Companies probe possible high-def DVD hack
The companies behind an encryption system for high-definition DVDs are looking into a hacker’s claim that he has cracked the code protecting the new discs from piracy, a spokesman for one of the companies said Thursday.
A hacker known as Muslix64 posted on the Internet details of how he [...]
20,000 YouTube music videos at your fingertips
20,000 YouTube music videos at your fingertips
UPDATE: The site is no longer online, we suggest you check out Video DownloadHelper. Video DownloadHelper is a FireFox plugin that allows you to download videos from YouTube and save them to your computer.
Click and play 20,000 music videos scraped from YouTube and embedded on one site for some [...]
Stream thousands of Rock N’ Roll concert classics for free on “Wolfgang’s Vault”
The site lets you listen to the tons of concert recordings that the venerable concert promoter Bill Graham collected over his more than 30 years in the music biz, which includes Jimi Hendrix, Santana, The Grateful Dead, and much, much, more.
As always seems the case, a publicized effort to shut down a website has [...]
Should Al Gore put “An Inconvenient Truth” up on BitTorrent?
Michael Eakes, a Tech blogger wrote to Al Gore asking him to release his movie “An Inconvenient Truth” via BitTorrent.
In an interesting nod to just how BitTorrent can change the status quo of distribution models and methods, Michael Eakes, a Web 2.0 blogger, has written a letter to Al Gore, the former 2-term Vice-President and [...]
RIAA dredges up old/new ‘expert’
Demanding access to RIAA victims’ computers is now routine, but the Big 4 Organized Music cartel members have, “escalated their demands to include, ‘production of ‘[a]ny and all computers and/or music listening devices including iPods and MP3 players’,” p2pnet posted, writing about the latest Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG attack on the [...]
Top 10 P2P Friendly Colleges
PC Mag and The Princeton Review compiled a “Top 10 Wired Colleges” list that took into account the ability of students to use P2P and file-sharing software.
PC Mag recently teamed up with The Princeton Review to find the “most connected, plugged-in, and high-tech campuses” in the United States, a survey which also factored in the [...]
RIAA sues AllofMP3 for $1.65 trillion
The RIAA is seeking $150,000 for each of the 11 million songs AllofMP3 allegedly pirated.
It was first reported by the Washington Post last week that the RIAA was suing the Russian online music distribution company Mediaservices, which owns AllofMP3.com and allTunes.com, for illegally selling copyrighted music.
The companies behind the claim, which include the [...]
Windows Vista Activation Cracked Yet Again
It was just a week ago that Microsoft’s Jim Allchin was talking about Windows Vista security and how the operating system would fend off attacks from malicious code and hackers. Allchin made no mention, however, of the recent successful attempts at cracking Windows Vista’s activation scheme.
Earlier this month, pirates found a way [...]
Google Now the #2 Most Visited Website in the World
2006 appears to be a banner year for Google. It purchased the highly popular YouTube online video site in early October and saw its stock price dance with the $500 mark in November. Now according to ComScore Networks Inc., Google Inc. has slightly edged in front of Yahoo! Inc. to become the second most visited [...]
Music and Media Subscription Model
The popularity of file sharing demonstrates the popularity of media on demand, with which a subscription model would be the best fit for monetising this market. However, the DRM restrictions on current subscription models such as Napster prevent both CD burning and even syncing with various mp3 players making them less attractive to consumers.
DRM has [...]
