Scammers and con artists on the internet generally make their money by tricking the less web-savvy amongst us into parting with either their credit card or login details through fake sites, or convincing us that by paying them you can get unfettered access to all the pirated bounty of movies, music, and software that resides [...]
The Scammers Trying To Get People To Pay For Pirated Content Are Still Here
Posted on 09 May 2012
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No, Oracle Did Not Just Win Their Java Copyright Claim Against Google/Android
Posted on 08 May 2012
Various news outlets yesterday were running with the headline that Oracle had won their case in court against Google/Android over a claim of breach of copyright over Java, but the answer is just not that simple. Yes the jury found that Google had copied some of Java when building Android – but they could not [...]
Censoring The Pirate Bay Changes Nothing
Posted on 01 May 2012
Digital censorship seems to be the topic of the week here in the UK, as not long after David Cameron announced plans to censor adult material from the web, the High Court has ordered UK ISPS to block bittorrent file sharing haven The Pirate Bay. But what seems to have completely evaded the minds of [...]
Is It Time To Censor Pornography On The Web?
Posted on 01 May 2012
Ever since the web has been available to the masses there has been pornography of some form available to users within a few clicks – whether that be photographs on old 56k modems to the streaming 720p video of today. Pornography is one of those cases in which the more conservative believe it should be [...]
YouTube Music Share Ruling Another Blow for Online Freedom?
Posted on 28 April 2012
We’re mostly all aware by now of the USA government’s intention to introduce two bills that could change the way we share information over the internet. The SOPA and PIPA bills, if initiated, would severely limit what we can and can’t do over the internet. Under the proposed SOPA and PIPA bills, the government would [...]
Tim Berners-Lee Urges Internet Users to Demand Their Data From Facebook
Posted on 20 April 2012
Father of the Web The world renowned father of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has made some striking statements, which instructed people not to entrust personal data to internet giants like Facebook or Google. The statements were quickly reiterated through a vast range of online communities all wondering what steps they should begin to [...]
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Baidu Reveals Cloud Smartphone
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AMD Launches Trinity To Compete With Intel’s Ivy Bridge
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[DEAL] HP Pre 3 Firesale (£49 For 1.4GHz WebOS Smartphone)
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