The Pirate Bay could be blocked in the UK within months
Last year the MPA won a court case which required BT to block Newzbin2 and at that point it was predicted that many more would follow. Their next target was obviously going to be The Pirate Bay as it is regarded as the largest advocates of online piracy. Today that became a realisation with nine labels requesting The Pirate Bay be blocked.
Read more...Google will pay you to give up your online privacy
With Google eager to learn all it can about its users it has launched a new scheme named Screenwise. Users are rewarded every 3 months with a $5 Amazon gift card (up to a maximum of $25).
Read more...Anonymous hacks marine corps massacre case
Anonymous have been extremely busy today and not contempt with hacking the FBI they’ve gone after Puckett and Faraj who defended the corporal in his court case. The case in question involved marines mercilessly killing innocent civilians as revenge and named the Haditha Killings.
Read more...Facebook finally files its IPO
With a lot of speculation over the last few weeks Facebook has finally filed its IPO. In total Facebook will raise $5 billion from the IPO.
Read more...Firefox 10 is now available
With Mozilla keeping to their 6 week release cycle the next major release is now available in its final form. Much like Firefox 9 the list of features looks scarce with the first being “the forward button is now hidden until you navigate back”.
Read more...Looking for a new wallpaper? How about the highest definition image of the earth ever?
While everyone is familiar with the earth and its shape, images such as the above still mange to astound the world. NASA has released the HD image at a whopping 8000×8000 resolution.
Read more...Ever wondered what happens in a second on YouTube?
YouTube has put together a nice little website demonstrating that in a single second one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube along with some interesting statistics.
Read more...Anonymous launch OpUkraine to tackle Euro 2012 animal cruelty
Anonymous have launched yet another operation, this time to tackle the animal cruelty currently going on in Ukraine in preparation for Euro 2012.
Read more...Anonymous warns users to stay away from Anonyupload
After the Megaupload incident last week there has been a lot of hysteria in the file locker world with many services partially or completely shutting down. Amidst all of the action a new file locker turned up; Anonyupload. But is it legit? Anonymous claims it’s not.
Read more...FileSonic and Uploaded.to bow out in light of recent events
After Megaupload was shutdown earlier this week another large file-sharing website has shutdown its services. A statement was posted on FileSonic’s home page informing users that no further uploads would be allowed.
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