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Stolen Oyster Card frozen
Had my Oyster card stolen yesterday. No idea how. Might have dropped it but I don’t know. I only found out last night. Tried logging online but couldn’t get in to the account and because it used an old...
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Bitcoin bet or bubble bursting?
Mt Gox is dead. Apparently. More than 750,000 Bitcoins missing, so they say. Rumour mill an’ all. Careless that, or criminal. Either way someone has lost a lot of Bitcoin (Mt Gox has previous – see...
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How to complain about nuisance calls and messages
The blog is getting a lot of visits to posts about nuisance calls and messages. There are clearly a lot of pests out there. If you suffer from this you can report incidents to the Information...
View ArticleVirgin media filter block post resurgence in popularity
Last year following the court order imposed on the large consumer ISPs requiring them to “block” access to Pirate Bay I wrote a blog post outlining how to bypass the Virgin Media filters and discussing...
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The Copyright Enforcement Enigma
When I was on a panel at the Eight Parliament and Internet Conference last year, I was approached afterwards by an academic – Monica Horten. We had a chat about a few things regulatory (notably ITSPA’s...
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Broadband traffic management – a thing of the past? #UKNOF28
Broadband traffic management seems to have been ditched some time ago by the big ISPs. I may be behind the times here. Had a conversation with a couple of senior tech guys at major UK ISPs who told me...
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(Part of) A Day in the Life
08h14 Woke up (to a sweet small kiss from My Missus…thanks, honey). Got out of bed. 08h19 Open Chrome tab to eztv.it. Locate torrent for and click its Magnet link. 08h19 Confirm torrent download on...
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Watching the Football
Yesterday a friend of mine in the UK asked me if I was “going to watch the football”, stating his own excitement over the soon-upon-us 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil (the official label of the event, if...
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The Hump Day Five (25-June-2014)
1 Bolting to meet My Missus for a Pay-For-Weekend-Well-Spent swim (the value of which we will immediately negate with a hearty follow-up Mexican lunch), and just realized that my mobile phone charge is...
View ArticleWebsite Blocking Report
See if your website is being blocked by ISPs using the Open Rights Group (ORG) website blocking Blocked resource. Had an interesting tweet this morning from @boggits pointing me at blocked.org.uk,...
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Hump Day Five (9-July-2014)
In line with Broadband Week on trefor.net, the Hump Day Five either benefits, suffers or remains mind-numbingly inconsequential…you decide. 1 Fourteen years have passed since I arranged my first...
View ArticleKiwi ISP Slingshot promotes piracy amongst punters
Kiwi ISP Slingshot promotes piracy amongst Antipodean punters - broadband internet copyright infringement New Zealand based ISP Slingshot is providing pre-VPNed connections so that New Zealanders can...
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Geo Restriction Means a Pirate’s Life for Me…
Accessing the whole of creation…what is available in my “region” of it, that is. A regular contributor to trefor.net, we are as always pleased to present insight from James Blessing, the current Chair...
View ArticleYes, I Read Super Hero Comic Books
There are far worse things you can carry from childhood to adulthood than super hero comic books (and fewer that look better on your tablet screen). For me, super hero comic books are just one of those...
View ArticleList of websites blocked by Virgin Media due to court orders
Taken from the Virgin Media website. Found this and thought you might be interested. List of websites blocked by Virgin Media due to court orders. No comment really. I don’t support copyright...
View ArticleUnknown Roku streaming stick on network, Virgin Media, DEAct & Spotify
Roku streaming stick @virginmedia An unknown Roku streaming stick is on my network and I can't access my router settings to block them…should I be worried? — Joel Murray ن (@joelmurray) February 8,...
View ArticleVirgin Media iTunes vouchers
Virgin Media iTunes vouchers on offer to new customers Virgin Media making some interesting ground at the moment. It was not so long ago they were in the news for being subjected to more blocking...
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