Kick ass torrents. The DNS record gets a new home ?

Last summer a criminal investigation by the U.S. Government brought down KickassTorrents, the largest torrent site at the time. Upon request from the United States, law enforcement in Poland arrested Artem Vaulin, the alleged owner of KickassTorrents, who’s been held in a local prison ever since. In addition, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) also…

via Original KickassTorrents Domain Goes Up For Sale — TorrentFreak

Spotify Helps to Beat Music Piracy, European Commission Finds – TorrentFreak

When Spotify launched its first beta in the fall of 2008 we branded it “an alternative to music piracy.”With the option to stream millions of tracks supported by an occasional ad, or free of ads for a small subscription fee, Spotify appeared to be a serious competitor to unauthorized downloading.

Source: Spotify Helps to Beat Music Piracy, European Commission Finds – TorrentFreak

“Switching” to IP fabrics – Namex Bits

At the beginning of 2021, Namex IXP has started the rollout of its next-generation peering platform, the active infrastructure which is at the core of its network interconnection facility. This new platform relies on an IP fabric design with VXLAN as the overlay network and BGP EVPN as the control plane protocol. The development of this project started back in March 2020 and saw Mellanox and Cumulus Networks (both parts of NVIDIA corporation now) as major technological partners.

Before diving into the details, a brief historical note may help to understand the drivers and motivations behind such technical choices.

More at “Switching” to IP fabrics – Namex Bits – https://blog.namex.it/2021/04/switching-to-ip-fabrics/