Zune vs. Creative Commons: Good news for reverse engineers?
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 times [...]
Is BitTorrent share-ratio enforcement really necessary?
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 [...]
Watch Tons of Your Favorite Movies On-Demand for FREE!
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 Hybrid so [...]
Vista adoption to outpace XP, analyst says
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.
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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 [...]
HOW TO: Protect your P2P privacy
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P2P, fronted on one side by sane technologically able people and on the other by a dying breed of middlemen with an outdated business model (ok, so I dipped a toe into the marsh), the use of the technology aptly includes [...]
Why Xbox Video Service Needs BitTorrent
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 [...]
Nokia’s P2P Traffic Control Solution
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 [...]
BitTorrent Super Sunday: a look at Thanksgiving weekends top torrents
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 trackers [...]
We’re not anti-P2P but some ports are shaped, says ISP
“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.” Without [...]
“The Corporation,” a must-see documentary, officially debuts on BitTorrent
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 that [...]
