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S'pore mulls 'three-strikes' law against piracy
News Country evaluating new law to curb online piracy from persistent users who refuse to heed repeated warnings, cutting Internet access to violators.
Tags: Piracy, Regulations, Piracy, Internet Access, IPO, Singapore, Internet Service, intellectual property, movie, Internet Service Provider
WiMax wait for Centrino 2 users outside US
News Intel says it will launch its integrated WiMax module for the Centrino 2 soon, but for now, the platform will support only 2.5GHz deployments.
Tags: Processors, Network infrastructure, Notebooks and tablets, WiMax, Mobile, Broadband, Notebook, Intel Centrino 2, Intel Centrino, network
More redundancy needed for global links
News Ongoing and planned network upgrades between Asia and U.S. sufficient for bandwidth demands, but ISPs need redundancy to better manage outages.
Tags: Bandwidth, Ethernet, Pacnet Ltd., BGP, network, Asia, Broadband, Cable, Internet Service Provider, network provider
Pirate Bay founder accused of running Reservella
News BREIN, a Dutch trade group representing copyright owners, claims to have uncovered documents revealing that Fredrik Neij is CEO of Thepiratebay.org's listed owner.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Digital rights management (DRM), Web sites, Web 2.0, Reservella, BREIN, BitTorrent, file-swapping, Europe
Swedish court orders shutdown of The Pirate Bay
News Swedish ISP said it was ordered to shut down the BitTorrent tracking site or face penalties. It's unclear when the site will, if ever, come back online.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, software company, copyright violation, Internet Service, financial, founder, Internet Service Provider, Internet Cafe, Internet
Fund will help alleged Swedish pirates hit by new law
News Pirate Bay spokesperson and Swedish politicians create fund to help alleged pirates fight accusations after the passage of new antipiracy law.
Tags: Piracy, Funding, Audio Book, Fund, Law, Piracy, Backup, Integrity Association, IP, IPRED
Spam reduced following Pricewert shutdown
News Botnets appear to have suffered a big blow with the shutdown of Pricewert, resulting in the reduction of spam activities by 15 percent globally.
Tags: Spam and phishing, MessageLabs Ltd., Spam, Spammer, FTC, Internet Service, Anti-spam, Internet User, Symantec Corp., Internet Service Provider
Spam volume down in September
News MessageLabs cites demise of one ISP and finds that the peak time of day for sexually explicit spam falls around the noon hour.
Tags: Spam and phishing, MessageLabs Ltd., Security, e-mail spam, Server, security company, Internet Service Provider, Internet, blog, service provider
Tapping Twitter to monitor broadband outages
News Australian Internet access provider Telstra is using the microblogging service to monitor service interruptions and contact customers about support plans. Will its rivals follow suit?
Tags: Web 2.0, Twitter, Broadband, Optus, Outage, Telstra Corp., Internet Service Provider, managing director, Internet, monitor
Hollywood hunts The Pirate Bay; site down again
News Sources say lawyers in Sweden working for copyright owners are tracking down whoever provides bandwidth to The Pirate Bay and then forcing them to cut off service.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Digital rights management (DRM), Site, Blackout, Web 2.0, Web sites, BitTorrent, attorney, Ukraine
Pirate Bay suffers outage, site back up
News The controversial BitTorrent search engine goes down for at least three hours the day after the site's ISP reportedly cut off service.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Web 2.0, search engine, Site, CBS Interactive Inc., Entertainment Company, BitTorrent, entertainment, Internet Service, Pirate Bay
France adopts three-strikes law for piracy
News Soon, those in France accused of illegal file sharing multiple times could lose Internet access for up to a year, if they don't heed warnings.
Tags: Piracy, Web services, Law, ACTA Member, U.S., job, Piracy, Internet Access, European Union, antipiracy
Google: Pirate Bay booted off search by mistake
News Site is unavailable on Google's search pages for a while last week, but Google says it was just a mistake. The controversial BitTorrent search engine is being indexed again.
Tags: Web 2.0, Digital rights management (DRM), Google Inc., search engine, TV, attorney, Internet Service, Internet Service Provider, Google Search, Internet
China Web clampdown ahead of anniversary
News Reports suggest the Chinese government has been taking more steps to censor the Internet in the run-up to celebrations of 60 years of the republic.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Business Strategies & Functions, Data Management, Relay, Security, Blue Cross Blue Shield, network, software, Business Strategies & Functions
US$39M cost of tracking e-mail and phone calls
News U.K. Home Office reveals multimillion-pound cost of monitoring kingdom's communications.
Tags: Security, Privacy, Government, data retention, communications service provider, Internet Service, phone, e-mail, electronic communication, Internet Service Provider
