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Five Years of Digg...and counting
blog.digg.com — Five years ago today, Digg.com went live. What started as a simple idea has certainly come a long way. Two fun things to commemorate this day: Dec. 4, 2009 has been declared Digg.com day in San Francisco. And we're excited to launch Digg365, a way to see the top 10 stories on Digg on any given day, month or year. Happy 5th Birthday! - Kevin (Submitted by aubs) More…
Analyst: "Bandwidth hogs" a myth, just like unicorns
arstechnica.com — One analyst has had it with Internet data caps. Bandwidth hogs are a myth, he says, and caps simply penalize heavy users who cause no problems for others. Now, he's throwing down the gauntlet and challenging ISPs to turn over some data for analysis. (Submitted by MrBabyMan) More…
Mininova Traffic Plummets After Going 'Legal'
torrentfreak.com — Roughly a week ago, Mininova was still the largest torrent site on the Internet, but this quickly changed after the site's founders removed of millions of torrents to avoid having to pay millions of dollars in fines. In the following days, traffic to the site dropped 66%, while the number of daily downloads are less than 4% of what they used to be (Submitted by mklopez) More…
Sprint fed customer GPS data to cops over 8 million times
arstechnica.com — A blogger has released audio of Sprint's Electronic Surveillance Manager describing the carrier's cooperation with law enforcement. Among the revelations are that Sprint has so far filled over 8 million requests from LEOs for customer GPS data. (Submitted by louiebaur) More…

