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Filesharing - your questions for FAST please!
Blog Further to our story about Lord Triesman and his threat of legislation against ISPs if they don't crack down on filesharing of copyrighted material, we've been contacted by the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST).
[October 25, 2007, 14:30]
Filesharing - your questions for FAST please!
Blog Comment Don't you agree that this is technically impractical with most filesharing programs fragmenting downloads from different sources and the volumes of data are potentially huge. There is also the problem of circumvention from Rot13, to transcoding to...
[October 25, 2007, 19:01]
Filesharing and bilesharing: a 'three-strikes' rant
Blog The UK Film Council and other luminaries of the creative industries have gone on the warpath about filesharing, calling for persistent sharers to be kicked off the internet. According to the BBC, the coalition "wants the government to force...
[May 12, 2009, 12:43]
BitTorrent - flooding the filesharing space
News The BitTorrent P2P filesharing protocol has been steadily picking up users since its release in 2003, but over the last six months it has really taken off - its creator Bram Cohen claims that BitTorrent accounts for a third of all Internet traffic.
[December 21, 2005, 10:00]
ISPs walk the filesharing wire
Blog First you get a Belgian court ruling that ISPs are responsible for the illegal filesharing taking place on their networks - a decision that, inevitably, is now being challenged - and then you get the European Court of Justice standing by you...
[July 23, 2007, 16:32]
Filesharing - your questions for FAST please!
Blog Comment With over 8 million players world wide downloading the latest patch from each other, this action could from an ISP perspective, be considered filesharing. I have 2, it's too late in the afternoon for me, so feel free to re-word them :)
[October 25, 2007, 15:18]
Filesharing and bilesharing: a 'three-strikes' rant
Blog Comment What a coincidence - France passed Hadopi today.
[May 12, 2009, 19:15]
Filesharing and bilesharing: a 'three-strikes' rant
Blog Comment @azonei Actually, I'm a big fan of Trent & NIN, and have been greatly enjoying his new music model (note: he put his music out for free/very little after Radiohead led the way, but unlike them he released it in full-quality FLAC format).
[May 13, 2009, 9:49]
Filesharing and bilesharing: a 'three-strikes' rant
Blog Comment Interesting read, David. I'm sure I read in your quoted article ( the Telecoms Act) that it would essentially outlaw the 'three-strikes' plans. Something about internet access being a human right.ah well, I'm sure if it all goes wrong the French...
[May 13, 2009, 18:05]
Filesharing and bilesharing: a 'three-strikes' rant
Blog Comment I expect the UK film council may be hoping for a result similar to that achieved by IRMA (The Irish Recorded Music Association) which forced Ireland's largest ISP, Eircom, into an out of court settlement under the terms of which, according to IRMA...
[May 13, 2009, 9:43]
Filesharing: four things to remember
Blog Comment Well, I never thought i'd see NIN mentioned on ZDNet :) per song, wish I knew how that figure was calculated perhaps Trent knows.
[October 5, 2007, 11:40]
Filesharing - your questions for FAST please!
Blog Comment I'd like to ask FAST to go away and do something worthwhile.
[October 28, 2007, 1:35]
Filesharing - your questions for FAST please!
Blog Comment Many thanks to you keen questioners. If you haven't already seen it, the interview can be read here.
[October 30, 2007, 15:09]
Filesharing: four things to remember
Blog Comment Hey, we always aim to represent the cutting edge interplay between tech and foulmouthed music icons. Don't forget our Chuck D piece from last year.
[October 5, 2007, 11:44]
Filesharing: four things to remember
Blog Some handy definitions: Theft (noun): the act of stealing; specifically: the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it. Share (verb): to partake of, use, experience, occupy, or enjoy with...
[October 5, 2007, 9:41]
ISP threat letters have 'positive effect', says Ofcom
Blog Sending letters to internet users suspected of filesharing is a successful way of cutting down on such activity, the head of Ofcom said on Thursday. The ISP must, of course, first be told by the rights holder that the user is suspected of filesharing.
[June 25, 2009, 14:48]
Torrent Searcher
Downloads Torrent Searcher 9.0 is a open source p2p/filesharing program where you can search and download on several of p2p networks. In Torrent Searcher it's possible to search on several of p2p/filesharing networks to improve your search and download...
[January 23, 2009, 8:17]
The BPI's grand waste of paper
Blog Now that I've written my straight news story on the BPI's imminent scare campaign against illegal filesharing, I thought I'd vent my spleen on the subject. Let's say that Be was a signatory, and another of the housemates downloaded or uploaded an...
[July 24, 2008, 16:43]
Radioactive assumptions in the Digital Economy Bill
Leader There are two major false assumptions behind the anti-filesharing components of the Digital Economy Bill that are like two barely sub-critical lumps of uranium. One is that filesharing is an economic disaster that deserves to be prevented by the...
[November 24, 2009, 15:30]
Piracy down, streaming up, internet 'broken'
Blog Illegal filesharing in the UK has fallen dramatically, according to media and technology researchers at Music Ally. The trend was particularly pronounced among 14-18-year-olds — at the earlier date, 42 percent were filesharing at least once a month...
[July 13, 2009, 11:26]
