File Sharing Networks

VeryCD pledges to bounce back in wake of IPR violations crackdown

26 Jan 2011

Mainland internet users lost a popular download service for music, TV series and movies when the central government forced VeryCD, a leading mainland peer-to-peer file-sharing internet portal, to...

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Censors shut website that translates US courses

21 Aug 2010

A non-profit mainland website that provided free translations of open courses on philosophy, history and 10 other subjects from prestigious US universities including Harvard and Yale has been shut...

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Single women are not 'losers'

29 Apr 2010

Almost everyone in this world wants to have a family and a successful career. But single women over the age of 30 are considered 'losers' even if they have a successful career, high social...

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Live sports

29 Mar 2009

I was using two computers to stream simultaneous games of the American college basketball championships last weekend, when commentator Ian Eagle quipped after one spectacular play: 'Now that's a...

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Leaks blamed on officers taking work home

8 Mar 2009

Cut excessive paperwork for frontline officers and make sure personal computers used by officers do not have file-sharing software installed. That's the advice lawmakers and a police officers'...

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What you need to know

28 Apr 2008

Q. Will I break the law if I watch TV dramas on YouTube?

A. Only the source of unauthorised content will have criminal liability. But viewers may have to bear civil liabilities....

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Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

Streaming is too poorly defined to ban: experts

Making online video streaming a criminal offence may lead to confusion because the technology has not been properly defined, experts warn.

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Lean back and enjoy the video experience

Over the past two years, internet video has been a 'lean forward' experience - about watching short clips on community sharing sites such as YouTube.

4:51PM

Should downloading music be made a criminal offence?

Benjamin Siu, 16

St Joseph's College

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Two ways to deal with the Net threat

Newspapers around the world are trying to defend themselves against the inroads of the internet.

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Thousands watching World Cup matches free on internet

Nearly 40,000 households are estimated to have been watching the World Cup on the internet without paying a cent.

Internet traffic recorded by the Hong Kong Internet eXchange has...

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Buy and yell

WHEN TOM LE Goff put a DVD his mother sent from France in his computer, the only thing he saw was an error message. 'My PC is a real IBM, the DVD is real, so why shouldn't it work?' says Goff,...

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