Video-Sharers Made Happy: YouTube Video Upload Limit Increased to 15 minutes

Earlier this week YouTube announced that it will soon change the video upload limit from the current 10 minutes to 15. Videos exceeding10 minutes were until now reserved only to YouTube Partners and other content owners but due to a torrent of requests from users the limit had to be pushed a bit further for
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Sad Day for UK Gamers: R4 Cards Declared Illegal

The British High Court has banned a popular copying device used by many gamers to play illegally copied games on the Nintendo DS Now illegal to sell and market in the UK, the R4 cards, are storage devices that fit into the DS cartridge slot, circumvent security systems and allow people to play pirated games
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HADOPI Gives the “Go” to French Three Strikes Law

Late last year France adopted the controversial three strikes model much to the joy of the entertainment industry and the discontent of advocates of human rights. However, the green light for imposing the law was given by HADOPI (Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur Internet) only yesterday. Perhaps
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uTorrent Web Adds Compatibility with iPad and Android

BitTorrent Inc. keeps on further developing its services and expanding the capabilities of its popular client uTorrent. Last month the company added support for the iPhone and due to a latest upgrade the remote access ‘Web’ feature of its uTorrent Falcon client now supports the iPad and Android devices. This mean that those heavy downloaders
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100 Million User Data Spreads on Bittorrent Sites

Ron Bowes, a security consultant at Nmap, has caused quite a turbulence in news earlier this week as he made available through file-sharing sites the public Facebook profiles of 100 million users of the social networking site which makes about 20% of the site’s global membership. Facebook hurried to smother worries saying that the information
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