A year ago it was informed Comcast sabotages the network by delivering false reset packets into the connection stream, which made bittorrent impossible to occur. At 31 June 2008 Elektronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) published a tool to diagnose the network, to detect this behavior yourselves. Informing Federal Communications Commissie (FCC) would be to weak to find it theirselves. This tool is called Switzerland because of the principles of Switzerland and is free to use.

The tool is ’still’ a command line, thus is expected only more advanced users will use the program for now. The source is public, thus a interface made be released by a third party a day.

At any case, the FCC did not handed over a fine to Comcast, but in they need to take some measurements, which take happily take on. This closes the case around Comcast sabotaging the network. (Comcast, for those who are unfamiliar, is a huge internet provider in the United States of America)

sources: Federal Communications Commision PDF, EFF (tool and news)

Sweden intercepts all communication which crosses their bothers. At least if it is up to the Swedish parliament. The voting started on 18 June 2008 (source stoppafralagen, en). Everything you do will be monitored, being on the network or just chatting by telephone. The Defence Radioanstalt (FRA) will be in charge intercepting and monitoring.
UPDATE: Lawmakers approved the bill in a 143-138 vote. One lawmaker abstained.

Think about chat, mails, calls which will be monitored regardless of upped by court. The past proofs FRA cannot be trusted lightly as they have monitored your data without permission of the law and court. We, at most all my visitors, aren’t from Sweden. But I needed to mention you this, to broaden your world as it were. Also news bloggers writing news are in in the judge by Associated Press.

Today I read some very strange news in the dutch news magazine ‘Spits‘. M. Jackson, ‘King of Pop’, is fighting. The Pirate Bay instead aiming at the Austria rape incidents two weeks ago. Why is this a weird action for M. Jackson? M. Jackson was always the artist who concerned about children. What the heck happened, why the change in all of sudden? Is M. Jackson attempting to raise his popularity.

The popular sing idol have lost his popularity these past ten years, is this a desperate move to get into the spotlights? Also M. Jackson isn’t the only artist fighting The Pirate Bay at the moment. A few artists gathered together and called in the web sheriff. In response The Pirate Bay laughs and questions M. Jackson whether they need to pay in small kids. To all other artists they tell “they gathered together having only in common their voices are unheard”.

I would say they aim at popularity. Safe Burma instead for example, people are dying! Or yesterday in France, a 10 years old girl was raped (source Spits (dutch)) and today a mother in Sweden kidnapped her baby for an house (source Spits (dutch)) … Please help them instead the huge raising financing and high profitable industries!

Well that’s my opinion. Yes, I know what The Pirate Bay is and does. Still high profitable industries vs human lives is no question for me. Safe people first, money later on. That’s why I think it’s a publicity stunt.

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TorrentSpy lost their fight in the American’s court. The owners have to pay up 110 million American dollars as fine. BREIN, the dutch anti-piracy association says it’s a milestone. Yes, I think that’s true. One grave digs another… TorrentSpy was a great TorrentSite, sharing all kinds of stuff. It also had a lot of unlicensed anime’s that, but had a lot of licensed ‘content*’ at their site.

*Content as in torrent files having meta information to licensed wares. Let’s bury TorrentSpy and memorize them.

Microsoft tried to take over Yahoo for a $44,6 billion. However Yahoo’s certificate rose and they didn’t want to be taken in by Microsoft. Instead of being taken over they took over Maven Networks, for yahoo video part. Now after all the commotion about Yahoo, Google realized Yahoo potential power and showed interest of advertising deals with Yahoo. In fact I hope Yahoo won’t take (definitely anything)  from Microsoft. But I also think they shouldn’t fully cooperate with Google. Google, Mircrosoft and Yahoo! should be fighting each other. Hopefully they do and we get great features. *blinks his eye* Today I found news about a less interested Google. T-Mobile seems to support Yahoo, to use their search engine instead of Google’s. (no one uses Microsoft Search Engine except theirselves, lol)

So about Tele2. In Denmark a judge misjudged to blockade the pirate bay. He had to claim if the pirate bay was wrong, then Tele2 should be wronger to address the pirate bay. However blocking is not an EU issue and therefore the blockade is lifted (’for a while?’).

At first, I’m really sorry about not updating the site for a while. On top, I will rarely update the site because of school issues for some weeks forth. The end approaches and as we all know, so do the deadlines. Still Mokke and Kamichama Karin updates will be up within this month. If not all to greedy, I get up a W.I.T.C.H. blog as well.

Australia Joins China In Censoring The Internet, not only in pron (you know what I mean) but also in poker games, gambling, speech, kinds of bloggers … the list of “inappropriate material” goes on and on. :S Poor, poor poor. (source: techcrunch).

RIAA on the other hand is being nasty too. So Oregon says, they wouldn’t act by law to obtain information and therefore no more than an official allowed hacker. It seemed a university was defending their students (as they should, because we do write the personal records, “no hands out to third parties”). However RIAA didn’t gave up and just hacked into the database of the school. That’s wrong, a lot of innocent students suffers along… Mwa well, it’s not like university could say yes, because of the lines. However I understand RIAA couldn’t back off, it would lose face if they did. (source: arstechnica)

Talking about the RIAA, there is a slight rumor about their fall…

Last week the dutch anti-piracy company Brein pressured several torrent sites to quiet. If they did not quit they threatend them by taking down the host. So the provider would be paid up instead. TorrentFreak charges Brein last week, but no more information was been taken. Now Leaseweb gives in the torrent sites like mybittorrent.com, btmon.com, btjunkie.org, seedpeer.com, what.cd and waffles.fm have to look for a different host in just one week. Source TorrentFreak.

State me clear, Leaseweb is an ultra fast hosting company and I think they really wanted to protect their other customers. A bit poor (read a real pity) for the torrent sites, I hope they find an good hosting who will stand ground. Not all torrent sites have illegal stuff! Leaseweb, you are a good hosting company, but I think you had to stand ground to this fact. Now it looks like all torrent sites are criminals. I know why you did, still sad. Brein is happy and continue pursuing torrent sites.

*Want to defend the sharing community? Go to Recording Industry vs The People or Electronic Frontier Foundation. *

In the previous week Brein toke drastic measures and had charged nine torrent sites. Demanding they halt their action’s they also threating them by taken the host provider if they won’t do as they were told them. It sounds harsh and it is harsh. It was just a matter of time someone would jump between them. In this case TorrentFreak charges Brein of copyright violation.

Indeed the anti-piracy company, Brein, is pursued as piracy. TorrentFreak claims they stole (and they did) information from their site and put it as their own. Without a referring source TorrentFreak is right, but what would the judge say. Is it too small too be charged with? Or will it be a seriously fail for Brein? There is no information how Brein handles these events.

Brein, the dutch anti piracy group is taken down 9 sites as Dreamtor.org and Diablo-torrentz.biz (torrent sites). They found some legal urls directing to illegal wares. I’m not sure, but as the urls are legal Brein have no word to say. At any case, if the webmaster doesn’t response they are planning to take the roots, indeed the hosting provider. However, some hosting providers do support anonymous registers. Which is a good thing, I think.

Still Brein doesn’t stop and wants to take down the hosting provider. So, what I see is Brein is attacking the private data. Hosting providers respects your privacy, but Brein is really making a big deal to take down that sector. Let me state this piracy is bad, but private data is swell. … I won’t choose a side this time, Brein is seriously doing it’s work. I just hope they won’t break the private sector down. *waves*

Bittorrent, the Internet Provider’s worse nightmare, it demands tons of bandwidth uploading and downloading. Some providers blocks Bittorrent others like the internet provider Comcast is corrupting the protocol. It might be a good reason, a nightmare, but that’s not! Internet providers should, ofcourse, keep their hands of your internet you paided!
So, what’s Comcast. Comcast is an internet provider, active in America for 20% of their internet users. Recently some customers question a research to independed company’s why their bittorrent files breaks up or even never starts. The research experienced a lot of problems sending files with bittorrent. Wit a bit tweaking their conclusion was Comcast internet provider sabotages bittorrent traffic.