It is mathematically elegant, ironic, and satisfying that a civil disobedience movement of today is used to free a civil disobedience movement of the past. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE SQUARED: CIVIL RIGHTS...
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by Marc on January 26, 2005
BELLSTER: P2P TO SHARE YOUR LOCAL PHONE connectionEnables free connection from a caller with VoIP via a fellow Bellster member to a call recipient on the regular phone network. I love Jeff Pulver and...
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by Marc on January 24, 2005
MERCORA RECEIVES $5M EQUITY FOR P2P RADIO: Red Herring, TJ's weblog It's always good to see continued VC attention in digital entertainment technology. It's a risky strategy to found a...
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by Marc on January 17, 2005
digital media consultant Todd Beals presents the Best of 2004 - his collection of top articles and conference reports. (Note - these PDF files can be up to 1MB in size). You can subscribe to his...
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by Marc on January 17, 2005
The FTC File Sharing Conference ended a month ago. Your intrepid insider is finally writing about it now. Why the delay? There were two things that I thought were left unsaid at the conference. So I...
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by Marc on January 14, 2005
The news this week is Altnet's patent infringement letter to P2P developers, including me. See below for excerpt. Some coverage and responses in P2Pnet - 1, 2, 3, 4. TIMELINE: Altnet claims it...
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by Marc on January 08, 2005
It's disappointing when research groups play fast and loose with words and numbers. The title of the Parks Associates piece calls P2P use piracy. This is inaccurate and misleading as the article...
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The following may appear to have nothing to do with P2P. But it does. There is a growing sense of entitlement, self-protection, and amnesia in this country ... and in the entertainment industry. A...
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by Marc on January 05, 2005
Vigilantism sinks to a new low with ads and spyware from Overpeer, a unit of Loudeye. PC World did nice sleuthing to trace harmful files to Overpeer in the article "Risk Your PC's Health for...
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by Marc on January 05, 2005
There's been a growing industry in ecommerce offer bounties financing "free" giveaways, such as PCs and iPods. These offers typically require you to join mailing lists plus enlist a...
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