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May 29 2007

PayPlay.FM offers 1.3 million 88-cent DRM-free music downloads

Indie site now offers tunes from its 1,300,000-track catalog that’s fully compatible with iPod and any MP3 player, and also supports Windows, Mac, UNIX, all major browsers.
In a continued march towards a world of DRM-free music, Payplay.FM is another site that now offers music in an unprotected MP3 format. Today the indie music site [...]

May 29 2007

Australian ISP to speed up BitTorrent downloads?

Mulls introducing a P2P caching solution that will deliver P2P data that has previously been retrieved by another customer directly from an Exetel “mirror” and only using external sources for data that isn’t available from the local disks.
Exetel, the popular Australian ISP, has just completed a 6 month trial of of P2P [...]

May 24 2007

Azureus to host ‘Independent TV Festival’

Using its Vuze video distribution platform, will act as the online submission portal for HD-DVD and TV pilot category entries, and allow users to vote on submissions.
Azureus and the Independent Television Festival have announced today that that they will partner up to expand the competition to a global audience.
Aspiring TV show creators will be [...]

May 24 2007

Italians love eMule

New study says that 51% of illegal file-sharers in Italy use eMule compared to about 3% who use BitTorrent.
Italy’s Luigi Einaudi Foundation has published some new research about illegal file-sharing in Italy that offers up some interesting tidbits about their habits and preferences, the most interesting being that an amazing 3/4 of those surveyed have [...]

May 24 2007

SURVEY: Illegal music downloading by youth drops 40%

Mainly cite fears of accidentally downloading a virus or spyware.
The Business Software Alliance(BSA) have released the results of a new survey which claims that illegal downloading of copyrighted works by youth ages 8 to 18 has dropped by 40% in the last 3 years.
In 2004 60% of youth reported illegally downloading copyrighted material, 43% [...]

May 24 2007

Swedish prosecutors to extend search of Pirate Bay servers

After a year of frustrated digging, Swedish law enforcement says it needs more time to look for "incriminating evidence."
Now as may of you remember, the Pirate Bay’s servers along with 100 others unrelated to the site were confiscated over a year ago, and despite coming up empty handed they have asked for more time [...]

May 23 2007

Trent Reznor: ‘I steal music too’

Wants to offer $4 dollar album downloads at a bitrate of your choice, and blames the record industry for its own problems by having ripped off customers for so many years.
NIN seems to be leading the way for how the music industry of the future should be, taking on high priced CD albums and mindless [...]

May 22 2007

BT Etree provides FREE, LEGAL, LIVE concert recording downloads

BT Etree is a BitTorrent tracker site that offers free, and apparently legal, live concert recording downloads from “trade friendly artists.”
In the vein of other BitTorrent tracker sites like Ants Marching which offers live recordings of the Dave Matthews Band, bt.etree.org offers live concert recordings of similarly “altruistic” artists.
As the site notes, “We [...]

May 22 2007

Watch FRIENDS for FREE on-demand!!

Bored and looking for something cool to watch? TVLinks lets you play dozens of types of TV shows, anime, and cartoons on-demand whenever and wherever you like. With TVLinks you can stream Friends on-demand for free.
There’s a cool site I found that allows you to watch many of your favorite shows “YouTube style” without the [...]

May 22 2007

Watch BATTLESTAR GALACTICA for FREE on-demand!!

Bored? Want to watch Battlestar Galactica? TV Links lets you watch Battlestar Galactica and dozens of other TV shows, cartoons, and anime on-demand whenever and wherever you like. With TVLinks you can stream Battlestar Galactica on-demand for free.
There’s a cool site I found that allows you to watch many of your favorite shows “YouTube style” [...]

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