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French ISP “Refusing” to Comply With “Three-Strikes?

ISP Free refuses to send emails to customers warning them of suspected infringement, pointing out the law only requires it to turn over their identities to the authorities which, in turn, is the...

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Thursday, October 7th, 2010 Net News No Comments

Guilty Plea in ‘Anonymous’ DDoS Scientology Attack

A Nebraska man is pleading guilty in federal court to a computer disruption charge for his role in the 2008 distributed denial-of-service attack that temporarily shuttered Church of Scientology websites, the authorities said...

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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 Net News No Comments

Men Charged With Hijacking DOD Paychecks

A federal grand jury is indicting two Southern California men accused of using peer-to-peer file sharing software to hijack unsuspecting victims’ money, including paychecks from five Department of Defense employees. The defendants, San...

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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 Net News No Comments

Demonoid Rewrites Code, Comeback is Imminent

In September, Demonoid was forced to go offline due to some hardware problems. It later turned out that the hardware issues had resulted in severe data loss. Some user data and torrent files...

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Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Net News No Comments