Archive for the 'BitTorrent' Category
Music industry sues Torrent site. Yawn!
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello May 20th, 2008 in BitTorrent, Digital Music, Digital downloading.An interesting article from the good folks at TorrentFreak. While it wont have any of the humor and fireworks ThePirateBay brings to the party, I still think this will be an interesting battle. Mininova doesnt run a tracker or host files it is truly only pointing in the general direction of both legal [...]
BitTorrent News via Torrent Freak
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello March 17th, 2008 in BitTorrent, Digital downloading, Movie downloads, Torrents, file sharing, movie downloading.The good folks at Torrent Freak caught my attention this morning with news of the possible resurrection of Demonoid, of one my favorite BitTorrent trackers, for stats. They have been tracking the fate of Demonoid since it was taken offline last year. The site seems to have gained a new host in the Ukraine and [...]
Battlestar Galactica Razor 3 Weeks Early. Thanks NBC.
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello November 2nd, 2007 in BitTorrent, Groups Opposing the MPAA, Online TV, TV, Torrents, advertising.If your not watching the geek greatness that is Battlestar Galactica then you are missing one of the greatest male soap operas on TV. Yesterday, while perusing my favorite Bittorent sites to get caught-up on the latest episodes of Avatar, Weeds and Dexter, I saw an entry for Battlestar Galactica Razor. “This couldnt be the [...]
IFPI Taken over by The Pirate Bay!
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello October 16th, 2007 in BitTorrent, Groups Opposing the MPAA, Groups Opposing the RIAA, IFPI, The Pirate Bay, file sharing.The good folks at Mashable have picked-up the story on what has to be the best set-up for a prank ever. It appears that the domain IFPI.com has fallen into the hands of the merry swashbuckling crew at The Pirate Bay. The domain IFPI.org still goes to the older IFPI site, belonging to International Federation [...]
Joost Signs Deal with CBS
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 12th, 2007 in BitTorrent, Broadband, Broadband-Wagon, CBS, Entertainment, IPTV, Online TV, deals, hot betas, hot invites, joost, viacom, video.CBS just put out a press release announcing that they have cut a deal with Joost to show “first run and other premium content”. They are slated to launch content through the application in the spring and say that it will come from a bunch of the CBS divisions. The release says that they will [...]
Pirate Bay Bitch Slaps MPAA
4 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello February 12th, 2007 in BitTorrent, Broadband, Groups Opposing the MPAA, Humor, Movie downloads, The Pirate Bay, YouTube, anti-drm, copyright, movie downloading, mpaa, p2p, parody, video.“Were winning” they say! I’d have to agree.
Our favorite swashbuckling buccaneers over at the Pirate Bay have done it again. These guys have all the swagger, ambition and balls that their name implies. Its not enough that they want to buy an island to freely distribute the digital goodness we all crave, or that they [...]
How The Pirate Bay could save AllofMP3 and go Legit
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello January 16th, 2007 in AllOfMP3, BitTorrent, Conjecture, Digital Music, Foolishness, Groups Opposing the RIAA, RIAA, Sealand, The Pirate Bay, mp3, p2p, russian mp3.The swash-buckling lads at the The Pirate Bay have started taking donations to buy a bankrupt, burnt-out, rusting hull in the North Sea off the coast of Britain called Sealand. The sheer audaciousness of the move is matched only by the opportunities it presents for the development and proliferation of new models in the sale [...]
Master Minds Behind BitTorrents Phenominal Rise
9 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello October 26th, 2006 in Anti-social behaviour, BitTorrent, Digital Music, Entertainment, Groups Opposing the RIAA, Movie downloads, Music Musings, Tech Musings, The Pirate Bay, Torrent Stats, TrendSpotting.
I’ve got some good news and bad news for everyone worried about the .
Good news: People are ditching older P2P applications like Gnuttella, Limewire and eDonkey in droves.
Bad News: People are moving from these older applications to BitTorrent in bigger droves.
Since my rant on [...]
With a Yo-Ho-Ho, The Pirate Bay Sallys On
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 5th, 2006 in BitTorrent, Conjecture, Entertainment, Tech Musings, The Pirate Bay.In case you havent been keeping up, there is an ongoing war between the Luddite content industries and the ever popular BitTorrent site, The Pirate Bay. Unfortunately for the content industries, the scrappy torrent site has continually given them a very public and oft humors thrashing. Well last week they though all of that had [...]
Warner Brothers Summer Blockbuster is BitTorrent
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello May 10th, 2006 in BitTorrent, Movie downloads, Tech Musings, Technology & Entertainment.Yesterday's NYT carried this story about "the frog" doing a deal with BitTorrent to distribute hundreds of movies and TV shows via its software. My favorite quote form the whole article is by Kevin Tsujihara, a WB prexy, he said, "If we can convert 5, 10 or 15 percent of the illegal down-loaders into consumers [...]
