Filesharing Review: June 2005 Archives

Filesharing Review > June 30, 2005

MPAA, RIAA - You Need to Move Along

[benoneill] I’ve kept my eye on the current situation in America and the spread to other places in the world with regards to BitTorrent files and piracy of music, TV episodes and films in general. I’ve decided it’s about time I wrote something about it.

The MGM vs Grokster Supreme Court Ruling

[Nik Cubrilovic - Perfected Weblog] They key difference between the Sony-Betamax case and the Grokster case as pointed out by the ruling is that Sony in no way could take steps to control the infringing uses of VCR recording technology, and played no part in the copyright infingment of its users, but at the same time where able to show that VCR recording technology had fair use applications. Grokster on the other hand promoted itself as a tool for infringing copyright, and even promoted itself as an alternative to Napster after it has been shut down by US courts.

Posted at 12:54 AM

June 30, 2005

MPAA, RIAA - You Need to Move Along

Posted at 12:59 AM

The MGM vs Grokster Supreme Court Ruling

Posted at 12:54 AM

Apple: Sued for podcasts? (updated)

[Blast Radius] How's this relevant to the Supreme Court case? Well, many podcasts contain unlicensed reproductions of commercial music.

Posted at 12:50 AM

Avalanche

[Oloop.org] First of all, I’d like to clarify that Avalanche is vaporware. It isn’t a product which you can use or test with, it’s a bunch of proposed algorithms.

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Posted at 12:47 AM

June 28, 2005

An FTC Study Of P2P

[digitalmerging.la] It means that someone in the federal government has at least a partial clue as to what's going on with regards to P2P technology. This report basically echos what's been said for years -- file sharing is a powerful tool that has many applications and there's no strong evidence that any industry is suffering solely from P2P and that P2P is not going away anytime soon.

Posted at 10:29 AM

Is BitTorrent Protected under Grokster decision?

[Tech Law Advisor] My early take is yes, but 1) this is not legal advice and 2) I need more time to review the decision. Why?

Posted at 10:26 AM

Download Nigella Interview From NPR

[subtitles] Just for fun I thought I'd upload Nigella's interview off NPR, which I found via her Wikipedia article. It's at points rather moving, and she gestures in a way that I find quite wrenching.

Posted at 10:24 AM

Wal-Mart heir dies in plane crash

[IO ERROR] MGM v. Grokster case returns to district court Posted by IO ERROR under Politics , Internet , Privacy Leave a Comment I wasn’t even going to mention...

Posted at 10:23 AM

FBI Shuts Down EliteTorrent Over Star Wars Piracy

[Cinematical] The Federal Bureau of Investigation, in association with the MPAA, has shut down elitetorrents.org in order to investigate claims that Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith was available for download over the network seven hours before its theatrical release. Visitors to the site are now met with the plaque above.

Posted at 10:21 AM

June 27, 2005

Tomato Torrent 1.1.2

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] One of the reasons this BitTorrent client is so highly favored on the Mac is that it separates "the BitTorrent code from the Macintosh code, so that either can be updated without having to modify the other." There is no java involved, as with Azureus.

Posted at 04:44 PM

Wired News: Next for BitTorrent: Search

[VoxEfx] BitTorrent speeds internet file transfers by shifting the bandwidth burden off the publisher, and distributing it among users downloading the file: Everyone downloading a file over BitTorrent is unobtrusively uploading it to other users at the same time so that large, popular files actually move at a faster rate than obscure ones."

Posted at 04:42 PM

Government Torrents at Your Disposal

[ sinceretheory weblog] BoingBoing had a post today about a torrent linkage site that has political speeches from the past and present. The post was for Nixon related...

Posted at 04:41 PM

BitTorrent web-service launches

[ColumnNetwork.org] via Boing Boing: Cory Doctorow: Gary sez, “Prodigem (the BitTorrent web service) has opened its doors to the public. Previously you needed an...

Posted at 04:38 PM

June 26, 2005

Moblogging Experiment by BusinessWeek Reporter

[ | mobile jones] 6/25/2005 Moblogging Experiment by BusinessWeek Reporter Blogging On The Go from Business Week reporter Steven Baker draws some conclusions on...

Posted at 10:15 AM

OS X x86 Torrent

[alistairphillips.com] *apparently* there is an ISO floating around the Internet pretending to be MacOS X for Intel x86. Some people are reporting that this is a complete...

Posted at 10:13 AM

Bittorrent Brunch

[largehearted boy: a boy, a girl, and his radio] The Soul Asylum and Gear Daddies shows from the benefit for Soul Asylum bassist Karl Mueller last October have been posted to Dimeadozen. If you enjoy the shows, please think about donating to the Karl Fund to help with medical expenses incurred during his illness.

Posted at 10:11 AM

My email to 1and1 regarding bittorrent

[house of the hanged man] Further, it appears that your response thus far has been to indicate that the bittorrent technology will increase load on your servers. Nothing could be farther from the truth, and this position reinforces the fact that your decision makers know nothing about this technology.

Posted at 10:09 AM

June 25, 2005

It’s started, Torrent sites now being targeted by DOJ

[Blog-A-Rama] The MPAA has helped the DOJ track down administrators of a popular BitTorrent site. As you read the article pay close attention to info...

Posted at 09:19 AM

Today’s Links (BitTorrent now trackerless!)

[theory.isthereason] How to use BitTorrent As more people start to use it, it’s best to point them to a great resource on how BitTorrent works. Keywords: how-to...

Posted at 09:19 AM

Torrent

[distant, early morning] I’m having a tantrum. There is a lot of swearing and bitching. GET OVER IT. I am a complete and utter failure at torrenting. Not only is the concert...

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Posted at 09:18 AM

BitTorrent is Still the Best

[Full Speed] Unfortunately it’s actually one of the better academic papers on BitTorrent, because it makes some attempt, however feeble, to do an apples to apples comparison. I’d comment on academic papers more, but generally they’re so bad that evaluating them does little more than go over epistemological problems with their methodology, and is honestly a waste of time.”

Posted at 09:10 AM

June 23, 2005

Open-source + p2p + rich media coding for fun and profit: Bitcollider request-for-bids

[Gojomo: Gordon Mohr's Weblog] The Bitzi Bitcollider, an open-source utility for calculating file hashes, extracting file metadata, and submitting information to the cooperatively-built and Creative Commons-licensed Bitpedia digital media encyclopedia, needs support for files larger than 2GB/4GB (2GiB/4GiB). Bitzi is trying an experiment to get this capability implemented: placing a request-for-bids at RentACoder, an international marketplace for contracted piecework software development.

Posted at 10:04 PM

June 22, 2005

Shirky on Social Networks and Filesharing

[GoldSounds] Shirky goes on to describe a new kind of system, one that is slowly evolving today, based on “trust networks”. Users invite each other to join networks of trust, smaller and even less centralised than the current generation of P2P networks (Gnutella, Kazaa, eDonkey etc).

Posted at 12:29 PM

325 of 2318

[iBLOGthere4iM] Today, I noticed that I'm using 325MB of my 2318MB limit on Google. About half of my used storage is the 10k SPAMs I receive on a month basis.

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Posted at 12:25 PM

June 21, 2005

The Finnish Summers

[:: antti vilpponen net ::] If you’re wondering what this actually looks like, take a look at Panu’s website - he has a photo taken at 3:30 AM!

Posted at 12:21 PM

Shear Brilliance

[Managing Rights Management] In 1995 the original InterTrust team - Shear, David Van Wie, KarlGinter, and Frank Spahn filed a patent application that was over 300pages of text and drawings when the first installment issued in '99. One of the largest computing-related patents with which I'm familiar,for example, this Ginter et al. patent [warning: large file]described (among many other things and without limitation) inherentlyP2P architectures for securely associating rights with digitalinformation and enforcing those rights at a distance in time and space, in other words, for rights management.

Posted at 12:13 PM

No Grokster; No Brand-X

[IPcentral Weblog - Intellectual Property and Copyright Commentary] More opinions will be issued on Thursday, June 23. After that, the witching hours are Monday, June 27, and the drop-dead deadline of Thursday, June 30.

Posted at 12:12 PM

Please Mr. 3G don't miss the point of wireless

[The 3G Portal] With all the talk these days concerning broadcast-style mobile content, you might be forgiven for thinking that it was a a big part of...

Posted at 12:06 PM

June 20, 2005

More on iTunes

[Evil Genius Chronicles] Second, if iTunes can’t download a show because a server gets shutdown, who does the end-user think is to blame? If they can’t get a song from the ITMS, they would blame iTunes - if podcasting is built into ITMS and people can’t get their shows, I have a feeling Apple would be getting a lot of calls about this and Apple wouldn’t want their product to seem inferior.

Posted at 10:08 AM

MADCast: Can P2P Go Legit?

[What's on Tonight? :: Main Page] Mike and I ponder the evolution of P2P and Bit Torrent as legal services that attract all sorts of big media providers--yes, even the record companies!

Posted at 10:06 AM

June 19, 2005

How Skype and Kazaa changed the net

[Oloop.org] Niklas Zennström, the internet entrepreneur behind both Kazaa and Skype, spoke to BBC Click Online about how his two inventions came about, and how broadband and wireless devices are shaping his vision for the future.

Posted at 12:44 PM

Microsoft to offer p2p

[Technology News] Not undertaking what p2p is doing nowadays but the system is a good idea I would think. Many people have very fast connections and willing to download larger files and this peer-to-peer system works very efficiently for this reason, even if it means downloading legit files and not pirated.

Posted at 12:43 PM

June 18, 2005

2005 Bonnaroo Downloads

[largehearted boy: a boy, a girl, and his radio] If not, want to hear the music you missed? As recorded shows from Bonnaroo appear, I will list them in this post.

Posted at 05:16 PM

Bollywood Still Illegal in Pakistan

[UMMO Letters] The Pakistani government has reaffirmed its 40-year-old ban on screening Indian movies in the country, despite the current Bollywood infatuation with Indo-Pakistani reconciliation movies. It’s a good thing there’s such a thing as DesiTorrents to sneak your Bollywood fix past government censorship.

Posted at 05:15 PM

OECD: Internet piracy not reason to decline in music sales

[:: antti vilpponen net ::] The OECD has released a report that states pretty much what EFF, EFFI and others have been arguing for a long time already: Internet piracy and P2P...

Posted at 05:12 PM

Casual Piracy

[Voidstar] Corante has a post about the RIAA attempting to stamp out "Casual Piracy" and make criminals of us all. I'm reminded yet again of Zappa predicting a time when music is made illegal.

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Posted at 05:10 PM

June 17, 2005

An Avalanche waiting to happen?

[OFlaherty.dk - Bits, Bytes and Babes] While this new p2p approach from Microsoft certainly sounds better than bittorrent, I can’t help feeling that unless MS do something to ensure that DRM is enabled in the system, that they’ll make a whole bunch of enemies is Hollywood and with other software companies. The Register has a good break down of how it works, but if you want the tech details you can get them here (pdf).

Posted at 08:37 AM

Vitalsecurity.org - We're Calm like a Bomb: Aurora install source revealed, and 175 Megabytes of televisual terror

[Voidstar] Vitalsecurity.org - We're Calm like a Bomb: Aurora install source revealed, and 175 Megabytes of televisual terror When BitTorrents go bad. Download a...

Posted at 08:36 AM

Bittorrent Brunch

[largehearted boy: a boy, a girl, and his radio] Start your day off right and grab Mastodon's 2000 demo and let some metal into your day. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks: 2005-06-09, Cleveland ...

Posted at 08:35 AM

21 iTunes per iPod

[Axis] So, when people fill up those iPods, where does all the music come from?"Indeed, if you do the math this way, it may work out to about 21 iTunes per iPod (although that math probably doesn't hold up when you consider how many iPods may not even be working anymore... the iPod has been around for several more years than the iTunes music store), and yes, that probably means there is a lot of illegal music on a lot of iPods.

Posted at 08:30 AM

June 16, 2005

BBS: The Documentary

[http://greylodge.org/gpc] BBS: The Documentary Directed By Jason Scott bbsdocumentary.com: Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer there was a brave and pioneering band of computer users who spent their time, money and sanity setting up their home computers and phone lines to welcome anyone who called. By using a modem, anyone else who knew the phone number of these computers could connect to them, leave messages, send and recieve files”¦.

Posted at 10:03 AM

October 18, 2004: the day broadcast TV died?

[TV Squad] Another alternative are companies that stream content for fee, which I would also be willing to do if the price point was right (I would pay $2 / episode for a show I liked in HDTV quality if it meant I did not have to buy the DVD or pay for premium cable or satellite services). Though this does admittedly potentially take out the "middle man" ie broadcat networks.

Posted at 10:01 AM

Remote P2P management appears to have moved on

[subtitles] My planned setup is to have a gateway, probably the old computer, with a large disk added on. This gateway would run all the things you'd expect, the P2P apps, probably Skype if I can be bothered, and it would always be on. Which is fun, except I don't want to have to be physically in front of it to manage it, since that would sort of defeat the purpose of using it as a file server for my media etc.

Posted at 09:59 AM

June 15, 2005

P2P Piracy and the Shoplifting Comparison

[IPcentral Weblog - Intellectual Property and Copyright Commentary] Back several years ago in my period of skepticism about IP (not nearly so well known--or lucrative--as Picasso's "blue period") I occasionally wondered if P2P downloading was a sort of loss that content sellers could just learn to tolerate, the way that merchants of physical goods take losses from shoplifting. Now from the standpoint of anyone with experience in business of any kind, I suspect this was a pretty silly thought, really, but sometimes IP policy is made by people without experience of business of any kind.

Posted at 06:17 AM

Eyepatch Jockeys

[subtitles] There's no point being coy about it - if you're a fan of "extended trial periods", this is definitely a place you'd enjoy for all of the latest. You have to register, but that's harmless, and it's better than the search engines that cover these things. Basically very good for up to date stuff.

Posted at 06:16 AM

June 14, 2005

Speed up your GTA: SA HOODLUM torrent

[Procrastination Personified] After 70 hours of non-stop downloading at an average of 8kbps and having downloaded only 47%, a helpful soul on ThePirateBay...

Posted at 08:50 AM

Is iTunes More Popular Than P2P?

[digitalmerging.la] I think one day pay stores might play in the same field as P2P networks, but not today. iTunes is a great alternative to the eDonkeys and LimeWires of the world but it still has to hold fairly close to the rules laid down by the music industry (DRM, restrictive sharing, etc). And until the music industry "lets go" of the music, I don't expect much to change in regards to peoples online downloading vs.

Posted at 08:49 AM

"Big Supreme Court Decision Looms, Investors Watching"

[IPcentral Weblog - Intellectual Property and Copyright Commentary] That has already occurred in the recent Warner Music IPO, with a price slide spurred by a murky profit forecast and piracy concerns. It will be interesting to see the analysts ask Glickman about this thesis.

Posted at 08:48 AM

How to add a trackerlist

[Procrastination Personified] I’ve created a small flash movie showing how to add new trackers to your torrent. Doing so should increase speeds slightly for certain torrents like the GTA: San Andreas HOODLUM torrent. Guide: How to add a trackerlist Thanks to james0r for enlightening me about Macromedia Captivate.

Posted at 08:47 AM

June 13, 2005

1and1 Hosting vs Bittorrent

[Ryan. Connect.] This poor guy was told to cease and desist for sharing his own files that he created and is the rightful owner of. It turned out that apparently thats what happens you let help desk technicians send out threatening, legal sounding emails to users. From this ordeal, I found out that: Hosting companies are stupid 1and1’s corporate headquarters are located within an hour drive from me I did send them an email in defense of this guy and Bittorrent and told them that...

Posted at 09:13 AM

49Media.com Podcast

[Apperceptions] Here is a link to the mp3 file. "Chris speaks with Markus Sandy about Spinflow.org, video blogging, vlogifying people and organizations, Podcast Hotel, Spincasting, videoblogging street teams, Blogher & a Spinflow sponsored west coast vlogger meetup, SpinXpress and more." Chris was also so kind as to put the podcast on the Internet Archive. Thanks Chris...

Posted at 09:11 AM

June 11, 2005

Trackerless torrent test

[Joi Ito's Web] I've created a torrent using the Trackerless Auto setting on BitTorrent. It's a 37MB movie of my Roomba having some trouble with cliff detection and my dogs having trouble with the Roomba. It's probably not worth downloading, but if you feel like testing trackerless torrents, give it a try.

Posted at 01:04 PM

BitTorrent Share Ratios

[Geeks, Guitars and Guinness] Mostly shows from taper friendly bands, so it's all legal. I wrote a long time ago how I thought BitTorrent was the ultimate hippie application and I still continue to believe this. It's great to be able to get all these shows and the everyone helping each other nature of BitTorrent goes along very well with the culture of the jam band scene.

Posted at 01:03 PM

My email to 1and1 regarding bittorrent

[house of the hanged man] The contents of my email to my hosting company regarding their misguided bittorrent policy: I read today that 1and1 is implementing a...

Posted at 01:02 PM

Help me seed TeX Live

[Technology Blog] I just created a torrent for Tex Live. Tex Live is a ready-to-run TeX system for Unix.

Posted at 01:01 PM

uit

[Voidstar] Tech & Net News on technology and the Internet from The Times and Sunday Times Yet another one sided article. What really gets me about this is that there is no way on the Times site to answer back to the journalist (Steve Boggan) or at least none that I can see. - The key person in this is Gina Harkell, a musician, who settled for Ã‚Â£2,500 for allegedly sharing 1,330 songs.

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Posted at 12:58 PM

June 10, 2005

Trackerless torrrent test

[Litinform.com] I've created a torrent using the Trackerless Auto setting on BitTorrent. It's a 37MB movie of my Roomba having some trouble with cliff detection and my dogs having trouble with the Roomba. It's probably not worth downloading, but if you feel like testing trackerless torrents, give it a try.

Posted at 09:23 AM

Klart skepp

[Spontaneous Monotony] Just when I thought the dark side might be winning their war against the internet, I came across this fax from thepiratebay taunting one of the...

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Posted at 09:20 AM

Video Streaming Reinvented

[escape.yourtrap.com] Broadcast Machine is software for your website that can publish fullscreen video files to thousands, using BitTorrent technology to reduce or eliminate bandwidth costs. It is free, open source, and designed for easy installation.

Posted at 09:19 AM

iTunes more popular than God P2P

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] News.com reports that a new study finds that iTMS is as popular or more popular than various P2P music file-sharing sitesservices. The iTMS tied with LimeWire and turned up second place to "P2P site WinMX, which was used by 2.1 million households to download music during the month." The best sound byte in the article is from Russ Crupnick, president of the NPD Group's music and movies division, who says: "These (paid) digital download stores appear to have created a compelling and economically viable alternative to illegal file sharing." Imagine that. Customers actually prefer to use technology to legally buy music over illegally pirating it.

Posted at 09:18 AM

June 09, 2005

DRM is fuelling P2P, not commercial interest

[Spontaneous Monotony] In the MGM Vs Grokster case (now in the US Supreme Court) the basic argument has been that Grokster facilitated copyright infringement for their own...

Posted at 02:08 PM

Cease & Desist Damn You

[Not for Sale] Automated takedown notices or Cease & Desist letters based solely on a technology designed to transport bits & bytes. Stupid. I've commented on this type of furor before, that blaming the technology is a waste of time & money.

Posted at 02:06 PM

DreamHost and BitTorrent

[Mostly Muppet Dot Com] Everything is as clear as mud. The only real problem you’d run into using BitTorrent to distribute your files is if you run aground of some nebulous, overbroad, poorly-written, case-specific piece of pablum that DreamHost calls a BitTorrent policy. I’m safe, per the email, but who’s to say I’ll be safe tomorrow when I post my new Podcast or link to a home movie?

Posted at 02:04 PM

Skype launched Blog

[Net] Skype has launched a blog called share skype in order to get more intimate with its customers. Definitely a move in the right direction since people anyway discuss skype on other blogs and websites anyway, so why not let them do it in your own space. Now Skype will be better off in tapping in to what their consumers like and dislike and improve their services. One feature that I specifically like is the RSS feed on Facts & Figures, that keeps you updated on the latest download figures on a minute basis.

Posted at 01:58 PM

June 08, 2005

ThePirateBay’s Grand Theft!

[Procrastination Personified] ThePirateBay, after releasing version 2.0 of their site, have updated their logo (temporarily I’m sure). It now has a Grand Theft Auto type font and the words ‘Grand Theft’ over the site name. You can also see some characters from the game in the logo. Clicking on it does a search for ‘Grand Theft’ in the games section.

Posted at 11:17 AM

Minding the Middle Ground

[IPcentral Weblog - Intellectual Property and Copyright Commentary] I remain on the lookout for those seeking the middle ground in the copyright debate, and that search has brought me to an impressive document by the Center for Democracy & Technology. "Protecting Copyright and Internet Values: A Balanced Path Forward" attempts what few are willing to do -- find a balance between copyright protection and preservation of Internet freedom. I find myself largely in agreement with their stated preferences, and while I differ somewhat with CDT on how those preferences are defined, I still welcome this paper to the debate.

Posted at 11:15 AM

iTunes more popular than many p2p-websites

[:: antti vilpponen net ::] ZDnet writes that iTunes is beating many p2p-websites in users. The survey by market research firm NPD Group found that approximately 1.7 million U.S...

Posted at 11:12 AM

P2P file-sharing â™¥ open-source (and vice-versa)

[Gojomo: Gordon Mohr's Weblog] Four of the top five, six of the top eleven, and seven of the top twenty downloads of open-source software packages from Sourceforge are peer-to-peer file-sharing applications. (I've highlighted their rank and download tally below in red.)

Posted at 11:10 AM

June 07, 2005

RECORD EXECUTIVES FREAKED BY HOUSE SALES: Odd happ...

[No Rock&Roll Fun] RECORD EXECUTIVES FREAKED BY HOUSE SALES: Odd happenings down in the Australian Record Industry (a wholly owned subsidiary of the RIAA) battle against...

Posted at 12:23 PM

The perfect PR buzz

[Infomaniac.dk] Well ThePirateBay.org figure it out. In the last couple of mounts we have seen an increasing number of Bittorrent sites being forced to close. Well yesterday the news broke. ThePirateBay.org had been closed by the Swedish version of MPAA (svenska antipiratbyrån), the following message where posted on ThePirateBay.org’s web page.

Posted at 12:18 PM

Questioning Authority.

[Oceanside, Nevada :: Main Page] I don't think the point of the story isn't so much that we can't listen to emergency workers because they're clueless and stupid, which is not what Wolf says at all, so much as it is that maybe we need to rethink the whole top down authority paradigm. In the past it made sense to heed the advice of leadership in time of crisis for the simple fact that, in time of crisis, it was those emergency institutions that had the hardened data sources that provided for the flow of information. Now, thanks to pervasive information access, not so much.

Posted at 12:17 PM

Court Docs Reveal Kazaa Logging User Downloads

[ Czarism.com | The System of Czar] Dan Warne at Slashdot.org writes: The most explosive documents in the ongoing Kazaa court case have emerged today, including logs of discussions...

Posted at 12:14 PM

June 06, 2005

Star Wars Episode III leak blamed on BitTorrent

[Procrastination Personified] Araditracker has another Star Wars Episode III torrent. This is much higher quality than the leaked workprint. Here’s a screenshot. You will have to create an account with Araditracker.com to download the torrent.

Posted at 08:17 PM

Official BitTorrent search engine in the works

[Procrastination Personified] It resembles Google in operation, with a simple interface and results ranked by an automated process. But unlike a general web search, the BitTorrent web crawler interacts with each torrent behind the scenes to determine the number of nodes downloading and uploading through it. That lets the search engine order its results by the throughput of each torrent.

Posted at 08:17 PM

MLDonkey SVN RSS Feed

[UMMO Letters] I’ve resolved to work more on KMLDonkey lately, so I put together an RSS feed for the MLDonkey SVN repository to help myself keep track of what’s happening to the mlnet core, with the help of PyRSS2Gen, which, for all its miniscule ambitions, has grown to be one of my all-time favourite Python modules. Interested parties can find the feed right here.

Posted at 08:15 PM

MPAA sues television torrent sites

[randomlog] In its ongoing effort to crack down on Internet thieves who steal the copyrighted creative works of its member studios, the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) today announced that it is filing lawsuits against six highly trafficked BitTorrent websites responsible for the illegal swapping of millions of dollars of motion picture and television programming.

Posted at 08:13 PM

Piratebay.org is down.

[spinrise.com] Seems like nothing can run from the anti-piracy organisations. Not even if you're on the right side of the law. Sad..

Posted at 08:08 PM

musicians unite for filesharing

[ pieceoplastic.com .:. the revolution will be blogged] Halsey Burgund has launched a project for which he collects recordings of musicians saying that they support filesharing [as could be read last week @ downhillbattle and boingboing]. with his project slowly taking off here he collects the recordings he has received so far. [via downhillbattle]

Posted at 08:06 PM

Family Guy Season 4, Episode 1 leaked

[randomlog] It’s out there if you’re prepared to look for it. The episode is called “North by North Quahog”.

Posted at 08:04 PM

Fools Rush In

[IPcentral Weblog - Intellectual Property and Copyright Commentary] Tom Gardner, co-head of The Motley Fool investment service, will join the panelists quizzing Dan Glickman at the PFF lunch on June 14.

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Posted at 08:01 PM

DVD rulez

[ad++ blog] Barry Meyer, CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment (at the Milken conference): "It may be, in the future, that theatrical releases may well become the value add..in terms of inducing customers to buy by adding various scenes etc...right now we set the value of the movie by theatrical release and then video...in certain territories, it may become the exact reverse..."

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Posted at 08:00 PM