Karoo vs. P2P
UK-based ISP Karoo was recently forced to change its longstanding policy of immediately cutting off anyone who was accused of filesharing, without warning…
"It was forced to relax its stance a…
Archive for the 'Consumer rights' Category
27 July
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08 February
0Comments CNN.com Live Uses Octoshape P2P Plugin
WindowsSecrets' Brian Livingston broke the news this week that CNN's live streaming of the inauguration on January 20th was enabled by a P2P plugin, Octoshape Grid Delivery.
"Web surfers …
04 July
0Comments EU ISPs to ban p2p… but save net neutrality?
In a seriously odd twist of events EU ISPs are working together on a new set of rules about how the providers are going to run their packages; and it's sort of a mixed result, the setup will make …
16 June
0Comments Bittorrent Users refusing to pay fines….
A company in the UK by the name of Davenport Lyons is seeming a tad fishy at the moment… it keeps on sending out letters to people who have supposedly downloaded, or uploaded games via bittorrent,…
05 February
0Comments Denmark orders ISP to block The Pirate Bay
The pirate bay, spearheads of the anti-RIAA/MPAA movement, have just had been blocked by an ISP in Denmark. Of course, the courts were involved, and it all boils down to judging whether the site is …
30 January
0Comments Victory for EU privacy
The top European courts have today ruled once and for all that ISPs are not required to give up details of their subscribers in cases of a civil nature. This covers all cases where organizations req…
28 December
0Comments IFPI plans to censor your net.
The IFPI, that company we all know and love, has come up with another slightly insane plan to destroy everything that looks like it may have once thought about sharing a file.
They claim that Europe …
30 November
0Comments Net neutrality not the answer?
CNet have written up a nice article summing up why it is possible that the "Net Neutrality" that is being contested and debated All over the place, may not be the answer to ISPs actively l…
13 August
0Comments EFF Fights for First Sale
The "first sale" doctrine is simple. You buy it. You own it. You can do whatever you like with it.
In the digital world that's not so obvious. Record companies, software developers, and…
07 August
0Comments AT&T To Monitor Your Internet Use
ISPs used to protect their subscribers. No more. When they start selling entertainment and get in bed with Hollywood, you the consumer are back to sleeping on the floor with the dogs.
AT&T, the l…