RIAA’s Week of Hell
It’s been a bad week for the RIAA. First their headline campaign victory over Jammie Thomas was thrown out, and then the government said it ‘strongly opposes’ a bill lobbied for by the entertainment industries.
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Find and Share Music with TinySong
TinySong is an easy to use website where users can search for music and share tracks with friends via a direct link. The website is linked to Grooveshark, a P2P powered music service, that allows users to manage and store their entire music library “in the cloud”.
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Will BitTorrent Sites Become Obsolete?
Researchers from several Universities are currently working on a search technology that could make BitTorrent sites obsolete. While the idea of a completely decentralized filesharing network is not new, there are some downsides that are often overlooked.
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Most Popular DVDrips on BitTorrent (wk21)
The top 10 most downloaded DVDrips on BitTorrent, “Street Kings” tops the chart this week.
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Filesharing Report Shows Explosive Growth for uTorrent
New data on the ever changing P2P landscape shows that the number of uTorrent users worldwide has more than doubled compared to last year. The BitTorrent client is most popular in Europe – with an install rate of 11.6% – and least popular in the United States, where 5.1% of the PCs have uTorrent installed.
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MTV Uses P2P Data for Playlist Selection
TMF, a popular Dutch music channel which is part of MTV said it will use data from BitTorrent and other file-sharing networks as a resource for their playlist selection. The data from these sources gives a more accurate picture of what people actually listen to, rather than counting single sales alone.
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Virus Threatened to Kill File-Sharers, Creator Arrested for Copyright Infringement
The author of a bizarre virus which threatened to kill file-sharers has been arrested in Japan. Has he been arrested for making death threats? No! For writing the virus? No! This is the 21st century. He’s been arrested for copyright infringement, of course.
