It was 2008 when the UK government originally proposed disconnecting pirates from the Internet, then a few months later Australia followed suit. The latest is that it’s really going to be legislated and will come into force by April 2010 under the Digital Economy Bill. I’ve noticed this trend picking up lately, a few companies […]
Tags: bit-torrent, bittorrent, digital economy bill, encrypted torrent, fighting piracy, file-sharing, illegal file sharing, lord mandelson, p2p, peer guardian, peerguardian, piracy, torrent, UK, uk-government, VPN
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Ok more controversy for you guys, and once again it’s the UK leading a new initiative. This time it’s not against making hacking tools illegal, it’s against people downloading ‘pirated’ content from the Internet (using torrent sites etc.). I do hope they can differentiate using torrents to download open source software or creative commons music […]
Tags: copyright, draconian, file-sharing, filesharing, UK, uk disconnect internet, uk piracy, uk privacy, uk snooping, uk torrents, uk wiretap
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Well I would say this was true for office workers everywhere, not particularly just Brits. But well the British are an inquisitive nation, so this doesn’t surprise me at all. Nearly a quarter (22 per cent) of UK employees admit to having illegally accessed sensitive data such as salary details from their firms employer’s IT […]
Tags: access-control, british, brits, employee-fraud, file-sharing, hacking, microsoft, network-security, Privacy, snooping
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The RIAA’s latest tactic, is to reveal to Santangelo and her new lawyer that they’ve been investigating her children, and have been able to collect a lot of non-public information. The RIAA will probably claim that the info is related to the case, but it certainly borders on using scare tactics, and trying to intimidate […]
Tags: anti-riaa, dirty-tricks, file-sharing, kids, piracy, Privacy, riaa
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