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It’s Alive! Hollywood Claims Pirate Bay Tracker Lives
Did The Pirate Bay really shutter its tracker, as claimed on Tuesday? The Motion Picture Association doesn’t think so. Hollywood’s overseas lobbying organization claims OpenBitTorrent, billed as an independent “open tracker project,” was actually established by one of The Pirate Bay’s founders.
Continue reading »SpiderCloud weaves 3G into enterprise
Fattened-up Femtocell Networking startup SpiderCloud wants to bring 3G networks into the enterprise, and hopes that network operators will pay for them.…
Continue reading »Joost UK shuts down
On the heels of news that Kazaa Kreators Niklas Zennstrom (left) and Janus Friis figure the net should again be alive with the sound of music — their music — comes further information that their Joost online TV thingie, launched with much ballyhoo a couple of years ago, has been virtually switched off. In January Joost was supposed to have been reinventing itself by offering allegedly broadcast-quality content to viewers for free, ‘free’ being advertising-driven. The site is still online but, “the office furniture of Joost UK Limited, registered in England and Wales with number 05821718, has apparently already found its way to another startup,” says TechCrunch .
Continue reading »Mark Cuban on net neutrality: ‘Flat out wrong’
“The moment you hear someone warning about stark changes as a consequence of net neutrality, you know they’ve got it wrong,” says networking and protocol expert Robb Topolski. He was talking about recent remarks from Mark Cuban who apparently believes the net will slow to a pinful crawl if net neutrality becomes the accepted norm. “Net neutrality is about preserving the Internet’s design for ISPs to forward packets toward their destination as fast as they can, without first inspecting the content for ‘management’ purposes,” Topolski told p2pnet.
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