The Big Four record labels will do anything, anything, rather than work up front with their customers and with the independent innovators who are, so far, wholly and solely responsible for turning p2p into the primary communications and distribution media for the digital 21st century.
They’d rather sue them. But enormous and continuing opposition from the [...]
A weekly returning chart listing the most popular BitTorrent movie downloads.
Ranking
Movie
Seeds / Peers
1 (1)
Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest
48,933
2 (2)
Superman Returns
48,796
3 (NEW)
The Benchwarmers
47,768
4 (NEW)
Final Destination 3
45,496
5 (4)
The Devil Wears Prada
43,305
6 (5)
Cars
42,763
7 (3)
Nacho Libre
42,021
8 (5)
Click
39,854
9 (NEW)
Miami Vice
39,643
10 (8)
The Break-Up
38,927
The data is collected by Big Champagne, the numbers of seeds and [...]
The Canadian animation series Odd Job Jack releases every episode plus additional resources for free. The content is released under a Creative Commons license, and distibuted over BitTorrent.
What do they offer?
Master flash files and bitmaps of every piece of art used in this season of Odd Job Jack. Every character, prop, and background from every [...]
I stumbled upon this great collection of free and open source software applications. The CD is created by the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society and contains over 100 useful applications.
A weekly returning chart listing the most popular BitTorrent movie downloads.
Ranking
Movie
Seeds / Peers
1 (1)
Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest
49,594
2 (2)
Superman Returns
48,032
3 (3)
Nacho Libre
47,431
4 (7)
The Devil Wears Prada
45,267
5 (4)
Click
43,289
6 (5)
Cars
42,081
7 (8)
Eight Below
41,890
8 (10)
The Break-Up
39,639
9 (6)
X-Men: The Last Stand
39,323
10 NEW
Failure To Launch
39,309
The data is collected by Big Champagne, the numbers [...]
The MPAA teams up with Guba in their war on piracy. Guba introduces Johnny, a content filter for their online video download and share service.
Guba recently signed a deal with Warner Bros. to spread DRM loaded movies and TV-shows online.
According to the press release “GUBA is filtering movies and TV shows using a proprietary technology, [...]
Done the impossible is the story behind the rise, fall, and rebirth of the cult TV show Firefly. Firefly was ressurected thanks to efforts of the fans of this popular sci-fi show.
In the documentary “done the impossible” the fans tell their part of this success story. They explain why and how they managed to get [...]
The rumor goes that Apple is currently working out a deal with some major players in the movie bussiness to start a movie download store.
According to an article in Variety Apple CEO Steve Jobs wants the movies to be $9.99, but the Studio’s are giving him a hard time:
Studios have resisted Jobs’ initial insistence [...]
The CRIA (Canadian Record Industry Association) did a study on the effects of downloading on record sales. Interestingly enough, they found that downloaders buy more music that non-downloaders.
Michael Geist went through the complete study report and concluded:
In summary, CRIA’s own research now concludes that P2P downloading constitutes less than one-third of the music on [...]
