CNet have written up a nice article summing up why it is possible that the "Net Neutrality" that is being contested and debated all over the place, may not be the answer to ISPs actively...
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Much like it did earlier this year with "The Daily Show" MTV have announced that they have plans to put the entire back catalogue of the immaturely hilarious cartoon comedy, South Park,...
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The Pirate Bay, legendary torrent site, has updated it's interface for Music torrents to something really rather smart. The new system, shown in the image of amy winehouse's profile below, is...
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Filed in archive DRM
by Jordan Grodecki on November 29, 2007
In a somewhat over-dramatic story, The Edge of I-Hacked is reporting on the problems customers are facing regarding the torrent blocking action that is occurring on their Comcast telephone lines. The...
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France has decided, with it's new thatcher style administration, that it will be banning people from the internet, should they be caught 3 times pirating material. Getting banned from the...
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EMI, one of the big corporations in the music industry, has announced that it is reconsidering quite how much it should be contributing to organizations like the RIAA, the ones who are trying to...
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Filed in archive Stats
by Jordan Grodecki on November 28, 2007
In a nice new study, Ipoque, an internet provider and data analyzer, has concluded that a rather large percentage of people over the world use p2p. Nothing new there, but the hard percentages behind...
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Bittorrent giants, The pirate bay, have given up their idea of reviving private torrent site OiNK in a public fashion, and have instead decided to focus on revamping their music section to be more...
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Not content with threatening a load of students with massive fines right before their exams, the MPAA have come up with a new idea to try and cut piracy on campus, by installing a rootki-, whoops,...
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Filed in archive DRM
by Jordan Grodecki on November 22, 2007
MacNN are reporting that many UK high-street shops claim that DRM is ruining the development of digital distribution, while also harming sales. Many customers are put off by the DRM that is placed...
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The RIAA has launched yet another set of lawsuit onto university students across the US. Obviously they are being "kind" and offering the students a reduced rate for the file sharing that...
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Filed in archive Abuse
by Jordan Grodecki on November 21, 2007
...of course, it didn't cost the people $1,000,000 to get the leaked files...it cost MediaDefender that much in legal and other damages related to the leak. Apparently they had to refund their 4...
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Filed in archive Fun
by Jordan Grodecki on November 21, 2007
radiohead on crack you say? That would be an interesting story for a p2p weblog to cover, but obviously, this is in relation to the "crazy" distribution method where fan's paid what they...
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Upcoming documentary on the P2P scene, Steal This Film II (the original was about The Pirate Bay's raids), has been leaked to Bittorrent, before it has hit the cinema screens. It has been...
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The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) have just basically admitted that they are no longer trying to target those who pirate things for personal use. Christmas Hilaire, a spokesperson for the RCMP,...
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NBC, broadcasters in the USA of such popular primetime shows as Heroes, The bionic woman, and the fantastic Scrubs, have just launched their software that enables users to download, free of charge,...
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What.cd, one of the various "replacements" that have sprung up since OiNK's rather dramatic closure has most definitely had it's fair share of problems, multiple hackings of the...
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Demonoid, one of the largest semi-private torrent trackers in the world, has been taken offline. This has happened a couple of times before, but a plan to bring the site back up has always been in...
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by Jordan Grodecki on November 07, 2007
radiohead took a risk with their distribution method for In Rainbows, their latest record; they let you, the buyer choose how much you wanted to pay, or, not pay, as the case may be. The data comes...
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...or so say the Canadian Government! A study commissioned by Industry Canada has revealed that apparently, the more songs downloaded and uploaded there are, the more CDs are bought! This completely...
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