Editor & Publisher Wants Answers: Are Newsrooms Too Liberal? Very Tricky Question.

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Editor and Publisher Wants Answers: Are
Newsrooms Too Liberal? Very Tricky
Question.

Editor and Publisher Wants Answers: Are
Newsrooms Too Liberal? Very Tricky
Question. 06/17/2004 09:05 PM
A major trade journal enters the bias wars looking for answers. It wants to know: how liberal are the nation's newsrooms, really? "Liberal journalist" does not automatically mean that the news has a liberal slant. But if the goal is to gain ground in the bias wars, it's the opposite. Then liberal journalist does mean "news biased toward liberalism"-- automatically so.

Cleveland Editor Takes Heat for
Publishing Gun List (Editor and
Publisher)

Cleveland Editor Takes Heat for
Publishing Gun List (Editor and
Publisher) 07/30/2004 03:52 PM
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Why did a pro-gun group post directions to a local newspaper editor's house on its Web site?

Tricky upgrade question

Tricky upgrade question 03/06/2004 01:52 AM
Here’s a tricky chicken-and-egg question for Mac admin types...

I have—actually, a relative of mine has—an iMac running Mac OS 9.0.4 that I’d like to upgrade to OS X.

The CD-ROM drive is broken, so the idea is to buy an external CD drive and hook it up. But all the CD drives we can find require OS 9.1 or greater.

Is there another way to install OS X on this machine? Or a way to install 9.1 so we can get a CD drive running so we can install OS X?

That answers my question

That answers my question 03/14/2005 06:11 PM

I s peculated idly the other day that Tivo had a significant patent portfolio. Turns out it has 70 patents granted, with 106 more pending. Sounds pretty significiant to me, given how ubiquitous digital video recording is bound to become.

AQA - a mobile start-up that answers any
question

AQA - a mobile start-up that answers any
question 04/28/2004 10:04 AM
ZDNet Apr 28 2004 1:52PM GMT

2003 Editor & Publisher year in
review

2003 Editor & Publisher year in
review 12/24/2003 03:40 PM
year-end roundup .. §§…‡ .. a list

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Publishers Urged to Try Paid Search
(Editor and Publisher)

Publishers Urged to Try Paid Search
(Editor and Publisher) 07/19/2004 06:48 PM
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Consulting group Borrell Associates Inc. has done an about-face on its recommendations for newspaper partnerships with paid search offered by companies such as Google and Yahoo! Previously opposing the programs, Borrell now recommends that local media sites "jump on board the paid search bandwagon," according to a memo the Portsmouth, Va.-based group sent to its clients this week.

CareerBuilder Web Traffic, Postings Heat
Up (Editor and Publisher)

CareerBuilder Web Traffic, Postings Heat
Up (Editor and Publisher) 02/18/2004 05:21 PM
Editor and Publisher - BALTIMORE Thanks in part to its new exclusive marketing agreements with AOL and MSN, CareerBuilder.com posted a substantial increase in unique visitors in January, according to an analysis by Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

PBS Adds iPIX, Sells to New Times
(Editor and Publisher)

PBS Adds iPIX, Sells to New Times
(Editor and Publisher) 04/14/2004 05:21 PM
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Publishing Business Systems of Barrington, Ill., supplier of integrated enterprise newspaper business software, reached agreement with iPIX Ad Technologies of San Ramon, Calif., allowing advertisers to place enhanced photos online through iPIX AdPlus Prism software, available directly from PBS.

Press Club Keeps Gannon--But Adds Others
to Panel (Editor and Publisher)

Press Club Keeps Gannon--But Adds Others
to Panel (Editor and Publisher) 03/29/2005 07:58 PM
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Despite criticism in some media circles, the National Press Club is standing by its decision to feature James Guckert -- a.k.a. Jeff Gannon, the former correspondent/escort -- on an April 8 panel discussion about journalism and blogging called "Who is a Journalist?" But it has added others to the panel.

Tribune Co. Web Sites Restored After
Technical Glitch (Editor and Publisher)

Tribune Co. Web Sites Restored After
Technical Glitch (Editor and Publisher) 05/21/2004 02:23 PM
Editor and Publisher - Published: May 20, 2004 5:30 PM EST, updated May 21 at 10:50 AM EST

Online Customer Leads Program Offered
(Editor and Publisher)

Online Customer Leads Program Offered
(Editor and Publisher) 08/02/2004 07:04 PM
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK CoolSavings, an online direct marketing company, announced today the launch of its Lead Generation Network Services to newspaper companies.

Report: Newspaper Sites Will Bring In
$1.52B in 2005 (Editor and
Publisher)

Report: Newspaper Sites Will Bring In
$1.52B in 2005 (Editor and
Publisher) 03/31/2005 07:25 PM
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Newspapers' online operations grew to a $1.19 billion industry in 2004, according to a new report from Borrell Associates.

Newspapers Hold 8 Spots on Top 20 News
Site List (Editor and Publisher)

Newspapers Hold 8 Spots on Top 20 News
Site List (Editor and Publisher) 04/20/2004 04:57 PM
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Eight of the top 20 news Web sites or groups in the U.S. during March were affiliated with newspapers, according to audience statistics from Nielsen//NetRatings.

Blessing or Curse? Top Newspaper Editors
Examine Blogs' Role in the '60 Minutes'
Uproar (Editor and Publisher)

Blessing or Curse? Top Newspaper Editors
Examine Blogs' Role in the '60 Minutes'
Uproar (Editor and Publisher) 09/15/2004 07:39 PM
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK The current controversy over the validity of documents pushed in large part by bloggers and purporting to prove that President Bush received special treatment in the National Guard shows that partisan Internet pundits are having a growing impact on mainstream press, for better or worse, according to several newspaper editors.

Philadelphia Inquirer 09/09/2004
Newsrooms under siege

Philadelphia Inquirer 09/09/2004
Newsrooms under siege 09/09/2004 04:40 PM

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GuruNet's Answers.com Now Provides Free
Instant Reference Answers

GuruNet's Answers.com Now Provides Free
Instant Reference Answers 01/05/2005 01:44 PM
Answers.com, GuruNets's site-and-software combination that provides instant reference answers is now free to users.

Tricky Dix

Tricky Dix 01/22/2004 10:27 AM
Republican Dirty Tricks "From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without a password. Trolling through hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight -- and with what tactics. The office of Senate Sergeant-at-Arms William Pickle has already launched an investigation into how excerpts from 15 Democratic memos showed up in the pages of the conservative-leaning newspapers and were posted to a website last November." They just can't get Nixon out of their system, huh?

Fragments are tricky.

Fragments are tricky. 08/02/2004 08:01 AM
XML handling and manipulation with Javascript seems a breeze to develop. So long as the breeze I'm using for comparison runs around pants lowered, screaming and defecating. Recently I've danced the cross-browser shuffle around DocumentFragments. (whuzh?) I really should explain ... a DocumentFragment is a special type of node that serves as a temporary container for a colle ...

Cybersecurity regs tricky

Cybersecurity regs tricky 03/28/2005 03:46 PM
USA Today Mar 28 2005 7:27PM GMT

The tricky business of software

The tricky business of software 12/12/2003 03:17 AM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Dec 12 2003 2:18AM ET

A Tricky Play for Investors

A Tricky Play for Investors 04/23/2004 01:31 AM
Business Week Apr 23 2004 6:06AM GMT

Making a phpBB-style Editor - Part 1:
The Editor

Making a phpBB-style Editor - Part 1:
The Editor 10/29/2003 12:11 AM
This tutorial is for all those looking to achieve a bb-style editor for their users. This part (part 1) covers the javascript and form behind the editor itself (none of the processing). FOREWARNING - it lacks some of the functionality of the actual phpBB editor.

'Spyware' Would Be Tricky to Outlaw,
Group Says

'Spyware' Would Be Tricky to Outlaw,
Group Says 11/18/2003 03:17 PM
Boston Globe Nov 18 2003 2:38PM ET

SET's Editor, a friendly text editor

SET's Editor, a friendly text editor 06/26/2004 05:20 PM
SETEdit 0.5.3 r1051 DOS/Win32

Tricky E-Mail Worm Spreads Fast

Tricky E-Mail Worm Spreads Fast 01/27/2004 06:49 AM
Known as 'Mydoom' or 'Novarg,' the latest malicious code to make the rounds is clogging Net traffic. An expert says it looks like the 'next big one,' but it's still too early to tell.

Why Things Get Tricky When You Forget
That Voice Is Data

Why Things Get Tricky When You Forget
That Voice Is Data 04/11/2005 05:58 AM
With all the talk about how service providers are rushing to provide triple plays or quadruple plays of service involving voice, video, data and mobile voice, it's easy to lose track of the fact that it's really all data. Forgetting that fact is just asking for trouble, however, as the data pipe can effectively wipe out the business models for the other ones. It looks like some service providers are going to try to fight this in some manner. Recently, Clearwire took some heat for block ing VoIP, and now some folks have spotted some odd wording in Earthlink's cable broadband terms of service that make it sound like they ban any voice applications on broadband connections. It's not entirely clear what's going on here, because the terms of service are for a cable connection, but the specific section talks about Earthlink's "wireless enhanced access service," which is their 1xRTT offering for slow, but manageable, wireless data connections. Still, the idea that a data service provider should be able to prevent one specific type of data (or, better yet, as the Earthlink TOS seems to imply, charge you $0.95/minute to use) seems to go against the promise they're making in offering service -- which is that you're getting an unlimited data service. Still, someone who does use the service for data can make a pretty credible claim that since Earthlink claims the service is for "data only," that they didn't do anything wrong -- because voice is data.

Tricky Windows worm poses as game

Tricky Windows worm poses as game 03/14/2003 01:09 PM
Bibrog-B con

'Just Sleep On It' Solves Tricky
Problems?

'Just Sleep On It' Solves Tricky
Problems? 01/22/2004 10:21 AM

Cricket: England face tricky chase

Cricket: England face tricky chase 08/16/2004 02:49 AM
England reduce West Indies to 161-9 at stumps on day four, but still trail by 226 runs in the third Test.

ESSAY- Tricky treat: Let's reclaim
Halloween from fear

ESSAY- Tricky treat: Let's reclaim
Halloween from fear 10/30/2003 07:15 PM
Start with a Google search for "The Razor Blade in the Apple: The Social Construction of Urban Legends." Two Southern Illinois University professors researched ...

Korea's Tricky Task: Digging Up Past
Treachery

Korea's Tricky Task: Digging Up Past
Treachery 01/05/2005 08:43 AM
South Korea's political and intellectual class is looking back at the issue of Korean collaborators during Japan's colonial rule.

Pitches for cheap insurance worth a
look, but new-client discounts tricky

Pitches for cheap insurance worth a
look, but new-client discounts tricky 04/12/2005 05:21 AM
globetechnology.com Apr 12 2005 9:34AM GMT

Suited to Guerrillas, a Dusty Town Poses
Tricky Perils

Suited to Guerrillas, a Dusty Town Poses
Tricky Perils 04/24/2004 09:15 PM
If the Pentagon could build a training ground that would incorporate all the perils of urban warfare, it would look very much like Falluja.

Letter From the Editor: Meet Your New
Editor

Letter From the Editor: Meet Your New
Editor 08/10/2004 02:34 PM
Choire fails to escape from Gawker empire; Gawker to get new writer .. move

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Liberal

Liberal 01/09/2004 09:47 PM
First let me frame any political commentary that may have come before and that may come after. I am a liberal! The small-l, bleeding-heart type; not the Canadian big-L, red-flag waving, party type (couldn't care less 'bout those dudes). The Club for Growth (WTF kind of name is that?), one of those frightening conservative political organizations, is currently running a Dean attack ad featuring a husband and wife talking about Dean's "proposal to raise your taxes by $1900 a year." Their take: "Well, I think Howard Dean should take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading … Body-piercing,...

@1 Quote Publisher

@1 Quote Publisher 06/29/2004 01:59 PM
Documentation, updates & FAQ of @1 Quote Publisher

FTP Web Projects Publisher

FTP Web Projects Publisher 04/12/2005 11:06 PM
Upgrades to Beta dotNet 2.0

One Wiley Publisher

One Wiley Publisher 06/16/2004 04:37 PM
Big-box retailers and online offerings aren't the only place to put your money in the book business.
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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

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

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

Cirque du DeLay?

Cirque du DeLay? 04/06/2005 12:07 AM
Watch as the GOP eats its own! Thrill as the media is fed more and more damaging info! Stare in Awe at the inside information calculated to get rid of him! Marvel at the downfall (and eventu al Gingrichian comeback?) of Representative DeLay!

The Tech of Cirque - Ka

The Tech of Cirque - Ka 12/24/2004 12:57 PM

My wife and I recently returned from a trip to Vegas where we took in the latest Cirque du Soleil show, Ka. If you have ever experienced a Cirque show you know what I'm talking about when I say that there is nothing like it. Ka, however represents a change in direction for the 20 year old circus troop from Montreal. Ka leaves behind many of the acrobatic and gymnastic routines and instead focuses on a story while including martial arts and some gymnastics. (Review)

The star of the show is the technology created to stage the show. The theater itself cost an estimated $100 million to build. Every one of the 1,900 seats have speakers built into them so the sound completely surrounds you during the show. The stage consists of two pieces that move independently of each other. One piece is about 30' by 30' and slides forward and back. The other one is 21' by 48' and it lifts, tilts and rotates depending upon the scene. It is operated by a $10 million dollar gantry crane.

The development of which delayed the opening of the show for nearly five months. To see it in action is quite impressive. The highlight of the show was the final battle scene in which the stage is tilted completely vertical giving the audience a sky view of the battlefield as actors fight while dangling on wires. It's obvious the pride they take in the stage itself. During the curtain call it is hoisted up and lit so the audience can see just how massive it truly is.

If you're headed to Vegas go see this show. It ain't cheap, but I've never left a Cirque show thinking it wasn't worth the ticket price. Besides it's the same as a ticket to see Celine. C'mon, that's an easy decision.

Torrent Zip

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

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.

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Torrent 0.61

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

Following up on Torrent Shutdowns

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

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

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]

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]

Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your
TV

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

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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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.

ShiftyGames Torrent 0.8.2

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

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)

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
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Torrent Site Status

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

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Comrade - Bit Torrent Client

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

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

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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"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

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Better Than Bit Torrent, For Internet2
Users?

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

Outfoxed interviews .torrent for
remixing

Outfoxed interviews .torrent for
remixing 09/15/2004 11:36 AM
Cory Doctorow: The interviews from the awesome anti-Fox documentary Outfoxed have been released under a Creative Commons license, for you to remix. Here's the .torrent: Torrent Link (via Lessig)

Torrent for Windows XP Service Pack 2

Torrent for Windows XP Service Pack 2 08/09/2004 04:48 PM
Microsoft needs to distribute its new Win XP Service Pack 2 to 260 million Windows users at 75MB each. Moving a wodge that big to that many machines is too much even for the biggest software company on the planet. So the folks at Downhill Battle have seized upon this as an opportunity to prove the substantial noninfringing uses of P2P by releasing a .torrent of SP@ (complete with checksum info so that you can verify that this isn't some malware-riddled trojan, except to the extent that it is a typical piece of the Windows XP OS). Join the mesh, shoulder the load, get your medicine -- the 21st Century way. Link (via Waxy)

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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Bit Torrent creator laughs at Microsoft
P2P

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

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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Editor & Publisher Wants Answers: Are Newsrooms Too Liberal? Very Tricky Question.