Posts Tagged with ‘bittorent’

While Google, primarily an Internet-based company, is busy adapting its ad model to traditional television, TV networks – and their advertisers - are moving gradually into Internet-based delivery channels. Something that would normally take at least a decade to come full-circle has had all dots connected in just a few months.
In the TV-via-the-Internet arena, there’s quite a bit brewing, and the peer-to-peer realm’s biggest player, BitTorrent, isn’t slowing in its quest to bring the advertisers into the picture. Where BitTorrent [...]

Torrents! They’re everywhere! Oh, the horror! Thousands upon thousands of terabytes of copyrighted content transferred by lawless college students bandits devouring ripped DVDs and music albums faster than they can ingest delivery pizza and beer. How does civilization survive?
We don’t know. Magic, maybe. What we do know is that not all the stuff happening as a result of Bram Cohen’s ingenuity is laden with the stamp of the RIAA, MPAA, or both. A relatively new blog on the Web, dubbed [...]

Apple marked February 6th with something many, many people have been waiting for for a long time. Since the dawn of the Age of iPod, the world has wondered whether the new technologies that would be developed down the road would wear peacenik garb or be the bread and butter in an era of restriction, effectively making consumers prisoners of a world their earned currency created. I make that sound like a nightmare, don’t I? But already happened. We’re living [...]