Month: September 2007

The Pirate Bay Details Charges Against Media Companies

Paul

Last week, The Pirate Bay announced that it filed charges against against some of the key players in the entertainment industry for corrupting and sabotaging their BitTorrent tracker. We asked Brokep, one of The Pirate Bay founders to give us some more background information on this counterattack that will, once again, embarrass the e. industry.

http://torrentfreak.com/the-piratebay-details-charges-070926/

Oh Now this should get interesting, I wonder what the companies are going to say when they go to court? We are just protecting our assets? Yes you have Assets but DRM is hated more and more because of all this stuff!!

Amazon launches DRM-free “Amazon MP3” music downloads

Paul

If you’re into DRM-free music, you have a reason to get pretty excited today. As speculated, Amazon has launched the public beta of its new digital music portal called Amazon MP3, which will feature two million songs from 180,000 artists and 20,000 labels, all without the painful and annoying restrictions of DRM. The press release claims that the site, which will include EMI and Universal tracks (take that, Jobs), will make separate songs available for $.89 or $.99, and boasts that all of the “top 100” tracks will be priced at the former, lower amount. Albums will range in cost from $5.99 to $9.99, with the best selling albums coming in at $8.99. Of course, since there’s no DRM, users are free to throw the 256Kbps MP3s on any player they like, as well as burn CDs, copy to MiniDisc, and dump to 8-track.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/25/amazon-launches-drm-free-amazon-mp3-music-downloads/

Hmm, this could be a contender for ITUNES

MPAA Takes Down IsoHunt’s BitTorrent Trackers in the US

Paul

Starting today, the Isohunt team will deny access to all US visitors on their TorrentBox and Podtropolis tracker. They are forced to take this action because of their involvement in a lawsuit initiated by the MPAA.

http://www.digg.com/tech_news/MPAA_Takes_Down_IsoHunt_s_BitTorrent_Trackers_in_the_US

What the heck is this the day they try to shut down all these torrents? Stupid rabbit, torrents are for kids!!