µTorrent mUI Goes Live
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 [...]
Nokia Embraces File-Sharing
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 [...]
Limewire: ‘Congress Should Make ISPs Filter Copyrighted Content’
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 send [...]
EMI Launches Pre-Paid DRM-Free Download Promotion With Burger King
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 [...]
Congress: ‘Can P2P and File-Sharing Programs Lead to a Cyber Pearl Harbor?’
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 [...]
Record Label Actually ASKS Fans to Share Its Music on the Pirate Bay
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, [...]
New Bill Mandates Anti-P2P Filters for ‘Top 25′ Piracy Schools
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 [...]
Pre-Air ‘Sarah Connor Chronicles’ Leaked to BitTorrent
“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, [...]
XM and SIRIUS to Offer A La Carte Programming
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 [...]
Does P2P Piracy Actually Help the Music Industry?
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 stodgy, [...]
