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Anti-RIAA Site Folds
Provocative website p2pnet.net, the online voice of one of the world’s most blistering and perpetual attacks on the Recording Industry Association of America, is shuttering amid financial doldrums. It’s been vocal for nine years. “I can’t claim p2pnet has been protecting the world, but I’ve done my best to unspin some of the vested interest corporate spin , and expose a few of the lies and corruption,” the site’s voice and founder Jon Newton said in his “last post” Wednesday.
Continue reading »Google Camera Helps Nab Alleged Tree Killers
Forget about all of those ubiquitous police surveillance cameras in your city: the new sheriff in town is that shifty Google Maps camera wheeling through your neighborhood. Recently, a property owner in Canada was charged with illegal removal of trees after a Google camera helped capture the evidence, according to CanWest News Service. Last May in Vancouver, Margaret Burnyeat allegedly hired a company to remove 23 cedar, cypress and evergreen trees from two adjacent lots she owned.
Continue reading »etc: A Vancouver home owner was busted for illegal tree-cutting thanks to Google Street View.
A Vancouver home owner was busted for illegal tree-cutting thanks to Google Street View. Read More: The Province , Michael Geist
Continue reading »MiniNova down, but isoHunt lives on
With the news MiniNova has abandoned its traditional indexing service , now working only with Content Distribution, “That leaves you as probably the only major, and true, indexing site online,” p2pnet emailed isoHunt’s Gary Fung yesterday. “Do you expect to be able to to continue for the foreeeable future?” – we asked. “Nothing’s changed as far as we are concerned,” he said.
Continue reading »If 3,000 people paid $1 a month …
… p2pnet would stay online. Actually, it would be a few cents more than that, what with CC fees. But you get the idea … I’ve just put p2pnet up for sale .
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