The new AACS 2.0 encryption method used to protect Ultra HD Blu-rays from unlawful copying may have been cracked for the first time. A report from Torrent Freak brings word that a copy of Smurfs 2 has been posted to the BitTorrent tracker ...
Tags: HD Blu-rays, Blu-ray discs
Two of Britain's major music and film organisations have asked UK internet providers to create databases of customers illegally downloading music, film and books, and are asking for access to the information to help them to disconnect and ...
Tags: Computer Products, Consumer Electronics, Download Data
Downloading from illegal sources has increased instead of decreased six months after a court ordered ISPs in the Netherlands to block access to The Pirate Bay, according to research from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Tilburg ...
Tags: Computer Products
Intel this year plans to sell a set-top box and Internet-based streaming media service that will bundle TV channels for subscribers, but its plans will likely face hurdles from the 800-pound gorillas of the streaming media market. In ...
Tags: Intel, Cable Provider
You’ve got to hand it to the IT wizards at The Pirate Bay–they certainly know how to have fun with their infrastructure set-up. Echoing a prank from 2007, the Pirate Bay on Monday claimed the site was now being hosted in North ...
The Pirate Bay claims that North Korea has offered to provide network connectivity for its controversial search engine, which has faced a years-long battle to stay online. “We believe that being offered our virtual asylum in Korea ...
The Pirate Bay claims that North Korea has offered to provide network connectivity for its controversial search engine, which has faced a years-long battle to stay online. "We believe that being offered our virtual asylum in Korea is a ...
Tags: search engine, Computer Products, software
Every day new applications appear on the world's mobile communications networks and user behaviour keeps adapting to new ways of streaming video, sharing files and communicating. New business demands, such as traffic monetisation, must ...
Tags: mobile communications networks, streaming video, sharing files
IDG News Service-Illness and legal advice stopped two founders of The Pirate Bay from speaking at the Hack in the Box security conference on Wednesday. Neither Peter"brokep"Sunde nor Fredrik"tiamo"Neij made the trip to Kuala Lumpur for ...
Tags: pirate bay founders, tracked down
Computerworld-Microsoft may announce the first public preview of Office 2013,the likely name for its next productivity suite,at its annual gathering with partners later today. Although Microsoft has not publicly revealed its plans for ...
Security researchers have identified a botnet controlled by its creators over the Tor anonymity network. It's likely that other botnet operators will adopt this approach, according to the team from vulnerability assessment and penetration ...
Tags: Security researcher, botnet, Tor network, DDoS
IDG News Service - Get your conspiracy theories ready: Two founders of The Pirate Bay were due to speak at the Hack in the Box security conference in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, but didn't show up. The 3 p.m. speaking slot for Peter ...
Tags: Pirate Bay, Box security conference, Hack, cyber security
There are all kinds of Linux servers. The most complicated of these require you to be a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE). Many of them require you to do more than download a distro, burn a CD, and install and boot up your new bare-bones ...
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The file-sharing company BitTorrent has begun testing an advertising model through which it would share ad revenue with content producers whose work is downloaded through the service, promising a way for artists to monetize informal sharing ...
Tags: BitTorrent, advertising model, ad revenu, content producers
The Internet Archive, a non-profit project established to act as an online library of that preserves digital information, has to date offered up nearly a petabyte of content via the BitTorrent file-sharing site. In a blog post, The ...
Tags: Internet Archive, project, online library, digital information