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Biting the hand that feeds IT
Who killed Three Strikes for filesharing?
National Freetard Register cancelled - but freetards don't notice
Rejoice! "Three strikes and you're out" is dead in the UK. Music file sharers will no longer face the threat of seeing the household broadband connection severed. The plague that is currently endemic in France won't be jumping the English Channel.?
Dead author's estate snatches child's domain
Nar-nar-nar-nar-nar(nia)
A British couple has lost the battle to keep the narnia.mobi domain name which they claimed was only registered so that their son could have a Narnia-related email address. The address will transfer to a company representing CS Lewis's estate.?
How government will save you from P2P deviance
It's stealing, you know...
Thousands - or to be more precise, six thousands - of lucky alleged infringers a week are to be informed of the error of their ways, according to the terms of the deal struck this week between the British government and six major ISPs. They will in the first instance be "informed when their accounts are being used unlawfully to share copyright material and pointed towards legal alternatives."?
Apple is Fisher-Price of sound quality, says Neil Young
The revolution will not be podcast
Over five decades Neil Young has played a variety of roles including sixties protester, folk singer, Ronald Reagan supporter, grunge rocker and film maker. Now he's donning a new hat: Apple basher.?
Feargal Sharkey on the ISP filesharer MoU
Three Strikes RIP?
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between ISPs and the music business will lead to radically new "legal P2P" services, British Music Rights' Feargal Sharkey told us this morning. Licensing deals have already been signed, we reported recently.?
- R.I.P. News Section
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We've decided it's time to say goodbye to our news section. We've become very active bloggers since the conception of the site and the static news section just doesn't cut the mustard compared with the level of social interaction that blogging invites.
So it just remains to say, Rest In Peace News Section you will probably not be missed at all.
- July 2006 | Roy Wilding
- Shortlisted For "Best Commercial Website" Award
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We're delighted to have been shortlisted for "Best Commercial Website" at this years Big Chip Awards for the Heaven SPA website.
We've been to the Big Chip Awards a couple of times now and always enjoyed the evening as a chance to mix with our peers and celebrate some of the great work that happens here in the North West. After enthusiastically celebrating everyone else's success last year we decided we would set ourselves the goal of getting one of our projects in the shortlist for this year.
Having succeeded we're under no great illusion that we might win given the class of opposition but it's certainly nice to think we're being considered.
The Big Chip Awards take place on Wednesday 24th May 2006 at New Century Hall, Manchester.
Well Done Us!
- April 2006 | Roy Wilding
- Two New Sites Launched
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We've launched two new sites for Salutions a small Didsbury based publishing company.
- Didsbury Magazine
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The Didsbury Magazine website is a slimmed down online version of the magazine and a portal to lots of great information and services for people in the Didsbury area.
- Salutions Limited
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The Salutions Limited website is a supporting site for the business and includes media information and copy deadlines for the full range of magazines published by Salutions.
- March 2006 | Roy Wilding
- Restore Foam Website Launch
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Restore Foam make Visco Elastic Memory Foam Mattresses and other related products like orthopaedic posture aids. We've built them a site to allow them to sell those products online.
- March 2006 | Roy Wilding
Within 2 days of launching the site it was ranked number 1 in Google for a handfull of key phrases if you want to know why they read my article about building websites for SEO success.
There are 2 elements that make up the Restore Foam site, the first is a W3C standards based informative site and the second is an implementation of Actinic to handle the e-commerce backend.
