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| Feb 25, 2026 | IP Гайд: Как правильно читать IP-адреса в антифроде | Введение
IP-адрес (Internet Protocol address) — это уникальный числовой идентификатор устройства в сети Интернет. Это своеобразный "почтовый адрес" компьютера или смартфона: по нему сервер определяет источник запроса и адрес для о... |
| Sep 18, 2025 | Купил домен — получил бан: как проверить историю домена и не слить SEO-бюджет (Инструкция) | Каждый день тысячи доменных имён становятся свободными. Для SEO-специалистов это шанс быстро вывести новый проект в топ на готовой репутации. Но это и ловушка. Вместе с доменом вы покупаете всё его цифровое прошлое, и расплачиваться за грех... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains | Enlarge / A person made of many parts, similar to the attorney who handles both severe criminal law and copyright takedowns for an Arizona law firm.
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If you run a personal or hobby website, getting a copyright... |
| Jan 15, 2024 | Устанавливаем владельцев сайтов методами OSINT | Всем привет! В этой обзорной статье мы расскажем как установить владельца сайта с помощью OSINT. Материал рассчитан на неспециалистов. Так что начнeм с самых элементарных вещей, а затем пройдeмся и по неочевидным методам, которые позволят н... |
| Oct 20, 2023 | Проверяем контакты: OSINT и иные методы | Всем привет! Сегодня у нас большая обзорная статья о различных способах проверки контактов. Кратко пройдемся по всевозможным методам для сбора информации, составим список полезных в каждом случае сервисов и затронем ограничения того или ино... |
| Apr 3, 2023 | OpenAI files a UDRP case against the current owner of ChatGPT.com | On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a large AI language model based on the third-generation Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT-2) architecture. The chatbot was designed to generate human-like text in response to prompts or q... |
| Sep 21, 2022 | Considering Joining The Great Resignation? Don't Get Scammed | General Manager, Northeast at Vision33 and host of Shark Bite Biz Podcast - Helping Companies Achieve Growth via the Promise of Technology. |
| Sep 20, 2022 | 150+ хакерских поисковых систем и инструментов | Все таргетированные хакерские атаки начинаются с разведки. Социальные инженеры, красные команды и отдельные пентестеры также собирают информацию о своих целях перед тем, как перейти к активным действиям. Им помогают десятки инструментов и х... |
| May 6, 2022 | Food Grade Gases Market In depth Analysis And Experts Review Report 2021-2028 | Emergen Research Logo
Food Grade Gases Market Trends – Technological advancements in Food-Grade Gases Market
VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA, May 6, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The global Food grade Gases market size is expected to reach USD 9.77 Bill... |
| Nov 9, 2021 | Mangabank “Suffers DDoS Attack” & Disappears Following Legal Action (Updated) | Last week we reported that a San Francisco law firm acting for Japanese publisher Shueisha had filed an ex parte application at a California district court.
The application, which sought discovery of information for use in a foreign proceed... |
| Nov 8, 2021 | How DRM sabotaged a weekend of PC gaming | This past weekend was a big deal for the PC gaming crowd. It marked the release of a new generation of Intel processors that sit atop the list of the best gaming processors you can buy, and it was situated in the middle of the fall video ga... |
| Oct 4, 2021 | Facebook and its apps start to come back online after stocks tank | More On: facebook
Parents group: AG Garland has conflict of interest with Facebook, critical race theory Klobuchar aide joins Apple hours after senator calls out Big Tech hiring lobbyists Face Off! Mark Zuckerberg responds to Facebook whist... |
| Oct 4, 2021 | Facebook and its apps start to come back online after stocks tank | More On: facebook
Influencer with same name as ‘Libs of TikTok’ user blames cyberbullying on Washington Post reporter Meta investors want Andreessen, Alford off board over Zuckerberg ties Taylor Lorenz slammed as ‘hypocrite’ for ‘doxxing’ ‘... |
| Nov 5, 2020 | Major Torrent Site EZTV Has Domain Suspended By Registry | Over more than a decade, EZTV established itself as one of the most respected torrent sites on the Internet. But five years ago, unwelcome change hit the platform.
In 2015, former EZTV operator NovaKing was ousted from the platform after an... |
| Oct 1, 2020 | Cyberattacks hobble Myanmar’s COVID-19 QR pass system, expose massive security flaws | The registration portal for health QR codes that are necessary for domestic travel in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, during a nationwide lockdown was subject to a series of cyberattack on Sunday.
The information app that is associated with... |
| Feb 27, 2020 | Coronavirus.com, a domain owned by GoDaddy and previously listed for sale for $244K, is now been used to help people find useful information by redirecting it to WHO | Coronavirus (officially known as COVID-19), which started back in Wuhan, China in December 2019, has taken the world by storm. As we reported earlier today, the virus has now claimed 2,814 lives with at least 82,585 confirmed cases. There a... |
| Oct 2, 2019 | The Internet’s horrifying new method for installing Google apps on Huawei phones | Enlarge / Lzplay.net. I don't speak Chinese, but that's "Something, something Google Play..." You know what, I'm just going to click the blue button and install whatever this is. reader comments 245 with 141 posters participating
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| May 17, 2019 | ‘Crypto exchange’ Goxtrade caught using other people’s photos on its staff page | Alleged cryptocurrency exchange Goxtrade bills itself as a “trusted platform for trading bitcoins,” but its staff page is filled with photos of people pulled seemingly at random from the internet.
The alleged exchange, which claimed to debu... |
| Mar 23, 2019 | A family tracking app was leaking real-time location data | A popular family tracking app was leaking the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users for weeks after the developer left a server exposed without a password.
The app, Family Locator, built by Australia-based software house React Apps... |
| Jan 23, 2019 | GoDaddy weakness let bomb threat scammers hijack thousands of big-name domains | Alejandro Mejía Greene (flickr user: ·júbilo·haku·) reader comments 55 with 40 posters participating
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| Jan 18, 2019 | Now That’s What I Call Ars Technica, Volume 1: Favorite stories from Ars’ 20 years | Enlarge / Actually, I think that was a popular timepiece style when the site first started.
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| Jul 20, 2018 | Someone could become ₦48 million richer from the newly unveiled Nigeria Air | Share this article:
On Wednesday, June 18, the Nigerian Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika unveiled the name and logo of the new National Carrier, Nigeria Air at the ongoing Farnborough International Airshow in London.
Speaking at ... |
| Jun 17, 2018 | Sceper Set to Return After Attempted Sale “Turned Into a Scam” | Earlier this year, TorrentFreak received a steady stream of emails from users of Sceper.ws, one of the most popular “release blog” sites.
After about eight years of serving up links to large volumes of mainstream content, the site had appar... |
| May 11, 2018 | Iconic Megaupload.com Domain Has a New Owner | Following the 2012 raid on Megaupload and Kim Dotcom, U.S. and New Zealand authorities seized millions of dollars in cash and other property, located around the world.
Claiming the assets were obtained through copyright and money laundering... |
| Feb 17, 2018 | Russian Influence Campaign: What’s in the Latest Mueller Indictment | None of the defendants indicted Friday for their alleged influence operation against the U.S. political system is likely to ever see the inside of an American courtroom. None is in custody. None is likely to surrender to U.S. authorities. A... |
| Jan 22, 2018 | 5 Ways to Protect Your Domain Name From Cyber Threats | Cyber security is no longer the job of just the IT department; it’s everyone’s job to be educated on preventive security measures. In a report by ICANN, an organization that defines protocol and policies for domain names and numbers functio... |
| Nov 6, 2017 | When Spotify was young: the early years | Spotify launched two and a half years after it was founded in 2006, and had 1M users in five months
As our readers know, Vator has started a series called when they were young.
It's a look back at the modest days of startups, what traction ... |
| Oct 16, 2017 | Pirate Bay’s Iconic .SE Domain has Expired (Updated) | When The Pirate Bay first came online during the summer of 2003, its main point of access was thepiratebay.org.
Since then the site has burnt through more than a dozen domains, trying to evade seizures or other legal threats.
For many years... |
| Sep 8, 2017 | Why the Equifax breach is very possibly the worst leak of personal info ever | US Navy reader comments 259 with 187 posters participating
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| Aug 14, 2017 | Domínio de site neonazista é banido da GoDaddy, migra para o Google e vai ser banido de novo | Um dos assuntos do final de semana foi uma marcha que contou com a participação de centenas de neonazistas na cidade de Charlottesville, nos Estados Unidos, que resultou em terror e conflitos. Na madrugada desta segunda-feira (14), o domíni... |
| Jun 13, 2017 | When Wikipedia was young: the early years | Wikipedia, launched in 2001, was an offshoot of online encyclopedia Nupedia
As our readers know, Vator has started a series called When they were young.
It's a look back at the modest days of startups, what traction they had in their first ... |
| Dec 28, 2016 | Anti-Piracy Crusader’s Sex Engine is a Pirate Linking Site After DNS Hijack | In 2012, adult industry businessman Robert King embarked on a mission to destroy the “bad players” of the cyberlocker market. At the time, the Australian told TF that he would stop at nothing to rid the world of their influence.
“What I hop... |
| Oct 12, 2016 | RIAA Seize Domain Name of The ‘Wrong’ MP3Skull Website | Representing various major record labels, the RIAA filed a lawsuit against MP3Skull April last year.
With millions of visitors per month the MP3 download site had been one of the prime sources of pirated music for a long time. This frustrat... |
| Oct 5, 2016 | When YouTube was young: the early years | YouTube had 100 million video views at less than 18 months, was acquired by Google for $1.65 billion
As our readers know, Vator has started a series called: When they were young.
It's a look back at the modest days of startups, how they evo... |
| Sep 8, 2016 | Why are high profile employees leaving Konga? | Share this article:
The layoff trend in Konga is something many are yet to wrap their head around. But this shouldn’t be much of a surprise, considering the company recently reiterated a roadmap to review workforce strength every 6 months.
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| May 18, 2016 | Netflix launches Fast.com to show how fast (or slow) your Internet connection really is | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Netflix really wants to show you how fast (or slow) your Internet connection is, and to do so it has launched a new website at Fast.com... |
| Mar 15, 2016 | Prêt d’Union is about to launch in Italy as Younited Credit | French startup Prêt d’Union is one of the biggest fintech startups in its home country, but it has yet to expand its crowd-lending services outside of France. Prêt d’Union is about to go all in on European expansion, a source told me. The c... |
| Feb 28, 2016 | YTS / YIFY Has a Company in the UK & It’s About to Close Down | If one had to create a list of the most influential torrent sites of the last decade, YTS/YIFY would certainly be among the top 10.
After arriving on the scene in 2010 the group shared more than 6,000 releases, on the way making YIFY one of... |
| Feb 17, 2016 | MPAA-Hunted Popcorn Time Makes Surprise ‘Comeback’ | Late last year the main Popcorn Time fork, operating from the PopcornTime.io domain name, shut down its website unexpectedly.
The MPAA took credit for the fall announcing that it had filed a lawsuit against several of the developers in Cana... |
| Nov 25, 2015 | Wallapop makes its first acquisition, buys OLX-related startup Sell It | Editor’s note: This post, written by Jaime Novoa, was syndicated from Novobrief with his permission.
With a war chest of about $150 million, you can do various things. You can spend millions of dollars a month on marketing, product and grow... |
| Oct 8, 2015 | A to Z: Google just bought the ‘full alphabet’ dot com | 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!
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| Oct 8, 2015 | A to Z: Google just bought the ‘full alphabet’ dot com | Google has acquired a new 26-letter domain name, but this one shouldn’t be too tough to remember. Yes, the Internet giant has bought abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com, according to Whois records.
If this seems like a random registration, it’s ... |
| Jun 3, 2015 | Someone Is Pretending to Be an FBI Shell Company | Yesterday, a new report confirmed that the FBI is flying unmarked surveillance planes over major US cities, using the cover of fake companies with names like "OBD Leasing" and "FVX Research"
Now it seems someone—though p... |
| May 28, 2015 | Seized Megaupload Domains Link to Scam Ads and Malware | Well over three years have passed since Megaupload was shutdown, but there is still little progress in the criminal proceedings against the operation.
The United States hopes that New Zealand will extradite Kim Dotcom and his colleagues, bu... |
| Feb 9, 2015 | KickassTorrents goes down after its domain is seized, but makes a quick return | 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!
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| Feb 9, 2015 | KickassTorrents goes down after its domain is seized, but makes a quick return | KickassTorrents, one of the most popular torrent sites and arguably the biggest alternative to The Pirate Bay, went down today. The domain kickass.so was seized, leaving the site unreachable and users confused. Attempting to reach KickassTo... |
| Dec 5, 2014 | World’s Largest BitTorrent Tracker Goes Down | Founded in 2009 after The Pirate Bay shut down its tracker, OpenBitTorrent soon grew out to become a key player in the BitTorrent ecosystem.
Running on the beerware-licensed Opentracker software, the standalone tracker offers a non-commerci... |
| Nov 28, 2014 | Pirate Bay Cyberlocker Bayfiles Disappears After Arrest | Three years ago Pirate Bay founders Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde launched Bayfiles, a new file-sharing venture based on the cyberlocker model.
With steady growth ever since the site accumulated a decent user base, not least since it’s still... |
| Oct 31, 2014 | This Website Streams Camera Footage from Users Who Didn't Change Their Password | Update 3 November 2014: After the publication of this article, the alleged administrator of the site responded to emails from Motherboard and repeated the claim that the site's purpose is to highlight poor user security. "Only [the web... |
| Oct 15, 2014 | Osage University Partners raises $151M fund [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S MAKING MOVES?
Bluecadet, a Fishtown digital agency, plans to open a New York City by the end of the year, CEO Josh Goldblum told the Philadelphia Daily News.
Soulfill, the mobile game from South Philly developer Jason Marziani, won th... |
| Oct 9, 2014 | How Cybersquatters Claimed All Of Linda Ikeji’s Domain Names | For more than seven years, everyone has been happy with going to lindaikeji.blogspot.com for their daily fix of Nigerian gossip. It didn’t matter that the site was hosted on Blogger, and that it had an unintuitive URL. Consistently one of N... |
| Sep 29, 2014 | New 'Company' Claims It Uses Algorithms To Create Content Faster Than Creators Can, Making All Future Creations 'Infringing' | Over the weekend, TorrentFreak covered the discovery of the latest thing in copyright enforcement: algorithmically-generated content created solely for the purpose of extracting infringement settlements and licensing fees. |
| Jun 24, 2014 | Nairaland Possibly Hacked – Founder Says That Restoration Efforts Are Ongoing | It’s no longer news that the Nairaland is down. It’s been down now for 2 whole days. The question is, why is it still down? There are a number of possibilities. Domain or Hosting expired?
This is highly unlikely. Running a quick WHOIS check... |
| Feb 1, 2014 | Developer Behind “Flappy Bird,” The Impossible Game Blowing Up The App Store, Says He Just Got Lucky | Flappy Bird, a game you can barely play for more than a few seconds without throwing your phone across the room in frustration, is dominating the App Store and Google Play.
In an App Store first, an indie game developer from Hanoi, Vietnam,... |
| Nov 6, 2013 | Columbia software company FiddleFly makes 2 acquisitions [Startup Roundup] | Have news for the Startup Roundup? Get in touch.who’s getting funded?
Ocudyne, Inc., based in Baltimore’s downtown, has raised almost $1 million in equity, according to SEC filings. It looks to be a healthcare startup, although WhoIs record... |
| Jul 18, 2013 | Microsoft takes ownership of XboxOne.com | The first time we heard the name of Microsoft’s forthcoming next gen console was when the company announced it at the reveal back in May. Part of the reason for keeping it so successfully under wraps was that Microsoft didn’t register any d... |
| Jun 19, 2013 | LinkedIn Outage Due To Possible DNS Hijacking [Update: Fidelity.com Also Affected] | LinkedIn confirmed via Twitter that its site suffered an outage due to “a DNS issue.”
Our site is now recovering for some members. We determined it was a DNS issue, and we’re continuing to work on it. Thanks for your patience.
— LinkedIn He... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | WHOIS Reveals That Skannet/Gerund Bought 22 Dot NG Domains In 2011, Worth Up To N165 Million | You might not be too concerned about who bought banki.ng. But if you were wondering about the smarty pants who bought dati.ng, then I can tell you that it was Skannet. Or a subsidiary of it, called Gerund Limited. And they weren’t being sma... |
| Mar 15, 2013 | University Students and Staff Sued For Pirating 50 Cent Movie | Earlier this week and following the filing of dozens of file-sharing infringement lawsuits in the United States, hope came to a court room in Los Angeles as the trolls of Prenda Law finally began to receive their comeuppance.
After their no... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Aol Talks About Us More Than It Talks To Us | Aol is really into hiring boss’s boss’s bosses. We’ve had a couple in my brief sojourn in the Aol Brand Group. Now we’ve got another one, former Gilt CEO Susan Lyne, who just sent out the following memo to our Team about her new role, which... |
| Feb 22, 2013 | The Console Wars, Begun They Have: Microsoft May Announce New Xbox At April Event | A number of solid reports, including a new domain name, XboxEvent.com registered to Microsoft, are pointing to an Xbox event in April. While most console reveals happen at E3, as evidenced by Sony’s mystery-filled conference, Microsoft will... |
| Jan 7, 2013 | Demonoid Shows Sign of Life on New .HK Domain | After the popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid suffered a DDoS and hacker attack July last year, the site’s servers in Ukraine were pulled offline.
Local authorities explained that Interpol asked them to take action as part of an investigati... |
| Dec 12, 2012 | Anti-Piracy Boss Ran a Usenet Site that Agreed to Pay MPAA $15m Damages | During the last couple of weeks the closure of Usenet indexing sites Newzbin2 and NZBMatrix caused chaos in the Usenet community. They were the most damaging site shutdowns in more than half a decade.
The previous largest attack against mul... |
| Nov 15, 2012 | Stolen code, 9-month hacking spree lead to criminal charges | Enlarge / A screen from the login page of outcraft.com.
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| Sep 14, 2012 | Demonoid: There’s Still Hope, But We’re Not Coming Back Soon | After the popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid suffered a DDoS and hacker attack last month, the site’s servers in Ukraine were pulled offline.
Local authorities explained that Interpol asked them to take action as part of an investigation i... |
| Jun 28, 2012 | ACTAfacts? ACTAfiction? Or Just Unsourced Pro-ACTA Propaganda Purporting To Be Objective? | actafacts.com, a new pro-ACTA website, made the rounds earlier this month, along with a new report claiming ACTA would create billions of euros in growth and hundreds of thousands of new jobs. Glyn Moody was quick to pull the facts apart. F... |
| May 27, 2012 | Busted: Microsoft Harbors BitTorrent Pirates | YouHaveDownloaded is a treasure trove of incriminating data on alleged BitTorrent pirates all across the world.
The site, launched late last year, exposes what people behind an IP-address have downloaded using BitTorrent. This data was gath... |
| Apr 29, 2012 | Achievement Unlocked: Apple Wins Applecom.com And Appleprinters.com After WIPO Complaint | Apple doesn’t own iPad.com, apple.co.uk or many other domains that contain its name or the names of its products, but it is now the proud owner of applecom.com and appleprinters.com — two domains that were the subject of a complaint Apple m... |
| Mar 14, 2012 | Domain Registrar Confirms New Pirate Bay Investigation | Last week the news leaked that Swedish prosecutors have started a new criminal investigation into The Pirate Bay.
The assumed goal of the new effort is to shut the site down, something the authorities failed to accomplish during the first i... |
| Feb 24, 2012 | Domain Registrar Profits From Revoked Library.nu Domain | Last week Library.nu went offline after a coalition of the world’s largest book publishers obtained an injunction against the site.
Instead of offering download links to books, the site suddenly redirected to Amazon.com.
A few days later th... |
| Feb 8, 2012 | Jozefak re-appears at LiquidLabs, a new German tech skunkworks | We were a little concerned at the end of last year that one of Europe’s better VCs, Paul Jozefak (@pjozefak) had parted ways with his firm Neuhaus Partners in Hamburg, and that there was no news on his next move.
Now the word on the street ... |
| Jan 14, 2012 | RIAA Orders WhoisGuard to Identify Torrent Site Owner | While the RIAA has a track record of going after individual file-sharers and services such as LimeWire, the music industry has never targeted any file-sharing sites.
Despite this lack of action, the RIAA sees BitTorrent sites as the main so... |
| Dec 26, 2011 | Did Rolling.fm Shut Down After Six Months? | Back in September, Turntable.fm fast follower Rolling.fm was trumpeting achievements and rolling out new features. “We are excited to announce there has been over 1,000,000 friendships made on Rolling.FM since our launch a little over a mon... |
| Dec 15, 2011 | French President’s Residence ‘Busted’ For BitTorrent Piracy | Located near the Champs-Élysées in the French capital, Paris, the Élysée Palace is the official residence of President Sarkozy. As husband of ‘first lady’ and musician Carla Bruni, Sarkozy has helped promote and push through some of the tou... |
| Sep 26, 2011 | Navigating cookie privacy is getting legislators lost | This is a guest post by Mike O’Neill, Technical Director of Baycloud Systems, which develops scalable cloud based systems that address privacy issues, such as CookieQ, a web application that delivers a Cookie Consent button to any web page.... |
| Sep 5, 2011 | Lawyer Refuses to Tell Court How Profitable BitTorrent Settlements Are | While there are countless lawsuits being filed in the U.S. targeting alleged BitTorrent users, at the moment On The Cheap, LLC vs Does 1-5011 is generating particular interest.
The case is one of the porn-based BitTorrent lawsuits filed lat... |
| Aug 25, 2011 | Account Chooser: A Better Way To Log In To The Web? | The OpenID Foundation will open the doors to the third OpenID Summit on Monday, September 12, 2011, noonish. Of course, you won’t be there, because you’ll be attending or livestreaming the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, but that doesn’t mea... |
| Aug 21, 2011 | Does Groupon Hope To Challenge Amazon With ‘Groupon Goods’? | Last week, daily deals giant Groupon registered a bunch of domain names with ‘groupongoods’ in them (.com, .net, .us, .info, .biz and interestingly, .fr). Evidently, securing those domain names doesn’t necessarily mean the company is going ... |
| Aug 19, 2011 | Amazon Registers a Dozen “Cloud Video” Domains | Amazon has obtained a dozen new domain names related to its cloud video service, including things like “instantcloudvideo.com,” “amazoncloudvideo.com,” and “primevideocloud.com,” to name just a few. The domains were registered one day prior... |
| Aug 5, 2011 | Is The Next Motorola Tablet Called The Kore? All Signs Point To “Yes” | Before we enter the breach, I’d like to ask that you all have your grains of salt at the ready because we’re entering some highly speculative territory. Motorola has been going on a domain shopping spree lately, and thanks to a little snoop... |
| Jun 14, 2011 | Twitter Is Now The Proud Owner Of Re-tweet.com | As of yesterday, Twitter is the new owner of the domain name re-tweet.com (placeholder webpage) although it doesn’t yet own retweet.com (currently used for some shady video monetization platform).
Hat tip goes to Fusible, which thinks Twitt... |
| Apr 28, 2011 | Did Apple spend $4.5 million to name its cloud storage service iCloud? | Apple may have purchased the domain iCloud.com from Sweden-based company Xcerion for a reported $4.5 million, according to GigaOM.
If the news is true, iCloud could be the name Apple has given to its yet-to-be-launched cloud-based media sto... |
| Mar 2, 2011 | Apple Now Owns FaceTime.com (But Still Doesn't Own iPad.com) | When Apple first announced its video calling application FaceTime on June 7, 2010 at the WWDC event, in conjunction with the iPhone 4, it quickly became apparent that there was a potential trademark conflict with a company called FaceTime C... |
| Dec 5, 2010 | Twitter Goes After Twittersearch.com | Twitter late last week filed a UDRP complaint, notably its first ever since the company was founded, in an effort to obtain ownership over the (currently parked) domain name twittersearch.com – as you can see here.
Obviously, Twitter is rig... |
| May 26, 2010 | Newzbin and Newzxxx Domains Have New Seychelles-Based Owner | At the beginning of May, Usenet indexing site Newzbin finally collapsed after its copyright infringement battle with several Hollywood studios.
Fans and supporters of the site soon found reason for optimism though, when it was revealed that... |
| Apr 24, 2010 | File-Sharers Monitoring The File-Sharing Hunters | Back in February we reported that Trident Media Guard, the French anti-piracy outfit that was selected by the music and movie industries to assist in enforcing their rights under the new Hadopi legislation, was already being seen in action.... |
| Apr 11, 2010 | Malware Extorts Cash From BitTorrent Users | ICCP Foundation claims to be an international company operating out of Switzerland. They say they are “committed to promoting the cultural and economic benefits of copyright” while assisting their partners to fight “copyright theft around t... |
| Apr 9, 2010 | Political blogger arrested after publishing controversial Croatian War list | It’s emerged that last Tuesday night, a list of the Croatian participants in the Croatian War of Independence was put online as a simple web application. The never before published list is one of the best kept secrets of the current Croatia... |
| Apr 2, 2010 | Anti-Piracy Lawyers Vandalize Wikipedia Page | This week, Jeffrey Weaver, a lawyer for U.S. Copyright Group, proudly announced that the company would be bringing the mass-litigation model against alleged BitTorrent users to the United States.
“We’re creating a revenue stream and monetiz... |
| Apr 1, 2010 | Our first look at Twitter’s @anywhere platform | For some strange reason, Twitter was testing its mysterious new @anywhere platform on a public website tonight, and TechCrunch managed to land screenshots of most of its juicy bits before the site was taken down.
The site was located at egg... |
| Apr 1, 2010 | Our first look at Twitter’s @anywhere platform | 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!
For some strange reason, Twitter was testing its ... |
| Jan 13, 2010 | Baidu.tw Wasn't Hacked To Show Google, Doesn't Even Belong To Baidu | Lots of interesting commentary in the wake of Google’s bombshell blog post from yesterday about its decision to stop censoring its search results and possibly withdrawing from the Chinese market all together after being hit with severe cybe... |
| Dec 25, 2009 | Apple's New Tablet To Be Baptized iSlate? Let's Dig A Little Deeper | Nice scoop by MacRumors, which reportedly retrieved historical evidence that Apple has acquired the domain name islate.com back in 2007. Apparently, the Cupertino company registered the domain through brand protection firm Mark Monitor to c... |
| May 14, 2009 | Are these the Windows 7 retail boxes? | reader comments 26 with 25 posters participating
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| May 8, 2009 | ‘New’ Anti-Piracy Lawyers Chase UK File-Sharers | A little bit of history. UK lawyers Davenport Lyons burst onto the anti-piracy enforcement/revenue generation scheme in 2007, a story originally broken here on TorrentFreak. Their clients – all second or third rate publishers – employed ant... |
| Apr 26, 2009 | Pirate Bay IP Addresses Assigned to Prosecution Lawyers | RIPE is the Internet registry that keeps track of all IP-addresses allocated in Europe. When the Pirate Bay got a new range of IP-addresses this week, something odd happened. Aside from the usual TPB ASCII art there was some unusual informa... |
| Apr 23, 2009 | RubyOnRails.org Domain Derailed By Hacker? (Updated: It Was Just Parked) | Oops, something went wrong. Looks like a hacker somehow got hold of the domain name RubyOnRails.org and slapped a page filled with ads on it. It looks the former owners are aware of the issue and have already started the process to get the ... |
| Nov 12, 2008 | What Recession? PriveCo Coughs Up $1 Million For Vibrators.com | Privately-owned PriveCo, which specializes in retailing “embarrassing” products online, has paid $1 million for the acquisition of the domain name vibrators.com (a little NSFW).
PriveCo began selling private things out of a spare bedroom on... |
| Aug 15, 2008 | IFPI Hijacks Pirate Bay Traffic | For now, potential Italian Pirate Bay users are denied access to the BitTorrent tracker, and Italian authorities are investigating whether the site should be blocked indefinitely. The block totally missed its purpose though, as The Pirate B... |