Pirate Bay Not Paying Fines
Apr 21, 2009 Internet
Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström were last week sentenced to one year in prison and to pay $3.6 million in fines, which was split among them. Peter Sunde said in a statement to press that even if he had the money he would not pay the fines.
“We can’t pay and we wouldn’t pay,” said Sunde. “Even if I had the money I would rather burn everything I owned, and I wouldn’t even give them the ashes,” he added.
According to Gizmodo, Sunde has asked users to stop donating money to help them pay the heavy fines.
“We have seen that some people that we don’t know have started collecting donations for us, so we can pay those silly fines. We firmly ask you NOT to do this. Do not gather or send any money. We do not want them since we will not pay any fines!”
[Via Tom’s Hardware]
Tags: Internet, Peer to Peer, Torrent
Trojan Blocks Access to BitTorrent Sites
Jan 5, 2009 Internet, Security
A new type of trojan has apparently popped up at several torrent sites. This trojan blocks access to The Pirate Bay and Mininova and informs its victims that “downloading is wrong.” It does so by modifying the hosts file on your computer and redirect the BitTorrent sites to localhost, making them impossible to load.
[Via TorrentFreak]
Tags: Internet
QuarkBase Tells You Everything About a Website
Aug 31, 2008 Internet
QuarkBase offers complete overview of any web site. It gives information on popularity, ownership, traffic information, and even recent blog posts.
It’s a good place to start looking if you want to know something about a website.
[Via Lifehacker]
Tags: Internet
Google Calendar Phishing
Jul 1, 2008 Google, Internet, Security
Last week, Philipp Lenssen wrote that he had been the target of a phishing attempt via Google Calendar.
He received an e-mail from “customer care” to his Gmail account where he was asked to verify his account by supplying his user name and password.
This Email is from Gmail Customer Care and we are sending it to every Gmail Email User Accounts Owner for safety. we are having congestions due to the anonymous registration of Gmail accounts so we are shutting down some Gmail accounts and your account was among those to be deleted.We are sending you this email to so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account. (…)
You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Information below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons.
[Via Blogoscoped]