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Xtorrent 1.0 Review
2007-03-26 20:01:00 TorrentFreak has a review up for Xtorrent, the highly awaited BitTorrent client for the Mac, an excerpt: Xtorrent, the highly anticipated BitTorrent client for the Mac, is finally out of beta with a shiny 1.0 release. Here?s our review of it. Xtorrent, the new BitTorrent client for Mac OS X, just rolled out of the beta phase. ... More About: Review , Torrent , View , Rent
LimeWire doing well
2007-03-26 19:56:00 The marketing policy of Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, the members of the Big 4 Organised Music cartel, is simple and direct and can be summed up in four words: Put the boot in. If anyone, and that includes little girls, doesn’t toe the corporate line, stomp them into shape. The Big 4’s unswerving ... More About: Wire , Lime , Limewire , Doing , Well
Big Music victimizes students
2007-03-26 19:55:00 Students who download and/or share music copyrighted by EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany) and Warner Music (US) are being held up by the industry and school staffs alike as criminals and thieves who must comply with Big Music online ’settlement’ options if they’re to avoid appearing in court. School administrators are ... More About: Student , Students , Victim , Advil
Apple TV hacked to run XviD, other formats
2007-03-26 19:37:00 The Apple TV has already been hacked to run non-supported video formats, according to a pair of forum users. Confirming Walt Mossberg’s claim that the media hub runs a custom version of Mac OS X, the technique involves removing the hard drive and mounting it on a Mac, where it appears as a native HFS ... More About: Other , Hack , Hacked , Form
Command and Conquer 3, already released by scene
2007-03-26 19:30:00 “The Scene “, probably collectively the largest target for the RIAA/MPAA and every anti-piracy agency around the world have managed to release the much awaited Electronic Arts game, Comm and & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars - Kane Edition, days before it’s official world wide launch. With all their meticulous work, it never seems enough from keeping the pirates ... More About: Read , Released , Release
Starz sues Disney over iTunes downloads
2007-03-23 19:27:00 Cable TV network Starz Entertainment said on Thursday that it was suing the Walt Disney Company, accusing the latter of violating an exclusivity agreement by offering its movies through online stores such as Apple’s iTunes Store and Wal-Mart’s Video Download s service. Filed in Los Angeles, the suit alleges that Disney broke a 2005 deal which ... More About: Itunes
Microsoft updates Vista for games and warez
2007-03-22 14:57:00 Microsoft has has released a Vista update targeted at hardcore gamers and the warez lot. Labeled, handily, as the ‘March 2007 Windows Vista Application Compatibility Update’, the fix is “a package of software updates that address common application compatibility issues in Windows Vista,” according to the firm. It fixes problems whereby games and applications may not install ... More About: Microsoft , Games , Dates , Updates
LeechThe.net sidebar updated
2007-03-21 18:56:00 Hi everyone, please find the updated sidebar of Leech The.net with added links and buttons. You’ll find links to TV Schedules, BitTorrent sites and plenty of Blog Directories to go through. Thanks for your visit! More About: Update , Sidebar , Side
BitComet 0.85
2007-03-21 18:39:00 A new version of BitCome t has been released, with new changes visibly more than the previous versions. Download More About: Comet , Bitcomet
Sirius and XM Slapped With Patent Infringement Suit
2007-03-21 18:30:00 Troubled times The times over at satellite radio companies Sirius and XM have been less than celebrative. Both companies are under fire from various industry organizations and the public in general for their upcoming merger. Earlier last month, the two companies agreed to merge in a $13 billion deal that would create the largest satellite radio entity ... More About: Men , With , Infringement , Ring , Fringe
DRM loses engineering database key customer
2007-03-21 18:19:00 A university has cancelled access to the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) web-based database of technical papers, because the outfit is insisting on running digital rights management (DRM) technology. According to a statement here, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) believes that the DRM technology severely limits use of SAE papers and imposes unnecessary burdens on ... More About: Engineering , Data , Customer , Database , Ring
BitTorrent to Launch Advertising Supported TV-network
2007-03-21 17:46:00 BitTorrent Inc. has plans to launch a free, ad-supported TV-network by the end of this year. It will hereby be in direct competition with Joost and online video services like YouTube. It is unsure if BitTorrent?s current partners like Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox will also make their content available for the BitTorrent TV-network. On ... More About: Advertising , Work , Network , Port
Calculate Your Optimal BitTorrent Settings
2007-03-21 17:44:00 Configuring your BitTorrent client is extremely important if you want to get the best out of BitTorrent. However, the settings pane of the average BitTorrent client might be a bit overwhelming, and some people just don?t know where to start. For novices, this BitTorrent settings calculator might come in handy. The calculator gives some good suggestions ... More About: Your , Calc , Late , Rent
Viacom?s ?double-standards?
2007-03-17 19:27:00 Viacom is suing Google and GooTube for $1 billion, citing Comedy Central as being among the sites being pirated by Google. But ValleyWag has a fascinating take on it, namely, why isn’t Viacom also suing other video sharing sites offering copyrighted material, “such as iFilm?” Why not indeed? ValleyWag believes it has the answer. iFilm, “is owned by ... More About: Standards , Double , Standard , Viacom , Anda
Download and p2p evolutions
2007-03-17 19:22:00 Around 50% of all Net users download and while young people are the most frequent downloaders, everyone across all age groups is into it with few discrepancies between the sexes. Free downloading is expanding, especially through p2p networks, and dominates the field overall, and, “To some extent, it is pointless to put illegal and paid downloading ... More About: Evolution , Download , Down , Load
P2P File-Sharing Ruins Physical Piracy Business
2007-03-17 19:20:00 If the likes of the MPAA, RIAA and IFPI are to be believed, file-sharing is causing worldwide havok, costing billions of dollars and creating unemployment. It?s true that some people are feeling the P2P effect; they?re called ?physical pirates? and one of them says that file-sharing has ruined his business. Tony started his life of piracy ... More About: File Sharing , Business , Piracy , File , Physical
Pandora no more?
2007-03-17 19:04:00 The RIAA has convinced the Copyright Royalty Board to release a ridiculous fee structure that will kill online radio. In other news, RIAA has been ordered to turn over its attorneys’ billing records in Capitol v. Foster by March 26, 2007 More About: Pandora , More , Pando , Dora
Microsoft investigates IE 7 vulnerability
2007-03-16 16:57:00 Microsoft is investigating a new flaw uncovered in Internet Explorer 7 that opens users up to phishing attacks. The vulnerability was discovered by noted Israel-based security researcher Aviv Raff. Using a cross-site scripting attack, an attacker can exploit a design flaw in IE 7, he wrote on his Web site. He said an attacker can create ... More About: Gate , Microsoft , Vulnerability , Vest , Soft
Google to Viacom: Nuts to you
2007-03-15 17:57:00 After Viacom sued YouTube/Googl e for 1 billion dollars, everyone thought Google would be really wetting places. Well apparently the tech-giant isn?t worrying much, saying that the DMCA justifies its actions and it?s not liable for anything . Says Alexander Macgillivray from Google?s legal mumbojumbo department: ?Here there is a law which is specifically designed to give ... More About: Nuts
Microsoft in DRM debacle
2007-03-15 17:53:00 The current batch of Windows updates includes one rated ‘important’ which addresses an ‘issue’ in Windows Media Player 11. The problem is that portable music devices that support DRM to count the number of times that protected content is used can’t phone home with the data. As a result, subscription music services are unable to extract ... More About: Microsoft , Soft , Micro
Spambuster starts web site
2007-03-15 17:50:00 A man who won £750 compensation from a UK firm that sent him an email has set up a website offering advice to people who want to take spammers to court. Gordon Dick said that the EU e-Privacy directive incorporated into UK law by the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (”PECR”) gives individuals the right ... More About: Spam , Arts , Site , Buster , Start
Internet Video Converter 1.40
2007-03-14 20:10:00 Convert videos between major formats (Mpeg (vcd/svcd/dvd compliant), DV, Quicktime, Windows Media, Xvid, H264, 3GP, PSP, iPod, Flash video (FLV, Swf) got from Youtube, DailyMotion, Google Video etc… IVC - Inter net Video Converter is a frontend GUI using open source projects such as Mencoder, FFmpeg & FLVtool2 for transcoding Flash videos & animations from/to major video ... More About: Convert
McAfee says Vista?s StickyKeys could be misused
More articles from this author:2007-03-14 20:06:00 A Windows feature designed to simplify computing for disabled users could be misused in Vista , a McAfee researcher reported Monday. Attackers could use this feature, called Stick yKeys , to trick a user into launching unauthorized software on the Vista machine, according to Vinoo Thomas, a McAfee researcher who blogged about the issue on Monday. StickyKeys is launched ... More About: Cafe , Suse 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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