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It's getting trendy these for top-tier musical artists to buck the music labels and release their albums as free or cheap downloads via the Internet or some other means. The

In my search for innovative web and Internet applications, I noted the buzz around new P2P company Skyrider at the end of last week. While it's hard to say whether

Spore, a Sim-like game about the evolution of creatures, was recently released as one of the most anticipated games of the year. Our initial impressions were high with the

Although the name is clearly meant to recall that of ubiquitous video portal YouTube, YouTorrent upon first reading sounded more like an accusation than anything else: You Torrent. Although some

The law-abiding and popular BitTorrent client Vuze added some key new features this week that make it an even better choice of ways to get video on the internet. When

Our good friends over at TechDirt discovered an interesting anomaly and enormous security hole in BayTSP's website today. BayTSP, a Los Gatos, CA-based company, is best known for putting the

Metalink is a new technology that makes it easier and faster to get large files. It's kind of like a playlist for such files (they can be FTP, HTTP, or

MediaDefender is a company that acts on behalf of other media companies to muck up P2P and file sharing networks. They're the ones seeding BitTorrent with fake files - a

While the pros and cons of P2P networks on the Web are still being debated, there are a number of private invite-only P2P networks (aka darknets) out there which enable

According to TorrentFreak, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) last week released their latest report, summing up the digital music landscape at the start of 2008. The IFPI