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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
05:21 GMT |
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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
06:25 GMT |
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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
13:56 GMT |
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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
11:06 GMT |
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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
16:56 GMT |
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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
09:51 GMT |
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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
10:35 GMT |
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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
10:14 GMT |
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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
15:06 GMT |
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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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BitTorrent is probably the most popular file sharing technology nowadays and this thing seems to bother some ISPs that are likely to do anything possible to limit the BitTorrent use. For instance, it was reported that Comcast limited the BitTorrent downloads because they required too much bandwidth which obviously af... |
22 November 2007
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Postini, one of the latest Google acquisitions and the search giant's subdivision, which is supposed to make the company's products more secure, will represent the latest addition to PlusNet's services, Web User News reported today. PlusNet is a UK Internet Service Provider which became famous for its ... |
21 November 2007
06:13 GMT |
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This isn't an article about how you lose in some computer games, or about how the machine may do some stuff better than you can. It's about the fact that no matter what ISPs do, botnets still have one up on them. And you know why? It's because not only is there is no perfect way of battling these cyber... |
20 September 2007
06:09 GMT |
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Every night, before they go to bed, ISPs check their closet for botnets. That's a funny way of putting it, but the issue is serious. Botnets have finally surpassed distributed denial of service attacks as the top threat identified by service providers. And I'm not just saying this, these facts are shown in ... |
18 September 2007
06:12 GMT |
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The German Internet service provider Arcor took the decision to block the access to numerous porn websites because they provide weak security filters to restrict the under-18 users from visiting the page. As Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped wrote, Video Buster/ Kirchberg Logistik complained about the security ... |
13 September 2007
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Comcast, one of the largest ISPs in the US, took the decision to restrict the Internet access for some of its customers because they download too much. Although it might sound a little bit shocking nowadays that you can't download as much as you want, the company disconnected the users as they were slowing down ... |
10 September 2007
06:53 GMT |
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In many people's opinion (mine amongst them) ISP shouldn't just stand for Internet Service Provider but for Internet Service Police as well. Are we asking for too much? I don't think so, since they are the ones that can really do something against hackers. Not once have researchers and white hat hacker... |
10 September 2007
05:34 GMT |
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Knowing the rate of cyber-crime the UK has it's no wonder they're trying to think of anything that might work to take it down. Now, a few Lords are asking Internet Service Providers to "Police" the Internet. There is no law for this just yet, but it all just seems ethical and logical to me...I'm no exp... |
7 September 2007
10:48 GMT |
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The authorities from every corner of the world are trying to stop a huge phenomenon that affects the copyright holders of any kind of digital material. No matter it is a picture, a song or a video, it is quickly pirated from the malicious people on the Internet. That's why a Belgium court ordered that the Intern... |
5 July 2007
05:19 GMT |
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Are you internet dependent? If yes, then you have certainly experienced the ugly feeling of wanting to work on internet but seeing not even the slightest change for the web pages to load. Under these stressful conditions, everyone's first instinct would be to reach for the phone and call the ISP's customer ... |
11 March 2007
14:42 GMT |
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