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Help Key: How to download off Usenet like a champ
via CrunchGear by Nicholas Deleon on February 26, 2008
If and when the **AA have Usenet shut down after the piece appears, feel free to blame Biggs. He’s making me write it.I occasionally mention Usenet when talking about piracy here, but I’ve never really explained what it is or what it does. I’m still not going to explain what it is, technically, (that’s what Wikipedia’s for), but I will put it in layman’s terms. Think of Usenet as a...
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Nine Inch Nails Releases Album Via BitTorrent
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on March 02, 2008
It's getting trendy these for top-tier musical artists to buck the music labels and release their albums as free or cheap downloads via the Internet or some other means. The latest to do so is Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails, which today uploaded part one of its new four part album Ghosts I-IV to BitTorrent sites (you can grab it here). The free piece encompasses the first 9 tracks of...
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First Look at Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" Beta [Screenshot Tour]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on March 23, 2008
... Heron," is more a compilation of stable-ish features and proven apps than a showcase for the latest and greatest in Linux technology. But for those seeking a usable, steady system in which to get things done, that's a real killer app in itself. Follow through the jump to see what's new, and what just works (and doesn't) in Hardy Heron.If there's one area where the latest version...
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Torrent2Exe Turns BitTorrent Links into Double-Click Downloads [BitTorrent]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 13, 2008
Windows only: Want to direct your non-Torrent-savvy friends or relatives to a download they really need to check out? Free web utility Torrent2Exe takes torrent download links—the kind you'd normally pass to your favorite BitTorrent client—and creates tiny .exe programs that do all the download work for whoever double-clicks them. You can also grab a link to post on your own site (or...
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Netflix Roku: Free Is Such A Beautiful Word
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 19, 2008
Netflix made a big splash today with their announcement of a $100 set top box, built by a California startup called Roku, that streams free movies (for Netflix subscribers) to the living room.Good for them. Instead of wading into a losing battle over cheap downloads and rentals (see Vudu, BlockBuster, AppleTV, Google, etc., which charge for each movie), they jump right to free. They know what the...
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Is Comcast really blocking P2P? EFF + SF Weekly conclude: yeah.
via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin on January 23, 2008
David Downs of the SF Weekly invited Electronic Frontier Foundation spokeshacker Peter Eckersly into his home to test claims that Comcast is blocking BitTorrent files:Eckersley's BitTorrent controller flickers for a second, showing that his computer is "seeding" our file to the Melbourne computer. Then everything stops. The transmission fails, and to an untrained eye, the problem appears to...
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Top 10 BitTorrent Tools and Tricks [Lifehacker Top 10]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on January 29, 2008
BitTorrent is the go-to resource for downloading everything from music and movies to software and operating systems, but as its popularity continues to grow, so do the number of tools available for...
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The Pirate Bay: Is it illegal to point?
via mathewingram.com|work by Mathew on January 30, 2008
In one of the least-surprising legal moves in recent memory, Swedish authorities have laid charges against The Pirate Bay, one of the largest trackers of BitTorrent downloads in the world (it recently passed the 10 million peers mark), on behalf of several movie studios and record labels. This isn’t surprising for a number of reasons. For one thing, the Swedish authorities have said several...
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Living In The Dark: How BitTorrent Admins Hide From MPAA/RIAA
via Mashable! by Stan Schroeder on February 05, 2008
One of my absolutely favorite fresh blogs on the internet is TorrentFreak. These folks write about issues such as piracy, legality of torrents and freedom of communication on the internet with consistence and authority, and I read them religiously. Their latest article is a very interesting insight into the daily online activities of an admin of a BitTorrent tracker; the article goes through all...
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TorrentFreedom Offers 100% Anonymous and Unrestricted BitTorrent (Enigmax/TorrentFreak)
via Techmeme by (author unknown) on February 07, 2008
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:TorrentFreedom Offers 100% Anonymous and Unrestricted BitTorrent — With a militant style more associated with the crew of The Pirate Bay, TorrentFreedom promises to put the user back in control, by offering a new BitTorrent-optimized, zero-logging, 100% anonymous VPN service, guaranteed to punch a hole through throttling ISPs.
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