04/11/2005 01:45 PM
Posted by Imran Ghory, Apr 06 2005
Man stabbed during dispute
Man stabbed during dispute
09/04/2004 04:36 AM
A man is stabbed in the head following a dispute at a house in County
Armagh.
JPEG Dispute
JPEG Dispute
04/26/2004 11:51 AM
Fantastic new business model: start a company, but don't bother
producing anything. This is the Age of the Lawsuit! Acquire another
company's intellectual property and sue the pants off of anyone else
using code that even faintly smells of...
Motorola's Taxing Dispute
Motorola's Taxing Dispute
08/12/2004 02:22 AM
Business Week Aug 12 2004 5:27AM GMT
TI claims win in Qualcomm dispute
TI claims win in Qualcomm dispute
07/01/2004 01:40 PM
ZDNet Jul 1 2004 4:57PM GMT
An R-Rated Trademark Dispute?
An R-Rated Trademark Dispute?
04/19/2005 04:16 AM
The MPAA really does get a little crazy when it comes to over-reacting
on intellectual property issues. Their latest move is to send out
cease-and-desist letters to sites that host fan fiction -- not because
those made up stories use characters, places and themes from real
movies -- but because
they use the (trademarked) MPAA movie rating system. That's
right, if you happen to label your story as rated G, PG, PG-13, R or
NC-17, you'd better watch out, the MPAA might come after you. Of
course, they seem to ignore the fact that this system has become
common around the world, is hardly taking anything away from
the MPAA's own system (if anything, it enhances it), and also
is useful in keeping age-inappropriate stories off the screens of
those who shouldn't see them.
Internet Patent In Dispute
Internet Patent In Dispute
11/13/2003 03:09 AM
CBS News Nov 13 2003 2:42AM ET
Little Guy Wins Domain Dispute
Little Guy Wins Domain Dispute
03/23/2005 08:30 PM
David beats Goliath in domain-name dispute: Good to
see the little guy win one. This guy registered mattel.org and got sued for it.
Mattel, Inc. argued that Gopi Mattel's domain name improperly
incorporated its MATTEL registered trademark. Mattel, Inc. asserted
that Gopi Mattel had no legitimate right or use of the mark, and
contended that he purposely changed his name from Muthyal to Mattel
precisely so that he could capitilize on the mark.
Gopi Mattel responded that Mattel, Inc. waited too long to complain
— almost four years after he obtained the mattel.org domain
name. He also proved that he changed his surname in 1996, when he
naturalized as a U.S. citizen — five years before he registered
the domain name. He demonstrated that his certificate of
naturalization, his driver's license and other supporting documents
reflected that he has gone by the Mattel name consistently. He also
set forth that he has not improperly sought to sell the domain name or
to disrupt Mattel Inc.'s business.
Of course, the little guy has won before. There was the Veronica
guy, who got sued by the publisher of Archie.
Football: Greeks in pay dispute
Football: Greeks in pay dispute
07/01/2004 10:47 AM
A row over bonuses has undermined Greece's build up to their Euro 2004
semi-final.
Other News: Domain Dispute
Other News: Domain Dispute
03/17/2005 02:52 AM
Apple wins a dispute over a domain name in the U.K.
Summit to settle sat-nav dispute
Summit to settle sat-nav dispute
06/26/2004 04:36 AM
A deal will be signed at the EU-US summit in Ireland to make Europe's
planned Galileo satellite navigation system compatible with the
existing US GPS.
MP3 Phone Dispute Mediation
MP3 Phone Dispute Mediation
05/07/2004 11:59 AM
Hankooki May 7 2004 3:24PM GMT
Simpsons Pay Dispute Settled
Simpsons Pay Dispute Settled
05/02/2004 10:05 AM
Microsoft payment to end dispute
Microsoft payment to end dispute
04/13/2004 12:37 AM
Boston Globe Apr 13 2004 5:08AM GMT
Lindows gives up name in dispute with
Microsoft
Lindows gives up name in dispute with
Microsoft
04/15/2004 03:55 AM
Seattle Times Apr 15 2004 8:19AM GMT
VW car-bomber ad: dispute about more
than copyright?
VW car-bomber ad: dispute about more
than copyright?
02/01/2005 08:38 PM
Xeni Jardin:
Following up on
this previous Boing Boing post, reader raging red says,
I've been doing a tiny bit of research into the German crime of
"public incitement" in response to your post about the fake VW ad.
This is not simply a copyright infringement issue. The theory here is
that this ad could provoke someone to commit a car bombing. Under
German law as I read it, even if the ad does not in fact incite
someone to commit a car bombing, the two men who produced the phony ad
are still subject to a maximum penalty of five years in prison, simply
for creating the ad.
Link
Update: raging red says:
Some people [in the comments section of my blog] have
corrected me. Apparently the translation from German in the Reuters
article is a little off. The crime they may be charged with is a
different kind of public incitement. It's called "Volksverhetzung,"
which apparently means agitation of the public or incitement of
hatred. It's basically a hate speech statute. The punishment is 3
months to five years. I haven't verified this information myself yet,
but the people in my comments sound like they are correct, and one
person has given the text of the statute in my comments.
SK Telecom's Trademark Dispute
SK Telecom's Trademark Dispute
05/20/2004 02:28 AM
Hankooki May 20 2004 6:20AM GMT
Ex-Enron CEO Taken to NY Hospital After
Bar Dispute
Ex-Enron CEO Taken to NY Hospital After
Bar Dispute
04/09/2004 09:17 PM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 10 2004 1:43AM GMT
Perspective on Cosmic dispute
Perspective on Cosmic dispute
01/22/2004 04:21 AM
USA Today Jan 22 2004 8:35AM GMT
Microsoft to pay Gateway to end dispute
Microsoft to pay Gateway to end dispute
04/11/2005 05:47 PM
Miami Herald Apr 11 2005 9:11PM GMT
Grok Description matches for At The Core Of The Apple Dispute
GrokA matches for At The Core Of The Apple Dispute
Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it, we've got it.
Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it, we've got it.
12/30/2004 11:53 AM
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12/31/2004 10:23 AM
New: Animation:Master
New: Animation:Master
06/28/2004 09:54 AM
Hash Inc. released its first Mac OS X version of Animation:Master, a
3D modeling, animation, and rendering program.
Update: Animation:Master 10.5r4
Update: Animation:Master 10.5r4
09/24/2004 11:41 AM
Animation:Master is a 3D modeling, animation, and rendering program
that offers spline-based modeling, animation, and rendering; inverse
kinematics plus Bones Mode; time-based motion; and other features.
Animation:Master for Mac OS X released
Animation:Master for Mac OS X released
06/28/2004 06:36 PM
Hash has released a Mac OS X version of Animation:Master, which
combines 3D modeling and animation tools with a renderer to offer an
all-in-one 3D character animation studio...
Hash releases Animation:Master for Mac
OS X
Hash releases Animation:Master for Mac
OS X
06/21/2004 05:05 PM
Hash Inc. on Monday announced the release of Animation:Master for
Mac OS X. The 3D software was previously available for Windows and Mac
OS 9. Animation:Master includes OpenGL-based modeling, texturing,
animation and rendering tools.
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.
Click here to comment on this entry
XP SP2 Torrent Shows Legal P2P's Promise
XP SP2 Torrent Shows Legal P2P's Promise
08/09/2004 04:40 PM
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 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.
ShiftyGames Torrent 0.8.2
ShiftyGames Torrent 0.8.2
05/05/2004 10:52 PM
An arcade game with colored tiles.
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
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
Read full story...
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.
It's the torrent, stupid
It's the torrent, stupid
12/22/2004 01:29 AM
Xeni Jardin:
Mark Pesce rants about
the recent shutdowns of BitTorrent supersites Suprnova.org and
TorrentBits.com.
Hey, Hollywood! Can you feel the future slipping through your fingers?
Do you understand how badly you've screwed up? You took a perfectly
serviceable situation - a nice, centralized system for the
distribution
of media, and, through your own greed and shortsightedness, are giving
birth to a system of digital distribution that you'll never, ever be
able to defeat. In your avarice and arrogance you ignored the obvious:
you should have cut a deal with SuprNova.org. In partnership you could
have found a way to manage the disruptive change that's already well
underway. Instead, you have repeated the mistakes made by the
recording
industry, chapter and verse. And thus you have spelled your own doom.
It's said that the best sequels are just like the original, only
bigger
and louder. Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves for one hell of a
crash. This baby is now fully out of control.
Link (via waxy)
Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your
TV
Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your
TV
06/21/2004 07:41 AM
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 didnt work, there werent 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
its wrong
not the point Im 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 filesscary.
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 Im 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 youll be
able-with one click-download every prime-time TV show or last
years top 500 CDs in one click?!
(Note: This is not a trick question, I have yet to find a file
containing that much contenthowever, I did find a file with last
weeks top 100 singles that someone put together in one nice
package).
[The Digital
Music Weblog]
Torrent Site Status
Torrent Site Status
01/07/2005 04:15 AM
Don’t download too much pr0n .. Torrent Site
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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
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
Read full story...
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 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
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.
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 /.)
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)
At The Core Of The Apple Dispute