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June 14, 2007

Bittorrent Download Of Mindquarry 1.1

Looking for ways to improve software distribution via bittorrent here.

This leads to to the question wether there are any tools available that can automatically create torrents for files in a download repository and that are able to create an initial seed. This would be a nice addition to our Maven Repository Browser.

 

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May 14, 2007

End Of Paid For Video?

Services like BitTorrent make it harder for pay-for video services to survive.

Or just take it off the 'Net on bitTorrent etc.......is there perhaps an alternative scenario that says people will pay for quality or download for free off "p2p sites, and ignore any site that overdoes the Ads?

 

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April 20, 2007

Azureus Bit Torrent Client For Mac

A good review of the Azureus BitTorrent client.

Ubuntu 7.04 was released and I decided to download it so I could install it under Parallels over the weekend. I didn’t have a BitTorrent client on this Mac, not needing one since I got the Mac at the beginning of the year. While I could download the ISO I figured the Ubuntu servers might still be busy so it was a good time to find a BitTorrent client.

 

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April 10, 2007

Otimize O Windows Vista Para Torrent, P2P E P2PTV

Microsoft Vista tries to stop worms and viruses, and that can slow down BitTorrent.

Essa “bem-intencionada” limitação veio como uma tentativa da Microsoft de diminuir a velocidade com que os Worms do Windows (assim como o famoso Blaster) pudessem se espalhar. No entanto, softwares com múltiplas conexões, assim como o BitTorrent, eMule e P2PTV, essa limitação causa grande lentidão no compartilhamento dos arquivos. Essa problema no XP SP2 poder ser resolvido com um patch disponível no site LvlLord.

 

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February 27, 2007

Welcome To Bittorrent

Good introduction to BitTorrent.

Bittorrent users account for less than 15% of users (geeks like me) but they use 50% of the total bandwidth of the internet, thats how many movies are zipping around the web!

 

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February 26, 2007

BitTorrent Cria Serviço "Legal" De Download

BitTorrent gets legal.

A empresa BitTorrent, que oferece uma tecnologia utilizada com freqüência para troca de arquivos piratas na internet, lançou um serviço de conteúdo legalizado. Para lançar o BitTorrent Entertainment Network, disponível na página original do programa, a companhia fez acordos com estúdios de Hollywood e também emissoras que concordaram em fornecer programas on-line.

 

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February 13, 2007

DRM'd!

BitTorrent and lots of downloads, or a disk and player?

Sure, its still kind of just looking through crap loads of memory calls to find an AACS processing key, but it works on every current title. I cant say I’m loving the idea of downloading 20gb rips via bittorrent, but the h264 encodes of said movies should be marvellous.

 

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February 06, 2007

Japanese Cuteness

Check out Japanese cuteness on BitTorrent here.

Cuteness permeates every episode. I guess such unpretentious and sincere cuteness is why I genuinely like Someday’s Dreamers. The entire premise of the series is cute, the protagonist is painfully cute, and the whole series is saturated in cuteness. Don’t take my word for it. Download some episodes via BitTorrent and see for yourself. =)

 

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January 30, 2007

Blu-ray Courtesy Of BitTorrent

Blu-ray ripped and transferred to BitTorrent.

With the release of the BackupBluray utility, we knew it was just a matter of time before Blu-ray rips started to appear on torrent trackers. The prediction has now come true, Blu-ray rips are now being seeded right along side HD DVD rips.

 

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December 27, 2006

Mininova On BitTorrent

Maybe Mininova knows where TV production is headed: BitTorrent.

And now for something else, the guys over at BitLord have released a TV show for the BitTorrent community. Mininova also plays a prominent part being the sponsor of the Torrent Top List. The guys at BitLord told me the first episode would be a first attempt at a show so they will improve it as time goes. But I have to say, the first episode is a nice start. Make sure to download the first episode here.

 

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December 08, 2006

BitTorrent Acquires µTorrent

Torrential market for BitTorrent.
Well there goes another torrent client down the drain :( (it would have been better if they would have just stopped the development like TorrentStorm did years back)
 

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December 06, 2006

How To Use BitTorrent

Click through for some help with BitTorrent.

I have had many people ask me how to use this 'BitTorrent' technology they've been hearing about. It can be rather complicated, and there are many deep articles on the web. However, I prefer to give them a 30 second explanation, and most people are quite happy with that.

 

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November 22, 2006

Unpack RAR Archives Before You Release A Torrent

A BitTorrent tip.

Here’s a great essay explaining why people shouldn’t put RAR archives in torrents. They are useless and they make “selective downloading” impossible.

 

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November 03, 2006

5 Months Of Prison

Young operators of this Finnish BitTorrent site get a few months in the slammer.

In other news, four out of eight administrators of the Finnish BitTorrent tracker ‘Finreactor’ have been declared guilty in court and have to pay damages totaling 60,000 dollars each. The lawsuit against Finreactor has just come to a close. This is believed to be only the first of many filed against the site. Three of the four administrators found guilty are under the age of 18. It is unclear how they are going to scrape together enough money to pay their fines. With a little help from Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation (Keskusrikospoliisi), the Finnish equivalent of the RIAA shut down Finreactor in late 2004.

 

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November 01, 2006

Toolbox: Electric Sheep

Get your Electric Sheep from BitTorrent.

Nick is responsible for this addiction. The screensaver that evolves, aka Electric Sheep. Download it from the website below, then set up either HTTP or BitTorrent downloading. Then, when your computer is idle, sexy visuals will display on the screen. And the more you leave the screensaver on, the more new sheep it will download for you.

 

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October 23, 2006

5个最佳BitTorrent客户端软件

This just in on BitTorrent.

wired.com列出了他们认为的 5个最好的BitTorrent软件的优缺点,优点就不说了,看原文吧, 没优点还会不会用这个程式呢?俺列了一下部分缺点

 

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Web 2.0 Programming

BitTorrent and power to the people.

Akamai provided global Internet caching meaning a client browser requesting a specific file when is then sent to another website which gives you the index page of the source site of the file. From the source code you can parse it into your site as an image, video or audio file. The disadvantage here was the hoops one had to go through in order to get a file, plus the fact that they could only use the servers provided to them. Now take BitTorrent, every client is also a server, hence the more popular a file is the faster it can be downloaded because more clients or servers in this case that host the give file. Again the lesson here is to give the power to the people.

 

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October 18, 2006

TVUPlayer Review

Is TVUPlayer the next BitTorrent?

The new controversial TVUPlayer has appeared on the internet and could be the TV studio’s biggest enemy since Bittorrent. This new player allows you to potentially watch any television channel in the world on your PC.

 

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WeSC Campaign On Pirate Bay

BitTorrent and marketing.

One of the coolest brands in the world, WeSC, have launched a pretty smart campaign on the world’s largetst bittorrent site The Pirate Bay. They have placed a huge banner on their frontpage (featured above) and when you click the banner you’ll get access to 3 different bittorrents: WeSC.Calendar.PAL.DVDr-WeSC, WeSC.Calendar.DVDRip.XviD-WeSC.avi and WeSC.Calendar.Episodes.DVDRip.XviD-WeSC. Smart move Greger Hagelin!

 

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September 27, 2006

Yahoo Unlimited ... Cost

The increased price of Yahoo subscription music has this blogger re-thinking services.

Hmm… maybe I should run back to bittorrent before I get use to the unlimited cost… oups. I mean Unlimited Service.

 

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August 31, 2006

Idea For Amazon's EC2 Service

This is an interesting application for BitTorrent.

Well, i have an idea on how to use Amazons EC2 Service, but not sure how well it will work. the idea is fairly simple. Podcasting/Video Casting distribution network using BitTorrent. Since S3 already supports BitTorrent support, you upload the file to your S3 account. once there, you post the link to the torrent file in a RSS Feed, which is being monitored by your EC2 servers. they then download and start seeding your file, and keep seeding the file till you tell them to stop.

 

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August 01, 2006

End Of Television

A look at how BitTorrent and other technology is changing video distribution (again).

If TV has been so engrained in our culture, what does the BitTorrent revolution (around 2004) means? What can we infer when corporations decide to take action by targeting TV Download Sites (mid 2005)? They were obviously nervous about how much attention was being taken from them. It took a gutsy move by Apple (Oct 2005) to admit that there was no going back to the television set and that content producers had to find ways of leveraging the Internet as the new distribution channel.

 

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July 13, 2006

iTunes Distribution Done Right

BitTorrent versus Apple.

Did Steve see this coming? If so, he is moving awfully slow with the movies, and BitTorrent is moving full steam ahead.

 

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July 08, 2006

SUSE 10.1

BitTorrent saves the day.

FreeBSD, Gentoo, OpenBSD, and Ubuntu Server (in that order) all failed to install. Still the same issue with the video and ethernet hardware. It didn’t seem to matter what config I tried. I was near wits end when The Dodger suggested SUSE 10.1, so I pop open Bittorrent and download the installation media, we pop in disk one, voila, it just works.

 

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BitTorrent Client µTorrent 1.6

Good info on the smallest BitTorrent client.

Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange.

 

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July 07, 2006

Dutch Shut Down Torrent Sites

Some more on the Dutch closure of two BitTorrent sites.

The dutch justice department has released information about the arrest of 2 webmasters that where running torrent sites in the Netherlands. According to the justice department bittorrent is the most used system for copyright violation. Releases4u.com and Shareconnector.com are currently under investigation. What this could mean for other torrent sites that are based in the Netherlands is uncertain since there is no law that forbids torrent sites.

 

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July 03, 2006

Tiering And BitTorrent

P2P applications like BitTorrent chew up bandwidth.

However, some level of tiering already takes place. Many ISPs actively limit traffic on Bittorrent and other P2P networks. Though this is mostly out of necessity since such applications eat up a great deal of resources, it might be a sign of what's to come.

 

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June 26, 2006

µTorrent 1.6 Release Candidate 1

Look out for the latest version of the BitTorrent client.

The best BitTorrent client, µTorrent, just released it’s latest version. It has now much improved disk caching and other optimizations for faster download speed.

 

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Review: Opera 9

The new revision of the Opera browser includes BitTorrent support.

you’re up to date on what they’re all about, they’re just small little programs that can do all sorts of different things, from searching the internet, to providing a clock for your computer, or doing all sorts of other things. The support that they’re getting for the widgets is pretty awesome, too…they’ve got a BitTorrent widget, a Google Toolbar Widget, and my favorite, a feed reader called “Raggerator.” The widgets feature of Opera 9 appears to me like it could shape the future of web browsing. The concept of having all sorts of different programs to enhance your browsing experience is something that sounds really cool to me.

 

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June 24, 2006

BitComet 0.70

Some info on BitComet.

BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc. Supports 43 Languages.

 

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June 21, 2006

What's Really Wrong With Microsoft

A look at the problems that Microsoft faces.

Apple did something most extraordinary, when Mac OS X was released - they simply put to rest a whole OS and started to build upon solid ground - UNIX-based to be exact. Windows on Vista and all the features such as P2P support (which by the way, this is used EVERYDAY on MSN and other IM clients) and Bittorrent had something going on - something that OS X and other Operating Systems will most eventually adopt - but in the long run.

 

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Distributed Downloads Are Your Friend

Distribution BitTorrent-style.

One might wonder why they don’t just use Bittorrent to distribute the thing like the open source folks do with Linux. Apparently blogger Chris Pirillo had this very same thought:

 

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June 13, 2006

Microsoft

A look at Microsoft's stealthy distribution of WGA anti-piracy tool vis a vis BitTorrent.

Isn’t this software called Spyware by definition? Since when does spyware have fewer “legal and privacy issues” than BitTorrent?

 

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June 07, 2006

One Site, To Rule Them All?

ThePirateBay, a great BitTorrent site, is down.

Now here’s where it gets interesting. At around 11 a.m. CET on May 31, 2006, a major raid against ThePirateBay and people involved with the site took place, prompted by allegations of copyright violations. Around 50 officers confiscated the servers and detained several people.

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May 23, 2006

Linux, BitTorrent, And Media

From a post on Linux-based media boxes.

There’s little point in having all this media playback ability unless you have the ability to… uhh… get more media. For this every computer user needs a Bittorrent client and a couple of good tracker sites. Luckily, Azureus is available for Linux. Azureus is one of the most popular bittorrent clients on the net and because it is based on Java it is available for Linux too.

 

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May 01, 2006

Mac OS To Include Torrents?

If you know anything about BitTorrent in the upcoming Mac OS, contact this blogger!

I really want to know if this is true, and if so, what technologies are involved. Actually BitTorrent, or some other p2p system (unstructured or structured)? NAT hole-punching (presumably the iChat AV guys have some experience with this very thorny problem)? Possible impact on overall system performance (and ISP traffic-shaping effects)? [Friends at Apple: I will keep your whispers in closest confidence.]

 

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Windows XP Must-Haves

Some BitTorrent options for Windows XP.

When thinking about BitTorrent clients for Windows, several come to mind: Azureus, uTorrent, BitComet and BitLord. Azureus has all the features and extensive plugin support but is slowed down considerably by its use of the Java VM. uTorrent is quite the opposite with a lightweight application that doesn’t hog system resources. You can find out more about other BitTorrent clients with this detailed comparison chart on Wikipedia.

 

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April 25, 2006

Building A (Cheap) HDTV PVR

You can even include BitTorrent in your handmade HDTV PVR.

My girlfriend and I watch very few shows that dont air on the regular over the air (OTA) broadcasts. Luckily, we are pretty central in houston and have pretty good HDTV reception for all the major networks. So, why do we pay > $50 a month to Time Warner Cable for our TV? Ah, thats right - the DVR - our Scientific Atlanta 8300HD. The functionality of being able to record our shows and watch them whenever keeps us hooked. So, why not build my own PVR! If I try and keep the cost down, it will pay for itself in the money we save not paying Time Warner Cable.

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April 24, 2006

Why Doesn't archive.org Use BitTorrent?

Great BitTorrent application if archive.org decided to deploy it.

I don’t really get why archive.org isn’t making use of the BitTorrent protocol. I guess it would work pretty well with their content and with their servers being sooooo slow all the time it would be a real boon. Is there a reason why they don’t do it?

 

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April 19, 2006

uTorrent Tips

For BitTorrent users, some good tips here to speed up uTorrent.
uTorrent was very slow for me until recently I applied a few tweaks. Here’s what I did.
 

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April 17, 2006

The Ultimate Guide to RSS TV Torrents

Click through for more info on RSS TV Torrent feeds for BitTorrent.

One of the newest and most exciting features of BitTorrent is RSS Torrent Feeds. Once properly configured, it lets you fully automate the procedure of finding, downloading the torrent files, and initiating the downloads to your movie folder, then finishing the download, and seeding it to a specific ratio.

 

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April 02, 2006

Two Years For Downloading

If you live in Germany and you use BitTorrent, take a look.

Germany just agreed on a new law that makes it possible to put downloaders behind bars for two years. This is if you use the movie for personal use, commercial downloaders face up to five years in prison. Germany is considered to be one of the leading filesharing counties in Europe so this law will probably have a huge impact.

 

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March 23, 2006

Isohunt To Fight MPAA

The latest on the MPAA and BitTorrent.

It’s almost a month after the MPAA targeted 5 of the bigger torrent sites. In the meanwhile Isohunt has been planning to fight the MPAA and is currently raising money to do so. Niteshdw on the other hand doesn’t have the money to fight and tries to settle without taking too much damage.

 

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Meanwhile, In The Real World

It would be great if all parties could work out an agreement to make all the great old television programs available on BitTorrent.

For example, a significant part of the traffic generated by BitTorrent-powered P2P (peer-to-peer) networks now provides the ground, the *marketplace* for the exchange of television shows, films, and not just downloading music files. This, of course, has caught the attention (and earned the enmity) of associations like the MPAA.

 

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March 18, 2006

Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TV

Is Battlestar Galactica the BitTorrent distribution that kills broadcast TV?

However, it only took a few hours for the UK premiere of Battlestar Galactica to become a global premiere thanks to peer-to-peer networks like BitTorrent. In general, Sci-Fi fans are pretty geeky. Recording and distributing Battlestar Galactica became a global past time for many Sci-Fi fans. Torrent tracking websites like TorrentSpy have an entire Battlestar Galactica listing with 94 different files.

 

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March 16, 2006

Consolevania

If you've been waiting for Consolvenia, snag it on BitTorrent.

At last — the new episode of Consolevania (series 2 episode 3) has arrived! If you’ve never seen it before, you’re in for a real treat. It can be snagged via BitTorrent or HTTP download at the official site, while fans of instant gratification can watch it at Google Video.

 

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March 07, 2006

µTorrent 1.5

Click through for more about the µTorrent BitTorrent client.

This is a big version release for µTorrent, the popular and lightweight BitTorrent client. The major additions are Peer Exchange and Protocol Encryption, in combination with optimizations to download speed and hard disk accesses.

 

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February 16, 2006

Free Torrent Source Code

Links to FTKernelAPI and uTorrent here:

FTKernelAPI is an open source library for connecting to the bittorrent protocol trackers. With this library, it's simple to write a torrent app... or you can just use a third-party prepackaged solution, like uTorrent, but where's the fun in that?

 

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February 09, 2006

Television On Demand

Microsoft versus BitTorrent.

Even Microsoft wants a piece of the pie. They have their Windows Media Center that does the same thing as a TiVo but in an ugly azz computer. But why bother with all those pay-for options when all you need is your broadband connection and a BitTorrent client. I’ve spoken about BitTorrent before but every week it becomes more and more of a god-send.

 

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I'm Done With TV

Another satisfied BitTorrent user.

So what am I going to do? I'm not boycotting television shows, just television. The PVR is going back to Rogers. I'm getting all my discovery shows and 24 episodes using bittorrent from now on, commercial free.

 

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February 01, 2006

USB Flash Drive Versions Of Boot CD's

Check this out for a USB stick boot device.

So this stuff is some of my favorite geekage. I dig bootable CD’s: you make a CD you can boot your computer from and check out a Linux Operating System without having to install it. Get a taste of Linux with out hosing up yer Windows install. So if that’s not cool enough, newer PC motherboards can but from USB devices. So now you put the CD image on yer USB thumbdrive and set yer PC to boot from USB and it’s a whole new OS. This is indeed the ultimate rescue/hacker boot medium. I need to get a new bigger thumbdrive, like a 1gig, so I can put one of these on and have a little room left over. Cool Stuff. Go to my geek stuff page for links to some Live Linux CD’s. Ask me nice and I could make ya one. Here’s a link to the BitTorrent page for the actual USB files, mininova

 

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January 31, 2006

BitTorrent Clients

There are tons of BitTorrent clients by now.

For several years now, I have only tried a single bittorent client ever - BitTornado. I have heard of a lot other clients available out there, most of them seem to be more popular than the one I am currently using — there’s azureus, uTorrent, BitComet, Turbo Torrent, Bit Lord, Shareaza, etc.

 

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January 26, 2006

FireAnt

FireAnt takes care of RSS and BitTorrent.

You can also subscribe to your favorite RSS channel and FireAnt will automatically download the newest content. You can even schedule when you want the content downloaded, and it supports BitTorrent! Plus you can transfer your media that you downloaded to your portable device like your iPod or PSP.

 

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January 19, 2006

Hard Cash

How new distribution methods like BitTorrent are changing the media landscape.

In terms of media, the internet has already made much headway into this domain. This is why the distribution networks are fast to work as hard as they could to fight the media distribution over the internet. If a person could make his own T.V. show, using his own technologies, and distribute it over the internet, via bittorrent, or his own server, and have it ad supported, all free, what is the appeal of regular distribution networks? Newspapers can already tell you the massive emigration from using them for classified ads since Craiglist started getting headway.

 

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Stupidity, Stupidity, Stupidity

After you pick up Dawkin's appearance on BitTorrent, you can click through here for the link to the Theory of Idiocy.

The same level of intelligence was on display on Richard Dawkin's anti-faith program, "The Root of All Evil?", in which Dawkins attempts (and pretty much fails) to heep his temper while fundamentalist creeps claim that the scientists they know think the world isn't 4.5 billion years old, and that Dawkins' grandchildren might laugh at him for ever thinking so. Dawkins compares the guys sermons to the Nuremberg rallies, which I think only doens't cause a larger reaction because I'm not sure he knows what the Nuremberg rallies are. Shall I tell him, or do you want to? Get it off BitTorrent if you haven't seen it.

 

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January 16, 2006

Dawkins Strikes Again

Check out Dawkins on BitTorrent.

Which brings me on to another program I watched after comparisons were made between it and the Dawkins program. Called A Brief History of Disbelief, it was a far more thorough treatment of atheism than Dawkins was attempting (all three episodes are available via Bittorrent) and made mention of this puzzle from the Greek philosopher Epicurus:

 

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December 31, 2005

AllPeers

Click through for pictures of the AllPeers Firefox extension.

So i am not talking about my friends circle here i talk about the new extension for Firefox(The browser i love-u can download it by clicking on the sidebar which has its pic). It is being made specially for us, i mean the users. It boasts of having the strenth of firefox and efficiency of BitTorrent. I saw the screenshots and it looks awesome to me.

 

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December 30, 2005

How Television Could Work

Television is a distribution medium that could use a BitTorrent facelift.

PVRs and MP3 players are already the rage. We don’t watch 80 channels of 24-hour broadcasting every day (and not only because it’s impossible). Most people have a few shows they like, and they surf channels to see them. We aren’t loyal to the networks. We don’t care if we’re seeing our favorite stuff on HBO, CNN, Fox, NBC, or TNT. We’re all about shows, not networks. So in a PVR world, it’s much easier to work bandwidth-wise. You don’t have to send 80 channels of gunk 24 hours per day to every household. You can let them bittorrent the stuff that they actually want. You can track it better, you can charge for it, consumers can pay for a subscription (we already do) and networks can pay back the hot content producers.

 

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December 18, 2005

Hack And Mess Up 3

Hack and Mess Up is a tool for hacking computers that you can download from BitTorrent.

NOTE: You need a Bittorrent client such as BitComet to download from PirateBay

 

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Switching To CentOS 4.2

CentOS is a desktop development system that is available from BitTorrent.

I decided to go with CentOS 4.2, as CentOS is what I have installed on various servers that I admin. I backed up all the important data off the Windows box, and then started the adventure. First, download the DVD image from a torrent, which necessitates a BitTorrent client. Install the client, start the download, work on something else while it takes 6 hours to download. Burn the DVD, drop it into the PC, and reboot.

 

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December 17, 2005

Pod What?

Some tips for downloading content if you got a new iPod for Christmas.

Now comes the question of distribution. Where can I get podcasts? One would initially go to a website that categorizes podcasts based on their content. The websites list a brief synopsis about the podcast, a link to its main website and link to its feed. The two ways of obtaining the actual audio file are manual and automatic. The manual way consists of going to the podcasts website and downloading the episodes you want to listen to. Not every website hosts the actual audio files on their servers. This is because having many people download audio from your website takes up bandwidth, which costs money. Some websites may just offer links to their bittorrent files (the concept of bittorrent will not be explained here). Automatic distribution pertains to “feeds”. Feeds (usually RSS) are links to a website that monitor it for updated content. Once new material is uploaded the feed can see it. A podcast client is used to check those feeds periodically for new material. The client can be scheduled automatically every X amount of days. The feed can download either the actual audio file or a bittorrent file. The more robust clients have bittorent support built in.

 

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December 15, 2005

Free B-Movies For IPod

As if there isn't enough already for iPods, here's some more.

Public domain Torrents has links to more than 500 movies in the public domain available for download via BitTorrent. Most are compatible with the video iPod.

 

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December 10, 2005

The Torrent Jabberwalker

Some more BitTorrent searches listed here.

Of late, the only topics that seem to be of interest relate to or have something to do with bittorrent(s). Don’t ask why. I’m on a quest for a specific file. I’ve recently come across yet another torrent search / tracking service by the name of Torrent Jabberwalker. TJ searches the most popular tracking services including: Seedler, TorrentSpy, and ISOHunt.

 

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December 04, 2005

Camp TV On BitTorrent

Welcome to the 1960s, courtesy of BitTorrent.

all of the camp of 1960's television is intact, with 2000's-era effects. "Star Trek: New Voyages," which can be downloaded via bittorrent.

 

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MPAA And Bittorrent Seal Deal

It will take a while for the download market to work out, but it's too good not to work out.

Here’s the deal. People use Bittorrent to download both legal and illegal software. The thing is, Bittorrent, developed by Bram Cohen, is mainly used by pirates all around the world. Hell, I even use it to download software and movies from TorrentSpy, Piratebay, and Mininova. No one can stop the people from using it to download illegal stuff. On the upside, there are also legitimate software available in Bittorrent. Like the stuff from Fileshack. So their solution, Bram and the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) has made a deal to take down illegal downloads from the Bittorrent Search engine. This may minimize piracy but I’m almost sure that they can never put a stop to it. If it were up to me, if I really wanted to abolish piracy, I would directly ban Bittorrent. I know it’s a big price to pay, but how far are you all willing to go to stop illegal downloads?

 

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December 01, 2005

RIAA: Cracking Is OK If Done Correctly

A rant on the RIAA.

Don’t even get me started about personal responsibility. Are we really the mindless sheep these people think we are? Everybody using eMule, Grokster, Limewire, Morpheus, Bittorrent, etc. . . knows exactly what they are doing. But it cuts both ways. It is not the job of a plaintiff to exact a punishment on a defendant before a trial. We have an entire court system for that. If a gun maker made a firearm that blew up when it thought it was in the hands of a criminal, what do you suppose would happen? They would be charged with murder, that’s what.

 

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November 30, 2005

Use BitTorrent? Use Firefox? Read this!

Click through for the article on how to put it all together.

Excellent article on combining the power of BitTorrent with Firefox. It discusses popup killing, mimetype management, direct searching, site customisation with Greasemonkey and BitTorrent integration directly with Firefox.

 

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November 28, 2005

µTorrent

From a list of useful links, this one on BitTorrent.

µTorrent.com - Powerful, efficient and small BitTorrent client

 

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November 05, 2005

Conchango Geek Event

If you're going to Hampstead soon, make sure to check out the next Conchango Geek Event.

Several interesting topics were covered; the purpose of DRM, how the public really use MMS messaging, the ins and (mainly) outs of outsourcing, the importance of User Experience in Product Development, how the French get a better Broadband deal than the British, iPaqs as Portable Media Centres, the dream pairing of BitTorrent and RSS and how more developers should fear the Grey Threat more than the Chinese or Eastern European one.

I think we need a Conchango blog carnival!
 

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November 01, 2005

iTunes + BitTorrent: Sign the Petition

Would Apple ever market this?

After listening to the NBaN host mention starting a petition to incorporate BitTorrent into iTunes, I decided to take some action and create one.

 

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October 31, 2005

iTunes Sells One Million Videos

Has anyone compared BitTorrent downloads to iTune sales?

Think of all the old TV shows you’d like to download and watch on demand. A quick scan of the Bittorrent sites today reveal complete seasons of Desperate Housewives, Xena and Star Trek TNG all ready available for download in iPod compatible formats. Mirroring the demand for MP3 “discographies” I suspect we’ll be seeing even more of these “episodographies” available shortly.

 

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This Week In Tech

TWIT is available via BitTorrent, if you didn't know already.

After a one week hiatus (if you didn’t notice, there was no TWIT last week) another TWIT is in the can! This week’s hosts are Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, John C. Dvorak, and Alex Lindsay, with special guest Lawrence Lessig [ http://lessig.org/blog ] of Creative Commons [ http://creativecommons.org/ ]! This week’s video is already up and available via bittorrent, as you’ll see at the episode notes page. Sadly, I have to admit that this week’s TWIT isn’t really the format that I would have liked; I prefer the larger panel discussions and the traipsing from topic to topic that lends itself to massive show notes and a great deal of information, but this week’s seemed to be a bit more slow and dull, although the subject matter was very interesting. I like departures like this, delving deeply into important topics (and Creative Commons is very important!) but at the same time it was missing the vividity and life of the previous TWIT podcasts. Oh well, can’t hit them all out of the park, or please everyone for that matter-I’m sure lots of people loved this week’s!

 

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October 30, 2005

BitTorrent Explained

How does BitTorrent work? Click through to find out.

-Lisa asked what BitTorrent is. Instead of a long drawn out explination you won’t understand, go to this page in the Wikipedia instead.

 

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October 28, 2005

OpenOffice 2.0

OpenOffice 2.0 is here!

Sorry I missed the announcement, but OpenOffice 2.0 is no longer beta. Read the press release, or go to the download page immediately.

 

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October 24, 2005

Ubuntu Linux for Novices

Good starter if you want to know about Ubuntu Linux.

The first thing I noticed was how clean the desktop was… it was empty! I am used to it being littered with links to the distribution’s website or trivial shortcuts to “home.” The user interface is simple and pleasing with a nice icons and cursors. Ubuntu is a powerful operating system, with the version 2 of OpenOffice.org, a BitTorrent client, Mozilla Firefox, and gAIM instant messenger, among others, preinstalled. Ubuntu is much faster than OS X on my computer in terms of booting and general system tasks. It has a lot less to load up and doesn’t have to load any fancy graphics. I did not notice any lag in the menus or the file explorer, nautilus. I was impressed at how all of my hardware worked flawlessly. The only thing that did not work was Wi-Fi via the Apple Airport Extreme card but I already knew about that. Just for a test, I plugged in several USB devices and all were recognized and functioning. This is a major relief as I remember my Gentoo Linux days where I would have to enter some lines in the terminal to mount or unmount anything.

 

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October 23, 2005

Gizmo Project

We're starting to track Gizmo posts on the Blog Carnival Phones blog.

As soon as you mention the word VoIP, everyone responds with “Skype?” This immediately gets me into an discussion why people should not use Skype. The fact that your computer is used as a link to route traffic, much like BitTorrent. That it is based on a proprietary protocol, only known by Skype, so no other manufacturers can make compatible equipment without permisson (and probably a big fat wad of cash) to Skype Corporation.

 

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My Bittorrent Switch

Azureus is too resource intensive for this BitTorrent user.

So for the past six months or so I’ve been using Azureus as my faithful Bittorrent client. Very nicely done program, good interface, lots of features. But, it is an amazing resource hog as it is a Java based application and can cause the Java runtime environment to reach nearly 200MB in memory usage. My machine has no problems handling the load, as it is a Dual Core CPU with 1GB RAM and RAID 0 SATA Drives, but this is just really more than I am willing to give up just for sharing some files. I’ve spent lots of time perfecting my Bittorrent configuration and have things working beautifully, but I finally decided to switch to a new client that is less resource intensive.

 

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Real Time

Another great show on BitTorrent.

And finally, before I end this briefness today, I think Bill Maher’s Real Time program (download it off bittorrent those of us outside the US) is actually a dam good show. It’s filled with occasional crap and Bill himself is often sexist, racist, and all-around annoying. But when it comes down to it, the man makes great points and I absolutely loved Spike Lee on there this past week.

 

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October 21, 2005

Bittorrent Is Awesome

Another satisfied BitTorrent customer.

Downloading the latest OpenOffice.org release, the much-anticipated version 2.0 final, via BitTorrent. I’m getting 3.85 Mbps, which is about as much as I can possibly hope for, considering my download pipe is supposed to max out at 4 Mbps. Freakin’ sweet, man. This gets me a 75 meg download in under 3 minutes.

 

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October 15, 2005

Finding Music Online

Lots of good resources for finding out about music in this post.

Once the critical mass of music blogs has been reached, there is enough content spread across the internet so that new tools are developed to make searching a locating the music easier. For examle, the top two results from the Google BlogSearch on “Arctic Monkeys” would provide you with an adequate introduction to the band and let you listen to pretty much all the songs that are floating around the internet. Additionally, by going to Blogdigger.com and doing the Audio/Video search you can see different blogs that link to the band’s songs and videos. The main advantage of finding music this way, as opposed to downloading the songs from Kazaa/BitTorrent/etc, is that besides listening to their songs you can find out what the band is all about, read about their concerts and participate/review the disscussions in the comments sections.

 

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October 14, 2005

EGC Clambake

We were wondering when this would show up!

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for October 14, 2005.

 

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October 13, 2005

The New iMac, iPod And The Future

I like this vision of the future.

This is one of the biggest changes in the history of modern content, but not for the reason you’re thinking. Sure, being able to buy a TV show or music video or animated short to watch on your iPod is neat, but the real story here is video podcasts. If you’ve got the money for bandwidth, or Apple includes BitTorrent, you can roll your own TV show. Am I the only one who sees this? If Wil decides he wants to start acting again, he can go buy a DV camera, fire up iMovie and attach it to his RSS feed. Then someone subscribes to the feed in iTunes, and can watch it on their Mac or their iPod. No networks.

 

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Friggin' Genius

He'll probably win a Nobel prize.

I continue to be more and more impressed with BitTorrent…it’s the Napster of the 21st century; the guy who wrote it is a friggin’ genius IMO.

 

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I got Dugg!

More information on Azureus.

Earlier this evening an article I had written about configuring the Azureus bittorrent client was posted on the frontpage of LifeHacker.com. A few minutes later I found hits coming in from Digg. Less than 20 minutes later, I was on the frontpage of Digg! This is a huge deal to me because I visit Digg several times a day and to have my article on there is an awesome feeling. Right now I am just sitting back, RedBull in hand, keeping an eye on my Mint stats. At the time of this post I’ve received over 2,500 unique hits within the past 2-3 hours. Compare that to my regular 100-200 unique hits a day. You can check out the Digg page here.

 

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How To Configure Azureus

If you want to use Azureus for your BitTorrent adventures, this blog will help with Azureus set-up.

Azureus is one of my favorite BitTorrent client, this site will show you how to set it up.

If you post an article that will help others use a new program, submit your post to Blog Carnival with the submit button at the top left.
 

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October 11, 2005

Bram Cohen

Bram Cohen should win a Nobel prize.

Bram is the guy behind BitTorrent, a program that enables our audiences to receive our productions whilst reducing the burden on our own bandwidth by sharing the distribution task. BitTorrent is making a bit of history right now, and a lot of tools developers are climbing on board with implementations and variations.

 

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October 10, 2005

Bit Torrent Part One

The movie and sound track will be released shortly.

This is a chronicle of my self exploration, with BitTorrent.

 

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Mickey DVD's

Just add a satellite wireless ISP and a solar panel, and you could put this kiosk anywhere.

Alas, the kiosks are glorified vending machines. Before I looked into the technology, I wondered whether it was feasible to build a DVD kiosk out of a DVD burner, a credit card reader, and a high-speed internet connection running, say BitTorrent. Not yet, maybe. Not that Hollywood would be likely to go down this road, but a studio that licensed its library and created a real Celestial Jukebox — at $1 to burn a disk — might put a real dent in Blockbuster’s business, and even take some wind out of the DVD-burner supply house known as NetFlix.

 

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October 09, 2005

Suprnova.org Is Back

The best bittorrent site has re-appeared.

I find this interesting. Back in the day when I first started using Bittorrent, SuprNova was my prime source for all things. I knew of a few other torrent websites but they did not compare. Then SuprNova went down because of lawsuits, and a ton of new bittorrent websites popped up. One of my favorite websites, lokitorrent.com, eventually got shut down because of lawsuits I believe as well. After that, I looked around and there were literally hundreds of bittorrent sites. Recently there have been a ton of invite-only websites, invites given out similar to the way that Gmail’s invite system works. Can anyone remember something similar happening a few years ago, possibly a lawsuit against Napster? That spawned the outbreak of many new P2P clients, such as Kazaa, Limewire, WinMX, and others.

 

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October 08, 2005

How To Set Up Azureus

Click through for help with Azureus.

Azureus is a nice tool for downloading BitTorrent files. For first time users it can be a bit hard to get your mind around.

 

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Anonymous Bittorrent

It is a shame.

It’s a real shame that Bittorrent has such a ridiculously bad rap - it’s a great way for legal fileswapping. Amateur film developers have their movies distributed through Bittorrent - and apart from saving the huge bandwidth costs associated with online hosting, seeing the amount of seeders and leechers can give someone a decent idea of how popular the file is.

 

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October 07, 2005

Intelligent Television

Maybe intelligent television won't be an oxymoron anymore with bittorrent around.

I am now hooked. I admit it. I haven’t yet scheduled my life around Lost, but I do make *darn* sure that I watch each episode. BTW - if you miss an episode and have high speed internet you can download them via BitTorrent. Which is nice, until someone takes that away.

 

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September 23, 2005

µTorrent

Cool new torrent technology.

Yeah tbh this BitTorrent client is totally worth mentioning. It does all the important things that Azureus does, and with none of the crap. And here’s the best part: the file is 82k, its an exe that you can just run, it uses about 2.5megs of ram (on my computer anyway…compared to the 50megs that azureus took up). So that’s pretty safe. Check it out.

 

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September 21, 2005

Web Media Galore!

From a roundup of web media, Systm.

Systm: This is a show produced by Revision3 (aka, Kevin Rose and Crew) aimed at the slightly Geeky “Joe Computer User”. They’ve so far covered topics such as A Warspying box, MythTV, AV Cables, Podcasting and a slightly Shorter episode (cleverly dubbed a “subSystm” ) that covers how to crack open the iPod Nano. There are direct downloads for older files, but using Bittorrent is highly encouraged.

 

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September 20, 2005

Opera Web Browser for free!

The Opera browser is doing a lot to integrate with BitTorrent.

I like that they use the Bittorrent technology to distribute Opera (as an alternative to regular downloads!).

 

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September 17, 2005

Future Of RSS

Interesting idea here to develop distributed RSS that looks like BitTorrent.

After writing my last post I went to the Panel Discussion The Future of RSS: Beyond Blogging, in which Amar Ghandhi (GPM on the RSS platform), Doug Purdy (LPM on WCF), the CTO of Newsgator (forgot his name), the Chief Architect on MBS (forgot his name too), the RSS Evangelist at Amazon (you get the drift), a PM on Start.com, aswell as Robert Scoble. The discussion was okay, but was pretty main stream. As Erik Dibbern Röser and I talked about, it would be interesting if Microsoft explained their vision with RSS, not just that it should be used, but how it correlates with Web Services and the WCF stack, and when should it be used.

 

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September 16, 2005

The Mercury Theatre

Some really nice content on BitTorrent for film fans.

Anyway, go ahead and download (using BitTorrent), get yourself a hot cuppa tea, and let Orson Welles genius enchant you!

 

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September 14, 2005

SuprNova - Back With A Bang?

Is SuperNova really back?

Long time users of BitTorrent will be familiar with the website ‘SuprNova‘ which once reigned as the undisputed champ of the BitTorrent community, serving hundreds of thousands of unique visitors per day.

 

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Harvey Danger Giving it Away

The economic model for music is really changing.

According to Pitchfork, the band will be releasing their entire new album for free via BitTorrent on their website on Sept. 20, and via direct download a week later on the 27th. Those cheapskates who plan only getting the free version will be missing out on 9 extra B-sides and outtakes that will only be included with the retail version.

 

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September 13, 2005

How Bittorrent Works

One of these days, BitTorrent willl make sense:

Here’s a good reference for explaining how Bittorrent works to friends.

 

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August 28, 2005

Clambake Episode

I don't know how to categorize all the posts I see for content on BitTorrent like this.

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August 28, 2005.

 

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Anime Goes BitTorrent

Get anime on BitTorrent.

The New York Times reports ADV Films, the largest distributor of anime in the United States, is going BitTorrent.

 

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August 19, 2005

Free Documentaries

More and more free content showing up on BitTorrent.

This website has some interesting documentaries that you can download via bittorrent for free.

 

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August 18, 2005

RSS: What's In A Name?

Good discussion of the importance of naming with respect to the RSS/Atom market.

What do I mean? Well, realistically anything created today to bring RSS to the masses ought to be doing so with half a thought towards podcasting (can’t wait to see what Microsoft try to change that one to!). Sure, its ‘just’ RSS with enclosures but with the discussions currently going on with regard to the potential bandwidth problems podcasters face, who knows what direction that will take? BitTorrent is the current favourite solution (other than a fat pipe and a fat wallet) but who knows? And either way, how is that then a “web” feed? OK, yes I know its still HTTP but we’re trying to make this less techy aren’t we?

 

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August 14, 2005

Mac Hacks Allow OS X on PCs

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Hmm, interesting read at Wired regarding Mac OS X being run on Intel PC’s already. People are already bypassing the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip that is supposed to prevent Mac’s being run on non-Apple computers.

 

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August 10, 2005

Gentoo 2005.1

You can find the new Gentoo on BitTorrent.

Looks like the Gentoo team has released their new, experimental LiveCD that includes the much anticipated graphical installer. Documentation is forthcoming for the new release, which has been codenamed “El Nino”. It’s also available via bittorrent for anyone who’s feeling froggy.

 

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August 06, 2005

The Next Ten Years

I'm working on a start-up that focuses on core Internet technology, so it doesn't seem like that work has gone away.

What's significant is the additional billion users will not be geeks but just ordinary user. Yep, geeks like us will be outnumbered! And to them, Internet is just a tool, like a phone and the uses of Internet is far more important then the technology driving it. We already seeing more attention have been given to the applications (bittorrent, skype, blogs) and less into the core networking technology (ipv6, ipsec) in the last couple of years.

 

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Motorola Hacking

BitTorrent to collect games for a Motorola fun. How crazy!

I just hacked my V220 to allow me to install java apps from my pc. Its great. Thanks to bittorrent, I now have Super Mario Bros and Splinter Cell installed on my phone. I’ve been learning a lot of hex edits as well. Sara if you read this, what was that game you showed me at McGee’s? I want it.

 

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August 04, 2005

Naruto Torrent Targeted By GNAA

A weird subterfuge.

Targetting the bittorrent users who download the popular anime Naruto, succesful downloaders would have found something rather different. A short movie "Gayniggers from Outer Space" was in the file instead and this show is the inspiration for GNAA's name: "Gay Niggers Association of America".

 

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August 02, 2005

BitTorrent Gaining MPAA/RIAA Acceptance

Smarter for Hollywood to work with BitTorrent than fight it.

The company behind BitTorrent — software that’s been widely used to distribute illegal copies of movies and games — is trying to turn it into a Hollywood player, including business deals with the entertainment industry. Recently its top executives flew to Burbank, Calif., for high-level talks with the Motion Picture Association of America.

 

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August 01, 2005

Scary Down! & Gunbuster 2 3 OUT!

BitTorrent Tracker update.

So if you haven’t noticed our BitTorrent Tracker is down. Scarywater doesn’t show any signs of being stable yet, so we have decided to use Point-Blank as a backup tracker. Suzuka 4 has been reposted on Point-Blank. Suzuka 4’s repost is JUST on Point-Blank. The old torrent is still on scary but they are not the same torrent.

 

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July 29, 2005

Bittorrent Suport In Opera 8.10

Check out Opera for a browser that has BitTorrent support.

Looks like Opera people are working hard at what they do best… release new updates to their excellent browser. Just yesterday, they released the final of the version 8.02 and today they were back with a preview release as Opera 8.10 Preview 2 is now available on their servers. This is basically a version of Opera with the Bittorrent support enabled which the company removed from the final version released yesterday.

 

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July 24, 2005

Potter Pirates

Maybe it would have been smarter to release the most recent Harry Potter electronically.

I’m not sure I buy that. I bought my copy of HBP late Sunday. My wife left town on a business trip early Monday while I was only about halfway through the book. Rather than make her wait until she came back, I went and downloaded the ripped PDF over BitTorrent. Would I have paid ”$5 or $10” for something I already “owned” in dead-tree format? Doubtful. This was a convenience issue, and since it was so easy, it was the obvious thing to do. I suppose I “pirated” it, but to my mind, having a digital copy of something I’d paid for was legit fair use, but I’d have only do that at no cost.

 

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July 22, 2005

Difficult Times For EZTV

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Looks like we're seeing some interdiction of BitTorrent networks: "Difficult time for EZTV".

Apparently, the interdictors are trying to sap the bandwidth of seeding sites and downloaders (whose resources are considerably limited). While this is no problem for the large seeding sites, it's a considerable problem for the downloaders.

 

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Windows Calls It 'Vista'

Somehow Vista on BitTorrent seems antithetical.

Microsoft announced today the actual, real name of its new operating system – apparently “Longhorn” was a working title. The new windows, Windows 2006 if you will, will be named “Windows Vista” – and its first beta shall ship on August 3, and probably be available on bittorrent within twelve hours. Hell it might be out now for all I know. The actual launch is set to take place in the second half of 2006, five years after XP – which is the longest it has taken Windows to get to a new round of products.

 

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July 21, 2005

Opera Adds Support For BitTorrent

Not sure BitTorrent support will ever get built into Firefox, but not sure it matters.

Everybody that is an Opera 8 fan would probably know by now that the latest version of the popular browser: Opera 8.02, has added an interesting option that would become really handy for those people who are very keen on using BitTorrent. And that new option / feature is that Opera will now add support for Bit Torrent.

 

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Shareaza 2.1.3.2 Beta Released

The latest on Shareaza.

Several bugs fixed from the previous release and a number of tweaks have also been added. For those who don’t know, Shareaza let’s you take advantage of all the latest Gnutella features and connects to 4 networks: G1, G2, ED2k, and BitTorrent.

 

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July 19, 2005

BitTorrent Goes Mobile

This is very cool.

If you’re running Windows Mobile, you can now get a bitTorrent program for it coutesy of Adisasta and $20 after the trial period.

 

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July 17, 2005

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince

The audiobook version of Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince appears to be on BitTorrent.

Since Rowling decided that she didn’t want her latest Harry Potter book digitized, a few kind sould have taken the liberty of OCR’ing the latest and posting it on the bittorrent network. And don’t worry, the voice on this audiobook sound like a butler, not some computer generated robot voice.

 

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July 16, 2005

This Week In Tech Episode 13

TWIT 13 is on BitTorrent.

Another TWiT is up and ready for download! If I’m not mistaken, Leo is still out this week and Patrick has it all taken care of, and it looks like another good TWiT for everyone to listen to! This week’s topics include discussion on whether or not BitTorrent really counts as mainstream, the shuttle launch tomorrow, thoughts on the new Willy Wonka movie, cooling and quieting your PC, the upcoming DefCon, giving up the land line, and much much more! Check it out!

 

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July 14, 2005

Best. DRM. Evar!

This is an interesting approach to DRMs ... it's like a watermark, but the watermark is your name.

The above screenshot is from the PDF version of the upcoming Agile Web Development with Rails book. They have these PDF-aware gerbils at The Pragmatic Programmer that generate (and regenerate upon request when a new version is out) PDFs on the fly, with your name on the bottom of each page.

Having your name plastered all over the place is one sure way to discourage sharing it with friends or on file sharing networks. Imagine what would happen if the publisher found out htat you’re the guy responsible for the book ending up on BitTorrent?

 

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July 13, 2005

TerrorNet

A little off topic, but interesting to see network theory applied to terrorism.

If you have ever used a p2p program such as BitTorrent, you should have a basic understanding of how basic networks work.

 

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July 12, 2005

RSS + Bittorrent == Bliss

If you're trying to get RSS and BitTorrent hooked up, there's lots of good info on the Internet.

A nice tutorial to get you started with broadcatching using bittorrent and RSS

 

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TWit 13 Is Up!

If you were waiting for TWit, it's here.

time for more delicious techy goodness. fire up those BitTorrent clients.

 

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July 11, 2005

Tech TV: Resurrected?

Great to see Tech TV anywhere you can get it.

Is Tech TV being ressurected? It surely seems so. With Leo Laporte starting up the ‘This Week In Tech‘ Podcast, Kevin Rose’s and Dan Huard’s ‘the broken‘ and ‘systm‘, Yoshi DeHerrera’s ‘From The Shadows‘, Diggnation, and Command-N it just seems like this is the resurgence of Tech TV, but on the internet. These shows take advantage of BitTorrent and other programs like IPodderX to get their content around. These guys(and girls) seem to be quite content with keeping their stuff on the web, and that’s a great first step for the future of quality internet multimedia.

 

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July 09, 2005

Getting 30 Days

A recommendation for "30 Days" and directions on how to download it.

I was more than impressed by the cine, that I went on to watch the first episode and absolutely bamboozled! I thought I should spread the word around; thankfully people can download the series using BitTorrent. What they need, if they have not have it yet, is to install the freeware BitComet, available on the net. Then, go to Bittorrent.com, and type in ‘30 Days’ in the search box. The next obvious step is to download the appropriate epidose. I have not watch the other series, but the 1st episode and the 3rd episode, are clean and extremely good. Make your brain thinking, they do!

 

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Video Casting Problems

It's iTunes or the highway for this publisher.

Also, going with another codec for the video cast is just not an option. I know I may seem like an Apple geek right now but the only reason I had to start doing Pod/Videocasting was because iTunes did it all, letting me, for the first time, deliver media to the masses without being tech support. Dealing with questions/explanations on how to use bittorrent, DivX, or any other superior possibility is something I cannot do. Honestly, we live in a one click world, and iTunes is the only thing that can do one click audio/video delivery for the user.

 

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July 06, 2005

Opera Adds BitTorrent Support

Firefox may have to play catch up.

Great news (right?) from my favorite browser. Opera 8.02 is said to have support for BitTorrent natively, making it even closer to being the perfect browser for a power user. An announcement on this is said to come from Opera directly tomorrow.

 

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July 05, 2005

GnomeTorrent 0.1

More great torrents!

All this began when I discovered jamendo. Shortly, it’s a website where you can listen CC-licensed albums and download them using BitTorrent or another networks. I found quite interesting albums and I decided to try gnome-btdownload for downloading them.

 

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July 02, 2005

Supreme Court Bows To Big Business

Not completely clear yet how the Supreme Court decision will play out. Do BitTorrent servers move overseas?

Huge wins for large media companies and cable companies, however. Grokster and other file-sharing companies are toast. It’ll be interesting to see how this affects BitTorrent, which is getting a lot of legitimate use (like distributing Linux releases). Consumers also lose with the overturning of a prior decision forcing cable companies to open their lines to other broadband providers.

 

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July 01, 2005

Essential OSX Programs

Good info on BitTorrent here:

Bittorrent if you don’t know, is swarm based downloading. For more information you can go here. I use it mostly to download Linux torrents, and game demos from sites such as 3dgamers.com. I have used Azureus for over a year in windows and in Linux. Being java based, once I installed Java 1.5 it ran flawlessly in osx. Woo! Some of its great features is that it can download multiple torrents at the same time, along with rate limiting your upload. This helps keep my latency down on the network, and speed up downloads.

 

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June 29, 2005

Watch Both!

One way to watch both programs: BitTorrent.

Chops, to answer your question, one can watch BOTH family guy and entourage thanks to a program like bittorrent, especially if one just watches and deletes. Based on the latest entourage, looks like Vince may be in some hot water.

 

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June 28, 2005

BitTorrent FAQ and Guide

Some good BitTorrent info here:

I appreciated finding Brian’s BitTorrent FAQ and Guide. Give it a look. Also appreciated Rush Limbaugh talking today about stupid legislators who think they can resolve piracy problems by outlawing software like BitTorrent.

 

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June 27, 2005

Turn Your Computer into a TV Station

Good point on Alluvium, a competitor to BitTorrent.

The idea here is that because the focus is on streaming video rather than downloading it, they will be able to avoid the copyright infringement pitfalls that have befallen other p2p networks. Unfortunately for them, this very technical argument will be lost on the copyright regime enforcers.

 

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June 24, 2005

CD Protection

This blogger ran into copy protection problems with the new Kings Of Leon CD ... only to find it on BitTorrent.

The dumbest thing about it, I fired up my favorite bittorrent search site and guess what, 2 copies of the new album ready to be downloaded. Idiots.

 

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June 22, 2005

San Andreas On BitTorrent?

Check this out:

(And for you illegalists out there, San Andreas is out for PC on BitTorrent right now- I would link you there, but my ISP might not like it. Hey, wait, I *am* my own ISP…hmm!)

 

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Prodigem BitTorrent Service

Now anyone can check out the Prodigem BitTorrent service.

The Prodigem BitTorrent service has become open to anyone to sign up. Prodigem used to be invitation only.

 

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June 20, 2005

Microsoft Takes On BitTorrent

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Here’s an interesting one: Microsoft Takes On BitTorrent - Forbes.com

 

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June 18, 2005

Spyware Floods In Through BitTorrent

Is anyone suprised by this.

BitTorrent, the beloved file-sharing client and protocol that provides a way around bandwidth bottlenecks, has become the newest distribution vehicle for adware/spyware bundles.

 

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Video Re-examination Of Voting System

I love that BitTorrent provides distribution for extremely specific content.

Joyce obtained copies of the re-examination of the Unilect Patriot done by the state of Pennsylvania, and I've ripped those to a video format the should be view-able under Windows. If you've got BitTorrent -- which can be downloaded for Windows here:

 

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June 15, 2005

Free Software And Society

Good post on free software and information and its impact on society.

Mas há escepções! um exemplo é o google, que gratuitamnente oferece o seu serviço de pesquisa na internet, tendo assumido a missão de organizar o caos da internet, tornando acecível a informação verdadeiramente relevante. Outro exemplo são as aplicações P2P (peer-to-peer), como Kazaa, o Emule, o BitTorrent, entre tantos outros, que nsão programas que permitem a troca de ficheiros entre utilizadores da rede, tornando possível obter qualquer informação, quer em texto, som, vídeo ou outro formato qualquer. Mas o melhor de todos os exemplos é o Wikipédia (www.wikipedia.org). Um projecto que começou já há alguns anos, consiste numa enciclopédia online completamente gratuita, e que pode ser editada por qualquer pessoa! Esse conceito é muito importante: significa que, qualquer internauta que visite o site pode acrescentar informação que disponha a um determinado artigo que esteja incompleto, sem precisar de se inscrever em nada, e muito menos pagar, podendo inclusivamente iniciar um novo artigo sobre um assunto que ainda não esteja abrangido pela enciclopédia.

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June 14, 2005

BitTorrent Versus Ourmedia

Faster video production with Ourmedia noted by this blogger:

I decided to use Ourmedia for the video storage, though with the low volume I certainly could have used our own dedicated servers and bandwidth. To save on bandwidth expenses for delivery I could also have gone the BitTorrent route, but that takes extra time and one of my goals was to keep the time down. Time is my most least available resource. The process of tagging the video and publishing to Ourmedia took less than five minutes and the video was available within an hour.

 

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The Controversial Arroyo Tape

It's amazing to me how many countries are using BitTorrent for how many kinds of video:

I’m currently downloading a copy of the tape na nagpapakanda-leche leche sa Pilipinas ngayon. A co-worker leeched it off a bittorrent server and I asked for a copy kasi I wanted to listen to it.

 

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Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen off BitTorrent:

i caught the second half of the third episode of Hell’s Kitchen last night on FOX, and proceeded to download 1 and 2 off bittorrent. man, this show is awesome. i love watching the wannabe chefs scramble when gordon ramsay screams at them. basically, gordon is just horrible to these people, trying to break them. he figures if they can put up with him, they can put up with anything and they can run their own restaurant. it’s a good philosophy, my dad was kind of the same way. he’d scream and scream and scream and eventually i’d be able to block it out and not take it personally. the people on the show aren’t quite there yet, some of them nearly break into tears when he looks at them. seriously. anyway, it’s awesome.

 

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Filling iPods

What is on all those iPods?

While talking with Tiffiniy Cheng of Participatory Culture earlier today for our next Gear Live Podcast, she mentioned the website put out by them called iTunes Per iPod. Essentially, it aims to show that while many people walk around with iPods filled to the brim with their favorite tracks, barely any of them are from the iTunes Music Store. Granted, the data is a bit outdated as it is from April 2004, I think it is safe to say that the data probably hasn’t changed all that much. Based on their calculations, in April 2004, if you divided the number of songs sold on iTunes by the number of iPods out there, you would find an average of 21 iTunes songs per iPod. Now I understand that many people rip CD’s that they have purchased legally to their computers as well, and this accounts for a percentage of the music on iPods - but I will go out on a limb and say that is a small percentage as well. Gotta love Bittorrent.

 

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June 13, 2005

BusinessWeek On Technology

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Interesting articles now over at Business Week on e.g. mass collaboration online … noting collaborative innovations such as Skype, BitTorrent, and online idea hubs run by HP, Lilly and P&G.

 

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June 09, 2005

On A BitTorrent Near You

Enough techy stuff, here's the great content you can find on bittorrent:

Oh and by the way kids (I mean, kids with HBO and/or BitTorrent), if you were wondering, both Lisa Kudrow’s ‘The Comeback’ and the season premiere for ‘Six Feet Under’ were fucking fabulous. It makes me cry to think that these kind of shows are so few and far in between, that is shows that assume that the viewer is intelligent, not a nimrod.

 

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Bittorrent

Click through for links to bittorrents:

Bittorrent is a peer-peer protocol used for file distribution. What is good about it is that every downloader also acts as an uploader. The file is divided into smaller sized chunks, each with SHA1 hash. This is great for countering “slashdot effects”, downloading the iso images immediately after they are released. I doubt, though, if it is very useful for longer term links…

 

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June 08, 2005

Welcome To PodCast Tracker

Self publish podcasts on BitTorrent. How cool is that?

If you are interested in publishing your podcasts via bittorrent and don’t want to hassle with running your own tracker, register for an account here. I hope to have most of the interface working by the end of June.

 

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From The Shadows

BitTorrent has some innovative content:

While listening to This Week In Tech earlier this week they mentioned a show one of them is involved in called From the Shadows. It’s like a tech show, but it’s not on TV, it’s a download, kind of like a podcast, but with video. Topics so far have been light sabre replicas that can be used for full-force dueling, WarDrving/Flying, WEP Cracking, and wireless mobile gaming. It’s really really cool! A bit hefty on the d-loads (the episode on WIFI was 200+ megs divx) but using bittorrent it was pretty fast.

 

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BitTorrent Doesn't Pirate Movies, People Do

Don't shoot the messenger!

What brings me to mention BitTorrent here is a rather well-known hosting company with several branches worldwide, 1&1 Internet Inc., who have recently told one of their customers they can’t distribute their own content through BitTorrent, presumably because of its use by pirating rings.

 

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Command-N

Lots of shows showing up on BitTorrent today.

If you have a video camera/webcam and a PC (or better yet a Mac), now is a great time to start experimenting with these technologies. I'm seeing more-and-more quality content hit the web on an almost daily basis. Speaking of which, yesterday my friend Amber (co-host of CFH Canada) emailed me a link to their latest indie downloadable tech show 'Command-N'. In this episode they cover some current tech topics and even roll-in a BitTorrent howto. This is a great example of just how easy it is to create your own downloadable show...

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June 06, 2005

BitTorrent NOT Shut Down

Don't believe everything you read:

Gamespy's reporter is writing about the shut down of a single torrent site. The BitTorrent client and technology are very much still active. This writer is just an idiot. Or maybe it's the editor, who knows over there anymore.

 

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June 05, 2005

BitTorrent Share Ratios

On BitTorrent share ratios:

Here's a random question that came to me this morning. I download a lot over BitTorrent. Mostly shows from taper friendly bands, so it's all legal. I wrote a long time ago how I thought BitTorrent was the ultimate hippie application and I still continue to believe this. It's great to be able to get all these shows and the everyone helping each other nature of BitTorrent goes along very well with the culture of the jam band scene.

 

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IPTV vs. Internet Television

Here's a look at different ways video is distributed over the Internet:

What is the difference between IPTV, the Internet Protocol-based TV paradigm heralded by major telecom providers and large media groups and the Internet Television painted by the Long Tail phenomenon, Ourmedia, the Internet Archive, Brightcove, and the availability of amazing new technology opportunities such as faster and faster net connections, free unlimited storage space, BitTorrent, MPEG4 and powerful low-cost hardware and software production tools?

 

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June 04, 2005

New BitTorrent Site List

Click through for the list of BitTorrent sites that are online:

A list of popular BitTorrent torrent websites currently online!

 

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Check For DivX

Good thing to check for DivX if you can't play a video from BitTorrent.

If you download a video file say thru BitTorrent and find that you can play it; it is most likely because you don’t have DivX installed.

 

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May 30, 2005

Testing BitTorrent's Search

Good write-up on the BitTorrent search:

The first search I attempted was for something legal, Firefox. The entire site, front page and results page, look a lot like Google, but I suppose that's typical of most any search engine these days. Anyway, there were 22 results for Firefox, and not one of them was the latest version. In fact, the latest version I could find was 1.0.2, which is two versions behind.

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Turning The Web Into TV

Will BitTorrent and the Internet replace TV?

Somehow, having had a look at some of this stuff, Bleeding Edge is pretty sure it's going to end in bitter disappointment for them. The Web was a great place to find TV programs and download them via BitTorrent - before the studios turned their attention to destroyhing that - but we just can't see it replacing the television set.

 

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Blame The People, Not The Software

Never put more clearly:

For those using Bittorrent, this really scares me. If they’re only targeting people using Bittorrent for movie, music, and application downloads, then why are TV sites pulling themselves offline? Thank goodness a few are sticking around like tvtorrents. Did you hear? The MPAA is blaming BitTorrent on the illegal Star Wars vid floating around. Next, they might blame the internet or everyone’s computers for accessing the internet. Blame the people who misuse it, not the software itself.

 

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May 28, 2005

U.S. Homeland Security Shuts Down BitTorrent P2P Site

Are these the real terrorists?

Ten people suspected of involvement with the EliteTorrents webserver were served warrants by homeland security agents. According to the U.S. government agency, this is the first criminal enforcement action taken against violators of copyright law who use the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file swapping software. The operation, codenamed D-elite, targeted administrators and content providers working through the EliteTorrents website.

 

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Bram Cohen's Search

Good stuff on BitTorrent search:

Bram Cohen has posted a beta of a trackerless BitTorrent client. Once it goes final it’s expected to make the MPAA, BSA and RIAA’s elaborate game of litegation Whack-a-Mole even more difficult, as noted by ZDNet Australia. As well as that, it should speed things up, presuming that torrent files will now get wider distribution and swarms will become bigger. Here’s Slashdot’s lowdown:

 

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May 27, 2005

Confused About EliteTorrents

Good point about the MPAA:

This kind of thing has a limited lifetime, because Bittorrent has gone trackerless. What this means is that once a full copy is out there somewhere, the network becomes very resistant to taking down any particular copy. I’ve written about the MPAA’s problems with this before, but I feel the need to reiterate: this is not something that you can just make go away. It’s not a technology, it’s a technique. The ability to reconstruct a whole from disparate parts, without a central resource means that it doesn’t help to shut...

 

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May 26, 2005

Friends in High Places

I can't believe this is a priority for the Department of Homeland Security.

Apparently the MPAA, no longer content with getting Spanish academics fired, has decided to up the ante. They’ve convinced the Justice Department to start filing criminal charges against organizers of BitTorrent networks. In a press relase pulished to the interestingly named file starwars52505.htm, (at least they’re honest about what’s really going on) the Department of Homeland Security – who knew? – announced the “First Criminal Enforcement Against BitTorrent Network Users” yesterday. The sad thing is that it’s difficult, if not impossible, to defend people who put up torrents of “Revenge of the Sith” six hours before it was released so the important points will, as usual, be overlooked, such as the outright silliness of shutting down networks because to get at criminals use them as means of transport.

 

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May 25, 2005

Official BitTorrent Search Launched

More on BitTorrent search here:

BitTorrent rocks. So many people use it to exchange movies, commercial games and seedy seedy porn. And why not? However, finding torrents has not always been that easy (although suprnova.org made it easier — thanks government for shutting that one down). Anyways, BT inventor Bram Cohen has launched bittorrent.com/ - a sweet BitTorrent search engine.

 

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U.S. Shuts Down Network That Leaked 'Star Wars'

Shooting the messenger?

The Elite Torrents network, found online at www.elitetorrents.org, relied on a technology called BitTorrent that allows users to quickly download digital movies and other large files by copying them from many computers at once.

 

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May 24, 2005

BitTorrent Search

Everyone want BitTorrent search ... and I mean everyone:

"...the content industries may find the [new] BitTorrent search engine too useful to mess with. "The copyright owners can now identify the most-trafficked materials that are infringing their copyrights and go after them in a more efficient way," says Lemley. "It's kind of ironic.""

 

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May 23, 2005

Usenet And BitTorrent

Old timers will remember that Usenet was a great tool for file sharing:

And, it's getting safer. Since it is not a peer to peer network (like Kazaa, BitTorrent, and others), it is harder for the Authority figures to track the people who download files from them. That can mean less liability for the end user, and a huge freaking headache for said authority figures.

 

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May 22, 2005

Torrent Spy Blocks Family Guy

Another BitTorrent site taken down?

It looks like TorrentSpy was sent a DMCA takedown notice. (I haven't seen this covered anywhere else. )

When you search for "Family Guy" you get a nice friendly error message:

 

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Fansubbing

Click through for explanations of fansubbing and finding what's worth watching:

A friend of mine who’s brand new to the whole fansubbing thing was asking me what anime’s are out there worth downloading right now. So, I’m going to start slapping together lists a few of my current faves and posting them.

 

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Stupid MPAA

An MPAA rant here:

But the MPAA wants to make my life much more difficult. One of the biggest things that gets me going besides the whole evolution debate is this one. First the MPAA sued the site that I used to find the shows, btefnet, which caused them to stop releasing them. Actually, this site didn’t contain the shows. It contained links that opened up Bittorrent, which is a program used to transfer files. It is fundamentally different from programs like Napster, in two ways. First, unlike Napster, there are no “central servers” for Bittorrent....

 

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May 21, 2005

MPAA BitTorrent Bad Bad Bad

The MPAA is publicizing the Revenge of the Sith piracy on BitTorrent so much that some people think it was a plant. Everyone knew the movie would pull down a lot of money anyway.

Remember all those things RIAA used to say about music piracy and Napster. Well, do a “find-replace” with MPAA and BitTorrent, and you get the same hysterical statements. MPAA president Dan Glickman says, “We must stop these Internet thieves from illegally trading valuable copyrighted materials on-line.” MPAA is blaming BitTorrent for Revenge of the Sith piracy. That’s like calling matches, not cigarettes, cause cancer. How about learning from music’s mistakes, and figuring out ways to sell the content legally?...

 

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Posted on May 21, 2005 09:29 PM by bittor482.
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Customer Experience Can Make You Money

Actually, technology is not only putting control of media viewing in consumers' hands, it's putting creation of technology in consumers' hands as well.

Disruption in the media and technology space is trending towards putting control in the hands of the user. Adoption of technologies like BitTorrent, RSS, and web services are providing the foundation on which users are building tools to consume content on their own terms. To figure out what users want in this space, it's often useful to look at and think about user behavior (not user opinion) to figure out how to fill unmet needs.

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BitTorrent Responsible for George Lucas' Continuing Poverty

Great headline!

“There is no better example of how theft dims the magic of the movies for everyone than this report today regarding BitTorrent providing users with illegal copies of Revenge of the Sith. The unfortunate fact is this type of theft happens on a regular basis on peer to peer networks all over the world.

 

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May 19, 2005

May The Torrent Be With You

[deadpan]Start Wars? Me, too.[/deadpan]

At least two copies of the film, which was first shown in theaters in the early hours of Thursday, have been posted to the BitTorrent file-sharing network — a new and increasingly popular technology that allows users to download large video files much more quickly than in the past.

[deadpan]Wow. I’m shocked. Who would have thought that somebody would steal the Star Wars movie?[/deadpan]

 

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Posted on May 19, 2005 09:34 PM by bittor482.
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Azureus 2.3.0.0 Released

A fan of Azureus reports:

Azureus is, bar none, the greatest BitTorrent client ever. Of all the BitTorrent clients I have ever used, it has the most pleasent and extensive UI for the most demanding torrenters, and a number of awesome plug-ins. Version 2.3.0.0 of this torrent beast finally gives us decentralized tracking… so now, torrents from the long-dead SuprNova or Lokitorrent now have a way to “finish business.” Thus, it can also encourage the speed of today’s torrents by introducing us to a wider audience. Words can not express how much joy this program gives me.

 

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New BitTorrent Makes Distribution Easier

Distribution is easier, even in Spanish:

Con la nueva versión de BitTorrrent publicar contenidos se vuelve muchísimo más fácil ya que no hay necesidad de usar trackers. Esto representa otro gran paso a la distribución masiva de contenido independiente por todos y para todos. Por la forma en que el BitTorrent funciona, no es necesario tener contratado servidores o mucho ancho de banda para poder distribuir música, software o videos.

 

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BitTorrent Goes Trackerless

Good info on trackerless torrents:

I'm sure everyone knows what BitTorrent is, but it is the most popular peer-to-peer file sharing protocol for sharing large files. Before you had to have a tracker to create "torrents" which coordinated this sharing, but now you don't. This should make it even easier for people to make BitTorrent enclosures in blog entries and otherwise use BitTorrent to share files. Having said that, there are value added trackers like Prodigem which I'm sure people will use to charge for and otherwise track their files.

 

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Cease or Be Deceased

You have to find the nuts before you can use the vice:

It takes pretty big balls to hand out pirated copies of the final Star Wars movie. I won’t deny I’ve “borrowed” and “shared” a few movies in my time. But I’d be hesitant even just googling “Revenge of the Sith DIVX”, let alone firing up a bittorrent download of it. George Lucas is the Metallica of the movie industry. He’s just itching to get somebody’s nuts in a vice over movie piracy.

 

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BBC Testing TV Download Service

The Brits use BitTorrent to get around the problem of waiting for their favorite American TV. Now this funny post on BBC and BitTorrent:

Clearly this is linked to the fact that Brits have become accustomed to downloading American TV shows via BitTorrent rather than suffer the months-long wait for new programs to jump across the pond. Now we here at BBB can live just fine with almost every Asian country being more advanced technologically than us. However, our blood boils over when even the Limeys have us beat. Isn’t there a reason for that whole little revolution thingy? They have a monarchy! These people are about as cutting edge as tea with crumpets and they’re ahead...

 

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