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Comment Spam disguised as a Slashdot Article... (Score 1) 110

" CloudFlare has announced that they're giving all users (free and paid) protection from said attacks with their services." - and there's the meat of this whole post. Like the "Unprecedented DNS attacks" from a couple of weeks ago, if you follow the trail of this article it is nothing but a press release from CloudFlare designed to whip everyone into a frenzy and buy their product to protect them. - 90,000 hosts? Haven't we seen attacks with half a million or more hosts?

Comment How quickly they forget (Score 1) 262

Dvorak was NOT referring to the lawsuits that have been filed by the **AA for the last couple of years. Cast your mind back just few years prior to that..

Does the term "Napster" ring a bell? The "original" p2p application? The one that was eventually forced to shut down by Metallica, Dr. Dre, etc? THOSE are the lawsuits he's referring to.

Prior to Napster (and the massive press coverage the lawsuits garnered), I would not be surprised to learn that the only people who were even aware of the terms MP3, file sharing or p2p could probably all be found here on ./ Once the lawsuits hit the press, almost everyone with a computer had at least one bit of filesharing software on it (and, depending on the p2p application, became another system on somone's botnet).

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