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Australia begs residents to accept free fiber connection
If your government had decided to install a national, open-access fiber-to-the-home network to 93 percent of all residents , if the installation was free, and if the fiber hookup had no effect on your existing phone or cable service and committed you to nothing… wouldn't you take it? Not if you live in Tasmania, where the Australian government's ambitious new National Broadband Network is getting underway with its first fiber deployments.
Continue reading »Free ‘BitTorrent VPN’ Grows to 300,000 Members in a Year
As pressure from anti-piracy outfits on governments to implement strict anti-piracy laws increases, millions of file-sharers have decided to protect their privacy by going anonymous. The most common and widely used privacy services are VPNs that allow users to connect to the Internet whilst hiding their own IP-address, making BitTorrent transfers completely anonymous. ItsHidden is one of the rare free VPN solutions currently available.
Continue reading »Uncle Sam wants YOU to test your broadband connection!
The US government needs 10,000 volunteers to hook a free, specialized router up to their broadband connections. The FCC announced yesterday that 80 percent of Americans don’t know the advertised speed of their own broadband connection—and that says nothing about the actual speed, which is often 40 or 50 percent slower. Broadband quality relies on more than sheer speed, but the public knows almost nothing about important, but more esoteric measurements like connection uptime, packet loss, latency, jitter, and DNS query time.
Continue reading »Make BitTorrent Transfers Anonymous With BTGuard
After the UK Government passed its new and improved anti-piracy bill we decided to ask some of the people that run anonymizing BitTorrent services if they’ve seen a rise in users. One of the well established services in this niche is BTGuard , an easy to configure proxy service that hides the IP-addresses of its users from the public. Services like these are a thorn in the side of anti-piracy outfits because they make it impossible to track down infringing users.
Continue reading »File Sharers Wanted, Robin Hoods Needed
Get involved in the Don’t Disconnect Us Campaign and fight anti-file sharing plans Don’t let Mandelson disconnect your internet! If you read P2PON or follow what’s happening in the p2p file sharing world you must be aware by now of the UK government’s plans to cut off the Internet connection of alleged file sharers without a fair trial. Folks, this is a serious matter since the Government’s file-sharing plans means that millions of innocent people could be disconnected without having done anything illegal (check out here to see how this could easily happen). In october 2009 TalkTalk launched Don’t Disconnect Us campaign whose aim is to make sure the measures proposed by Lord Mandelson don’t become law.
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