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VyprVPN: Watch the London 2012 Olympics Live!

Circumvent NBC's lock on US coverage and its misguided refusal to show the events at the London 2012 Olympics live. If anybody had concerns about Comcast's acquisitions of NBC UNiversalt  then the London...

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Wednesday, August 1st, 2012 Net News 1 Comment

NBC and IOC Ready to Crackdown on Olympic Pirates

Four years ago the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing was downloaded millions of times on BitTorrent. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) saw The Pirate Bay as one of the major...

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Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 Net News 2 Comments

UK Government Pushes Forward against Internet Piracy

A secondary legislation on the Digital Economy Act 2010 (DEA) has been put into motion by the UK Government’s Department for Culture Olympics, Media and Sport (DCMS). DEA was originally set out to...

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Thursday, January 27th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Even gov’t knows: 2Mbps broadband is "pitifully unambitious"

The Right Honourable Jeremy Hunt MP, newly installed Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, has a few thoughts on the ambitions of UK broadband: "pitifully unambitious." In his first major...

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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 Net News No Comments

Pirating the 2010 Winter Olympics

NBC’s decision to restrict live streaming of the Vancouver Winter Olympics to subscribers of cable, satellite or IPTV services is making many cord cutters scramble. We’ve heard anecdotes from former cable customers flocking to...

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Sunday, February 21st, 2010 Net News No Comments