Last month there was an art exhibition in Milan. Some of the exhibits, collectively called ‘Piracy’, depicted some of the most iconic musical stars of the 20th century, hand crafted from CDRs. The stars – Elvis, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Jim Morrison and Freddy Mercury – are pictured…
A few days ago an Italian court ordered all ISPs to block subscriber access to BTjunkie, leaving hundreds of thousands of Italians with the task of finding a new torrent site. Or perhaps not? Just hours after the news was made public, a brand new and ad-free proxy site was…
A major search engine in China has been warned that it will be punished by the government for providing access to unauthorized MP3s. The huge Baidu company, which employs around 11,000 staff and has Li Yanhong – China’s richest man – as CEO, has had multiple run-ins with the Chinese…
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, 'I Am Number Four' tops the chart this week, followed by the unreleased 'The Way Back'. 'No Strings Attached' completes the top three.
BitComet came out with a news release of their client, and as the first of all major BitTorrent clients it offers a stable 64-bit version. The 64-bit version allows for larger disk caches, something that may benefit the heavy-duty downloaders among us. “Our beta testing has shown the 64-bit version…
Even happily employed people give the 'positions vacant' columns an idle scan every now again. But what if a job unexpectedly came up that seemed tailored to your very skill set, involving work you could do standing on your head? If the pay and conditions were good, would you consider…
The term 'path dependence' is generally used to describe the development of technological standards and how they ‘lock in’ a given technical solution. The QWERTY keyboard is often given as an example of path dependence - the fact that the costs of changing the keyboard to a better, more efficient…
Righthaven has made a business out of scouring the net for websites that have used even the smallest parts of their partner newspapers’ materials and then threatening them with legal action. Very often this results in their victims having to pay thousands of dollars in settlements and in some cases…