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When ISPs hijack your rights to NXDOMAIN
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| Virgin Media's UK customers are about to experience a wonderful new service
| that intercepts unresolvable DNS requests and redirects the user to a page
| full of ads and search results.
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http://www.thresq.com/2009/08/superman-lawsuit-warner-bros.html
Virgin hijacks empty pages
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| Virgin broadband has started serving up advertising, instead of empty pages,
| when the domain you were looking for turns out not to be there.
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http://www.thresq.com/2009/08/superman-lawsuit-warner-bros.html
There's also the Phorm infection in Virgin. They abuse their customers.
The Net closes in on internet piracy
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| Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, is said to be persuaded by the
| argument for tough laws to curb illegal file-sharing after an intensive
| lobbying campaign by influential people in the music and film industry.
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| [...]
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| The new Pirate Party UK was reported to be recruiting as many as 100 people
| every hour since its launch last week. Among its supporters was Stephen Fry,
| who applauded the new party on Twitter. Yesterday the organisers said they
| had 259 fully paid-up members, although hundreds more had shown an interest
| in joining.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/the-net-closes-in-on-internet-piracy-1772820.html
Yesterday:
Mandelson goes to war on teenagers downloading their music and movies... just
days after dining with anti-piracy billionaire
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| Lord Mandelson launched a crackdown on internet piracy just days after
| meeting a leading Hollywood critic of illegal file sharing.
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| The business secretary plans to criminalise the estimated seven million
| people - one in 12 of the population - who illicitly download music and films
| over the internet.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1206901/Mandelson-launches-crackdown-file-sharing--just-days-meeting-record-producer.html
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