Visible Earth – NASA using BitTorrent technology
About a year back, NASA started experimenting with BitTorrent technology with the World Wind project, World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D.
NASA’s latest project Visible Earth, is [...]
DVD Authoring with WinAVI
How to rip and burn DVDs using the popular WinAVI program.
There are many programs to choose from when creating a DVD. WinAVI and Nero seem to be the most popular, the latter being my personal favorite. Now in additon to converting your video files they both are able to burn them to disc as well, [...]
UK Court rules against song-swappers
The UK music industry has won a landmark court case in its fight against illegal online music sharing. High Court judges ordered two men to pay the British Phonographic Industry between £1,500 and £5,000 for making thousands of songs available online. One of the men said he did not know he was acting illegally, the [...]
Plaintff in RIAA suit continues to download music
Justin Reynolds, one of the first consumers ever sued by the music industry, said he felt betrayed by the bands he once loved. Reynolds was forced to pay $4,000 as part of a settlement agreement with the RIAA.
“This really affected my attitude towards music,” said Reynolds, who continues to download music and refuses to [...]
Iran blocks BBC Persian website
The BBC says the level of traffic to the site from within Iran has dropped sharply over the last three days.
No official explanation has been given. The BBC has expressed concern at the action, saying it deprives many Iranians of a trusted source of news.
The BBC said it would be approaching [...]
Google Agrees to Censor Results in China
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company planned to roll out a new version of its search engine bearing China’s Web suffix ".cn," on Wednesday.
A Chinese-language version of Google’s search engine has previously been available through the company’s dot-com address in the United States. By creating a unique address for China, Google hopes to [...]
MPAA finds itself accused of piracy
The Motion Picture Assn. of America, the leader in the global fight against movie piracy, is being accused of unlawfully making a bootleg copy of a documentary that takes a critical look at the MPAA’s film ratings system.
The MPAA admitted Monday that it had duplicated "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" without the [...]
Conservatives Take Canada
Preliminary official figures at 11 p.m. (0400 GMT Tuesday) showed the Conservatives winning or ahead in 122 electoral districts compared to 103 for the Liberals of Prime Minister Paul Martin.
The result was a personal triumph for Conservative leader Stephen Harper, a 46-year-old economist who forced through the creation of the party in December [...]
RIAA To Target ISPs Next?
If industry rumblings are correct, the recording industry may be preparing a legal assault against ISPs. Multiple industry sources to Digital Music News have pointed to the possibility, and recent comments by IFPI chairman John Kennedy correlate with the chatter. "It’s been a year since I asked for (the ISPs’) cooperation, and I’ve effectively had [...]
Apple iTunes users growing fast
Statistics gathered by Nielsen NetRatings shows that traffic to iTunes grew by 241% in 2005.
Between December 2004 and 2005 the numbers of people going to the site grew from 6.1 million to 20.7 million.
The figures mean that about 14% of the net’s active population are regularly using the iTunes service.
