Monthly Archives: October 2012

File-sharing website The Pirate Bay has moved its servers to the cloud to frustrate attempts to take it offline.

The site, which has been blamed for encouraging illegal file-sharing, will now operate from cloud-hosting providers around the world.

It says the move will save money and make it harder for law-enforcement agencies to shut it down.

“All attempts to attack [us] from now on is an attack on everything and nothing,” it says.

The Pirate Bay moves to the cloud to avoid shutdown (BBC News Technology)

Pirate Bay moves to the cloud to confound copyright cops (The Register)

(Hat tip: Oisin)

FIANNA FÁIL has bounced back to become the second-biggest party in the State for the first time in more than two years, according to the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll.

Since its disastrous general election performance 18 months ago, Fianna Fáil has frequently found itself in fourth place in opinion polls behind Fine Gael, the Labour Party and Sinn Féin.

Fianna Fáil is now narrowly ahead of Sinn Féin and well ahead of Labour, having gained a substantial level of support over the course of 2012.

Of course we’ll vote them in next time. We always vote them in next time.

It’s what we do.

Fianna Fáil bounces back as second-biggest party, poll finds (Stephen Collins, Irish Times)

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The following offenders avoided jail today.

Peter McEvoy (63), a former youth worker and nurse’s assistant, had 8,584 images of child pornography and 679 videos…When he spoke to the accused, the defendant said he had come across the child porn by accident but had become addicted to it.

Man Given Suspended Sentence For Child Porn (RTE)

A Louth resident who committed a random violent sexual attack on a teenager as the victim’s friend tried to rescue her has escaped jail on condition he pay €15,000 to the girl.
Graham Griffiths (29) later told gardaí that he felt he was “under some magnetic force” and “it must have been the hormones” that caused him to attack the 17-year-old girl.

Sex Attacker Escapes Jail Term (Irish Times)

Previously: “Money Talks”

Handed Down By His Honour Judge Desmond Hogan

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