ThruIT

Welcome to the weekend everybody! Time for another installment of the Policy Roundup. It was an awkward week out there on the interwebs – most notably for our more scurvy readers, The Pirate Bay officially shut down its tracker. The move comes at the end of a very drawn out, sketchy takeover of the domain by an independent buyer. And while PEX and DHT will obviate the need for trackers in the long run, it’s sad to see TBP fizzle out so impotently.

So at the end of each week here at ThruIT, we will review interesting stories related to IT policy and law from around the globe. Or, at the very least we’ll post whichever quasi-interesting policy stories have turned up on Gizmodo.

At any rate, two standout items this week are the patenting of a particular flavor of the “sudo” UNIX command by Microsoft, and the MPAA-forced shutdown of a municipal WiFi network over one illegal download.