AllTheWeb Alchemist Skin Design Contest Winners

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Design Contest for ATW Alchemist

Design Contest for ATW Alchemist 08/14/2002 06:14 AM
"Alltheweb starts a design contest for the ATW Alchemist program, allowing users to personalize the appearance of the ATW interface"

Fast Preps Alchemist Service for
AllTheWeb

Fast Preps Alchemist Service for
AllTheWeb 07/17/2002 12:55 AM
"AlltheWeb Alchemist marks the first time users can freely customize the appearance of their search engine and their search experience,”

PC/104 Design Contest Winners Announced

PC/104 Design Contest Winners Announced 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
The PC/104 Embedded Consortium has announced (PDF format) the winners of their 2004 design contest. The winner in the commercial category was SavantSense, a multi-channel data acquisition, processing, and storage unit. More interesting was the winner of the research category: the USC AVATAR Project. The AVATAR UAV is a robot helicopter designed around dual PC/104 stacks that provide GPS waypoint navigation, autonomous vision-based landing, autonomous sensor-based take-off, and image processing. Judges at this year's contest included Steve Ciarcia and our own Roger Arrick.

Apple announces Keynote design contest
winners

Apple announces Keynote design contest
winners 07/30/2004 12:19 PM
In June Apple started its "Present Your Passion" contest, and now it's announced the winners. The event sought the best presentations created using Apple's Keynote software. "Present Your Passion" garnered hundreds of entries, according to Apple, and the company has posted the top three winners and six honorable mentions. QuickTime movies of all winners and honorable mentions have been posted; you can even download the source for the grand prize, first place and second place entries.

Alltheweb Extends Contest Deadline

Alltheweb Extends Contest Deadline 09/22/2002 01:06 PM
"The AlltheWeb team has decided to extend the Alchemist Design Contest deadline through October 31, 2002."

AllTheWeb Rolls Out New Homepage Design

AllTheWeb Rolls Out New Homepage Design 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
AlltheWeb, recently acquired by Overture, has done a major redesign of their homepage.

Introducing the Band of Gonzos Web
Design and SEO Forum: Website Design
Contest

Introducing the Band of Gonzos Web
Design and SEO Forum: Website Design
Contest 06/15/2004 02:12 AM
We invite entries for a basic website design with navigation for a hosting company website (OgreHosting.com). The winning design will incorporate the existing graphics/logos and the general theme of OgreHosting. [PRWEB Jun 15, 2004]

CC Contest Winners

CC Contest Winners 03/06/2004 01:51 AM
The winners of the Creative Commons contest have been announc ed. I would have had a particularly hard time picking between the first two. "Mix Tape" is a brilliant way of making the point.

Gmail contest winners

Gmail contest winners 06/14/2004 02:18 AM

First off, let me just say I got a ton of response to my gmail photo invites thing and among the entries I got far too many good ones to pick just a few. I actually used gmail's built-in tools to track everything. By labeling all incoming entries, I can see in one click that 118 people sent a photo link in. Of those, I put a star next to 36 I liked on first view. Of those, I narrowed them down to 31. Among those 31, there was something compelling about the colors, lighting, and/or subject matter and any one of ten could have had the top spots. I'm going with my gut reaction on first viewing but here are the three winning entries:

a kite photo, a net photo, & a sunset photo

It was really hard to pick the top three, as any one of these could have also been there. If I had more invites to give out, I would have thrown them all into this list, in no particular order:

§ § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § §

I learned some things in this experiment. The biggest one is that when I said "send in your best photo" I figured that meant the best composition with the best lighting and most technically superior image. What most people sent was their finest memory captured on film, regardless of photo quality. It was eye-opening to me, and told me a lot about over a hundred strangers. I got to see many, many photos from vacations and untold numbers of sunsets. It's a fantastic way to experience meaningful moments in peoples' lives, by seeing these photos. I've been getting way too far into the technical side of photography for the last year or two and forgot that photography is first and foremost a way to record memories.

Overall, I got to see (and share here) many wonderful photos and memories from those that sent them in. I wish I had more invites to give and thank everyone for participating.

10-March-2003 -- AllTheWeb/FAST and
Google: In Practice AllTheWeb Best!!

10-March-2003 -- AllTheWeb/FAST and
Google: In Practice AllTheWeb Best!! 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
AllTheWeb/FAST and Google: In Practice AllTheWeb Best!! -- "The objectives of the test were to evaluate in practice how ready...

MacJams announces contest winners

MacJams announces contest winners 08/30/2004 08:40 AM
Our friends at the GarageBand user's site MacJams.com today announced the winners of its recent MacJamboree song and user participation contest...

.Mac Creativity Contest Winners
Announced

.Mac Creativity Contest Winners
Announced 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
Apple has announced the winners of its HomePage Creativity Contest. The contest featured 3 categories, Creative Page, Humorous iMovie, and Incredible Pets, with winners and runner-ups each receiving iPods. Congratulations to the winners!

Fine Art of Sampling Contest Winners

Fine Art of Sampling Contest Winners 03/14/2005 06:06 PM

The final winners of the Freestyle Mix, and the Milita Mix contests have been announced on Mixter. The top eleven Freestyle Mix entries have won a spot on the Creative Commons release, The WIRED CD -- Ripped. Sampled. Mashed. Shared. (playing off the original WIRED CD), and free passes to the M3 Music Summit in Miami. The top track of the Militia Mix Contest won a spot on the next Fine Arts Militia Album Featuring Chuck D. Brian Hardgroove of Fine Arts Militia has this to say: "Overall, I would have been proud to put most of those mixes on the new record -- mad props to the producers."

We'd like to offer a huge thanks to all the contestants and judges, and specifically to Victor Stone for building Mixter and moderating the site (more on Mixter later). This experiment has yielded some great music that will hopefully promote the concept of collaboration over space and time, even further.

FeedDemon banner contest winners

FeedDemon banner contest winners 02/10/2004 02:47 AM

Yes terday I listed the finalists in the FeedDemon banner contest, and as promised I'm ready to announce the winners.

And the winner is...well, every one of the finalists is a winner! I found it impossible to choose a single winner among the finalists in each category, since I could see myself using all of their banners. So, all three of the finalists will receive a free copy of both TopStyle Pro and FeedDemon. My thanks again to everyone who submitted a design, and my congratulations to the three winners below:

• Olegas Kurasovas
• Albert Tanutama
• Christopher Owens

Now that the contest is over, I've created a page of FeedDemon banners and buttons:

http://www.bradsoft. com/feeddemon/banners/

If you'd like to use any of these images on your site, please feel free to do so :)

Design is Only Skin Deep

Design is Only Skin Deep 12/01/2002 08:56 AM
Real world Webmasters continue to assert that the majority of what is taught in web design and web graphics classes is wrong. It is the low key, no graphic, easy to read, white space strong, low impact pages that are producing long term results in the real world.

'Me and My iPod' photo contest winners
announced

'Me and My iPod' photo contest winners
announced 05/07/2004 12:09 PM
The iPodlounge has announced the winners of its "Me and My iPod" photo contest...

Qt/Mac Application Developer Contest
winners named

Qt/Mac Application Developer Contest
winners named 06/29/2004 05:23 PM
Trolltech has announced the winners of the worldwide contest for Qt/Mac developers, which has the goal of encouraging developers to "be creative with Qt for Mac OS X" and to "increase the number of innovative applications on the Mac."...

Unified Site Contest III Winners
Announced

Unified Site Contest III Winners
Announced 04/21/2004 10:24 PM
The third installment of the Unified Site Contest is over and the winners have been announced. Find out if you are lucky and just where WERE all of those hidden pieces?

Zend's PHP 5 Coding Contest winners
announced

Zend's PHP 5 Coding Contest winners
announced 12/17/2004 06:33 PM
Congratulations to Qiang Xue, whose application 'PRADO' earned high votes both from the public and from the judges' panel! There are 49 other prizewinning applications in Zend's contest gallery - too many to list here. Some of them are ongoing projects, bringing PHP 5 a small armoury of useful open source tools. The top 50 applications will remain on display until the end of this year, giving you the chance to take a leisurely look through the code and see how the new features in PHP 5 should be used.

OS X Conference: Innovators Contest
winners announced

OS X Conference: Innovators Contest
winners announced 10/31/2003 09:31 AM
Winners of the third and final round of the Mac OS X Innovator's Contest have been announced at O'Reilly's Mac OS X Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. Sponsored by Apple Developer Connection (ADC), the contest "rewards innovative Mac OS X applications, plug-ins, user interface widgets, or other creative original software."

No "Free Entry Winners" In The iTunes
Contest...

No "Free Entry Winners" In The iTunes
Contest... 07/13/2004 06:48 PM
It's pretty much impossible to know if the free entries were really ever even part of the contest. By Phillip Torrone, Engadget (via MyAppleMenu)

O'Reilly announces OS X Innovators
Contest winners

O'Reilly announces OS X Innovators
Contest winners 10/30/2003 09:21 PM
O'Reilly announced the winners of the third and final round of its Mac OS X Innovators Contest at the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference today...

'Rock with Rapidweaver' contest winners
announced

'Rock with Rapidweaver' contest winners
announced 07/19/2004 10:03 AM
Realmac Software has announced the winners of its "Rock with RapidWeaver" competition...

Moving Images Contest Winners Announced

Moving Images Contest Winners Announced 03/06/2004 01:53 AM

We're happy to announce the winners in our GET CREATIVE!: Moving Images Contest. Last fall, we asked aspiring filmmakers and flash artists to create a short film that explained the mission of the Creative Commons. Our panel of judges has selected the top three entries and they're all terrific. We want to thank everyone that entered, everyone that helped spread the word, our judges for taking time to help us with the contest, and most of all thanks and congratulations to Justin Cone, Sheryl Seibert, and Kuba & Alek Tarkowski.

Winners of the ExtremeTech Extreme Case
Mod Contest

Winners of the ExtremeTech Extreme Case
Mod Contest 06/21/2004 11:21 PM
And the winners of the contest are...

Perl Haiku Contest Winners Announced

Perl Haiku Contest Winners Announced 02/14/2004 01:14 PM

Plug In To Movable Type 3.0 Developer's
Contest Winners

Plug In To Movable Type 3.0 Developer's
Contest Winners 07/23/2004 04:22 AM
Tonight, at BlogOn, we announced the winners of our Plug In To Movable Type 3.0 Developer's contest. While we received...

WThRemix Contest Winners to be announced
March 24th

WThRemix Contest Winners to be announced
March 24th 03/19/2003 10:26 PM
Due to busy schedules and the overly complex voting system I put together, the WThRemix contest winners will be announced...

SchmartBOARD Announces June 2004 Contest
Winners

SchmartBOARD Announces June 2004 Contest
Winners 06/03/2004 02:09 AM
SchmartBOARD, a company that develops “Electronic Circuit Building BlocksTM “, has started a contest to help introduce their new concept. Schmartboards are targeted towards engineers who would like to avoid having to do multiple revisions on PCB layouts and to students and electronic hobbyists who are tired of wire-wrap board, proto-board and breadboard limitations. [PRWEB Jun 3, 2004]

Google announces winners of essay
contest for underwriters

Google announces winners of essay
contest for underwriters 01/07/2004 07:05 PM
Production of anti-piracy standards soars: The cold war over digital rights management standards will ratchet up another notch in February when a consortium of ...

SchmartBOARD Announces August 2004
Contest Winners

SchmartBOARD Announces August 2004
Contest Winners 08/04/2004 02:37 AM
SchmartBOARD, a company that develops “Electronic Circuit Building BlocksTM “, has started a contest to help introduce their new concept. Schmartboards are targeted towards engineers who would like to avoid having to do multiple revisions on PCB layouts and to students and electronic hobbyists who are tired of wire-wrap board, proto-board and breadboard limitations. [PRWEB Aug 4, 2004]

SchmartBOARD Announces September 2004
Contest Winners

SchmartBOARD Announces September 2004
Contest Winners 09/09/2004 03:22 AM
SchmartBOARD, a company that develops “Electronic Circuit Building BlocksTM “, has started a contest to help introduce their new concept. Schmartboards are targeted towards engineers who would like to avoid having to do multiple revisions on PCB layouts and to students and electronic hobbyists who are tired of wire-wrap board, proto-board and breadboard limitations. [PRWEB Sep 9, 2004]

Six Log: Plug In To Movable Type 3.0
Developer's Contest Winners

Six Log: Plug In To Movable Type 3.0
Developer's Contest Winners 07/23/2004 05:56 PM
Six Apart have announced the winners of the Plug in to Movable Type contest

sixapart.com/log/2004/07/plug_in_to_mova.shtml
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Creative Commons Moving Image Contest
Winners

Creative Commons Moving Image Contest
Winners 03/06/2004 01:56 AM

The Creative Commons Moving Image Contest Winners have been announced. They rock. Check it out.

SchmartBOARD Announces July 2004 Contest
Winners

SchmartBOARD Announces July 2004 Contest
Winners 07/03/2004 02:22 AM
SchmartBOARD, a company that develops “Electronic Circuit Building BlocksTM “, has started a contest to help introduce their new concept. Schmartboards are targeted towards engineers who would like to avoid having to do multiple revisions on PCB layouts and to students and electronic hobbyists who are tired of wire-wrap board, proto-board and breadboard limitations. [PRWEB Jul 3, 2004]

PDC 2003 Avalon Screen Saver Contest
Winners

PDC 2003 Avalon Screen Saver Contest
Winners 12/11/2003 06:09 AM
Download the source code for the PDC 2003 Avalon Screen Saver Contest Winners.

• Required: Windows "Longhorn" PDC Release
• Recommended: Visual Studio .NET "Whidbey" PDC Release

Microsoft and PC Magazine Announce
Winners Of Tablet PC "Does Your Code
Think In Ink?" Contest

Microsoft and PC Magazine Announce
Winners Of Tablet PC "Does Your Code
Think In Ink?" Contest 06/02/2004 12:06 PM
Microsoft Corp. and PC Magazine today announced the winners of the Microsoft® Tablet PC "Does Your Code Think In Ink?" contest, a competition challenging developers to build the most creative PowerToy utilities that incorporate digital ink functionality included in the Microsoft Windows® XP Tablet PC Edition platform. The goal of the contest was to provide users with a new set of free PowerToys that will enrich their Tablet PC experience. Individual developers across the globe submitted code in competition for the grand prize of $15,000. Microsoft and PC Magazine selected one grand-prize winner and two runners-up from more than 70 unique entries.

Internet Video Magazine announces iMovie
contest winners

Internet Video Magazine announces iMovie
contest winners 12/11/2003 07:19 AM
Internet Video Magazine today announced the winners of their recent iMovie contest, where aspiring videographers, or people that just wanted to have fun creating their own "home movies" could present submissions...

Yahoo! Kimo awards winners of 'Let Your
Email Talk' contest

Yahoo! Kimo awards winners of 'Let Your
Email Talk' contest 12/12/2003 03:17 AM
eTaiwanNews.com Dec 12 2003 1:47AM ET
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New: Wolfram Publicon 1.0

New: Wolfram Publicon 1.0 09/07/2004 10:25 AM
Wolfram Research introduced Publicon, an application for creating publication-quality technical documents that integrate text, searchable typeset equations, graphics, hyperlinks, endnotes, and references.

Wolfram Publicon creates technical
documents

Wolfram Publicon creates technical
documents 08/11/2004 10:27 AM
Mathematica developer Wolfram Research has announced the introduction of Wolfram Publicon, an integrated solution for creating technical documents that can be exported to HTML, XML, LaTeX or custom Publicon formats. Publicon supports the inclusion of math typesetting symbols, including chemical equations and special characters, in documents and allows authors to copy and paste information from Wolfram's Mathematica technical computing system. It also offers a WYSIWYG interface, the ability to search within typeset equations, spell-checking with a built-in technical dictionary, instant bibliographies and more. Pricing is US$149 and Publicon runs in Mac OS X, although Wolfram does not furnish system requirements on its Web site.

Wolfram Publicon creates technical
documents.

Wolfram Publicon creates technical
documents. 08/12/2004 12:38 AM
MacCentral: Wolfra m Publicon creates technical documents.

"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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ALL MULTIPLE P2P NETWORK FILE SHARING
SOFTWARE ARE NOT THE SAME: TrustyFiles
2.2 update adds Bit Torrent access and
delivers the fastest and most results
and download sources with 100% native
code.

ALL MULTIPLE P2P NETWORK FILE SHARING
SOFTWARE ARE NOT THE SAME: TrustyFiles
2.2 update adds Bit Torrent access and
delivers the fastest and most results
and download sources with 100% native
code. 06/07/2004 02:37 AM
RazorPop, Inc. announced the release of TrustyFiles 2.2 Personal File Sharing software at http://www.TrustyFiles.com. The performance-driven update cements TrustyFile’s position as the leader in Multi-P2P network software. TrustyFiles 2.2 features 100% native code and adds Bit Torrent network support. TrustyFiles continues to be FREE with NO spyware and NO additional bundled software. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2004]

My first torrent

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

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

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

Comment - TrackBack

Torrent 0.61

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

Torrent Zip

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

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]

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

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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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

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]

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)

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.

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

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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Better Than Bit Torrent, For Internet2
Users?

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

Comrade - Bit Torrent Client

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

SP2 Bit Torrent Legal Challenge

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

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

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

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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

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 Link for 74 briefs in 20.7MB"

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

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)

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.

Link

Bit Torrent creator laughs at Microsoft
P2P

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

AllTheWeb Alchemist Skin Design Contest Winners