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Submission + - Demonoid torrent tracker site shut down by CRIA 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @08:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: As of Tuesday, 25th September 2007, Demonoid is currently down, with no prior warnings from any moderators of the site. Both the main torrent page and the forum (fora) are no longer accessible. It is still possible to ping and trace the IP address of the site and it locates itself as in Canada. As of 6:45pm EST on 9-25-07, SSH and SMTP services are no longer active. Torrentfreak.com has since reported this is due to legal actions from the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) who ordered Demonoid's ISP to shut down the site.

BitTorrent Closes Source Code 390

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @10:34PM from the taking-my-toys-and-going-home dept.

An anonymous reader writes ""There are two issues people need to come to grips with," BitTorrent CEO Ashwin Narvin told Slyck.com. "Developers who produce open source products will often have their product repackaged and redistributed by businesses with malicious intent. They repackage the software with spyware or charge for the product. We often receive phone calls from people who complain they have paid for the BitTorrent client." As for the protocol itself, that too is closed, but is available by obtaining an SDK license."

Mandatory DRM for Podcasts Proposed 432

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 15, 2007 @05:51PM from the good-idea-bad-idea dept.

Knytefall writes "Joe Biden, Dianne Feinstein, and two GOP senators are sponsoring a bill called the PERFORM Act that would require podcasts with music and satellite radio to be locked-up with music industry-approved DRM software. From the article: 'All audio services — Webcasters included — would be obligated to implement "reasonably available and economically reasonable" copy-protection technology aimed at preventing "music theft" and restricting automatic recording.'"

Comment Re:Duh? (Score 1) 147

by FREELZEE on Tuesday May 09, 2006 @08:06PM (#15297732) Attached to: Eight Hour Coding Session Causes DVT

Not necessarily, blood is returned through the legs via little one way gates, leg muscle movement acts to squeese these gates causing blood to push forward towards the heart gate by gate. The fact that these gates now no longer have to fight gravity means that blood should be able to return through the legs more easily. Sitting on your tailbone will not block any return veins because none of the major ones, i.e. portal vein, femoral vein etc are occluded (they are mainly posterior, not anterior), so.... you should be better off chilling in this position than sitting normally with legs static.

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