Quick, and easy guide to automating your TV show downloads. Some of you no doubt already have a system in place for automatically downloading your favorite weekly TV shows, but Miro arguably simplifies the process enough to make even the most die-hard among us become converts. It’s fairly easy to set up and provides provides [...]

Season 4 Episode 1, "Adrift," winds up in the hands of pirates everywhere. I don’t know how many of you out there are fans of the Sci-Fi channel’s "Stargate Atlantis," but a screener of the first episode from the upcoming fourth season has found its way onto BitTorrent tracker sites. The new season isn’t expected [...]

Forget the “blue screen of death,” users running bootleg copies of Windows Vista are soon to get screens to total darkness. Never one to take piracy lying down, Microsoft apparently sent an e-mail to a large Windows Vista distributor telling them point blank what will happen to bootleg Vista installations. Titled “Pirated Vista — A [...]

Paves the way for a more simplified digital music buying experience in which one can purchase music tracks while sipping a cup of coffee and reading the daily paper. Apple and Starbucks have announced a new partnership that lets customers wirelessly browse, search for, preview, buy and download music from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store [...]

Handsets search for other phone handsets when a cellular tower is unavailable. In an exciting new twist for P2P possibilities, Swedish company TerraNet has created mobile phone handsets that can work without the need for any cell phone towers at all. TerraNet technology works by using modified handsets adapted to work as peers or nodes [...]

Here’s today’s daily dose of humor. Every once in a while I come across some hilarious anti-piracy clips and other tech related videos. I mean who can forget “Don’t Copy that Floppy” or ‘Glimpse of the Future’ – The Internet Circa 1994?” Well, here’s a funny new video I came across that takes anti-piracy enforcement [...]

Angry that pirating is so easy, industry reps met to come up with solutions. The MPAA and RIAA have been upset for years that their content has wound up on P2P and file-sharing networks everywhere, and their efforts to tackle it are common knowledge. But, despite similar discontent by the Porn Industry Producers they have [...]

Music industry tries a new trick to rescue its flatlining CD sales. In a new twist to efforts to revitalize slumping physical CD sales, the music industry is rolling out the “ringle,” which combines the old-school single format with ringtones. Each “ringle,” as it’s being referred to, is expected to contain 3 tracks to include [...]

So much for so-called “unlimited” internet service. In the continuing proxy war against illegal downloading, it seems as though ISPs are increasingly flexing their muscle as internet gatekeeper. The MPAA, the RIAA, and even some file-sharing companies have all asked Congress to mandate that ISPs monitor their networks for illegal-sharing of copyrighted content and to [...]

Apple fanboys everywhere rejoice. Several days ago at an Apple gathering in San Fransisico, a number of new Apple products and services were announced. Included in the news was the stunning proclamation that it was immediately dropping the price of its 8GB iPhone by $200, from $599 to $399. Many, if not most, of the [...]

Old school rocker talks about how music execs use to be willing to take chance on new and unknown music artists. I can’t say that I’ve ever been a big Frank Zappa fan, but he certainly makes some good points in an in interview he did on “The Cutting Edge.” He talks about how record [...]

With no legal online download services available, illegal file-sharing is often their only option. There’s an interesting article expected to be published in a forthcoming issue of Windows Middle East magazine that argues that film licensing restrictions have made illegal file-sharing in the Middle East the only real option with which to acquire movies online. [...]

Has a sleek new appearance like the iPhone and is w-fi capable to boot. Today at San Francisco’s Moscone center Steve Jobs made several new Apple announcements that as usual were met with excitement and jubilation from a packed crowd of Apple fanboys. But, I must admit even I was truly amazed at what was [...]

Follows it much publicized dispute with iTunes and subsequent decision by Apple to stop selling NBC TV shows for the upcoming Fall TV season, but will it work? I mentioned last week how the dispute between NBC Universal and Apple over lack of pricing control, piracy protection, and inability to bundle videos to increase revenue [...]

The genius behind “Blade Runner” and “Alien” warns that new technology is killing off the big-screen experience. I mentioned last month how Sir Elton John railed against the evils of the internet and for which he held responsible for “destroying good music” and stopping “…people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff.” [...]

Claims is part of an effort to listen to customers complaining about high CD prices, but CRIA blames piracy. HMV Canada announced last Thursday that effective immediately it has decided to to slash CD prices by an average 20%, with “…with some titles reduced as much as 33 per cent.” According to them this means [...]

21 track album offers the culmination of countless hours of blood, sweat, and tears from NIN fans. It’s just been announced that Nine Inch Nail’s months long deliberation to sort through some 200 fan submitted NIN remixes has been completed, and that a stunning 21 track album titled ‘Limitless Potential’ is now available for fans [...]

After success in getting legislation passed in Canada, Italy, Japan, and the US, sets its sights on the UK. Today MPAA head Dan Glickman is scheduled to meet with various government officials in the United Kingdom to discuss efforts to persuade them to introduce anti-piracy legislation that would make illegal movie camcording a criminal rather [...]

Forget illegal “file-sharing,” as it wages an all out war on “idea-sharing” from South Korean cinema that has already taken the rest of East Asia by storm. In an article posted last month on Radio Free Asia, it seems that North Korea, the Hermit Kingdom as it’s referred to for good reason, has decided to [...]