OnlineTV recorder TVCatchup.com shut down
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Targeted by broadcasters The plug has been pulled on TVCatchup.com, a legally questionable web-based personal video recorder service, that allowed users to hoard UK TV shows online for free.â¦
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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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Part of the Managemyhome.com site goes offline after critics point out it revealed customers' purchasing histories.
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Sears Holdings has taken part of its Managemyhome.com Web site offline following revelations that the site was making customers&#39; purchasing histories publicly available.Sears disabled the site&#39;s &quot;Find your products&quot; section on Friday following criticism from privacy advocates, who said that fraudsters could use information provided by the site to scam Sears customers.&quot;We take our customers&#39; privacy concerns very seriously. As a result, we have turned off the ability to view a customer&#39;s purchase history on Manage My Home until we can implement a validation process that will restrict access by unauthorized third parties,&quot; said Sears spokeswoman Kimberly Freely in an e-mail.&quot;We appreciate the efforts of those who brought the issue to our attention,&quot; she added. Customers with concerns can contact Sears directly at 1-800-803-6775.The feature was supposed to be used by customers who wanted &quot;easy access to useful information about products they have purchased,&quot; she added.Manage My Home is a community portal where Sears shoppers can download product manuals, find product tips, and get home renovation ideas. However, &quot;Find your products&quot; would&#160;return purchase information history on any Sears customer, provided the search included the name, phone number, and address of the person.This was a violation of Sears&#39; own online privacy policy, which does not allow the company to share users&#39; purchase history with the general public, according to Ben Edelman, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School who blogged about the issue on Friday.&quot;It seems like pulling the feature is the right decision at this point,&quot; Edelman said in an interview on Friday. But he warned it was &quot;not immediately obvious&quot; how Sears could bring it back without running into further privacy problems.Sears, the third-largest retailer in the United States, has also been in hot water for its My SHC Community portal, which&#160;downloads invasive ComScore Web tracking software&#160;to some users.Sears has defended its use of the tracking software, pointing out that users are notified of the software&#39;s features before they download it, but researchers such as Edelman have said that the company doesn&#39;t do a good enough job of telling users what the software actually does.According to Edelman, the privacy slip-ups may stem from logistical challenges posed by Sears&#39; 2005 merger with Kmart. &quot;There&#39;s a huge transition there,&quot; he said. &quot;Getting that ship pointed in the right direction could deeply challenge IT. There are a whole lot of ways to do it wrong.&quot;
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TORONTO - One of the internet&#39;s most popular file-sharing websites has suddenly closed up shop, likely a high profile victim of the lawsuits launched last week against those operating servers using the BitTorrent network.
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AutoPatcher, a popular alternative to Windows Update, was shut down today in response to a cease-and-desist e-mail from Microsoft.
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Ouranous follows Aramiska into silence Users of the Ouranous satellite broadband service found themselves cut off last Wednesday without explanation or warning. Ouranous took on many of Aramiskaâs customers when that company unplugged itself in January.â¦
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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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Update Slammed for touting unavailable but unlicensed content
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Critical hardware is back in hand, but websites run by the collective news organization remain offline after a mysterious seizure. Nobody seems to know who confiscated the servers or why. By Wendy M. Grossman.
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The death of the video recorder comes a step closer as electrical chain Dixons says it will stop selling them.
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It's not too early to start thinking about how to ensure your television won't go dark when analog broadcasts shut down in 2009.Photos: Converting from analog to digital TV
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First video killed the radio star. Now it looks like the video recorder's days could be numbered too, after Britain's biggest electrical retailer announced an end to sales of the household gadget.
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ONE of the web&#39;s most popular file-sharing sites has shut down less than a week after Hollywood announced a flurry of lawsuits against operators of such Internet servers.
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I'm sorry to see that my blog entry on recent controversies over freedom turned into a thread about TiVo. But since TiVo seems to be such a hot button, I would like to address that issue directly. I made the point in the discussion that TiVo did not license its hardware under the GPL (duh, GPL is a software license, after all), or even a GPL-like license.  So all the fuss about what rights you have with respect to TiVo hardware is nonsense.  Sure, you have the right to modify the hardware because you bought it.  But you will void your warranty, and TiVo is under no obligation to provide you with the schematic, BIOS, or anything else to make it easy to modify the hardware.  Having said that, let's cut through all the posturing about what rights we have, and get to the real issue here, which is what motivated TiVo to use a digital signature, and what would motivate people to modify the TiVo software and run the modified version on a TiVo box.
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Chinese police have shut down a Web  site selling real-time porn and arrested 33 people, state media  said on Wednesday, part of a campaign which led to the  shut-down of 44,000 Web sites and arrest of 868 people last  year.
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Google shuts down ad-hoc online consulting service.