Put it up and watch what happens — that’s the mantra of executives at leading Internet news and video sites as they try to keep tabs on how content is evolving in the era of YouTube and MySpace. “Since you can’t predict it, you sort of have to just let it get out there,” Alan [...]

Sirius has rolled out a new offering called Sirius Internet Radio. They say it is a CD-quality, high bandwidth service for online listening via your computer. The feeds run at four times the bit-rate of their standard online streaming — which comes out to as much as 128kbps for the music channels. I’m not sure [...]

Amnesty International is calling on the bloggers of the world to unite to defend the freedoms of their brother bloggers in countries such as China, Iran, and Tunisia. The group says freedoms are under threat and the blog community should “get online and stand up for freedom of expression on the internet”.

As we reported three weeks ago, reverse-engineering specialist “DVD” Jon Johansen has decoded the encryption that locks down iTunes-purchased music – and he’s formed a company to license this to all-comers. Now Johansen has reverse-engineered rival DRM formats, permitting encrypted songs purchased from Apple rivals to play on iPods. The music business is likely to [...]

Google has vowed to take a tough line on copyright when it completes its $1.65bn (£875m) takeover of YouTube. The video-sharing website’s rapid growth has been partly down to the thousands of clips from old TV shows uploaded illegally by its users. But Google Europe vice-president Nikesh Arora told MPs his company would not tolerate [...]

Fans of World of Warcraft will have to wait a little longer to get their hands on the long-awaited expansion of the hugely popular game. Blizzard has announced the release of the Burning Crusade expansion pack is now being delayed until January 2007. The expansion, which gives players new races, territories and more powerful characters, [...]

For those of you with with smartphones running the Symbian OS, SymTorrent is a new BitTorrent client server that you can use to download and upload files on the go. SymTorrent is the “…first full-featured and complete BitTorrent client for the Symbian OS and supports “…downloading multiple torrent files at the same time, is capable [...]

A new web site is about to launch which aims to become a leading gateway to television shows online. TIOTI is short for Tape It Off The Internet and makes it easy to find, share and discover television shows, presenting links to entire seasons of full episodes of hit shows and classic series for download. [...]

Google will launch a custom search engine starting tomorrow. Many felt this would be an upcoming shift in ideas after experiencing sites like Rollyo. The Financial Times is reporting similarities to that very site with the Google unveiling. The service is said to have a few neat customization ideas such as the ability to paste [...]

Sure the Azureus BitTorrent client server has plenty of plugins available but, uTorrent also has one of more the important ones available, an RSS Feed Downloader. The beautiful thing with it is that it comes pre-installed in the latest version of uTorrent. It is what will allow you to set up uTorrent to automatically download [...]

According to a major survey on music copying recently conducted by Reseau Circum for the Canadian Private Copying Collective, file-sharing activity is on a steady decline in Canada. The survey was part of evidence submitted before the Copyright Board of Canada yesterday as it conducted hearings on Canada’s private copying levy. The private copying levy [...]

Opera software released a new version of its mobile browser, Opera Mini, on Tuesday for use on Palm and RIM handhelds. This new version has “the Google” search engine as default. Since launching earlier this year, Opera Mini has received much fanfare and thanks from mobile users for bringing a fast and much better mobile [...]

It would seem as though maybe the RIAA has begun to take things to the next level in their fight against the Russian music download site, AllOfMP3.com. Forget the fact that they’re pressuring the Russian govt to do something by holding up Russia’s entrance into the WTO, or that they successfully pressured Visa and Mastercard [...]

Bored? Want to watch The Simpsons? Surf the Channel lets you watch The Simpsons and dozens of other TV shows, cartoons, and anime on-demand for free on-demand whenever and wherever you like. There’s a cool site I found that allows you to watch many of your favorite episodes from The Simpsons for free “YouTube style” [...]

Senior staff at Sony has reportedly bought PlayStation Portables from illegal sources. Their reasoning behind the purchases? To look into the nature of the products that were being sold and ensure they were up to speed. Meanwhile, Sony was suing the company for selling illegal goods. Lik-Sang had legal action pushed to them and it [...]

Movie pirates are next on City Hall’s hit list. Mayor Michael Bloomberg lambasted both the scourge of illegal guns and the marketing of illegally copied DVDs yesterday, vowing to help Hollywood combat the piracy. “We’re not going to rest until we get guns out of the hands of criminals and protect our children on the [...]

Canadian home to the FreeCulture movement. The Free Culture movement seeks to protect and enhance everyone’s freedom to access, enjoy, share, create, and transform culture in all its forms. This site will serve as a rallying point for those efforts. Free Culture Canada is a subgroup of the international Free Culture movement, FreeCulture.org. We aim [...]

A group of US online publishers and a lobby group is taking the Government to court to challenge an eight-year-old law which it says amounts to censorship of the internet. The challenge is to the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which became law in 1998. Designed to protect children from viewing pornographic and harmful content [...]

Belkin will ship its Skype-friendly Wi-Fi VoIP phone this coming Monday, the accessory specialist’s UK operation said today. The 802.11b/g device also supports Wi-Fi’s various security schemes for secure calling, while its Skype support extends to the full range of telephony services offered by the VoIP company. The handset will retail for £100.

Microsoft is paying $38 million to the State of Arkansas to settle anti-trust action. Any Arkansas resident or business who bought a Microsoft product between 1 January 1998 and 31 December 2004 for use in the state is entitled to a voucher. The state says Microsoft violated Arkansas laws pertaining to anti-trust, consumer protection, and [...]