P2p Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

The iPad and eBook piracy

by Sang Tang (May 18th, 2010)

In the week following the launch of the iPad, six of the top ten selling business-related paperbacks saw a significant spike in unauthorized downloads on BitTorrent, according to BitTorrent news blog TorrentFreak. This cohort saw average increases of 78 percent over the week prior to the iPad ...

Livestation iPhone app promises live TV over wifi

by Mike Schramm (Dec 4th, 2008)

We'll believe it when we see it, of course. Livestation is a service that claims to be "Slingbox without the box." Once subscribed, you can watch television streamed to your computer, via peer-to-peer, from anywhere. And now they're apparently set to announce an iPhone app that will do the same ...

iPhone gets native P2P torrent software

by Erica Sadun (Mar 2nd, 2008)

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 version of a Transmission Peer-to-Peer client for iPhone. The code is ported from the Transmission site to run on the iPhone's ARM ...

BBC to go peer-to-peer in HD with Azureus

by Michael Rose (Dec 20th, 2006)

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 certainly big news for fans of Brit TV who don't ...

Weird Al: "Don't Download This Song"

by David Chartier (Aug 24th, 2006)

Love or hate him, Weird Al has unquestionably cranked out some of the most notable humor and satire of the late 20th - and now 21st - centuries. The Digital Music Weblog (a sister site) has discovered Mr. Weird is at it again with "Don't Download This Song," a tongue-in-cheek anthem about the dark ...

Skype w/video leaked, will destroy your Mac

by Conrad Quilty-Harper (Jun 29th, 2006)

According to a Skype developer, an old and unstable version of Skype for Mac has been leaked onto file sharing networks across the globe. If you spot this file, do not download it! "It is an internal unstable development version, and thus it is extremely buggy" and "it will destroy your contacts and ...

Long-time holdouts Red Hot Chili Peppers in the iTunes Music Store

by Dave Caolo (Mar 21st, 2006)

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 demonstrated that the online distribution of music could ...