Jan 4 2009

Hustler Hires Media Protector to Chase Online Porn Pirates

Hustler Europe, part of the world’s largest adult entertainment company, has hired anti-piracy company Media Protector to start chasing down file-sharers. The partnership will have a familiar aim – to find alleged infringers on P2P networks and send them threats to pay up – or else.

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Jan 3 2009

Friended by Mom and Dad on Facebook

The Facebook group entitled “For the love of god — don’t let parents join Facebook” has 5,819 high school and college-aged members who want to stop the growing number of parents who are joining Facebook, the massively popular social networking site, from “spying” on them.

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Jan 3 2009

AT&T 3G Upgrades Degrade 2G Signal Strength

Timothy R. Butler writes “Much to the chagrin of owners of various 2G cell phones on AT&T Mobility’s network, including the highly visible (and originally highly expensive) first-generation iPhone, we have discovered that AT&T has been quietly adjusting its network in ways that degrade 2G network performance as it has sought to build out its next-generation 3G network. Many of the phones affected, including BlackBerry devices, are still well within their two-year contract period.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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