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The Pirate Bay unveil video streaming site plansby Andrew Redfern @ 29th June 2009 6:16 pm Internet News
The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world’s most well known file-sharing website, has announced that it will be launching a new video sharing website to be known as The Video Bay. The site will not adhere to copyright laws and is intended to be a rival to YouTube. At present It is not clear when the service will actually go live. The site’s founders would only say “It will be done when it’s done”. The move comes in the wake of jailing of the four men behind The Pirate Bay and The Pirate Bay founder, Peter Sunde, announced the launch on the Open Video Conference in New York. In a statement on the site, Mr Sunde confirmed the service would use the latest HTML 5 features by saying “More specifically the audio and video tags with the ogg/theora video and audio formats. This site will be an experimental playground and as such subjected to both live and drunk encoding, so please don’t bug us too much if the site isn’t working properly”. A preview of the site showed, perhaps deliberately, a number of copyrighted music videos available for viewing in the navigation sidebar. The move will undoubtedly be seen as provocative, with the organisation’s founders convicted of breaking copyright law and facing a year-long prison sentence. Last week a Swedish court threw out a request for a retrial made on behalf of the four men. The Pirate Bay’s lawyers called for a retrial on the basis that one of the judges in the case belonged to several copyright protection groups. The Swedish court said the judge’s affiliations did not bias the case. The ruling stated that the Judge, Tomas Norstrom, should have declared that he was a member of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and the Swedish Copyright Association before the case went to trial. However it stated that “The fact that he failed to shed light on this does not however mean that there was any wrongdoing during the proceedings that would require a retrial, this was not a case of bias” No appeal is allowed against this judgement Governments addressing online fraud and cyber terrorismby Andrew Redfern @ 25th June 2009 11:30 am Internet News
Two stories have came to light this week outlining how governments are taking steps to address the twin threats of efraud cyber-terrorism. It has been announced that the British Government are to set up two new monitoring bodies to address the growing online threats. The Office of Cyber Security will co-ordinate policy across UK government as well as looking at legal and ethical issues online. It is thought that the new agency will be tasked with bringing people together from across government and from outside to get a better handle on cyber security issues. The other body known as The Cyber Security Operations Centre will be based at government listening post GCHQ in Cheltenhamand will be responsible for startegies aimed at better protecting the country, providing advice and information about online security threats. They will a responsible for identifying when cyber attacks are taking place, where they come from and what can be done to stop them. The new Cyber Security Operations Centre will work closely with the designated parts of the critical national infrastructure and wider industry and officials say that business are keen for the government to take a lead but also share as much information as possible. This moved mirrors similar devlopments in the US where it has recently been announced that a shake-up of how the country deals with the growing threat from online attack will take place. Most eye-catching in these reports is that the head of America’s National Security Agency says that America needs to build a digital warfare force for the future. Lt Gen Keith Alexander heads the Pentagon’s new Cyber Command and outlined his views in a report for the House Armed Services subcommittee. In it, he stated that the US needs to reorganise its online offensive and defensive online in the face of a growing threat. The US administration is due to publish the results of a 60-day review on cyber-security ordered by President Obama and it’s thought that it will report the need for a much more robust repsonse to the threats both by the US Government and by the organisations and companies associated with it’s security and military. Just last week there were reports of a security breach of the £225bn F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft project. The aircraft Manufacturer Lockheed-Martin insisted no classified data was stolen however it throws the issue into sharp contrast and highlights the growing need for a formal, organised authority dealing with the ever more critical area of online security. Increase Sales On Your Website By Targeting The Silver- Surfers!by Andrew Redfern @ 16th June 2009 9:15 am Internet News
A recent report shows that online activities previously dominated by either older generations or younger generations are now being done more equally across all generations under 73 years old. Websites that explicitly target the senior market are seeing revenues boom, but what do you need to do to your site to maximise sales from this group?: 1. Make obvious what’s clickable and what’s not Swedish Pirate Party gain a seat in the European Parliamentby Andrew Redfern @ 8th June 2009 3:56 pm Internet News
A Swedish political party based around the single issues Pirate Party, striking a chord with voters who want more free content on the Internet, won a seat in the European Parliament. Despite the name similar to Pirate Bay, the party and the website are not linked. The Pirate Party was founded in 2006 and contested a Swedish general election that year, but received less than one percent of the vote. This time however after the high profile court case resulting in convictionfor Pirate Bay’s owners the Pirate party has secured 7.1% of the Swedish vote gaining it a seat in the new European Parliament. The party wants to deregulate copyright, abolish the patent system and reduce surveillance on the Internet. Christian Engstrom, the party’s lead candidate, told Reuters “This is fantastic!. This shows that there are a lot of people who think that personal integrity is important and that it matters that we deal with the Internet and the new information society in the right way.” Previously an obscure group of single-issue activists, the party enjoyed a jump in popularity after the conviction in Pirate Bay court case in April. The case brought massive attention to the issue of un-regulated internet file-sharing. The result puts the Pirate Party in fifth place in Sweden, behind the Social Democrats, Greens, Liberals and the Moderate Party. New Zealand loves Britain’s Got Talent: Susan Boyleby Andrew Redfern @ 5th June 2009 12:41 pm Internet News
Susan Boyle, the runner-up of Britain’s Got Talent, has shown just exactly how effective a viral campaign can be in raising the profile of an individual or business. With over 100 million YouTube downloads and celebrity fans including Hollywood stars such as Demi Moore her popularity amongst the public is undeniable. 3 Ireland 4 Canada 5 Singapore 6 United States 7 Puerto Rico 8 United Kingdom 9 Viet Nam 10 Australia Search volume for “Susan Boyle” within the last 30 days show that the Britain’s Got Talent runner-up may be losing favour with the British public as South Africa, Singapore and even Puerto Rico have shown larger volume of search than the United Kingdom which is 8th by search volume. BBC : Online classified advertising ‘booming’.by Andrew Redfern @ 8th April 2009 11:58 am Internet News
The BBC has posted an interesting report noting the surge in use of online classifieds website such as Criagslist and Gumtree. According to figures quoted from HitWise visits to such sites in the US are up 84% compared to last year. This shows that while the traditional advertising market may be in decline but the online classifieds are bucking this trend and thriving. According to Hitwise the top search term in the US in March was for US online classified site Craigslist taking over from social networking site MySpace which was the most searched for site for the previous 16 months. It’s thought that the recession has played a part in turning people from paid advierts to the free online classifieds. The article on the BBC website quotes Hitwise research director Heather Dougherty as saying “Consumers have embraced free classifieds as a way to generate income by selling personal items, while others take advantage of the deals available”. In the UK the growth in the online classifieds has been more modest with sites such as GumTree seeing a 15% growth in traffic. As yet Craiglist is not as popular with UK internet users and so there is no nothing with as strong a brand with eBay still being seen as primarily an online auction site. This may well change however as Craiglist will almost certainly seek to expand it’s UK presense and eBay is attempting to move from auctions into a more Classifieds style of listing. America’s newspaper industry has been badly hit by the economic downturn with the rise of classified advertising websites held partly to blame. Would you like to know more about online classifieds? If so, contact Hit Search, SEO and Google adWords qualified PPC specialists, on 0845 643 9289. Remember, its a big world out there, make sure you become visible. EU rule out internet freedom lawby Andrew Redfern @ 4th February 2009 1:36 pm Internet News
Reuters are reporting that the European Union’s media chief Viviane Reding has stated that a Internet Freedom law would be be too difficult ot enforce and is not necessary.
In a meeting at the European Parliament Ms Redding said “Should the EU have specific legislation on Internet freedom? I am not convinced so far that hard law is the best way to deal with the challenge”. There have been calls to set up a dedicated authority aimed at controlling EU based internet hosts and providers but speaking yesterday Redding rejected these calls I believe that we should not put European companies in an invidious position where their choice appears to be to break the law or leave the market to more unscrupulous operators,” Reding said. “Rather, our goal should be to find ways to allow operators and service providers to respect human rights without doing either,” Governing the internet is a considerable headache for legislators with numerous considerations, problems and jurisdictions to be considered. It is however felt that some sort of guide is required to ensure freedom of speech is maintained whilst still protecting individuals and companies. U.S. companies have called instead for some sort of code of conduct outlining minimum corporate standards related to Internet freedom. Whilst Ms Redding said that EU money could be used to develop anti-censorship software. Would you like to know more about this subject? If so, contact Hit Search, SEO and Google adWords qualified PPC specialists, on 0845 643 9289. Remember, its a big world out there, make sure you become visible. Other Related Stories That May Be Of Interest:
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