UK ISP Increases Connections Speeds, Will Throttle P2P
BT network upgrades will mean much faster broadband speeds, but new traffic management equipment will restrict P2P bandwidth.
UK ISP BT has launched a new Infinity broadband service that will give residential customers a 40Mbps download speed, and up to a 10Mbps upload speed. The current highest residential speed service it offers is 20Mbps.
The catch? The [...]
CES 2010: Conversation with Tom “Slyck” Mennecke
While CES is primarily a occasion to see new gadgets and new software, it is also a gathering of hundreds of thousands of technology enthusiasts, both professional and hobbyist. Visitors come from all over the US and the world, and it can often make for some great conversations about the devices we love (and sometimes [...]
2009 – A ZeroPaid Year In Review – Part 3 of 3
We wrap things up with the last third of 2009. Part one. Part 2.
September
September started off with the continuation of the Jammie Thomas trial where Thomas appealed her $80,000 fine. Amongst other arguments, the fine seemed to be arbitrarily selected.
After a ThePirateBay Mixtape of all the songs Joel Tenenbaum was fined for, an [...]
2009 – A ZeroPaid Year in Review – Part 1 of 3
2008 was an interesting year in file-sharing and 2009 didn’t necessarily disappoint. There was plenty of ways to look at it, but there is one way one can look at the year – eventful. ZeroPaid reviews 2009.
January
2009 kicked things off with a bang with the ever ongoing Australian plan to filter the internet. [...]
Spain Mulls Shuttering P2P Sites Without a Court Order
When a crime is committed, one would think that allegations can be disputed in court. Apparently, the Spanish government is currently considering a law that would allow rights holders to shut down an internet site without a court order.
There’s a stunning turn of events occurring in Spain right now. According to information gathered [...]
Have You Been Falsely Accused of Copyright Infringement?
With a push by the content industry to put in place a global three strikes law or worse, ZeroPaid wants to know, have you been falsely accused of copyright infringement?
DMCA notices are notorious for relying on what has been widely accepted as flimsy evidence at best. Still, saying that an IP address, a file [...]
New Study Concludes That, Yes, Israeli ISPs Throttle P2P
There’s apparently been rumours floating around that ISPs in Israel have been throttling P2P traffic like BitTorrent. Now an in-depth study by Jonathan Klinger has been released that concludes that, yes, ISPs in Israel throttle P2P traffic.
YNetNews is reporting that one of its bloggers has just finished and published what is being billed as [...]
The reports of P2P’s death remain greatly exaggerated
It is not often that one gets to see justice, of a sort anyway, happen so quickly. Just Thursday, The Economist magazine, one of the most influential and widely read business news publications in the world, published an article and corresponding editorial crowing about how the problem of piracy in the music industry was coming [...]
Spanish Govt to Establish Anti-P2P Commission
Representatives from the Justice, Industry, Interior and Culture ministries would design a legal framework to to solve the problem of illegal downloading.
Much to the chagrin of copyright holders and govt officials, Spanish courts have a long history of recognizing the difference between commercial and noncommercial file-sharing, and looks as though the former intends to change [...]
