Eliot Van Buskirk wrote an interesting piece on Wired.com today about the conflict surrounding the Zune and it’s possible Creative Commons license violations. Here’s the background: Van Buskirk talked a bit about the Zune on his Wired blog a few weeks ago. Among other things he mentioned that the device only plays a song three [...]

An interesting case study was recently completed which explores the causes and rationale for file-sharing in the P2P community amid proposes a methodology for its improvement. Share-ratio enforcement has long been the topic of debate in the BitTorent community, and this paper makes interesting assertion both for and against it. Yet, I would argue that [...]

There’s a new site on the block called “Video Hybrid” that lets you stream tons of movies and TV shows for free. I’ve previously mentioned a number of sites and methods for watching movies and TV shows for free but, Video Hybrid, in my opinion, stands head and shoulders above the rest. What makes Video [...]

Adoption of Microsoft Corp’s Windows Vista operating system will happen at a faster pace than any previous operating system release, a software analyst predicted last week. Free IT resource Up to 15 percent of PC users will move to Vista within the first year that the operating system is available, said David Mitchell, the software [...]

Without getting into the quagmire that is the debate over P2P, fronted on one side by sane technologically able people and on the other by a dying breed of middlemen with an outdated business model (ok, so I dipped a toe into the marsh), the use of the technology aptly includes both legitimate claims of [...]

There is no doubt that Microsoft was unprepared for video downloading. From slow download speeds, to complete download failures, there are a slew of problems that could be solved with a proper P2P setup like BitTorrent. And this is how it could work. Roughly speaking: 1. Users can have the option for faster downloads through [...]

Nokia is introducing a network solution in order to help mobile operators better manage their data traffic The company said that the Nokia Peer-to-peer Traffic Control, as the solution is called, lets operators keep in check the eating-up of network resources by bandwidth hungry applications such as file sharing and Voice over IP telephony, thus [...]

With today marking the end of the Thanksgiving holidays here in the US, here’s your last chance to relax and slack off a bit before the start of the workweek tomorrow. Continuing in the fine Sunday tradition that I inaugurated just last weekend, the list to follow outlines the most great and favorite cultural torrent [...]

“Ihug is not anti-P2P,” or peer-to-peer traffic, says Cherie Lacey, the provider’s communications manager. She was responding to claims made in the Geekzone online forum by a poster claiming all Internet Protocol (IP) ports numbered over 1,000 are being rate-limited. This isn’t the case, Lacey says and adds “I’m afraid this customer has been misinformed.” [...]

The Canadian documentary, winner of the prestigious 2004 World Cinema Documentary Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, debuts on BitTorrent to help spread the word about corporate ills and malfeasance. Though first reported by Ernesto over at TorrentFreak, I felt that the story was important and compelling enough to help spread the word so [...]

Individuals who use the Internet to distribute information from another source may not be held to account if the material is considered defamatory, the California Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a reversal of a lower court decision. The ruling supports federal law that clears individuals of liability if they transmit, but are not the [...]

Universal Music Group’s recently filed lawsuit against MySpace.com has been generating some Internet speculation about the underlying reasons prompting the behemoth music publisher to go after the social-networking site. Bloggers, analysts, and intellectual property attorneys have noted that Universal might have motives beyond quashing piracy, especially because MySpace has been insisting that it is following [...]

The long-rumored arrival of a hybrid mobile phone and iPod music player from Apple Computer Inc has morphed from a question of "If" to "When" among fans and analysts. Since Apple’s introduction of the iPod five years ago, the company has sold more than 67 million of the devices and more than 1.5 billion songs [...]

Leading German lawmakers demanded a crackdown on violent computer and simulated war games on Tuesday over concerns that they may have helped inspire a young man to attack his former school with guns and explosives. The masked 18-year-old man stormed the Scholl secondary school on Monday in the western German town of Emsdetten, wounding as [...]

Despite the movie’s presence on P2P and file-sharing networks, Casino Royale took in huge profits at both the UK and US box offices this past weekend. A Russian camcorder version first appeared last Thursday, “Casino.Royale.2006.TS.RUS.XviD-KZ” but, the audio was of course in Russian. Then on Friday another camcorder copy appeared, “Casino.Royale.TELESYNC.XViD-PUKKA,” which is thought to [...]

If your looking for a site that allows you to play any music track you want for free then look no further. FineTune is an interesting site that allows users to create playlists using tracks from artists they search for and select, or by simply listening to the playlists already created by others. In addition, [...]

The Pirate Bay has an added an extra feature to its site which displays the 50 latest TV shows that have been uploaded. It was previously reported that The Pirate Bay had realized the high demand for TV content and made a new user-friendly interface that lists TV shows by name and season. Well, in [...]

China’s easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia appears to have been short-lived. Users reported Friday that the site was unavailable in several parts of China, barely a week after it suddenly became accessible. It wasn’t immediately clear if user-contributed encyclopedia was unreachable due to technical glitches or because government censors had [...]

Nielsen Media Research has begun gathering its first data on the audience for Apple’s iPod, calling into question the popularity of its video offering. Owners of Apple’s ubiquitous portable media device spend far more time on it listening to music or audio podcasts than they do using it to watch TV or movies. That was [...]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that every user of the open source Linux system could owe his company money for using its intellectual property. The statement will confirm the worst fears of the open source community. Microsoft recently signed a deal for SUSE Linux, a Novell-owned distribution of the Linux operating system. The two [...]