Any chance of a Demonoid revival suddenly thrust into the trash bin, as the BitTorrent tracker’s domains are now on sale after Ukrainian authorities took down its servers last week.
The three fundamental domains of Demonoid, namely Demonoid.com, Demonoid.me and Demonoid.ph, are now up for sale to the highest bidder on Sedo, a marketplace and website for domain names.
BitTorrent news web site Torrentfreak received info from an unnamed source that Demonoid’s governing body, which it …

Megaupload creator Kim Dotcom has announced that his plans to launch Megabox, a pro-artist music service, will push through this year.
Dotcom and his brainchild are currently under fire from US law enforcement agencies, as he faces extradition and charges on money laundering, copyright infringement and racketeering. Regardless of his legal attacks, Dotcom is confident in launching Megabox this year and said it will be “unstoppable”.
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Google has revealed plans to suppress copyright infringement through tweaks on its search algorithm such that websites alleged to contain ‘pirated’ content will have very low rankings in its search engine results page (SERP) as penalty.
The search giant announced that it will insert several standards to its ranking algorithm to count the number of times a particular website will receive Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests.
The new Google Search scheme will see …

Google has agreed to pay a hefty $22.5 million fine for going around user privacy settings in Apple’s Safari web browser.
The Mountain View-based online ads leader received a court order to pay off almost $23 million, the largest obligatory fine in the history of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), as penalty for using special code to avoid the built-in user privacy controls in Safari.
The circumvention gave Google the ability to monitor online activities of users who accessed the …

Google has added search results into its email service, Gmail, as part of its latest innovations to online search within its products that include the expansion of its Knowledge Graph for English language countries.
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The search giant aims to provide Gmail users a quicker way to get the most relevant search results regardless of the information’s storage location. That means Google search will be more efficient with search features found on desktops and mobile devices.
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Ukrainian investigators shut down Demonoid after a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack made it inaccessible for a limited time on the internet.
The BitTorrent tracker and website has now shuttered permanently after government authorities surfaced at its host datacenter in ColoCall to cease operations.
TorrentFreak received a tip from an unnamed source in ColoCall who said, “Investigators have copied all the information from the servers Demonoid and sealed

Wikipedia crashed worldwide on Monday, which left millions of online users in the dark why they could not access its website.
The online encyclopedia’s non-profit charitable organization, popularly known as Wikimedia, tweeted on its Twitter account that Wikipedia experienced technical problems and its engineering team worked hard to find a solution.
Wikipedia, the organization’s flagship project, posted a status update on its website that is experienced a major “disruption” on its …

A new plug-in developed by Chris Baker, Yvonne Chine, and Pete Marquis is aimed at blocking images of babies on Facebook and replacing it something else.
The plug-in, Unbaby.me is downloadable from the Chrome Web store and is fit for those who aren’t fans of baby pictures, or to those who are annoyed at people who post their baby pictures and/or pictures of other infants.

Unbaby.me is a new Chrome plugin that replaces baby pictures on Facebook with more “awesome stuff” (Image: …

In a Google blog entry, the company announced it will remove 3 more mobile and web products. It will also deconstruct blogs that are rarely updated by its several communications channels.
Google will remove, first and foremost, Google Apps for Teams. This app allows school or business users without a gmail account to access Google tools.
Max Ibel of Google wrote that this tool, which started in 2008, is “not as useful for people as we originally anticipated.” Beginning September 4, Google …

MyVidster has been found not guilty for allegedly embedding a copyright-infringing video on another website in a court of appeals ruling.
U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner has concluded and ruled that no deed of infringement was seen on the actions of the social video-bookmarking site against porn production company Flava Works.
Flava Works has allegedly accused MyVidster for illegally embedding copyright-infringing versions of its content from third-party