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by David Harley Senior Research Fellow
November 13, 2010 at 12:16 pm

If you read my previous blogs about P2P/inbox-mediaone/traclickmedia spam offering the currently-defunct Limewire (though some sort of replacement has been promised), you'll be glad to know that not only have they caught up with the latest news, but are now offering an alternative that is cleaner, faster, friendlier and safer. Yeah, right…
In fact, looking through … Read More…

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by David Harley Senior Research Fellow
October 28, 2010 at 3:29 am

Here's a follow-up to my blog yesterday about how to pay for free (and in some cases non-existent) services, if you really want to.
I checked one of my junkboxes today and found another flurry of spam relating to Limewire and other stuff (Open Office and something called Stream Direct). Here's what the Limewire mail looks … Read More…

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by David Harley Senior Research Fellow
October 28, 2010 at 3:25 am

If you spend a fraction of the time that I do tethered to the Internet, you'll be aware that Limewire has been told to "stop distribution and support of LimeWire’s P2P file-sharing service as a result of a court-ordered injunction". (Any chance of similar action against some of the sites making available pirated copies of … Read More…

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