Microsoft appears likely to offer a "Family Pack" version of Windows 7, according to language in a leaked test version of the operating system. This week enthusiasts started buzzing ... (more)

Earlier this year, anti-piracy outfit BREIN demanded the closure of Usenet community FTD. After negotiations between the pair came to nothing, BREIN declared FTD a criminal operation ... (more)

Last month a working group of the Dutch Parliament published a report in which they made various suggestions on how to deal with online piracy. In their analysis they made several false ... (more)

The Swedish gaming executive who’s gambling nearly $8 million buying The Pirate Bay is convinced he can turn the 20 million users of the world’s most notorious file sharing site ... (more)

I write this post in English because if the huge international interest in this matter. As all of you probably have heard by now, a few days ago The Pirate Bay was sold to a company ... (more)

Federal lawmakers want to know what’s going to happen to the sensitive data of more than 150,000 travelers left stranded after the country’s leading airport secruity fast-lane company ... (more)

Would you pay ten bucks per month for the chance to access thousands of school papers that your teachers won't find with a simple Google search? Essayrunner.com is betting that some ... (more)

Two federal agencies are now ready to hand out $4 billion in grants and loans to help bring broadband to the people and stimulate the economy, but applicants have to promise to play ... (more)

While there's been a lot of hype about peer-assisted technology [P2P] over the past few years, in reality, the technology has gotten very little adoption when it comes to being used ... (more)

The fight over music piracy has become increasingly brutal in recent months, with heated debate turning to outright culture-clash. A large segment of the population would readily agree ... (more)

As he rolls across the wheat fields of his Nebraska farm, Steve Tucker often has his hands not on the wheel of his tractor, but on a smartphone. He sometimes posts a dozen messages ... (more)

Microsoft promised that by purchasing the pricey Ultimate edition of Vista users would get all kinds of extras. However, for many, those extras turned out to be little more than ... (more)

After Global Gaming Factory X announced that it intends to buy The Pirate Bay for $7.8 million, the CEO of the company bombarded the press with his revolutionary plans for the site. ... (more)

France's government is gearing up for a new version of the controversial HADOPI legislation that would force ISPs to disconnect file sharers after three offenses. HADOPI's original ... (more)

Torrentreactor has long been regarded as one of the top bit torrent search engines, and with the demise of The Pirate Bay, it's likely bigger than ever. Now, it's been breached and ... (more)

A federal judge yesterday found Usenet.com liable for just about every copyright infringement claim on the books: direct infringement, inducement of infringement, contributory infringement, ... (more)

This could be a big story in the making: JLM Pacific Epoch is reporting that Chinese search giant Baidu is about to release a dedicated P2P search offering. The article, which is literally ... (more)

Firefox 3.5 can now be downloaded from Mozilla’s website, but some of the open source outfit’s servers appear to be having a little lie down at time of writing. Mozilla’s Get ... (more)

P2P file sharing is one of the widely used applications now days. The Torrent search engine is the utility which is excessively used in this context. As the young generation says “impatience ... (more)

The first thing that came to my mind today when I was reading the headlines about the sale of the Pirate Bay was Kazaa. Okay, that's not true. The first thing probably was something ... (more)

The suit appears to have been initiated by Music Copyright Solutions (MCS), which claims to administer copyrights for more than 45,000 compositions. MCS is named as the lead plaintiff, ... (more)

A date has been set for the high court to consider whether self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon should be tried in the UK. Lord Justice Stanley Burnton and Mr Justice Wilkie ... (more)

For years, hackers have used malicious software to perpetrate click fraud by hijacking the results displayed when users search for something online. The trouble is, these scams can ... (more)

The Recording Industry Association of America has prevailed in its copyright fight against Usenet.com, according to court documents. In a decision that hands the RIAA an overwhelming ... (more)

Even at the best of times, Internet traffic in Iran is subject to extensive filtering. But in the wake of the disputed election and the civil unrest that has followed, the government ... (more)

After the electoral success of Sweden's Pirate Party earlier this month, Pirate Parties are a-popping in Europe. The newest ones have appeared in France and the Czech Republic over ... (more)

Cablevision's "remote storage DVR" moved a DVR's hardware out of the living room and back into the cloud, but TV studios claimed copyright infringement. The Supreme Court's refusal ... (more)

PC makers won't have to meet the July 1 deadline to preinstall or prepackage China's Green Dam Youth Project, and the new deadline is still somewhat nebulous. Chinese authorities still ... (more)

New research from fiber backers finds that high-speed Internet access is now one of the top home amenities, with Verizon going so far as to say that home shoppers are looking for the ... (more)

A common problem for network administrators is when end users get in the habit of blaming the network for slowness on their workstations. For this reason it’s important for network ... (more)