Back in October 2007 tv-links.co.uk was closed down after pressure from Gloucestershire County Council trading standards in conjunction with investigators from Fact and Gloucestershire Police in the UK. Since then many sites have tried to recapture the success of tv-links.co.uk, tv-links.eu is the latest of those site's seeking similar success and this one isn't half bad.
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Virgin Media's Traffic Management Policy advertised as "We don't like traffic jams" is rendering normal Internet use in 2008 for customers virtually unusable between the hours of 4PM to 9PM. Being a Virgin Media customer myself i thought it was about time we covered Virgin's Traffic Management Policy and showed exactly why the imposed limits are unrealistically low for a major percentage of their customer base.
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Virgin Media has released a statement today denying reports that it had allegedly struck a deal with the British Phonographic Industry, Virgin Media acknowledged that it had discussed a 'three strikes and you’re out' policy with the music industry but that no commitment to the scheme was made.
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The OLPC Project is using bit torrent and MiniNova to distribute 4.3GB of free sound samples, all the samples are made available under the terms of a Creative Commons license. Some of the organizations that have contributed samples are The Berklee College of Music, M-Audio, Digidesign and many others.
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Sony BMG one of the largest supporters of the RIAA and IFPI's anti-piracy campaigns has had the tables turned on them this week by french software company PointDev, PointDev are now suing Sony BMG for software piracy of their products after a support call from a Sony IT employee
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Virgin Media The UK's only cable broadband operator is to implement a "three strikes and your out" counter measure system against customers who obtain illegal media content over their network, Virgin Media are introducing this counter measure in partnership with the BPI (British Phonographic Industry). The same type of system was used by Tiscali and the BPI last summer but quickly collapsed after the two could not decide how to share the cost's of the project.
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According to a press release featured on Yahoo Games it would seem that Rockstar Games and Amazon are about to team up and offer digital downloads of music in the game Grand Theft Auto 4, this is a distribution technique we have never seen before and the way it is being implemented is pretty exciting.
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P2PViNE just got a whole lot better, over the past week or so you will have noticed some major changes happening at P2PViNE most notably being the look and feel of the site along with adding a few new features for members and webmasters to interact and submit content more easily. P2PViNE is a Socially Controlled News site dedicated to bringing you the latest information on P2P, File-Sharing and all other topics related to these genre's. I started P2PViNE as a large amount of file sharing and p2p news gets released every day unfortunately most never gets covered or discovered with only the big stories seeing the light of day, this is where P2PViNE can help to discover articles that you might not otherwise have found. For more detailed background and description of the site read on.
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Investigators in germany have seized ten servers involved in the distrubution of large amounts of copyrighted material in return for payment including games, movies, music and software. According to the GVU report the servers were invite only with members having to pay from 20 to 500 euro to download content.
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Over the next two days 22nd and 23rd march we will be performing some server changes which may see the site offline for a few hours. Hopefully disruption will be kept to a minimum and the blog should be online and stable now with the main site being affected more by the changes. We will update you all on the exact changes when all completed.
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