Russian music site down, sister site up
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A music download site that was the poster child for U.S. anti-piracy crusaders and an obstacle to Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization has been shut down by Russian authorities, according to the U.S. government.
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StumbleUpon, one of my favorite web surfing &#038; navigation networks, seems to be experiencing downtime this morning. I&#8217;m not able to surf, submit or suggest using the StumbleUpon toolbar or its web site. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Sometimes in the online world, downtime can equal  major update (thinking YouTube or search engines). I wonder if [...]
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We turned off share.opml.org yesterday, for good, as far as I know. It was a good idea, but we never got it together to make it the powerhouse I wanted it to be.  Now that Google and Bloglines both have discovery mechanisms for feeds that you might like, based on what you and others like, there would only be a future for SYO if it were a thriving and growing community, and it isn't.  Normally, I'd leave a site like that running indefinitely, but this one needed its own server, and I wanted to cut my server expenses now that my S3 bill is going up, serving some very big JPEGs and generally being the back-end for a community that is growing, the people using FlickrFan. If there's a big demand to bring it back, we can -- but that's going to require cash flow to go with it. At this point, I don't think it's a good investment for me. Still diggin!
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Russian music downloading site AllofMP3 is named as illegal in a trade pact tackling internet piracy.
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Falls off the internet the best place to go for something awful - is recovering from Domain Name Server problems yesterday that left the site unaccessible for many users.â¦
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A legal campaign against sites that help people share films online appears to have forced a popular site to close.
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'We're fighting the good fight here' Allofmp3.com pulled out its hired violins today to woo the press with a sad song about a hard done-by web site just trying to make its way in a temporarily legal world.â¦
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A note posted on Suprnova.org, which facilitated file sharing among users of the BitTorrent program, says the site is &quot;closing down for good.
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Yesterday China Herald tipped me that the Yahoo.com website (the English version) didn&#8217;t resolve. I checked, saw that it was true and thought I would check back the next day if the situation had changed.  At times these things happen here in China and it could have been a technical problem instead of a block. [...]
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The operators of Suprnova.org apologize to the service's users and quietly pull the plug. The shutdown follows hot on the heels of Hollywood's legal moves against BitTorrent tracker servers.
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Russian and U.S. space scientists reported multiple computer problems late Wednesday and early Thursday aboard the International Space Station.  Russian controllers in Moscow reported navigation computers in the Russian section of the space station malfunctioned.
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A Chechen rebel website is back on the internet - three weeks after its closure by Lithuania.
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(InfoWorld) - From alleged poisonings to organized crime, Russia has been getting a lot of bad press lately. But this time the country -- or at least, the government -- may be in the clear. The string of crippling DDOS (distributed denial-of-service)Â attacks against EstoniaÂ didn't appear to be a coordinated attack by one entity within Russia, wrote Jose Nazario, senior security engineer with Arbor Networks, in a commentary. Estonia, a former satellite of the Soviet Union with a population of 1.3 million, came under intense electronic attacks around April 27, jamming up commercial and government Web sites. The attacks came as Estonia moved a World War II memorial of a statue of a Soviet soldier, igniting fierce protests. Although Russia was quickly accused, Russian government officials denied involvement. Difficulties in tracing the source of the DDOS attacks left more suspicions than facts. But further analysis throws doubt on whether a single agency alone was involved, given that the attacks came from computers around the world, Nazario wrote. While it is possible to spoof the origin of a DDOS attack, "none of the sources we have analyzed from around the world show a clear line from Moscow to Tallin," Estonia's capital, Nazario wrote. While the Russian government may have not been the single source, there is evidence that a number of Russian-speaking computer gurus may have joined in. Several Russian-language Web forums have information and scripts that would allow others to rig their computers to join in a DDOS attack, which involves sending massive streams of data to a Web site, causing it to crash. The scripts would cause a computer to send data to a Web site. "We see signs of Russian nationalism at work here, but no Russian government connection," Nazario wrote. This week has been fairly quiet, said Hillar Aarelaid, chief security officer for Estonia's Computer Emergency Response Team. "We have seen some attacks, but they are quite easy to handle," Aarelaid said, adding the DDOS attacks remain under investigation. Â
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The DDOS attacks against Estonia didn't appear to be a coordinated attack by one entity within Russia
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A website supporting rebels who continue their violent campaign for an independent Chechnya has reopened out of Finland.
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The Dmoz Meta Admin &#8220;Motsa&#8221; just updated today the status of the technical problems over at the Open Directory Project, Dmoz.org. You can see the frequently updated post at the resource-zone.com forums (the Dmoz Editor forums that is open to the public) While the Editor Application System is still down with no ETA when,Â or ifÂ it will become [...]
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Lycos Europe appears to have taken down its controversial MakeLoveNotSpam site - temporarily, at least.