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iTunes civilizes the p2p teen
Does iTunes prevent piracy? That's what this report (registration required) from the UK's PC Pro seems to conclude. 36% of US teens bought music using online stores in 2006, up from 28 in 2004. P2P network use for obtaining unlicensed music fell at ...
iPhone gets native P2P torrent software
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_gets_native_P2P_torrent_software'; Your iPhone plays audio. Your iPhone plays video. Until now, you had to sync those suckers. Today, the insanely brilliant iPhone Hacker core announced a preliminary ...
Apple and Napster pull ads from P2P sites
After the UK record industry threatened Apple and Napster with legal action, the two have pulled ads for their music services from P2P sites. The UK labels called it "ironic" that the two leaders of the legitimate music download industry ...
iTunes more popular than <s>God</s> P2P
News.com reports that a new study finds that iTMS is as popular or more popular than various P2P music file-sharing sitesservices. The iTMS tied with LimeWire and turned up second place to "P2P site WinMX, which was used by 2.1 million ...
BBC to go peer-to-peer in HD with Azureus
The Beeb is reporting that hundreds of episodes of "programmes" will be released for download via the Zudeo service, based on P2P client Azureus. The videos will be available in HD and will be DRM'ed, exact rights and pricing to be announced. This is ...
Long-time holdouts Red Hot Chili Peppers in the iTunes Music Store
Do you remember
when Napster was huge (about ten years ago), and digital file sharing was on everyone's minds? Metallica and The Red Hot
Chili Peppers were sort of leading the anti-p2p charge. Several years later, when the iTunes Music Store ...
TUAW Reader Discussion on Grokster and Google Video
Every so often, now that we have a chatroom, I'm going to have little impromptu chatcasts with readers on different tech topics that affect the Mac community. This time around we talked about the Grokster decision, the RIAA, the MPAA, and Google's ...
Veoh to integrate video with iPod
Veoh is a “virtual television network” that uses a P2P model to distribute user-created video content. Practically anyone who wants to participate can share unlimited amounts of full screen, TV-quality video. Today, Veoh announced its ...
Acquisition adds BitTorrent ability
Acquisition has added support for BitTorrent files to its bag of tricks in its latest completely-out-of-whack version number, 124.1. I haven't fired up a copy yet, but this sounds like a great idea that I hope most P2P apps pick up, if they haven't ...
Intel Tiger in the Wild?
Engadget is reporting the appearance of the developer build of Tiger for Intel-based systems on P2P networks. Supposedly, some enterprising software pirates are already running the thieved code on their Dell laptops.
One could argue, ...
College students not falling for free subscriptions
It seems as though College students haven't drank away their IQs after all: TechDirt is reporting that free music subscription programs (from the likes of Napster and company) on university campuses aren't taking off. It appears that restrictions - ...
Questions about BitRocket abound
News is coming in via digg commenters and posts on forum threads linked therein which seems to indicate and give evidence that BitRocket uses code taken from the Transmission.app source without giving any attribution as required by the MIT license ...
Running a bittorrent client from the iPhone
A few days ago, TorrentFreak speculated about how someone might create a bittorrent client for the iPhone. While it seems technically possible (except for that nagging "no SDK" problem, which makes it hard to get code running on there), you might ...
Dude, Duke’s giving out free iPods!
Hey, it’s as good a reason as any to choose where you’ll spend the next four years of your life, right? ;) When this
year’s Duke University first-year class showed up for the fall 2004 term, all 1,650 of them
received ...
SXSW4Pod
If you’re headed to this year’s SXSW (or, like me, you wish you were) and you have an iPod (who doesn’t these
days?), you need to head over to the SXSW website and grab the
SXSW4Pod Music Festival Schedule. While there, ...
