Tag Archives : Filesharing

Facebook If you think your information is only available to those visiting your Facebook page, you are wrong. The personal details of 100 million users of  Facebook are now available for download after they were leaked online. Ron Bowles, an online security consultant, used a code to scan Facebook profiles, collected data not hidden by users’ privacy settings, and compiled a list, [...]

File sharing copyrighted material is now as old as Napster which turns out to be more than 10 years old, where did the time go? Anyway I digress, last night the recording industry vs people report that the RIAA were throwing literally millions upon millions of dollars to recover tiny amounts in damages from the likes of you and I. Image via Wikipedia In 2008 it is reported that their legal [...]

Image via CrunchBase One of the most loved and used P2P  sharing web service LimeWire is facing imminent closure, courtesy,  a verdict by a US  federal court judge which  has  delivered a death blow to LimeWire , which is still  one of the most popular and oldest file-sharing systems. U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood granted summary judgment in favor of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association [...]

Image via Wikipedia Sending your large videos or business presentation files through online file storage sites such as yousendit or downloading the video shared by your friend through megaupload will soon be a thing of the past if the UK governments proposed ‘Digital Economy Bill’ passes which among other things “imposes obligations on internet service providers to reduce online [...]