Until two months ago? Suddenly I was getting messages that I was not uploading enough..The site seemed to only be limiting me an upload(of Legal Torrents of 3kbs) I did not figure it out until someone told me that I can Donate and be given a credit....DING DING...I get it know...The old Bait and switch trick!
#14170 by (User) at 2005-09-04 05:45:24 GMT (22 hours ago) - []
This is the Best Site on the net! Period! But I am about to give up? I can not upload....Uggg
Why? I am forced to go to other sites where I get fast uploads? I am connecteable...it is only this site...I have been having problems for months.....
P2P and Pay to P2P – Two worlds colliding September 4, 2005 Nick Parker
Regarded as an evil fit only for eradication from modern society, P2P has been blamed for everything in recent years from moral turpitude to funding international terrorism.
However, if reports are to be believed there has been a very subtle shift in favor of P2P and file sharing over recent months, driven largely by encroaching commercialization. Does the future of P2P therefore lie in total commercialization, resisting commercialization altogether or through some emerging middle ground?
Many who use P2P are highly resistant to the ingress of commercialization, and it is clear to see where they are coming from. Commercialization is inevitably accompanied by increased regulation. Licenses have to be negotiated at national levels with record and film distributors, costs have to be covered, profits have to be made, local sensitivities and censorship issues have to be addressed and so forth. Increased regulation is seen as a threat to the independence of the net and those who use it. History tells us that once the floodgates of regulation are opened, they are seldom closed.
Let’s consider the film industry as an example. Traditionally they have staggered release dates to optimize the return on their investment. In practice this meant that there could often be a six month delay between the release of a film in the USA and release of the same film in other English speaking countries. And when the film is finally released in these parallel markets, there have still been rather quaint local censorship issues to contend with. Having seen the first Austin Powers film in both the US and the UK, I recall that certain humorous remarks about UK dentistry were edited out to avoid offending the English audience, leaving parts of the edited film totally incomprehensible. In more extreme cases, such as Madonna's video for American Life, the whole thing had to be scrapped to avoid causing offence to the American audience.
This naturally entices people to filesharing, where unedited films and episodes of popular American TV shows are made available on the web sometimes even before they are released coast to coast on American TV – which can happen as a result of differences in time zones. Equally importantly, it costs nothing to share. The fundamental criteria for popularity are therefore satisfied; availability for download at no cost to the individual yet at negligible risk.
Therefore filesharing is seen as a means of freedom of expression, a means of being part of a larger global community where the all-embracing nanny state cannot suffocate freedom of thought and expression in the name of protection. A community which offers an infinite catalogue of variety, a source of free uncensored entertainment. Perhaps considered as a state of anarchy by some, people are quick to forget that the Internet has developed as a result of people investing their time and money for scientific and educational reasons – cooperation on a global scale - and not merely to stuff our mailboxes full of unwanted junk.
It certainly seems that the mass acceptance of iTunes and the proliferation of its competitors has played a part in popularizing the concept of downloading music from the Internet. Many people have questioned why they should be expected to buy music they already own on CD or vinyl for the second time, simply so they can play it on their iPod or other players. This appears to be attracting first time users to consider P2P as a viable means of obtaining MP3 copies of the music they already own. Unsurprisingly, neither the MPAA/RIAA nor other copyright enforcers are very keen to disclose the actual figures or admit this is in fact what is happening.
Some of iTunes competitors are turning to P2P to aid in their distribution model, and have vaguely repackaged their own offerings to exploit the upload capacity of their clients and reduce overheads – Peer Impact, for example, claiming that they are passing savings on to clients in the form of discounts against future purchases through a system of credits and affiliate marketing. Others are introducing “walled networks”, such as Playlouder as part of an ISP package to attract users by offering inclusive downloads.
The widely respected BBC are no strangers to innovation, and have been pioneers in the development of Teletext (extended closed caption) services along with introducing terrestrial digital television and digital radio. The “leak” of the recent BBC Dr Who series on the Internet was surely no accident, for the BBC revelled in the free publicity it attracted. Especially given that this was followed by their foray into the world of P2P, offering classical music for download followed swiftly afterwards by their announcement that they are now launching a “simulcast” web service to broadcast TV programming concurrently over the web. When the BBC, who claim to be the world’s first broadcaster, does something, it is with the tacit approval of their paymasters – the UK government. More to the point, they are usually hugely successful in setting trends.
The BBC are not the first to offer such a service, and Homechoice (to name only one example) have been offering their own flavor of broadband IPTV to millions of Londoners for some years. Indeed, the founding of Homechoice inspired cable providers to compete with them, increasing competition, lowering costs and increasing choice for the consumer. Profits therefore clearly attract competition which, in itself, resulted in this instance in an improved service at a more competitive cost.
The introduction of capped services by ISPs is a curious anomaly. It makes one wonder if this is happening in spite of forthcoming IPTV or because of it. One thing is for sure, upload speeds are going to have to increase along with download speeds and caps are going to have to disappear altogether if the market is going to be worth exploiting.
This leads us back to what many regard as the inevitable commercialization of P2P. The figures released by Cachelogic tell us that 60% of all Internet traffic is generated by P2P users. Common sense tells us that without P2P and the profits derived from this activity, investment would cease, bandwidth would remain as it is or could even contract and the Internet could risk stagnation. Common sense likewise tells us that without incentive, the artistic industries would also stagnate – and we could eventually run out of things worth downloading.
Is there any emerging middle ground? Perhaps Creative Commons licensing offers a way forward, a middle ground which allows commercial exploitation of technology yet retains reasonable control over the copyrighted material and recognizes fair personal use. For those unfamiliar with the terms, a Creative Common License generally retains the originators rights’ to control the way their works are used, but also generally allows copying and fair use by the individual for non commercial purposes. Perhaps “reinventing copyright” describes their purpose extremely well.
We’ve all heard the claim that “the Internet wouldn’t be where it is today if it weren’t for pornography”. Whether this is true or not, there can be no doubting an emerging symbiotic relationship exists between the very activity condemned by the industry as being both immoral and illegal – P2P - and the continued development of the Internet for everyone. The dichotomy being that the Internet itself breaks down national boundaries and helps the free flow of information between the citizens of various nations whilst offering the best possible medium for controlled distribution.
One thing for sure, the stalemate isn’t going to be broken by taking 12 year old school children to court for something they could otherwise do by simply taping radio programmes. The sooner the MPAA/RIAA and their supporters realize that this is not the way forward and the marketing guys and lawyers keep their greed in check whilst a solution evolves, the sooner the Internet can progress to the next stage in its' development.
Nick Parker is a former EMI corporate lawyer and is currently based in London, England. Nick is also an active member in the P2P community and has previously had articles published by P2Pnet.net. Some will know him as Rocketman05.
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1. INTERNET TV What it is A host of new startups - led by Akimbo, Brightcove, and DaveTV - have cut deals with copyright owners for video clips that viewers can download over the Internet to a TV or a PC. The business model: Customers pay for everything from CNN news shows and A&E specials to fanfic movies and random snowboarding wipeouts. Why it matters Internet TV circumvents traditional delivery methods - cable, satellite, broadcast - and in theory offers unlimited programming. Networked TV is coming, and these companies are leading the way.
2. P2PTV What it is Because traditional P2P networks like LimeWire rely on a single host to upload an entire file, they choke on huge video transfers. But in 2002, entrepreneur Bram Cohen unleashed BitTorrent, an ingenious file-sharing application that pools many wimpy Internet connections to form a mondo download network. Almost overnight, trading video files became feasible, if not always legal. Today, BitTorrent accounts for a remarkable 30 percent of Internet data traffic, about 60 percent of which is video (roughly half is porn, a third TV programming and short clips, and the rest feature films). Why it matters The rise in illegal file-sharing is cutting into Hollywood's revenue stream. But apps like BitTorrent also promise to help crack the technical problems involved in distributing legitimate video over the Internet. Even Microsoft is experimenting with the technology. It won't be underground for long.
3. HDTV What it is Most people think of HDTV in simple numbers - a bump up from standard television's 480 picture lines to 720 or 1,080 lines. Oh, and the aspect ratio of 16:9 gives you a wider viewing area than the traditional 4:3 spec. But even more important is the fact that hi-def TVs are digital. Old tube sets were dumb terminals connected to the Hollywood mainframe; today's models pack substantial computing power, capable of handling multiple video formats and grabbing software updates from the Internet. Why it matters Channels like Mark Cuban's HDNet are just the beginning: Falling prices will bring jumbo HDTV sets to the masses, and within three years nearly 40 percent of US households will have a hi-def screen. Expect the supply of HD content to explode. And don't be surprised if the decline in US moviegoing accelerates. After all, they call it home theater.
4. IPTV What it is Looking to cut in on the cable companies, telcos are spending billions to build ultra-high-speed networks that use Internet protocol to deliver video over phone lines as a stream of data packets. More than 100 regional telcos already feature IPTV. But the big companies are just now stretching their fiber-optic fingers close enough to homes to provide adequate bandwidth for hi-def IPTV streams. In partnership with Yahoo!, SBC Communications is in the middle of a $4 billion expansion that's expected to deliver 25-Mbps connections to 18 million customers by mid-2008. Why it matters Just like cable, IPTV offers several hundred channels, but viewers can also download what they want from a huge video library. Cable companies have video-on-demand capabilities, too, but they've been slow to develop them. Competition from telcos might speed things up.
5. STREAMING VIDEO What it is Though it's been with us since the days of the JenniCam, streaming video has taken off in the past year thanks to a confluence of developments: broadband penetration, widespread fiber-optic lines, leaner compression standards, and cheap storage and bandwidth. As a result, a company like iFilm can stream 40 million free downloads a month. Major players are jumping in, too: CNN and CBS provide free streams of their news programs, Yahoo! offers videostreams (including an episode of Showtime's Fat Actress), and AOL hosted webcasts of this summer's Live 8 concerts. Why it matters Millions of viewers are dialing back on TV and getting their video fix online. On the Net, where production costs are minuscule, indie producers and video bloggers can compete alongside the studios and networks.
6. CELL PHONE TV What it is Mobile phone companies have offered streaming video for the past year or so. Of course, squinting at clips - mostly sports, news, and minishows - on your cell can be frustrating. And a herky-jerky 15 frames per second is the best you can hope for (regular TV is 30 fps). So a couple cell phone companies are signing on to an old-fashioned notion: broadcast. Crown Castle, a major owner of US cell towers, is building a broadcast network that should be delivering sharp video in 18 to 24 months. Qualcomm plans to launch its own network in late 2006. Why it matters Television ubiquity is coming. Just as mobile audio unleashed a new era in portable players - from the Walkman to the iPod - so mobile TV will expand the market for phones and other handhelds that can handle video. And as traditional TV viewership declines, advertisers will be looking for new avenues to reach consumers. Mobile TV will be
Still waiting to see whether they patent their unique process for putting worms on MP3 players, but in the meantime Creative just scored a patent for its user interface for portable media players. To make things simple for us they’re dubbing this the “Zen Patent”, and, surprise, surprise, they’re already making some noise about how the patent covers the UI used in the iPod and iPod mini. You probably already know how dim a view we take of the USPTO these days, but c’mon, a patent for a UI that “enables selection of at least one track in a portable media player as a user sequentially navigates through a hierarchy using three or more successive screens on the display of the player”? Isn’t that sort of obvious? No matter, we’re counting down the minutes until Creative files suit against, well, everybody.
Wasn’t aware that there was even that much of a market for the Olympus m:robe MR-100, let alone for a knock-off, but check out Dyne Telecom’s eerily familiar new Tuny8 MP3 player. The two players might bear a certain, uh, resemblance to each other, but it’s all on surface: whereas the MR-100 can only play music and has a 5GB hard drive and a monochrome display, the Tuny8 can play video (it supports MPEG4, WMV, ASF, and AVI formats), comes in 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB, and 2GB versions, and has a 1.6-inch, 160 x 128 pixel, 260K color LCD screen.
Those two updated versions of the Gmini 400, the Gmini 402 and the Gmini 402cc, didn’t exactly set us on fire, so you can probably understand why we got all excited at the prospect of Archos introducing a new Gmini 500. Prepare to be disappointed. Not sure what their master plan is here, but to our tired eyes this looks exactly like a rebadged version of the AV500. Sure, there are few minor differences in the specs department, but this wasn’t exactly the upgrade we’d been waiting for.
Akihabara News scored some pics of Cowon’s sweet new PMP, the A2. We also now know it’ll do 10 hours of battery life in video mode and 18 in audio. When it rolls out (still no word on when!) it’ll be 420 euros ($517 USD) for the 30GB version, and 350 euros ($430) for the 20GB unit. Click on for more pr0n!
It wouldn’t surprise us if any day now Sony came strolling along with a slew of new PSP accessories and peripherals, but until we get the real deal PSP camera (or any of the other things Sony’s been talking about like a keyboard, mouse, Flash support, email client, etc.), we’re gonna have to stick with projects like PSIX. With it they’ve successfully connected a Sony Ericsscon P800/900/910i with a modified data cable and run the camera on the thing, in addition to loading a rather slick looking custom desktop with audio and video playback functions.
Seems like every other week we’re hearing about portable DMB (digital multimedia broadcasting—a primarily Korean standard) devices overseas, but Samsung’s multimedia-centric line of phones always seems to be the cream that rises to the top. We can’t say the SCH-B250 is any exception, what with the rotating screen, 2 megapixel camera, 128MB memory, and built-in Office/PDF functionality. While the approximate $735 pricetag might be a little hard to swallow, but it’s not like you’d ever buy one for North American use anyway, so for now let’s all just sit back and watch what wonders they can work outside our antiquated American gadget market.
So being that Archos’s new Gmini 402 and AV500 devices—both of which we’re certainly down with—have gone live on their site, we’re gonna guesstimate that it’s not long now. Of course we still don’t know when they’ll be released for sure, but if nothing else we’ve got the final final list of specs (which happen to be nothing more than a refresher from what we already knew). The AV500 will have 30 and 100GB mass-storage compliant models, 4-inch 480 x 272 pixel 262k color screen, and a removable battery with “super battery pack” option. The 402 will have the same 20GB drive as before, in addition to WMV10 support; both will support MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, and AVI, PlaysForSure WMA, MP3, JPEG, and USB On-The-Go.
You know, we keep wanting to trash the U10 (iRiver’s new ultra-tiny flash-based portable video player), for only having a 2.2-inch LCD screen, but that’s actually the same size as the screen on the Archos Gmini 400 and we’ve had no problem watching plenty of video on that (besides, the 320 x 240 pixel screen on the U10 is actually higher res than the 220 x 176 pixel display found on the Gmini). Anyway, we still don’t have a confirmed release date, but the U10 has finally made an appearance on iRiver’s US website, looks like the MSRP will be $250 for the 1GB version and $200 for the 512MB version.
Latest version of Xilisoft Video Converter and PSP Video Converter supports PSP Video format (MP4) and is capable of converting all popular video formats, such as MPEG, WMV, AVI to PSP Video format (MP4, H.264/MPEG-4). As a MP4 converter, all conversion processes are very easy and fast with hight quality. We're going to show you step-by-step how to put video on PSP, enjoy movies and videos with 16:9 wide screen on your PSP now!
1. Download Xilisoft Video Converter or Xilisoft PSP Video Converter and install it.
2. Launch Xilisoft Video Converter, load the file(s) by clicking the "Add" button in the main interface or choose "Add" in the File menu.
3. Highlight the loaded file and choose output format from "Profile" combo-box. Here, you must select "PSP Video Format (.mp4)" for your PSP.
4. Click "Browse..." button to select folder or entering the path directly to decide where to save the output file; "C:\temp" is the default one.
5. Click "Encode" to start converting. After the conversion is done, there will be two output files for each single loaded file. One is the .MP4 video file, playable with QuickTime on PC, another is a .THM file. Both of them are necessary for PSP. The two files are in the same main title, for example, if your original file is "test.avi", after the conversion, you will get two files: "test.mp4" and "test.thm".
6. Connect your PSP with PC, and copy those two files into "H:\MP_ROOT\100MNV01" (where "H" is the drive letter of your PSP). Re-name your files in PSP. You must re-name them to "M4Vxxxxx.MP4". There would be five random numbers followed "M4V" and the two letters should be capital. The numbers must be same for two files. This is quite important, or your file can not be played on PSP.
7. What to do next? Just enjoy movies and videos on your PSP!
* Actually, you can just export files directly into PSP if you set "H:\MP_ROOT\100MNV01" as "Destination" folder. Of course you must keep PSP connecting with PC during the conversion in this way. After the conversion is done, click "Open" button so that you can visit PSP directly and rename your output files following step 6. It would be more convenient.
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A Good Day for File-Sharing August 30, 2005 Thomas Mennecke
Just a few months ago, the situation appeared grim for the file-sharing community, at least from a mainstream point of view. During the latter months of 2005, the MPAA began shutting down eDonkey2000 and BitTorrent indexing sites in earnest. The RIAA was suing music traders left and right, and the Supreme Court decision loomed like Hurricane Katrina.
And finally the Supreme Court decision hit. On June 27, 2005, in a rare 9-0 decision the Supreme Court remanded the case back to the lower courts. Specifically, the Supreme Court ruled, "We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties."
As is typical by the mainstream media, the Supreme Court decision was heralded as an RIAA/MPAA victory. But the coming months would prove a much different situation.
Outside the P2P and file-sharing world yields two very different realities; the reality anti-P2P entities such as the RIAA/MPAA wish to portray, and the reality the P2P/file-sharing world wish to portray. Very rarely, if ever, do these two realities ever agree.
The significantly better publicized message anti-P2P entities portray is readily swooped up by the mainstream media. Well-written press releases often provide a significant chuck to an article for journalists unfamiliar with the file-sharing world. Headlines such as “P2P Use in decline”, “iTunes More Popular than Most P2P networks” and “File-Sharing Companies Defeated by RIAA/MPAA” have become all too common.
Yet such headlines are plastered on high traffic media sites despite being readily debunked. In particular, the NPD Group released a study which concluded, “iTunes was more popular than most P2P sites.” Although the study was ripped to shreds, it still managed to be taken as gospel by a majority of technology and mainstream sites.
However, it appears the tide of the propaganda war may be changing.
In a change of pace from the typical headline news which portrays P2P in decline, CacheLogic’s study has a very pro file-sharing angle. According to CacheLogic’s study, the recent enforcement actions against file-sharing have done nothing to stem the rise of P2P networking. Instead, it has only encouraged file-traders to migrate to alternative networks. In addition, CacheLogic discovered that P2P continues to represent the most heavily used Internet medium, as it consumes in excess of 60% of an ISP’s bandwidth.
Whether or not you take CacheLogic’s latest study with a grain of salt, there’s little denying the power it is having over the media. In addition, several more headlines in Slyck's "More News From Around the Web" also portrays a changing attitude. Perhaps with some time, the mainstream will finally realize P2P's true condition.
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The Azureus Dashboard Widget provides a compact, friendly interface for monitoring and managing BitTorrent downloads. It's especially useful for remote torrent management — for instance, if you use a machine other than your main workstation for BitTorrent downloads — but works just as well for controlling Azureus on your local machine.
For users of Mac OS X 10.4, the Azureus Dashboard Widget is a pleasant alternative to the Swing Web Interface, TorrentFlux, VNC, or ssh + screen + btdownloadcurses.py. Multiple instances of the widget are allowed, so if you need to you can control more than one machine at once.
Technical Crap
For any who are dorky enough to want to know how it works: the XML/HTTP plugin provides a web-service-like mechanism for executing many of the same methods that are available to all Azureus plugins. It listens on a port you specify; POST an XML string to that port containing the method you want to invoke, and you'll get an XML file back that describes the results.
The Azureus Dashboard Widget uses Ajax (the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest object) to communicate with Azureus in this manner. All the remote requests are asynchronous, so the widget doesn't hang while it's waiting for data.
Requirements
Azureus (duh) running on any platform. Azureus must be running — the widget is not a BT client, just a frontend, so Azureus still has to do all the work.
The XML over HTTP plugin for Azureus. This plugin can be installed through Azureus (see directions below).
Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). I have no idea if this widget works under 10.3.9 using Amnesty Widget Browser, but if it does please let me know.
The widget will talk to an Azureus installation on any platform — Windows, OS X, Linux, etc.
Pocket Tunes is a PalmSource Powered Up Award Winner for 2004! Pocket Tunes turns your Palm OS 5 device into a portable audio player! Play compressed audio files (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis) or uncompressed WAV files from a flash memory card or stream MP3 live over your wireless Internet connection. NEW in 2.2 Hi-Fi Equalizer.Hi quality equalizer to fine tune your music. NEW in 2.2 Bass Boost.Crank up the bass to enjoy your tunes. NEW in 2.1 Streaming MP3.Listen to ShoutCast Internet radio. (deluxe version only) NEW in 2.1 Large screen support.Take full advantage of large displays. (e.g. T3, UX-40/50, Zodiac) NEW in 2.1 3rd party application support.Play MP3 alarms, ringtones, and more. NEW in 2.0 Crossfade.Smoothly fade from one song to the next. (deluxe version only) NEW in 2.0 Gapless Playback.No skipping between songs recorded from live albums or DJ mix CDs. (deluxe version only) NEW in 2.0 Bookmarks.Never lose your place again in your audio books or music. (deluxe version only) NEW in 2.0 Auto-Bookmark.Automatically create bookmarks. (deluxe version only) FAST MP3 playback.Decodes in real-time without any skips or delays. Background Playback.Listen to tunes while using other Palm applications. Graphic Equalizer.Optimize your MP3 listening experience. Screen Blanking.Turn off the screen to conserve battery life. (supported devices only) Pocket Tunes Console.Switch tunes and change volume while using other applications. Skins.Personalize Pocket Tunes with any of the dozens of freely-available skins. High Resolution.Take full advantage of the graphics capabilities of your Palm. Play Ogg Vorbis and WAV Files.Play Ogg Vorbis and uncompressed WAV files. One-Hand Use.Use the Five-Way navigator to control Pocket Tunes with one hand. Play Lists.Use play lists to organize your music collection. Shuffle and Repeat.Change the play order of your music. Requirements PalmOS 5.2 or later (or Tungsten T). A memory expansion card (not required for playing ShoutCast). Optional: An Internet connection (for playing ShoutCast). 350KB memory available on Palm. (Memory requirements may vary depending in the skin chosen.) Officially supported devices include: Palm Zire 71, Tungsten T, T2, T3, C, E, Handspring Treo 600, Sony CLIÉ UX40, UX50, TJ35, TJ37, TH55, Tapwave Zodiac, Garmin iQue 3600. Pocket Tunes may work on other PalmOS 5.2 devices, but they have not been fully tested. If you see any problems or wish to report success with additional devices, please email http://us.f506.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=support@pocket-tunes.com . Note that some Sony handhelds (specifically the NR, NX, NZ, and TG series) are not supported because they use PalmOS 5.0 or 5.1 and lack the standard audio API. Announcement: For best compatibility, please update your devices with the latest patches from the manufacturer. In particular, there are updates available for the Tungsten T, Tungsten T3, Garmin iQue 3600, Zire 71, and Treo 600 that affect MP3 playback and/or flash card access. Visit the manufacturer's web site for details. Download or Buy it Now FREE 15-day trial of Pocket Tunes.
Surviving eDonkey2000 Indexing Sites Remain Intact August 25, 2005 Slyck speaks with the administrator eDonkey2000 indexing site FuckTheInter.net regarding their fate in light of “The-RealWorld’s” demise. Although The-RealWold is no more, remaining sites appear to be steadfast in their positions.
The-RealWorld Removes eDonkey2000 Links - August 24, 2005 The-RealWorld, an eDonkey2000 indexing site, has been forced offline for the time being. Sony Frees Entire Music Catalog on PlayLouder ISP - August 23, 2005 Sony OKs the free and unrestricted distribution of its entire catalog on PlayLouder's ISP broadband network - but there's just one small catch. Piracy and the Workplace - August 22, 2005 Over half of college and university graduates feel it’s OK to download copyrighted material at the workplace.
Skype Surges Forward - August 21, 2005 The P2P telephony network continues to grow in popularity. DVD Shrink Discontinued - Sort of - August 17, 2005 The website hosting DVD Shrink has posted an ominous message regarding the fate of this popular utility. OpenNap – A Domain of P2P Community - August 16, 2005 If you're wondering what P2P was like in during the "good ol' days", a venture into OpenNap can easily provide this experience. Music Industry: Small Furry Animals Biggest Threat - August 15, 2005 Seemingly unable to figure out exactly what is causing people to dislike CDs, our dear forest friends are now the latest music industry targets. Peer Imact Brings Balance - August 11, 2005 Peer Impact, one of the many emerging "legal" P2P networks, will increase payments to independent artists to match the major labels. eDonkey2000 Dethrones BitTorrent for Video Distribution - August 10, 2005 BitTorrent's days as the eminent king of the P2P appears in transition, according to a new study by CacheLogic.
All older news articles can be found in the News Archive
Studios mine P2P logs to sue swappers - August 25 - Hollywood studios filed a new round of lawsuits against file swappers on Thursday, for the first time using peer-to-peer companies' own data to track down individuals accused of trading movies online. ZDNet - 12 responses
Pearl Jam to offer 'bootleg' downloads - August 25 - Hours after their completion, full concerts from the group's fall tour will be available for $9.99 as DRM-free 192K MP3s, whose bit rate is almost 50 percent higher than the standard. News.com - 2 responses
Sixty Chinese Internet Companies to Curb Music Piracy - August 25 - More than 230 Chinese Internet companies have received letters of intent on infringement of music copyright, after cases of online music piracy were filed this year. ChinaKnowledge.com - 1 response
HP preps pirate-fighting projector - August 25 - Hewlett-Packard is developing a projection technology designed to foil camcorder-outfitted pirates in movie theaters, according to a board member. News.com - 10 responses
Just enough piracy - August 25 - Reflections on why the quest to eliminate piracy may be misguided at its core. The Long Tail - 5 responses
Movies plan move on pirates - August 24 - The movie industry may consider prosecuting internet users who download pirated copies of Hollywood blockbusters, warning it will take pirates to court if consumers "migrate to illegal downloads en masse". Australian IT - 15 responses
BitTorrent Moves Infrastructure to 365 Main's Data Center - August 24 - 365 Main, the Bay Area's safest, most secure and reliable data center, today announced BitTorrent, a Bay Area content distribution company, had chosen 365 Main's data center to host its company infrastructure. BitTorrent chose 365 Main for its accessible location, quality of service and intelligently designed building structure. MarketWire - 1 response
UsenetServer Statistics... - August 23 - Here some fun news for you. Ever wanted to know how much UsenetServer transfered during the last weekend of July in which they opened a public test account? Well UsenetServer gave us some pretty cool statistics.... Filesplit.org - Discuss in Forums
Windows Got Ya Down? Try a Remix - August 23 - Remixed versions of Windows abound on file-sharing networks, supercharged with the latest security patches, tools and applications. Pirated copies of Microsoft's OS have existed as long as chintzy PC owners themselves. But now pirates are doing more than just cracking Windows -- they claim to be improving it. Wired News - 14 responses
Sony, Toshiba give up on unified DVD format-paper - August 23 - Groups headed by Toshiba Corp. and Sony Corp. offering competing technologies for next-generation DVDs have given up efforts to develop a unified format, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Tuesday. Reuters Business Channel - 3 responses
Ask Jeeves Interested in Grouper File Sharing - August 23 - Om Malik spills the beans that Ask Jeeves is looking into acquiring Grouper the peer to peer file sharing social network. Om sees the acquisition as a channel for Ask Jeeves to bundle its download offerings as well as show its new sponsored search advertisements. Search Engine Journal - 1 response
Warner Music readies CD-free 'e-label' - August 22 - Warner Music Group is creating a new music-distribution mechanism that will rely on digital downloads instead of compact discs. Edgar Bronfman Jr., Warner Music's chairman and CEO, said Monday that the new mechanism will be called an "e-label," in which artists will release music in clusters of three songs every few months rather than a CD every few years. News.com - 2 responses
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Pay to Peer: A New Spin on Music Sharing PC Magazine -15 hours ago ... "You needed to sell a million things one time." So through the use of a technology similar to BitTorrent's, files can be split up among participating hosts and ...
BitTorrent for Windows 4.1.4 addict3d.org -22 hours ago ... well. It's a vicious cycle. There is a solution. BitTorrent is a simple software product which addresses all of these problems. The ...
46.77% of BitTorrent traffic is video IT Facts -Aug 11, 2005 46.77% of BitTorrent traffic is video by ZDNet's ZDNet Research -- CacheLogic survey of peer-to-peer networks reveals video files dominating BitTorrent traffic ...
BitTorrent Gives Entertainment Industry a Headache GameSHOUT -Aug 11, 2005 But his innovative online file-sharing software, BitTorrent, has grown into a piracy problem the film industry is struggling to handle. ...
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K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. This Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. You should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats.
The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs: It it always very up-to-date with the latest versions of the codecs; It is very user-friendly and the installation is fully customizable, meaning that you can install only those components that you really want; It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn't contain any conflicting codecs; It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies; and has different packages.
Full contains even more codecs. It also has encoding support for various formats. This package is for power users and people who do their own encodings.
Orbiting234, i fail to see how this is any different than going and downloading each individual one then installing the ones you want. this codec pack saves time and effort for not having to remember what kind of codecs you need for what format, and negates the need to bookmark those individual sites too.
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Orbiting234
Aug 10, 2005
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Absoulte junk. Only a complete moron would use these codec "packs." Makes a complete mess of your system. Just go download and install the individual codecs you need and avoid disasterous things like this altogether.
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cooldude7273
Aug 9, 2005
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2.51
Good stuff! :-)
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mjm01010101
Jul 5, 2005
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2.50
"Just messes up your registry database and fragments your drive."
This is amongst the funniest things I've read on betanews. For that, 5 stars!
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RootWebGod
Jun 20, 2005
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2.49
Awesome collection of codecs; it allows me to play just about any media file I download without a hitch.
A+ and 5 Stars all around. Thanks to the authors for maintaining the project as well. :)
slyck.com/bt.php[slyck.com] BitTorrent is a P2P system that makes transfering large files (or groups of files) amongst a large group of people easy, fast and efficient. The BitTorrent network is set up in a way that is a little different than a normal P2P network. With this network, you really don't do any searching for files that the other users have using the client as you would with traditional clients like Kazaa. Rather, you go to websites that have lists of recently released files.
You say What is a bittorent SEED or Seeder ?
A seed(er) is a client on the BT network that has a complete copy of a particular archive. For any archive to work, there must be at least one seed to download from originally. Sometimes under certain circumstances, there may be no one seeder but enough people with all the parts to make up the whole archive, this is called a distributed copy. It is HIGHLY recommended that once you have gotten an archive you leave the BT client running for at least the amount of time that it took you to download the archive to help ensure that others will also be able to get it. Share and Share alike!
How Do I Get One?
Download a Bitorrent client Like Azureus which dowloads the torrent file:
Like : tvtorrents.com[tvtorrents.com] You some timesneed Join by giving them some email address and you are off to the races.... buy joining I think it makes people more acountable for their actions. You are supposed to upload and as much as you upload. So by becoming a member they can track your uploads and downloads. Click on the show you want to watch and you can downloaded it through the above AZUREUS CLIENT in HDTV Format and watch on your Pc.
This lets play all types of audio and video files like Divx etc. Just click install and the installer puts everything in place for you.
In a nut shell bitorrent takes bits and peaces of a file from many different people
Usually they are avi files and you can play them by double clicking them Sometimes the are zipped so you will want to download WINRAR: download.com/3001-2250-10259256.html[download.com] That is about the best way I can describe how to download a Tv Torrent?
Here are some New Tv Torrent sites!!
They work Today! But they may not work Tomorrow....Right?
PLEASE NOTE: THESE ARE BITTORENT FILES: You will need to follow the steps in the post 1 of this thread! I hope you enjoy these as much as I have! Great Show For the Computer Enthusiast !
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