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FCC Says BitTorrent Throttling Illegal, EFF Releases Tool for You To Test Your ISP For It

August 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Reposted from Read Write Web.
The Federal Communications Commission ruled this morning by a 3 to 2 vote that Comcast’s arbitrary throttling of customers’ use of BitTorrent was illegal. Hours before the ruling, the Electronic Frontier Foundation released software that anyone can use to see if their Internet Service Provider (ISP) is engaging in the same [...]

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Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments

The popular Internet television network Revision3 suffered from a severe DDoS attack, launched by the infamous anti-piracy organization MediaDefender. After targeting The Pirate Bay’s trackers, MediaDefender apparently thought it was a good idea to spread their fake torrents through Revision3.

The CEO of Revision3 - Jim Louderback - was quite surprised when he found out that [...]

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