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Boxee heading to a box
Nov 12 2009

Boxee heading to a box

Boxee, the well known media center application that originally began as a fork from the community created XBMC project, announced today at the NewTeeVee Live Conference that they will be partnering with a consumer electronics manufacturer to produce and sell a Boxee-branded connected device.  The also announced that they expect to have Boxee technology embedded [...]

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Voddler Offers Movies On-Demand
Nov 12 2009

Voddler Offers Movies On-Demand

Users can watch over 800 movies for free or at little cost.
Content innovation apparently continues to elude the US with news that a new Sweden-based movies on-demand service called Voddler launched a few weeks ago.
Though comparable to Hulu, users of the services’s free movie section are only forced to watch a single advertisement that appears [...]

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Zombieland Co-Writer: BitTorrent “Affects Likelihood” of Part 2
Nov 12 2009

Zombieland Co-Writer: BitTorrent “Affects Likelihood” of Part 2

Rheet Reese laments that Zombieland is currently the most pirated movie on BitTorrent, and says that it may ruin chances for a sequel.
A few days ago I mentioned how the writer and director of Ink praised piracy, and BitTorrent in particular, for generating “unprecedented exposure” for the movie, pushing it to #16 on [...]

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Brazil, Pakistan Criticize “One Size Fits All” Piracy Solution
Nov 11 2009

Brazil, Pakistan Criticize “One Size Fits All” Piracy Solution

Demand clarity, reform, say blind enforcement risks the delicate balance between copyright holders and users, and may also “trample upon principles that are pillars of fundamental human rights.” Wants developing countries to have increased say as major copyright holder nations advance their agenda.
Developing countries are starting to realize they must be proactive in developing intellectual [...]

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Developer Pirates Own Game to BitTorrent Sites
Nov 11 2009

Developer Pirates Own Game to BitTorrent Sites

Redlynx says pirated version doesn’t include all features, and hopes users of the bootleg version would want to pay for full, legitimate copy after trying it.
Redlynx, a multiplatform game developer based in Helsinki, Finland. RedLynx, has admitted to uploading scaled down versions of Trials for the PC to a number of BitTorrent tracker sites.
CEO Tero [...]

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Android Phones and Downloading On the Go
Nov 10 2009

Android Phones and Downloading On the Go

After a somewhat rocky start, the Android platform from Google is beginning to pick up steam, and with the new Motorola Droid model from Verizon, and with multiple new handsets promised from a number of manufacturers, Android is poised to challenge the iPhone and Symbian platforms for future supremacy (WinMo seems moribund at best).  As [...]

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Pirated Film Director: “Exposure Unquestionably a Positive Thing”
Nov 10 2009

Pirated Film Director: “Exposure Unquestionably a Positive Thing”

Writer and director, while “not excited that people are seeing the film without paying,” love the fact that BitTorrent has given Ink an “enormous amount of exposure.”
Many of us BitTorrent users are well aware that at best there’s a casual relationship between availability on tracker sites and box office ticket sales.
For example, The Dark Knight, [...]

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German Court Rules Ripping CDs Legal
Nov 10 2009

German Court Rules Ripping CDs Legal

Record industry trying to fight ability of music fans to make private digital copies of physical CDs.
The German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe recently upheld provision 53 of that country’s copyright law against a legal challenge by the record industry whom have against the provision for allowing digital copying of CDs for private use.
The [...]

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Norway Court Denies Request to Block The Pirate Bay
Nov 9 2009

Norway Court Denies Request to Block The Pirate Bay

Rules Norwegian ISP Telenor and other ISPs shouldn’t be forced to decide which sites or services should be blocked, that only authorities can make that determination.
Norway’s Asker and Bærum District Court ruled in favor of ISP Telenor recently in its battle with International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the Norwegian videogram association (Norsk [...]

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Spanish Culture Minister: No “3-Strikes” for File-Sharers
Nov 9 2009

Spanish Culture Minister: No “3-Strikes” for File-Sharers

Says the govt “is not considering punitive measures for the end user of Internet,” and will focus instead on web sites that illegally host copyrighted material and those that profit from them.
The Spanish govt has now officially rejected any plans to disconnect illegal file-sharers from the Internet a la a “three-strikes” graduated response system.
Speaking to [...]

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