Disney to sell films on Internet-based movie site
LOS ANGELES — Disney films such as “Glory Road” and the animated “Chicken Little” will soon be available to own via computer download from the Internet-based movie site CinemaNow, but the movies can’t be played on a standalone DVD player.
The companies were expected to announce Wednesday that CinemaNow will sell the films for $19.95 and [...]
The Pirate Bay Raided by Swedish police
Today it has been reported that the swedish bittorrent tracker, The Pirate Bay, was raided and shutdown by swedish police.
ThePirateBay.org had become one of the premier BitTorrent trackers, filling the void the ensured after the demise of SuprNova.org.
Details are still sketchy but sometime this morning ThePirateBay.org was raided by police, and the servers seized, [...]
Safepeer Plugin for Azureus
Following on the heels of our other distinguished Azureus plugin articles, I offer for here for your reading pleasure a guide on the SafePeer plugin for the Azureus BitTorrent client server. This plugin is similar to the Peer Guardian program in that it uses a regularly maintained and updated list of “malicious” IP addresses to [...]
China vows to better protect copyright on Internet
The Chinese government has passed a new regulation to ban the uploading and downloading of Internet material without the copyright holder’s permission.
Under the regulation, effective from July 1, anyone uploading texts, and performance, sound and video recordings to the Internet for downloading, copying or other use, must acquire the permission of the copyright owners and [...]
Anti-spam p2p
Since spammers have larger numbers than we do, we must build our numbers up, be mobile and not be targetted. This is what the new anti-spammer program intends to do. The development team intends for the program to complain to only a very minimal number of spamvertised web sites. This is being done so that [...]
US court backs online reporters
The decision was made in a case brought by Apple against a number of reporters who published information online about a future Apple product launch
RIAA vs. MP3 vs. Adam Smith
Great look at the economics of file sharing. Pull quote:
In the RIAA-vs-MP3/Napster/Kazaa/Etc situation, the RIAA represents a small cartel of producers who are currently selling their goods (music CDs) at approximately ten times their marginal cost of production. They are doing this by producing only enough quantity of units to satisfy the demands of those [...]
Control Azureus Remotely
Azureus, the BitTorrent Client that keeps on giving, has an often overlooked feature called Swing Web Interface that makes it possible to keep an eye on your downloading torrents while your at work, school or even at a hotel. All you need is a internet connection.
For those guys, or gals, who want to check up [...]
Nintendo prices Wii at $250 for U.S. market
Nintendo has announced that the price of Wii, its next-generation video game console, will not exceed $250 in the United States or $220 (25,000 yen) in Japan.
Between the fourth quarter of 2006 and March 31, 2007, Nintendo expects to ship 6 million Wii systems worldwide, the company said.
Photos: Nintendo’s Wii controller
While the device lacks the [...]
Schools targeted with anti-piracy message
The Federation Against Software Theft (Fast) is targeting primary and secondary schools for the first time with a campaign to promote the legal use of software.
The initiative aims to promote awareness of the legal ramifications of software misuse as well as taking enforcement action against infringements.
‘With the rapid growth in the uptake of the internet, [...]
