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‘Heroes’ Causes BitTorrent Boom
Two fresh episodes of the US hit series ‘Heroes’ were released Monday night. In the day that followed each episode was downloaded well over a million times by BitTorrent users all over the world, making it the busiest day ever on many torrent sites.
An example of the BitTorrent traffic boost was reported yesterday, as Mininova got 10 million downloads in a single da. A record breaking figure, in part thanks to the debut of ‘Heroes’ and several other shows. Other BitTorrent sites report a similar increase in traffic.
It’s Heroes that breaks all the records though. Our statistics show that, across all BitTorrent sites, the two episodes from Heroes’ season opening were downloaded well over a million times each - in just one day. The vast majority of the downloads come from outside the US (92%), where shows usually air weeks, months or even years later.
The show was downloaded the most in the UK (15%), where the official season opening is scheduled for October 1st. Canada, France and Australia complete the top 5. Although most TV-broadcasters won’t be happy to read these figures, one could argue that BitTorrent has actually helped TV-shows to build a stronger, broader, and more involved fanbase.
Jesse Alexander, the executive producer of ‘Heroes’ told TorrentFreak that he thinks this is indeed the case. “People watching shows such as Lost and Heroes on BitTorrent is the present world reality. TV networks have to recognize this, give their viewers more ways to interact with the shows, and find ways to generate revenue from every member of the global audience,” he said.
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Think there getting the hint yet? Two fresh episodes of the US hit series ‘Heroes’ were released Monday night. In the day that followed each episode was downloaded well... more -
European Parliament Says No to Three-Strikes Law
The European Parliament has voted in favor of an amendment that will prevent member states from implementing three-stikes laws. Disconnecting alleged file-sharers based on evidence from anti-piracy lobby groups restricts the rights and freedoms of Internet users, according to the amendment.
The power of anti-piracy lobbyists has grown significantly across Europe this year. In the UK, six major ISPs are working together with the music industry to start mass warning file-sharers. France has gone even further, and proposed a law that will enable the entertainment industry to disconnect alleged pirates on their third warning.
Both the MPAA and RIAA have pushed other countries to adopt similar legislation as well, but it will be hard for them to succeed in Europe. In April, the European Parliament spoke out against these anti-piracy measures, by saying it would be “conflicting with civil liberties and human rights and with the principles of proportionality, effectiveness and dissuasiveness”. Yesterday, this statement was backed up by an official vote.
The amendment, drafted by Guy Bono and other members of the European Parliament, was adopted by an overwhelming majority. 573 parliament members voted in favor while only 74 rejected. Satisfied with this outcome, Bono stated in a response to the vote: “You do not play with individual freedoms like that,” and said that the French government should review its three-strikes law.”
The vote was welcomed in other member states as well. Swedish EU parliamentarian Christofer Fjellner said in a comment: “What’s important about this decision is that now it’s clear that you can’t force [internet service] providers to ban people from the Internet without a legal process.”
It is scary to see how lobby groups are awarded powers that should only belong to law-enforcement agencies. Evidence should never be collectedly by parties who gather it in their own interests, and it is a relief to see that the European Parliament agrees on this. The European Parliament has voted in favor of an amendment that will prevent member states from implementing three-stikes laws. Discon... more -
Pirate Bay Wins Court Case, Italian Block Lifted
The Pirate Bay has successfully appealed the decision of an Italian judge who had ordered ISPs to block access to the popular BitTorrent tracker last month. The Court of Bergamo decided that this block was unlawful, and that Italian users should regain access to the site.
This August, out of nowhere, The Pirate Bay was “censored” in Italy following a decree from a public prosecutor. The block didn’t prove to be particularly effective, as traffic from Italy only increased. Nevertheless, The Pirate Bay was determined to reverse the decision, and in that mission they have succeeded.
The Court of Bergamo has now lifted the block, and ISPs are again allowed to grant their users access to the most frequently used BitTorrent tracker on the Internet. More details on the decision, and the reason why the block was reversed, will be made public later.
In a previous interview, Pirate Bay’s lawyers Giovanni Battista Gallus and Francesco Micozzi described the order as “‘original’ or ‘creative’ at best,” and said it should not have been ordered in the first place because of the lack of jurisdiction. In addition, they argued that The Pirate Bay is not breaking any laws since it’s not distributing copyright infringing material.
The court’s decision might set an important precedent for BitTorrent sites in Italy, especially for Colombo-BT, the largest Italian torrent site, which was shut down by the same prosecutor responsible for the Pirate Bay block. The action against Colombo-BT was orchestrated by the anti-piracy outlet IFPI, which also hijacked all Italian Pirate Bay visitors following the block.
Visitors who were blocked from The Pirate Bay were redirected to an IFPI server, instead of a server operated by the Italian government. This is again an example of how lobby groups such as the IFPI, MPAA and RIAA are treated as government institutions. Since many Pirate Bay visitors claimed their privacy was violated, the Italian Pirate Party and Altroconsumo filed a complaint with the ombudsman earlier this week. The Pirate Bay has successfully appealed the decision of an Italian judge who had ordered ISPs to block access to the popular BitTorre... more -
Trovare tutti i torrent più nascosti oggi si può
E’ inutile abbassare lo sguardo. Siamo in piena epoca internettiana dove la parola d’ordine è: condividere. Ogni giorno nuovi strumenti per il file sharing, anche se sempre più demonizzati per il loro utilizzo [...] E’ inutile abbassare lo sguardo. Siamo in piena epoca internettiana dove la parola d’ordine è: condividere. Ogni giorno nuovi strument... more
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Timbuktu, one of Swedens most famous artists, releases via ThePirateBay, legally.
Timbuktu is one of Swedens most famous artists - and we'd also like to say one of the smartest.
Today we proudly release his new single "Tack för kaffet" (Thanks for the coffee) - direct to the file sharing community straight from the source!
Spread the track, view the video and enjoy, it's a great tune and we hope that the upcoming album will be just as good!
Download: via the link above.
Timbuktu: http://www.timbuk.nu/ Timbuktu is one of Swedens most famous artists - and we'd also like to say one of the smartest. ... more -
Mininova Breaks Download Records, Thanks To Heroes New Season And The Likes....
Mininova, the most visited BitTorrent site, broke two download records today. Since its inception, the site has served 6 billion torrent downloads and today reached an all time record of more than 10 million downloads served in a single day. Has today been BitTorrent’s busiest day ever?
The BitTorrent popularity explosion is still underway, and it’s picking up speed with the start of the new TV-season. Several BitTorrent sites are now amongst the most visited sites anywhere on the web, and Mininova is believed to be the largest.
We’ve been reporting on Mininova’s download figures for a while now. In June 2007 Mininova saw its 2 billionth download. This figure has since tripled to 6 billion - an impressive figure for a site that has been around for less than four years.
Over the past months, the downloads have been growing steadily, and today, another record was broken. Over 10 million torrents were downloaded in a single day - 117.6 per second - a rate never achieved before. With many TV-shows debuting today, this has been the busiest day ever on Mininova, and probably on other BitTorrent sites as well.
While the movie and music studios are complaining loudly, TV-shows are getting the most downloads on BitTorrent. On average, half of all the BitTorrent downloads at any given point in time are TV-episodes. The availability of free-streams seems to bring this figure down a little, but only in the US.
Meanwhile, the Mininova team is focusing more on premium publishers. Last year the site launched a content distribution platform where publishers can offer their content to the millions of Mininova visitors without any charge. Mininova users can download these premium files at high speeds, and they even have the option to stream music and video.
Perhaps it’s a good idea if some of the TV publishers go talk to the Mininova team, and get an account there. We’re sure that they are welcome at their new office.
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Remember too, some producers love to have torrent on their side, including Heroes....which was for most of the hub-ub or downloads.
An old article on how they agree :)
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The Pirate Bay Tops 15 Million Peers
Today, The Pirate Bay reached a new milestone, as they now have more than 3 million registered users. On top of that, they track close to 15 million unique peers. The largest BitTorrent tracker just keeps growing and growing, and there is no sign that this will be put to a halt anytime soon. Today, The Pirate Bay reached a new milestone, as they now have more than 3 million registered users. On top of that, they track close... more
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Keep Streaming Videos, the Tubes Are Fine: Report Finds
Pay no attention to rumors that the internet is getting full: the internet can eat 50 eggs.
In fact, over the last 12 months, international net bandwidth in backbone grew 62 percent, while internet traffic grew only 53 percent and filled only 43 percent of the tubes' capacity at peak times, according to a new report released by bandwidth-monitoring firm TeleGeography.
In short, the internet's tubes are growing faster than even YouTube videos can fill them, and they're in no danger of filling up anytime soon.
That's despite the occasional Chicken Little proclamation from ISPs, pending caps on 'unlimited' internet usage and hand-wringing over peer-to-peer file sharing of movies such as Cool Hand Luke.
In the same time period -- mid-2007 to mid-2008, Latin America and South Asia both doubled the capacity of their backbones -- the net's fiber-optic equivalent of a highway system.
Wholesale prices for sending and receiving data continue to fall, and with the cheapest prices in North America and Europe, where there's still more abundant capacity, the Global Internet Geography report found.
Though the report does not mention it, the expansion of global capacity -- especially fiber-optic lines that don't hit U.S. shores -- makes it harder for the U.S. government to wiretap the net, since increasingly net traffic stays local or takes a short route that doesn't go through the U.S.
But take all of the above with a pinch of salt, since the report isn't science.
Data on the net's size, capacity and even links are difficult to come by, since almost all of the infrastructure is privately owned, and there's little incentive and few requirements to share data with governments or scientists.
Without open internet data or even data about the data, there is no science.
Telegeography says it gathers its data at internet exchange points around the globe and from surveys. As for the future, the company says to expect much of the same: "strong growth and falling prices."
The full report will run you $5,000, but Telegeography offers the executive summary (.pdf) for free http://www.telegeography.com/products/gig/samples08/gig... . Pay no attention to rumors that the internet is getting full: the internet can eat 50 eggs. ... more -
Parola d'ordine: scaricare sempre
RapidShare e MegaUpload non sono strumenti online illegali. Sono semplicemente siti che permettono di caricare online file di grandi dimensioni e condividerli in banda larga nel web, in modo riservato o in modo assolutamente pubblico [...] RapidShare e MegaUpload non sono strumenti online illegali. Sono semplicemente siti che permettono di caricare online file di grandi d... more
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Biden: Let's monitor P2P for illegal files
A prominent Senate Democrat on Wednesday said federal and local police should use custom software to monitor peer-to-peer networks for illegal activity, and he wants to spend $1 billion in tax dollars to help make that happen.
At an afternoon Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing about child exploitation on the Internet, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) said he was under the impression it's "pretty easy to pick out the person engaged in either transmitting or downloading violent scenes of rape, molestation" simply by looking at file names. He urged use of those techniques by investigators to help nab the most egregious offenders.
The software, dubbed "Operation Fairplay," was developed two years ago by Special Agent Flint Waters in the Wyoming Attorney General's Office, who, by Biden's description, is considered an expert in the field. The application is currently being used by all of the regional Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces nationwide and internationally, Waters told the panel.
Waters describes the system as a "comprehensive computer infrastructure," housed in Wyoming, that grants law enforcement officers a "big picture" of what sort of child pornography file transfers are going on across the country. It's able to help investigators conduct undercover operations involving peer-to-peer file-sharing applications, chat rooms, Web sites, and mobile telephones, Waters said.
No one's trying to demonize those technologies, Waters said. "Blaming this problem on peer-to-peer innovation is like blaming the interstate highway system when someone uses it to transport drugs," he said.
But in 2008 alone, investigators using Fairplay have "seen" more than 1,400 IP addresses tied to swapping child pornography files on at least 100 different occasions, Waters said. He didn't say how he identified what he viewed as child pornography, which can include photographs of fully-clothed teenagers taken with their parents' consent. In addition, as critiques of a 1995 law review article pointed out, trying to guess the contents of a file based on its name can be a problematic process.
Based on Waters' statements to the committee, the system appears to work like this: Investigators log onto peer-to-peer file-sharing networks as any other person would and search for files containing certain keywords that are likely to indicate child pornography is involved. Then they download the files--frequently videos, sometimes as long as 20 to 30 minutes, with names like "children kiddy underage illegal.mpg" and much more obscene--to their own machines. They're able to use the Fairplay software to obtain the IP address of the file's sender and, in some cases, display its geographic location in map form.
Once armed with an IP address and date and time of the download, investigators can subpoena the Internet service provider for more information, such as name and address of the subscriber who was assigned it at that moment. "It's not necessarily the suspect but it tells us the physical location to start," Waters said. (He didn't say whether any wiretaps were conducted to monitor ongoing file swapping.)
Investigators use the IP addresses to keep track of offenders on a "daily" basis, Waters told CNET News.com during a break at the hearing. But in about half its cases, for purposes of longer-term tracking, the software captures "unique serial numbers" from the person's computer and keeps a tally of how many allegedly illicit files that particular user is trading.
Waters provided the committee with a chart that said, for example, law enforcement had "seen" one user in Pennsylvania exchanging those files 2,792 times, one New Jersey user swapping them 1,182 times, and so on. It wasn't clear whether the so-called serial number corresponded to IP address, P2P username, or something else, and Waters wouldn't elaborate.
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Comcast Does About-Face: Declares Love for P2P
Comcast, perhaps the most aggressive opponent of file sharing after the RIAA, has seen the light. After testing P4P, an experimental file sharing architecture that reduces network costs and bandwidth usage, the company is closer to embracing file sharing on its own network.
"We are active members of [the P4P working group,] and our engineers are actively collaborating and engaging with other engineers on it. We're absolutely engaged and part of it," says Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas.
P4P, a next generation file sharing system, has garnered intense interest from ISPs -- such as AT&T, Verizon, Telefonica and Comcast -- as well as content providers. If the architecture becomes widely adopted by ISPs, it could change the face of file sharing; P4P lowers network costs for broadband providers by reducing the distance data travels on P2P applications. The upshot? File sharing won't hurt network performance. And as an added benefit, it could also increase downloading speeds for customers. The technology could be equally beneficial for content providers since it might help movie studios and music labels track legitimate media sales.
For Comcast, the adoption of P4P would be a dramatic shift in strategy. The company has made a practice of slowing down access speeds for active file sharers or so-called "bandwidth hogs." While Comcast argues that throttling is its God-given right, the FCC said otherwise -- the government agency ruled that Comcast violated federal policy when it slowed internet traffic for some subscribers.
But in July, Comcast tested the P4P protocol on its network, and saw dramatic improvements in network performance, according to Robert Levitan, CEO of Pando Networks, a content-delivery company that conducted the test for Comcast and AT&T.
In addition, the architecture increased download speeds for broadband subscribers,
The results -- though not made public yet -- "will easily blow away Verizon's results," says Levitan.
That says a lot. When Verizon tested P4P on its network in February, it saw an 80 percent decrease in the distance that P2P network traffic traveled, and the delivery speeds increased by up to 200 percent, according to Levitan. Meanwhile, a team of computer scientists are presenting those results at a conference in Seattle today.
Not only are ISPs showing the love for P4P, content providers are equally interested. The RIAA, which has made a hobby of suing little old ladies for illegal file sharing, has shown support for the technology.
Levitan says Carey Sherman, the president of the RIAA, was so impressed with the technology, he introduced Pando to several music executives. (The RIAA declined to comment.)
"The world is changing when the RIAA is introducing a P2P tech provider to music execs," says Levitan. Comcast, perhaps the most aggressive opponent of file sharing after the RIAA, has seen the light. After testing P4P, an experimental f... more -
MediaDefender Walks The Plank to Bankruptcy
MediaDefender and parent company ArtistDirect have had some serious setbacks recently. Last September they suffered a huge security breach when internal emails and a phone call were leaked to BitTorrent. They received even more bad press recently for DDoSsing Revision3. As a result, MediaDefender’s parent company stock dropped from $2.00 down to just 16 cents.
mediadefender stockMediadefender has had a rough year, and the future isn’t looking much better. Last month, MediaDefender lost one of its larger customers. The business accounted for roughly 18% of MediaDefender’s revenues.
In a recent financial statement, the company stated that there is a decrease in interest for their anti-piracy services, and that the results of their p2p-advertising model are also disappointing. This news led to further decrease in the stock price, which was sitting at an all time low of just 16 cents this Monday.
Surprisingly enough, the company structurally fails to mention the email leak and security breach, which has cost them a significant amount of money. In September 2007, disaster struck. MediaDefender had made many enemies with its anti-p2p activities. One of them decided to teach the company a lesson by hacking into their systems and leaking their internal emails and closest secrets to the Internet. The effect on the company and its operations was dramatic.
In an interview with Portfolio, the hacker (using the pseudonym ‘Ethan’) explained how things led up to the leak. Ethan, a polite high-school student who lives with his family, was on his Christmas break when he first gained access to the anti-piracy company’s servers by exploiting a weakness in their firewall. This was at the end of 2006, at a time when business was still good for Media Defender with revenue standing at nearly $16m.
Soon after that Ethan got access to the company’s email, its networked resources and even its telephone system. Logging in a handful of times each month through the summer of 2007, he started to get bored with ‘Monkey Defenders’ - his pet name for the anti-piracy outfit. Deciding to go out with a bang, he and the Media Defender-Defenders gathered thousands of the company’s internal emails and published them on web.
Last November, MediaDefender said it lost $825,000 as a result of the leaked emails, and this amount has probably gone up significantly in the months after that. Its stock price is falling, and it’s beginning to look like the company won’t recover anytime soon. The Pirate Bay wished last year that MediaDefender would go bankrupt, and by the looks of it, they might just get what they hoped for… MediaDefender and parent company ArtistDirect have had some serious setbacks recently. Last September they suffered a huge security br... more -
Swedish ISP Calls UK Plans to Fight P2P 'Amateurism'
Swedish ISPs line up to criticize recent news that copyright holders and ISPs in the UK have agreed to a joint effort to combat illegal file-sharing.
Last week I reported how the so-called "Big 6" ISPs in the UK - BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB, and Carphone Warehouse - and Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the communication industries in the United Kingdom, had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to combat piracy in that country on behalf of copyright holders like the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), who has been the most vocal on the issue.
Signatories endorse five principles in the MoU:
* That a joint industry solution is the best way forward
* That they will work together to educate consumers about why illicit file-sharing is wrong
* That making content available in a wide range of user-friendly formats is important
* That they will engage in a 3 month trial to send letters to 1,000 subscribers per week suspected of downloading or uploading unlicensed, copyrighted material
* That they will work with OfCom to identify effective measures to deal with repeat offenders
The news was immediately criticized by a number of people in both that country and abroad for the fact that it means a third party - copyright holders - with no apparent oversight will be monitoring the data transfers of an entire population.
A number of Swedish ISPs have been quick to criticize the plan and have made plain their opinions that it's a flagrant violation of customer privacy.
“We don’t want to act like police and feel that a system similar to that in the UK is a deep invasion of privacy," said Annika Kristersson of internet and telecommunications company Tele2 to the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper.
"It would entail us having to spy on our customers."
It's also observed that the plan negatively impacts the Internet subscribers for the sake of a mediocre return - that is that it's simply not a good idea to target Internet connections when it has become such a vital tool for education, communication, and more. Disconnecting users means also removing them from what has become a global town square and is a poor way to combat illegal file-sharing.
“To try to restrict connections and reduce connection speeds shows a high degree of amateurism,” said Bahnhof CEO Jon Karlung to SvD.
“Today there are so many tasks carried out over the internet.”
Once again the Swedes seem to realize the importance of privacy and the rule of law. With copyright holders being the ones reporting the IP addresses of suspected file-sharers it makes one realize that the whole scheme is based on their integrity and due diligence. Have these two terms ever been used to describe the entertainment industry?
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Green Party Calls UK P2P Fight an 'Attack On Civil Liberties'
Calls plans to target suspected file-sharers "draconian measures" and warns that ISPs will inevitably target "vulnerable people who use shared Internet connections."
Finally some UK politicians are starting to realize the folly in having ISPs target suspected file-sharers, especially when the evidence comes from the entertainment industry and NOT from independent law enforcement personnel.
With reports that some 54% of UK kids are file-sharers along with the fact that the British govt plans to reduce P2P overall by some 80% is starting to raise eyebrows. For it means that large numbers of people will face sanctions from ISPs or more. Again, all without evidence obtained from unbiased sources.
The party also argues that a healthy music industry, less dependent on corporate power, can continue to thrive without attacking people's rights to share content.
Net-users everywhere should be worried by today's Memorandum of Understanding between the BPI and the six largest ISPs in the UK. Faults exist at every level. The first stage gives the BPI the right to track file-sharers, and pass their details onto ISPs. That's an attack on civil liberties in itself - but the true folly of the scheme rests in what those ISPs can do next.
Their new powers run in two halves. Initially, they merely send warning letters to suspected file-sharers. If these fail to deter them, the ISPs threaten to to slow or cut off their internet connections. This is a hugely disproportionate response.
It wouldn't matter who had done the sharing. It wouldn't matter if it was someone else in the building. It wouldn't matter if your machine had been assaulted by malware and used without your knowledge.
The ISPs will target suspects, which means many people on shared internet connections will be cut off under these rules. These rules risk cutting many vulnerable people off from their livelihoods and their means for engaging as a citizen.
Geoff Taylor from the BPI says,'there is not an acceptable level of file-sharing. Musicians need to be paid like everyone else,' and Feargal Sharkey, spokesperson for British Music Rights, claims, 'no business can survive after losing as much revenue as the music industry has.' But the fact is that this loss of revenue results from the music industry's failure to move with the times.
Draconian measures won't stem that loss. The speed and ease of file-transfer makes it an increasingly attractive option compared to conventional shopping. It's the difference between pressing a button and going out to get the bus to the nearest music shop. If the music industry ever hopes to compete with that convenience, it needs to develop both legal and fair means of sharing files.
Record companies typically want to develop software along the lines of iTunes; a monopoly where individuals sign up and pay to legally share music. That's clearly unsatisfactory. The money collected won't find its way to musicians - the companies' typical charge against file-sharing.
The advent of mass social networking allows developing artists to promote themselves without immediate recourse to studios' PR teams, so whatever deal is produced should help sites that support independent artists, such as Magnatune, not just multinationals that distribute record industry fare.
The internet offers consumers and artists greater freedom from the strictures of corporate power. This memo attempts to stop that; its assault on file-sharing attacks consumers, while its proposals on legal filesharing seek simply to preserve the record industry's cut of musician's profits. Along the way, it makes a flagrant challenge to the liberty of internet users, which must be opposed.
It argues for legal services like iTunes, but artists still only get 10 cents from a 99 cent download. With no distribution or packaging costs who's really robbing who? It certainly isn't file-sharers. Calls plans to target suspected file-sharers "draconian measures" and warns that ISPs will inevitably target "vulnerabl... more -
AT&T tells the FCC it'll cut off wireless P2P users
It looks like the FCC's investigation into Comcast's questionable traffic management is turning up a number of interesting details, the latest of which comes from AT&T's Robert Quinn, who told FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell that, "use of a P2P file sharing application would constitute a material breach of contract for which the user's service could be terminated." Quinn was apparently quick to add, however, that AT&T hasn't yet kicked anyone off the network for using P2P. Still, Commissioner McDowell apparently intends to use AT&T's statement to argue against the FCC's forthcoming order that contends Comcast secretly downgraded P2P traffic, saying that Comcast's throttling of traffic isn't as bad as AT&T blocking it all together. The merits of that arguement aside, as TechDirt points out, given that AT&T's beef with P2P is that it makes use of "continuous (rather than bursty) transmissions at high data rates," their position does open up a number of interesting questions about streaming apps like Pandora, which are similarly data-intensive but, last we checked, still working just fine on AT&T's network. It looks like the FCC's investigation into Comcast's questionable traffic management is turning up a number of interesting d... more
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AT&T Will Cut off Wireless P2P users
AT&T is admitting that if it discovers users of its wireless broadband 3G service are making use of P2P apps, it will cut them off completely, and claims that it makes this clear in the terms of service. It hasn’t happened yet, but this bit of data will supposedly be used by a dissenting FCC commissioner this week to show that Comcast’s traffic shaping is pretty tame compared to other “rules” out there on network usage (ignoring the very different nature of the networks in question, of course). AT&T is admitting that if it discovers users of its wireless broadband 3G service are making use of P2P apps, it will cut them off... more
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Indiana Jones And The Pirates Of Doom
As I write this piece McFly are the latest band to participate in the Mail on Sunday's exclusive giveaway of their new album which boosted the paper's circulation by 300,000 copies above its non-promotional average to 2.4m copies, according to estimates.
What the release of McFly's Radio:ACTIVE CD through the paper on Sunday meant to the band's fortunes is anyone's guess. But unarguably it brought their music to a hitherto untapped audience, who might just be jogged into buying a retail album the band are planning on releasing later.
The McFly promotion was heavily anticipated as the first major current chart act to give away their music via a newspaper.
The members of McFly - Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd - set up the deal after leaving Universal and setting up a self-funded label, Super Records. As I write this piece McFly are the latest band to participate in the Mail on Sunday's exclusive giveaway of their new album whic... more -
Community Building e Intelligenza Collettiva: il Concetto di “Scenius”
“Scenius” è un termine che indica il genio collettivo espresso da una scena culturale a cui collaborano più persone, ad esempio in una comunità online.
Si tratta di un neologismo formato dalle parole genius + scene, coniato da Brian Eno per descrivere ambienti artistici e culturali in cui in ogni partecipante sembra agire l’ispirazione, la creatività, la genialità in forme spontanee.
Non vi siete mai chiesti tipo: perchè i componenti di Beatles o Velvet Underground erano molto più brillanti e creativi quando il gruppo era ancora unito? Si potrebbero fare tanti esempi, non solo musicali…
Si può parlare di Scenius come di “forma comunitaria del genio”. Oggi a mio parere l’unico scenario reale che si avvicina a questa definizione sono i network p2p.
.....continua: http://www.victorgodot.com/blog/?p=37 “Scenius” è un termine che indica il genio collettivo espresso da una scena culturale a cui collaborano più persone, ad esempio in una... more -
Indiana Gregg- Modern Day Martyr? (Or Victim of Cyber-bullying?)
Recently, I've been followying some articles about The Pirate Bay and an indie artist called indiana Gregg. It turns out that a weblog called 7threalm has been reporting on the subject.
They are calling Indiana Gregg a "Modern Day Martyr" and from what I have read, they are
joyously putting statements into Gregg's mouth.
Meanwhile, Gregg has outwardly express that she is not against file-sharing (as was published in the first article written by Torrent Freak where Gregg's blog was featured). It stands to reason that this artist simply believes that free music is great conceptually, however, she believes that musician's deserve to be compensated for their music. My opinion is that this can be done in several ways. If a site is exploiting the work of other people whilst earning millions of dollars each year (mostly by pointing to full free files of the material), it stands to reason that
the site should take part in the compensation of those file owners. Recently, I've been followying some articles about The Pirate Bay and an indie artist called indiana Gregg. It turns out that a ... more -
Anti-piracy: New European regulations
"..Skype or even Firefox might be declared illegal in Europe if they are not certified by an administrative authority"
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