Site uses a web-based Java applet that allows you to download torrent files even if you don’t have a BitTorrent client installed. There’s a cool site called BitLet.org that lets you upload .torrent metafiles(torrent trackers) for others to download without having a BitTorrent client installed. For those of you who know people who have yet [...]

Swedish “culture crew”set up a BitTorrent tracker site dedicated to helping users download movies by the recently deceased, and last great film director of our time. BergmanBits is a newly launched BitTorrent tracker site dedicated to help bring the cinematic works of the late Ingmar Bergman to the masses for all to enjoy. With a [...]

A collection of humor to start your day. Every now and then I come across some anti-piracy videos that seemingly lack all sense of normalcy or even common sense for that matter. I mean who remembers “Don’t Copy that Floppy!” and the awesome soundtrack? In any case here’s a few more that I stumbled upon [...]

Realizes that suing CUSTOMERS is “not the best answer” but, is it too little too late?. In a recent conversation with TG Daily, Jonathan Lamy, a spokesman for the RIAA acknowledged the massive PR headaches and friction with the public that it’s large-scale years long lawsuit campaign had generated and that suing potential customers “was [...]

Quietly replaces with more education and discussion instead. Last Tuesday I discussed how Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) had inserted an amendment into the latest reauthorization of the Higher Education Act that would require the Secretary of Education to annually monitor and review campus anti-piracy efforts of the country’s top 25 notice of copyright [...]

New "Secure Content Downloader" shares pieces of data with other users. Always one to take advantage of new and emerging technology, even if it’s sometimes too little too late, Microsoft has quietly rolled out the Secure Content Downloader to allow users to more quickly and easily download Customer Technology Previews (CTPs) from its website. No [...]

56% of the music they play, and some 70% of all the unique songs played were from independent artists and labels meaning they will soon lose an important means of reaching the masses. Live365 Inc. recently completed a study of its 2006 Internet radio broadcasts which revealed that nearly 56% of its broadcast music comes [...]

Blames file-sharing for lost viewers and decreasing share of the primetime TV audience. It often seems that the one who complains the most is usually also the one who listens the least. Rather than come up with new and exciting TV programming that viewers want to actually watch on a regular basis, and also embrace [...]

But, will still cut off campus internet network access after first file-sharing violation. In an interesting approach to the whole RIAA campus piracy crackdown quagmire, the University of Kansas has decided upon a zero-tolerance policy for those engage of illegal file-sharing on campus but, will not go so far as to give up their identities [...]

Despite its pleas, the movie gets leaked on BitTorrent, the Pirate Bay Goes Simpsons, and yet, despite all it still rakes in big bucks at the box office. It was a big weekend for Hollywood and News Corps Fox Studios in particular which was looking for the “The Simpson’s Movie” to rake in big bucks [...]

Controlling BitTorrent downloads via mobile phone now possible. Independent program developer Sinder Sorhus has finally released µTorrent mUI which allows users to control BitTorrent downloads remotely via mobile phone. Though unaffiliated with BitTorrent Inc., the owners of µTorrent if you recall, Sorhus has created a plain-text version of the µTorrent WebUI with most of the [...]

Using Twango, customers will be able to upload and share photos, videos, music, and more. The Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia recently purchased the media-sharing site Twango as part of its new strategy aimed at bringing file-sharing to its mobile phone users. Beginning sometime by the first half of next year, Nokia plans to have [...]

Will propose federal legislation requiring them to send a warning letter to customers if they access pirated content. In an antipiracy panel held last Thursday before a gathering of members of the US Chamber of Commerce in Hollywood, Rep. Howard Berman (D-Los Angeles) has stated his intention to introduce legislation that would require ISPs to [...]

The fast food chain will be the first to distribute a series of codes offering customers the opportunity to download a pre-paid, DRM-free EMI track from a campaign website. EMI Music yesterday announced a new partnership with Chicago-based digital agency VerveLife, under which EMI will open up its extensive digital music catalogue for VerveLife’s global [...]

Warned that they can be used by terrorists and hackers to gain confidential financial and national security data. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep Henry Waxman (D-CA), reignited the debate over online file-sharing today with dramatic testimony about how P2P and file-sharing programs pose a dangerous new threat to information security [...]

Server couldn’t handle the demand for a free music sampler so turned to to the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site and the magic of P2P for help. Labrador Records is an Swedish independent record label that has been allowing visitors to download a free 68 track MP3 sampler to promote their summer material. However, their [...]

Requires the Secretary of Education to annually monitor and review their efforts to prevent “digital theft.” Copyright lobbying organizations apparently have a new big gun in their back pockets – the Senate Majority Leader himself, Harry Reid (D-NV). An amendment he has attached to the latest reauthorization of the Higher Education Act would require the [...]

“Terminator” fans get an early taste of what’s to come in early 2008. Over the years BitTorrent tracker sites everywhere have become inundated with pre-air episodes of both upcoming network shows as well as established ones embarking on a new season. From “Jericho” to “Traveler” to “Weeds,” and the of course infamous recent “24″ incident, [...]

New receivers will allow you to choose channels from either one of them, with 50 channels costing $7, and 100 channels $15. To ease the concerns of the FCC that the merged company will be an entertainment monopoly, they have come up with a detailed plan to provide subscribers with more choices and lower prices [...]

With radio using file-sharing stats to develop playlists, people are able to hear music they may actually want to buy. Seemingly lost in the whole file-sharing debate is how listening to quality new music actually drives consumers to go out and make actual purchases of physical CDs and digital music. Tired of being force fed [...]