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Even the BSA attacking Mandy over P2P crackdown
Blog Peter Mandelson's proposals for cutting off file-sharers have kicked up an almighty ruckus. Technical and legal experts, as well and ISPs and the Open Rights Group, are lining up to give the business/first secretary a drubbing.
[August 25, 2009, 17:16]
HD movies + P2P = ISP pain
Blog Tired of your ISP's bandwidth caps? Well, if you're a fan of both HDTV and P2P you could end up even less keen. Many thanks to James Enck for pointing out the reality of dodgily sending/receiving high definition movies.
[January 15, 2007, 9:27]
HTTP beats P2P in North America
Blog Some very interesting stats have been released by a company called Ellecoya, who optimise broadband networks for operators. They relate to North America, but I can't imagine the picture would be radically different in the UK.
[June 19, 2007, 9:53]
Is this the future for legal P2P?
Blog I'm not sure whether the cloud or the silver lining is more dominant in this particular story. The background is that of internet service providers, the "content" industry and the vast swathes of naughty people illegally downloading and uploading...
[August 13, 2008, 15:23]
UK P2P user? Hope you like US prison food
Blog This is one of the most frightening things I've learned in a long time. Over in the US, a bill has passed the House of Representatives and is heading to Congress - with a huge amount of support. The PRO-IP bill, H.R.4279, significantly increases...
[June 11, 2008, 13:19]
The First iPhone Mobile Torrent
Blog The First iPhone Mobile Torrent Arrives By: Eric Everson, MyMobiSafe.com has been dog-eared as the “Year of the Mobile Torrent” so it stands to be expected that the first iPhone torrent has arrived as predicted.
[March 17, 2008, 16:25]
Aussie ISPs just say 'no' to filtering
Blog Australian ISPs are not exactly falling over themselves to trial a scheme by the government to filter web content, according to an Ars Technica article. Internet censorship is dodgy at the best of times -- I immediately think of repressive regimes...
[November 12, 2008, 16:50]
RIAA, Lead Dog for the IP Entertainment Industry
Blog Here's a URL related to the RIAA recent push into ISP-land.http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/12/riaa-v-people-turns-lawsuits-3-strikes Essentially the RIAA wants the ISPs to send an email (presumably) to their customers accusing them of file...
[January 5, 2009, 12:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Thursday 11/9/2003 Possibly the best headline of the RIAA fiasco comes today: Music industry delighted with $2000 victory over 12-year-old. This comes at the same time as the RIAA offers an "amnesty", where you sign a legal document saying you've...
[September 12, 2003, 17:00]
Filesharing and bilesharing: a 'three-strikes' rant
Blog The UK Film Council and other luminaries of the creative industries have gone on the warpath about filesharing, calling for persistent sharers to be kicked off the internet. According to the BBC, the coalition "wants the government to force...
[May 12, 2009, 12:43]
The BPI's grand waste of paper
Blog Now that I've written my straight news story on the BPI's imminent scare campaign against illegal filesharing, I thought I'd vent my spleen on the subject. What's going to happen is that hundreds of thousands of letters will be sent out...
[July 24, 2008, 16:43]
Pick of the week: Under the all-seeing eye
Blog Here's this week's highlights, with Vista again in the crosshairs and what a constabular street stop might look like if we all had to carry ID cards. RE: Microsoft's Mojave just a desert vista blog comment Welshtroll can’t think of anything worse...
[August 15, 2008, 18:15]
Botnet more dangerous than Storm?
Blog Reports are starting to circulate of a botnet being seeded that could be more insidious than Storm, currently the largest and most sophisticated network of compromised computers. An article in Dark Reading warns of a Trojan that can circumvent most...
[February 8, 2008, 9:26]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 10/10/2005 Up in Cambridge, where I was taking part in a Cambridge MIT Institute day of wireless future roadmapping. I was there as much to throw ideas in as to take notes and a lot of what was said was off the record, so some things will...
[October 14, 2005, 18:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Thursday 20/1/2005 It was one of those discussions where nobody's too willing to give too much away. Peer-to-peer file sharing is going through changes, and people are moving ever more quickly from the big public areas to the private online clubs...
[January 21, 2005, 15:45]
Taking Out the Skype Garbage
Blog I don't write much about Skype any more, mostly because I find the entire company, its product and the situations surrounding it totally disgusting. However, a couple of things have come up which I just have to comment about.
[November 11, 2009, 9:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Thursday 22/7/2004 Long-term followers of the great Internet child-porn debate will be unsurprised that some confusion has followed BT's announcement that it has blocked hundreds of thousands of attempted accesses to naughty sites.
[July 23, 2004, 18:00]
MobileMoney:Africa's 11 - Interviews Barry Coetzee of Iveri Payments
Blog Emmanuel Okoegwale of MobileMoneyAfrica, Interviews the CEO of iVeri Payment technologies, Mr Barry Coetzee. Over View.iVeri creates technology for banks and businesses to facilitate multiple-channel transaction acceptance.
[May 14, 2009, 14:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 3/10/2005 Yesterday's paper had a free DVD: The Madness Of King George. Yippee! Nigel Hawthorne. Kew Gardens. Eccentric Englishness at its best, what what? Slap it into my newly constructed and utterly updated PC, and settle back for a...
[October 7, 2005, 19:30]
Of Qtrax and broken dreams
Blog Last thing last night - around 2am, Goodwins Mean Time - I was preparing to turn in. A last look around the news, and an outfit called QTrax was making some waves. Free music downloads, ad-supported, special client, unspecified DRM, blah.
[January 28, 2008, 7:40]
