Tag: TORRENT

According to their Twitter page, One Soul Thrust is a "groove-oriented purist rock band from Canada," with "a female singer who whispers and wails like an angel sighing sass in your ear." But One Soul Thrust aren't very well-known. They have fewer than 300 followers on Twitter, and their YouTube channel features a single video that's been viewed barely 300 times. Last week, though, their ...

Q: "Hey bro, you remember that song we used to jam to when we were chugging beers behind the Exxon? The one with the bass solo?" A: "Oh, you mean 'Orion'?" Q: "Yeah, dude! I wanted to hear it the other day when I was thinking about how Metallica got lame, and cut their hair, and started hating on Napster!" A: "Let me pirate that for you, hoss." ...

For the past twelve months, our world has been different. Those happy shires where unicorns once fluttered and roses once glittered have, sadly, fallen silent and sparkle-less. Those shining metropolises were known as the "Geocities," and, since their disappearance, their shimmering, spastic, cartoonish denizens have been forced into exile, left to fight for the little remaining space on tweens' ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Anyone remember the old Yippie adage, "Don't trust anyone over 30?" Well, Apple is pushing 35, and, according to some folks, it has officially sold out. Discussing the recent iPhone 4G-related home invasion of Gizmodo's Jason Chen, Jon Stewart scathingly lambasted the corporate behemoth, asking, "Remember back in 1984, you had ...

Video pirates, you now have digital genetics working against you. As if it weren't bothersome enough that Warner Bros. is hiring student interns to spy on their pirating peers, researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology have now begun developing a "video genome" database, which can be used to isolate the origins and subsequent mutations of digital video. Previous kinds of ...

Want to be hated by every kid in your dorm, forever and ever? Well, Warner Bros. is offering the internship of your dreams. For the not-unreasonable-for-an-undergrad sum of $26,000 per annum, the Bros. want "IT literate" interns to double-cross their crimethinking media pirate roomies by issuing takedown requests for WB and NBC/Universal properties. You're sure to be the apple of Big Brother's ...

No amount of marketing genius or label support has helped Fleet Foxes, says Robin Pecknold, lead singer of the indie-pop band. Instead, he thanks the Internet, which allowed thousands of fans to share 'Fleet Foxes,' the band's wildly critically acclaimed self-titled 2008 album. According to TorrentFreak, Pecknold admitted to the BBC, "I've downloaded hundreds and hundreds of records - why would I ...

Last week, the four founders of torrent site Pirate Bay got what they deserved, at least according to Sir Paul McCartney. Of the downloading pioneers' being found guilty of copyright violation in a Swedish court, the songwriter and former Beatle told the BBC's Newsbeat, "If you get on a bus you've got to pay. And I think it's fair, you should pay your ticket." The Pirate Bay, a Web site on ...

The latest 20th Century Fox, Marvel Comics movie, 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' has raced to the top of almost every most-downloaded list on the Web, even though it won't officially hit theaters until May 1st. A leaked, unfinished copy of the film appeared on the Net last week, and has already been downloaded over one million times from the site BitTorrent. The film occupies the most popular spot ...

Back in 2007, British rock band Radiohead made waves by releasing its latest album, 'In Rainbows,' for free online, giving customers the option to name any price they wanted to pay. This distribution experiment was a tremendous success (albeit a polarizing one), with many media commentators chalking much of the success up to the novelty of the idea. Regardless, it certainly made an impact, ...

The popular torrent search site YouTorrent, has announced that it is going legit, and is offering itself up for sale, after only four months of leading people to places they could get illegally copied movies, tv shows, and music on the Web (YouTorrent is a meta search engine that indexes other major torrent sites.) In the last four months, the site has become one of the most popular torrent ...

Since its inception in 2001, the BitTorrent method of file-sharing's high download speeds and near user anonymity has earned it the ire of record labels, movie studios and just about anyone else that owns any sort of intellectual property. But for the BitTorrent user, the need for a separate client program to connect with downloads (instead of a Web browser) had been in a pain in the ...