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The last few years have seen copyright lobbyists turn from targeting individual downloaders in the court room, to going after the sites themselves, by attempting to have them blocked in every country and by every ISP the world over, despite these DNS blocks being exeedingly easy to circumvent. However, the …

Google is boosting security for its Chrome web browser, starting in January you will no longer be able to install extensions from outside of the Chrome store meaning some useful tools will be lost, but it should also put an end to malicious software. Google has deemed this necessary due …

It seems like every few months I write one of these pieces. Back in May I wrote about how the BPI was “still,” having torrent and download sites blocked by British ISPs, despite the fact that we all know it does diddly squat to those sites' usage numbers and if …

The next instalment in the Dead Rising franchise, set to debut alongside the Xbox One console, has been denied a rating in Germany, meaning it won't be available for purchase on release day. While a modified version might be released further down the line, considering neither Dead Rising 1 or …

Despite the western world being quick to jump on human rights violations and infringements on freedom of speech in eastern nations, British leaders do seem incredibly keen to restrict what we can look at online. One of Prime Minister David Cameron's recent tirades has been against child pornography and on …

The British Phonographic Industry is continuing to parade its abilities for the world to see, showing that its number one talent, the singular thing it does better than almost any middle manager from Office Space, is appear to be doing something while systematically doing nothing at all. The group, sponsored …

Youtube has been banned in Egypt for one month, as a protest for its streaming of what the ruling body describes as, “anti-muslim” film, “Innocence of Muslims.” This 14 minute trailer for a movie that has never seen the light of day, has drawn ire from much of the middle …

Since September 2012, Pakistan has had a block in place, preventing its citizens from accessing Youtube. However on 29th December, the country's higher ups lifted it temporarily in an effort to set up an in-house filter that would simply prevent people from seeing content it deemed inappropriate or blasphemous. Unfortunately, …

In order to prevent the organisation and the individuals behind it from facing financial crisis, Loz Kaye and the other members of the Pirate Party (PPUK) have taken the difficult step to take down the Pirate Bay Proxy, in the face of BPI legal threats. Back at the end of …

Twitter has blocked German users of the site from viewing the page and tweets of a certain neo-Nazi group, after a request was sent by German police officials to have the page deleted. However it still remains online and viewable elsewhere in the world. The group in question is known …

Iran no longer has access to the Google search engine, or the Gmail email system, with no explanation by officials as to if or when they will be reinstated and what the reason for their filtering was. The announcement for the digital blockade was made by an official named Khoramabadi – …

If we're lucky, then each new operating system makes the world a little better for everyone. Microsoft's approach is more of a 2 steps forward, then 3 steps back. One very specific feature in Windows 8 could put off a chunk of the enthusiast market. KitGuru gets a little Doom9 …

Once upon a time, music and movies were given away free of charge on TV and radio. The only ‘payment’ you had to make, was to wait for the TV or radio station to decide that it wanted to play the track/movie you wanted. Then along came Napster & Co …

To honour the launch of nVidia's 512 stream GTX580, KitGuru has adopted a multi-stream approach to keeping you up to date on all of the information you need to know ahead of next week's launch. We have already processed, shaded, tessellated and output 3 stunning little pixels of need-to-know info …