Three’s an interesting BitTorrent torrent tracker download site which caters specifically to hosting “progressive and radical content (and also to preserving) the work of American dissident Noam Chomsky.” I’ve never seen a torrent tracker site that so specifically caters to an ideology or train of thought in such a manner as this one does. It [...]

It’s been mentioned here before but, the Mvix Multimedia Player and also the Mvix Media Center both warrant another look. With people increasingly acquiring broadband connections at home and thereby better speeds with which to download movies and other large video content, the need for a convenient and user friendly means of viewing this material [...]

As more and more people get broadband connections the face of television as we know it is changing. The traditional gatekeepers of content are slowly losing their long held monopoly. Whether its the cable companies who insist on selling you a thousand channels whether or not you really maybe watch only a handful, television studios [...]

Channel 4 is to offer a “catch-up” service for viewers by offering much of its programming online for 30 days after transmission for 99p per episode. Current series such as Hollyoaks and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares will be available, alongside archived output from the network’s 24 years on air. The agreement covers all “homegrown” shows commissioned [...]

Fans of NBC’s “Meet the Press” and the “NBC Nightly News” will now be able to download the shows for free as video podcasts from iTunes. While NBC has previously provided audio podcasts and streams of ad-supported video for both shows on MSNBC’s website, this will mark the first time that they will be available [...]

The Landmark Forum (see background at http://www.rickross.com/groups/landmark.html), a group related to Scientology and EST, has hit Google, YouTube and the Internet Archive with a DMCA demand. They want to know who uploaded a 2004 news program expose on their activities which led to their leaving France. This stunning video, which had a person attend a [...]

Looking to “upgrade their entertainment systems,” a handful of carriers including United Airlines will soon offer passengers seat connections for their iPod portable media devices. The connection will ensure users have an unlimited battery life for the duration of the flight and also allow them to view their stored video content on displays fixed into [...]

If you’re a true gamer, then you use Windows, and that’s pretty much the end of the story. The upgradeability, the wide range of titles, and the community certainly are important reasons for equipping yourself with a PC. I’m not even close to being categorized as a gamer, although I used to be. I went [...]

Microsoft began selling its Zune digital media player on Tuesday, marking its foray into the market dominated by Apple Computer’s iPod. While the software giant is a latecomer to the digital music scene, industry analysts will be watching closely. That’s because Apple has enjoyed a runaway success, garnering over 70 percent of the portable music [...]

BitTorrent , the famous peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing service, has hit delays launching its online video store — delays that will stall the store’s launch until sometime next year. In March, BitTorrent said its store would launch by the end of 2006. But the process of signing up content owners to sell their video via [...]

Last month, the Consumer Electronics Association and other groups announced a “Digital Freedom” campaign that latches onto the concept of fair use–supposedly to benefit consumers. Seems like a worthwhile effort. But in truth, it’s merely a return to an increasingly used playbook, an extremist interpretation of fair use to frighten and mislead consumers and policymakers. [...]

There’s a great BitTorrent toolbar extension available for Firefox that allows you to search torrent tracker sites either by keyword or to simply scan through their RSS Feeds It’s fully customizable and provides search options for over 32 BitTorrent torrent tracker sites. From MiniNova to BushTorrent, from TorrentReactor to BtJunkie, it has a wide of [...]

Trying to harness the full power of P2P technology, the new Ares version 1.9.4 now offers BitTorrent support as well. Limewire was another notable P2P file-sharing program that recently began to offer BitTorent support as well. Ares use to run on the Gnutella network as Limewire does but, switched to its own network with a [...]

After settling copyright infringement claims with major record labels long ago, and then being purchased by CNET Networks Inc. in 2003, it has now begun to allow users the ability to share music and videos with the permission of independent artists. Okay, so there isn’t exactly any Eminem or Rage Against the Machine available for [...]

All it took was a Torx wrench. Yes, the first PlayStation 3 autopsies are already starting to appear as console fans with more money than sense take Sony’s next-generation machine apart to expose Cell processor, Blu-ray Disc player, Seagate hard drive and assorted chippery. First up, DailyTech’s disassembly includes some rather nice pics – two [...]

Starting early next year, the address bar in Internet Explorer 7 will turn green when surfing to a legitimate Web site–but only in some cases, not all. The colored address bar is designed to be a sign that a specific site can be trusted, giving people the green light to carry out transactions there. It [...]

A Singapore teenager has been charged with tapping into someone else’s wireless Internet connection, a crime that carries a penalty of up to three years in jail, a newspaper reported Saturday. Garyl Tan Jia Luo, 17, is the first person to be charged with this crime under the Computer Misuse Act, the Straits Times reported. [...]

The German music industry has filed thousads of lawsuits against P2P users. Separately, some game softare makers sued tens of thousands of suspected file sharing users in Germany. This huge wave of lawsuits is starting to take its toll on the German legal system, heise.de reports. The State Attorney General of Northrhine Westfalia Roswitha Müller-Piepenkötter [...]

After more than a year and a half of legal wrangling, it comes down to the fact that the Universal City entity that sued Shawn, Productions LLLP, isn’t even the true copyright holder. Studios LLLP filed the initial copyright registration of “Meet the Fockers” and apparently erred in transferring it to Productions LLLP. Since Studios [...]

With the continual release in recent years of new types of computer memory (RAM, ROM, DRAM, Flash, SRAM, PRAM…), the memory chip industry has become an ever more bewildering world. Freescale’s MRAM, one of the latest to be commercially unveiled, improves on and combines the advantages of two types of conventional memory. The various types [...]