BitLet Lets You Download Torrents Without a Client
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 to [...]
BergmanBits – A BitTorrent Tribute to the Late Ingmar Bergman
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 [...]
Anti-Piracy Propoganda Videos Guaranteed to Make You Laugh
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 this [...]
RIAA: ‘Lawsuits Can’t be the Only Solution to Piracy’
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 not [...]
Senator Drops Campus P2P Filter Mandate
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 [...]
Microsoft Finally Embraces BitTorrent
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. [...]
RIAA War With Webcasters Really a War on Indie Artists and Labels?
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 from [...]
VIDEO: NBC Wants the FCC to Regulate P2P
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 new [...]
U of Kansas Won’t GIve up File-Sharing Students to the RIAA
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 [...]
The Simspons: ‘Please Don’t Download This Movie Illegally’
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 [...]
