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  • Giganews gives 50 percent off for newly Usenet-less AT&T customers

    Giganews gives 50 percent off for newly Usenet-less AT&T customers

    Posted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Ladies and germs! If you're an AT&T Broadband customer you should know that your ISP is shutting off access to Usenet at the end of the month. Why? Yup, it's related to that whole smear campaign from last year. Some nonsense about illegal content that may or may not be there. Anyway, Giganews has a little sale for you guys: 50 percent off three months of the Diamond Plan and 20 percent off other Giganews plans.

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  • UK won’t adopt ‘3 strikes’ anti-piracy measure

    UK won’t adopt ‘3 strikes’ anti-piracy measure

    Posted on June 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Don't expect every country in Europe to follow France in implementing a “three strikes” anti-piracy laws. A report called Digital Britain, which assess the UK's preparedness to enter the digital era, will be published next week, and inside are methods that the UK could use to combat Internet piracy. One such method: slowing down the Internet connection of file-sharers so as to prevent them from effectively downloading illegal content. (Though, if my UK acquaintances are telling the truth, broadband in the UK is garbage to begin with. It'd be like telling a slug to slow down.)

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