Spammers love torrents

May 25, 2009 · Filed Under Computers, File Sharing, Security, Software · Comment 

Torrent sites are popular with people who like to share files, but it seems that there could be another group that like torrent sites, but for an entirely different reason.
Spammers have found that that torrent sites such as the Pirate Bay are suffering from spam attacks on a regular basis that appear in the [...]

France rejects three strikes policy

April 10, 2009 · Filed Under Copyrights, Downloads, File Sharing, films · Comment 

First of all the French government voted for the proposed three strikes and you are off the internet policy, but then they appear to have change their minds and have rejected the copyright holders plans to punish illegal file sharers with banishment.
What happened was the French parliament passed the law, but this had to [...]

Facebook planning to sell data

February 3, 2009 · Filed Under Computers, Email, Security, Software · Comment 

With over a hundred and fifty million users Facebook is a marketing dream come true for anyone who can get into it and as things go it may not be that long before the marketing and advertising people get their hands on the Facebook database.
In the second quarter of this year, things will begin to [...]

Downloader’s will ignore threats

January 20, 2009 · Filed Under Copyrights, Downloads, File Sharing, Internet · Comment 

It may not have gone un-noticed how the internet service providers, copyright owners and law firms have been going about stopping illegal file sharers, for most the threat of disconnection is enough to make internet users think about what they are doing.
Therefore, it could be said that this tactic has been a success, but has [...]