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Web users increasingly prefer online
news

Web users increasingly prefer online
news 06/17/2005 04:30 PM
Ciol.com - Fri Jun 17, 09:01 am GMT

Google news - some of the news that's
fit to read

Google news - some of the news that's
fit to read 08/03/2004 04:43 PM
Digital Deliverance: From More Than 7,000 Sources, Just a Dozen Account for Most Google News Stories?...

How your eyes read news

How your eyes read news 09/08/2004 04:44 PM
Cory Doctorow: Researchers with the Eyetrack III project used software-controlled cameras to follow the eyes of readers who were perusing news websites, in order to determine the topology of attention. Link (via Dan Gillmor)

I read the news today, oh boy

I read the news today, oh boy 06/30/2004 02:15 PM

Does Rumsfeld read Scripting News?

Does Rumsfeld read Scripting News? 05/13/2004 05:12 AM

Yesterda y: "Bush gets a one-way ticket to Falluja, so he can personally clean up the mess he created. He can take his great Defense Secretary with him. "

Today< /a>: "Embattled US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld has arrived in Baghdad on a surprise visit."

"It's even worse than it appears."

Must Read: The Truth About FOX News,
From an Insider 10/30

Must Read: The Truth About FOX News,
From an Insider 10/30 10/30/2003 11:25 AM
letter to Romenesko .. a revealing letter .. spills the beans .. Charles Reina .. more

poynter.org/forum/?id=letters#foxnews
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Canadian News: Zellers Stockboys Can’t
Read

Canadian News: Zellers Stockboys Can’t
Read 03/22/2005 11:32 PM
We’ve been getting a lot of reports over the last couple of weeks about Canadian collectors scoring Revenge Of The Sith toys at Zellers stores across the country (except here in Vancouver. Typical.), but this one takes the cake. Rebelscum reader Jason from Toronto wrote in that he found all the LEGO sets pictured above at the East York Town Centre Zellers, but that isn’t the best part. It would appear as though the chain is preparing for the big event on April 2nd by clearing out all their older LEGO sets With a buy one, get one 50% off sale! This of course is including all the new stock their more illiterate employees are stocking the shelves with.

80% of Online Americans Read Internet
News

80% of Online Americans Read Internet
News 06/02/2004 06:23 PM
“Four out of five adults (80%) who are online report that they have used the Internet to read some kind of news in the last seven days. The types of online news used by the largest numbers of people are the weather (60% of all those online), national news (56%), international news (44%) and local news (36%). Currently 69% of all U.S. adults are online from home, work, school, library or other location.”

French News : Tim Rose In Paris

French News : Tim Rose In Paris 03/20/2003 08:33 AM
Tim Rose will be signing autographs at Pulp's in Paris April 26th 10am until 6pm. Price of the autographs: 10 euros each. Tim Rose was the puppet-master of Salacious Crumb and Sy Snootles in Return Of The Jedi, as well as the man behind the mask of Admiral Ackbar.

AFP French News Wire Sues Google

AFP French News Wire Sues Google 03/22/2005 04:24 PM
Agence France Presse announced Friday that it was suing Google in order to stop it from using AFP material on its Google News site, and is asking for damages of $17.5 million. AFP maintains that Google never got permission from the wire service to link or display its stories or pictures.

"Yahoo! News - French Fries Get New Name
in Congress"

"Yahoo! News - French Fries Get New Name
in Congress" 03/13/2003 10:25 AM

Google Under Fire from French News
Agency

Google Under Fire from French News
Agency 03/22/2005 09:50 PM
Google is being sued for $17.5 million by Agence France Presse (AFP) for posting copyrighted articles and photos, allegedly without paying royalties.

BBC NEWS | Africa | Rwanda inquiry into
French role

BBC NEWS | Africa | Rwanda inquiry into
French role 08/01/2004 11:10 PM
launching its own investigation .. continues .. (Link)

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3525970.stm
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BBC NEWS | Europe | French teenagers mug
Santa Claus

BBC NEWS | Europe | French teenagers mug
Santa Claus 12/24/2004 01:09 PM
French teenagers beat up Santa Claus for candy .. mugged Father Christmas

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4117383.stm
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Yahoo! News - Kerry Didn't Read Iraq
Report Before Vote -- Aides

Yahoo! News - Kerry Didn't Read Iraq
Report Before Vote -- Aides 07/15/2004 05:09 AM
Kerry Didn't Read Iraq Report Before Vote -- Aides .. Check this out .. Whoops

news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&u=/nm/20040714/pl_nm/c ampaign_kerry_iraq_dc_1&printer=1
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French news agency sues Google for
excerpting stories

French news agency sues Google for
excerpting stories 03/25/2005 11:13 PM
First Amendment Center Mar 26 2005 3:39AM GMT

BBC NEWS | Europe | French court bans
Christ advert

BBC NEWS | Europe | French court bans
Christ advert 03/17/2005 02:49 AM
"But lawyers for the fashion house said banning the image would amount to censorship." .. French court bans Christ advert

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4337031.stm
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | French Jews
'must move to Israel'

BBC NEWS | Middle East | French Jews
'must move to Israel' 07/19/2004 01:06 AM
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Has Urged All French Jews To Move To Israel Immediately To Escape Anti-Semitism

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3904943.stm
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22 Italians (funny, it only read 12 when
I first read it this morning) died in a
bomb blast in Iraq

22 Italians (funny, it only read 12 when
I first read it this morning) died in a
bomb blast in Iraq 11/13/2003 08:53 AM
Bombing comes despite attacks on insurgents .. lourd tribut .. CNN

cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/11/12/sprj.irq.main/index.html
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Yahoo! News - France's US envoy slams
"racist campaign" against French over
Iraq war

Yahoo! News - France's US envoy slams
"racist campaign" against French over
Iraq war 04/16/2004 02:32 PM
France’s US envoy slams ‘racist campaign’ against French over Iraq war .. une race .. claims

news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040415/ts_alt_afp/us_ france_040415152134
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Read My Lips: Read My Lips Proudly
Presents the 89th Edition of the
Carnival of the Vanities

Read My Lips: Read My Lips Proudly
Presents the 89th Edition of the
Carnival of the Vanities 06/03/2004 06:36 AM
Read My Lips: Read My Lips Proudly Presents the 89th Edition of the Carnival of the Vanities

tig.mu.nu/archives/030809.html
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"French investigators questioned seven
men pointed out by U.S. intelligence but
found no evidence they planned to use a
Los Angeles-bound jet to launch terror
attacks against the United States,
French authorities said Thursday"

"French investigators questioned seven
men pointed out by U.S. intelligence but
found no evidence they planned to use a
Los Angeles-bound jet to launch terror
attacks against the United States,
French authorities said Thursday" 12/26/2003 09:03 PM

I prefer AskMe

I prefer AskMe 04/18/2005 02:57 PM
Ask and ye shall receive - Another forum in which to ask questions. It appears to operate somewhat like Ask Metafilter. I think I'll stick with AskMe, but perhaps I will try some of my questions that never really got answered over at Wondir. (via Boing Boing)

The Reasons I Prefer To Teach On A Mac

The Reasons I Prefer To Teach On A Mac 05/12/2004 06:53 PM
By John Nichols, Mac Using Educators (via MyAppleMenu)

9 out of 10 cats prefer CDs to downloads

9 out of 10 cats prefer CDs to downloads 09/17/2004 06:55 AM
And so do their owners

Women prefer cats to men

Women prefer cats to men 03/17/2005 03:24 AM

After three weeks of hanging around like an unwelcome in-law, the filthy grey snow banks are finally melting here in Boston.  With the advent of warmth and sunshine I would have expected everyonealong Alex's Harvard Yard/Square dog walking route to be grinning with happiness.  Yet people did not seem any happier than usual.  To explain this phenomenon it is necessary to turn to TIME magazine's January 17, 2005 "The Science of Happiness" issue.  According to TIME, "sunny days [do not make us happy though] a 1998 study showed that Midwesterners think folks living in balmy California are happier and that Californians incorrectly believe this about themselves too."

Friends and family make people happy as does "contributing to the lives of others" (tough for folks in Vero Beach, FL given that it is tough to find anyone within a gated community facing a more important decision than whether to play golf or tennis).  When asked "do you often do any of the following to improve your mood?", TIME's own poll revealed that 38 percent of women checked off "playing with pet"; only 18 percent checked "have sex".  As the favored pet among America's ladies is the cat, from this we can conclude that cats are more satisfying to women than men are.

[Additional sources: World Values Survey at http://wvs.isr.umich.edu/; BBC article http://news.bbc.c o.uk/2/hi/africa/3157570.stm]

Microsofties Prefer iPod

Microsofties Prefer iPod 03/14/2005 06:04 PM

According to Wired.com, a high-level manager at Microsoft reports that 80 percent of employees who own a portable music player have Apple iPods — and worried executives actually send out e-mails discouraging their use.

Citizens not using e-gov, prefer
telephone

Citizens not using e-gov, prefer
telephone 04/07/2005 10:11 PM
DMeurope.com Apr 7 2005 10:26PM GMT

Why I prefer Opera over Firefox

Why I prefer Opera over Firefox 12/19/2004 03:14 PM
For all my daily browsing, I prefer Opera over Firefox. Yes, I know Firefox is open-source and all that. I...

If you read nothing else today - READ
THIS

If you read nothing else today - READ
THIS 03/13/2003 12:46 PM
great piece (full of the truth) .. The French Connection .. New York Times .. him seriously .. Bill Safire

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"If you read nothing else today - READ
THIS"

"If you read nothing else today - READ
THIS" 03/13/2003 03:47 PM

Another Reason Why We Prefer RSS Than
E-Mail Newsletters

Another Reason Why We Prefer RSS Than
E-Mail Newsletters 07/07/2004 01:11 AM
From Dave Winer, Mr. RSS himself: I never had the option to unsubscribe from spam in email, so I feel especially empowered here, in control, and okay with it.

Kids Prefer Gadgets To Family

Kids Prefer Gadgets To Family 08/13/2004 05:45 AM
Remember when being "sent to your room" was punishment as a kid? Nowadays, with kids have computers, TVs, DVD players and mobile phones, they actually prefer being in their room than being out in the rest of the house with their families. Similar to the study we pointed to a few weeks ago about technol ogy killing the traditional road trip as kids wall themselves off in a digital cocoon, it appears kids would much rather be off alone watching TV, surfing the web and (most importantly) text messaging with their friends. While the article makes it sound like the technology is to blame, that's a weak excuse. The technology didn't put itself in the room and lock the kid up. Shouldn't the parents be somewhat responsible?

Consumers Prefer Movies At Home

Consumers Prefer Movies At Home 06/17/2005 03:48 PM

Democratic presidential candidates
prefer PCs

Democratic presidential candidates
prefer PCs 11/05/2003 12:09 PM
Democratic presidential candidates were asked one very important question last night at the Rock the Vote debate in Boston: Mac or PC? Of those that answered the audience question, Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean said PC, Former U.S...

Why I prefer Open Source databases

Why I prefer Open Source databases 09/16/2002 07:41 AM
- By JT Smith - I've been working with databases for many years. I started out with Oracle and Informix then used a little Sybase. Then I discovered open source and used mSQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL pretty extensively. Most recently I've been working with Oracle again, and just started playing with MSSQL. Why is any of this important? It’s important because I've seen the good and the bad of all these systems. And perhaps even more important are ...

Microsoft employees prefer Google

Microsoft employees prefer Google 01/05/2005 06:46 AM
Guardian Unlimited Jan 5 2005 11:08AM GMT

Discriminating Ninjas Prefer Bellbottoms

Discriminating Ninjas Prefer Bellbottoms 04/10/2004 03:17 PM
N [flash, download only] is a Lode Runner clone that features a fun physics engine and sharp control. [via MoFi]

North American GSM Carriers Prefer
Motorola

North American GSM Carriers Prefer
Motorola 09/08/2004 12:26 PM
Forbes Sep 8 2004 3:35PM GMT
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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
fights back .. lokittorrent .. Loki Torrent

lokitorrent.com
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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.

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)

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.

Following up on Torrent Shutdowns

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

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)

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.

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]

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

Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your
TV

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

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

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
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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

orbdesign.net/bt
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Torrent of video from DV Guide

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

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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

torrentocracy - blog

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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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)

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 /.)

Bit Torrent creator laughs at Microsoft
P2P

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

AnimeMonitor RSS (torrent) feed monitor

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

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)

BeeTV - automatic torrent downloader

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

Would you prefer to read french news only ?