Did I ever claim moral outrage? I doubt that many people's reaction to having a film, however bad, made of their life would be moral outrage. I simply stated that Wikileaks, as you agree, is not getting a cut.

...conveniently omitting any mention of Qatar.

In addition, as Assange's lawyer earlier condemned the biographies, and no one has their lawyer condemn things that they'll be profiting from, we have it near enough confirmed that, like Wikileaks or Assange or not, no money from this is going anywhere near them.

They're claiming the film rights from an unofficial biographer who, as far as I have heard, did not pay Assange or Wikileaks royalties, and only according to rumour paid them a one-time payment - in short, a biographer who may have paid Assange nothing. They're not claiming the film rights from Assange, or from Wikileaks, or from the Sunshine Press, or from any associated organization or person. Unless Assange or Wikileaks step in, they won't be making a penny and we'll have one more shitty current-events movie.

Lost me there.

35k/sec? Around 4am, when I find myself with little to do at such a time but download, I've managed 300k/sec over torrents, more than the line's apparently capable of, but typically torrenting speeds rarely break 1k/sec. To add to the litany of anti-BT complaints, the home hubs default to opening port 4567 (not sure about business), and it seems impossible to close it for more than a few minutes without the router opening it again. Apparently this is for firmware updates, but the tinfoil hatter in me says it's a backdoor. Rationally, it's more likely to be an unintentional but blatant vulnerability.

I'm, sadly, with BT currently (not my choice); BitTorrent seems affected from about 2pm onwards, though I'm unsure when it ends as I'm generally offline after 11pm.

Ah, thanks. I didn't realize that cable had reached any significant level of popularity next to the latter two yet; it appears that I was wrong.

This wouldn't be a BT first; the Home Hub, their free router, used to rather egregiously violate the GPL. MoonBuggy does appear to be right, though, it'd be an interesting debate to have over whether concealed attribution constitutes attribution.

There is some overlap here; BT've been in a long-running dispute over alleged prioritisation with the BBC over iPlayer, which is served by Akamai.

I don't have the exact statistics, so I may be wrong - feel free to downvote if you disprove this - but I've rarely seen anyone not on a BT line, until the '60s the company which was previously BT had a complete (government-instated) monopoly of telecom infrastructure, and it is known that BT still owns the majority of lines. A lot of TSPs won't give service over anything but BT lines, and I've seen a few ISPs do similarly. If this is being offered to all ISPs on BT's network, as the BBC article claims, then this is being offered to near enough every ISP in Britain.

This is the new year. Investors usually stampede over the new year. It only makes sense that a rising property such as Apple would get a large boost off this. By March things will probably have flattened out, unless there are some major Apple announcements or releases in that time.

Here in the UK, the RIPA already allows authorities to "compel" us to disclose our passwords and keys in what is basically judicial rubberhosing. I can see it coming to the US very soon.