filesharing
Virgin Media battles privacy campaigners on P2P monitoring
No one’s looking at you, alright? Regulators are mulling assurances from Virgin Media that its planned trial system to monitor the level of illegal filesharing on its network will not harm customers’ privacy.…
Continue reading »TalkTalk: Bono’s File-sharing Views Are Misguided and Outrageous
TalkTalk, one of the major UK broadband providers, disapproved U2’s frontman’s recent statement on the topic of illegal filesharing. The company labeled Bono's claims on piracy published in The New York Times as “seriously misguided”. TalkTalk pointed to several inaccuracies as the claim that broadband providers generate revenue through file-sharing and the need for extra bandwidth means they often incur costs.
Continue reading »U2 frontman bitchslapped by TalkTalk
Bono bloody Bono TalkTalk has branded U2 windbag Bono’s intervention in the debate over illegal filesharing “outrageous”, after he said efforts to block child pornography showed ISPs should be doing more to protect intellectual property.…
Continue reading »BREIN vs ShareConnector Appeal Report
It’s starting to sound repetitive but here is a brief report of the the civil appeal from last wednesday, 25th November 2009 in Amsterdam. The courts decision is on 12th January 2010.
First of all, you can read what happened in the first case back in 2008 and why I went for the appeal.
Gulli exposes Davenport Lyons, Kornmeier
In December, 2008, “UK piracy extortion demand based on evidence from DigiProtect GmbH, 18 Nov 2008,” said Wikileaks , the site developed as “an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis”. The demand came Davenport Lyons , hired by ‘protection’ companies in Europe, and which also fronts for DigiProtect ’s in Britain. Davenport Lyons was fired by Atari after making a gross mistake by targeting a completely innocent UK husband-and-wife.
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