#May2012

PIRATE BAY Announces New IP Address, Effort Designed For Proxy Friendliness.

You can’t keep a good torrent site down. Unless you’re the slew of porn torrent sites that I used to frequent. In that case you can stake them through the heart and leave me devastated. Not Pirate Bay though, nope. No way.

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SOPA Fighters Fund Billboard Outside Bill Sponsor’s Office. Crowd-Funding ++

Check out this wunderkind. A crowd-funded billboard denouncing SOPA was placed right outside the office of one of the bill’s sponsors. Fantastic.

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‘PIRATE BAY’ RETURNS, Anti-Anonymous Hacker Takes Cred.

Good news! Your probably source for the newest Miley Cyrus jam or copy of Adobe Photoshop is back up and running. The Pirate Bay has returned, set to sail the seas of free.

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PIRATE BAY Offline After “Quite Big” DDoS Attack; Don’t Look At Anonymous They Say.

I would never download torrents (heh), but if I did I wouldn’t use Pirate Bay. That’s why despite it being down apparently for a day, I haven’t noticed.

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Comcast Xbox 360 App PRIVILEGES Bandwidth For Itself Over Netflix and Hulu?

And I was wondering why HBO GO was running like raw-ass melted over ill performance last weekend. There are allegations that Comcast is privileging bandwidth for its own Xfinity app over others on the Xbox 360.

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Microsoft Invests In Russian Company That Kills BitTorrent Traffic. Ah, F**k!

There’s a Russian start-up out there called  Pirate Pay that wants to take your porn and music from you. Using some sort of nefarious (or is it heroic?) method, they can kill BitTorrent streams. Such a skill assuredly attracts those who are interested in protecting their wares, and Microsoft would certainly fit the bill.

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Pirate Bay To Anonymous: DDoS IS Censorship, Yo! Ain’t Cool.

Pirate Bay and Anonymous are two of the titans of the Fuck You Rules Internet Gang. They don’t roll directly as a posse, but it is sensible to state that due to what the two of them are up to on the reg we may pair them up. This week had them in a bit of a slap fight, with Pirate Bay not particularly cool with something Anonymous was up to.

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White House Says Obama Will Definitely Veto CISPA. Word?

Word out of the White House is that President Obama will veto CISPA. At this point though, I’m not certain that shit even matters. Hard to imagine the Determined Parties not soldiering on, continually throwing spaghetti until some of it sticks.

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PIRATE BAY Enjoys 12 Million Extra Visitors On Day One Of UK Court Censorship

Pirate Bay has been banned from UK ISPs courtesy of the courts in that place-nation. That isn’t slowing them down, it isn’t slowing them down at all.

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Portland, Oregon Considering All-Seeing CCTV Surveillance. Wut? Weird.

This is weird as hell to me and my clueless ass. I thought that Porltand, OR was some sort of hipster haven where people smoke pot in the streets and beers can be traded for high-fives at bars. Now they’re going to go full CCTV stylee? Odd.\

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