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Legal Illegal Downloads

June 13th, 2008 · 7 Comments

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…

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Throttled by Your ISP

May 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Bit Torrent logoThe 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

Old-fashioned movie theater via flickr user gailf548Is 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

Music piracyIn 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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