Filesharers get free legal help
It is no secret, that games developers are going after around 25,000 alleged filesharers in the UK.
They have instructed their lawyers, Davenport Lyons to send these people a letter demanding a payment of £300 or go to court.
It is a similar way that on the spot fines work, you can pay a small amount to [...]
Top shows on Bit Torrent
Top TV shows are still making onto the top bit torrent sites, where they are getting some really great viewing figures, this is good for the shows coverage, but the producers would not be too pleased to see their shows on the list.
This is the top ten list for the Torrent Freak
Top Gear
Stargate Atlantis
Weeds
Generation Kill
The [...]
Top Music Sites
With music and copyrights frightening off many people who would have already been copy music for their own pleasure, after all they have probably been doing it since the first cassette tape came out.
But there is way where they could continue to copy and save the music that they like, which is both free and [...]
Saving files online
Storing files is becoming a real problem for people and businesses alike, if they are kept on a single machine and something terminal happens then is serious enough to affect the business or even the person to the extent that serious financial problems could follow.
However there has been an increase in using file storage which [...]
Torrent fines not paid
This is a slightly worrying subject which seems to have made its way under the wire, but no more. It has been found that the in recent years the attempts of lawyers acting on behalf of the media companies who believe that they are in breach of copyright.
This information comes from Logistep who are an [...]
The world’s fastest computer
It may have cost around £50 million to build, but the computer which has been called “Roadrunner” is reputed to be the fastest computer in the world.
It was announced by scientists in Washington, USA that the computer will be able to perform around 1,000 trillion actions per second. This was found by running the computer [...]
Two years after being raided, the Pirate Bay survives
It was the end of May two years ago when the Pirate Bay was raided by the Swedish police and the two owners of the site were arrested, but not for long.
The sites servers were taken and to all intents and purposes the authorities may have thought that they had effectively closed down the Pirates [...]
Swedish file sharer convicted
File sharing can sometimes lead to jail, especially if you live in Sweden. This where the trial of a file sharer was found guilty of file sharing, but actually got a suspended sentence for his troubles. The only saving grace is the fact that the court stated that he would have gone to prison, but [...]
April 10, 2008Microsoft reveals some code
For the first time the software giant Microsoft revealed some fourteen thousand pages of tech documentation for core software code. This will for the very first time show off the protocols for Office 2007, Office Share Point Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007.
Naturally the idea behind this is for the company to be more open [...]
Nearly all teenagers download illegally
Recently there we noted that there have been changes in the views of the main record companies as they try to capture a slice of the download market. This is a great move by them and will show the younger internet users that they can be up with the latest technology.
But for some people this [...]