A new approach to preventing digital piracy of music and video content that sidesteps the need for the privacy compromise associated with DRM (digital rights management) is reported in the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management.

Thierry Rayna of the Internet…

Raymond.cc recently mentioned a system for monitoring invite openings on more than 500 private torrent sites. In the post, he discusses his own tracker checker software and posts a link to btracs.com the monitoring system. But, I’m not interested in…

My ISP (formerly ntl), just changed my IP address. That just doesn’t happen that often. I only noticed because my OpenDNS shortcuts were no longer working and I had to login to update my network settings. Like I say, it doesn’t…

“How to steal a wordpress theme” - that was one of the first search phrases of the New Year that brought several readers to the Sig Figs website. I suspect what those readers were after was a way to extract…

In 1999, a nineteen-year old student decided he wanted a fast and efficient way to share his favorite songs with his friends. But, he didn’t just want to make them compilations tapes on cassette. He wanted to do the sharing…