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UK’s Plan To Introduce A Graduated-Response System Could Prove Ineffective

After successfully managing to take The Pirate Bay and Newzbin2 offline, UK’s government is looking forward to introduce (somewhere next year) a graduated-response system. How effective will the system be against online piracy, however,...

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Wednesday, May 29th, 2013 Net News No Comments

Twitter Amplify Offers Real-Time Videos in Its Stream

Twitter partners with BBC, Fox, Fuse and the Weather Channel in order to offer real-time videos in the Twitter Amplify stream. In terms of real-time chatter on the internet, Twitter is the place to...

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Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 Net News No Comments

Hide My Ass VPN: User Setup and Installation Guide

Quick how-to-guide for getting one of the more popular VPN services around up and running so that you can begin protecting your traffic from the prying eyes of hackers and govts, and thwart arbitrary geographic...

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Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 Net News No Comments

McAfee Patents Technology to Detect and Block Pirated Content

For years copyright holders have urged search engines and Internet providers to make it harder for users to access infringing content online. Thus far these efforts have been in vain, but anti-virus vendor McAfee...

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Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 Net News No Comments

Find More (Legitimate) Content With BitTorrent Surf

In a previous article we’ve mentioned the intentions of BitTorrent Inc. to launch a Google Chrome plugin that will allow people to use the browser as a downloading platform. After a period of intensive...

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Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 Net News No Comments