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Downloading Frenzy in China: Gov't Blocking All Torrent Sites Soon?
Over the past 10 days, Chinese downloaders have flooded - and in some cases, crashed - major P2P and torrent sites after rumors that the government would be effectively disabling
BBC To Delete 172 Websites Due to Budget Cuts, Geek Saves Them for $3.99
The BBC announced last month that it would be slashing much of its online programming due to severe budget cuts. As part of the cutbacks, it planned to axe jobs
U.S. Government Explains Its Seizure of 80 Web Domains
The U.S. Department of Justice and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have confirmed the seizure of 82 domains as part of "Operation in Our Sites 2." News of the seizures broke
Best Web LittleCo of 2006 - and Most Promising for 2007
This is the third annual Best Web Companies round-up from Read/WriteWeb (ref: 2005 and 2004). This year we're spreading it out over 2 separate posts and this is the second
So Long, and Thanks for All the Loot: The Pirate Bay Goes Offline (For Now)
Black Internet, the Pirate Bay's largest bandwidth supplier, just shut down the notorious BitTorrent tracker after a court ordered it to pay a fine of 500,000 kroner ($70,800). Since about
Data: Comcast Has Stopped Throttling Bit Torrent (But Other ISPs Persist)
After Comcast was caught throttling Bit Torrent traffic on its networks in 2007, the company caught quite a lot of heat and voluntarily stopped doing so. The practice, which was
UK "Digital Economy Bill" May Allow for Website Shutdowns
The House of Commons passed a controversial piece of legislation called the "Digital Economy Bill." The loudly-criticized law nontheless passed 187-47, according to the Guardian newspaper. The bill purports to
Democracy Player Reborn as Miro
last100 has the scoop on the rebirth of the open source Internet TV application as Miro: Miro (formerly known as Democracy Player) is an open-source Internet TV application that combines
Wikipedia Explores Peer-to-Peer Sharing for Video Distribution
In order to help offset the costs of delivering an increasing amount of video, Wikipedia is experimenting with BitTorrent P2P technology. As Michael Dale notes in the foundation's announcement, "One
Amazon's Best-Selling Album Download of 2008 Was Available for Free
In March 2008, Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails released the first part of Ghosts I-IV via BitTorrent, and released all four albums under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Even
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