5 month ago
nelson : Vista file sharing - Remarkably clear article about how to make Windows do its file sharing thing
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11 month ago
nelson : Samba gets docs! - After years of reverse engineering the Windows filesharing protocols, Microsoft is finally compelled to document them for the samba team
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14 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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14 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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15 month ago
Linkorama : DRM vendors are pushing the impossible - There are some fundamental truths in the universe. We cannot travel faster than light, and we cannot make a copy protection system that is uncrackable. The only question is: how long will paying customers stay when the companies they're buying from treat
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21 month ago
nelson : EZTV interview - Fascinating discussion with one of the biggest television piracy groups
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27 month ago
deusx : MPAA campaign makes piracy seem totally badass | GoSleepGo.com - "Rightly so, the kid in the poster is excited as hell about it!"
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29 month ago
Andy Baio : Okkervill River's Will Sheff on file-sharing, bootlegs, and digital music - he worked at Audiogalaxy and has seen this from multiple sides; you can hear the internal conflict [via]
jimray : Okkervil River's Will Sheff on file sharing - Really nicely put
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30 month ago
jimray : The Morning News Gallery - Files Are Not for Sharing, by Matthew Baldwin & Goopymart - "That's what file sharing is like: taking a kitty away from a kitty."
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36 month ago
plasticbag : Kevin Marks explodes Susan Cheever's ludicrous take on the copying of digital artifacts... - "It's a strange experience to see your own property so appreciated. It's disorienting and beguiling. You've been quoted. That's how it feels when something of yours suddenly appears in cyberspace..."
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36 month ago
Rod Begbie : ratDVD - the DVD movie download format - Compression/packaging format to rip *everything* from a DVD -- Menus, special features, commentaries, etc. Also allows you to unpack and burn back to a DVD! Windows-only at the moment, sadly. #
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39 month ago
deusx : THE.SCENE - "NYU student Brian has a secret: He and his friends pirate hundreds of millions of dollars worth of illicit Hollywood movies in their spare time."
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40 month ago
joshua : Localhost - fascinating peer-based distributed naming system. shame about the name
deusx : Localhost - "Localhost is a program that lets you access a shared, world-wide file system through your web browser. "
Matthew M. Boedicker : Localhost, shared world-wide filesystem
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42 month ago
Linkorama : Ten Years of Chilled Innovation - That's the fallout from the Supreme Court ruling on file-sharing technologies, says Creative Commons chair and law prof Larry Lessig
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50 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : DropCopy - Rendezvous-enabled drag 'n' drop filesharing. Yes, please.
Steve Cook : DropCopy: Rendezvous powered file-sharing for OSX - Oh boy, does this fill a need; I've thought about writing something like it myself, only now I don't have to.
Rod Begbie : DropCopy - Shiny no-brainer local-file-sharing app for Mac networks. [via] #
deusx : 10base-t interactive | rendezvous enabled applications > DropCopy - "Easily and quickly send files and folders to multiple destinations across your LAN by simply dragging files onto recipients in a popup window."
plasticbag : DropCopy - Easily and quickly send files and folders to multiple destinations across your LAN - Interesting little application this - I've been thinking around something vaguely similar for a while. This has given me some possible UI pointers...
Richard Rutter : DropCopy - Easily send files to multiple recipients over Rendezvous (filed under Tools & software). [via Interconnected]
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