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A whole lot of trust in a little SSL seal …
I must admit that I started to truly appreciate the value of SSL certificates when it became a part of my career a couple of years ago. Before then, I didn’t even know what SSLs were, and why they...
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The referee’s a faker
Sunday afternoon in the Fuller house is ‘me’ time. There is nothing I like better than a sit down after my roast dinner, perhaps with a glass of port and Sky Sports for company. We have all become...
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Google ready to unveil pay wall services on YouTube
It will come as no surprise to the most savvy internet users that Google appears to be ready to announce a new subscription-based service on YouTube, the world’s biggest video streaming website....
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Spotify plugs Downloadify breach – but shouldn’t have needed to do so
Spotify has responded quickly to a shut down in its service due to a breach in the company’s streaming music service that allowed unlimited downloads of unencrypted music files. The “Downloadify”...
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Dish..ing the dirt on satellite TV piracy
While the downloading of pirated films, TV, games and music is a subject of much attention from the media, web users, content creators and legislators, little attention is paid in the public eye to...
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And how would Sir care to pay for his cyberlocker membership?
NetNames analysis of the payment processors used by the ten most popular direct download cyberlockers and the ten most popular streaming video hosts commonly used for infringement has found that all...
View ArticleNetNames will be presenting at the 2013 Copyright & Technology Conference in...
NetNames will be presenting at the Copyright & Technology conference in London on Thursday 17 October 2013. David Price, Head of NetNames Analysis will be speaking on the issue of Cyberlockers and...
View ArticleRussia’s anti-piracy law starts to bite
More than fifty temporary injunctions against sites distributing infringing content have been granted to rights holders since Russia’s anti-piracy law went live at the beginning of August. While the...
View ArticlePirate Bay World Tour Of ccTLDs following pressure from Anti-Piracy Groups
The Pirate Bay is having a tough time lately. It moved from the .sx (Sint Maarten) to .ac (Ascension Island) Top Level Domain under pressure from the Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN. Here it expected to...
View ArticleTwo hundred million happier users? BitTorrent protocol change increases...
Testing of the latest release of uTorrent, the most popular bittorrent client worldwide, found that the introduction of a new peer selection technique significantly enhanced download and transfer...
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Illegal Downloads in 2014
Recently, the list of the films most illegally downloaded last year was announced. Surprisingly, the number one title on the list wasn’t Disney’s hugely successful Frozen, with its thousands of...
View ArticleNetflix and The War on Digital Piracy
Gone has the time when children used to spend every waking hour outside, playing football, riding their bikes and generally getting into scrapes and adventures that they would back on fondly in later...
View ArticleSocial Media Claims a Points Victory Against Broadcasters
It seemed that one of the other winners from Saturday’s richest fight in history apart from Floyd Mayweather appears to be the social media networks who provided a way for many people to avoid paying...
View ArticleEUROVISION 2015
This weekend Vienna will host the sixtieth edition of the continent’s favorite musical talent show – The Eurovision song contest. Much derided and parodied in the UK, the contest is known for its...
View ArticleProposals Afoot To Force Commercial Domain Registrants To Reveal Identity
By David Goldstein ICANN has put forward a proposal that if adopted would see commercial entities being forced to reveal their identities when registering domain names, and privacy advocates are...
View ArticleNetNames Industry Roundup
By David Goldstein AuDA Launches Second Round of Consultation On Opening Up Second Level Domains The .au policy regulator auDA has launched a second round of consultation on changes to its policy...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Excel
by Stuart Fuller Did you know that Microsoft’s Excel is actually older than the M25 motorway, Glasnost and the plan to build the current Channel Tunnel? On the 30th September 1985, Microsoft...
View ArticleThe 12 days of Counterfeit Christmas
By Stuart Fuller “Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat” so says the old nursery rhyme. However, gone are the days when shops started going overboard on Christmas straight after Halloween....
View ArticleA visit from St Fraudulent
By Bruce Williams T’was the week before Christmas and all through the land Fraudsters are working to counterfeit your brand There are factories in Shanghai, Bangkok and Taipei All working overtime,...
View Article2015 was a big year for Movie Piracy in more than one way
By Stuart Fuller The annual list of the most illegally downloaded movies, published late in December, underlined that the issue of digital piracy shows no signs of abating. As technology gets...
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