While the British government puts huge amounts of pressure on ISPs to clamp down on file-sharers, it is doing some pirating of its very own. It seems that Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s own website is in serious breach of copyright, as it is based on a ripped-off Wordpress theme.
The issue of copyright is a hot one in the UK right now and the government isn’t scared of getting involved. It has been putting huge amounts of pressure on ISPs to take action against alleged music file-sharers, so imagine, if you will, the beautiful crimson color Prime Minister Brown’s face will turn today when he is declared a pirate too.
Amongst other things, Anthony from antbag.com makes WordPress themes - he gives them away for free but if someone wants to donate, they can. His work is released under Creative Commons 3.0 license , which means that if someone wants to use a theme ‘as is’ or modified in some way, they are required to credit him. A link in the footer of...
Content suppressed by ://URLFAN, for full article visit source
Websites mentioned in article (click for rank details):
Pakistanis living in the US and the North America can now read the latest Pakistan news of November 20, 2008 in passing in Caymanmama press release distribution service
Now US hits settled areas in Pakistan
Pakistan has no choice but to take the IMF option
Industrial relations ordinance 2002 repealed by PPP government
PML-N in firing range - PPP and PML-Q turn buddies
Karachi Stock Market stages modest rise
US hits settled areas in Pakistan
Bannu: The US army after targeting mili... more
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan authorities formally lodged protest with US ambassador to Pakistan Anne W Patterson over US strikes inside Pakistani territories.Talking to the US envoy at Foreign Office, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said these US attack are doing nothing but add to complexities of Pakistani government, adding the objectives of War on Terror cannot be achieved through these attacks.
However, US ambassador said it is US government which takes likes of decisions.
It should be men... more
In an ideal world, people would not talk about Usenet. In an ideal world there would be no such things as copyright infringement lawsuits. Sadly, we do not live in an ideal world.
Today we simply have to talk about Usenet and we have to talk about lawsuits.
Major record labels - Arista, Atlantic, BMG, Capitol, Caroline, Elektra, Interscope, LaFace, Maverick, Sony BMG, UMG, Virgin, Warner Bros. and Zomba have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Usenet.com .
According to Bi... more
BitLet is a very neat web-based Java applet that allows you to download .torrent files on a computer that doesn’t have a BitTorrent client installed. Not really something for the more advanced BitTorrent users, but helpful if you want to share a torrent with your less tech-savvy friends.
Some BitTorrent sites, Suprnova and Fenopy for example, already list Bitlet download links on their site. However, for all the other sites the bookmarklet comes in handy. It saves you some time bec... more
The mistake was has not been made public by Apple but caused quite a bit of uproar among hardcore fans of the show. In an attempt to set things straight, Apple offered the actual season premiere and $2 iTunes credit to all the Stargate Atlantis fans who accidentally downloaded episode 4.
The mistake was apparently caused by a mix up between the production number and the broadcast number of the episodes. Stargate Atlantis is not shot in a chronological order and the fourth episode, named... more
Indieana, a former OiNK member had been working on a greasemonkey script that would pull data, links and song previews from around the web and add it to pages on OiNK. Unfortunately OiNK is no more, but the good news is that the script has now been modified to work with Mininova, The Pirate Bay, STmusic, FunkyTorrents what.cd, Libble, and, of course, Waffles.
OinkPlus displays a list of similar artists, a link to other torrents from that artist on the BitTorrent site you’re on, the art... more
Feeds and posts are not affliated with ://URLFAN. They are displayed here simply for informational purposes, if you would like to remove your feed, posts, or domain from ranking and analysis, please contact us.
Content suppressed by ://URLFAN, for full article 
Websites mentioned in article
Buzz Words mentioned in article:
How popular is feeds.feedburner.com?
