Megaupload, one of the world’s top file sharing and storage sites, has been taken down on request of US authorities on Thursday. Arrests have been made in various countries and assets as well as the service’s websites and servers have been seized. No files were accessible anymore on the servers after the takedown, which had [...]

Categories: The Web

The popular file hosting site Megaupload has been shut down by US authorities on Thursday, and the site’s leaders have been charged with widespread online copyright infringement. According to an US Department of Justice press release, Megaupload generated more than “$175 million in criminal proceeds” and caused more than “half a billion dollars in harm [...]

Categories: The Web

When the next national census arrives on your doormat you now have another option to enter for religion other than Jedi, at least that is if you live in Sweden.  On its third attempt the church of “kopyacting” has been officially recognised as a religion by the Swedish government. The church is founded on the belief [...]

Categories: Misc

Sending big files over the Internet is still a big issue for many users. While it is possible to overcome those issues, it often means spending time preparing the files to do so. You could for instance pack and split the files before sending them, upload them to an ftp server or online file hosting [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Online photo sharing websites are very cool.  They’re a great way of being able to share with your friends and family your adventures, holidays, events and special occasions without clogging up everybody’s inbox with photos they may not want to see.  Let’s face it, not everybody will be interested in photos of my holiday to [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

Which web service or program are you using if you need to send a friend, business partner or your mom a file? The majority of you will likely answer that they use email or a file hosting service. I do prefer email myself, as it means that the files are send directly to the recipient, [...]

Categories: Online Services

It’s been on ongoing story and has produced the first ruling on file-sharing in the UK where Judge Birss said back in December 2010, ”The term used by those sections of the Act is ‘authorising’ and the difference may be very important if the allegation is about unauthorised use of an Internet router by third parties”.  Now the [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Music Industry, P2p

A study by anti-fraud company MarkMonitor has monitored 43 file-sharing websites and found that between them they had 53 billion visits in the last year, according to a report by the BBC. The top three websites were RapidShare.com, Megavideo.com and Megaupload.com which between them generated more than 21 billion visits. The study was commissioned by [...]

Categories: Music Industry, The Web

I recently covered a great LAN file sharing tool called Giver (see my article “Easily share files on LAN with fellow Ubuntu users using Giver“). I wanted to take that idea a little further and cover a similar tool that allows you to chat with fellow users on your LAN WITHOUT have to add them [...]

Categories: Linux, Networks, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic