The global anti-piracy initiative which brought about the arrests of 60 individuals who occupied the upper echelons of the piracy 'scene' trudged closer towards its protracted finale this week, as the last two members of DrinkOrDie to be sentenced were called to face the Old Bailey.
Alex Bell (aka Mr 2940), 32, of Grays, Essex and Steven Dowd (aka Tim), 42, of Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside were snared...
Thursday, 17 March 2005
Monday, 14 March 2005
'Angry Young Hackers' bite back
While the marauding anti-piracy tag team comprising The Swedish Enforcement Administration and Antipiratbyran celebrated their long-awaited and extremely successful raid on Sweden's most distinguished ISP, Bahnhof, a multi-pronged revenge campaign gathered steam.
With youthful exuberance no doubt, the hackers angrily defaced APB's home page, plastering it with quotations extracted from the private...
Saturday, 12 March 2005
Topsites confiscated in Swedish ISP swoop
On Thursday the anti-piracy division of the Swedish Enforcement Administration, aka Antipiratbyran, raided the Stockholm offices of Bahnhof.se at the behest of the Swedish Performing Rights Society, which protects the interests of entertainment big wigs EMI, Sony and Universal.
Antipiratbyran agents engineered the raids by infiltrating the company and 'phoning home' with information relating to four...
Wednesday, 9 March 2005
Three pirates busted in 'Operation Higher Education'
The 'Higher Ed' appellation was inspired by the defendant's penchant for stashing their wares on university computers, rather than the Department of Justice's "that'll teach 'em" attitude. Operation Higher Education represents an offshoot of last year's better-known, worldwide 'Fastlink' anti-piracy crackdown.
Seth Kleinberg, 26, of Pasadena, California (who incidentally is the 'executive editor'...
Sunday, 6 March 2005
I think, therefore I type, therefore I backup
Assuming you possess a brain and can type, you are likely to have a number of important personal documents stored on your computer - documents you would be lost without should anything disastrous happen to your hard drive. If you own a CD or DVD writer these could be backed up to a writable disk, however, this is slow and inconvenient if you regularly make changes to these documents (think of your...
Friday, 4 March 2005
Shameless name-dropping
A speedy, effortless way to neatly rename scores of similar files in Windows Explorer is to drag a box around them, right-click on the first file in the set and choose 'rename'. The ensuing files will be renamed automagically, making use of the name given to the initial file and a consecutively numbered appendage in brackets i.e. Image (01).jpg, Image (02).jpg and so on.
If your appellative requirements...
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