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Rapidshare’s Latest Marketing Move: Prepaid Cards
After the introduction of new sections with which the service hopes to attract the young segment even more (Rapidgames and the yet-to-be-released Rapidmusic), Rapidshare tries to make money off prepaid cards Over the last month some debates have become quite ardent – the amazing growth of file hosting services such as RapidShare or Megaupload prompted people to see in it the end of p2p or at least to compare the two most popular ways through which people currently download movies, music, eBooks or other types of files. About the level that Rapidshare.com has reached tells us the latest move of the site – after offering premium accounts for quite some time now, the service will be selling prepaid cards through retail outlets in Europe, Gulli reports. This means users can purchase membership cards of various denominations from one to 12 months.
Continue reading »Does Google Street View racially profile people?
Has Google, with its Street View ’service’, inadvertently created a racial profiling system? Vehicles equipped with panoramic cameras tour the streets and byways of the world taking pictures of everything they come across. The results are then displayed on Google pages.
Continue reading »Top Ten Most Downloaded P2P File Sharing Clients
To get a better view on how the peer-to-peer scene is evolving with respect to what file sharing clients people prefer to download, we regularly keep you informed by publishing the latest figures. So here’s a list with last week's top most downloaded p2p file sharing programs – the chart is based on figures published by download.com (click on the names for download): P2P Client Number of downloads (last week) Number of downloads (total) 1. Limewire 5.3.6 865,463 191,654,355 2.
Continue reading »House Considers Limiting Patriot Act Spy Powers
Powerful House members are proposing sweeping reforms to U.S. surveillance law that puts them on a collision course with pro-domestic spying legislation in the Senate. Democratic Rep.
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