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• Pirate Bay Censorship Case Not Over Yet
  Earlier this year a Danish court ordered the ISP Tele2 to block its customers from accessing The Pirate Bay. The appeal of this initial ruling was lost two weeks ago, but the case is far from over. Tele2 has decided to appeal the decision before the Supreme Court, supported by Denmarks telecommunications industry association.
  Published : 2008-12-10 Source : torrentfreak.com
• BitTorrent Inc. Collaborates to Help ISPs Speed Up P2P Traffic
  Combine forces to help route file-sharing traffic to local peers and help avoid network congestion. BitTorrent Inc. and Oversi, an Israel-based pioneer of over-the-top (OTT) caching and delivery solutions, today announced their collaboration to deliver an integrated solution that optimizes P2P traffic across the Internet Service Provider (ISP) network. The joint solution brings clear benefits to ISPs: reduced bandwidth costs and deferred infrastructure investments together with a higher quality subscriber experience. The solution involves BitTorrents intelligent client protocols (Policy Discovery Protocols) communicating with Oversis NetEnhancer(TM) network intelligence platform to improve peer selection in line with the ISPs network capabilities while speeding up P2P downloads.
  Published : 2008-12-10 Source : www.zeropaid.com
• French Court - Private Copying is Not a Right
  Says companies are allowed to put Digital Rights Management on their CDs, even if it doesnt work on some devices. It may be a small setback to advocates who want to broaden their rights when they copy a CD. According to 01net (Google Translated), a French court has ruled that if a company puts Digital Rights Management (DRM) on their CD and a consumer cant play it, the company did not break any laws and cannot be held liable for damages. Naturally, proponents for DRM applauded the decision (Google Translation) While many users of content may feel that copying is a right, the ruling seems to just reinforce what has been generally set in stone in many other countries, that, legally speaking, private copying is an exception, not a right. If a company chooses to put DRM on their CD, then they are entitled to do so.
  Published : 2008-12-10 Source : www.zeropaid.com
• MPAA Wants to Automatically Eliminate Piracy
  Oh the things that sound good on paper... Theres a new lobbying paper posted on Change.gov that shows that the MPAA isnt slowing down on dreaming big while lobbying the US government.
  Published : 2008-12-10 Source : www.zeropaid.com
• Australian Govt Backing Away from Plans to Censor the Internet?
  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy now says scheduled "live" trials will be "a closed network test and will not involve actual customers," making the results worthless since they wont indicate a real-world impact. With Australians scheduled to hold massive rallies throughout their country this Saturday, December 13th, to protest govt plans for mandatory Internet filters, its welcome news to learn that their widespread opposition may have finally forced Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, the one behind the plan, and others to take notice. For today its being reported that Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, has written to critics saying that the so-called "live" trials would be "a closed network test and will not involve actual customers." Considering that live trials were necessary to counter previous lab tests in which not only did the filters not block "inappropriate content" as desired , but whereby network speeds were diminished by up to a staggering 87%, the fact that live trials will no longer be conducted surely means that the govt is now backing away from the heavily criticized policy. Australian ISPs have inflicted blows of their own to the mandatory filtering proposals with Telstra and Internode now saying that they would not take part in the trials, iiNet previously offering to cooperate only to show just "how stupid it is," and Optus testing only a heavily scaled model.
  Published : 2008-12-10 Source : www.zeropaid.com
• UK Consumer Group Reports Anti-File-Sharing Bully to Authorities
  Which? files formal complaint with Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) about letters sent by law firm Davenport Lyons to alleged file-sharers on behalf of copyright owners. Which?, the largest consumer body in the UK with over 650,000 members, has today complained to the solicitors’ watchdog about a London law firm that sent ‘bullying’ letters to hundreds of innocent consumers. Davenport Lyons has been targeting suspected file-sharers in massive sweeps accusing them of illegally downloading everything from video games to porn. The alleged file-sharers have received letters from the law firm demanding payment of £500 ($773 USD) compensation for copyright infringement, but many, most notably a non-gaming elderly couple, have been wrongly accused. A recent Which? Computing investigation found that while working with games firm Atari, Davenport Lyons wrongly accused a Scottish couple, aged 54 and 66, of infringing copyright of a game ‘Race O7’.
  Published : 2008-12-10 Source : www.zeropaid.com
• LimeWire 5.0 Alpha Released
  Social networking gone wild.
  Published : 2008-12-10 Source : www.slyck.com
• AT&T Looks to Femtocells in 2009
  Remember all those iPhone 3G issues with dropped calls and the like when it was first released? Perhaps if every AT&T customer had a femtocell in their house, we wouldnt have seen so many complaints. AT&T is currently testing the "cell phone signal boosters" in employees homes, and is looking at a broader, city-sized test with customers in the Q2 2009.
  Published : 2008-12-10 Source : www.topix.net
• New MacBook Pros Suffering NVIDIA Defect?
  Since July, when NVIDIA first announced it was taking a $150 - 200 million charge to cover GPU problems in their notebook line, vendors such as HP, Dell, and Apple have had reports of failures in those GPUs. But when Apple unveiled its new notebooks in October, NVIDIA said that the GPUs in these notebooks didnt have the bad bumping material that caused the prior issues. The Inquirer decided to check for itself, and reports to have found high-lead solder bumps, just as in the earlier problematic GPUs.
  Published : 2008-12-10 Source : www.topix.net
• Annoying Anti-Spam Web Tool Is Helping Digitize History
  Anyone whos spent much time online has encountered websites that require you to solve distorted word puzzles to "prove youre human." Turns out you and millions of others could be transcribing old books and newspapers little by little, every day.
  Published : 2008-12-10 Source : www.topix.net
• HP to Offer Three-Year, No-Degrade Notebook Batteries
  Exploding Li-ion batteries aside, one other problem with such batteries is the eventual degradation of their performance. No matter what anyone tells you, the performance of such batteries drops over time. On Wednesday Hewlett-Packard and Boston-Power announced an upcoming option for HP laptops: a battery designed to last for at least three years without performance degradation.
  Published : 2008-12-10 Source : www.topix.net
• Sugar: The Other Addictive White Powder
  Princeton University scientists have been studying signs of sugar addiction in rats for years. Until now, the rats under study have met two of the three elements of addiction. They have previously demonstrated a behavioral pattern of increased intake and then showed signs of withdrawal. Current experiments captured craving and relapse to complete the picture.
  Published : 2008-12-10 Source : www.topix.net
• Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent
  TV shows are by far the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, its becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading?
  Published : 2008-12-09 Source : torrentfreak.com
• Police Threats Close Many BitTorrent Sites
  Yesterday we reported on the plight of RARBG, a large tracker forced to close by anti-piracy outfit, BREIN. Now it appears that this is just the tip of the iceberg. A whole raft of trackers are being forced to close or relocate following police action, including ArenaBG and several other large sites.
  Published : 2008-12-09 Source : torrentfreak.com
• FrostWire P2P Client Starts Artist Promotion
  A common criticism leveled at most p2p clients is that they just ‘help people steal’, but they are actually a great tool to help promote undiscovered artists. This is exactly what FrostWire is trying to accomplish with their new FrostClick service. The results from their first featured artist are very promising.
  Published : 2008-12-09 Source : torrentfreak.com
• BitTorrent Inc. Collaborate to Help ISPs Speed Up P2P Traffic
  Combine forces to help route file-sharing traffic to local peers and help avoid network congestion. BitTorrent Inc. and Oversi, an Israel-based pioneer of over-the-top (OTT) caching and delivery solutions, today announced their collaboration to deliver an integrated solution that optimizes P2P traffic across the Internet Service Provider (ISP) network. The joint solution brings clear benefits to ISPs: reduced bandwidth costs and deferred infrastructure investments together with a higher quality subscriber experience. The solution involves BitTorrents intelligent client protocols (Policy Discovery Protocols) communicating with Oversis NetEnhancer(TM) network intelligence platform to improve peer selection in line with the ISPs network capabilities while speeding up P2P downloads.
  Published : 2008-12-09 Source : www.zeropaid.com
• Warner Music Proposes File-Sharing Tax for College Tuition
  Royalty fees included in fees would mean students could legally share music, but would also penalize those who dont share music or live in on-campus housing. Warner Music Groups digital music strategist, Jim Griffin, is proposing a "voluntary blanket licensing for online access to music" scheme whereby students are taxed for the privilege of legalized file-sharing with the proceeds collected by a nonprofit, Choruss, and divvied up among copyright holders. The presentation is making the rounds of college campuses nationwide by nonprofit technology advocate Educause, with Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, University of Washington, MIT, University of Colorado, University of Michigan, Cornell, Penn State, University of California at Berkeley and University of Virginia all reportedly having expressed some interest. Its not surprising considering the recent passage of the Higher Education Act (HEA), which included provisions forcing colleges and universities to combat illegal file-sharing on campus, may eventually cost these institutions some $500,000 USD annually. Whats particularly unsettling about the proposal is that it forces all students, whether they live off campus or not, or even whether they share music or not, to pay an extra fee with their college tuition.
  Published : 2008-12-09 Source : www.zeropaid.com
• BitTorrent hooks up with Oversi
  ...and kills BEN.
  Published : 2008-12-09 Source : www.slyck.com
• Point-and-Click Turns 40
  On December 9, 1968, Douglas Engelbart, the director of Stanford Research Institutes (SRI) Augmentation Research Center, took the stage and gave what has since become known as "the mother of all demos." A number of ideas in use today were first demonstrated that day, including including hypertext , object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as video conferencing. But the idea that people most held onto, was the mouse.
  Published : 2008-12-09 Source : www.topix.net
• More Insights on Red Wine & Aging
  Researchers have a new understanding of why a compound in red wine appears to retard aging in the same way as a very low-calorie diet.
  Published : 2008-12-09 Source : www.topix.net
• Hidden travels of the atomic bomb
  In 1945, after the atomic destruction of two Japanese cities, J. Robert Oppenheimer expressed foreboding about the spread of nuclear arms. "They are not too hard to make," he told his colleagues on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, N.M. "They will be universal if people wish to make them universal."
  Published : 2008-12-09 Source : www.topix.net
• Resident Evil Degeneration: BitTorrent Blockbuster
  Resident Evil: Degeneration is the first CG animation film inspired by the popular video game. Although it skips most US theaters and is scheduled to be released on DVD no sooner than late December, it has been downloaded on BitTorrent close to a million times already - in just four days.
  Published : 2008-12-08 Source : torrentfreak.com
• BREIN Chases Another BitTorrent Tracker to Sweden
  RARBG, probably one of the biggest BitTorrent trackers youve never heard of, has been ordered to close by anti-piracy outfit, BREIN. The 100,000 member site, which is particularly popular with Bulgarians, doesnt intend to comply but simply move to a different host, outside of BREINs jurisdiction.
  Published : 2008-12-08 Source : torrentfreak.com
• How BitTorrent Can Teach Students DNA Sequencing
  DNA sequencing is complex, and teaching students how it works can be quite a challenge. It often helps to use analogies, and give real life examples people are familiar with. At the University of Toronto they have found the perfect analogy to explain how DNA sequencing works: BitTorrent.
  Published : 2008-12-08 Source : torrentfreak.com
• BitTorrent Inc. Shutters BitTorrent Entertainment Network, Reverts to Torrent Search
  Suffering from unprofitability, quietly closes paid content store and turns to searching the web for torrent trackers to download content, both legally and illegally. BitTorrent Inc. had launched their ambitious BitTorrent Entertainment Network(BEN) last year. The store enabled the BitTorrent users to purchase and download movies and television shows legally. However, the store was not a success as the company has now announced its closure.
  Published : 2008-12-08 Source : www.zeropaid.com
• Swedish Govt Mulls New Anti-File-Sharing Law
  Formally presents legislation allowing copyright holders to use courts to force ISPs to divulge names associated with IP addresses linked to illegal downloading. The Swedish government says it is drafting a new anti-P2P law that will allow copyright holders to pursue those sharing music and movies illegally. The proposal, based on the European Unions Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED), makes it possible for copyright holders to seek a court order to require ISPs to divulge the names of individuals accused of sharing copyrighted material illegally. Companies can then seek damages from the file-sharers in court. “If those who create computer games, films, or music lack the ability to be paid for their products, they won’t be able to hire the people they need so their companies can grow.
  Published : 2008-12-08 Source : www.zeropaid.com
• Should Apple Disable GPS in Egypt?
  An article in todays New York Times reports that, as a condition for permitting sale of the iPhone in Egypt, the countrys government "demanded that Apple disable the phones global-positioning system, arguing that GPS is a military prerogative." Apple apparently has agreed to do so.
  Published : 2008-12-08 Source : www.topix.net
• Dogs Become Bitter When You Withhold Their Snausages
  A new study suggests that dogs have a sense of fairness, and can feel envy when they are not properly - or equitably -rewarded.
  Published : 2008-12-08 Source : www.topix.net
• iPhones at Wal-Mart Confirmed; $99 Version, Not
  I wrote about Wal-Mart joining Best Buy as the only non-Apple / AT&T retailer to sell iPhones about two weeks ago. Much of the blogosphere wrote about it then, but only now has mainstream media pick up, and confirm, the story.
  Published : 2008-12-08 Source : www.topix.net
• Surgery Performed, in 160 Characters or Less
  A British surgeon volunteering in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa used text messaging to help him perform an unfamiliar surgical procedure, saving a teenagers life.
  Published : 2008-12-08 Source : www.topix.net

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