3 month ago
Andy Baio : Pirating the Olympics, Then and Now - Back in 2004, I wrote about how high-quality videos from the Olympics in Athens were being digitized and posted online, in defiance of the networks and the IOC's rules. At the time, NBC's online coverage was pioneering, but still restrictive by today's
nelson : Pirating the Olympics - Andy does another nice investigation into TV downloads
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6 month ago
Rod Begbie : Clutch - Web remote-control plugin for the Transmission bittorrent client. Very handy. #
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deusx : About - Clutch - Trac - "Clutch is a WebUI for the Transmission BitTorrent client. It allows you to manage your torrents from anywhere you can access the internet, and runs on OS X and various flavors of *nix."
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deusx : Transmission - "Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client."
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10 month ago
nelson : Pirating the Oscars - 6 years' data of screener leaks; takes less than a week from when the studio releases a DVD screener to when it shows up online
wearehugh : Waxy.org: Pirating the 2008 Oscars (Now with 6 Years of Data)
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11 month ago
plasticbag : Bizarrely, Amazon.com has an "I Love Bram Cohen" T-shirt for sale! - Weird when this happens to people you've met. If you're not familiar with the name, Bram created BitTorrent.
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13 month ago
Andy Baio : Oink.cd, the #1 site in the world for waffle recipes - I love those guys
Rod Begbie : oink.cd - the number 1 site in the world for waffle recipes - Oink points to Google which points to a blog post which points torrent trackers which point to music. [via] #
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13 month ago
nelson : Comcast's talking points - User support script about BitTorrent; note the lack of any actual statement
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13 month ago
nelson : OiNK blog - Not positive, but it looks like a blog from the folks who ran OiNK
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13 month ago
Andy Baio : DJ Rupture defends OiNK in wake of its shutdown - he found his entire discography traded online, but found it reassuring
Rod Begbie : DEFENDING THE PIG - OINK CROAKS - Excellent article from a musician about the loss of OiNK. OiNK was run by and for music geeks -- I'd be willing to bet that CD purchasing by OiNK members is higher on average than the general population -- and primarily acted as the kind of complete musi [via] #
philgyford : Mudd up! » archive » Defending the Pig - Oink Croaks - A nice defence and obituary for Oink, by an artist whose music was shared by people on the site. (via Infovore)
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13 month ago
Andy Baio : OiNK shut down, 24-year-old creator arrested - very sad, it was one of the strongest online communities; also, saying it's "lucrative" is a flat-out lie
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Huge pirate music site shut down - OiNK is raided. *sigh*. /me expects RIAA letter in 5.. 4.. 3.. #
philgyford : BBC NEWS | England | Tees | Huge pirate music site shut down - The only sources of quotes are the police and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Could we have a bit more balance perhaps BBC?
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13 month ago
nelson : Comcast medelling - They have a long history of interfering with their users' traffic
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14 month ago
deusx : Radiohead - In Rainbows - The Pirate Bay - Not that I downloaded it from here, but maybe a good backup distribution channel while inrainbows.com is flooded out. Nothing stopping you from paying later
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14 month ago
nelson : Halo 3 leaked - Requires a modded XBox; I see a couple thousand downloaders on mininova
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14 month ago
nelson : Comcast: 100G/month - Someone from Comcast finally explains "excessive use"
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16 month ago
nelson : Harry Potter leak - The book is out on bittorrent; and the thief left his camera's serial number in the release
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17 month ago
deusx : The Mod Archive - Modarchive V2.0 - News - A distinctive collection of music modules - "For those of you who want to obtain the ENTIRE archive, and I'm not just talking the same old 13GB torrents we had up in the test phase of 2005 and 2006, but the ENTIRE 29GB of compressed modules!"
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17 month ago
nelson : Bad routers (Azureus) - A list of routers that have problems with too many network connections, as per BitTorrent
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19 month ago
jimray : TVShows automatically downloads your favourite shows - I guess I should try this before they get the bejesus sued out of 'em
43folders : TVShows automatically downloads your favourite shows - via http://twitter.com/jimray/statuses/557542452
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19 month ago
wearehugh : ASCII by Jason Scott: Bittorrent: Solitary. Fashionable. Ethereal. - "if someone wants the historically interesting first introduction of bittorrent, you have to go to one of my websites."
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19 month ago
jimray : FoxTorrent makes BitTorrent not suck - Preview/stream torrents as they download - killer feature
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20 month ago
Rod Begbie : Need To Know 2002-07-26 - How free porn has helped the world of networking in the past -- Load-testing BitTorrent back in 2002. #
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21 month ago
nelson : EZTV interview - Fascinating discussion with one of the biggest television piracy groups
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21 month ago
jimray : The BitTorrent store opens - Movies are rental only, but TV shows you keep. Music, too. Seems to use Windows Media DRM, so I'm not sure why they even bother with Mac/Linux torrent clients.
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