New Music: Joss Stone & Melissa Etheridge

Grok Headline matches for New Music: Joss Stone & Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Etheridge iTunes exclusive to
benefit cancer research

Melissa Etheridge iTunes exclusive to
benefit cancer research 03/17/2005 04:03 AM
Two-time Grammy Award winner Melissa Etheridge and three-time nominee Joss Stone announced on Tuesday that they are releasing an audio version of their Grammy performance tribute to Janis Joplin exclusively on the iTunes Music Store. The song will be available for a 30-day period beginning on Tuesday, March 15th.

Jobs talks music with Rolling Stone

Jobs talks music with Rolling Stone 12/08/2003 10:26 AM
Rolling Stone magazine is one of the latest periodicals to cozy up to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. An article dated Dec. 3 has Jobs sh aring his insights about the music industry.

Strategy Boutique relights apparel
joss-stick

Strategy Boutique relights apparel
joss-stick 06/18/2004 06:24 AM
Cash'n'Carrion Whalesong-inspired t-shirt back in stock

Six Years After Melissa, Mass-Mailed
Malware Has Peaked

Six Years After Melissa, Mass-Mailed
Malware Has Peaked 03/25/2005 11:42 PM

The Observer | OMM | The Stone Roses,
The Stone Roses

The Observer | OMM | The Stone Roses,
The Stone Roses 06/21/2004 06:14 AM
The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses .. first

observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,13887,1240034,00.html
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Five stone

Five stone 04/20/2004 02:58 AM
five stone 1.0 released

URLs Set in Stone

URLs Set in Stone 01/05/2005 01:19 AM

I've often wondered whether or not you should change blog posts once they're published. While I often do just because I'm anal, part of me thinks that a blog post is a historical record and should be frozen in time.

It's sort of that way for the titles of posts on Gadgetopia since they're used for the URL. For instance, I screwed up the title of this post (it should be "ALT Attributes," not "ALT tags"), but I can't change it because that would change the URL. I'd have to put in a redirect because it gets a lot of traffic.

As annoying as it is on the surface, there's something...pure in this that I like. The title of this entry is frozen in time. It is how it was originally published. Just like a newspaper publisher can't take something back once it hits the newstand, I can't change this title.

This get me to thinking that it would be an interesting...expirement, to MD5 has hthe entire body of an entry and use the result as the URL. This means that you couldn't change one single character of the entry after it was published without completely changing the URL.

I find this idea intriguing. Not enough to try it, mind you, but stil interesting to consider.

Stone Age Romeos

Stone Age Romeos 01/01/2004 07:30 PM
Not wishing to give up the stereotype yet, I tell him that shortly before the interview I put his name into a Google search and the first listing was for a ...

The Stone Supercomputer

The Stone Supercomputer 12/24/2004 12:57 PM

The Stone SouperComputer: Who says your cluster has to be expensive? When it was running, this cluster at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory had 133 nodes in it, most 486s with 32MB RAM and 10 MB/s Ethernet cards.

While our first Beowulf-style parallel computer isn't built out of the most impressive hardware, we got tired of fighting for funding and went ahead with what we could find. Much like the classic Tale of Stone Soup, many individuals contributed to the existing machine*. Because of a complete lack of funding, we used surplus personal computers donated by individuals from ORNL, the Procurement Dept., Y-12, and K-25, to build a parallel computer system which uses public domain compilers and message passing libraries. This system was built at literally no cost.

This was back in the late 90s, so 66MHz wasn't that slow. Still, pretty darn slow.

Stone Studio 05/18/04

Stone Studio 05/18/04 05/19/2004 08:53 PM
The original suite of Mac OS X native applications for design to web and design to print and much more.

Soap-Stone 0.95

Soap-Stone 0.95 08/05/2004 11:23 PM
A Java network benchmarking tool.

Stone Cold IPO

Stone Cold IPO 09/20/2004 01:18 PM
StoneMor Partners debuts on the Nasdaq.

Stone skipping secrets

Stone skipping secrets 01/05/2004 11:09 AM

Like a Rolling Stone, Only It's Dylan

Like a Rolling Stone, Only It's Dylan 11/05/2003 01:54 AM
Los Angeles Times Nov 5 2003 1:46AM ET

'No stone unturned' in MoD probe

'No stone unturned' in MoD probe 05/04/2004 11:03 AM
Armed forces minister Adam Ingram pledges to uncover the truth in the Iraq "abuse" photos investigation.

Digital stepping stone

Digital stepping stone 02/13/2004 11:47 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Feb 14 2004 3:16AM GMT

Stone Skipping the Scientific Way

Stone Skipping the Scientific Way 01/10/2004 01:31 AM
Quirk writes "National Geographic has a bit on the scientific analysis of stone skipping. Using a machine launching aluminum disks Lyderic Bocquet, a physics ...

Stone appeals against conviction

Stone appeals against conviction 09/07/2004 09:56 PM
The man serving a life sentence for the murders of a mother and her daughter is to begin his second bid at the Court of Appeal to overturn his conviction.

Written in Photographic Stone

Written in Photographic Stone 12/27/2004 03:34 PM
If you were going to engrave something on an iPod, what would you choose to engrave? "I like it when...

"About lightspeedcash - Tori Stone"

"About lightspeedcash - Tori Stone" 12/29/2003 03:39 AM

Roger J. Stone, Jr. - Disinfopedia

Roger J. Stone, Jr. - Disinfopedia 09/22/2004 08:55 PM
long and illustrious career .. chaired the 9/11 commission .. dirty trickster

disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Roger_J._Stone,_Jr.
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Let me be frank, Jeffrey Stone...

Let me be frank, Jeffrey Stone... 02/01/2005 09:33 PM
Jeffrey Stone Wired News 660 3rd Street, 1st Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 Los Angeles, January 27, 2005 Let me be frank, Jeffrey Stone... There is a special reason why I am writing you today. I’ve been a reader and a loyal subscriber to Wired for quite some time now. Don’t worry, I intend to keep subscribing. That’s not why I’m writing. I write because today I got yet another “Professional Subscription Renewal Savings Voucher”, of course for the same...

On The Cover Of The Rolling Stone

On The Cover Of The Rolling Stone 12/29/2003 11:50 PM
Well, not exactly, but the Call-For-Helpathon did make the cover of the Sunday New York Times television section, and that's even better as far as I'm concerned. This is from the NYC local editions: The national edition had a black...

Brandon Stone Photography

Brandon Stone Photography 12/09/2003 06:11 AM
Brandon Stone .. Brandon

brandonstone.com
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Chris Stone turns up at StreamServe

Chris Stone turns up at StreamServe 04/19/2005 09:56 AM
Back in November, I mused over Chris Stone's departure from Novell (see link below) and since then many have asked me what Stone might be up to. At last month's BrainShare conference, I did run into some folks who had been in contact with Stone and all agreed that he was biding his time and relaxing before jumping back into the fray.

Vodafone Live : A Stepping Stone To 3G

Vodafone Live : A Stepping Stone To 3G 12/04/2003 05:00 AM
3G Dec 4 2003 4:04AM ET

The Omega Stone Mac-bound this December

The Omega Stone Mac-bound this December 11/04/2003 03:40 PM
DreamCatcher Interactive Inc. subsidiary The Adventure Company announced Tuesday plans to release a Mac conversion of its new adventure game The Omega Stone this December.

Zimbabwe 'returning to stone age'

Zimbabwe 'returning to stone age' 07/13/2004 05:28 AM
The introduction of ox-drawn ambulances is a sign that Zimbabwe is going backwards, the opposition says.

Jobs interviewed by Rolling Stone

Jobs interviewed by Rolling Stone 12/08/2003 11:51 AM
Rolling Stone has published an interesting interview with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, in which he shares his views on the music industry and Apple's position in it...

prince on cover of rolling stone

prince on cover of rolling stone 05/05/2004 07:59 PM
tony decurtis' story is amazingly fawning. he's partying like it's 1984.

Interview of Bruce Stone of Wow
Directory

Interview of Bruce Stone of Wow
Directory 06/10/2004 08:41 PM
Source: Search Engine Guide - If you ask a webmaster why they submit to a directory the majority will tell you they want links and search engine submission. From day one WoW was structured to give the webmaster what they...

Stone Studio updated for Panther

Stone Studio updated for Panther 02/11/2004 07:09 PM
Stone Design today announced the availability of new versions of Stone Studio, specifically to take advantage of new features in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)...

Stone Creek Coffee, Milwaukee, WI USA

Stone Creek Coffee, Milwaukee, WI USA 12/02/2003 01:02 AM
Rejoice, Cheeseheads!

Stone Creek Coffee, a local Milwaukee area chain of coffee shops, has installed free Wi-Fi internet access in all seven of their locations. Simply join the SSID "stone creek coffee", and you're on!

For photos of Stone Creek's Bay View store, plus a look at the quick reference card they provide to document the service, see Cape Macintosh's Stone Creek Info Page.

*These* guys really "get it"!

Also check out Cape Macintosh's Milwaukee Hot Spots List.

Peak oil article in Rolling Stone

Peak oil article in Rolling Stone 04/13/2005 10:49 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: I've been reading a lot about Peak Oil, which refers to the year at which oil production hits the peak of a bell curve, and after which oil production goes down, tapering to zero.

There's some argument about the year of the peak, but pretty much everyone agrees -- including the US government -- that the peak is fewer than a couple of decades away. A lot of experts says we've already hit the peak. James Howard Kunstler's piece in Rolling Stone, called "The Long Emergency," argues that the US hit its peak decades ago:

The United States passed its own oil peak -- about 11 million barrels a day -- in 1970, and since then production has dropped steadily. In 2004 it ran just above 5 million barrels a day (we get a tad more from natural-gas condensates). Yet we consume roughly 20 million barrels a day now. That means we have to import about two-thirds of our oil, and the ratio will continue to worsen.

The U.S. peak in 1970 brought on a portentous change in geoeconomic power. Within a few years, foreign producers, chiefly OPEC, were setting the price of oil, and this in turn led to the oil crises of the 1970s. In response, frantic development of non-OPEC oil, especially the North Sea fields of England and Norway, essentially saved the West's ass for about two decades. Since 1999, these fields have entered depletion. Meanwhile, worldwide discovery of new oil has steadily declined to insignificant levels in 2003 and 2004.

I think its inevitable that we are going to go nuclear. There's really no other way to deal with the fact that the world is hopelessly dependent on cheap energy. Fortunately, new nuclear power technologies like pebble bed reactors are much safer than the nuke plants of old. (Here's a good article about pebble bed reactors, written by Spencer Reiss in Wired. Here's a Wired article by Peter Schwartz and Spencer Reiss about "gr een" nuke plants. And here's another pro-nuke article that David noted a while back, written by Stewart Brand.) Link to Rolling Stone story (Thanks, Brian!)

Reader comment: Alex Steffan at WorldChanging says "you might be interested in reading these:"

The Post-Oil Megacity (why I think Kunstler's wrong on the implications of the end of cheap oil)

The best counter-argum ent to nuclear as climate-change-solution I've yet read:

and my favorite take on the issue

why the Europeans, especially the Germans, are kickin' our butt on renewables

and why better computing (in the form of "smart grids") is part of the answer

Reader comment: Brian Carnell says: "I like nuclear power plants as much as the next guy, but the chart here shows the real reason oil discoveries have leveled off -- until recently, we had an almost two decade collapse in oil prices.

"The late 1990s saw the lowest prices for oil *EVER*. That doesn't create much incentive to find new oil deposits (just as few people were interested in exploiting the North Seas until oil went through the roof in the 1970s.)

"If these oil prices continue, they'll almost certainly spur another round of intensive oil exploration and exploitation that will once again find yet more oil." Link

UPDATE: Here's another interesting article about Peak Oil.

Colin Campbell of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) predicts that production will begin its decline between now and 2010.

British Petroleum exploration consultant Francis Harper believes it will happen between 2010 and 2020. Consulting firm PFC Energy puts it at around 2010 to 2015. The publication Petroleum Review predicts that demand will outstrip supply in 2007. Richard Heinberg, author of the 2003 book, The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies, expects a peak in 2007 or 2008.

Retired Princeton professor Kenneth Deffeyes, author of the just-published, Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak is more pessimistic, and more specific, about when the peak will happen: Thanksgiving Day, 2005. (His tongue appears to be in his cheek regarding the day, but not the year).

If all that is too gloomy for you, energy consultant Michael Lynch maintains that there's no peak in sight for "the next 20 or 30 years." Peter Odell of Erasmus University in the Netherlands has tacked a full 30 years onto Deffeyes' grim prediction, setting a date of Thanksgiving 2035. And Uncle Sam has the cheeriest news of all: a peak year of 2037 forecast by the Department of Energy.

Link

Stone and Jagger in festive duet

Stone and Jagger in festive duet 09/09/2004 09:04 AM
Teenage soul singer Joss Stone teams up with rock legend Mick Jagger to perform a Christmas duet.

the branding of Cold Stone Creamery

the branding of Cold Stone Creamery 07/21/2004 02:44 PM
because "heart-stopping yummy fatness" wasn't as good a brand name

Risky Mines Stuck in Stone Age

Risky Mines Stuck in Stone Age 07/27/2004 06:16 AM
Thousands of miners die each year, but most of those deaths could be prevented if mine operators stopped using 19th-century technology. By John Gartner.

Scooby Doo: The Scary Stone Dragon

Scooby Doo: The Scary Stone Dragon 09/16/2004 11:31 AM
vnunet.com Sep 16 2004 3:53PM GMT

Stone Roses 'top British album'

Stone Roses 'top British album' 06/20/2004 12:40 PM
The Stone Roses' debut album tops the list of the best British albums in a critics' poll.
Grok Description matches for New Music: Joss Stone & Melissa Etheridge
GrokA matches for New Music: Joss Stone & Melissa Etheridge

"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
fights back .. lokittorrent .. Loki Torrent

lokitorrent.com
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Free baby photo trojan gets new moms to
sell baby-privacy

Free baby photo trojan gets new moms to
sell baby-privacy 04/04/2005 06:24 AM
Cory Doctorow: A friend of mine worked at Procter and Gamble when they hit on the idea of giving away baskets of baby-related freebies to new moms. The idea was that a couple days after the family went home and they needed more diapers, mom would send dad out with the package from the freebies and say, "More like these, please." It's pretty clever, and I'm cool with it -- especially now that the whole thing is handled through brokers who take products from a variety of vendors, with input from maternity wards.

That, I think, is a pretty good way of marketing to new families. It doesn't compromise privacy, it gives them something they need, and it doesn't force them or lock them in. It's informative, useful, and respectful (provided that the marketing makes it clear that there's no medical endorsement of these products).

Compare that to this: a service that sneakily gets moms to agree to a "free baby photo" while they're signing all their necessary medical forms on the morning of their delivery. The company that takes the picture then sells your contact info to anyone who'll buy it.

On the morning of the delivery, the nurse hands a sheaf of forms to the mother-to-be. Buried within is a release form offering a free portrait of the new baby. Mom is wired to three different machines, having her pulse and blood pressure measured automatically while two others sensors detect uterine contractions and the baby’s heart rate and another chattering electromechanical behemoth plots a seismograph of both...

...[T]he photo enterprise is run by a third party, Growing Family. They’ll shoot a picture of your munchkin, in exchange for his or her name and birthdate and your full name and address...

Growing Family will use your information from time to time to promote additional products, services, rewards and special offers from Growing Family Network and its select Network Partners.

Another friend of mine had his baby daughter die from crib-death a few weeks after she was born. For years afterward, he and his wife got a steady stream of marketing materials, including ghastly "birthday cards" from marketers who'd bought the information that they'd had a baby, but never received the message that the baby had died. Needless to say, when their next baby was born, they never, ever bought products from the companies that ghoulishly continued to market to their dead daughter. Link (via A Whole Lotta Nothing)

Torrent Zip

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

Torrent 0.61

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

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

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

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.

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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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.

Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your
TV

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

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]

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)

Torrent Site Status

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

orbdesign.net/bt
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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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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 Link for 74 briefs in 20.7MB"

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

Comrade - Bit Torrent Client

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

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 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)

Bit Torrent creator laughs at Microsoft
P2P

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

BeeTV - automatic torrent downloader

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

New Music: Joss Stone & Melissa Etheridge