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Last week the BPI and the major UK ISPs drew up an agreement, that will see the BPI passing details of file-sharers to their ISP, and the ISP sending a letter to teh file-sharer reprimanding them for sharing copyrighted material. The BPI of course wants stronger measures such as cutting users off, but the ISPs [...]
Who’s Knock Off Nigel you ask?
He’s the ‘victim’ in a series of ads, who downloads films (oooer!!!) that he doesn’t have he right to. According to the ads he also steals from whip rounds, and other people’s milk from the fridge. Here’s the ad at YouTube.
Ever had a call from an 0703 number that rang once, and then cut off?
Getting missed calls from 02920822640 or another 0292 number?
Have had multitudes from both, and they share a common link. Both are ’scam’ numbers, but they operate in different ways, and they seem to be on the rise.
Well what can you do? You list an item, it sells, you send an invoice, they don’t bother paying. You then send a polite note asking whether there is a problem, and receive the response that the cheque is in the post. Five days later, no cheque, so you issue a non paying bidder alert [...]
When will I learn? Only a few days after the AOL and wireless repeater debacle, and I’m in a similar situation, this time with BT and its piece of rubbish router, the HomeHub.
I’d set a Belkin F5D7130 Wireless Access Point up as a repeater for a HomeHub using firmware 6.2.6.E, and it worked flawlessly. Some [...]
Facebook, Myspace, Bebo - normally places I avoid like the plague, but having found my family, Facebook has become a tool for us to chat quite easily. This unfortunately opens you up to abuse from others, especially when playing some of the games. Sometimes you stumble into a group, make a flippant comment and then [...]
It doesn’t seem that long ago when this little auction site first hit the internet news. Suddenly auctioning off your old stuff, was very easy, but this seems to have seriously changed in the last few months, and most of the blame can be laid at eBay’s door in my opinion.
Captain Jack Sparrow is back…..
Oh wait, no he’s not, this is music, film, game piracy which is hitting all the news sites yet again. Virgin media in association with the BPI is sending letters out to around 800 ‘file sharers’ according to the BBC.