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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The Pirate Bay has moved its servers into the cloud in an effort to thwart authorities targeting BitTorrent sites. The widely used, file-sharing website said it will begin hosting its infrastructure through multiple cloud-hosting providers in multiple countries, a move that will save money while simultaneously making it more difficult for law-enforcement agencies to take the site offline. "All attempts to attack [us] from now...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online January’s raid on Kim Schmitz’s (aka Kim Dotcom) elaborate New Zealand mansion has been largely discussed and debated, both online and in court. Dotcom is the founder of Megaupload, a large file sharing network which has since been shut down as American authorities unrelenting pursuit of the site founder aims to bring him to US soil and the justice they feel he deserves. Dotcom had claimed the raid was far too elaborate and...
Nomadesk is excited to announce that the company’s success and growth have landed them a spot in Deloitte’s Fast50. Austin, Texas (PRWEB) September 21, 2012 Nomadesk, the leading developer of business-class file sharing software, is proud to announce its nomination as one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the Benelux. Deloitte’s Central Europe Technology Fast 50 program is part of a global effort to identify the fastest growing technology companies all over the...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online U.S. Internet service providers are moving forward with a controversial “six strikes” anti-piracy program, and will launch the plan by the end of the year, ArsTechnica reported on Wednesday. The program, known as the Copyright Alert System, came together last year, when the newly formed Center for Copyright Information (CCI) partnered with major U.S. Internet service providers and members of the recording and film...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Google is abandoning ship when it comes to The Pirate Bay's domain names, blacklisting and censoring the file sharing site from the popular search engine. The blacklist prevents keywords from appearing in Google's Instant and Autocomplete search services that relate to the file sharing site. The Recording Industry Association of America has been working to get Google and other search engines to block out results that could lead...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online BitTorrent users who download copyrighted content are likely to have their IP-addresses logged by anti-piracy monitoring firms within three hours, according to a new report by a team of computer scientists at the University of Birmingham, UK. The researchers said they were “surprised” at the scale of the monitoring. BitTorrent is a method of obtaining files by downloading from many users simultaneously. The protocol uses...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A Massachusetts federal court upheld a $675,000 fine against Joel Tenenbaum, who was charged in 2007 for illegally downloading and distributing 31 songs. The fine, which was assessed by a jury in 2009, was appealed by Tenenbaum, who asked for a retrial shortly afterward. The federal judge turned down that appeal, stating the damages set by the 2009 jury were fair. U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel said the jurors had...
CX.com’s 10 GB free storage offering is the biggest addition yet to Otixo’s roster. The addition of Otixo support to CX.com brings WebDAV and a long list of cloud storage attachments to the company. Boulder, CO (PRWEB) August 09, 2012 Cloud service aggregator, Otixo.com, has added full support for CX.com to its featured providers. This move adds an additional 10 GB of highly secure free storage to Otixo’s roster of featured providers and adds WebDAV support and cloud-based access to...
SEATTLE, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Imogo Mobile Technologies Corp. (OTCBB:IMTC), a pioneer in cloud computing, announces it has tightened security to beyond military standards for accessing and securing data files of any kind. With recent increased security cracks in public clouds and databases, like the kind recently suffered by both Apple's ICloud and Dropbox, Imogo has responded with increased security features for its cloud solutions. The level of encryption offered by...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Nearly every industry has had to adjust from changes brought about by the Internet. The music industry, however, has been slow to adapt to this new, ever-connected world where songs have turned into MP3s and sharing these files is as smooth and easy as the bass groove in Come Together. Some artists have come up with clever ways to use the Internet to their advantage, of course. Take, for instance, Brit-rock Demi-Gods Radiohead, who let...
