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Limewire wants to give record labels a cut of its ad revenue
via P2P Blog by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Limewire CEO George Searle announced an ambitious plan to pay rights holders at the P2P Media Summit in Los Angeles last week. His company plans to split the revenue of its upcoming contextual advertising platform with record companies. Labels will get as much as 40 percent of the money Limewire is going to make with Google Adsene-type ads.fanmedia 1Limewire has been working on integrating...
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Scatter: Encrypted P2P backup goes open source
via P2P Blog by (author unknown) on January 22, 2008
The cross-platform P2P backup system Scatter has decided to go open source. From their website:" We think that we can develop a better product through the open process instead of limiting ourselves to a few internal programmers. But that means that we need you to help make this peer-to-peer (p2p) backup framework exactly what it both sho
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RIAA statements about filtering laws at odds with IFPI policy
via P2P Blog by (author unknown) on January 30, 2008
CNet New is reporting that RIAA president Cary Sherman has said his organization isn't interested in goverment-mandated copyright filters on the ISP level. CNet news quotes Sherman with the words:"I don't think anyone here is trying to re-legislate this issue. We're much more interested in finding a marketplace way of going about this."Sherman's remarks came in response to a...
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Egypt to file sharers: Please pause your Bittorrent downloads while we repair those cables
via P2P Blog by (author unknown) on January 31, 2008
AFP is reporting that the Egyptian telecommunications ministry has asked its citizens to pause their MP3 and movie downloads until the country's Internet conectivity is back to normal. A damage to an untersea cable has caused disruptions for Internet users in the Middle East this week. Traffic is now being routed through a backup cable, but its capacity apparently isn't high enough to...
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Artist uploads latest album to What.cd, blames music industry for piracy
via P2P Blog by (author unknown) on February 02, 2008
... then continues:"If you can read this, then you've more than likely downloaded this album from a peer to peer network or torrent. You probably expect the rest of this message to tell you that you're hurting musicians and breaking just about every copyright law in the book. Well, it won't tell you that."Instead, Jordan emphasizes with downloaders, asking why anybody would bother to ...
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AMD gives Isohunt new quad-core processor for beta-testing
via P2P Blog by (author unknown) on February 04, 2008
The Isohunt admins have announced in their forum that they have received two Opteron 2352 CPUs from AMD for beta-testing purposes. The quad-core processors that aren't available for sale yet are now powering Isohunt's primary database server. From the site:"We ran all of our web traffic for about 20 minutes earlier today on those CPUs without any issue, so they're certainly...
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Share files with Twitter via Twittershare
via P2P Blog by (author unknown) on February 06, 2008
Digg founder Kevin Rose has been trying to capture part of the Twitter crowd with his social messaging and file sharing service Pownce, but Pownce hasn't really been able to make headways. Pownce has been getting some props for its file sharing features, but now file sharing is coming to Twitter: The web developers from Phoreo.com just unveiled Twittershare - a mashup that combines free file...
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Wortharchiving: Another site for legal torrents
via P2P Blog by (author unknown) on February 09, 2008
The number of sites offering legal torrents seems to be growing and growing: Recently launched Wortharchiving.com aims to archive public domain movies, federal documents and other files that aren't tied up by traditional copyright restrictions. worth archivingFrom the site:"We enjoy archiving legal torrents for movie downloads with expired copyrights, and With the help of our users, we...
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The Pirate Bay: ISP blocking increased our user base
via P2P Blog by (author unknown) on February 09, 2008
... block, but the Pirate Bay admins seem to think that most people figured out a way to get around the obstacle on their own already. From the Pirate Bay court blog:"Our site http://thejesperbay.org is growing more because of the media attention than people actually coming to learn how to bypass the filter - our guess is that alot of the users on the site now run OpenDNS instead of the censoring ...
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Sharereactor admin found guilty
via P2P Blog by (author unknown) on February 12, 2008
A Swiss court has finally ruled in the case against the admin and owner of the once popular Edonkey link site Sharereactor.com four years after the site got shut down by local authorities. The district court of Frauenburg found the admin, who used the pseudonym Simon Moon online, guilty of copyright infringement and ruled that he has to pay a total of 4700 Swiss francs, which is about 4250 US...
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