file sharing
Music
Paul McCartney Doesn’t Understand The Internet
3:17AM John Herrman | Paul McCartney’s doomsday scenario: Someone, somewhere, somehow manages to leak the Beatles’ music onto the internet, where it will be stolen by everyone, all the time. This must be prevented! Notice a problem there? Yeah, it gets worse. More »
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Second Gen Pogoplug Lets You Share Multiple USB Drives Online
12:29AM Rosa Golijan | Like the prior generation, the new Pogoplug allows for USB drive sharing over the internet. It’ll run for $US129, still have no service fees, take up to four USB drives, and have Twitter and Facebook integration. More »
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µTorrent 2.0 Self Throttles So ISPs Don’t Have To…What?
4:15AM Danny Allen | This is weird: The next version of µTorrent, currently in beta, uses an updated version of the BitTorrent protocol that decreases your speed (usually uploads) when it detects network congestion. Will it slow downloads? Not necessarily…apparently. More »
Music
It’s Still True: Music Pirates Buy More Music
4:00AM Jack Loftus | We’ve been here before, so no long post necessary, but it’s worth mentioning, again, that illegal downloaders, the alleged scourge of the music industry, are really the ones who buy the most music. More »
Business
It’s A Terrible Day To Be A Pirate (Bay)
9:40AM John Herrman | It’s bad enough that the Pirate Bay’s prospective buyers are world-class sketchballs — today, we find out that the Pirate Bay’s business dealings are even shadier. Oh, and Google’s culling TBP from their results Things: they don’t look so good. More »
Peripherals
iTwin: The File Sharing USB Version Of A Friendship Charm
11:40AM Matt Buchanan | Did you ever have one of those friendship lockets, where you wore one half and your friend wore the other? iTwin is like that, but it’s a USB stick, and it remotely connects your computers over the internet. More »
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Kazaa Wakes Up From Lawsuit-Induced Coma, Vows To Go Legit
11:54PM John Herrman | Old-line filesharing services can’t seem to switch sides fast enough: Now Kazaa, leading purveyor of illegal MP3s and maliciously mislabelled pornography for few years in the early 2000s, has been reborn as a legal, paid music download service. $US20 a month gets you unlimited downloads, 2005-style: in WMA format, wrapped in tons of DRM. The history of iPod-incompatible music stores is littered with dead bodies, so, well, best of luck. [SMH via The Inquirer]
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The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidised By Your Computing Power
2:49AM Sean Fallon | The Pirate Bay may not actually be dead, but major changes are on their way. Details on the new management’s legit business model have surfaced, and it will involve subsidising your monthly fees in exchange for computing power. More »
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Pirate Bay Bought Out, Suddenly Respects Copyrights
7:40PM John Herrman | The Pirate Bay has been (effectively) acquired by a gaming company called Global Gaming Factory X, who is plunking down nearly $US8 million for the privilege. Their grand, surprising plan for the Pirate Bay is to pay content providers. Seriously. More »
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