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Michael Geist on isoHunt CRIA case

Has Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America) shot itself in the groin? MiniNova has “abandoned its traditional indexing service , now working only with Content Distribution,” p2pnet posted yesterday. That left Canada’s isoHunt “as probably the only major, and true, indexing site online,” we said.

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Saturday, November 28th, 2009 P2P News No Comments

Google Chrome on MiniNova, Pirate Bay

It’s kind of appropriate (if not ironic ) that Google, not only the net’s largest, and most voracious, advertising company, but also one of, if not the , largest indexing sites , should be using The Pirate Bay and MiniNova to tout its Chrome O/S. It’s “appeared on several peer-to-peer BitTorrent tracking sites,” says Computerworld , going on Google bragged Chrome will be “faster” and “more secure” than other systems “when it ships late next year”, says the story. “Google” and “secure” in the same sentence is something of an oxymoron.

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Monday, November 23rd, 2009 P2P News No Comments

Does Google Onebox infringe trademarks?

Will Gogle , which has just wheeled out a new search thingy called Onebox, soon be hit by one or more trademark infringement lawsuits? A week ago, “Giant online advertising company Google is like a nasty virus ,” p2pnet posted. “It’s everywhere and into everything.

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Thursday, October 29th, 2009 P2P News No Comments