My ISP (formerly ntl), just changed my IP address. That just doesn’t happen that often. I only noticed because my OpenDNS shortcuts were no longer working and I had to login to update my network settings. Like I say, it doesn’t…
Entries Tagged as 'downloads'
Legal Illegal Downloads
June 13th, 2008 · 7 Comments
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Throttled by Your ISP
May 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments
The software, music, and movie industries have shouted loud and clear about their apparently imminent demise caused by online file sharing for years and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are falling over backwards to find an excuse to cap broadband download…
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Movie Goers Face Extinction
March 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Is advancing multimedia entertainment technology set to ruin the movie theater industry, do movie goers face extinction? Or, is it just this generation’s equivalent of the disruptive technologies that were first television and then the VCR, which led to renewed…
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Music Piracy All at Sea
February 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments
In 1999, a nineteen-year old student decided he wanted a fast and efficient way to share his favorite songs with his friends. But, he didn’t just want to make them compilations tapes on cassette. He wanted to do the sharing…
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Fifty Times Faster than Bit Torrent
October 21st, 2007 · No Comments
TechCrunch alerted me to an interview by Thomas Crampton with Ogilvy China’s Kaiser Kuo and others. The interview discusses the current state of web 2.0 development in China. Of particular note is Kuo’s description of Chinese P2P file network Blin.cn…
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