BREIN Disconnects The Pirate Bay, For Now
The anti-piracy outfit, BREIN, in Europe has succeeded in halting traffic to TPB at its new hideout in the Ukraine.
The anti-piracy outfit, BREIN, in Europe has succeeded in halting traffic to TPB at its new hideout in the Ukraine.
It seems that traffic is routed through Dutch ISP nForce which uses the carrier outfit Leaseweb. BREIN has asked Leaseweb to block that traffic to the Ukraine site for now aside from its arguments that neither nForce nor Leaseweb are hosting any torrent site but are merely doing their job in routing Internet traffic to the separate, autonomous system.
Repeated "requests" from BREIN finally caused Leaseweb to cave and cut off all contact to the new TPB site. This sets a disturbing precedent in that if anti-piracy outfits can bully and threaten ISPs and their carriers to cut off access to the various other torrent sites, then the future of BitTorrent is indeed bleak.
Read the details in the article at:
BREIN Disconnects Pirate Bay
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Rolltop - A Rolled Out Laptop?
Here's an interesting concept that some design outfit from Germany dreamed up. While it looks pretty snazzy in its 3D rendition, I wonder what the actual logistics would be concerning the implementation of this design?
Catch the YouTube Video at:
RolloTop Laptop
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