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Drug Enforcement Administration has only 40TB of electronic storage worldwide

You may have seen the headlines going around: " Drug charges dropped because of too much evidence " or " Charges dropped against fugitive doctor, because evidence is using too much space on federal...

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Saturday, August 18th, 2012 Net News No Comments

RapidShare Slows Download Speeds To Drive Away Pirates

During the wake of the Megaupload raids in January, TorrentFreak continuously monitored the cyberlocker world. We watched file-hosters panic and we watched bewildered users of their services try to find alternatives. The fallout...

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Friday, February 24th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Anti-Piracy Outfit Tries to Erase History

While there have always been suspicions that anti-piracy outfits are actively DDoSing torrent sites, when the boss of the Indian company AiPlex Software admitted to using these tactics in public it still came...

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Saturday, October 15th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Broadband performance study finds huge regional disparities in US

Pando Networks has published the results of a study evaluating the Internet download performance of 4 million users across the country. The data offers some insight into regional bandwidth trends, highlighting significant disparity...

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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Canadian ISP Telus Plans “Customer Friendly” Data Caps

Telus spokesman Shawn Hall says that customers will get "lots of warning," and lots of opportunities to switch to more expensive data plans when it rolls out usage-based billing later this year. It...

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Friday, April 29th, 2011 Net News No Comments