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The letter details numerous phone calls, emails and meetings during which it has been told to take down the domain name "even though this would go against our domain name policies," and says that at one point the embassy went over its head and asked the Costa Rican Ministry of Commerce to carry out an investigation int...
The ministry did carry out an investigation – and found that the registry was indeed following its rules that require a local court order to take down a domain name.
The letter provides an insight into just how far the US government is willing to go in response to constant pressure from intellectual property lawyers representing content producers in the United States. It also explains why so many other registries have deleted Pirate Bay domain names from their systems.
As far as American IP interests are concerned, The Pirate Bay is the devil incarnate. It is the most widely known website that hosts bittorrent files, which enable internet users to grab illicit copies of movies, music and software stored on servers all over the world.
Earlier this month in a landmark decision, the European Court of Justice decided that The Pirate Bay legally infringes copyright – even though it doesn't host the infringing files itself – because it offers a search engine for those files, as well as categorizes them by genre, type and popularity, and deletes faulty fi...
"The operators of The Pirate Bay cannot be unaware that this platform provides access to works published without the consent of the rightholders," the court decided – opening the doors to legal challenges that will likely see ISPs in Europe obliged to block access to the site.
But while IP interests and US government pressure have led to The Pirate Bay being banned and blocked in large parts of the world, the organization has continued to use the diverse DNS ecosystem to stay one step ahead of the lawyers.
The Pirate Bay has long since stopped registering domains whose registries are under contract with US-based ICANN, because IP interests have played a significant role in writing ICANN's domain policies and so can quickly shut the sites down.
As such, The Pirate Bay has registered a slew of domains with so-called country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) that are a part of the larger ICANN organization but act according to their own rules and policies.
Among the domains registered were the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (.gs), Armenia (.am) and Greenland (.gl). But all of those were shut down, presumably following US government pressure similar to what Costa Rica has had to deal with.
Meanwhile, the domains for Grenada (.gd), Laos (.la), the British Virgin Islands (.vg) and Mongolia (.mn) are not live but all redirect to the main thepiratebay.org website. That website has been up and down repeatedly over the past two years, pointing to some kind of ongoing fight behind the scenes at .org operator Pu...
There is also an ongoing battle at the Swedish registry over thepiratebay.se which is currently sitting with the Swedish Supreme Court after a long legal back-and-forth. That .se domain also redirects to the (currently down) .org domain.
As a result, as of the time of writing, the only The Pirate Bay website that is up and running on the global DNS is... Costa Rica's thepiratebay.cr. Which explains why it has been the target of such aggressive tactics. The Pirate Bay may have seen the writing on the wall however, and users are increasingly using its on...
It is highly unusual for a registry operator to complain formally and publicly to ICANN, particularly its Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC). The letter also comes just a week before ICANN's meeting in Johannesburg later this month.
Veritas reports net income of $86 million in the second quarter.
Veritas Software Corp. this week announced net income for the quarter ended June 30, 2004 of $86 million, or 20 cents per diluted share, on revenue of $485 million. The company reported net income of $46 million, or 11 cents per diluted share, for the same period a year ago.
"While total revenue was up 19 percent year-over-year, the June quarter was challenging in our U.S. enterprise business, particularly for license transactions at the end of the quarter," said Gary Bloom, chairman, president and CEO, Veritas Software.
MEGHAN Markle's sister has promised to end the rift between them as she apologised for “past misunderstandings”.
Samantha Markle said the announcement of the Duchess of Sussex’s pregnancy has changed everything.
She told DailyMailTV: “I was literally jumping for joy in my wheelchair.
She added that it was time for the family to come together for the sake of her future niece or nephew.
The 53-year-old said: “I want things to be alright in my family and everybody has to be on the same page.
Samantha has been one of the more outspoken members of the Markle family as she has made a number of attacks on Meghan and the Royal Family.
She has also apologised for the “asinine things” that she said and “past misunderstandings” as she was just looking out for her father Thomas.
Recently she was photographed trying to hand-deliver a letter to Kensington Palace that was meant to be a plea for the 37-year-old royal to fix her relationship with her dad.
Meghan and her father have not spoken since the Royal Wedding in May after he pulled out from attending after claiming to be in the hospital recovering from a heart attack.
Samantha also said that she still hopes Meghan and her father can work things out, but that it would have to be in their own time.
She told The Sun earlier this week: “I hope my dad is included and at a proper time. If he is excluded, I won’t be happy.
“It is in the best interests of the baby for my dad to be included.
It comes one day after Thomas proudly told The Sun that Meghan would “make a great mum”.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex made the official announcement on Monday as they touched down in Sydney at the start of a 16-day international tour around Australia, Fiji and Tonga.
Indian, Pakistani leaders must now shift from territorial quarrels to development.
The Nobel Committee bestowed this year’s prestigious Peace Prize to an unlikely duo: a Pakistani child education activist, 17-year-old Malala Yousufzai, and a champion of child rights from neighboring India, 60-year-old Kailash Satyarthi. At first glance, one notices different achievements as well as a considerable age...
Malala hails from the Swat valley in Pakistan. She came into the limelight as an 11-year-old, when her blogs were published by the BBC about life under the Taliban. The militants opposed girls’ education, and her writings were published under a pseudonym. Later, Malala was featured in a documentary about the life of ch...
Kailash Satyarthi’s is not a common name in India or globally, but his work has impacted the lives of thousands of children. Through his Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement) founded in 1980, some 80,000 children have been freed from the grips of forced labor and have been transitioned into safe educatio...
Besides the similarities in the personal achievements of both individuals, as development practitioners, we believe it is pertinent to understand the implications of the Nobel Prize in the broader developmental issues facing India and Pakistan.
First, the prize certainly seems to be a deliberate move by the Nobel Committee to encourage better relations between the two countries. India and Pakistan have fought four wars, and in the past decade have twice come close to another one. Since the early 1970s, both have spent billions in creating and maintaining nucl...
Second, Satyarthi’s and Malala’s work for child rights will serve as a platform for both countries to converse and converge. There are many other organizations similar to Satyarthi’s working for child rights in India, and the new government seems committed to implementing the country’s policies on child welfare. Pakist...
Third, India’s and Pakistan’s collaboration for child rights will tremendously boost the global struggle for child development. Today, millions of children are falling into child labor, trafficking, early marriage, violence and sexual abuse throughout the world. The subcontinent is rife with street children who work as...
In the age of globalization, interdisciplinary and cross-cultural learning is an integral component to address chronic underdevelopment challenges. The free flow of knowledge, practices and technologies is an essential tool to help millions of people rise out of poverty. There are many examples, such as the cheap lapto...
It is heartening to see that the Nobel laureates have taken the first steps for peace and improved relations by inviting the prime ministers of both nations to attend the prize ceremony in December. We hope further collaborations — governmental and private — will continue.
Faris Kasim and Amrita Vijay Jain, from Pakistan and India, respectively, are graduate students at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
This monotonously deadpan coming-of-age comedy has little to recommend it beyond some beautiful widescreen cinematography and the momentary kick of seeing David Duchovny looking like a stoned Jesus.
As it sounds, “Goats” is a bleating animal, pretty but rather dumb. Waywardly splitting its time between the Tucson foothills and the adolescent hero’s East Coast prep school, this monotonously deadpan coming-of-age comedy has little to recommend it beyond some beautiful widescreen cinematography and the momentary kick...
Adapted by Mark Jude Poirier from his like-titled novel, “Goats” follows Ellis Whitman (Graham Phillips, from TV’s “The Good Wife”), a 15-year-old Arizonan whose idle rich father, Frank (Ty Burrell), lives in D.C. with bland wife Judy (Keri Russell), and whose narcissistic New Age mom, Wendy (Vera Farmiga, in a serape)...
Shunted off to Gates Academy at summer’s end, Ellis waits impatiently for a medicinal care package from Goat Man; is coerced by Coach (Anthony Anderson) into joining the track team; and falls in love at first sight with dining-hall employee Minnie (Dakota Johnson), who shocks him by being not only well read but well kn...
On weekends and holidays, owing to his folks’ ample reserves, Ellis visits Dad, largely defined by his “poetry glasses,” and Mom, whose latest spiritual practice has her writhing on the floor. As per generic formula, the kid inches his way closer to reconciliation with both parents. By default, the pic’s biggest surpri...
The overall vibe of first-time director Christopher Neil is certainly mellow, but his movie is still a bong hit short of a decent buzz. Farmiga seems to be having a smidgen of fun as wacky Wendy, although Neil never lets the camera get close enough to the character for the viewer to know what makes her tick. Playing st...
Tech credits, including Wyatt Troll’s lovely landscape shooting, are as professional as the humor is pedestrian.
Production: A Red Crown, Sandia Media production, in association with the Arlook Group, Eva Daniels Prods., Light Iron. (International sales: WME Global, Los Angeles; Cinetic Media, New York.) Produced by Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Shannon Lail, Eric Kopeloff. Executive producers, Daniel Crown, Riva Marker, Richard Arloo...
Crew: Camera (color, widescreen), Wyatt Troll; editors, Jeremiah O'Driscoll, Kevin Tent, Craig McKay; music, Woody Jackson, Jason Schwartzman; production designer, Mark Duran; set decorator, Wil Pfau; costume designer, Kate Deblasio; sound, Diana Cleland, Rodney Gurule, Graham Gardner; visual effects supervisors, Geoff...
There's something about collared shirts that make a little boy look precious, right? Whether it's a button-up shirt or a polo, boys look so grown up in them! Crazy 8 has some adorable shirts for toddler boys: This basic, striped button-up shirt goes for only $11.99 How about this cotton Oxford shirt for just $7.19? And...
Let's not forget the toddler girls. Jumper dresses still sit near the top of the smallest girls' must-have wardrobe items. They're easy to wear and look fabulous! This sparkle, plaid dress adds a little bling to the little lady's day for only $12. Many toddler girls want to be a ballerina . Make their wish come true by...
Mahitir Mohamad of Malaysia once said: "To be a great leader, one needs to have good strategies, be knowledgeable and able to predict future."
Great leaders are the makers of a nation. Many icons cherished the ideals of justice and rights; and as a result of their life-long struggle, moulded complete mindsets. They sacrificed their personal interests for national cause. History abounds in so many prominent leaders who made their names. Voltaire, Diderot, Rous...
In the days of yore, leadership was a quality associated with powerful kings who led their armies to victory. Europe's history is enriched with tales of William The Conqueror and Napoleon Bonaparte. This was the age where brute strength, valor, and conquests defined a leader. Science and technology, however, redefined ...
Modern day leadership traits look for orators, who cater to the masses through their verbal skills. In a world dominated by democracies, parliamentary institutions produced many political propagandists, debaters and orators. Question of policy and higher political principles set multiple precedents in the form of Lloyd...
Many nations have sustained under great leaders who endured challenges and eventually fulfilled national agenda. History is filled with such instances; Simon Bolivar's brave fights reaped political liberty for South America, John Brown stood up against slavery, and Garibaldi unified Italy. Their devotions to a noble ca...
Martin Luther King Jr was a well-known civil rights leader. His services ensured civil rights to all people regardless of race. His strong belief in non-violent political struggle earned him sheer fame. Fidel Castro, a socialist, Marxist, and Leninist Cuban revolutionary fought for and granted blacks and colored Cubans...
Nelson Mandela was devoted to a cause against apartheid. His services to his people are unimaginable as he spent 27 years behind bars. He staved off the entire south African nation from the claws of extreme apartheid. His political fortitude bore fruits. His services were recognized and he was presented with the Nobel ...
But the presence of a strong political leadership in our society is still a myth. Pakistani power politics gives a vivid impression of corruption and bad governance. Our so-called leaders are busy in flourishing their vested interests. It is folly to expect them leading this nation to its great destiny. Their prioritie...
Oct. 20, 1977, three days after Lynyrd Skynyrd released its fifth album, "Street Survivors," lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, vocalist Cassie Gaines, their assistant tour manager and two pilots died and dozens of others were hurt when their twin-engine plane went down in a wooded area in Gillsburg, ...
The Jacksonville-based band that named itself as a mocking tribute to Robert E. Lee High School physical education teacher Leonard Skinner, who hassled guitarist Gary Rossington about his long hair, is widely credited as the first band to bring Southern rock music to an international audience.
Skynyrd was on the most ambitious headlining tour of their career, traveling between concert dates in Greenville, South Carolina, and a date at LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when their Convair CV-300 ran out of fuel, clipped some trees and went down in a remote forest.
According to reports, drummer Artimus Pyle and two crew members crawled from the wreckage and hiked through swampy woods until they finally flagged down a local farmer, who sent for help.
Band members Rossington, Allen Collins, Leon Wilkeson and Billy Powell were hospitalized with serious injuries.
Skynyrd disbanded after the accident, leaving the survivors to try to make their own way with varying degrees of success and failure.
The Jacksonville-based band released its self-titled first album, with the subtitle "Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd," was released on August 13, 1973. It sold over one million copies.The Jacksonville-based band released its self-titled first album, with the subtitle "Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd," was released on Augus...
Lynyrd Skynyrd and lead singer Ronnie Van Zant's fan base continued to grow rapidly throughout 1973, largely due to its opening slot on The Who's Quadrophenia tour and the 1974 top 10 single "Sweet Home Alabama."
During its peak years, each of Skynyrd's records sold over one million copies, but "Sweet Home Alabama" was the only single to crack the top 10.
With the band looking for a third guitarist, backup singer Cassie Gaines began touting the guitar and songwriting prowess of her younger brother, Steve, who joined the band in 1976.
Flying from South Carolina to Lousisiana, Ronnie Van Zant and Steve and Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary, and co-pilot William Gray were killed when their plane crashed in a wooded are near Gillsburg, Mississippi. Six other band members their tour manager and several road cre...
Johnny Van Zant became the lead vocalist of Skynyrd in 1987 when the band reformed the deaths of his older brother, Ronnie, and other band members.
The band continues to tour regularly and has recorded nine albums since reforming, most recently, "Last of a Dyin' Breed" in 2012.
Remaining members of the band reunited in 1987 for a tour. Rossington, Pyle, Billy Powell, Leon Wilkeson and guitarist Ed King, who had left the band two years before the crash, were joined by Ronnie Van Zant's younger brother, Johnny, as their new lead singer. The band stayed together and has produced nine more albums...
In March 2006, members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
Despite the deaths of Collins in 1990, Wilkeson in 2001, Powell in 2009, and the band's first drummer, Robert Burns Jr. in 2015, Skynyrd continues to tour extensively, performing Oct. 13 at the St. Augustine Amphitheater.
News4Jax anchor Tom Wills, who traveled to Mississippi to cover the plane crash, attended the concert and spoke to Rossington, the only surviving member still playing with the band, about details of the crash he has not talked about publicly.
Watch Wills' special report on Skynyrd through the years Monday night and the new information from Rossington on News4Jax at 5 p.m.
Each year, hundreds of Mainers reach into their own pockets to fix incorrect federal flood maps.
Nancy and Mike Heath went into panic mode about a year ago when they tried to refinance their Westbrook home and were told they lived in a flood zone and had to pay $1,700 a year for federal flood insurance.
That would total $25,500 over a 15-year mortgage, just as the couple — Nancy is a paralegal and Mike a teacher — is trying to save for their two sons’ college educations.
“I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ ” said Nancy Heath, whose home sits high and dry on a hill 18 feet above a drainage swale.
But proving that their split-level home didn’t belong in a flood zone cost the Heaths about $700 and delayed their refinancing.
The Heaths are not alone.
Last year, 370 Maine property owners appealed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to remove their homes or businesses from flood plain status, according to the Maine State Planning Office. Most of them had to hire surveyors at an average cost of $750 to prove they didn’t need to pay for costly flood insurance po...
Maine’s rate of flood plain appeal applications is three times the national average, according to the office’s Maine Floodplain Management Program. One reason is because the federal government has put more effort into improving maps in states with higher populations. Maine’s maps tend to be older than the national aver...
Even though new federal maps are issued every few years, that doesn’t mean they are produced using new and improved technology, Young says. Often, old map data is simply overlaid with new digital photographs that don’t correct old mistakes, he said.
That is why some lawmakers are pushing for property owners to be reimbursed for the cost of a successful map appeal.
But Congress is divided over the reimbursement proposal.
The House last year approved a bill that would require the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which oversees the national flood insurance program, to reimburse property owners. But the Senate’s bill focuses on spending more money to improve the maps.
While the actual flood zone appeal is free, it usually requires hiring a surveyor or engineer to prove that a house should be removed from a flood zone.
Since 1983, the earliest date with available data, there have been more than 3,400 flood plain map appeals in Maine, costing property owners more than $2.6 million, according to the State Planning Office.
The office doesn’t break down approvals versus denials but says most applications are approved because they aren’t made unless an owner is pretty certain of his or her case.
There has been a steady increase in appeals over the past decade. Young attributes that to increased awareness among banks that they are required to check flood plain maps before granting a mortgage or risk a federal fine.
Appeals averaged nearly 300 a year for much of the past decade, compared to fewer than 100 cases a year during the 1990s and fewer than 50 cases a year during the 1980s.
Both of Maine’s U.S. House members, Chellie Pingree, D-1st District, and Mike Michaud, D-2nd District, support reimbursing homeowners who prove their case. The state’s two U.S. senators, however, are not convinced, saying they want to make sure there is enough money available to produce better maps in the first place.
Despite Maine’s high appeal rate, neither Pingree nor Michaud led the effort to pass the reimbursement provision as part of a wider flood insurance program overhaul.
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., spearheaded the reimbursement idea in the House two years ago after she was contacted by a number of California homeowners upset about a new FEMA map that wrongly placed homes in a flood zone.
But Maine has a much higher map appeal rate per capita than California. In Maine, there is an appeal for every 3,763 people, versus one for every 14,208 people in California. The national average is 10,209, according to FEMA data.

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