BitTorrent Is Encouraged
The word on the tech-street is that the co-founder of BitTorrent, Ashwin Navin, believes that DRM is not the answer to legal online video services. I completely agree with him on this opinion.
DRM encourages the use of BitTorrent to get your “money’s worth”. Why are consumers being punished and disabled from using the [...]
BitTorrent Founder Navin Talks DRM
Ashwin Navin, co-founder and president of file-sharing software developer BitTorrent, thinks that advertising-supported content will win out over digital rights management (DRM) in the long run for movie and TV show downloads. But his company is embracing DRM as it opens a new movie download Web site that will compete with the Unbox store launched [...]
DCFC, Sub Pop Down With Bittorrent
Seattle indie titans Death Cab For Cutie and their hometown brethren, the revered Sub Pop Records, have both posted exclusive material via controversial P2P service Bittorrent. Death Cab posted an exclusive EPK featuring videos, interviews and assorted behind-the-scenes footage.
Similarly, Sub Pop has set up a profile offering high-quality music videos and mp3s from the [...]
The Odd Browsers Out: Deepnet, Netscape, and SeaMonkey
Sure, you’ve use Firefox and Internet Explorer. You may have even dabbled in Flock and Opera, or even become a devotee of one of these lesser-known applications. But have you ever browsed the web with Deepnet Explorer? How ’bout SeaMonkey? And when’s the last time you used Netscape? Did you even know that it was [...]
Zinoku: BitTorrent Site Dedicated to Magazines
Zinoku offers an extensive collection of Magazines. The site lists magazines covering all kinds of topics, including Science, Maxim, FHM, PC Magazine, Newsweek, Penthouse and Playboy
It’s not really a big surprise, but as expected, the adult themed magazines are the most popular.
All magazine downloads are packaged in some kind of a custom magazine reader, [...]
New Apple patch plugs Wi-Fi hijack flaws
A trio of security flaws in Apple Computer software that runs wireless-networking hardware could allow Macs to be hijacked over Wi-Fi, Apple said Thursday.
The Cupertino, Calif.-based company released security updates to repair the problems, which together affect the AirPort wireless driver in Mac OS X 10 Panther version 10.3.9 and Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.7, [...]
Microsoft offering free repairs for all 2005 Xbox 360s
Those Redmond folks are sure on a good news streak. After announcing 1080p upscaling and a delightfully low-priced HD DVD drive for their 360, they’re offering a helping hand to early adopters who haven’t had quite as much fun with the console.
Microsoft is offering free fixes to all problematic Xbox 360s built in 2005, [...]
MPAA steals British sniffer dogs
THE MPAA KNOWS a good thing when it sees one. Stories of computerless single mums being dragged screaming and penniless to the courthouse for allowing their daughters to listen to music online are all grist to its mill.
Its campaign to make people pay for stuff they can get for nothing thrives on the oxygen [...]
Microsoft may offer (free) web (based) programs
Microsoft is planning free-web based versions of its word processing and spreadsheet programs.
The online versions of the programs will lack many of the features found in the full versions found in Microsoft’s Office suite of applications.
Although the programs will be free to use, Microsoft is planning to fund them via advertising.
The move is seen as [...]
