Tim Bradshaw WikiLeaks could set servers afloat, Fox News reports

February 1, 2012 1:40 pm by Tim Bradshaw

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WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website, is investigating the possibility of taking its hosting infrastructure offshore to avoid the long arm of the law, reports Fox News. The suggestion is that this would be more than just an island out of the reach of the taxman – WikiLeaks has explored floating its infrastructure on a barge in international waters, Fox claims. Julian Assange is in London’s supreme court this week fighting his extradition to Sweden, while a new legal challenge has also emerged from FSI, his former lawyers, who accuse the WikiLeaks founder of failing to pay his legal fees.

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Tim Bradshaw Gov.uk launches one UK government website to rule them all

February 1, 2012 12:01 am by Tim Bradshaw

The first major product of sweeping changes to how the government handles its internal IT systems and public-facing websites is to be unveiled on Wednesday, as a new unified website for online public services goes live for testing.

A new single government domain, at www.gov.uk, will replace Directgov, the portal which launched in 2004, before extending across Whitehall departments’ sites in the coming weeks.

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Tim Bradshaw Megaupload users could soon lose all their files

January 31, 2012 3:17 pm by Tim Bradshaw

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People who used Megaupload to store files – legitimate or otherwise – could soon find their data has been deleted altogether, reports the WSJ. Federal prosecutors bringing a huge criminal copyright infringement action against the file-sharing site have written to the Virginia judge overseeing the case, saying: “It is our understanding that the hosting companies may begin deleting the contents of the servers beginning as early as February 2, 2012.”

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Tim Bradshaw Google clashes with British MPs over takedown policy

January 30, 2012 7:59 pm by Tim Bradshaw

Google was dragged over the coals by a British parliamentary committee on Monday afternoon, as the technology company’s approach to removing illegal content from its search results again came under scrutiny.

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Tim Bradshaw Kim Dotcom actually owns kim.com

January 27, 2012 10:28 pm by Tim Bradshaw

A week on from his spectacular arrest, fascination with Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom shows no sign of abating.

One nugget which hasn’t yet been noted: the German-born hacker does actually own the domain name kim.com.

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Tim Bradshaw Spotify hits 3m subscribers to improve conversion rate

January 26, 2012 7:19 pm by Tim Bradshaw

No wonder the record labels are sounding much more positive about music subscription services. Spotify is starting to reap the benefits of its oft-doubted “freemium” business model.

After hitting 2.5m subscribers in November, the Anglo-Swedish digital music service has now reached 3m, with more than 20 per cent of its active user base paying every month to banish advertisements or listen on smartphones.

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Tim Bradshaw iPhone becomes top US smartphone – and other Apple superlatives

January 25, 2012 11:10 am by Tim Bradshaw

After posting forecast-beating results last night, Apple has hit another high this morning.

According to figures published on Wednesday by Kantar Worldpanel, the WPP-owned market researcher, Apple’s iPhone has just overtaken Google’s Android to become the most popular smartphone platform in the US.

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From FT.com January 20, 2012

Kim dotcom

Kim Dotcom, the 37-year-old man behind Megaupload, was already a notorious figure in the online file-sharing world before he was forced out of the “panic room” of his $24m New Zealand mansion and arrested, in one of world’s largest criminal copyright cases.

Despite being convicted for computer hacking and later insider trading in Germany in the late 1990s, the man formerly known as Kim Schmitz has always denied any wrongdoing.

But since moving to Hong Kong and then New Zealand, he has never been shy about flaunting his success either.

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Tim Bradshaw Anonymous in revenge attack for MegaUpload shutdown

January 20, 2012 11:00 am by Tim Bradshaw

Anonymous, the amorphous hacktivist collective, has claimed its “largest attack ever” on 10 music industry and government websites in retaliation for Thursday’s shutdown of MegaUpload.

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Tim Bradshaw Wikipedia’s anti-SOPA blackout will go ahead on Wednesday

January 16, 2012 6:53 pm by Tim Bradshaw

Wikipedia is planning an online “blackout” on Wednesday, in protest against proposed US legislation intended to stem web piracy.

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