Today my post is going to be a little off topic from my normal technical babble and ranting. With all the hype around the internet today about piracy, for example the Pirate Bay Trial: Peter's "Political Trial", and isp's now logging users internet usage. Is piracy really that bad? Or this just huge corporations continuing to be the money hungry people that they are!

Piracy is why good for industry and business. As we have heard over and over again since Napster was first sued by Metallica for copy right infringement PIRACY IS BAD. Let us flip this around... Why is Piracy Good? 

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Hello everyone my name is Sean Habing. First off thank you to Adrian who will be letting me add to his wonderful website. I will be blogging about programming, technology and other interesting items that affect the internet, which seems to be everything these days.  Today I will be covering SSL (Secure Socket Layer). For e-stores, online banking and other websites which require private data to be transferred from the client to the server nothing is more important then SSL.

What seems to be a common issue with most E-stores and websites is expired SSL, Self Signed SSL or just not having it at all.  In a rush to save money small e-stores try to avoid spending the $30 USD/Year as they believe it's not important.  What they fail to grasp is that SSL protects their customers data by encrypting it and sending it through a secure connection.

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