US net body challenged over .com
The row concerns the decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) to allow the private firm Verisign to maintain control of .com forever.
A trade body for internet businesses says the deal between Icann and Verisign breaks US anti-trust laws.
It has filed a lawsuit against the two parties [...]
Appeal Rejected in LOUD vs JANE DOE Fille-Sharing Case
Jane Doe’s appeal of 82-year-old Manhattan judge Robert W. Sweet’s order for the revealing of her indentity has been rejected.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that since it involved a subpoena to reveal someone’s identity it is not appealable by the person whose identity is to be [...]
Service Offers File Sharing Over Gmail
Appropriately named G2G Exchange, the Web-based service does have some drawbacks. It requires users to hand over their Gmail account information, although it can be configured to index only e-mails with certain labels. G2G’s FAQ page recommends that users create a new Gmail login specifically for sharing files.
The process also isn’t exactly [...]
Defragmenting Your PC
Why defrag ment your PC? Regularly scheduled defragmentation your PC is very important in maintaining your hard drive’s optimum performance.
A good metaphor is to think of your hard drive as a desktop covered with pieces of paper or files. Each time you add or remove files you scatter these pieces of paper around your [...]
Dutch company starts new Internet address system
UnifiedRoot S & M BV, based in Amsterdam, said its system allows its customers to use more intuitive Internet addresses that are easier to remember. They can combine the TLDs with second-level domains for categories of products and services, such as fruit.supermarket and vegetables.supermarket, for example.
"Take CNN," said Erik Seeboldt, UnifiedRoot’s managing director. [...]
Fake FBI virus catches net users
The bug-bearing message claims to come from either the FBI, CIA or German BKA police agency.
It warns users they have been detected visiting illegal sites. Those opening a questionnaire attached to the message will be infected by a variant of the well-known Sober virus.
Anti-virus firms have caught millions of copies of [...]
Kazaa to install anti-piracy tool
An Australian court has told Kazaa’s owners to impose a filtering system so searches for 3,000 keywords do not let users find copyrighted material.
Kazaa is making the changes to win a chance to have an appeal heard on a copyright case it lost in September.
It is unclear whether the keyword list [...]
Young ‘prefer illegal song swaps’
The report by Jupiter Research suggests European consumers who download music from illegal file-sharing websites outnumber those using legal services.
It says illegal networks are used three times as much as legal ones.
It also warns that file-sharers, particularly young people, have little concept of music as a paid commodity.
The UK [...]
Kazaa gets stay; industry sees changes
Kazaa will have to modify its software to filter out key words linked to copyrighted material by December 5 or be shut down, music industry officials have said of the ruling.
The court extended until late February a stay of an injunction barring it from distributing copyrighted recordings, Kazaa operator Sharman Networks said. [...]
Goodbye ed2k and bittorrent
It happened to Napster, Grokster, eDonkey (eMule is next) and finally BitTorrent.
Now the Dutch Supreme Court hammered down another nail. Peer 2 Peer has not died but most of its vital functions have seized under relentless attacks and is now on life-support.
