Mininova Deletes All Infringing Torrents and Goes "Legal"
torrentfreak.com — Mininova, the largest torrent site on the Internet, has removed all torrents except those that were uploaded through its content distribution service. Mininova’s founders took the drastic decision after they lost a civil dispute against Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, and were ordered to remove all infringing torrents from the site. (Submitted by synctext) More…
10 Alternatives To Mininova
torrentfreak.com — After nearly five years of loyal service, Mininova disabled access to over a million torrent files when it partly shut down its website. Starting today, only approved publishers are able to upload files to the site, but luckily there are plenty of alternatives and potential replacements BitTorrent users can flock to. (Submitted by Shar3Mor3) More…
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lifehacker.com — As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our computers a feast of their own. (Submitted by mebbin) More…
Never Back Down - Pirate Bay Adapts To Stay Alive
torrentfreak.com — Most other sites would have thrown in the towel by now, but despite unprecedented pressure, somehow The Pirate Bay remains alive and in pretty good health today. As one door closes, the site morphs and adapts to find ways to stay open and possibly even stay legal. Is the site becoming more and more difficult to shut down? (Submitted by MonochromeNight) More…
Black Friday for the U.S Air Force = 2200 PS3s
motherboard.tv — The Air Force is buying 2,200 PlayStation3s. They’ll use them to build a Linux supercomputer. Their current one, made of 336 of the old-style consoles at a cost of $118,000, has already been used for a few applications not currently available on the regular stand-alone, non-supercomputer PS3. (Submitted by MMusick) More…
Google set to map the world - and push out GPS makers
bloggingstocks.com — In what seems to be the norm for Google, it is once again disrupting an entire market by giving something away for free that's both competitive and capable. TomTom and Garmin saw their share prices plummet upon Google's announcement, and rightfully so. (Submitted by AmyVernon) More…
Pub fined $13k for Wi-Fi copyright infringement
news.cnet.com — A pub owner in the U.K. has been fined £8,000 (about $13,183) because someone unlawfully downloaded copyrighted material over its open Wi-Fi hotspot, according to the managing director of hotspot provider The Cloud. (Submitted by Hearron) More…
White House official's net neutrality comments irk AT&T
washingtonpost.com — AT&T doesn't like the idea of new regulations mandating unfettered access to the Internet, and recent comments from the Obama administration that connected the issue to censorship in China have really gotten under its skin. (Submitted by brazilianwinter) More…
Blogger gets hacked. Interviews the 17yr old who did it.
thenextweb.com — At first I shrugged it off and was ready to forget about the whole thing but then I decided to email the hacker and ask for an interview. I was wondering why he picked my blog, what his goals were and why he used that turkish text and flag. I didn’t expect any answer but within a few hours the hacker replied and agreed to an interview via MSN. (Submitted by TalSiach) More…
4th Generation iPhone Now Being Tested
mashable.com — References to "iPhone3,1" was first discovered in the iPhone firmware files back in August, but this seems to be the first time that it has been spotted "in the wild". Apple similarly began testing the iPhone 3GS (iPhone2,1) back in October of 2008 about 8 months ahead of its launch. (Submitted by jerryjamesstone) More…
iPhone Apps Apple Didn't Want you to Use Revealed on Site
readwriteweb.com — A new website aims to publicize the details surrounding the much-maligned iPhone application review process - Apple's secretive procedures that have been under heavy scrutiny this year, especially ... According to the site's About page, Martin writes that "it's now gone from 'easy' to 'tricky' to avoid getting your app rejected by Apple." (Submitted by Surferess) More…
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