5 month ago
deusx : Mozilla Developer News » Blog Archive » Quick note on Firefox 3 downloads - "Thanks to overwhelming demand we’ve passed through 14,000 downloads a minute! This will put us well into the tens of millions of downloads in a 24 hour period if we can sustain it."
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14 month ago
plasticbag : Mr Hicks has proposed a nice informal cover design contest for the Radiohead 'In Rainbows' digital download - Not a lot of transformative insights yet, but quite like the idea and would be delighted if someone came up with something dramatically better than the finished official version...
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14 month ago
jonhicks : R A D I O H E A D - In Rainbows - Pre order the new album as download (where you pay what you think it's worth!) or a very special disk box set, which includes the download. Out October 10th!
factoryjoe : R A D I O H E A D - Radiohead's new album site. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: radiohead
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22 month ago
deusx : EyeMelt.com - "EyeMelt.com is your best bet for downloadable comics! ... Prices start at only 69¢! ... You can download EyeMelt comics in CBZ or PDF format. "
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25 month ago
plasticbag : The BBC reports on a think tank that reports the obvious - that you should legally be allowed to copy your CDs for personal use - It's absolutely fascinating to me that copyright law in the UK is so massively behind the day to day use of technology...
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25 month ago
plasticbag : Torrentfreak is my new favourite future of media distribution weblog - Obviously BitTorrent is mostly used for piracy, but observing what's going on around BitTorrent seems like a no-brainer way to learn what early-adopters are actually interested in getting from their media consumption...
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26 month ago
plasticbag : Channel 'five' in the UK is doing downloads of some of its core TV shows - You get to keep them and watch them for fourteen days after broadcast and you have to pay for them, and you have to use IE6 on a PC. But other than that, it's pretty impressive. I'll give it a few months until iTunes starts selling TV in the UK...
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28 month ago
plasticbag : TVTorrent.info seems to have been hacked, collapsed or shut-down... - Another move by the copyright infringing people? I can't find much coverage anywhere
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32 month ago
plasticbag : Kevin Marks has assembled a pretty useful and interesting grid of the various ways you can consume TV at the moment - I don't think he really talks about the problems with BitTorrent in terms of download speeds and how that offsets some of the cost stuff of services like iTunes, but generally this is a pretty solid statement of the pros and cons...
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32 month ago
plasticbag : The BBC reports on BT's attempts to enforce its monthly download limits... - "BT is targeting customers who it says are regularly breaking their monthly broadband download limits."
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36 month ago
Andy Baio : Sloncek's story of the Suprnova shutdown - a year ago today [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : what really happened to suprnova
plasticbag : The guy from Suprnova explains why the site went offline a year ago... - He tells the story quickly, but it sounds like quite a scary situation to find yourself in. Still, it also seems like the story ended fairly well. I wonder what happens next.
Nelson Minar : SuprNova story - sloncek's story of police, equiment seizure, etc (via Waxy)
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41 month ago
plasticbag : There's a Slashdot article about the music industry's reaction to the BBC's downloads of Beethoven symphonies - Interesting coverage and discussion here, from a whole range of different perspectives - although I think there's some confusion about the remit of the BBC
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44 month ago
plasticbag : This year's BBC Reith Lectures are on technology and will be distributed as MP3s and podcasts - "This year's Reith Lecturer is the distinguished engineer, Lord Broers who is President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee."
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plasticbag : UK users are responsible for 18% of all the peer-to-peer shared and BitTorrented TV show downloads - Obviously they're doing it because of the sometimes enormous time-lag between a show being broadcast in the States and in the UK. There's one way to fix that straightaway...
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plasticbag : Some kind of meta-BitTorrent Tracker Tracker... - Keeps looking at BitTorrent sites to see if they're still there, closed down or consumed by enormous bandwidth costs...
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47 month ago
Andy Baio : Videora, the BitTorrent RSS reader - with "Season Passes" and "Wishlists" [via] [via]
Rod Begbie : Videora - BitTorrent RSS Reader - A pretty looking app, which does the same thing as the Azureus RSS plugin. [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : Videora - BitTorrent RSS Reader - Videora - BitTorrent RSS Reader: watch what you want, when you want, from anywhere in the world
plasticbag : Videora combines RSS with BitTorrent to create a download-based PVR equivalent - Mooted a lot last year, very interesting stuff, windows-only which kind of sucks, apparently no better than the RSS plug-in for Azureus...
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plasticbag : The official UK download chart is throwing up some surprise hits - I think the most interesting part of this article is not that Marillion are near the top of the downloads chart, but that they've been financing their albums by getting donations and pre-sales off the web. Future mainstream model here?
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