Pirate Bay is booked
It looks as if the Pirate Bay is going to be booked by the publishing industry now. The aim of the study being instituted by the publishing industry in Sweden to look into the effects of book piracy in Sweden.
Clearly, this is localised to Sweden, but the industry is so close that this could be [...]
Court win for Pirate Bay
It has been little over a month since the Pirate Bay was banned in Italy, but as everyone knows you can never keep a good pirate down and they have hit back by taking the case to court.
The ban in itself did not really do anything to stop the access to the Pirate Bay in [...]
Pirate Bay under siege
It is no secret that the Pirate Bay is one of the largest bit torrent sites in the world. However, they are still missing out on a huge sector of internet users who know nothing about p2p or simply do not want to get involved in the whole torrent thing.
However, these internet users do want [...]
Make Firefox faster
For some computer users they would say that FireFox has been a lot faster than Internet Explorer for some time, but when FireFox 3 was released, it was apparent that this trend had continued, but as unbelievable as it may sound, there are ways to make the browser even faster.
With a few adjustments FireFox 3 [...]
Hackers may release user info
Some may feel that the Norwegian bit torrent tracker site Norbits, being hacked is well deserved and in fact, the site has actually been offline for some days now after being hacked by a group known as MORRADi.
Norbits have around ten thousand Norwegian users who now have the excuse to feel concerned as MORRADi are [...]
Protecting patents by posting online first
Creating patents and inventions can be a tricky business, it only takes one slip up and the idea has completely gone and someone else can take the credit, they will probably go on to make a fortune too if the ideal is a winner.
However, scientists and researchers are turning to the internet for protection from [...]
Firefox goes for privacy
In order to keep up with all of the other browsers, Mozilla are adding privacy options to their Firefox 3.1 by the end of 2008.
The idea behind these privacy modes is that anyone who looks as porn or even downloads pirated material can simply apply the privacy mode and be rest assured that their internet [...]
Elite Torrents admin jailed
For anyone who can remember the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other agencies raided the office of Elite Torrents, arrested the staff and took down their server leaving an ominous red page up explaining what had happened.
By now, the cases are in full flow and the latest victim is 26 year old Daniel Dove, [...]
FaceBook for spies
It has been called social networking for spies, but of course, A Space as it has been named is going to simply be much more than that.
A Space is social networking site being used by the members of the CIA, FBI, NSA and any other organisations that are only known through their initials, in fact [...]
Google satellite launched
For anyone who thinks that the Google cars that are driving around the UK at the moment taking images of streets and homes, now have something even more sinister to worry about as Google have just launched their very own spy satellite.
The GeoEye 1 satellite is what Google are going to use to provide those [...]
Security flaw in Chrome
Despite all of the security aspects being mention by the PR machine that announced the arrival of Google’s browser Chrome, according to some web security experts the browser actually has a potentially serious security flaw and it should have been picked up by Google a long time ago.
The problem is that Chrome is based on [...]
Google helps find popular torrent sites
As most people already know, Google can be a very valuable tool for a variety of uses and it seems to include the following of traffic to bit torrent sites, or at least the most popular ones.
By looking at the search volume of the three most popular torrent sites, it is possible to see how [...]