pirates
RSS piratesFrance passes 'three strikes and you're out' bill on illegal downloaders
News Under the terms of the bill, internet pirates will receive two warnings before having their connection cut after a third offence for a period of up to one year. France's lower house of parliament on Tuesday approved a... [13 May 2009]
Alien hunting, Windows through the ages and Christmas gifts
Photo Suggestions include a light sabre, USB pop up pirates game and this radio controlled version of Knight Rider's Kitt. Not so - it's aliens. The Hat Creek Radio Observatory, in Northern California, is home to the Allen... [22 Dec 2008]
P2P explodes by 400 per cent - and it's not all illegal
News Peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic is set to skyrocket over the next five years - and the activity won't just be confined to music pirates and file sharers. According to research by market research company MultiMedia... [21 Oct 2008]
Legal Eye: File-sharers under fire
Comment Downloading or sharing pirated materials? You're now more likely to get caught. Lawyer John McKinlay explains why. In the UK last month, a woman was fined £16,000 for illegally downloading and sharing a computer game and, elsewhere, the... [03 Sep 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News ISPA said it is committed to finding a "practical" solution to address intellectual rights' holders desire to issue notices to individual pirates. But the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) has hit back,... [18 Jun 2008]
Don't Be Hoodwinked: Proactive Protection Isn't 'Easy'
White Paper Beating back pirates.easy.beating back spyware.easier.cyber criminals continue to refine their attack methods in an attempt to remain undetected and to create global, cooperative networks to support the ongoing growth of... [30 May 2008]
Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts
Comment Possibly one of the legendary accounting pirates from Monty Python's Crimson Permanent Assurance short film. Jack Cutts is a name to conjure with. Reminiscent of a buccaneer perhaps? Like the finance privateers in the... [11 Mar 2008]
Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?
Comment Perhaps most concerning is the potentially energising effect full-on coercion may have on the pirates themselves. But legal liability cannot rest solely on ISPs' shoulders, argues lawyer Simon Levine. [22 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.12.07
Round-Up Even the Pirates don't want Vista," guffaws James Wilkinson. Even 'pirates' have some sense! Hell no, it's still bullish about the success of the most rapidly adopted operating system in history, crowing... [07 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... 'me hearties shun Vista… techies on the move?… bosses out of tune
Comment Pirates shun vista? Or maybe it's that the pirates have read the market better than Microsoft and realise that it is not worth pirating Vista yet, since the market does not appear to want it. What's got... [06 Dec 2007]
Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft
News Also with SP1, Microsoft is closing two key loopholes that pirates have used to evade Microsoft's security measures. Microsoft said it's seeing piracy rates for Windows Vista that are half those of Windows XP. [04 Dec 2007]
Woman hit with $220k bill in file-sharing case
News Cohn said: "The laws were written for pirates, guys pressing scores of DVDs. Accused of encouraging the illegal sharing of more than 1,700 songs, Jammie Thomas, 30, elected to fight it out in court with the recording... [05 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Of global warming and pirates
Comment Below you can see a graph from that site which shows the relationship between global average temperature and the number of pirates. If we believed the facts as presented we would start recruiting more... [26 Jul 2007]
Photos of the month - June 2007
Photo Pictured is a possible Mapplet use - a Google map showing which cinemas in New York are currently showing the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie, instead of just providing movie-goers with an online list. [27 Jun 2007]
Photos: Google mashes up its developer day
Photo Pictured are cinemas in New York currently showing the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Google cosied up to more than 5,000 developers at 10 locations around the world at its Google Developer Day this week. [01 Jun 2007]
