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| May 31, 2022 | ‘Diablo Immortal’ Can’t Launch In Two Countries, Reportedly Due To Loot Boxes | Diablo Immortal Blizzard |
| May 31, 2022 | Diablo: Immortal won’t release in the Netherlands and Belgium due to lootboxes | Blizzard’s upcoming entry in the Diablo series, the free-to-play mobile and PC exclusive Diablo: Immortal, will no longer be releasing in the Netherlands and Belgium over loot box legislation.
Set to launch on June 2, Diablo: Immortal origi... |
| Mar 31, 2022 | Dutch Pirate Site Blocklist Expands with RARBG, YTS, EZTV and Others | Pirate site blocking is a common practice in dozens of countries around the world. In most cases, ISPs are ordered to take action after a relatively short court proceeding.
In the Netherlands, it took more than a decade for the first order ... |
| Feb 15, 2022 | New Cooler Master gaming monitor has killer mini-LED screen | Cooler Master has just unveiled a new monitor as part of its Chronos Summit product launch event that feartures a mini-LED panel with quantum dot technology.
The GP27-FQS is a 27-inch display that comes with a mini-LED QHD IPS panel that pr... |
| Aug 20, 2020 | This is the world’s first phone with a camera under the display | The ZTE Axon 20 5G will be the world’s first smartphone with an under-display camera.
The Chinese vendor will announce the handset on September 1st, but it’s already started teasing the phone on social media.
The first renders do not show a... |
| Jul 18, 2019 | Pirate Bay Overblocking Hits EZTV Due to Shared Cloudflare IP Address | The Pirate Bay is arguably the most widely blocked website on the Internet. ISPs from all over the world have been ordered to prevent users from accessing the torrent site.
This is also the case in the Netherlands. While the issue remains p... |
| Jun 8, 2019 | BGP event sends European mobile traffic through China Telecom for 2 hours | Enlarge / A graphical depiction of Thursday's BGP leak.
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| Apr 25, 2019 | BREIN Goes After ‘Pirate’ Plex Share With Thousands of Movies and TV-Shows | Plex is a multifunctional media server that allows users to easily organize all their entertainment in one place.
Whether it’s movies, music, TV-shows, or photos, Plex can organize and index, making the content ready to stream on a wide var... |
| Feb 5, 2019 | BREIN Explains Why It’s Not going After ‘Casual’ Pirates | When it comes to civil anti-piracy enforcement, BREIN is without a doubt one of the best-known players in the industry.
Backed by Hollywood and other content industries, the group has been active for more than two decades in the Netherlands... |
| Sep 6, 2018 | Court: Dutch Government is Liable For Controversial Piracy Claims | The Netherlands has long been a relaive safe haven for pirating consumers.
Downloading movies without permission, regardless of the source, was not punishable by law according to Government officials.
This eventually changed in 2014 when th... |
| Jul 13, 2018 | Anti-Piracy Group BREIN Plans to Target ‘Frequent’ Seeders | For many years, the Netherlands has been a relatively safe haven for online pirates.
Downloading movies without permission was not punishable by law, as long as it was for personal use. This changed in 2014 when the European Court of Justic... |
| Jul 12, 2018 | Usenet Users Have Privacy Rights, But Pirates Can’t be Anonymous | Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has targeted pirates of all shapes and sizes over the past several years.
It’s also one of the few groups to systematically track copyright infringers on Usenet, which still has millions of frequent users.
BREI... |
| Dec 8, 2017 | Dutch Film Distributor Wins Right To Chase Pirates, Store Data For 5 Years | For many years, Dutch Internet users were allowed to download copyrighted content without reprisals, provided it was for their own personal use.
In 2014, however, the European Court of Justice ruled that the country’s “piracy levy” to compe... |
| Oct 31, 2017 | ‘Pirate’ IPTV Provider Loses Case, Despite Not Offering Content Itself | In 2017, there can be little doubt that streaming is the big piracy engine of the moment. Dubbed Piracy 3.0 by the MPAA, the movement is causing tremendous headaches for rightsholders on a global scale.
One of the interesting things about t... |
| Oct 5, 2017 | Yarrrr! Dutch ISPs Block The Pirate Bay But It’s Bad Timing for Trolls | While many EU countries have millions of Internet pirates, few have given citizens the freedom to plunder like the Netherlands. For many years, Dutch Internet users actually went about their illegal downloading with government blessing.
Jus... |
| Sep 6, 2017 | Mandatory Piracy Filters Could Breach Human Rights, EU Members Warn | Last year, the European Commission published its long-awaited proposal to modernize EU copyright law. Among other things, it will require online services to do more to fight piracy.
Specifically, Article 13 of the proposed Copyright Directi... |
| Jul 20, 2017 | BREIN Wants to Speed Up Dutch Pirate Bay Blockade | While website blocking has become a common occurrence in many European countries, it has proven to be a rather cumbersome and slow-moving process in the Netherlands.
Seven years ago, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN went to court to try and fo... |
| Jun 22, 2017 | Camera trickery: the OnePlus 5 does NOT offer lossless 2x optical zoom | Just one day after the launch of the long-awaited OnePlus 5, accusations of cheating in benchmarks started to creep out -- just as they did with the OnePlus 3T. Now another minor controversy has hit the brand new handset: it turns out that ... |
| Jun 9, 2017 | Usenet Provider is Obliged to Identify Pirates, Court Rules | Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has targeted pirates of all shapes and sizes over the past several years.
It’s also one of the few groups that actively tracks down copyright infringers on Usenet, which still has millions of frequent users.
BR... |
| Feb 24, 2017 | Movie Company Issues Warning Over Fake “Piracy” Fines | The letters in question were sent in the name of local distributer Dutch Filmworks and each quotes a standard fine of 150 euros per download. Adding in a classic conversion trick, those who pay within eights days only have to cough up €52.7... |
| Jan 24, 2017 | The Note 7 isn’t the only phone causing Samsung problems | Samsung has put to rest the Galaxy Note 7 scandal, but that might not be the only Galaxy-related problem the company has to deal with. Reports indicate that the Galaxy S7 edge might be suffering from a strange display issue that’s affecting... |
| Jan 18, 2017 | ISP Says it Won’t Send BREIN’s Anti-Piracy Warnings | As one of Europe’s most prominent anti-piracy groups, BREIN is at the forefront of copyright enforcement in the Netherlands. In early January the outfit revealed some its achievements over the past year, including enforcement actions agains... |
| Feb 13, 2016 | Exynos-Powered Galaxy S7 Will Sell For 700 Euros, Galaxy S7 Edge For 800 Euros In The UK: Report | Sumit Passary, Tech Times 13 February 2016, 05:02 am
The launch of the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 Edge is just a week away, and talk about the upcoming smartphones continue to emerge. New rumors suggest the purported prices of the upcoming... |
| Feb 5, 2016 | Movie Industry Demands €1.2 Billion Piracy Damages from Dutch Govt | Compared to many other countries around the world, pirating movies and TV-shows is hugely popular in the Netherlands.
Up to a third of the population is estimated to download and stream copyrighted content without paying for it.
This high p... |
| Dec 7, 2015 | Busted Kickass and Pirate Bay Uploaders Crowdfund ‘Fines’ | Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has been very active recently, targeting several prolific KickassTorrents and Pirate Bay uploaders.
Most recently it tracked down two members of the DMT (Dutch Movie Theater) group, who shared thousands of tor... |
| Nov 12, 2015 | Filmmakers to Sue Dutch State Over Lost Piracy Revenue | Compared to many other countries around the world, pirating movies and TV-shows is hugely popular in the Netherlands.
Up to a third of the population is estimated to download and stream copyrighted content without paying for it.
This high p... |
| Oct 6, 2015 | Google Must Expose eBook Pirate, Court Rules | Earlier this year the General Publishers Group (GAU) discovered that several eBooks belonging to its members were being sold illegally on Google Play.
Using the handle Flamanca Hollanda / Dragonletebooks, a Google Play ‘publisher’ was selli... |
| Sep 29, 2015 | Dutch Filmmakers Claim Piracy Damages From Government | Compared to many other countries around the world, pirating movies and TV-shows is hugely popular in the Netherlands.
Up to a third of the population is estimated to download and stream copyrighted content without paying for it.
This high p... |
| Sep 18, 2015 | In blunder threatening Windows users, D-Link publishes code-signing key | reader comments 68 with 51 posters participating
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| Jul 15, 2015 | JPEG Looking To Add DRM To Images… Supposedly To Protect Images From Gov't Surveillance | You may recall the mess a few years ago when, under pressure from the movie studios, along with Netflix and Microsoft, the W3C agreed to add DRM to HTML5. This resulted in lots of debates and reasonable anger from people who found that the ... |
| May 29, 2015 | Advocate General Doubts Legality of Pirate Bay Blockade | Early last year The Court of The Hague handed down its decision in a long running case which had previously forced two Dutch ISPs, Ziggo and XS4ALL, to block The Pirate Bay.
The Court ruled against local anti-piracy outfit BREIN, concluding... |
| Mar 16, 2015 | HTC’s new One M9 is a hot phone, heats up to 130 degrees in one benchmark test | The new HTC One M9 phone was one of the hot new phones announced at Mobile World Congress earlier this month. Now tests are showing that the phone is hot in other ways, too.
The Dutch phone site Tweakers put a series of flagship phones thro... |
| Mar 16, 2015 | HTC’s new One M9 is a hot phone, heats up to 130 degrees in one benchmark test | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The new HTC One M9 phone was one of the hot new phones announced at Mobile World Congress earlier this month. Now tests are showing tha... |
| Jan 21, 2015 | How Europe wins when local startups sell to big U.S. tech firms | News emerged today that Apple has acquired London-based startup Semetric, the company behind music analytics tool Musicmetric. The move is a clear sign that Apple is targeting big data with the impending relaunch of its Beats Music service.... |
| Jan 21, 2015 | How Europe wins when local startups sell to big U.S. tech firms | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
News emerged today that Apple has acquired London... |
| Aug 19, 2014 | Court: Usenet Provider Doesn’t Have to Filter Pirated Content | In 2009, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN, representing the movie and music industries, took Europe’s largest Usenet provider News-Service Europe (NSE) to court.
Through the court BREIN demanded that NSE delete all infringing content from its ... |
| Apr 25, 2014 | New Download Ban Won’t Work, Politicians Say | Just like other citizens around the globe, for years the Dutch have enjoyed downloading their favorite music, movies and TV shows from the Internet. However, while people in most other countries do so while breaking the law, residents of th... |
| Apr 10, 2014 | The Netherlands Must Outlaw Downloading, EU Court Rules (Update) | In common with many other countries around the world, downloading music and movies is hugely popular in the Netherlands. Surveys estimate that a third of the population downloads copyrighted content without paying for it.
Contrary to most o... |
| Feb 22, 2014 | Anti-Piracy Group Will Take Pirate Bay Blocking Case to Supreme Court | Following a 2010 attempt by Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN to force local ISP Ziggo to block The Pirate Bay, rival ISP XS4ALL joined in the fight against the Hollywood-funded group. Initially a court decided that the ISPs wouldn’t have to bl... |
| Jan 28, 2014 | ISPs No Longer Have to Block The Pirate Bay, Dutch Court Rules | The Pirate Bay is arguably the most-censored website on the Internet, but that’s no longer the case in the Netherlands.
In 2010 Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN went to court to try and force Ziggo, the Netherlands’ largest ISP, to block The P... |
| Dec 1, 2013 | Leaked Documents Show Dutch Rabobank Blocked Bitcoin for 'Ethical Reasons' | Rabobank, the Netherlands’ third-largest retail bank by market share, blocked its customers' transfers to bitcoin exchanges for 'ethical reasons', according to several first-hand customer reports and bank documents leaked to Dutch news site... |
| Nov 27, 2013 | Anti-Piracy Group ‘Extorts’ Cash From Subtitle Providers | Subtitle files distributed outside the United States are usually created for two purposes – to let foreign residents understand mainly English-speaking entertainment or to provide the deaf with a way to comprehend audio.
While many people g... |
| Oct 15, 2013 | Researchers Argue That Unavailability, Not Search Engines, Lead To Piracy | Every few months, the MPAA comes out of the woodwork to claim Google’s search results encourage piracy. According to their logic, the prevalence of illegal sources on Google’s front page indicates that something is wrong. Now a group of res... |
| Sep 14, 2013 | Netflix Uses Pirate Sites to Determine What Shows to Buy | Video streaming giant Netflix sees itself as one of the most prominent competitors to the many pirate sites that offer video content without owners’ permission.
However, these pirate sites also offer Netflix valuable information as to what ... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | Dutch TV Torrent Pirate Busted Through Twitter | A 28-year old Dutch man from The Hague has been caught sharing several Flemish TV shows via BitTorrent.
Police tracked down the alleged pirate via Twitter where he promoted his own rips of the shows, including the local version of Dancing W... |
| May 17, 2013 | Banking Privacy More Important than Copyright Enforcement, Court Rules | Founded way back in 2001, FTD grew to become the largest Usenet community in the Netherlands with around half a million members. The site indexed content on Usenet – typically movies, music and TV shows – via the ‘spots’ of its members.
Thi... |
| May 8, 2013 | Spotify DRM hole exploited by MP3-ripping Chrome extension | reader comments 52 with 39 posters participating
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| May 7, 2013 | Chrome Extension Rips Music From Spotify’s Web Player | Downloadify, a new Chrome extension published just a few hours ago enables users to download MP3 files from the Spotify web player.
Users who install the extension have the option to download any song on Spotify web player by double-clickin... |
| Apr 4, 2013 | Finally! Apple Reveals their Hybrid Notebook Tablet Details
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| Apr 3, 2013 | Pirate Bay Proxy Owner’s Bank Account Seized by Anti-Piracy Group | In the Netherlands and several other countries court-ordered blockades are supposed prevent the majority of the public from accessing The Pirate Bay.
Thus far the blockades haven’t been very effective. Instead, they caused a traffic shift f... |
| Mar 17, 2013 | Messaging Service WhatsApp To Extend Subscription Model To iOS This Year, But Don’t Hold Your Breath For A Desktop App | WhatsApp, the popular mobile messaging app that eschews advertising in favor of a paid model, is getting ready to bring its iOS app in line with the apps it makes for other platforms by turning it into an annual subscription service. Jan Ko... |
| Jan 23, 2013 | Court Refuses To Try Self-Confessed Pirate Bay Uploader | A Dutch Pirate Bay user who was reported to the authorities by Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has seen his case dropped.
In the first criminal case against a BitTorrent uploader in the Netherlands, Stefan K was accused of uploading 5,000 e-b... |
| Jan 16, 2013 | Math Teacher Convicted for Linking to Pirated Answer Sheets | To assist students a Dutch high school teacher linked to pdf copies of answer books from his personal website.
The pirated answer sheets were stored on file-hosting services including Microsoft’s Skydrive.
However, instead of sending take-d... |
| Nov 30, 2012 | Arendi Claims Apple's Every Product Infringes their Patents
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| Nov 21, 2012 | Paypal Bans Usenet Providers Over Piracy Concerns | PayPal is widely known for their aggressive stance towards BitTorrent sites and file-sharing services, and now this policy has also been actively applied to Usenet providers.
On Tuesday, PayPal cut off its services to five Usenet resellers ... |
| Nov 9, 2012 | Usenet Feels The Heat As Copyright Holders Try To Strip Away Content | Despite the BitTorrent explosion of the past few years there have always been file-sharers who believe that if you want secure access to content at the fastest speeds, Usenet is the place to obtain it.
Usenet does indeed have inherent secur... |
| Oct 24, 2012 | Torrent Site Webhost Ordered to Pay “Piracy” Damages | For years Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has tried to find out who is behind the SumoTorrent website.
After being initially hosted in the Netherlands, the site moved to Canada to escape BREIN’s jurisdiction, but it later returned as a client... |
| Oct 16, 2012 | Apple Wins Patents for Camera & NFC Alternative Technologies
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| Jul 5, 2012 | ISP: BitTorrent Traffic Increased After Pirate Bay Blockade | This week anti-Piracy group BREIN celebrated a victory against The Pirate Bay. Now 90% of the Dutch Internet users can no longer access the BitTorrent site directly, the site’s Alexa traffic rank in the Netherlands tanked.
The group conveni... |
| May 25, 2012 | Dutch ISPs Appeal Pirate Bay Blockade | Two weeks ago the Court of The Hague ordered several ISPs to prevent subscribers from accessing The Pirate Bay.
The ruling is a win for the local anti-piracy outfit BREIN, but it’s not the end of the legal dispute.
Two Dutch Internet provid... |
| May 24, 2012 | ISPs Refuse to Block New Pirate Bay IP-Address | Following an earlier court ruling that ordered Ziggo and XS4ALL, two of the Netherlands’ largest ISPs, to start blocking access to the The Pirate Bay, two weeks ago Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN chalked up another victory.
On May 10th, the ... |
| May 10, 2012 | Court Forbids Linking to Pirate Bay Proxies | After two Dutch ISPs were ordered to censor The Pirate Bay earlier this year there was an influx of visitors to Pirate Bay proxy sites.
In an attempt to take these proxies offline the Hollywood funded anti-piracy group BREIN obtained an inj... |
| Apr 13, 2012 | Censoring The Pirate Bay is Useless, Research Shows | In January, a Dutch court ruled that Ziggo, the largest ISP in the Netherlands, and competitor XS4ALL, must block access to The Pirate Bay.
The verdict was the first to bring broad censorship to the Netherlands, much to the disappointment o... |
| Apr 8, 2012 | Proxy War Against The Pirate Bay Heats Up | Last October the Antwerp Court of Appeal ordered two Belgian ISPs to block subscriber access to 11 domains connected to The Pirate Bay.
The local anti-piracy movement applauded the landmark verdict which opened the doors for further censors... |
| Mar 22, 2012 | Anti-Piracy Group Shuts Down Pirate Bay Proxies | In January, the Court of The Hague ruled that Ziggo, the largest ISP in the Netherlands, and competitor XS4ALL, must block access to The Pirate Bay.
The ruling was the first to bring broad censorship to the Netherlands, but as always the In... |
| Mar 20, 2012 | Is new iPad too hot or not? | The new iPad is a hot seller, according to Apple. It also may be a bit too hot to handle based on several tests of the device. At least two separate ones find that new iPad runs at least 10 degrees hotter than iPad 2. Not surprisingly, user... |
| Mar 20, 2012 | You’re not crazy: New iPad runs 10 degrees hotter than iPad 2 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Updated at 9:07 a.m. PT with Apple’s response.
Hope you like your apples crispy. The new iPad actually burns about 10 degrees hotter th... |
| Mar 20, 2012 | Third-gen iPad “operating well within our thermal specifications,” says Apple | Photograph by Tweakers.net reader comments 86 with 67 posters participating
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| Mar 20, 2012 | You’re not crazy: New iPad runs 10 degrees hotter than iPad 2 | Updated at 9:07 a.m. PT with Apple’s response.
Hope you like your apples crispy. The new iPad actually burns about 10 degrees hotter than the previous model, according to Dutch site Tweakers.net.
While just about everyone who has handled th... |
| Jan 29, 2012 | Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay | Two weeks ago, the Court of The Hague ruled that Ziggo, the largest ISP in the Netherlands, and competitor XS4ALL have to block access to The Pirate Bay.
The ruling was the first to bring broad censorship to the Netherlands and in a respons... |
| Jan 11, 2012 | Dutch ISPs Ordered To Block The Pirate Bay | In 2010, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN went to court to try and force Ziggo, the largest ISP in the Netherlands, to implement a DNS and IP address block of The Pirate Bay.
To help avoid a damaging legal precedent, Ziggo was joined in the ca... |
| Dec 24, 2011 | Dutch Parliament: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal | As in many other countries around the world, downloading music and movies is hugely popular in the Netherlands. A massive 30% of the population is said to do so.
Presently, the Dutch see downloading movies and music for personal use as “fai... |
| Nov 12, 2011 | ISPs: Blocking The Pirate Bay Violates Freedom of Expression | After the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN lost its preliminary case against the ISPs Ziggo and Xs4all, the group started a full trial to demand a blockade of The Pirate Bay.
Today the case was heard before Court of The Hague
BREIN wants the ... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | Payment Provider Hands Over Name of Torrent Site Owner | Hundreds of torrent sites, private BitTorrent trackers in particular, allow their users to donate money in exchange for extra features. In part, the site owners use this money to keep their sites afloat, but if it’s up to anti-piracy watchd... |
| Sep 12, 2011 | BREIN Wants PayPal To Cut Payments To File-Sharing Sites | Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN says that it wants to form partnerships with payment processors such as PayPal in order to strangle the finances of file-sharing sites.
“We are in talks with the Dutch payment providers and are working towards ... |
| May 19, 2011 | 10″ Dell Streak Pro tablet moves beyond Froyo, but no 3D Tegra | reader comments 36 with 23 posters participating
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Dell's upcoming 10-inch tablet is taking a more defined shape ahead of its expected June release. Tweaker claims that the 1... |
| May 3, 2011 | Trying To Limit Net Access, Dutch Telcos Accidentally Force Government To Speak Out On Net Neutrality | Although the below image has been circulating the internet as a satirical warning for some time now, Dutch telco KPN recently announced that it’s actually going to implement something like this due to declining revenue. The company stated t... |
| Apr 12, 2011 | Dutch Gov't Speaks Out Against Exporting Internet Filters; Then Introduces National Internet Filter | On the same day that Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs Verhagen announced efforts to prevent the export of internet filters to repressive regimes, State Secretary of Justice and Security Teeven announced the introduction of the national bl... |
| Apr 11, 2011 | Dutch Government To Outlaw File-Sharing and Block The Pirate Bay | Through the actions of anti-piracy outfit BREIN, The Netherlands has been in the news regularly in connection with file-sharing and copyright related cases.
The group was responsible for the demise of the once largest torrent site Mininova,... |
| Apr 7, 2011 | Apple Blows us Away with Smart Bezel Details!
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| Mar 15, 2011 | Dutch Chief Of Police Suggests National DNA-Database For All Citizens | The chief of police of the greater Rotterdam area has called for the creation of a DNA-database for all 16.6 million Dutch citizens. There is already a DNA-database in existence, but it only contains the DNA of 11,000 people since the polic... |
| Nov 24, 2010 | Dutch Artist Unions Call Government to Legalize File-Sharing | For years, downloading movies and music for personal use has been allowed under Dutch law, but the current Government has plans to change this.
This is a bad idea, according to the consumer watchdog artists unions. Instead, they have issued... |
| Jul 17, 2010 | Court Bans The Pirate Bay From The Netherlands | In an attempt to ensure that Dutch citizens can’t access The Pirate Bay, Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN took three of the tracker’s founders to court last summer.
The anti-piracy group won the case and Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and P... |
| Jun 8, 2010 | Bias Claims Overshadow Landmark Anti-Piracy Ruling | Last week movie studio Eyeworks won its lawsuit against Dutch Usenet community FTD. In the verdict, Judge Chris Hensen ruled that by allowing users to talk about a movie’s location on Usenet, FTD was effectively publishing the movie as if t... |
| Apr 20, 2010 | Leaked Windows Phone 7 docs describe updates, customization | Tweakers.net reader comments 46 with 31 posters participating
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| Apr 11, 2010 | For Windows Phone 7, Only The Best Is Good Enough | Feeling a bit disappointed with the recent(ish) announcement of the feature-reduced, locked-down OS that is Windows Phone 7? Despite valid arguments for the change, it does feel a bit like moving back in with your parents after finishing co... |
| Mar 8, 2010 | Dutch Pirate Party Joins Election Race | 2009 was a breakthrough year for the Pirate Party movement. With more than 7 percent of the vote, the Swedish Pirate Party secured two seats in the European Parliament.
A few weeks later, the Pirates in Germany entered the local Parliament ... |
| Dec 10, 2009 | Anti-Piracy Group Wants To Ban You From Talking About Usenet | The Usenet community FTD allows its nearly half a million members to discuss and report the location of material they find on Usenet, without explicitly linking to copyrighted content. The operators of the site see no harm in what they do, ... |
| Nov 28, 2009 | SceneTorrents BitTorrent Tracker Shuts Down | SceneTorrents (ScT) has been a respected and well-connected private BitTorrent tracker for more than four years. An invite for the tracker was hard to find, but the lucky few that did get in had little to complain about, until today that is... |
| Oct 5, 2009 | BREIN Disconnects The Pirate Bay, For Now | Since The Pirate Bay found a new home in Ukraine last week, traffic to the site has been routed through Netherlands-based ISP NForce, which uses the services of Dutch carrier Leaseweb.
In a response to this new setup, Dutch anti-piracy outf... |
| Jul 9, 2009 | Mininova Denied Rectification From Dutch Government | In an advisory report to the Dutch Government, a committee consisting of four members of the Parliament looked into the ever-increasing online piracy rate and how this should be dealt with in the future.
The committee concluded that downloa... |
| Jun 18, 2009 | European Countries Amp Up War on Piracy | Let’s begin with Sweden, the home of The Pirate Bay, where two prosecutors were hired last year to investigate copyright crimes. The prosecutors have since become frustrated with the police because they don’t have the resources to investiga... |
| Apr 9, 2009 | Rumors gel around a possible BlackBerry Storm sequel | As Research In Motion's first all-touchscreen BlackBerry, and one of the "Big Four" in the touchphone market that has dominated smartphone sales, the BlackBerry Storm is a formidable device.
Director of Research at ChangeWave, Pau... |
| Apr 8, 2009 | Rumor Redux: Storm 2 has Wi-Fi, better text input | So now some Dutch guy who seems to represent RIM in some vague sense now says that the Storm 2 will have an improved text input system, which seems to suggest a slide-out keyboard.
The new model will appear this or next year. We wrote about... |
| This is the world’s first phone with a camera under the display | The ZTE Axon 20 5G will be the world’s first smartphone with an under-display camera.
The Chinese vendor will announce the handset on September 1st, but it’s already started teasing the phone on social media.
The first renders do not show a... |
| Lithuania Pitches Pirate Site Blocking as Defense Against “Hybrid Warfare,” Including Russian Disinformation | The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (LRTK), the Baltic country’s media watchdog, has been one of Europe’s most active anti-piracy enforcers.
In recent years, it blocked hundreds of domains and thousands of IP addresses, fined u... |
| EU Ban on Russian War Propaganda Misfires: Blocks Social Media Giants & Pirate IPTV | Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the EU issued several waves of broad sanction packages against the country.
These measures included bans on state-owned news outlets, such as Russia Today and Sputnik, and also applied to the ... |
| Dutch Pirate Site Blocklist Expands with RARBG, YTS, EZTV and Others | Pirate site blocking is a common practice in dozens of countries around the world. In most cases, ISPs are ordered to take action after a relatively short court proceeding.
In the Netherlands, it took more than a decade for the first order ... |
| New report says Galaxy S7 will cost less than Apple’s iPhone 6s | Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge will be available for preorder on February 21st according to a recent report, and a new rumor now may reveal pricing for the two handsets.
DON’T MISS: Why I think iPhone 7 will mop the floor with the G... |
