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RapidShare Fires 75% of its Staff After “Rogue Site” Revamp Bites
— After its launch in 2004, RapidShare's speedy growth saw the company become one the largest file-hosting sites on the Internet. — However, like all sites of this nature, RapidShare became popular with those looking to store copyright-infringing material.
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“Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Outfit Loses Company Status, Faces Penalties
— During the summer of 2011 the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with five major Internet providers in the United States, announcing their “six strikes” anti-piracy plan. — The parties founded the Center for Copyright Information …
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Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Censored 3D Printable Gun
— In late 2012 the 3D blueprint website Thingiverse decided to ban 3D gun designs, citing their terms of service which clearly prohibit files used to make weapons. — Enter DEFCAD, a site dedicated to hosting designs that have been banned at Thingiverse.
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Pirate Party Enters Iceland's National Parliament After Historic Election Win
— Founded in 2006, the Pirate party movement has scored some big and small victories over the years. — Their biggest success came in 2009 when the party won two seats at the European Parliament.
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Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain
— It has been a busy month for The Pirate Bay's IT department thus far, with the site skipping from domain to domain. — Two weeks ago the notorious BitTorrent site traded in its .SE domain for the Greenland-based .GL TLD.
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McAfee Patents Technology to Detect and Block Pirated Content
— For years copyright holders have urged search engines and Internet providers to make it harder for users to access infringing content online. — Thus far these efforts have been in vain, but anti-virus vendor McAfee …
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BitTorrent's Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public
— Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft Skydrive and Mega are just a few examples of the many file-storage and backup services that are available today. — All these services rely on external cloud based hosting to back up and store files.
| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
Massive BitTorrent and Cyberlocker Domain Crackdown Underway (Updated)
— The action is being billed as “A Monster from Rome” and when you look at the scale and implications that's hard to contest. — The Public Prosecutor of Rome, Italy, has targeted a total of 27 file-sharing related sites …
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The Pirate Bay Moves to .GL Domain in Anticipation of Domain Seizure
— The Pirate Bay switched to a new domain overnight, from the Swedish based .se to Greenland's .gl extension. The move to thepiratebay.gl will be permanent. — A Pirate Bay insider told TorrentFreak that the change …
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Movie Studios Want Google to Take Down Their Own Takedown Request
— There's a dark side to Google's transparency efforts, especially when it comes to publishing DMCA requests it receives from copyright holders. — With more than 100 million links to pirated files Google is steadily building …
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.