Posts Tagged with ‘BitTorrent’

Azureus, the company behind the popular BitTorrent client of the same name, has today unveiled that their hi-def online video service known as Vuze will open up to independent video and film producers.
The main difference between Vuze and some of the existing competition (Joost, Babelgum, VeohTV) is that this one is based on the BitTorrent protocol, which can be bad news or good news because download speeds depend on how many users are sharing and downloading the content that you [...]

When NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker took time Wednesday to stand atop his company’s soapbox, he said something quite true: that copyright owners are in fact “losing the battle” against the world’s digital pirates.
What he failed to follow his statement up with, however, is that it’s really no use fighting the copyright violators (which, I might add, he said most certainly should be done, and perhaps exponentially more forcefully), and that it’d be far more effective and financially beneficial for [...]

Exactly two months ago we brought you word of the debut of an ultra-simple Web-based utility of the peer-to-peer milieu, called BitLet. Today, we send you notice of its ongoing evolution.
Whereas prior to this moment one could only use the BitTorrent utility to download files from the Web, BitLet now offers the option to upload data to “the cloud” with little or no trouble just the same. One must only click BitLet’s ‘Upload’ button located at the top [...]

By now you’ve likely all heard of the MediaDefender-MiiVi debacle. It has to do with MiiVi, a site once thought to be one of your average peer-to-peer channels, home to both legal and illicit linking, but recently discovered to be a front run by MediaDefender, an “establishment” now known to be operated under the auspices of Big Media. Knowing this, you’ve likely now judged those in their respective ivory towers as no-good [expletive], whose underhanded (and possibly illegal, if one [...]

Big business is not a big fan of the BitTorrent protocol and its growth. BitTorrent essentially builds upon the P2P architecture but blurs legal lines even more, which has led to bandwidth limitations by ISPs, and legal action (PDF) from the MPAA.
With that said, it should come as no surprise that TorrentSpy, a popular torrent search directory, has now begun to block all searches originating from within the United States.
The service was named in the February 2006 lawsuit by [...]

So, you’re trying your hardest to maintain a Web-app-only lifestyle, huh? Using an online office suite to get work done? Working with a Net-based photo editing solution for…you know…photo editing? You might even be so die-hard in your remotely-hosted ways that you’ve even decided to snub something so simple as a local IM client for a browser-based parallel, like Meebo. How incredibly stubborn clever of you.
Well, you’ll be happy to know that there’s one more critical genre of the application [...]

Slow peer-to-peer transfers can be brutal. The progress bar in your desktop client of choice is creeping along at 10kb/sec and you’re just sitting there wondering what’s wrong. Is it a problem on your end that’s preventing you from flying through the process? Or is it something completely out of your control?
It could be configuration issue with [insert name of P2P utility here]. Perhaps a conflict with a firewall or a discrepancy made between a terminal and a router. But [...]

Prior to February 26th, 2007, BitTorrent only said it was going to turn legal – at least its in-house operations. Monday, however, marked the first day in its existence that it actually did so; that it would play it straight with the movie industry, the television industry, the music industry, and even the PC game industry. And what d’ya know, it’s already off to a crappy start.
Pardon. Bad start.
Why did I feel it was imperative to hit on [...]

We received an invitation to check out the new features at Veoh, so let's see what is up at the popular video community.In case you don't know, Veoh is a unique community for distributing TV and video content. The Veoh player software enables users to distribute full screen TV quality video via broadband connection to sites around the world. Anyone from major movie studios to desktop PC users can broadcast their video over this secure platform.
According to out newest information, Veoh [...]