last night the Oscar winners were announced

Bram Cohen, the founder of BitTorrent will be at the next Python Convention (PyCon), and python is taking questions. They can’t guarantee that any of your questions will be asked, but they will doubtless be helpful to the interviewer (Steve Holden). If you want to suggest any questions for Bram…

Here’s an analysis of the popularity/market-share of the various TV release groups. The sample data was taken from all the eztv releases since June 5, 2005 up to today March 6, 2006. This totals 1728 releases. Below is a pie graph showing the market share of the 15 most popular…

With the uprise of digital cinema, movie companies are looking into different ways to distribute digital movies. One of the best alternatives is obviously BitTorrent. Using BitTorrent to distribute digital movies will reduce distribution costs to nearly 0$.

I just bumped into a video of some guy singing about torrents, rips, and ISO’s. The vocals could be better but he knows how to stroke the keys. The video is subtitled for those of you who are not really familiar with all the terms. The plottwist is brilliant.

PeerFactor and the uTorrent developer Ludvig Strigeus signed a six months experimental agreement. Their goal is to develop "new content distribution applications on the Web". This is interesting because Peerfactor is known for their Peer-against-Peer and other anti-piracy work.

The Big Four record labels are fighting tooth and nail to kill the French decision to make it legal to share music and movies online. MPs, who’ve already voted once on the matter, will debate it again next week and if they confirm the earlier decision, turning it into law,…

The Matrix ASCII is probably the oldest torrent out there. This text version of the original Matrix movie is now seeded for almost 778 days (with a short break in between). If you didn't see it yet you should definitely check out this movie or one of the smaller samples.…