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TorrentFreak has the news that The Pirate Bay has passed a somewhat amazing landmark: 10 million “peers,” or individual BitTorrent servers that are indexed by the site’s “tracker.” Although it’s not directly comparable to The Pirate Bay because of the way that BitTorrent works, I started wondering how those numbers stacked up against Napster, the [...]
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Torrentfreak has news of some frank talk from the man whose mom calls him Curtis James Jackson III, but who is better known as the rapper 50 Cent (not to be confused with Canadian rapper Buck 65). In an interview with a Norwegian news outlet of some kind — you can read more about it [...]
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You have to hand it to The Pirate Bay. No, really — you have to hand it to them, because they’re just going to take it anyway. (sorry, just a little peer-to-peer humour there; is this thing on?) The BitTorrent site, which has made a career out of thumbing its nose at just about every [...]
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A ruling has come down in the case of the record industry vs. Jammie Thomas — the single mom who took her file-sharing case to court rather than settle, as virtually every other person sued by the RIAA has done — and a jury ruled that she has to pay $222,000 for 24 songs that [...]
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NewTeeVee has a post about Pando, a large-file sharing application that is branching out into offering video streaming — something that makes perfect sense to me. If you’re already hosting files that people are sending through your servers because they are too big to email (David Pogue just wrote about discovering Pando in the New [...]
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