Sexy Jihad

Wired has a well written article on how The Pirate Bay is gaining notereity in Sweden and with international anti piracy organizations:
Last month, the Motion Picture Association of America announced one of its boldest sorties yet against online piracy: a barrage of seven federal lawsuits against some of the highest-profile BitTorrent sites, Usenet hosts […]

After quite a bit of negative feedback after a recent episode of Newsnight, the BBC has written a piece setting the record straight:
Now we’ve got that out the way, let us ask you a question. Why is it that every time the media starts to talk about the internet they feel compelled to bang on […]

The Guardian has an interesting piece on some dude getting fired after appearing on TV and giving his (pro) p2p views on a BBC program called Newsnight:
A software engineer and champion of peer-to-peer file sharing is planning legal action after being sacked for expressing his views on BBC’s Newsnight.
Alex Hanff, 31, was just a week […]

Bram Cohen (Bittorrent creator) has written a piece on his blog in which he publishes his thoughts to Microsofts supposed bittorrent replacement, Avalanche. As you can probably guess, he’s less than enthousiastic:
One thing badly missing from this paper is back-of-the-envelope calculations about all of the work necessary to implement error correction. Potential problems are on […]

Once again Microsoft shows that it can’t keep it’s fat grubby fingers off something good and pure:
Microsoft researchers in Cambridge, UK, are developing their own peer-to-peer file-sharing software.
Codenamed Avalanche, the program makes it easy to share content by dividing files such as software, audio or video, into chunks, much like BitTorrent.
Using “network coding”, it can […]

Just a small tidbit of news to note that BitTorrent no has an official search page, ala Towerseek.
Not earth shattering news, just handy to know

Some guy has posted a story on how lokitorrent was probably NOT shut down by the MPAA and that the owner just took the lawsuit donation money and ran. He makes some good points.
For those of you who have been living on the moon these past couple of months, the owner of Lokitorrent asked […]

Damn it, they got to LokiTorrent too. Damn them. Damn them all to hell!

It looks like suprnova is going to get a successor. The following was announced by Sloncek on irc.suprnova.org:
First, Exeem really isn’t an extension of Suprnova as the hype might have you believe: the connection between the two seems more marketing than anything else. Sloncek has been hired to promote their product as the heir apparent […]

Wired has written an interesting piece on Bram Cohen and his baby (for those who don’t know, it’s bittorrent). An excerpt:
“That was a bad move,” Bram Cohen tells me. We’re huddled over a table in his Bellevue, Washington, house playing a board game called Amazons. Cohen picked it up two weeks ago and has already […]