UK FCA’s Finprom Rules 1 Year Later: How to Kill an Industry in One Easy Step
As a lawyer (not yours), I spend a good chunk of my time explaining to businesses why they need to pour half their budget into compliance instead of, you know, actually building something useful. But even in the bureaucratic maze I call my profession, few things have been as spectacularly counterproductive as the UK’s Financial […] Powered by...
How Spotify’s Premium Piracy Panic Played Out & What Pirates Did Next
Reports last week that Spotify had suddenly gone down worldwide were a little overblown. The ‘outage’ may have felt that big to those affected, and it may have been of some comfort if everyone had the same problem; after all, nobody likes to suffer alone. That doesn’t mean the perceived outage was insignificant or had limited geographical reach. Spotify has neither confirmed nor denied anything, it’s possible it never will. But...
TorrentGalaxy Staff Fear the Worst as Site Stays Dark and Upload Bots Fail
At the start of the year, TorrentGalaxy was one of the most-visited torrent sites, welcoming millions of users a day. The site was originally launched by former members of ExtraTorrent, a popular torrent site that shut down in 2018. The founders aimed to provide a home for ExtraTorrent ‘refugees’ but, over time, it transformed into much more than that. Last summer, there was a drastic change at TorrentGalaxy as the founders sold the...
