I just came across this post on another blog. Quite shocking really! Wow – TVcatchup.com == ukvpn.net So, after their much publicized vendetta against people in the UK choosing to use VPNs to access their service, tvcatchup.com finally reveal their real motives. Wow – TVcatchup.com == ukvpn.net So, after their much publicized vendetta against people [...]
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Watch TV from all over the world via the Internet
Posted by arcana on December 12th, 2009
Many broadcasting companies now provide TV shows over the Internet but you’re unable to watch most of them unless you live in their country of origin. For example, you can’t watch Hulu unless you live in the United States, you can’t watch BBC iPlayer unless you live in the United Kingdom and you can’t use [...]
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Tags: Big Brother, Eircom, government snooping, hulu, internet privacy, iPlayer, ITV Player, proxy servers, RTE Player, TV3, TV4, vpn 
No Comments »Spying begins on UK web users
Posted by arcana on December 12th, 2009
From New Scientist We reported last week on plans to enforce copyright law by forcing internet service providers to spy on consumers to detect and report every piece of copied music, movies, e-books, games and software. Now one UK ISP, Virgin Media, is trialling some of the technology needed to do that on about 1.6 [...]
Freenet
Posted by arcana on November 30th, 2009
Awhile ago I was thinking about how to make a website that couldn’t be taken down by censors. I immediately thought of using Usenet to store the HTML and other page content since it’s a distributed system. The HTML, images, movies and other media could be stored in Usenet articles. Since Usenet servers connect to [...]
Extent of UK snooping revealed
Posted by arcana on November 29th, 2009
Originally posted on Friday, 16 May, 2003, 16:51 GMT 17:51 UK at BBC News. Officials in the UK are routinely demanding huge quantities of information about what people do online and who they call, say privacy experts. Police and other officials are making around a million requests for access to data held by net and [...]
Switch on for state snooping
Posted by arcana on November 29th, 2009
Originally posted on Wednesday, 17 July, 2002, 09:15 GMT 10:15 UK at BBC News. From August net service providers in the UK will be obliged to carry out surveillance of some customers’ web habits on behalf of the police. Controversial laws passed in 2000 oblige large communications companies to install technology that allows one in [...]
Banned from MMORPG.com!
Posted by arcana on November 2nd, 2009
I’ve just been banned from mmorpg.com for a discussion about Star Wars Galaxies. Here’s the ban e-mail I received…
PayPal not being Pals nor Paying!
Posted by arcana on October 29th, 2009
On October 13th I got a message from PayPal to let me know that they’d frozen one of my businesses accounts as it had received over $3,300 in total turnover. Despite already proving I’m not a fraudster, robot, child and whatnot, and that my bank account is mine and that I do answer if they [...]
Aion. Cool game but insane queue times in Europe!
Posted by arcana on September 30th, 2009
My wife and I bought the Aion collector’s edition and managed to get in to head-start before the main horde of players joined in later on in the week. It’s a great game so far, I must say. The attention to detail is very nice and the fights feel fast paced and dynamic.
Dodgy OS X File Sharing
Posted by arcana on September 19th, 2009
I’ve been pulling my hair out for the last hour, while trying to copy files from my iMac to my Macbook Pro across my network.
