NYT move to block Web to Britons raises questions
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York Times decision to block British online readers from seeing a story about London terrorism suspects raises new questions on restricting the flow of information in the Internet age, legal and media experts say.
The New York Times said on Tuesday it had blocked British Internet readers from seeing a [...]
SpiralFrog to Offer Free Ad-Supported Music Downloads
Universal Music, in the midst of a rare bout of ingenuity, is backing a an ad-supported digital download service.
Due to start in December, SpiralFrog, as it is to be called, will rely solely on advertising revenue to pay for the music downloads.
“Perry Ellis, the fashion company, said it would advertise on SpiralFrog. Levi’s, [...]
Snakebite – A BitTorrent Webserver Made Easy
Instead of having to create a torrent, run a tracker, and then run a seeder for each file you want to share over the web, now all you have to do is drag and drop them into the correct folder and then webserver does the rest.
Snakebite “…provides all the power of BitTorrent with all the [...]
Vista Preorders Available, Jan 30th Ship Date
According to Reuters, Amazon.com has begun taking preorders for it’s new Windows Vista operating system.
Prices will range from $99.95 for a basic upgrade version to $399.00 for an ultimate version.
The difference between the two is that the ultimate version will also have “…television and digital photography components that used to be in [...]
Piratpartiet: The Swedish Pirate Party’s Election Manifesto
If only we had a parliamentary system of government here in the United States where true representation could take hold and foster a healthier form a democracy. Instead of the endless malaise of having to settle for one of two bad candidates, we could all have a seat at the table by being able to [...]
Guitar instruction sites shut down by music industry
Music publishers are taking action against guitar fan websites which they say infringe songwriters’ copyrights. Publishers have started to use copyright lawsuits to shut down sites which share notations to help musicians to play songs at home.
Called guitar tablature, or tab, the notations indicate where players should put their fingers. Books filled with tab are [...]
Linkin Park hits iTunes, new album not ready yet
Linkin Park, one of the few major acts that had yet to make its music available via Apple’s iTunes Music Store, has changed course and pacted with the service. Three of the group’s albums are available beginning Tuesday, each with two bonus tracks and a third iTunes exclusive cut.
In addition, iTunes is selling the video [...]
NetEnforcer throttles encrypted bittorrent traffic
The traffic shaping battle continues. Allot Communications announced today that their traffic management device “NetEnforcer is able to detect, and throttle encrypted Bittorrent traffic.
Allot Communications states:
Previously, companies have been able to detect and manage applications based on the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file transfer protocol. However, detecting encrypted BitTorrent
[...]
Blu-ray to Hit Japan
Hollywood studios announced the launch of more than 75 titles for the next generation Blu-ray format today.
Due out later this year, the titles will include ‘The Da Vinci Code” and “Chicken Little,” with other, and hopefully much better, titles as well.
Again Blu-ray is playing the catch up game with the HD-DVD format, this [...]
Improving BitTorrent Download Speeds
A great article on how to improve your BitTorrent spreeds when downloading small or large torrents.
One of the most commonly asked questions on Zeropaid.com is how to improve BitTorrent download speeds, well Malicious Intent has addressed this issue full force with an excellent guide to improving BitTorrent download speeds. Make sure you check out [...]
