This Month's Top 10 Design Software Titles

Grok Headline matches for This Month's Top 10 Design Software Titles

This Month's Top 10 Software Titles

This Month's Top 10 Software Titles 05/26/2004 04:48 PM
Windows XP Professional (Full Product) Nero 6 Ultra Edition CD/DVD Burning Suite (Full Product) Windows XP Home Edition (Full Product) Half-Life 2 (Full Product, PC) City of Heroes (Full Product, PC) Windows XP Professional (Academic Upgrade) Office 2003 Pro (Full Product) QUICKBOOKS PRO EDITION 2004 (Full Product) PC-CILLIN 2004 INTERNET SECURITY (Full Product) Norton AntiVirus 2004 (Full Product)

This Month's Top 10 Communications
Titles

This Month's Top 10 Communications
Titles 05/26/2004 04:48 PM
WinFax PRO 10.02 (Full Product) Outlook 2003 (Full Product) PaperPort Deluxe 9 (Full Product) Procomm Plus 32 V4.8 Single 1-Doc OmniPage Pro Office V. 14 (Full Product) Exchange Svr 2003 (5 CAL) Backup Exec Windows Server Ver. 9.1 (Full Product) Backup Exec Windows 9.1 SBS Standard Edition (Full Product) OmniPage Pro 14 (Upgrade) Lotus Organizer 6.1 (Media)

This Month's Top 10 Programming &
Development Titles

This Month's Top 10 Programming &
Development Titles 05/26/2004 04:48 PM
Dreamweaver MX 2004 Commercial (Full Product, PC, Mac) Visual Studio .NET Pro 2003 (Full Product) Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Academic, PC/Mac) ACAD Studio MX 2004 w/Flash Pro (Full Product) Visio Pro 2003 (Full Product) Visual Basic .Net Standard 2003 (Full Product) Dreamweaver MX 2004 Commercial (Upgrade) Visual Basic Professional ED 6.0 w/Plus Pack 95/98/WME/NT/W2K iLife ?04 (Full Product)

This Month's Top 10 Business
Productivity Titles

This Month's Top 10 Business
Productivity Titles 05/26/2004 04:48 PM
Office 2003 Pro (Full Product) QUICKBOOKS PRO EDITION 2004 (Full Product) Office XP Professional (Full Product) Office Pro 2003 (Acad) Office Basic Edition 2003 - 3 Pack OEM (Media Only) Office XP Standard (Full Product) Quicken 2004 Deluxe (Full Product) MSDN Universal 7.0 Subscription (License Only) Works Suite 2004 (Full Product) QuickBooks: Basic 2004 (Full Product, PC)

This Month's Top 10 Reference &
Education Titles

This Month's Top 10 Reference &
Education Titles 05/26/2004 04:48 PM
MapPoint 2004 (Full Product) Streets & Trips 2004 (Full Product) Endnote 7 Student Windows American Heritage Talking Dictionary 5.0 (OEM) Office 2003 (ACAD) Encarta Reference Library 2004 DVD (Full Product) Mathcad 2001 I Professional (Full Product) EndNote 7.0 (Full Product) Topo USA 4.0 (Full Product) Rand McNally StreetFinder & TripMaker Deluxe Suite (Full Product)

This Month's Top 10 Software Utilities

This Month's Top 10 Software Utilities 05/26/2004 04:48 PM
Nero 6 Ultra Edition CD/DVD Burning Suite (Full Product) PC-CILLIN 2004 INTERNET SECURITY (Full Product) Norton AntiVirus 2004 (Full Product) Norton Internet Security 2004 (Full Product) Norton Ghost 2003 (Full Product) pcAnywhere 11.0 (Full Product) Norton SystemWorks 2003 Professional Edition Norton SystemWorks PRO 2004 (Full Product) Norton AntiVirus 2004 Pro (Full Product) Easy Media Creator 7 (Full Product)

Courtesy titles and webform design
recommendations

Courtesy titles and webform design
recommendations 11/17/2002 04:25 AM
Courtesy Titles. Their use, misuse and guidelines for flexible international website design

Two worthy software titles survive
despite Microsoft

Two worthy software titles survive
despite Microsoft 05/09/2004 12:56 PM

Design Intuition 1.3: 3-D CAD Software
Makes Woodworking And Design Projects
Easy

Design Intuition 1.3: 3-D CAD Software
Makes Woodworking And Design Projects
Easy 09/14/2004 10:45 AM
Design Intuition 1.3 is easy and fun, as well as a great value. I recommend it for woodworkers, cabinetmakers, and kitchen designers. By Greg Miller, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Six Complete Microsoft Software Titles
in One Make It Easier for Households to
Get More Done

Six Complete Microsoft Software Titles
in One Make It Easier for Households to
Get More Done 09/23/2004 10:32 AM
Nearly half of all Americans say they turn to the PC to achieve personal goals such as getting more organized and being more productive.1 To help transform those goals into reality, Microsoft Corp. today announced the latest version of its home productivity software, Microsoft® Works Suite 2005, which offers six popular software titles in one affordable package.

New Works Suite 2005: Six Complete
Microsoft Software Titles in One Make It
Easier for Households to Get More Done

New Works Suite 2005: Six Complete
Microsoft Software Titles in One Make It
Easier for Households to Get More Done 09/23/2004 10:32 AM
Nearly half of all Americans say they turn to the PC to achieve personal goals such as getting more organized and being more productive.1 To help transform those goals into reality, Microsoft Corp. today announced the latest version of its home productivity software, Microsoft® Works Suite 2005, which offers six popular software titles in one affordable package. An incredible value, Works Suite 2005 delivers Microsoft Word 2002 and the latest versions of Microsoft Works, Microsoft Encarta® Encyclopedia Standard, Microsoft Money Standard, Microsoft Picture It!® Premium, and Microsoft Streets & Trips. This comprehensive package enables consumers to keep track of the household schedule, complete homework assignments, edit photos, manage personal finances and more using their home PC.

Dot Software Announces Innovative Web
Design Software

Dot Software Announces Innovative Web
Design Software 06/26/2004 02:27 PM
Dot Software is pleased to announce Site Studio, which is it's revolutionary new web design program. The program consists of a single window interface that allows the user to intuitively create a full blown web site based on a theme. Within the program dynamic content plugins, which include an image gallery, a blog, a WYSIWYG editor, an HTML editor, an external file tool, and a hyperlink tool, allow you to create the content for each and every page, while selecting a theme controls the looks of the user's web site. It is this design that allows the user to create a web site effortlessly and quickly.

Dot Software Announces New Innovative
Web Design Software

Dot Software Announces New Innovative
Web Design Software 06/26/2004 07:11 PM
Dot Software is pleased to announce Site Studio, which is it's revolutionary new web design program. The program consists of a single window interface that allows the user to intuitively create a full blown web site based on a theme. Within the program dynamic content plugins, which include an image gallery, a blog, a WYSIWYG editor, an HTML editor, an external file tool, and a hyperlink tool, allow you to create the content for each and every page, while selecting a theme controls the looks of the user's web site. It is this design that allows the user to create a web site effortlessly and quickly.

Client By Design, LLC Gives Away $100
Plus Web Software For $1.97

Client By Design, LLC Gives Away $100
Plus Web Software For $1.97 09/07/2004 02:47 AM
New York’s Client By Design, LLC has put together a software package with over $100 worth of software products with resell rights to entice software and downloadable digital product sellers to try LEAH-Merchant DPSS, their NO-Monthly Fee Digital Product Sales System. [PRWEB Sep 7, 2004]

RapidWeaver 2.1.1 Web Page Design
Software

RapidWeaver 2.1.1 Web Page Design
Software 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
By Charles W. Moore, Applelinks (via MyAppleMenu)

Mumbai: PHP Software Design Engineer

Mumbai: PHP Software Design Engineer 01/04/2005 06:48 AM
Involves developing and enhancing various modules surrounding our web-services research and analysis portal, WebHosting.Info

Mac OS X: Apple Software Design
Guidelines

Mac OS X: Apple Software Design
Guidelines 05/28/2004 04:55 PM
Mac OS X combines a solid foundation with a compelling interface to provide a unique user experience. However, that user experience extends beyond the operating system itself to the applications that it hosts. Users want compelling applications that provide the features they want without hampering their productivity. These guidelines are intended to help guide you through the obstacles that confront Mac OS X developers. They cover different aspects of the design process and offers tips on how you can use Mac OS X features effectively in your design.

Autodesk updates design software

Autodesk updates design software 12/17/2003 07:11 PM
The drafitng and design software maker releases a new version of Revit, its 3D design software meant to supplant blueprints.

phpSquidPass Software Design Error

phpSquidPass Software Design Error 06/26/2002 01:01 PM

Digital Praise to Exhibit in the Focus
on the Family Booth at CBA International
2004; Christian Game Developer to Unveil
Two New Interactive Game Titles to
Assist Christian Booksellers in
Capitalizing on the $7 Billion U.S.
Entertainment Software Industry

Digital Praise to Exhibit in the Focus
on the Family Booth at CBA International
2004; Christian Game Developer to Unveil
Two New Interactive Game Titles to
Assist Christian Booksellers in
Capitalizing on the $7 Billion U.S.
Entertainment Software Industry 06/30/2004 03:04 AM
Digital Praise comments on opportunity for Christian Booksellers with interactive Christian games, CBA International Conference in ATL. [PRWEB Jun 30, 2004]

Design software comes with machine shop
attached

Design software comes with machine shop
attached 08/18/2004 05:01 PM
SiliconValley.com Aug 18 2004 7:54PM GMT

Mac Design, You Software team up for
subscription offer

Mac Design, You Software team up for
subscription offer 07/27/2004 02:29 PM
Mac Design Magazine and You Software have joined forces on a new money saving offer...

Simplicity Rules: DevShed on Software
Design

Simplicity Rules: DevShed on Software
Design 09/05/2002 10:28 AM

"Introduction to Apple Software Design
Guidelines"

"Introduction to Apple Software Design
Guidelines" 05/29/2004 05:56 PM

IBM aims services, software at modern
design

IBM aims services, software at modern
design 04/20/2004 11:30 PM
Big Blue steps up its push into services-oriented architectures, with consulting services and WebSphere Web services workflow software intended to bring customers greater flexibility and efficiency.

Jacob Cane Design – Website Design and
Graphic Design services ...

Jacob Cane Design – Website Design and
Graphic Design services ... 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
Feb 26, 2004(PRWEB) February 26, 2004--Web Development: We use the best combination of all the tools available for web design, including Flash, JavaScript, PHP/MySQL, CSS ...

This Month's Top 10 PC Video Games

This Month's Top 10 PC Video Games 05/26/2004 04:48 PM
Half-Life 2 (Full Product, PC) City of Heroes (Full Product, PC) Unreal Tournament 2004 (Full Product, PC) Far Cry (Full Product, PC) Half-Life Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (Full Product) Half-Life Counter Strike (Full Product, PC) Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight (Full Product, PC) Battlefield Vietnam (Full Product, PC) Call Of Duty (Full Product, PC) Warcraft 3 BattleChest (Full Product, PC/Mac)

Applying "Digital Hub" Concepts to
Enterprise Software Design

Applying "Digital Hub" Concepts to
Enterprise Software Design 05/04/2004 09:03 PM
Adam Behringer: "One thing that I have discovered is that there are many common issues and design challenges for this type of software, even in vastly different industries. In this article, I will share an architecture approach that has worked well for most of the projects in which I have participated. In future articles, I will give some practical tutorials for building a complex business system one step at a time."

Big Blue fires up hosted design software
service

Big Blue fires up hosted design software
service 06/17/2004 06:00 PM
ZDNet Jun 17 2004 9:31PM GMT

Gates: Microsoft Will Build
Interoperable Software By Design

Gates: Microsoft Will Build
Interoperable Software By Design 02/05/2005 09:46 PM
In an email to business chiefs made public today, Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, discussed the companies plans to make their software more interoperable with other systems.

"Interoperability is more pragmatic than other approaches, such as attempting to make all systems compatible at the code level, focusing solely on adding new layers of middleware that try to make all systems look and act the same, or seeking to make different systems interchangeable. With a common understanding of basic protocols, different software can interact smoothly with little or no specific knowledge of each other. The Internet is perhaps the most obvious example of this kind of interoperability, where any piece of software can connect and exchange data as long as it adheres to the key protocols.

Simply put, interoperability is a proven approach for dealing with the diversity and heterogeneity of the marketplace. Today I want to focus on two major thrusts of Microsoft’s product interoperability strategy: First, we continue to support customers’ needs for software that works well with what they have today. Second, we are working with the industry to define a new generation of software and Web services based on eXtensible Markup Language (XML), which enables software to efficiently share information and opens the door to a greater degree of "interoperability by design" across many different kinds of software.

Our goal is to harness all the power inherent in modern (and not so modern) business software, and enable them to work together so that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We want to further eliminate friction among heterogeneous architectures and applications without compromising their distinctive underlying capabilities."

Gates continued to talk about how Microsoft planned to implement these ideas, and how it already had; Gates pointed to Office 2003 as an example of the company making use of XML technology. He also made the point that "interoperability is also confused with open source software". Microsoft face tough competition from Linux based products which are open source and allow users to modify the underlying system code. Part of the recent European Union judgement on Microsoft involved making the company make it easier for other software vendors to inter opt with their products. Previous messages from Gates delivered in a similar manner have proved to be major policy changes for Microsoft.

View: Gate's Letter in Full | Microsoft Interoperability Homepage

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Group As User: Flaming and the Design of
Social Software

Group As User: Flaming and the Design of
Social Software 12/19/2004 03:53 PM
When we hear the word "software," most of us think of things like Word, Powerpoint, or Photoshop, tools for individual users. These tools treat the computer as a box, a self-contained environment in which the user does things. Much of the current literature and practice of software design -- feature requirements, UI design, usability testing -- targets the individual user, functioning in isolation. And yet, when we poll users about what they actually do with their computers, some form of social interaction always tops the list -- conversation, collaboration, playing games, and so on. The practice of software design is shot through with computer-as-box assumptions, while our actual behavior is closer to computer-as-door, treating the device as an entrance to a social space. We have grown quite adept at designing interfaces and interactions between computers and machines, but our social tools -- the software the users actually use most often -- remain badly misfit to their task. Social interactions are far more complex and unpredictable than human/computer interaction, and that unpredictability defeats classic user-centric design. As a result, tools used daily by tens of millions are either ignored as design challenges, or treated as if the only possible site of improvement is the user-to-tool interface. The design gap between computer-as-box and computer-as-door persists because of a diminished conception of the user. The user of a piece of social software is not just a collection of individuals, but a group. Individual users take on roles that only make sense in groups: leader, follower, peacemaker, process nazi, and so on. There are also behaviors that can only occur in groups, from consensus building to social climbing. And yet, despite these obvious differences between personal and social behaviors, we have very little design practice that treats the group as an entity to be designed for. There is enormous value to be gotten in closing that gap, and it doesn't require complicated new tools. It just requires new ways of looking at old problems. Indeed, much of the most important work in social software has been technically simple but socially complex. - More at http://shirky.com/writings/group_user.html

BeLight ships envelope, label design
software

BeLight ships envelope, label design
software 07/23/2004 09:45 AM
BeLight Software today announced the immediate availability of Mail Factory, is new tool to design and print envelopes, shipping and address labels...

The Unified Modeling Language simplifies
software design

The Unified Modeling Language simplifies
software design 09/06/2002 10:43 PM
CNET Sep 6 2002 10:06PM ET

Reap the benefits of design patterns in
software development

Reap the benefits of design patterns in
software development 04/12/2004 06:17 AM
CNET Apr 12 2004 10:08AM GMT

Adobe to Buy Macromedia for $3.4
Billion, Adding Flash Web-Design
Software

Adobe to Buy Macromedia for $3.4
Billion, Adding Flash Web-Design
Software 04/18/2005 04:50 AM
Bloomberg Apr 18 2005 9:12AM GMT

Autodesk releases new Revit software
with design options feature

Autodesk releases new Revit software
with design options feature 12/23/2003 05:47 PM
Autodesk announced a new design tool for architects and engineers that includes a new "design options" feature and new team-collaboration capabilities.

Object-oriented design metrics ensure
robust software

Object-oriented design metrics ensure
robust software 01/10/2003 02:45 AM
CNET Jan 10 2003 1:54AM ET

Entireweb Search Engine Partners with
Metamend Software & Design Ltd.

Entireweb Search Engine Partners with
Metamend Software & Design Ltd. 07/31/2004 02:22 AM
[PRWEB Jul 31, 2004]

aaron swartz is this month's wired
centerfold

aaron swartz is this month's wired
centerfold 08/31/2004 05:30 PM
the most geek cred possible
Grok Description matches for This Month's Top 10 Design Software Titles
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Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it, we've got it.

Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it, we've got it. 12/30/2004 11:53 AM
fights back .. lokittorrent .. Loki Torrent

lokitorrent.com
track this site | 5 links

"Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it..."

"Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it..." 12/31/2004 10:23 AM

"bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search
engine (bittorrent)"

"bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search
engine (bittorrent)" 07/13/2004 08:44 PM

bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search
engine (bittorrent)

bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search
engine (bittorrent) 07/14/2004 01:18 AM
bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search engine .. bitoogle

bitoogle.com
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Microsoft builds a better Bit Torrent

Microsoft builds a better Bit Torrent 06/17/2005 03:18 PM
Researchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution protocols such as Bit Torrent.

The researchers claim download times are between 20-30 per cent faster, using their network coding approach, than on systems that only code at the server, and between 200 and 300 per cent faster than distributing un-encoded information.

View: Full Article @ The Register
View: Avalanche Whitepaper

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Bit Torrent creator laughs at Microsoft
P2P

Bit Torrent creator laughs at Microsoft
P2P 06/24/2005 08:36 PM

XP Service Pack torrent shut down by
Microsoft

XP Service Pack torrent shut down by
Microsoft 08/12/2004 11:21 AM
Remember SP2Torrent.com? This was the BitTorrent site that was helping distribute copies of the Windows XP Service Pack 2 (which is so unweildy and yet so critical and sought-after that MSFT is having a hard time distributing it effectively) via BitTorrent, a system that enlists everyone who tries to download a file into distributing it as well, so that the more popular a file becomes, the easier it is to download.

Anyway, the site is no longer providing this free service to Windows users, because the company threatened to sue them if they kept it up. Lucky MSFT customers, huh?

Microsoft sent DMCA takedown notices to our two webhosts, one of which was just linking to a torrent file on another server. We've stood up to these kinds of legal threats before (see the Grey Tuesday protests), but we decided not to bother this time, because we started this site primarily as a demonstration and to that end it's already been a huge success. SP2torrent.com showed how filesharing technlogy gives people without budgets or huge servers the power to solve problems themselves, without waiting for the government or some corporation to do it for them. For another demonstration that's still in action, check out p2pcongress.org. If you need Windows XP SP2, you can download it from Microsoft's inscrutable webpage:

Link (Thanks, Matt!)

My first torrent

My first torrent 07/30/2004 03:00 AM

Thanks to Jim and Ado for setting up the BitTorrent tracker. Here is a torrent for Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture talk in Helsinki that I blogged about earlier.

UPDATE: Please standby. It doesn't seem to be working.

Comment - TrackBack

Torrent 0.61

Torrent 0.61 01/27/2004 02:58 PM
An arcade game with colored tiles.

Torrent Zip

Torrent Zip 03/31/2005 11:44 PM
The project is live!

Microsoft ends SP2 torrent experiment
with DCMA warning

Microsoft ends SP2 torrent experiment
with DCMA warning 08/14/2004 04:42 AM
One group tried get out ahead of the lobbyists and demonstrate the usefulness of P2P in areas not usually covered by the mainstream media, and they've used SP2 to do it.

Downhill Battle, a site which attempts to promote independent music and stop the RIAA, was told by Microsoft this week to stop distributing their torrent file of the recently released Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Its creators had noble intentions, a demonstration of how P2P filesharing technology can help distribute files that are too large for centralized distribution to handle. Since Microsoft limited the amount of downloads users could make from their downloads server to 2.5 million a day, Downhill felt their could help ease the load. Microsoft didn't see it this way.

Microsoft sent multiple DCMA warnings to Downhill and while they have stood up to such threats before, the group has decided to simply remove the torrents as Microsoft requested. It seems they have decided that the effort was a big enough of a success, that they could to do as Microsoft asked, and turn their efforts back to their primary focus, the fight against the RIAA.

One would assume reasoning for the request is understandable, yet the exact reason is unknown. Does Microsoft want to control the distribution of their latest creation? Does Microsoft dislike torrents? Or is it simply the fact Microsoft doesn't want people installing bad versions of their package and messing up their computer? (Downhill Battle provided the MD5 checksum.)

View: SP2Torrent.com
View: Downhill Battle

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Sri Lankan hip-hop mix: torrent

Sri Lankan hip-hop mix: torrent 03/17/2005 03:55 AM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing reader Lucas Emery says,

Your big article on M.I.A over the weekend reminded me that I had downloaded a mix mp3 shortly after the Tsunami disaster comprised exclusivly of Sri Lankan hip-hop. I can't remember where I originally found the mix (boomselection, maybe?) so I just made a .torrent. 58.4 Meg mp3 mix by Dr. Auratheft.

Link

Previously: M.I.A. is, well, MIA; and MIA for intergalactic overlord

Battle Torrent

Battle Torrent 08/11/2004 09:45 AM

Thanks to Dave over at Scripting News for the link. The already easy process of downloading files via BitTorrent has just gotten easier. [Downhill Battle]

Xcode .torrent

Xcode .torrent 08/08/2004 02:13 AM
Apple just released an update to is Xcode development tools, but Apple's content distribution network is slow and poky, and as Danny notes, it "won't let you resume downloads using wget -c." So here's a .torrent for Xcode. Link (via Oblomovka)

Bit Torrent question

Bit Torrent question 04/09/2004 10:30 PM
Bit Torrent and the ability to download everything in one click (is this the end of Direct TV, Tivo and the music business?!).

Used BitTorrent a little bit when it first came out and was a bit underwhelmed. It didn’t work, there weren’t a lot of places to find files, etc.

I decided to take another look at it when a designer friend of mine was telling me that he has the latest version of every single piece of design software on his Mac compliments of bit torrent (yes, I know it’s wrong… not the point I’m trying to make, the point is coming :-).

Part I: I installed bit torrent and immediately noticed an amazing new trend (prob. not new to all of you) of people posting dozens of albums in one RAR file for download. Huge file sizes in the 500 to 4,000 meg size range. The last season of seven seasons of Southpark, every Nirvanna album and here is another file with every Howard Stern radio show from March in one file.

In one click you grab one really well organized, clean and deep sets of files—scary.

Part II: A couple of month ago I got the Gateway Connected DVD player. For $195 it connects via WiFi to my desktop and I can hit the My Music or My Videos button on the remote control and pull up those directories on my hard drive (in the other room).

Part III: Today I moved into my new apartment in Santa Monica and was faced with the standard $100 month cable/dish bill and I’m thinking “dang, I only watch less then a half dozen TV shows and they are all here on bit torrent… maybe I should save the $1,200 a year and just download the shows and watch them via my Gateway Connected DVD player?”

The Point/Question: How soon before you’ll be able-with one click-download every prime-time TV show or last year’s top 500 CDs in one click?!

(Note: This is not a trick question, I have yet to find a file containing that much content—however, I did find a file with last weeks top 100 singles that someone put together in one nice package).

[The Digital Music Weblog]

Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your
TV

Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your
TV 06/21/2004 07:41 AM

CC Torrent Hosting

CC Torrent Hosting 12/17/2004 06:33 PM

Torrentocracy has announced a free BitTorrent hosting service for Creative Commons licensed content: Prodigem.

Download one of the beta torrents currently available. Send an email to Torrentocracy creator Gary Lerhaupt to request an upload account.

Update: Download all of the Duke Law School Arts Project Moving Image Contest finalists via one torrent at prodigem.

It's the torrent, stupid

It's the torrent, stupid 12/22/2004 01:29 AM
Xeni Jardin: Mark Pesce rants about the recent shutdowns of BitTorrent supersites Suprnova.org and TorrentBits.com.

Hey, Hollywood! Can you feel the future slipping through your fingers? Do you understand how badly you've screwed up? You took a perfectly serviceable situation - a nice, centralized system for the distribution of media, and, through your own greed and shortsightedness, are giving birth to a system of digital distribution that you'll never, ever be able to defeat. In your avarice and arrogance you ignored the obvious: you should have cut a deal with SuprNova.org. In partnership you could have found a way to manage the disruptive change that's already well underway. Instead, you have repeated the mistakes made by the recording industry, chapter and verse. And thus you have spelled your own doom.

It's said that the best sequels are just like the original, only bigger and louder. Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves for one hell of a crash. This baby is now fully out of control.

Link (via waxy)

ShiftyGames Torrent 0.8.2

ShiftyGames Torrent 0.8.2 05/05/2004 10:52 PM
An arcade game with colored tiles.

Bit Torrent : An Analysis

Bit Torrent : An Analysis 12/19/2004 03:10 PM
Hardy news site, The Register, recently published a detailed analysis of the file sharing protocol Bit Torrent. Bit Torrent has received attention in the main stream news after reports that it was carrying as much as 50% of all peer 2 peer (p2p) traffic, which in tern amounted to a massive 30% of all the traffic on the internet. The paper, by Dr. Johan Pouwelse, examines the protocol and looks especially at one of the largest bit-torrent hubs, Suprnova.org. He examines how just 20 moderators solve the problem of fake files, something that plagues the traditional file sharing networks like Kazaa.

Dr Powelse notes that the major problems facing hubs like suprnova are fakes and maintaining hub availability. The availability of files on bit torrent is based on a centralised system; without it, the network fails as users cannot access the trackers. Decentralising bit torrent has already begun - Suprnova have started a project called "Exeem" which apparently has 5,000 beta testers trialling it, and has an ultimate aim of taking the best of Kazaa (a decentralised network) and merging it with Bit Torrent. Decentralisation removes the issue of poor availability at the tracker end, yet0 it also provides more scope for fake files and a reduction in data integrity at the user end.

The paper concludes that bit-torrent needs to evolve to create incentives to users to seed files. Bit-torrent as a protocol is a system that’s here to stay; it enjoys more and more usage from more main stream content providers. Yes, there is a lot of illegitimate use of the protocol, but unlike Kazaa, these users should not be allowed to over shadow the usefulness to legitimate users of the bit torrent protocol.

[Update] Since this article was published, Suprnova has shutdown as a hub for torrents. Although this cannot be confirmed, the shutdown is very likely related to legal action from the Hollywood against tracker websites; earlier in the week many other sites were taken down. The effectiveness of the takedowns could be massive; the paper below notes that when on the Suprnova mirrors went offline during their monitoring period, they saw a massive reduction in the number of users downloading files through the site.

Download: The Paper (pdf) | The Register

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Following up on Torrent Shutdowns

Following up on Torrent Shutdowns 12/22/2004 01:40 AM
Slashdot Dec 21 2004 6:33PM GMT

Grokster briefs torrent

Grokster briefs torrent 03/26/2005 05:13 AM
Cory Doctorow: Thad sez, "This is a torrent of all of the briefs submitted re: MGM v. Grokster, in the zip format provided on the U.S. Copyright Office site." Torrent Link for 74 briefs in 20.7MB

Comrade - Bit Torrent Client

Comrade - Bit Torrent Client 06/24/2004 12:03 AM
Working.

SP2 Bit Torrent Legal Challenge

SP2 Bit Torrent Legal Challenge 08/11/2004 05:20 PM

Download the Windows XP Service Pack 2: The guys who were doing Microsoft a favor by pushing Service Pack 2 via Bit Torrent got slapped down by Redmond.

Microsoft sent DMCA takedown notices to our two webhosts, one of which was just linking to a torrent file on another server. We've stood up to these kinds of legal threats before (see the Grey Tuesday protests), but we decided not to bother this time, because we started this site primarily as a demonstration and to that end it's already been a huge success.

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Better Than Bit Torrent, For Internet2
Users?

Better Than Bit Torrent, For Internet2
Users? 11/18/2003 07:54 PM

"Torrent Link for 74 briefs in 20.7MB"

"Torrent Link for 74 briefs in 20.7MB" 03/27/2005 10:28 AM

Torrent of video from DV Guide

Torrent of video from DV Guide 08/30/2004 02:55 AM

dv.open4all.info/bblog/torrent_files/20040828_kinberg.mov.torrenttrack this site | 3 links

Torrent Site Status

Torrent Site Status 01/07/2005 04:15 AM
Don’t download too much pr0n .. Torrent Site Status

orbdesign.net/bt
track this site | 3 links

Eyes on the Screen torrent mirror

Eyes on the Screen torrent mirror 02/01/2005 08:38 PM
Cory Doctorow: Eyes on the Screen is an amazing Downhill Battle project that we blogged earlier. The idea is to get people to download the seminal documentary Eyes on the Prize, which chronicles the American civil rights movement. It's a Black History Month perrennial, but because of the prohibitive cost of clearing the copyrights to the archival footage used in the series. Once the series has been downloaded, you'd be encouraged to host a screening party for your friends and neighbors on February 8th, and ensure that the vital messages of this documentary don't fade away due to outmoded laws.

The Downhill Battle torrents for Eyes on the Prize have gone away, but there is still a mirror of them available. Please consider using the mirror to get your own copies and host a party of your own.

At 8pm on February 8th we will celebrate the struggle and triumph of the civil rights movement with screenings of Eyes on the Prize Part 1: Awakenings. Eyes on the Prize is the most renowned civil rights documentary of all time; for many people, it is how they first learned about the Civil Rights Movement (more about the film). But this film has not been available on video or television for the past 10 years simply because of expired copyright licenses. We cannot allow copyright red tape to keep this film from the public any longer. So today we are making digital versions of the film available for download. Join us in building a new mass audience for this film: organize or attend a screening in your city, town, school or home on February 8th.

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Outfoxed interviews available under CC
license via Bit Torrent

Outfoxed interviews available under CC
license via Bit Torrent 09/15/2004 03:51 AM

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Outfoxed Torrent (torrentocracy exclusive)

In working with Lawrence Lessig, Robert Greenwald has agreed to release the interviews within Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism under a Creative Commons non-commercial license (press release). This means that among the rights now granted, interviews balancing out the fair journalism of Fox News can freely be used as anyone sees fit. To see the full movie, you can purchase the Outfoxed DVD or check it out in theaters.

Torrentocracy (along with archive.org) has exclusive initial access to distribute these interviews in their digital form due to the work undertaken to promote a TV-connected, public domain, internet based media distribution network. The torrent file to start your Outfoxed download can be found at http://www.torrentocracy.com/files/torrents/outfoxed_intervie ws.torrent. For more information on how to use bit torrent peer-to-peer filesharing to download this, go here. If you were a Torrentocracy user, you could already be downloading Outfoxed to your television.

Here's some serious substantial non-infringing use of P2P. I bought the DVD and watched Outfoxed. Definitely worth buying the DVD, but being able to download and use the interviews from the documentary is a great contribution to the commons. It will be interesting to see how people remix this stuff.

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