Last month, a report on the use of CCTV was published in Washington Post. It seems as though there is a spreading of CCTV cameras throughout North America, so ZeroPaid spoke to the Open Rights Group for their interpretation of the CCTV camera. The generic security camera has been around for years now. The private [...]

College basketball fans get treated to free LIVE video streaming of this season’s tournament games courtesy of CBS Sports TV. It’s that time of year again as the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship begins to rev up and college hoops fans across the country begin rooting for their favorite team. Held each Spring, the [...]

Popular BitTorrent tracker site begins Beta testing new feature that will allow visitors to watch videos streamed for torrent trackers. A new posting on Mininova’s, the popular BitTorrent tracker site, blog, announces the Beta testing of an incredibly new and exciting feature will allow users of the site to stream video almost immediately using the [...]

Seeks compensation for the harm caused by interference with its internet gambling operations by the United States. The tiny West Indies nation of Antigua is threatening to take a dispute with the United States to new heights unless it sees its grievances properly addressed and losses compensated for. The case apparently dates back to 2003 [...]

Follows in the XBOX360′s steps by beginning to allow users to acquire content online. The next update of Sony’s PS3, slated for later this month, will include features that let users download games, video and even ring tones of all things. Sony said yesterday that the system update will add Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0, or [...]

A major update to the Miro software has occurred this evening. The open sourced democratic TV software has upgraded to 1.2 which features many upgrades and bug fixes. “We’ve just released a major update to Miro, version 1.2″ The announcement says, “This version adds lots of tweaks and bug fixes that make Miro smoother and [...]

Will be the first time a North American broadcaster tells the audience to “download, share, and burn to your heart’s desire” a TV show using P2P. Things are getting interesting up North and I’m not talking about the latest in Hockey news. For years we’ve heard about how P2P and file-sharing services – BitTorrent in [...]

San Fransisco-based No Starch Press has started experimenting with giving away their books for free on BitTorrent via The Pirate Bay. San Fransisco-based book publisher No Starch Press, which proclaims to publish only the “finest in geek entertainment,” has announced in a new blog posting that it’s “giving books away” for free on BitTorrent. Today [...]

Guide on how to overcome BitTorrent traffic shaping by Comcast and other ISPs. With more and more BitTorrent users being negatively affected by overly aggressive traffic shaping on Comcast and other ISP networks it’s become increasingly necessary for some to find a workaround for the problem in order to share data with others. There’s really [...]

Former P2P file-sharing program outlaw goes legit and offers DRM-free MP3s for between 30 and 99 cents depending on chosen subscription plan. LimeWire has just launched a public Beta of their online music store. Currently only available to customers in the US, the LimeWire Store is reported to have a music catalog of some 500,000 [...]

Offers $20 USD tax on iPods and iPhones to be divided by record labels based on their market share. According to a recent report in the Financial Times, Apple has been talking with the Big 4 record labels about offering an unlimited download model to customers of its popular iTunes digital music store. Citing people [...]

Last week, we briefly covered the Phorm controversy facing British uses. This week, the controversy continues with other players jumping in on the action. Imagine a time when every site you go to was remotely monitored. The data from every site visited was intercepted by an entity who, on the official side of things, has [...]

Praises new technology like P2P and file-sharing services as just another tool to reach fans and connect with his audience. There’s a up coming new rap star named Flo Rida, a play on words of his home state Florida, who recently gave an interview with tech site CNet about his stance on P2P and file-sharing [...]

A new report has surfaced that says that the racketeering lawsuit against the RIAA has been amended. The lawsuit is said to have been filed on behalf of thousands of people falsely litigated for violating copyright law over the internet via file-sharing networks. The lawsuit (PDF – hosted by Wired) says, “The world’s four major [...]

As unrest spreads to other provinces, communist authorities begin a major crackdown to prevent it from marring the upcoming Summer Olympics in Beijing. Since Monday of last week the world has heard and watched as the Tibetan people have marched in protest of what his Holiness the Dalai Lama himself has termed “cultural genocide.” Now [...]

Continues disturbing trend of ISPs agreeing to terminate the connections of customers who ignore warnings to cease illegal file-sharing activity. It’s quickly and quietly becoming the year that ISPs around the world have decided to become the world’s copyright cops. It began in France almost four months ago with an agreement between ISPs, copyright holders, [...]

A pre-release copy of the hit duos upcoming album winds up on the The Pirate Bay well before its official April 8th release date. I don’t usually talk about leaked pre-release albums for there are so many it would be impossible to cover them all. But, in the case of Gnarls Barkley I’ve opted to [...]

Unlike Comcast, realizes that P2P is the future of media distribution and that it better figure out to make its network run more efficiently or risk falling behind. Verizon Communications has announced that they will work to improve P2P file-sharing networks and traffic, to make things run more efficiently, and to eat up less of [...]

Digital rights activists pages have lit up over the week this week over just about anything to do with civil liberties online. The issues at hand deal with privacy, throttling, network neutrality and even censorship. It’s no surprise that when even one of these items of concern surfaces, the issue becomes a major topic for [...]

Downloading, storing, and streaming media files just got a whole lot easier. Helios has updated the software of its Odyssey Media Hub to support Bittorrent AND eMule clients. The Helios Oddyssey allows you to store all of your personal files in one central location. As a standalone NAS (network attached storage) and with a potential [...]