NewTeeVee:
Forget multitouch: By far the most disruptive — and overlooked — feature of the Flash Player 10.1 beta that Adobe launched this week is the ability to transmit video via P2P multicast. In fact, Adobe built some enhanced P2P c (Read More)
The Daily Swarm - Headlines:
Digital Music News:Digital Music News, using data from BigChampagne, attempted to answer that question using the example of Jay-Z, a relevant, touring artist with a massive catalog. Jay-Z has played lots of gigs, and (Read More)
NewTeeVee:
The Pirate Bay made headlines earlier this week with yet another dramatic announcement, this time that the notorious BitTorrent site’s tracker has been officially shut down. But the move won’t impact downloading, site admins (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In the wake of a leak of an international trade agreement on online file-sharing and copyright violation, U.S. House representatives are introducing legislation to curtail the greatest of American freedoms: the illegal downlo (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Yesterday at 11:30am, the Queen made her way to Parliament in a coach, entered the robing room to receive her crown, then followed someone known as the "Gentleman Usher of the Bla (Read More)
Skype Journal:
Skype blog post ("Great news – we’ve closed the deal with the new investors.") and news release. Investor group pays Skype $1.9 billion in cash, $125 million note for 70% of Skype. eBay buys a $50 million note from them. Inve (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Peer-to-peer filesharing applications have been wildly popular, especially among those interested in accessing pirated software, music, and media. But not everyone who operates a (Read More)
eWeek - RSS Feeds:
After an October peer-to-peer security incident that inadvertently exposed the list of ongoing investigations by the House Ethics Committee, Rep. Ed Towns introduces legislation to restrict the use of P2P software by governme (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
American Express just announced that it plans to acquire Revolution Money for $300 million. The deal is still subject to regulatory approval. Revolution Money, which was founded by AOL's co-founder Steve Case, launched in 200 (Read More)
Washington Post:
The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee introduced legislation on Tuesday to prohibit the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software across all federal government computers and networks. The " (Read More)
paidContent:UK:
The Pirate Bay—the world’s most notorious P2P tracker—is a tracker no longer. The Swedish site has moved to a decentralised “distributed hash table” (DHT) system, a network wher (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Nate Anderson, Senior Editor, Ars TechnicaMichael Fricklas is Viacom’s (VIA.B) general counsel, and it’s his job to oversee the company’s legal efforts, including its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube. When people talk ab (Read More)
Download Squad:
Filed under: Internet, P2PIn rather shocking news this morning, The Pirate Bay (TPB) has shut down its torrent tracker. The search engine remains, but instead of dishing up torrents it will instead serve as a magnet-link repo (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Michael Fricklas, Viacom's General Counsel, gave a lecture to a Yale Law class in which he confessed that suing people for copyright infringement felt "like terrorism." He says that this was bad strategy on the entertainment (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Michael Fricklas is Viacom's general counsel, the company's top lawyer. I can't tell if he actually felt bad when he said the above at a recent meeting with Yale Law students. I kind of feel an evil, dark smile inside. Even (Read More)
Mashable!:
Do you know how BitTorrent works? I mean, really know the technology behind it? Even if you’re not all too familiar with it, you probably know that it requires a tracker – a computer that coordinates the distribution of a fil (Read More)
readwriteweb:
From a group calling themselves Electronic Civil Disobedience comes the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a simple mobile application intended to aid and abet border-crossers from Mexico to the United States.This GPS app is built t (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Michael Fricklas is Viacom's general counsel, and it's his job to oversee the company's legal efforts, including its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube. When people talk about Big (Read More)