Royal Opera Boots Soprano for Weight (AP)

Grok Headline matches for Royal Opera Boots Soprano for Weight (AP)

Maestro walks out on Royal Opera

Maestro walks out on Royal Opera 09/24/2004 05:56 AM
An Italian conductor withdraws from a Royal Opera House production following a dispute over set design.

At Long Last, a True Space Opera. Turing
Opera Workshop releases teaser trailer
for new 3d sci-fi opera, Kai, Death of
Dreams.

At Long Last, a True Space Opera. Turing
Opera Workshop releases teaser trailer
for new 3d sci-fi opera, Kai, Death of
Dreams. 05/31/2004 02:13 PM
Scarborough, ME -- January 12, 2004 Turing Opera Workshop releases the first teaser trailer for their production of Richard deCostas 3d sci-fi opera, K'ai, Death of Dreams. The trailer, available on the production website, http://www.RicharddeCosta.com/KaiOpera, is a preview of the opera scheduled for release in February. The opera is being produced entirely in 3d computer graphics. [PRWEB Jan 13, 2004]

soprano

soprano 11/13/2003 06:33 AM
soprano will be back

Tony Soprano is hacking my IE?

Tony Soprano is hacking my IE? 06/25/2004 01:50 PM

Wait 'til I tells my cousin Vinny! Meantime, I'm just a little goomba sticking wid IE. Dares sum tings I gotta do:

1. Update antivirus definitions
2. Check for Micro$oft Updates
3. Disable javascript in my IE

Bada bing, bada boom.

Tony Soprano to Bush: Get out of my city

Tony Soprano to Bush: Get out of my city 09/01/2004 05:24 PM
From 30th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan streaming downtown, tens of thousands of union members joined a huge AFL-CIO Labor Day rally against George W. Bush. Featured were all the labor speakers you'd expect, including AFL-CIO head John Sweeney. A minister read the passage from Exodus about the burning bush, inspiring the crowd to chant: "Put Bush out."

Opera Skinned & Opera Directory
Traversal (Additional Details & a Simple
Exploit)

Opera Skinned & Opera Directory
Traversal (Additional Details & a Simple
Exploit) 11/12/2003 01:14 PM
S G Masood (Nov 12 2003)

Opera Software Announces The Opera
Browser for Windows Mobile

Opera Software Announces The Opera
Browser for Windows Mobile 08/31/2004 08:29 PM
Opera announces intention to produce a version ofr Microsoft Windows Mobile Software.

Opera 7.50 preview and my Opera Journal

Opera 7.50 preview and my Opera Journal 12/23/2003 02:09 PM
A few days ago, Opera released an early Christmas Present for the avid group of people following the opera.beta newsgroup,...

Opera Releases Security Fix for Opera
6.x

Opera Releases Security Fix for Opera
6.x 03/20/2003 08:31 AM

How Linux boots

How Linux boots 07/13/2004 07:14 AM
This articles teaches you how a Linux system starts, or boots -- that is, how the kernel gets into memory and how the regular system processes get started.

Red Hat Linux boots Windows off PCs

Red Hat Linux boots Windows off PCs 06/09/2004 04:12 AM
Silicon.com Jun 9 2004 8:17AM GMT

Jesus Boots perfected!

Jesus Boots perfected! 08/03/2004 12:29 PM
Je sus Boots perfected! NYT: In the last 150 years, Americans have patented about 100 water-walking inventions. The first, in 1858, was by H. R. Rowlands, who lived in Boston, not far from where Mr. Rosen resides, in Newton, Mass. Most of the subsequent patents, Mr. Rosen said, are iterations of that same idea. "Unfortunately," Mr. Rosen observed, "none of them actually work."

HP boots ServerWorks with new Xeon kit

HP boots ServerWorks with new Xeon kit 07/26/2004 09:00 PM
64-bit ProLiant charge

These boots were made for slimming

These boots were made for slimming 02/12/2004 08:04 AM
Manchester Online Feb 12 2004 12:20PM GMT

Intel boots up for 20% increase in
revenues

Intel boots up for 20% increase in
revenues 11/16/2003 08:31 PM
Calcutta Telegraph Nov 16 2003 8:02PM ET

Boots 'aims to shed 1,000 jobs'

Boots 'aims to shed 1,000 jobs' 01/11/2004 11:17 AM
Health and beauty retailer Boots will announce 1,000 job cuts this week as part of a cost-cutting exercise, reports say.

Notes and Tips: AppleCare Bad Boots

Notes and Tips: AppleCare Bad Boots 05/10/2004 10:23 AM
Here are some tips about a widespread problem of AppleCare CDs not supporting current Mac models properly.

Want to score? Put basil in your boots
(Reuters)

Want to score? Put basil in your boots
(Reuters) 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
Reuters - If you want to score a goal, make sure you put some grass from the pitch inside your shirt. And if you want your team to win, never whistle on the bus.

Flying Inside My Cowboy Boots

Flying Inside My Cowboy Boots 05/15/2004 09:38 PM

Remember the opening scene of StarWars movie that made you feel like a little bug under the belly of a huge beast?

When I was a child, I would take ordinary things around the house and examine them closely, not as one would look at it with a microscope, but looking at it like an ant or a fly might see while crawling or flying across it's surface.  What I enjoyed was the different perspective and its effect on me.  Mere dented pots and pans suddenly transformed into spaceships or spacestations, and those ugly dents on the outer hull had a lot of stories to tell.  Aside from my parents worrying about me spending hours alone with a frying pan in hand, it was magical times for me.

I wish I could do the same with products sold at e-tail websites or auction sites.  Unfortunately, not even quality static pictures of products are readily available.  Innovative e-tailers like Zappos are impr oving shopper experience but it's still far from my vision of satisfying shopping experience.

Is this a moneymaker?  I think it is for expensive products like Gucci bags.  If you see those bags very closely with lights glinting off each bumps in the leather texture, they look far more substantial than they really are.  3D model and texture database of products is also valuable IP.

Can it be done?  Definitely.  You will need even more high resolution textures than yet to be released Doom 3, but next version of DirectX will break open most of the limitations that made it difficult.

It won't be long before shoppers will be flying around the things they are interested in buying.  Hmm.  If you are a guy, wouldn't you want to hover across the surface of Planet Halle Berry?  Captain!  I am experiencing stronger than usual turbulence between her cleavages.

Yeah, yeah.  I know I am weird and I like it that way.

Boots & Coots: Oil Price Beneficiary?

Boots & Coots: Oil Price Beneficiary? 05/19/2004 04:23 PM
With oil more than $40 a barrel, this company could be a good investment.

Rugby: Gibbs hangs up boots

Rugby: Gibbs hangs up boots 01/22/2004 02:09 PM
Wales and Lions great Scott Gibbs is set to retire from professional rugby.

Google Boots Ads From Unlicensed
Pharmacies

Google Boots Ads From Unlicensed
Pharmacies 12/02/2003 10:18 PM
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google has stopped taking ads from unlicensed pharmacies, joining other popular Web sites that have responded to pressure to curb the illegal ...

Boots on the Ground, Hearts on Their
Sleeves

Boots on the Ground, Hearts on Their
Sleeves 12/03/2003 05:14 AM
an opposite moral universe .. David Brooks .. column

nytimes.com/2003/12/02/opinion/02BROO.html
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"Boots on the Ground, Hearts on Their
Sleeves"

"Boots on the Ground, Hearts on Their
Sleeves" 12/03/2003 09:47 PM

Diamonds and boots are a cowboy's best
friend (Reuters)

Diamonds and boots are a cowboy's best
friend (Reuters) 01/23/2004 06:34 PM
Reuters - Rhinestone cowboys looking for a more distinctive way to show their flair for jewellery may want to try on a pair of $250,000 (135,000 pound) boots studded with diamonds and rubies.

ULB 2004 Preview: Ultimate Linux Box
Boots

ULB 2004 Preview: Ultimate Linux Box
Boots 05/10/2004 05:59 AM
A sneak peak at what's inside this year's dream machine.

Boots deploys digital print kiosks

Boots deploys digital print kiosks 07/02/2004 10:09 AM
Colour snaps 'in seconds'

The System32 Folder Opens When the
Computer Boots

The System32 Folder Opens When the
Computer Boots 05/23/2004 06:36 AM

Tough times prompt Boots warning

Tough times prompt Boots warning 04/07/2005 02:59 AM
UK health and beauty retailer Boots says a tough trading environment is likely to continue to hit profits in the 2005/6 financial year.

Boots cuts back health services

Boots cuts back health services 09/14/2004 05:26 AM
Health and beauty retailer Boots is to scrap several health services such as laser eye surgery and dentistry, affecting 850 employees.

Barcelona boots Europe's most powerful
supercomputer

Barcelona boots Europe's most powerful
supercomputer 04/13/2005 11:59 AM
The Register Apr 13 2005 3:48PM GMT

Rising sales lift Boots profits

Rising sales lift Boots profits 05/27/2004 03:17 AM
The health and beauty retailer unveils an 18% rise in annual profits, crediting stronger sales and cost cuts.

Vegas Casino Boots Singer Linda Ronstadt
(AP)

Vegas Casino Boots Singer Linda Ronstadt
(AP) 07/19/2004 03:10 PM
AP - Singer Linda Ronstadt not only got booed, she got the boot after lauding filmmaker Michael Moore and his new movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" during a performance at the Aladdin hotel-casino.

Boots dispenses PDAs to shop floor staff

Boots dispenses PDAs to shop floor staff 07/06/2004 05:15 AM
vnunet.com Jul 6 2004 9:31AM GMT

Las Vegas casino boots singer Linda
Ronstadt after performance

Las Vegas casino boots singer Linda
Ronstadt after performance 07/20/2004 09:29 AM
Linda Ronstadt lauds Michael Moore, gets booted from Aladdin casino .. Las Vegas casino boots singer Linda Ronstadt after performance

sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/07/1 9/entertainment1424EDT0076.DTL
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Hand-Tooled for the Texas Elite, These
Boots Were Made in Stir

Hand-Tooled for the Texas Elite, These
Boots Were Made in Stir 05/01/2004 03:32 AM
Who shod the sheriff? In Texas, a good guess would be Arnold Darby, bootmaker to the stars, or at least to the men and women who wear the stars.

Hacked data boots identity theft to
critical issue

Hacked data boots identity theft to
critical issue 03/14/2005 05:56 PM

Google News Boots Partner of Agence
France Presse?

Google News Boots Partner of Agence
France Presse? 03/26/2005 09:27 PM
Search Engine Journal Mar 27 2005 1:45AM GMT

Yahoo! News - Vegas Casino Boots Singer
Linda Ronstadt

Yahoo! News - Vegas Casino Boots Singer
Linda Ronstadt 07/20/2004 06:20 AM
Yahoo! News - Vegas Casino Boots Singer Linda Ronstadt

story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=501&ncid=716&e=7&u =/ap/20040719/ap_on_en_mu/people_ronstadt
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Grok Description matches for Royal Opera Boots Soprano for Weight (AP)
GrokA matches for Royal Opera Boots Soprano for Weight (AP)

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)

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

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

RE: MSIE Download Window Filename +
Filetype Spoofing Vulnerability

RE: MSIE Download Window Filename +
Filetype Spoofing Vulnerability 07/12/2004 03:58 PM
Drew Copley (Jul 12 2004)

MSIE Download Window Filename + Filetype
Spoofing Vulnerability

MSIE Download Window Filename + Filetype
Spoofing Vulnerability 07/12/2004 02:15 PM
Paul (Jul 11 2004)

"Outfoxed"

"Outfoxed" 07/11/2004 09:57 PM

outfoxed

outfoxed 07/11/2004 01:48 PM
So the New York Times ran a magazine piece about Robert Greenwald's latest political documentary, OutFOXed. Stanford's CIS and the great folks at Fenwick & West have been advising Greenwald (pro bono) about how best to exercise his fair use rights in making this critique of FOX News. This clip gives you a sense of the issues we faced. And so you'll see how relieved I was to read Dianna Brandi's (VP for legal affairs at FOX) comment in the Washington Post: "People steal our footage all the time.... We generally sort of look the other way." I take it she's referring to the fair use by others of FOX's footage, and if so, then bravo FOX. Fair use, of course, is not stealing, even though lawyers who know better like to use that false description as often as they can. (But if she really means FOX footage is being stolen, then that's awful. Get better locks, Fox.) I actually knew nothing about FOX News before working on this film -- not much time for network news, and I had only ever heard Bill O'Reilly once, on Fresh Air. And while I came to the project with low expectations about any news network, I was still astonished. As you'll see when you buy the DVD or host a MoveOn.org house party, there's a lot to be amazed at. The most powerful is an amazingly unFAIR and unBALANCED clip with Jeremy Glick and Bill O'Reilly. Not unlike (but much worse than) the exchange Georgetown Professor David Cole described. (Washington Post). As the Times article describes, Greenwald's style for distributing documentaries may be the beginning of something new -- political criticism, using interviews and clips, making a strong political point, distributed through DVDs and political action groups. (See some other examples here). On what theory does he, and others, have the right to use such material without permission? On the free culture theory we call the First Amendment: Copyright law must, the Court told us in Eldred, embed "fair use"; "fair use" is informed by First Amendment values; the values of the First Amendment most relevant here are those expressed in New York Times v. Sullivan. As with news-gathering, critical political filmmaking needs a buffer zone of protection against the overreaching of the law. And if the potential of this medium -- now liberated by digital technology -- is to be realized, we need clear precedents that establish that critics have the freedom to criticize without having to hire a lawyer first. Watch the movie. Celebrate the freedom it represents. It is a particularly American freedom that we should celebrate and practice more often.

Remix Outfoxed

Remix Outfoxed 09/15/2004 09:25 AM
Robert Greenwald has released the interviews from Outfoxed under a Creative Commons license, inviting others to remix the interviews to tell their own story about Fox. Robert had wanted to release the full film for remix, but fears about enabling the reuse of original Fox materials got that idea stopped. But you can download and rework the interviews from archive.org here. A bittorrent file is available here from Torrentocracy. See the blog entry there, and here.

Outfoxed Offered for Remix

Outfoxed Offered for Remix 09/21/2004 06:37 AM
The maker of a documentary about Fox News offers raw footage of his film online for others to re-edit into new 'mixes.' With the spread of broadband and cheap filmmaking software, film may become remixers' favored medium. By Daniel Terdiman.

Outfoxed: A Unique Sleeper Hit

Outfoxed: A Unique Sleeper Hit 07/23/2004 04:34 AM
On the eve of a contentious presidential election, large audiences are bypassing traditional media channels -- theatrical releases or TV broadcasts -- to see partisan films like Outfoxed. The DVD is a top seller on Amazon. By Louise Witt.

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on
Journalism

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on
Journalism 07/11/2004 07:41 PM

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism. An amazing documentary about Fox News and the danger of corporations controlling news. There is a QT and a Wind ows Media trailer online. There is a New York Times article about producer Robert Greenwald's unique method of distributing the documentary, selling the DVD for distribution through political action groups. Lessig has some interesting comments about this.

Roger Ailes complaing about Outfoxed

Roger Ailes complaing about Outfoxed 07/25/2004 07:38 PM

Poor poor FOX.

Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO, Fox News Network

Any news organization that doesn’t support our position on copyright is crazy. Next week, we could take a month’s worth of video from CNN International and do a documentary “Why does CNN hate America?” You wouldn’t even have to do the hatchet job Outfoxed was. You damn well could run it without editing. CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report-mostly that America is wrong and bad. Everybody should stand up and say these people don’t have the right to take our product anymore. They don’t have a right to take a year’s worth of Dan Rather or Ted Koppel and edit it any way they want. It puts journalism at risk.

If someone thinks CNN or Al-Jazeera is doing a bad job, they should say it. Using clips of news programming to criticize a network is totally game I think. Although news has become entertainment, I don't think it should be controlled in the same way that creative content should be. I think that fair use should be applied liberally. The press and the news media should encourage critical debate. I think that a network that has a monopoly on millions of eyeballs should be fair game for documentaries like Outfoxed.

Via Lessig

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Outfoxed: How Murdoch's network gets so
fair and balanced

Outfoxed: How Murdoch's network gets so
fair and balanced 07/12/2004 07:22 PM

Outfoxed : Bill O'Reilly likes to say
"shut up"

Outfoxed : Bill O'Reilly likes to say
"shut up" 07/21/2004 06:21 PM

Mark @ Boing Boing

Bill O'Reilly enjoys ordering his guests and others to "shut up"

This video commercial starts out with a quote from talk show host Bill O'Reilly making the claim that he has told a guest to "shut up" only one time in six years. The rest of the commercial shows clips of Mr. O'Reilly telling people to shut up. Link [Quicktime] (Via Horkulated)

Thi s looks like a partial trailer or something for OutFoxed that Larry Lessig's been blogging about. I just ordered it on Amazon. Jon Lebkowsky talks about his experience watching it with friends.

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"Happy Talk From Hell" -- Salon reviews
Outfoxed

"Happy Talk From Hell" -- Salon reviews
Outfoxed 07/13/2004 03:37 PM
Salon has a review of the new documentary about Fox news, called Outfoxed, which went on sale today and is now the 11th best-selling DVD on Amazon.

Take the network's "some people say" mantra (as used in my first paragraph, above). I had watched plenty of Fox News without ever noticing this -- it's a way of introducing commentary, and specifically the reflexive right-wing views of the presumptive Fox core audience, into what is supposed to be news coverage, while appearing to not quite endorse it. "Some people say that criticizing the war at a time like this is letting down our men and women in uniform," or "Some people say Richard Clarke is a political operative who's trying to sell books." (Or, yes, "Some people are saying that John Kerry looks French!" -- uttered with a peculiar mixture of consternation and delight. Gosh, what a weird idea! But now that you mention it ...!)

Also, here's Fox's scary rebuttal to the documentary. L ink

Fox News uncovers vast left-wing
conspiracy in "Outfoxed"

Fox News uncovers vast left-wing
conspiracy in "Outfoxed" 07/13/2004 10:37 AM

Fox News hits back at "Outfoxed" video
and New York Times article

Fox News hits back at "Outfoxed" video
and New York Times article 07/13/2004 11:53 PM
Fox Fights Back Against N.Y. Times Over Film Story .. scary rebuttal

editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_c ontent_id=1000575114
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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.

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Torrent Zip

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

OpenOffice World-Readable Temporary
Files Disclose Files to Local Users

OpenOffice World-Readable Temporary
Files Disclose Files to Local Users 09/10/2004 01:05 PM
Jérôme (Sep 10 2004)

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)

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]

ShiftyGames Torrent 0.8.2

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

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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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)

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.

Royal Opera Boots Soprano for Weight (AP)

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