talking sense into the riaa
After being pressured and condemned throughout the blogoshere, the RIAA dropped the Scantlebury case.
After being pressured and condemned throughout the blogoshere, the RIAA dropped the Scantlebury case.
Earlier today we wrote that the Swedish Pirate Party introduced a completely anonymous internet service called relakks. However, how anonymous is it, and is it really a darknet?
BookMooch is a new p2p book sharing protocol for printed books. It works a little like BitTorrent, the more you share, the more you receive. And you will be banned if your share ratio gets below 5:1. The inquirer writes: The cashless site runs on a simple points system. Members receive one point for sending [...]
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.
SqrtBoy published a whitepaper on discussing his ideas on how BitTorrent webmasters should design their BitTorrent RSS feeds. SqrtBoy is known for his work on Torrent Trader Lite, VBTT, IPBTT and other several BitTorrent tracker php/mysql scripts. It is great to see that someone is proposing a standard for BitTorrent rss feeds. Every webmaster probably [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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