“Share Links” – P2P Revolution or Small Metamorphic P2P Evolution?
There was an interesting posting by DCInteractive which discusses the movement on file-hosting and comparing it to popular file-sharing medium BitTorrent. Is it all hype or is it really a revolution? Drew Wilson provides a personal commentary on the subject.
To provide an extremely brief summary of my experience, I’ve been writing news for [...]
BitTorrent Democratic TV App Miro Upgrades to Version 1.2
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 [...]
EFF Takes on the RIAA in File-sharing Case
It has happened and it will be taking place tomorrow in court. The EFF yesterday announced that they will be challenging the RIAAs ‘Making Available’ theory in court.
Can the Recording Industry Association of America sue someone for having a song in a shared directory or share point? That’s what the RIAA is hoping [...]
Report – Some Video iPods Incompatible With iTunes Video Rentals
A report on Wired says that some iPods are not compatible with the iTunes video rental store. Not good news for fifth generation iPod owners planning on using the service.
“We just have to make [piracy] as difficult and as tedious as possible,” Dan Glickman, Motion Picture Association of America said during an interview on [...]
Copy Music and Movies From Any iPod to Your Computer
It’s easy enough to get all your music and movies onto your iPod, but have you ever tried to get them off? It’s nearly impossible, and IS impossible using iTunes. You will have to use a third party application like Podmaxx.
Podmaxx lets you copy music from ANY iPod to your computer without hassle. Not only [...]
Studies – Music Sales: Canada Up, USA Down
Earlier this week, ZeroPaid reported that a Nielson Soundscan report suggests that physical music sales were down 21% in the Christmas of 2007.
Just north of the forty ninth parallel, Canada has much more relaxed copyright laws. If the copyright laws in the US are strict and music sales are down, would that [...]
3 quick ways to watch TV shows for FREE
First in a series of ZP “How To” guides that will teach you how to find TV programming to watch on-demand or via BitTorrent download so that you can watch your favorite TV shows whenever you like.
With the ever increasing amount of TV shows available to watch on TV, it has become even tougher [...]
FREE BITTORENT DOWNLOAD of the DAY – SXSW’s Austin, TX Local Music Artists Roundup
It’s 3 GB of 739 MP3 track listening pleasure, and well worth grabbing.
I come across a lot of cool FREE and LEGAL BitTorrent downloads each day, and so I figured that I’d start sharing some of the cooler stuff that I find with you so that you may download it as well.
Sure everybody loves [...]
Amazon’s custom DVDs get download option
Movie studios and TV networks that sell made-on-demand DVDs through Amazon.com’s CustomFlix subsidiary will soon be able to offer digital downloads.
The downloads will be offered through Amazon’s new video download service, Unbox, and should be available in early 2007, the company said.
CustomFlix Labs Inc. produces licensed DVDs only when a customer [...]
Free, new video content on BitTorrent
BitTorrent recently launched a new site redesign. But beyond just redesigning their site, it looks like they are starting to feature new, fresh and free video content for download. Last week they were featuring an exclusive video from Death Cab For Cutie.
Today they have video for download of Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy [...]
