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City of London Police's anti-piracy campaign Operation Creative is pushing ahead with the disruption of copyright-infringing sites. On Monday, detectives arrested a man in his mid-20s on suspicion of operating several streaming links sites. The unit also suspended several domains, which now show a familiar warning banner.

Speaking with TorrentFreak late last week, the Police Intellectual …

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In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Justice has declared Europe’s Data Retention directive to be a violation of Internet users’ privacy.

Under the Directive Internet providers and other telecom companies were required to log and store vast amounts of information, including who their subscribers communicate with, and what IP-addresses they use.

The local authorities could then use …

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An anti-piracy firm has found a shortcut to obtaining the personal details of account holders connected to pirating IP-addresses. Instead of having a judge decide, Rightscorp obtains so-called DMCA subpoenas which only a court clerk has to sign off on. A worrying development that could lift the copyright troll business to a new level.


ip-addressWeek in and week out hundreds of U.S. citizens …

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AS the sun rose over the mountains circling Los Reyes, a town in the Mexican state of Michoacán, one morning in March 2009, a caravan of more than 300 heavily armed law enforcement agents set out on a raid.

All but the lead vehicle turned off their headlights to evade lookouts, called …

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Origin recently announced a big update on its blog , the article contained two pieces of good news! The first is the ability to add “Non-Origin” games in your game library which is certainly a good thing for many of us, but the second piece of good news is even better…Origin has just announced a partnership with twitch …

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Professional grade video editor ‘Lightworks‘ makes it Linux debut today as an alpha-quality release for Debian-based distributions.


But before your imagination runs away with dreams of becoming the next Scorsese, there’s a catch: You won’t get to play with it

Limited Trial

Editshare, the company behind the video editor, announced October 30th as the day Linux users would finally be …

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After receiving over 60,000 beta applications since last week, Valve has begun sending out the first wave of invites for the Steam for Linux beta today.

The Linux version of Steam currently only works on Ubuntu 12.04, reflecting what Steam for Linux team member Frank Crockett said in a statement was "an overwhelming majority of beta applicants [reporting] they’re running the Ubuntu distro of …

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The minimum spec Apple iPad mini is likely to have a price point of 249 Euros according to a screenshot taken of Media Market’s inventory system. Media Market is Europe's largest electronics retailer with 70,000 employees. The screenshot was leaked via German website mobile geek website MobileGeeks. The inventory page lists 16 variants of the iPad mini in different colours, storage capacity and …

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The budget priced Raspberry Pi credit-card sized computing device has had a RAM doubling boost at no extra cost. If you order your Model B RasPi today it will come with 512MB of RAM installed, double the original model’s 256MB. As a reminder, the price to UK customers is £29.95 including delivery.

Extra Welsh RAM in your Pi

An official Raspberry Pi blog post by Eben Upton said “One of the …

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