People in the U.S. gobbled up a whole lot of videos from YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, Hulu, and other sites in April, according to ComScore.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57437204-93/americans-watched-37-billion-online-videos-last-month/
Two of the five U.K. ISPs have already enacted site-blocking to prevent access to The Pirate Bay. More than a quarter of the U.K. population will see the site blocked by May 30.
More:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/uk-isps-must-block-the-pirate-bay-by-may-30/4712
The workforce computing landscape has become radically more complex, and the resources that employees need are shifting rapidly from inside the firewall to outside
Google loves big names. Prince Charles, David Cameron, Sir Richard Branson, Boris Johnson and James Murdoch are among those who went in previous years.
Previously:
The graffiti theme continued inside the warehouse where soaring Rye Bar cocktail stands and bars teemed with every top-shelf tipple imaginable. All the better to pair with the bounteous McCall Associates buffet stands groaning beneath sushi and lobster bars, spit-roasted suckling pigs, pounds of fresh-sliced proscuitto and Parker’s personal favorite, Mac & Cheese copiously sprinkled with just-shaved truffles, six pounds of the pungent tuber which McCall Executive Chefs Lucas Schoemaker and Josip Martinovic had flown in from France
http://vrritti.com/2011/09/24/the-graffiti-theme-continued-inside-the-warehouse-where-soaring-rye-bar-cocktail-stands-and-bars-teemed-with-every-top-shelf-tipple-imaginable-all-the-better-to-pair-with-the-bounteous-mccall-associa/
Fighting fire with fire
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/18/anonymous_ddos_india_sites/
New IP address: http://194.71.107.80/
The Pirate Bay’s IP Range: 194.71.107.0 – 194.71.107.255
inetnum: 194.71.107.0 – 194.71.107.255
netname: THEPIEATEBAY-NET
descr: The Pirate Bay
country: DE
route: 194.71.107.0/24
descr: The Pirate Bay
origin: AS50066
mnt-by: MNT-STN
source: RIPE # Filtered
The Dutch media report that the Dutch judge has not allowed BREIN to submit new IP addresses so BREIN may have to go back to court for each and every new IP address The Pirate Bay decides to use after a blockade has been implemented.
Dutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/110547/nieuw-ip-adres-pirate-bay-omzeilt-brein-blokkade.html
Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay’s Alexa Rank in the United Kingdom has dropped to the 50th spot, a rapid decline since 12th May 2012 when it was the 42nd most popular site in that country.
The plan was announced under the name ‘Copyright Alerts‘ in July last year and the first ISPs were expected to send out the first warnings before the end of 2011. But this deadline passed silently and as things stand now it looks like the July 1, 2012 deadline is not going to be met by all ISPs either.
TorrentFreak asked the CCI about the upcoming target date, and their response suggests that things may take longer than expected.
“The dates mentioned in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) are not hard deadlines but were intended to keep us on track to have the Copyright Alert System up and running as quickly as possible and in the most consumer friendly manner possible,” a spokesperson told us.
“We do not intend to launch until we are confident that the program is consumer friendly and able to be implemented in a manner consistent with all of the goals of the MOU. We expect our implementation to begin later this year.”
In other words, it’s taking more time than expected. That said, the CCI did inform us that they have finally selected a third-party company that will be responsible for monitoring BitTorrent swarms. However, the name of the firm remains a secret for now.
More:
http://torrentfreak.com/us-six-strikes-anti-piracy-scheme-delayed-120518/
