Posted on 31 March 2008 by mike.
Reports have been flying around the Internet this week that Virgin Media has come to some sort of agreement with the UK music industry to begin a scheme that would deter filesharing.
Virgin Media has denied these claims, but admitted that it had discussed the infamous three-strikes scheme with the music industry, so it looks likely [...]
Posted on 31 March 2008 by mike.
Due to my old filesharing software no longer working on Vista (’increased security settings’ or something) I had to find another version that could get me down to business in no time at all.
I’ve used filesharing apps before but I am in no way any kind of authority. What passes as a ‘review’ below are [...]
Posted on 29 March 2008 by mike.
The guys at The Pirate Bay stuck a finger up at the IFPI as demands were made for damages totally $2.5 million. Chief Pirate Gottfrid Svartholm Warg told a newspaper that he told lawyers from the IFPI to “go screw themselves”.
Four Pirates were indicted in January for allegedly aiding the piracy of 24 albums, nine [...]
Posted on 27 March 2008 by Alan.
Ready! Steady! Go! Apple recently announced the release of their iPhone SDK with download. Fans ?were raring to go see this new bit of kit for their new toy, and over 100,000 iPhone apps downloads of the ?flocked to the site do hit the download button. Unfortunately this volume of eager ?punters – along with [...]
Posted on 27 March 2008 by mike.
Would you believe there is another free filesharing service available? These filesharing programs seem to pop up like flowers in spring. Most of the new ones we’ve covered recently haven’t been very good because there are now so many filesharing programs to get free music downloads that the market is saturated.
Also, for new filesharing services, [...]
Posted on 27 March 2008 by mike.
Another new website for music downloads slipped into our radar this week, this time its MusicMP3.ru. The guys at MusicMP3 were kind enough to open an account for us to check out the service. After a quick browse around, we were surprised to find the new Moby album available for download for $2.10. We bought [...]
Posted on 27 March 2008 by Iownmymusic.
Students have long been the target of the RIAA and its many assorted cronies; they love P2P filesharing and they’re generally unwilling (or unable) to pay for the same material they can get for free on Campus. With fast network connections in rooms – as well as near-neighbors with huge file collections – colleges are [...]
Posted on 25 March 2008 by mike.
The future of CD sales looks doomed: it was predicted in a recent Forbes magazine survey that by 2012 sales from music downloads would outweigh sales of CDs.
Even that estimate looks to be shaky now as totally free, totally legal download sites have been given a huge boost in the unlikely form of Sony BMG. [...]
Posted on 25 March 2008 by mike.
The British clampdown on filesharing is a real threat to Internet freedom. The British record industry is intent on coming up with ways of stamping out all filesharing activity. According to Jollyon Benn of the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI), people use filesharing programs like Limewire mistakenly believing they are not breaking the law.
Benn thinks [...]
Posted on 24 March 2008 by mike.
BitTorrent is a relatively new technology that allows sharing of files in an efficient way with limited strain on resources and with maximum redundancy. What this means to the standard computer user is less failed or corrupted downloads, less tie-up of computing power, and more opportunities for file downloads. Torrents are commonly used when huge [...]
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