1 month ago
gleuschk : Digital Domain - First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry. - NYTimes.com - Hm: "Whether students will view online subscriptions as a helpful adjunct to the printed textbook or as a self-aggrandizing ploy by publishers remains to be seen." Really? Care to make a small wager?
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10 month ago
WillPate : Canadian Police Tolerates File Sharing For Personal Use - “Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted,” Noël St-Hilaire, head of copyright theft investigations of the Canadian police, said in an interview with Le Devoir. “It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it,” he added.
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22 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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33 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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35 month ago
WillPate : Amazon.com: BitTorrent For Dummies - Friends Kris Krug and Susie Gardner have written a great beginners to advanced guide to BitTorrent
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