BitTorrent, Orb Partnership Makes Downloads Available on Any Internet-Capable Device
Orb’s media center application now streams BitTorrent downloads and online content to any other Internet-connected device like an iPhone, TV, or game console.
BitTorrent Inc and Orb Networks have announced a partnership to enable BitTorrent downloads to be accessible on any Internet-connected device. Together they hope to deliver faster, easier, anywhere, [...]
Canada – High Profile Resignation Could Stall Copyright Bill
Late tonight comes reports that Maxime Bernier, now former minister of international affairs and the minister who previously took charge in the copyright reform bill has now resigned. The political fallout may put copyright reform on hold while the governing party swings into further damage control.
Jim Prentice is currently the minister in charge of [...]
Canada – Net Neutrality Rally Expected on Parliament Hill
There’s no shortage of coverage on the Bell Canada case. Now Canadians are planning on a huge network neutrality rally on the grounds of parliament hill.
Network neutrality in the last few months has stormed its way into the headlines. While the issue has already gone from the headlines to demands with the CRTC, [...]
US Proposes ‘Pirate Bay Killer’ Trade Agreement
If adopted, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) treaty would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime imposing new cooperation requirements upon ISPs, including perfunctory disclosure of customer information, as well as measures restricting the use of online privacy tools.
The US is proposing a multi-lateral intellectual property trade agreement proposal called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement [...]
The Pirate Bay Enters Top 100 Websites
The Sweden-based BitTorrent tracker site celebrates as cracks the top 100 of the world’s most visited websites.
The Pirate Bay, one of the internet’s leading bittorrent sites, has reached a new milestone by becoming one of the world’s top 100 visited websites, according to data from click-tracking specialist Alexa.
Though the site [...]
Napster Comes Full Circle, Launches DRM-Free MP3 Store
Takes on Apple’s iTunes with the 6 million tracks of its own and in a format that provides far more convenience, portability, and functionality.
It’s still fascinating to consider that the RIAA could have literally nipped the file-sharing problem in the bud almost a decade ago by embracing Naspter and digital music distribution back in [...]
Zedge 3.0 Launches
Site lets you "Free Your Phone" by allowing you to create customized ringtones, wallpapers, screensavers, and themes.
I can’t say that I’m big into trickin’ out my phone, but if I was then Zedge is where I’d go, joining the 9 million other users the site now boasts.
It allows users to create customized ringtones, wallpapers, screensavers, [...]
STUDY: Cox Communications Also Throttling BitTorrent
Even interferes with BitTorrent traffic during mornings and weekends that are not usually “peak congestion” hours, meaning is probably more about permanently reclaiming bandwidth than simple network traffic management.
The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems recently released a study showing that another ISP, Cox Communications, routinely blocks or throttles BitTorrent traffic [...]
BREIN to Mininova: Filter Copyrighted Content or Face Legal Action
The Dutch anti-piracy organization warns the BitTorrent tracker site that it must “take effective measures to prevent it and if they can not then it must stop. ”
The BREIN foundation, a joint Dutch anti-piracy program of authors, artists and producers of music, film, and interactive software in the fight against Intellectual Property theft, [...]
Michael Jackson Sues The Pirate Bay
The "Prince of Pop" joins the list of artists claiming damages from the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site.
Michael Jackson and has apparently decided to join a list of artists suing The Pirate Bay for $100 million in damages they say have been caused by the BitTorrent tracker site’s "facilitation of copyright infringement."
"The list of artists [...]
