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Australia is at War with Anonymous.

By Tom Koltai

Early last year we blogged about Anonymous and his speech posted on Youtube.   We described and quoted a US website as to what constitutes an act of war.   DECLARATION OF WAR – An act of the national legislature, in which a state of war is declared to exist between a nation and some [...]

Spam

By Chris Gilbey

In the last couple of weeks, the amount of spurious comments that have been posted to this blog have increased out of sight. It used to be once in a blue moon that I would see overt spam. Now it is daily…. I wonder… Is this an increase in bots that post, or is it [...]

Top Five Reasons for Owning Your Own Root Server

By Tom Koltai

N.B.: It has been strongly suggested to me that many of the conclusions drawn by the following article are incorrect. Specifically http://blog.icann.org/2007/11/there-are-not-13-root-servers/ My knowledge of these subjrcts is somewhat aged and possibly incorrect. Readers should draw their own conclusions. I would add: http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/internet/printfriendly.htm?AT=61964200-39001260c The key to the U.S. government's influence is a master list of [...]

Entertainment or Treason? Where do you draw the line.

By Tom Koltai

Prologue: Most of us remember the Blair Witch Project and it’s phenomenal box office success based on a number of web pages suggesting it was a real occurrence.   Mythology – The Aftermath – The Legacy – The Filmmakers   That was an exceptionally clever piece of PR marketing, resulting in one of the highest [...]

How Do You Get People To Change Course?

By Chris Gilbey

How do you motivate people to change course? Venture Capitalists will tell you that it is a waste of time trying to get people to change. Just invest in things that they are likely to do anyway. That is why understanding the trend is so important. So if you look at what people are likely [...]

Why Are All These Twitterers Following Me?

By Chris Gilbey

It seems like pretty much every day there in my inbox is a new message, sometimes more than one, telling me that someone is following me on Twitter…. I wouldn't mind except that I don't know the people who are following me. Which makes me wonder… First, I don't tweet because I actually have more [...]

P2P With a Condom – The Emule Indexes

By Tom Koltai

Using the Search engine inside Emule will usually get hundreds of hits so it would appear that the Emule search index function is working as advertised. (Um, NOT.) Last month I identified that there were a lot of fake Lugundum servers whose role was to interdict your file requests with spam (fake files). In Australia [...]

Music Industry Interdiction Steals an Estimated $1,728,000,000,000 from Global Internet Users.

By Tom Koltai

For some time, an Australian Company Perceptric Pty. Ltd., has been researching the damage to content provider revenues from illegal file sharing activities.   Empirically we can find no conclusive evidence that file sharing damages the income stream for copyright owners, in fact, quite the reverse.   We have found definitive statistics that show the [...]

Burger King uses P2P to sell Cheeseburgers.

By Tom Koltai

Scottish Company Burger King Limited. 120 Bothwell Street, Glasgow G2 7JL. Registered in Scotland. Registered No: 31456 Recently hired Mailtrack Media to inform their email connected customers of the new P2P deal on behalf of Burger King Ltd. The original [spam] is here: http://ds.fwdto1.com/e.html?a=6nU&j=hUu&u=x5U6aDD5&format=html Has P2P become so ubiquitous that Companies now use it as [...]

P2P Users Lead the World in Enhancing the Hedonic Value of Broadcast Media

By Tom Koltai

No free man shall be arrested, or imprisoned, or deprived of his property, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor shall we go against him or send against him, unless by legal judgement of his peers, or by the law of the land.   What Law of the land says that you [...]