Using p2p networks such as Emule or Bittorrent to download mp3 files is not as dangerous as the Music Industry tries to make it appear but there is still the chance that you might face consequences if you share copyrighted music. A much easier and safer way would be to simply use Google to find and download the music that you like. The Music Industry somehow does not seem to care that Google indexes more copyrighted mp3 files than the total number that is available on all p2p networks combined.

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Will the companies never learn ? How much sense does it make to keep a video that was deleted at youtube on the hard drive ? Youtube apparently does this with some videos and it is possible to call them directly using a nice script that I found at delutube. The system for the end user is pretty straightforward. You supply a id of an youtube video that has been deleted and the site tries to pull it from youtube and display it in a viewer.

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I took a quick look at the Gspace extension for Firefox in 2005 and it happened so much that I thought it was a good idea to take another look at it. Gmail gives its users lots of space, currently about 2.8 gigabytes of it which is of course to much for most mail accounts and this is where the Gspace extension for Firefox steps in. It basically makes it possible to use gmail storage in a way to store files online which seems a lot securer in my opinion than using a file hoster. The interface looks similar to most ftp clients out there, it should not be a problem getting used to gspace quickly.

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We had some reports coming in about some outages of the gmail - that is google mail - web interface which meant that some users could not access their mail accounts for several hours which seems to be a big problem for at least some of those users. In the time where customers for instance demand a fast, almost immediate, reaction to their emails it could become a matter of survival to receive and react to the mail.

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Owning a google domain became true for a German who decided to request a push of the google.de domain to his own account at the webhoster Goneo. According to the IT-magazine heise.de a user of Goneo ordered a domain push of the domain google.de and a script at Goneo automatically submitted the request right to the German central domain registrar Denic without manual checking of the claims.

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