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SiliconBeat: News about tech money and innovation: --BitTorrent raises money: The hot file-sharing protocol company, BitTorrent, of San Francisco, this month raised $8.75 million in a first round of funding round led by DCM-Doll Capital Management, according to PE Week, and proving again that Om "scoop" Malik had it right all along. With so much VC interest, the valuation must have been pretty high. (via Cosmos)
Matt Croydon::Postneo 2.0: Rocks was one of several cluster computing Linux distributions that caught my eye while I was working on my research paper on open source clusters. According to the release announcement they have rolled BitTorrent in to the installer which should make for some amazingly fast compute node installations. (via Cosmos)
Pleh: Yoshimi Battles the Hip Hop Robots”. This was good, but “A Night at the Hip Hopera” is much better. If you love Queen or even just like them, but would like to hear something much fresher, fire up your favorite BitTorrent client and get downloading. Posted in Music | 1 Comment » (via Cosmos)
[Stuff.techwhack.com] » Web users moving from Bittorrent to eDonkey :: Software Journal ...: Latest reports from research of digital content have shown that the web users are constantly moving from Bittorrent networks to other networks like eDonkey. The reason behind this shift is the popularity Bittorrent gained in a short time and the regulatory authorities started targeting the servers serving as host for trackers used by the shared torrent files.
[Dynatech] 3/28/05: Pat mentions in the -current ChangeLog that GNOME takes a lot of time to package, so this move should allow more time to be spent on the rest of Slackware." From the changelog: "Please do not incorrectly interpret any of this as a slight against GNOME itself, which (although it does usually need to be fixed and polished beyond the way it ships from upstream more so than, say, KDE or XFce) is a decent desktop choice." -Slashdot
[Lessig.org] Lawrence Lessig: VCRs obviously steal Intellectual Property off TV, cassette recorders (especially dual-deck recorders) are used in bootlegging, CD burners are only used to pirate mp3s and software, and camcorders are the #2 source of movies on those child-porn distributing p2p networks while they’re still in the theater (behind insider leaks).
[Stuff.techwhack.com] » Opera Browser does it again: embeds a Bittorrent client ...: Web users moving from Bittorrent to eDonkey Latest reports from research of digital content have shown that the web users are constantly moving from Bittorrent networks to other networks like eDonkey. The reason behind this shift is the popularity Bittorrent gained in a short time and the regulatory authorities started targeting .
[Scotusblog.com] SCOTUSblog - Discussion: Grokster Archives: The previous posts have made a number of excellent points which I’ll try not to reiterate, though I adore Kathleen Sullivan’s image of “strangling little iPods in their cradles.” I don’t quite get Charlie Petit’s idea that the Betamax involved “authorized source material and authorized distribution channels” whereas Grokster doesn’t. Except for unreleased pilots such as “Global Frequency” and bootlegs, the music and TV shows available through peer-to-peer networks came from authorized source material and authorized distribution channels (CD stores and broadcasts).
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Bittorrent, Filesharing Review
