMT |
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A newly released Russian website makes sure that all the individuals who download from BitTorrent website are monitored, their identities, or at least their IP’s being published online for anyone to see, along with the actual files they have downloaded.
YouHaveDownloaded.com is a site that monitors 20% of all ... |
14 December 2011
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Five of Australia’s largest Internet service providers, members of the Communications Alliance, revealed their anti-piracy plans which seem to replicate the three-strike law already implemented by other countries.Telstra Bigpond, iiNet, Optus, iPrimus and Internode plan on fully collaborating with copyright hol... |
28 November 2011
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The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Center (CIAPC) filed a new lawsuit against The Pirate Bay’s administrators, demanding two more ISP blockades in Finland and compensation fees.
According to TorrentFreak, the Helsinki District Court w... |
28 November 2011
10:36 GMT |
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The net neutrality debate is not one that will die down soon. In the UK though, local regulator Ofcom has said that ISPs can pretty much do as they please, slow down or exclude any service at will.
However, they will have to provide accurate and detailed data on the service they do provide, actual speeds, filters an... |
25 November 2011
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The European Court of Justice has put an end to a 7-year battle between an ISP and a music rights group, setting a precedent for cases where internet service providers are forced to spy on their account holders.
According to TorrentFreak, the Belgian music rights group SABAM was trying to make ISP Scarlet stalk thei... |
24 November 2011
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The fight against online piracy, at the expense of personal freedoms, continues unabashed. The Motion Picture Association, a trade-group representing major Hollywood studios, is trying to make 'history' by asking the British High Court to force BT, the largest ISP in the UK, to block a website it says is a ... |
27 June 2011
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Even as violence seems to be escalating in Egypt, some things are returning to normal. The internet has been restored in the country as all major ISPs are coming back online and serving their customers. Most connections should be working now, after several days of no service. It's unclear who took the decision. ... |
2 February 2011
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Netflix has released its analysis of how well various ISPs in the US and Canada, the countries it operates in, are doing in terms of sustained video streaming. The company is responsible for a large amount of the data flowing on the internet at any given time in the day so it has a rather comprehensive overview of th... |
28 January 2011
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Netflix revealed its fourth quarter financial results and they're looking very promising for the company. Even more interesting than the sums involved though are the growth numbers. Netflix has added 7.7 million subscribers in the US in 2010, reaching over 20 million subscribers in total. The fourth quarter is r... |
27 January 2011
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O3b has raised $1.2 billion for its plans to launch a global network of satellites to provide fast internet access to remote regions. The Google-backed company has now finished raising the funds needed for its initial plans to have eight mid-orbit satellites launched by 2013. "O3b Networks announced today that it has... |
30 November 2010
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Everyone knows that Google is huge in terms of internet traffic. Interestingly enough, it's getting bigger and faster than the rest of the web. Google now represents at least 6.4 percent of all internet traffic. "This month, Google broke an equally impressive Internet traffic record — gaining more than 1% ... |
25 October 2010
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The infamous BitTorrent indexer and search engine the Pirate Bay is currently down after its bandwidth provider was hit with an injunction forbidding it to provide access to the site. The injunction is the latest step in Hollywood’s battle with the site. The ISP, CB3ROB, which operates CyberBunker decided to pl... |
17 May 2010
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We tend to think that the Internet is impossible to ‘destroy.’ It was designed initially by the US military to survive a nuclear attack. And, with billions of computers and equipment linked together, all operating pretty much independent from each other, what could possibly happen to seriously affect ... |
20 April 2010
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The Digital Economy Bill, which is now expected to become law in the UK in a matter of days, is causing all manner of criticism and controversy. Thankfully for UK citizens, some are planning to stand up to what they perceive as faulty legislation. One of the biggest ISPs in the country, TalkTalk, is now vowing to not... |
9 April 2010
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The Internet as we know it may not be the same even a year from now, at least, if the current secret negotiations between the US, EU and several other countries turn out to be successful, as it looks very likely they'll be. The Internet changes all the time, it's part of its nature, mostly though, it's... |
22 February 2010
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Google was present at the World Mobile Congress, the wireless industry's biggest get-together, and CEO Eric Schmidt addressed the reticent crowd of mobile specialists for the first time. The CEO was there to calm some of the worries of the mobile industry and extend an olive branch to a sector feeling increasing... |
17 February 2010
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The fight against illegal file-sharing is relentless, though surprisingly pointless at the same time. In another win for common sense, a Norwegian appeal court is standing by an earlier decision and has ruled that ISPs can't be forced to block sites, the Pirate Bay in this case, based on the wishes of private g... |
11 February 2010
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EU has pledged to keep an eye on UK ISP's Virgin Media latest plan to monitor illegal file-sharing traffic on its network following a complaint from human rights organization Privacy International. The European Commission said it would monitor how the ISP deploys the software it would use for deep-packet inspect... |
26 January 2010
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Email has been around longer than the World Wide Web, yet doesn't show any sign of slowing down or becoming obsolete despite the number of people proclaiming its end days and the number of technologies labeled as email-killers, Google Wave for one. In fact, by all accounts, email usage is going up, the only pro... |
25 January 2010
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Sweden has been one of the leading countries when it comes to anything having to do with the Internet. It is one of the countries with best broadband deployment in the world and its citizens as well as the authorities have had quite a progressive view on how to handle the inherent changes brought by the web. Last ye... |
19 January 2010
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France has been pushing forward with its plan to protect rights holders even at the expense of its citizens’ freedom online. Despite numerous setbacks, the so-called "three-strikes law" was supposed to go in effect starting January 1, 2010. This has been met with another delay as the law has failed to receive the ap... |
11 January 2010
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The music industry has been content with blaming everyone else for its lack of vision and has been issuing the same arguments over and over again without much proof on its part and without addressing the numerous critics. Many artists, even established ones, are starting to wake up to new opportunities and make the ... |
4 January 2010
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The fight against illegal file sharing is being taken to new height of ridiculousness in the UK where law-abiding citizens will have to, once again, pay up to bail out the music and movie industry for their own failures. The proposed Digital Economy Bill, which would force ISPs to kick-off alleged illegal file share... |
28 December 2009
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Net neutrality may be a topic of hot debate in some parts of the world, most notably in the US, but in other regions the Internet is facing worse threats than throttling YouTube videos, downright censorship is being advocated and we're not talking about China or other countries notorious for their abuses, the c... |
16 December 2009
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The battle against “illegal file-sharing” is heating up, especially in Europe where it looks like the media lobbyists are well worth their fees. Several countries are planning or debating whether to introduce a 'three-strikes' system for file sharers, and recently, the UK has been the hotbed of... |
27 November 2009
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Bandwidth throttling has become a fact of life for many Internet users and it's one of the major issues at heart of the net-neutrality debate. Most users don't like the practice, but ISPs say they are forced to do this because of network congestion. Now, uTorrent, the most popular BitTorrent client built by... |
2 November 2009
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Representatives from two Australian ISPs, aaNet and EFTel, have admitted tackling a DDOs attack for about two weeks. The attack has been carried out on both companies, limiting normal Internet access for most users. On a forum post, EFTel and aaNet common representative Jason M. has announced that the recent lag in ... |
19 August 2009
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United States Government officials have issued a letter to all United States Antarctic Program (USAP) employees, informing of a stricter application of the internal IT usage rules, regarding P2P and online gaming. Personnel stationed in any Antarctica-based location owned and ran by the US will face penalties w... |
19 August 2009
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In a move that is bound to end badly, AT&T blocked portions of the infamous 4chan.org imageboard, more specifically, the /r9k/ and /b/ sections. The blocking only affected DLS and U-Verse subscribers and not mobile users. There was no official explanation from the company at first though some technical issues have be... |
27 July 2009
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Although in the United Kingdom legislation that forces ISPs to block kids' access to child explicit content exists since 2007, a good majority of the providers say that they have yet to implement the measure on account of the fact that they have doubts over its effectiveness. In the meantime, parents and childre... |
23 February 2009
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ISPs throttling peer-to-peer downloads have always been criticized by users because these file-sharing applications have an incredible popularity among them but this doesn't stop the Japanese authorities to bring up a new set of guidelines which would allow ISP to limit speeds. According to The Asahi Shimbum, th... |
23 May 2008
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What has already happened in other countries around the world, including here China, could also happen in Australia, as the local government wants to provide a subsidy to the country's ISPs in order to install filters and restrict access to certain online content, CNET Australia reported. The Internet Service Pr... |
14 May 2008
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IFPI, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, makes new efforts in its fight against illegal file-sharing services announcing that it plans to sue a Swedish ISP which refused to support its move. Unfortunately, the name of the ISP was not disclosed. TorrentFreak reports that one of the local Intern... |
5 May 2008
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A few days ago, Simonsen Advokatfirma, a law firm asked the Norwegian ISPs to ban the local file-sharing users, as a move to fight against piracy and illegal software distribution. The request sounded unacceptable but, in the letter they had sent to the ISPs, the lawyers explained that the providers have the obligati... |
11 April 2008
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Rack Soft, the specialized developer and integrator of server and Data Center software, announced last night in a press release the immediate availability of 4PSA DNS Manager 3.0, multi-tenant DNS management software. This new version comes packed with features such as integrated configuration backup, classless zone ... |
9 April 2008
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File sharing is once again causing important disputes around the world as Simonsen, a Norwegian law firm, wants to reduce the amount of copyrighted material circulating on the web by asking users to stop sharing files that may infringe copyrights, bit-tech.net informs. According to the report, Advokatfirma DA started... |
4 April 2008
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Following the procedure (probably), the Federal Bureau of Investigation went to a secret intelligence court judge and got approval for surveying an email address of a suspect in an investigation going on at the time. Again according to protocol they went with the court decision to the Internet Service Provider, that ... |
19 February 2008
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Last May, Robb Topolski, an independent researcher, found out that Comcast, a big American Internet Service Provider, was chopping down BitTorrent's traffic by quickly killing off any files being uploaded. The means they tricked everybody was that they sent a fake reset flag to break the Peer -to-Peer connection... |
19 February 2008
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The French President's initiative, to consider blaming the Internet Service Providers (ISP) for whatever copyright infringement happens in their networks, has caught on big time all over the world. The final step that was expected for all to start pointing fingers was last week's International Federation of... |
30 January 2008
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Internet piracy is the number one problem on the web right now, it is the sole purpose of huge sums of money being lost every year by media industries, so at one point they got tired and sick of it and they tried to crack it down. Needless to say that with the legislation still under development (at the time) they co... |
25 January 2008
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Security company Symantec proudly announced that it would expand the agreement with EarthLink, one of the major Internet Service Providers in North America, to deliver its Norton 360 security solution to its clients. The service would be available for a $6.95 monthly subscription rate, Symantec mentioned in a public... |
12 December 2007
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If you are a regular basis traveler, then you are used to checking your email on the go, say in a bar that provides free Wi-Fi access or on a park bench near a public institution whose network administrator is not paid enough to carry a job to the end. If you enjoy being a Wi-Fi parasite and take all the advantage of... |
11 December 2007
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Today's Internet connection is pretty fast, but consumers are always looking for better technologies and services. According to Web User News, a survey conducted by BroadbandChoices.co.uk revealed that 61 percent of the British Internet users would want faster connections in order to be able to download larger f... |
7 December 2007
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Internet Service Providers (ISP) are the most important thing when it comes to a high quality Internet connection, performance and reliability. That's why there are numerous ISPs available out there, good and bad, cheap and expensive, small or large. But, what's more important is to have a good Internet con... |
6 December 2007
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Security vendor McAfee has announced a deal with Cox Communications today, which is the third largest US cable television provider, that is meant to protect all the Cox High Speed Internet clients. Obviously, the two companies attempt to reach this goal through McAfee's Security Suite, which will receive a co-br... |
3 December 2007
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