Aspyr ships Battlefield 1942 Deluxe Edition for Mac

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Aspyr ships Battlefield 1942 Deluxe
Edition

Aspyr ships Battlefield 1942 Deluxe
Edition 06/28/2004 11:38 AM
Aspyr today announced that it is now shipping Battlefield 1942 Deluxe Edition...

Battlefield 1942: Deluxe Edition

Battlefield 1942: Deluxe Edition 08/10/2004 07:37 PM
By Gordon K. Hurd, Inside Mac Games (via MyAppleMenu)

Battlefield 1942 Deluxe Edition feature
posted

Battlefield 1942 Deluxe Edition feature
posted 06/17/2004 03:20 AM
Apple has posted a new games feature on its Web site highlighting Battlefield 1942 Deluxe Edition, brought to the Mac by Aspyr Media...

Battlefield 1942 Deluxe Edition hits
stores July 2

Battlefield 1942 Deluxe Edition hits
stores July 2 06/18/2004 02:42 PM
Aspyr Media Inc. on Friday announced that its Mac conversion of Battlefield 1942 Deluxe Edition has gone Gold Master. It will begin shipping on June 28 and is expected to hit store shelves on July 2.

Aspyr opens own Battlefield 1942 server

Aspyr opens own Battlefield 1942 server 07/07/2004 11:03 AM
Aspyr Media recently released a Mac version of Battlefield 1942 Deluxe Edition -- the immensely popular World War II-themed action game that puts you in control of historic vehicles and weapons in a setting that heavily emphasizes multiplayer gaming. The Mac version of Battlefield 1942 includes the original game and its first expansion pack, The Road To Rome. It's compatible with both Macs and PCs when played online, but as a special bonus for its customers, Aspyr Media has made available its own Battlefield 1942 server that Mac gamers are welcome to try out.

Aspyr announces Battlefield 1942
expansion pack

Aspyr announces Battlefield 1942
expansion pack 08/23/2004 10:48 AM
Aspyr today announced that it will publish a Mac version of Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII...

Aspyr to offer Harry Potter Deluxe
Edition

Aspyr to offer Harry Potter Deluxe
Edition 05/19/2004 04:23 PM
Aspyr announced today that it will be publishing Harry Potter Deluxe Edition for Mac OS X...

Battlefield 1942 Patch 1

Battlefield 1942 Patch 1 09/11/2004 12:04 AM
Puts players at the heart of World War II combat, allowing them to choose from 16 battle sites, including Omaha Beach.

Battlefield 1942 Mod: Stargate BFM v0.1

Battlefield 1942 Mod: Stargate BFM v0.1 06/14/2004 04:33 PM

Battlefield 1942 demo now available

Battlefield 1942 demo now available 09/17/2004 12:26 PM
Aspyr has released a demo version of Battlefield 1942, its World War II combat game...

Battlefield 1942 Patch 1.5

Battlefield 1942 Patch 1.5 10/30/2003 08:19 PM

Battlefield 1942 Merciless MOD update

Battlefield 1942 Merciless MOD update 08/31/2004 07:11 PM

Battlefield 1942 hitting stores July 2

Battlefield 1942 hitting stores July 2 06/18/2004 02:14 PM
Aspyr said today that Battlefield 1942 has gone gold and will begin shipping June 28, arriving in stores nationwide July 2...

Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII
coming to Mac

Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII
coming to Mac 08/23/2004 12:43 PM
Aspyr Media Inc. on Monday announced that it will publish a new expansion pack for its World War II-themed action game Battlefield 1942. Secret Weapons of WWII is currently under development and is expected for release in October.

Broderbund Kid Pix Deluxe 3 for Mac OS X
ships soon

Broderbund Kid Pix Deluxe 3 for Mac OS X
ships soon 06/30/2004 02:24 PM
Mac software developer and conversion company Software MacKiev on Wednesday noted that its latest effort, a Mac OS X-native version of Broderbund's Kid Pix Deluxe 3, will soon ship and will be available in Apple retail stores. The US$39.95 package is a kid-friendly graphics program that integrates with Apple's iLife applications, including iPhoto, iTunes and iMovie. It was first shown publicly in January at Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Calif., where it won a Best of Show award from the editors of Macworld magazine.

Aspyr ships Doom 3 for the Mac

Aspyr ships Doom 3 for the Mac 03/14/2005 04:23 PM
Aspyr Media on Monday announced that Doom 3 for the Mac is now shipping and will show up on retail shelves by March 19. Licensed by Aspyr, Doom 3 was developed by id Software and features "never before seen detail with real-time lighting and shadows, real-world physics and killer AI, and battle in team or Deathmatch-based multiplayer modes." "DOOM 3 has instantly become a must have title for any game fan, and now Macintosh owners can experience the unmatched atmosphere and edge-of-your-seat gameplay that critics and gamers have been raving about," id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead said. "DOOM 3's intense combat, realistic sound and physics, and unbelievably terrifying creatures draw you into the gaming experience like never before, and our bleeding-edge technology is the perfect showpiece for the power of today's Macintosh systems." Doom 3 requires Mac OS X 10.3.8 or later and sells for $49.99.

Aspyr ships Wakeboarding Unleashed for
Mac, PC

Aspyr ships Wakeboarding Unleashed for
Mac, PC 12/22/2003 12:39 PM
Aspyr Media Inc. announced on Monday that it is shipping Mac and PC versions of Wakeboarding Unleashed featuring Shaun Murray. It's the latest extreme sports action game to by licensed by Aspyr from Activision Inc. The game made an appearance on consoles earlier this year and has also been published for Game Boy Advance -- one of the first couple of Game Boy Advance titles that Aspyr has published.

Aspyr ships Medal of Honor Breakthrough
add-on

Aspyr ships Medal of Honor Breakthrough
add-on 05/26/2004 12:17 PM
Aspyr Media Inc. on Wednesday announced that it's shipping Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough, the latest expansion pack for its Mac conversion of the popular World War II-era first person shooter action game. The expansion pack costs US$29.99 and requires the original Medal of Honor game to play.

Aspyr ships James Bond 007: Nightfire
for Mac

Aspyr ships James Bond 007: Nightfire
for Mac 06/21/2004 10:53 AM
Aspyr Media Inc. announced Monday that it is shipping James Bond 007: Nightfire for the Macintosh. The company said the spy-themed first-person shooter will hit store shelves by the end of the week -- exactly a year after Aspyr first announced plans to publish the game. Nightfire costs US$30.

Aspyr ships Adrenaline Sports Pack

Aspyr ships Adrenaline Sports Pack 07/22/2004 03:04 PM
Aspyr Media Inc. this week shipped the Adrenaline Sports Pack, a collection of previously released extreme sports titles the company has licensed for publication from Activision. The US$19.95 collection includes Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer and Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shawn Murray. All three games have been available separately, but Aspyr is now bundling them together for a low price. System requirements call for Mac OS X v10.2.6 or later, G4/700MHz or faster, 256MB RAM and 580MB free hard disk space, ATI Radeon 7500 or Nvidia GeForce2 MX or better 3D graphics with least 32MB VRAM. Look for the Adrenaline Sports Pack to hit store shelves by the end of the week.

Aspyr ships Command & Conquer
Generals

Aspyr ships Command & Conquer
Generals 04/12/2004 12:52 PM
Aspyr Media Inc. announced Monday that its Mac conversion of Electronic Arts' hit game Command & Conquer Generals is now shipping. The company expects its retail partners to have the game in stock by April 16, 2004.

Aspyr ships True Crime: Streets of L.A.

Aspyr ships True Crime: Streets of L.A. 03/17/2005 04:03 AM
Aspyr Media Inc. announced Tuesday that it's shipping its Macintosh conversion of True Crime: Streets of L.A.. The game is expected to hit store shelves by March 19, 2005.

Aspyr ships Star Wars: Knights of the
Old Republic

Aspyr ships Star Wars: Knights of the
Old Republic 09/20/2004 12:26 PM
Aspyr Media announced on Monday that it is now shipping Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, a role-playing game (RPG) set 4,000 years prior to the events depicted in the Star Wars movies. The game allows you to select one of nine customizable characters and travel between seven worlds, including some shown in the films, as you try to defeat the evil Sith. Along the way you can enlist up to two other characters to help you and even build your own lightsaber. Pricing will be US$49.99 when the game appears on store shelves by Oct. 1.

Aspyr ships Raven Shield, Jedi Academy

Aspyr ships Raven Shield, Jedi Academy 12/17/2003 02:26 PM
Earlier on Wednesday Aspyr Media Inc. announced that it would publish a Mac version of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King in April. The company later let it be known that two other games it's already been working on are done and out the door: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy.

Aspyr ships Tomb Raider: The Angel of
Darkness

Aspyr ships Tomb Raider: The Angel of
Darkness 12/18/2003 11:50 AM
Aspyr today announced that the Mac version of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness is now shipping...

Aspyr announces CSI game, ships Call of
Duty

Aspyr announces CSI game, ships Call of
Duty 05/10/2004 01:21 PM
Game publisher Aspyr Media announced on Monday that the company plans to distribute a Mac version of the game CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Based on the popular TV show, the game places you in the well-worn shoes of a member of the CSI team as you investigate five crime scenes with an arsenal of forensic equipment. Real music and locations from the TV show are also employed to make you feel like you're part of the action. Aspyr expects to ship the game in August with a US$29.99 price tag. System requirements call for Mac OS 9.2.2 or Mac OS X v.10.2 or higher, a 500MHz or faster processor, 256MB RAM, 500MB hard drive space and 32MB of video RAM.

Aspyr: Homeworld 2 hits beta, ships in
August

Aspyr: Homeworld 2 hits beta, ships in
August 06/23/2004 10:54 AM
Aspyr Media Inc. announced Wednesday that its Macintosh conversion of the real-time strategy game Homeworld 2 has hit its beta development milestone and is on track for a release in August. The game puts you in control of a massive stargoing space vessel as you manage resources and maneuver your defenses, protecting yourself from attack by a brutal enemy.

Aspyr: CSI Mac game hits beta, ships
August

Aspyr: CSI Mac game hits beta, ships
August 06/22/2004 10:32 AM
Aspyr Media Inc. on Tuesday announced that its Macintosh conversion of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has hit its beta development milestone and will ship in early August. Based on the television show of the same name, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has you solving murders in five different crime scenes as you use the forensic equipment and problem-solving skills of the entire CSI team.

Aspyr ships Star Trek Elite Force II

Aspyr ships Star Trek Elite Force II 11/19/2003 01:01 PM
Aspyr Media Inc. on Wednesday announced that it's shipping the Macintosh conversion of Star Trek Elite Force II, the hotly anticipated first person shooter (FPS) featuring characters and situations inspired by the enormously popular Star Trek science fiction franchise.

Xandros Desktop OS 3 Deluxe Edition

Xandros Desktop OS 3 Deluxe Edition 12/30/2004 04:53 AM
I've been running the recently released Deluxe Edition of Xandros Desktop OS for the past week. Xandros 3 has proven to be all that I hoped for, and more. This release should prove a good fit for many, combining the ease of use and elegant good looks that Xandros brings to the table with the underlying power and stability of Debian.

FirstStop WebSearch Deluxe Edition v4.01

FirstStop WebSearch Deluxe Edition v4.01 12/11/2003 09:45 AM
FirstStop WebSearch is a meta search program. FirstStop WebSearch offers random or sequential viewing of results, sorts by columns, saves as XML or HTML files, and keyword history searches. FirstStop WebSearch directly accesses the search engines. [Shareware $40.00 30 Runs 1.36 MB]

Intel ships $925 Pentium 4 Extreme
Edition

Intel ships $925 Pentium 4 Extreme
Edition 11/03/2003 12:19 PM
Extremely expensive

Tridia Corporation Ships iTivity(tm) VAR
Edition

Tridia Corporation Ships iTivity(tm) VAR
Edition 08/18/2004 04:25 PM
iTivity delivers secure cross-platform remote support solution that enables uncompromised customer support, sales, and collaboration over the Internet. [PRWEB Aug 3, 2004]

AccountEdge 2004 Network Edition ships

AccountEdge 2004 Network Edition ships 05/05/2004 09:58 AM
MYOB US Inc. has released AccountEdge 2004 Network Edition, a multiuser accounting package aimed at small businesses. The software uses Rendezvous, the auto-discovery networking technology Apple includes with Mac OS X v10.2 or higher, to let users find their company's accounting files without needing to mount network drives or browse server directories. MYOB also claims a two to four time speed improvement in creation of invoices, purchase orders and other transactions across a network.

The Print Shop Mac OS X Edition 1.0
finally ships

The Print Shop Mac OS X Edition 1.0
finally ships 12/02/2003 12:31 AM
MacCentral received word Wednesday that at long last, Broderbund's The Print Shop Mac OS X Edition 1.0 has finally shipped to retailer's store shelves. It's also available for online sale. The completely reinvented Mac OS X-native version of Broderbund's popular consumer-oriented printing software was first unveiled to the public at last summer's Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo in New York City by its developer, Software MacKiev. Macworld's editors awarded the software their Best of Show recognition for the product at that show.

ATI ships Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special
Edition card

ATI ships Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special
Edition card 06/09/2004 09:01 AM
ATI Technologies Inc. announced Wednesday that it's shipping the Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special Edition graphics card, the first Mac graphics card equipped with 256MB, and the first card designed specifically to work only in Power Mac G5 systems. The card features DDR memory, 680MHz data rate and a core engine speed of 380MHz; it features ADC and DVI outputs and costs US$399.

Media Center Edition 2005 Beta 2 Ships

Media Center Edition 2005 Beta 2 Ships 06/07/2004 05:55 AM
Enthusiast site Neowin is reporting that a second beta of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, code-named Symphony, has been made available to testers. MCS 2005 will incorporate the enhancements of Windows XP Service Pack 2, as well as Windows Media Player 10 technology. Symphony is expected to debut new digital media experiences for customers, and places a premium on television.

IntelliGolf Eagle Edition -w/GPS- Ships
for Microsoft Windows Mobile-Based
Pocket PCs, Smartphones, and PalmOn

IntelliGolf Eagle Edition -w/GPS- Ships
for Microsoft Windows Mobile-Based
Pocket PCs, Smartphones, and PalmOn 03/25/2005 11:04 AM
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Software602 Ships Print2PDF 4.0 Server
Edition to Make PDF File Creation Quick
and Affordable on Any Network!

Software602 Ships Print2PDF 4.0 Server
Edition to Make PDF File Creation Quick
and Affordable on Any Network! 08/01/2004 03:17 AM
Software602, which is dedicated to providing applications that simplify every-day computing tasks, is shipping its newest product, Print2PDF 4.0 Server Edition. This simple-to-use conversion tool allows network users to quickly convert documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) files from any application that has a print command. Users simply download the Print2PDF network print driver to start leveraging the power and flexibility of PDF documents. [PRWEB Aug 1, 2004]
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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

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
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lokitorrent.com
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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.

Torrent Zip

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

Following up on Torrent Shutdowns

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

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]

ShiftyGames Torrent 0.8.2

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

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)

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

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)

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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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]

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.

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.

"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

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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

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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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 .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)

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

Defense fund for Bit Torrent indexer

Defense fund for Bit Torrent indexer 12/30/2004 02:45 AM
Cory Doctorow: LokiTorrent is a BitTorrent indexing site -- like the lamented Suprnova -- that has been threatened with legal action by the MPAA for telling people where to download torrent files that allow them to download video and other large data-objects. Unlike some of the other Torrent indexers that shut down last week, LokiTorrent is mounting a legal defense. They're trying to raise a legal defense fund of $30,000, and they've made $11,500 in the first 12 hours. Link (via /.)

BeeTV - automatic torrent downloader

BeeTV - automatic torrent downloader 04/15/2005 10:02 AM
Prototype version released

AnimeMonitor RSS (torrent) feed monitor

AnimeMonitor RSS (torrent) feed monitor 04/16/2004 10:22 AM
We're Alive!

Aspyr ships Battlefield 1942 Deluxe Edition for Mac