Google Investment In Xunlei To Be Announce Next Week
Early this month, there was market rumor that Google and Ceyuan Venture will invest in Chinese P2P software and file-sharing network Xunlei. The investment will be announced on January 5th, a report in Sina said. Google China will invest in $5M, and Ceyuan Venture will invest in $15M.
Xunlei, founded in 2003, has been a popular [...]
French Judge to RIAA: “GOVT approval needed to trace IP addresses”
In another blow to the overly aggressive, no-holds-barred tactics of the RIAA, the IFPI, and others of similar ilk, a French court has ruled that music companies and other copyright holders “…cannot conduct unrestrained internet monitoring to find pirates.”
The verdict is a rare win for privacy-rights advocates who regularly monitor the extensive lengths that copyright [...]
“The Venice Project:” a sneak peek with a BETA tester
I have a slew of screen shots and the inside scoop on the cool new creation from the geniuses behind KaZaA and Skype. The Venice Project has begun secretly doling out BETA Tester invites, and I have been fortunate enough to be among them.
Skype and KaZaA co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it [...]
Encode360 lets you encode videos for the XBox 360
Encode360 is an application which will convert virtually any video format to high quality WMV’s which can be played by the X-Box 360 or the Microsoft Zune player.
Features:
Uses Windows Media Encoder as a base, so it’ll create 100% Microsoft compliant WMV’s
Automatic re-scaling of video sizes to match your TV resolution or Zune [...]
AllPeers Adds Chat: Becomes Relevant Again
AllPeers, a Firefox P2P file sharing plugin, had incredible hype when it launched in August (the rumors had been around for nearly a year at that point). People were calling it the “killer app” for Firefox, and the company is backed by early investors in Skype, Mangrove Capital Partners and Index Ventures. And since AllPeers [...]
Amazon’s custom DVDs get download option
Movie studios and TV networks that sell made-on-demand DVDs through Amazon.com’s CustomFlix subsidiary will soon be able to offer digital downloads.
The downloads will be offered through Amazon’s new video download service, Unbox, and should be available in early 2007, the company said.
CustomFlix Labs Inc. produces licensed DVDs only when a customer [...]
RIAA sues AllofMP3 in US court
AllofMP3, already facing intense pressure from US trade negotiators and international credit card processors, is now the target of a US federal lawsuit. The major music labels filed suit Wednesday against AllofMP3 parent company Mediaservices, Inc. in a New York court.
A copy of the lawsuit seen by Ars Technica claims that AllofMP3’s [...]
Watch TV for free with “Pick and Watch”
Following in the ongoing trend towards more and more sites offering streaming TV programming, a site appropriately called “Pick and Watch” allows you to do just that.
Similar to sites like TVlinks, watchtvonline, and others, Pick and Watch offers a variety of channels of varying content to select and stream on demand.
The channel selections run the [...]
Swedish ISP backs down: Allofmp3.com No Longer Blocked
For the last ten days, Swedish ISP Perspektiv Bredband has been blocking Russian Website AllOfMp3.com. This conduct has led to protests from various sources. For example, The Pirate Bay, working together with the pro-piracy lobby Piratbyrån, decided to block all Perspektiv’s customers from accessing its site.
perspectiv bredbandApparently this anti net-censorship campaign by The Pirate Bay [...]
Rock stars want to seal Wolfgang’s Vault
Some of rock ‘n’ roll’s biggest players, including Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead and Carlos Santana, are suing a website that offers thousands of recordings of rare audio and video music performances.
The artists say Wolfgang’s Vault, owned by William Sagan, is illegally offering the recordings in order to lure consumers to buy other products available [...]
