Matias Vangsnes

Internet, communication and the concept of open source

Posts Tagged with "TorrentFreak"

Dutch court shuts down WordPress based Pirate Bay proxy

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

Website censorship: be careful what you wish for Pirate Bay to be blocked in the UK, court rules Blocking Pirate Bay obviously working as traffic shoots up An anti-censorship WordPress plugin which also acts as a proxy server for the Pirate Bay has been shut down following a court order on Friday. RePress, a plugin [...]

$7,000 Fine for Sharing “WordPress For Dummies” on BitTorrent

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

$7,000 Fine for Sharing “WordPress For Dummies” on BitTorrent Ernesto July 2, 2012 108 wiley Print A New York federal court has ordered a rare default judgment in favor of John Wiley Sons, one of the world’s largest book publishers. Robert Carpenter from Poughkeepsie, New York, has been ordered to pay the publisher $7,000 in [...]

Man fined $7,000 for sharing ‘WordPress for Dummies’ via BitTorrent

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

Robert Carpenter of Poughkeepsie, New York has been ordered to pay $7,000 in damages for sharing a copy of “WordPress All-in-One For Dummies” on BitTorrent. Carpenter was part of a mass filing by publisher John Wiley Sons last October that included 27 John Does allegedly caught sharing “For Dummies” books via BiTorrent. According to TorrentFreak, [...]

How To Make VPNs Even More Secure

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

How To Make VPNs Even More Secure enigmax April 15, 2012 95 privacy,vpn Print From being a niche product used by the few, in the past few years VPN services have hit the big time. These days more and more Internet users see running a privacy enhancing service as a requirement rather than just a [...]

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Technical project manager at Futurniture. General interest in Internet, communication and the concept of open source.

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