Looks like “the man” can’t keep a good BitTorrent torrent tracker search-engine down, as the site gets new digs, a new server package, and a new lease on life north of the border….TAKE THAT MPAA! Last Tuesday I reported how isoHunt, the longtime search-engine staple of the BitTorrent community, got shut down after it’s ISP’s [...]

Sharing music, movies, and software from P2P and file-sharing networks is now "legale" in Italy so long as you’re not making a "profitto" from it. It was recently disclosed by sources in the Italian media.that Italy’s Highest Court has ruled in favor of allowing people to share and download over the internet so long as [...]

When it comes to buying digital music there’s nothing more frustrating then being locked in to a specific device or brand of software, i.e. Zune and Urge, Apples and iTunes, when it comes to playing and transferring the tracks you purchase. There’s a ton of issues surrounding music DRM these days, and the subject begs [...]

Microsoft Corp is offering a free online “test drive” of its Windows Vista OS in its latest effort to fight software piracy and counterfeiting. Users can access the preview of Vista on a test drive site, said Cori Hartje, director of the genuine software initiative. The test drive sets up a virtual environment that shows [...]

A recent crackdown on rap music mixtapes highlights the recording industry’s awkward relationship with what has long been an integral element of rap culture. Not long before Christmas, Jeff Baker, the chief of police of Morrow, Ga., a small town just south of Atlanta, and one of his officers were walking through a local shopping [...]

More than four times as many households downloaded videos from file-sharing networks as they did from centralized services like iTunes in the third quarter of 2006. Downloads from file-sharing networks are generally free, and have long occurred outside the control of copyright holders. The cost of for-pay downloads, about 90 percent of which go through [...]

Another installment of the BitTorrent weekend guide to what movies, music, TV shows, games, and more are out there and available for download using the BitTorrent.file-sharing network. It’s been a while since my last article covering new and popular content for download with BitTorrent, and being that tomorrow is the day that NFL Conference Championship [...]

Google announced that another major US college library had joined its controversial project to put the world’s books online. The more than one million written works at the University of Texas library in Austin will be converted to digital format and added to Google Books Library Project, according to the Internet search powerhouse. The university’s [...]

I spoke recently with an old friend who is a bandwidth broker. He buys and sells bandwidth on fiber-optic networks around the world. And he told me something that I found not completely surprising, but I certainly hadn’t known: Google controls more network fiber than any other organization. This is not to say that Google [...]

XM Satellite Radio and P2P networking might as well be on opposite sides of the technological spectrum, but their frequent litigation with the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) makes for a good Saturday night date ice breaker. Claiming that XM Satellite Radio’s new "XM+MP3" service disaggregates recordings and permits the creation of music libraries [...]

Our fledgling blog got fledgling video service Joost’s CEO, Fredrik de Wahl, on the phone today, and we had a good chat about Joost’s delivery system, video quality, and why you won’t be able to upload your grainy webcam video of your dorm room to Joost’s pristine video service. If you recall, Joost was until [...]

Wants to use technology similar to that used to block access to child pornography to get at the “root” of the problem and block access to websites that facilitate infringing file-sharing of copyrighted music. Tucked into the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s (IFPI) Digital Music Report for the year 2007 is an interesting clue [...]

While surfing through the almighty Digg this morning, I stumbled upon a link to a Wii Disc Dumper. No, this isn’t a disgusting scat video of Mario with diarrhea, it’s a small program that, when combined with the proper DVD drive in a PC, can dump the raw contents of a Wii Game Disc to [...]

The music industry will move to sue internet service providers if they continue to allow identified digital music pirates to use their networks. John Kennedy, chairman and chief executive of the IFPI, which represents record groups worldwide, expressed frustration over the co-operation of ISPs in the music industry’s battle against heavy “uploaders”, or individuals who [...]

Azureus just announced a deal with Bennet Media Woldwide that will allow them to distribute HD shows via their Zudeo.com P2P download platform. From their news release: “Among the Bennett Media original productions to be featured in HD on Zudeo include Bikini Destinations, The Wild Side, The Extremists, Xotic Xtreme and Snowology. Bennett Media content [...]

The venerable Swedish pirates scout out possible places to run their servers from. It’s been in the news recently how The Pirate Bay has sought to purchase the sovereign “country” of Sealand from which to run their servers out of, and in that spirit it has solicited alternative suggestions as well. So far the donations [...]

With the iPhone announced, the Mac news and rumour machine is taking new steps to get ahead of the curve. This week’s leading rumour relates to The Beatles, with a report claiming the act will release music through iTunes, perhaps as soon as 14 February — Valentine’s Day. A popular Beatles fan website, Abbeyrd, reports [...]

The longtime search-engine staple of the BitTorrent community gets shut down after it’s ISP’s lawyers call it quits. Around since the earliest days of BitTorrent tracker sites, isoHunt has been elude the legal might of the RIAA and the MPAA up until yesterday it seems. The subject of a lawsuit by the MPAA since last [...]

The Zune player came out recently and one disadvantage to owning one that early was the limited release of accessories and “bling” to go with them. I love getting a new gadget but part of that love is being able to get out and add things to it to make it more personalized. Now there [...]

Lock your computer from afar and add security to it even if it’s potentially stolen or someone tries to use it when you are not around. The Wireless PC Security Lock is a new way to keep your laptop or work computer secure. If you want a low priced option to keep your computer locked [...]