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Just as I suspected!!!

Regular readers will know that this site used to reside at ‘technostorm.co.uk’ for the first 18 months of its life. But there was a dispute between myself and my previous ISP [who I used to work for], who wouldn’t release my domain name without me coughing up £94 + I would need to re-register the domain name with them first as it had less than a month to run before expiry, so that’s another £23.50. Obviously I wasn’t prepared to pay that sum of money for a domain name that would cost me £5 with my current ISP, 1&1 Internet. Anyway, that’s water under the bridge, my plan to register the name with 1&1 as soon as it expired went up in smoke, when a certain ‘Seb Clark’ beat me to the punch, and swiftly put the domain up for sale at Sedo.co.uk. It seems that this guy has made a habit of doing this, registering several dettagged or inactive domains as soon as they expire. And in this case, offered to sell the domain for a four figure sum, the company who complained about it, had their appeal turned down by Nominet when it was clear what Seb Clark was doing, registering domain names for profit, and extortionate profit at that! These sort of people really make my blood boil, and Nominet should do something about it, surely you shouldn’t be able to sell a domain worth £5 for thousands of pounds!

Seems that Sony BMG may have landed itself in hot water over their latest anti-piracy measures. When you try to play a copy protected CD in a CD-ROM drive it installs a proprietary media player and installs secret software on the computer and masks them with a rootkit, which hides the file in the filesystem, so antivirus software can’t detect it. Sony could have left itself open to legal action as it doesn’t mention in the terms and conditions about installing these secret files with the player. The irony is that it has back fired as people have ripped the tracks to mp3 to get around this protection that only allows for three copies to be made [which seems odd for anti-piracy measures] and only allows play via their proprietary media player. It’s anti-piracy gone mad, they have gone too far, illegally installing software of peoples machines, in many ways they are no better than the GAIN network. I would love to see someone sue Sony for this, especially if damage was caused as a direct result of their hidden software. I don’t know why they even bother, give it a couple of months and some boffin will find his/her way around this protection! [Story]

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