Trent Reznor and Why OiNK Was ‘The World’s Greatest Music Store’
Looks like NIN’s frontman did his music “stealing” at the same place as the rest of us, but didn’t it actually make better music fans of us all?
Many of us are well aware of just how hip Trent Reznor is in terms of his love for music and how he puts his audience and [...]
Waffles.fm – A PRIVATE, Sweden-Based BitTorrent Music Tracker Site
Aims to be the community that OiNK’s Pink Palace was, a PRIVATE TRACKER with a great music selection, but will be based in Sweden.
Waffles.fm is a new PRIVATE BitTorrent tracker scheduled for launch at midnight PST tonight. It promises to be based off of the recently shuttered OiNK’s Pink Palace, a loss many music [...]
BitTorrent CEO Says Comcast’s Throttling is ‘Symptom of a Larger Problem’
Ashwin Navin says that the ISP’s networks weren’t implemented to take into account their users becoming media distributors.
There’s an interesting new interview on The Post with BitTorrent Inc.’s President and CEO Ashwin Navin in which he gives his take on the whole Comcast BitTorrent throttling affair and the future of traffic using the BitTorrent [...]
Fight the RIAA and Buy a ‘Free Jammie Thong?’
I’m not sure how newsworthy this is, but indefinitely gave me a chuckle as I’m sure it will for you as well.
Jammie Thomas, the first person to go trial over illegal file-sharing and who unfortunately lost, is doing all she can to try to come up with the $200,000 judgment against her.
It [...]
The Pirate Bay: ‘BitTorrent as a Protocol Won’t Last Much Longer’
One of BitTorrent’s most senior pirates speaks out in an in interview for a German blog and what he has to say may cause some concern over at BitTorrent Inc.
In Berlin to check out the Oil of the 21st Century conference this past weekend, Brokep over at The Pirate Bay was interviewed by the [...]
CRIA Trying to Stop the So-Called ‘iPod Tax’
Fears de facto legalized file-sharing if people are made to pay a fee to cover its effects and thereby theoretically immune from charges of stealing.
Misery makes for strange bedfellows as they say, and the miserable state that the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), much like the music industry here to the south of our [...]
US Govt Creating New P2P Network to ‘Supersede the Web’
The Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems (IRIS) will solve technical problems with existing P2P networks such as Gnutella and KaZaA and speed up searches and information transfer over the internet.
P2P isn’t always a dirty acronym it seems with news that the US government – that’s right the Feds – is currently funding the development [...]
What to Use Instead of OiNK
What to use instead of Oink? Brokep from The Pirate Bay lays down a nice list of music related BitTorrent tracker sites to use while the dust settles from the recent closure of the once great “Pink Palace” known as OiNK.
Last week were trying times for music fans in the BitTorrent community after a two-year [...]
UK Govt Wants ISPs to Crack Down on Illegal File-Sharing
Wants ISPs to do it voluntarily, but if fails will enact laws to get them to comply.
In an interview with the BBC, Lord Triesman, the parliamentary Under Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills, said intellectual property theft would no longer be tolerated.
In the wake of recent UK crackdowns on sites like OiNK and [...]
OiNK Admin: ‘The Logs We Store Aren’t Enough to Incriminate Users’
Speaks out for the first time on IRC and in an interview with the Telegraph about his arrest, the merits of the case against him, and what former users can expect in the future. .
It’s been 3 days now since Alan Ellis, the 24yo admin of OiNK was busted, and the site’s servers seized. [...]
