Posts Tagged ‘ ISP ’

"Hurt Locker" File-sharing Suits Moving Ahead with Subpoenas

September 3, 2010
"Hurt Locker" File-sharing Suits Moving Ahead with Subpoenas

A few months back, Voltage Studios (the indie studio that made “The Hurt Locker”) began legal proceedings against those seen illegally sharing the movie online. 5,000 “John Doe” lawsuits were filed by the film’s producers. Voltage Pictures has now star…

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Top 5 Spam Botnet "Crippled" but Still Kicking

September 1, 2010
Top 5 Spam Botnet "Crippled" but Still Kicking

One of the world’s largest botnets responsible for as much as 10 percent of all spam suffered a temporary setback this week when several ISPs took action by unplugging infected servers, according to security firm M86 Security.
Known as the Pushdo or Cu…

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Belgian ISP Posts List of Top Bandwidth Users

August 20, 2010
Belgian ISP Posts List of Top Bandwidth Users

Many ISPs around the world have taken to instituting restricting bandwidth caps, but Belgian ISP Telenet has a fairly amicable system. Lower priced, slower service is capped between 50 and 80GB pr month, but higher packages are governed only by fair us…

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Verizon Fiber Network Hits Nearly 1Gbps in New Trial

August 16, 2010
Verizon Fiber Network Hits Nearly 1Gbps in New Trial

In a Verizon statement today, the company announced that a recent field test of their fiber optic network showed near gigabit speeds. The test was carried out in Taunton, Mass with the help of a business customer. The customer saw speeds of 925Mbps whe…

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