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p2pnet not for sale: update III

“Jon, you are still running under http://p2pnet.multibox.be/ ,” said Paulus in a Reader’s Write on Monday. “When will it be just p2pnet.net again?” Soon, Paulus. After a comedy of errors (which really weren’t very funny, and featured truly pathetic front-end communications at GoDaddy) which were sorted today, p2pnet will soon be fully transferred to Cliff Haerden’s Multibox in Belgium.

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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 P2P News No Comments

Parents of Dead Teen Sue School Over Sexting Images

The parents of a teenage girl who committed suicide last year are suing the girl’s ex-boyfriend and several other former high school classmates who circulated a nude photo of her and harassed her about the image. The suit was filed in Ohio by Cynthia and Albert Logan who say that the students’ “degrading sexual insults” caused their 18-year-old daughter Jessica, their only child, severe emotional distress, which led her to kill herself in July 2008, a month after graduating from high school. The suit names Ryan Salyers, Sara Jane Ramsey, Courtney Richardson, and Emily Stachler, as well as a minor identified only as A.

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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 P2P News No Comments

Google: online real estate agent

Yesterday when my when my wife and I were driving home after collecting our daughter from a friend’s house, we tuned in to a local CBC radio station, All Points West, getting a breathless, and lengthy, rhapsody on the wonders of Google Sreet View from an estate agent. It was hard-core — superlative on top of superlative, example after example, almost as though he’d been rigorously coached by Google. Which of course, he hadn’t.

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Friday, December 4th, 2009 P2P News No Comments

p2pnet not for sale: update II

Since my last update my wife, Liz, and daughter, Emma, and I have been talking a lot about what we can do and what we can’t do, and what it’ll mean to us as a family, to keep p2pnet online. Filesharers belong to a P2P community and p2pnet.net serves as a part of that. It’s a voice among the growing swell of other voices promoting honesty, respect, openness and freedom online, and that’s the way we want things to continue.

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Sunday, November 29th, 2009 P2P News No Comments

Microsoft plants mind-worm in schoolkids’ heads

p2pnet news view Advertising You know how impressionable kids can be, so it’s simple. Get ‘em while they’re young. That’s corporate goal Number One with penetration of school classrooms around the world now a matter of routine.

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Saturday, October 31st, 2009 P2P News No Comments