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Submission + - US Government Domain Seizures Failing Miserably (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by

ktetch-pirate

on Sunday April 03, 2011 @01:28PM

ktetch-pirate writes: "Operation In Our Sites, a US Government led domain seizure action to deal with piracy, is pretty much a failure. TorrentFreak has examined a significant number of sites that have gone on pretty much unhindered, despite the seizures. Already some questions have been asked about the constitutionality of the seizures, and the evidence used as justification, but it seems the end results weren't as good as boasted either."

Comment Re:Response from the researchers (Score 2, Informative) 167

by ernesto99 on Monday July 26, 2010 @07:00PM (#33037818) Attached to: Major Flaws Found In Recent BitTorrent Study

I (TorrentFreak) got the same response, they're simply ignoring the criticism and questions that I've asked. If they want to stand by bogus data that's their choice.

Comment Re:TorrentFreak? Really? Consider the source. (Score 4, Informative) 167

by ernesto99 on Monday July 26, 2010 @06:31PM (#33037612) Attached to: Major Flaws Found In Recent BitTorrent Study

Ernesto here from TorrentFreak. I do have an academic background and used to teach statistics and research methods to (PhD) students. Not that it matters much, the comments I've made are pretty straightforward.

Submission + - Rapidshare Fined $34 Million and Ordered to Filter 1

Submitted by A Cow on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @06:43AM

A Cow writes: TorrentFreak reports that the Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany, has ruled that file-hosting service Rapidshare must proactively filter certain content. Music industry outfit GEMA asked the court to ban Rapidshare from making 5,000 tracks from its catalogue available on the Internet. The court obliged and fined Rapidshare $34 million.

Submission + - Where is the International in ISS (2di2d.com)

Submitted by

JerryQ

on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @05:50AM

JerryQ writes: "NASA are sticking to imperial measurements for the next shuttle. It reminds me of Digital Vax parameter 'timepromptwait' which was in the units 'microfortnight'

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17350-nasa-criticised-for-sticking-to-imperial-units.html

Is it two firkins of oxygen to 3 groats of kerosene?"

Cory Doctorow Calls Death To Music, Movies, Print 336

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 22, 2009 @06:37PM from the low-hanging-fruit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow depicts an unfortunate near-future for a handful of media industries being transformed or killed by the Internet. Predicting a large-scale transformation of the music, movie, book, and newspaper industry, Doctorow says, 'The Internet chews up media and spits them out again. Sometimes they get more robust. Sometimes they get more profitable. Sometimes they die.' While the Internet has the potential to help the dying book industry, for example, Doctorow predicts the 'imminent collapse' of the American newspaper industry because advertisers are uninterested in spending money on the remaining offline readership, such as senior citizens, who prove less valuable."

Success Not Just a Matter of Talent 247

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 15, 2008 @01:22PM from the ninety-nine-percent-something-something dept.

NinjaCoder writes "The Guardian has an interesting article based on a new book (Outliers: The Story Of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell) which examines some persons of interest to computer technology (Bill Joy, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, amongst others). It examines reasons for their successes and strongly suggests a link between practice (10,000 hours by age 20 being the magic milestone) and luck. This maybe an obvious truism, but the article does give interesting anecdotes on how their personal circumstances led to today's technological landscape. It points out that many of the luminaries of the current tech industry were born around 1955, and thus able to take advantage of the emerging technologies.

Submission + - Record Labels go After SourceForge and Limewire

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 14, 2008 @03:23PM

An anonymous reader writes: TorrentFreak reports: French record labels have received the green light to sue four US-based companies that develop P2P applications, including the BitTorrent client Vuze, Limewire and Morpheus. Shareaza is the fourth application, for which the labels are going after the open source development platform SourceForge.

US Has More IPv6 Eyeballs Than Asia, Because of Apple 162

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 13, 2008 @09:54PM from the yummy-apple dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google has been checking to see who's using IPv6. According to the company's tracking, half of all IPv6-capable systems seen by Google are Macs, helping the US land in fifth place in percentage of IPv6 users world wide, ahead of China and Japan."

Submission + - Researchers Make BitTorrent Truly Decentralized

Submitted by A Cow on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @12:01PM

A Cow writes: The Tribler BitTorrent client, a project run by researchers from several European universities and Harvard, is the first to incorporate decentralized search capabilities. With Tribler, users can now find .torrent files that are hosted among other peers, instead of on a centralized site such as The Pirate Bay or Mininova.

The Tribler developers have found a way to make their client work, without having to rely on BitTorrent sites. Although others have tried to come up with similar solutions, such as the Cubit plugin for Vuze, Tribler is the first to understand that with decentralized BitTorrent search, there also has to be a way to moderate these decentralized torrents in order to avoid a flood of spam.

Submission + - SPAM: Researcher warns of "Digital Dark Age"

Submitted by alphadogg on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @09:17AM

alphadogg writes: A University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign assistant professor is sounding a warning that companies, government and researchers need to come up with a plan for preserving our increasingly digitized data in light light of shifting document management and other software platforms (think WordPerfect and floppy disks). Jerome P. McDonough, who teaches at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, says there are 369 exabytes worth of data, and that includes some pretty hard to replace stuff, including tax files, email and photos. Open standards could play a key role in any preservation effort, he says. "If we can't keep today's information alive for future generations, we will lose a lot of our culture," ," McDonough said. "Even over the course of 10 years, you can have a rapid enough evolution in the ways people store digital information and the programs they use to access it that file formats can fall out of date."
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Submission + - Record Label Infringes Own Copyright, Site Pulled 1

Submitted by AnonCow on Sunday October 19, 2008 @02:25PM

AnonCow writes: TorrentFreak reports: The website of an Internet based record label which offers completely free music downloads has been taken down by its host for copyright infringement, even though it only offers its own music. Quote Unquote Records calls itself "The First Ever Donation Based Record Label", but is currently homeless after its host pulled the plug.

Submission + - isoHunt Sues Recording Industry Association 1

Submitted by A Cow on Sunday September 07, 2008 @06:56PM

A Cow writes: As an act of self-defense, the popular BitTorrent site isoHunt has decided to file a petition to ask the Court of British Columbia to confirm that isoHunt -and sister sites Torrentbox and Podtropolis- do not infringe copyright. isoHunt owner Gary explains to TorrentFreak: "Our petition summarizes BitTorrent technology, its open nature and a whole ecosystem of websites and operators that has developed around it, that CRIA does not own copyright to all files distributed over BitTorrent or on isoHunt websites, and we seek legal validation that we can continue to innovate within this emerging BitTorrent ecosystem on the Internet."

Feed New York Times: Bits: NBC's Olympic Web Blackout: The View From CBS and Major League Baseball (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Monday August 18, 2008 @04:52PM

CBS and Major League Baseball found that Webcasting a sporting event doesn’t reduce the television ratings of the same event because people watch important events on the biggest screen possible.

Submission + - Band Leaks Own Album, Blames Pirates 1

Submitted by A Cow on Friday August 01, 2008 @06:22PM

A Cow writes: When the hard rock band "BuckCherry" found out that their latest single had leaked on BitTorrent, they didn't try to cover this up, or take the file down. No, instead, they issued a press release. After a bit of research, TorrentFreak found out that the track wasn't leaked by pirates, but by Josh Klemme, the manager of the band. In an attempt to cover their tracks, the press release was pulled, but it's still available through Google's cache.

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