Tag: bittorrent
How P2P influenced Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger's release schedule
If you’re a music industry bigwig, chances are you think P2P file-sharing is The Devil’s Work. Well, at least, that’s what you’ve got to say in public, even if you do go home and spend the night trousering as much free music as you can. Anyway, the point is, major labels don’t like P2P.
However, following the leak of a bundle of emails from anti-piracy company MediaDefender, it seems some labels are using P2P as a guide to which songs they should release. Specifically, Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger’s label Interscope asked MediaDefender to monitor how popular one of her album tracks was on file-sharing services.
Aussie arrested for pirating 'The Simpsons Movie'
A poor Australian man was made the scapegoat of the entire internet piracy scene on Friday, when police raided his home.
The film’s maker 20th Century Fox teamed up with Aussie piracy experts…
The Pirate Bay relaunches Suprnova BitTorrent hub
Apologies to those of you who buy all your music and films legally, and wouldn’t know a BitTorrent stream if it came up and slapped you in the face. You probably won’t care much about this story.
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 01-Aug-07: Ashton Kutcher, Windows Vista, Bittorrent, blog revenue, eBay
– Ashton Kutcher shills for an online Alternate Reality Game and VOIP start-up? (Boing Boing)
– Microsoft has sold 60 million copies of Vista, by 2008 there’ll be 1 billion PCs running Windows (Daily Tech)…
P2P traffic trends shift – stealing films is the new stealing music
It seems we’re a bit bored of downloading music for free – movie piracy is the biggest growth sector of the steal-it-off-the-internet scene.
Increased bandwidth means we’re all hammering Bittorrent for movies instead of music. MP3 downloading is holding at a constant level…
Michael Moore's 'Sicko' leaked to BitTorrent – huzzah!
Please oh please don’t let this mean Michael Moore’s next film – sorry, documentary, will be concerned with the perils of poor struggling artists and filmmakers whose life-long work is exploited on Peer to Peer networks. I don’t think I can handle a documentary which interviews Metallica, the world surely isn’t ready for another grlimpse of James Hetfield’s guitar-antics.
Yep, so Michael Moore’s latest documentary, Sicko, has been leaked to the internets weeks before its cinematic debut. There’s been much controversy over the fact that he filmed parts of the documentary in Cuba without adequate…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 11-June-2007: BlackBerry Curve, iPhone, TorrentSpy, Sony, Vista, Flickr, Charlie Brooker, Facebook
-ZDNet catches RIM out by Googling ‘iPhone’, and discovering one of the sponsored links is for the BlackBerry Curve, tsk tsk.
– The end is nigh, as one of the largest BitTorrent sites, TorrentSpy, has been ordered to monitor its users’ online activities, to then be handed over to the MPAA. Goodbye, oh fair Lost downloads…
– Sony has a bee in its bonnet…
BitTorrent strikes deals with Hollywood
Previously synonymous with Internet piracy, it's looking like BitTorrent – the peer-to-peer file distribution platform – could soon be seen as a legitimate channel for the big Hollywood players to get content to their viewers across the globe…
