Do us all a favour Phorm -- curl up and die -- the sooner the better.

That is all

Pirate because I'm a privacy pirate.

What the hell are they spending it on ?

$82.6m in two years ??

Smells like someone using investment capital on the stock market to me.

PH - as she would know what to do with a packet that size, and would make it bigger !

With IMP, I'll be getting VPN out of the country anyway.

I had a girlfriend like that once...

Mine's the one from Oxfam.

Mmmmmm... the smell of burning money.

Die, already.

A bit on hardware, a bit on salaries and executive compensation, a bit on a website, a bit for Normal Lamont, and the rest on "expenses, including hospitality".

$2M a month doesn't go far these days you know.

>Phorm's problems in the UK had prompted its push into Korea. It is currently running a trial with Korea Telecom<

Like it ran trials in the UK with BT? Business very much as usual. Whilst BT still maintain ignorance (at least first line support who won't get someone to phone you back about thier position even after promising faithfully), still seem committed to rolling it out, and now Virgin have promised (Universal Music is it?), that they will kick off filesharers, it seems like Phorm would be a cheap way of DPI-ing their customers online habits.

>The government told privacy campaigners it would not make public the content of the response<

Secrets and more secrets - this government doesn't want us knowing anything it does whilst watching everything we do. How is keeping this information from the public protecting us from terrorists?

Whatever happened to Great Britain?

If Hitler came to power today, I'm not so sure this country wouldn't be on his side, we trade spying tips with the Chinese, we're complicit with questioning tortured prisoners. The ruling elite suck on the teat of public finances whilst rewarding bankers who nearly crippled the global economy...

Yeats said it best in 'The second coming'...

...Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

...The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

...And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Proud Privay Pirate!

Don't get too overheated by this statement. The contents of this reply will come out sooner rather than later I would have thought.

It always does...

Burn Phorm burn!!!

It's the new "Screwed"

"Pirate because I'm a privacy pirate."

Does that mean you take people's privacy away from them by force? Sounds pretty much like Phorm to me.

You haven't been keeping up with current events have you? Kent from Phorm declared anyone who opposed him to be a "privacy pirate".

It was less than 2 months ago

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/28/phorm_blog_oddness/

Presumably bribing (sorry that should be spelt "lobbying") MPs.

@Aimee: I don't usually go for conspiracy theories but I think you might have something there...

The sad fact is you're not far from the truth, that and hiring expensive lawyers to twist, turn and bend the words of the law to justify this travesty.

So there it is. Apparently, if Phorm cannot make headway in wealthy nations with strong democracies --- such as the UK, US and Europe --- then it will move down the national foodchain to countries with weak or bribeable governments.

Pay someone £50 million to incinerate phorm?

Seems a much more logical way to burn it....

With any luck this is Phorm doing what they do best, being utter c**ts, in this case spending as much of foolish investors money as they can before the whole thing implodes!

Sir Humphrey: How's the Freedom of Information campaign going?

Former Whitehall mandaring: I can't tell you.

I find it hard to believe that this letter is a National Security matter. It's corrospondence to a Government Department.

I can't wait to watch phorm finally die.

What are they spending that much money on?

"Kent from Phorm declared anyone who opposed him to be a 'privacy pirate'."

Er, that's kind of my point. If anyone's a privacy pirate in this sorry tale, it's Mr. Ertugrul.

"isn't Delaware where SCO is registered"

Correct. Deleaware's corporation formation rules are quite er "relaxed." Fewer annoying questions about who *owns* the actual shares. They also have IIRC Microsoft is (among a *long* list) also based there. No AFAIK they do not have an actual office there.

Of course there are many reputable companies who have their registered office there as well.

I'm happy to chip in 5p towards funeral expenses!

I take it it'll be a cremation?