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Massive DDOS Attack Targeted P2PNet
Often when a voice becomes clearly distinguishable, pertinent and with the ability of forming opinions and inspiring dissidence, efforts are made to silence it. Earlier this week, the crew at p2pnet for whom we have great respect and appreciation has been the victim of such efforts. To cut to the chase here’s what the website read a few days ago: Someone out there wants to stop p2pnet from broadcasting news and information the powers-that-used-to-be don’t want reported.
Continue reading »etc: Google was pranked recently by a group of German artists who attached a GPS device to a Google Street View car in Berlin.
Google was pranked recently by a group of German artists who attached a GPS device to a Google Street View car in Berlin.
Continue reading »Judge Jeopardizes Anti-Piracy Cash Operation
DigiProtect is a controversial anti-piracy company which also acts as a copyright holder in order to ease civil claims against alleged file-sharers in several countries across Europe. They track IP addresses on popular file-sharing networks, obtain the identities behind them and demand cash settlements. A ruling by a court in Frankfurt on January 29th could now have put DigiProtect’s “ Turn Piracy Into Profit ” mass-warning business model into jeopardy.
Continue reading »DigiProtect fileshare lawsuit ‘fraud’
“Gulli exposes Davenport Lyons, Kornmeier,” said p2pnet recently. Now the German edition of Britain’s prestigious Financial Times has picked the Gulli story up. In December, 2008, “UK piracy extortion demand based on evidence from DigiProtect GmbH, 18 Nov 2008,” said Wikileaks , we posted, continuing > > > “German news-outlet gulli.com has received information from inside DigiProtect/Davenport Lyons about so called ‘Cease&Desist’ letters, says WikiLeaks , going on > > > “The most likely audience will be filesharers, who received a cease & desist letter by Davenport Lyons, ACS:Law , Kanzlei Kornmeier or any other lawyer, who works together with DigiProtect & Davenport Lyons.
Continue reading »Novell Strips BitTorrent DHT Technology from openSUSE
Sponsored by Novell, openSUSE is a free and Open Source operating system, based on Linux. Following in the footsteps of Ubuntu, OpenSUSE recently decided to include Transmission as the default BitTorrent client. However, the addition of Transmission to openSUSE was not straightforward.
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