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The Savvy Scot

Personal finance and lifestyle blog

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Breaking News: BTJunkie has Closed

By savvyscot

BTJunkie Closed

Today is a sad day for progress in the case against recent SOPA/PIPA/anti-censorship campaigns. Btjunkie was essentially a directory of torrents (files which contain information about where to find other files) which was majorly used to download movies/software/music etc. – most of which was illegal. The point that we should be concerned about here, is… Read more

Filed Under: Piracy, Political Tagged With: BTJunkie, censorship, Download, FBI, Megaupload, PIPA, Piracy, SOPA

Ban Bonuses?

By savvyscot

Bonuses

What is everyone’s opinion on bonuses? There has been so much controversy in the UK lately over bankers and government department bonuses. Royal Bank of Scotland’s executive Stephen Hester was pressured into declining a bonus of almost £1,000,000 ($1.6m) due to public outrage; given that the bank is over 80% state owned. While, in my opinion… Read more

Filed Under: Political Tagged With: Bonuses, Business, Money

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