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| New Porn Group to Tackle Piracy |
| Published: July 20, 2007, 1:32 pm |
| Tags: Legal Issues, Articles, News, Adult Entertainment, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, File Sharing, Gapa, P2p, Piracy, Plagiarism, Porn |
| entertainment industry and file sharing. A Change in Tune On the GAPA site, the organization claims that various forms of piracy cost the adult entertainment industry over $2 billion per year in revenue. However, unlike the recording industry and the movie studios, the adult entertainment industry has been slow to step in. Though adult content |
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| In Brief: Previously-mentioned Firefox file-sharing ... |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 1:59 pm |
| Tags: Bittorrent, File Sharing, Firefox Extension |
| Previously-mentioned Firefox file-sharing extension AllPeers has added support for BitTorrent, allowing users to download BitTorrent files directly with Firefox. I still prefer uTorrent, but this is definitely a step in the right direction for AllPeers. |
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| How To: Control BitTorrent downloads from your mobile phone with uTorrent mUI |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Bittorrent, File Sharing, How To, P2p, Peer To Peer, Top, Utorrent, Windows |
| Web site uTorrent mUI (mini user interface, presumably) provides access to your uTorrent BitTorrent downloads through a mobile-optimized web interface. That means that if you're running uTorrent (currently Windows-only, but a Mac version is in the works) and you've installed the WebUI, all you need to do is point your mobile browser to |
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| Technophilia: Get productive with the best Facebook Apps |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: Amazon, Calendar, Del Icio Us, Digg, Document Sharing, Documents, Facebook, Feature, Feeds, File Sharing, File Storage, Files, Getting Things Done, Getting To Done, Google, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Gtd, Image Editing, Last Fm, Lists, Media, Media Player, Netflix, Photos |
| it's still pretty useful. Files/Storage Files gives you up to 1 GB of free online space from which to share any kind of file: text, audio, video, etc. (Requires a Box.net account.) Swap and share files with Divshare, up to 200 MB in size. Tracking Get the calendrial (new word, peeps) power of 30 Boxes in your Facebook with the superbly |
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| In Brief: Popular Windows BitTorrent client uTorrent ... |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 11:45 am |
| Tags: Bittorrent, File Sharing, P2p, Release |
| Popular Windows BitTorrent client uTorrent has relaunched as the rebranded BitTorrent 6.0, the official client of the BitTorrent, Inc. with a few tweaks to the backend. Meanwhile, you can still get uTorrent straight from their web site as the same old familiar uTorrent, so you can still use your favorite lightweight BitTorrent client to remotely |
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| File Sharing: Download BitTorrent files without a desktop client with BitLet |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 9:20 am |
| Tags: Bittorrent, File Sharing, P2p, Top, Webapps |
| BitLet the URL of a .torrent file and it downloads the file using its web-based BitTorrent client. Beyond that, BitLet is pretty simple: just paste the address of the .torrent file, click Download torrent, and select the directory you want to save the file to. If all works well, your download will begin. BitLet is certainly not a replacement for |
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| UltraNewb: A beginner's guide to BitTorrent |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: Bittorrent, Feature, File Sharing, How To, P2p, Peer To Peer, Top, Ultranewb |
| is that it distributes the sharing of files across all users who have downloaded or are in the process of downloading a file. Because BitTorrent breaks up and distributes files in hundreds of small chunks, you don't even need to have downloaded the whole file before you start sharing. As soon as you have even a piece of the file, you can start |
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| P2P: File sharing for college students |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 10:30 am |
| Tags: Bittorrent, College, File Sharing, P2p, Students |
| visions of downloading huge files over a high-speed network right from your dorm room dancing in your head. Wired runs down file-sharing options for college students, including BitTorrent, Direct Connect and one click hosting services. But freshman, beware: institutions of higher education are right in the copyright police's crosshairs, so |
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| Hack Attack: Intermediate guide to BitTorrent |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: Bittorrent, Feature, File Sharing, Hack Attack, How To, P2p, Peer To Peer, Top |
| can set a goal ratio for a file you're sharing, then set how much bandwidth uTorrent will allocate to the torrent once that goal is reached (in the screenshot, for example, uTorrent will stop sharing the file after it's share ratio reaches 110%). Protect your file sharing privacy with PeerGuardian2 PeerGuardian2 is an IP-blocking application |
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| How To: Organize your BitTorrent downloads with uTorrent |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: Bittorrent, File Sharing, How To, Organization, P2p, Peer To Peer, Top |
| Downloading files using BitTorrent can get messy if you aren't diligent about organizing your downloads. Luckily uTorrent has a few advanced features, like download labeling, that can help keep your downloads perfectly organized with very little work on your part, and weblog TorrentFreak explains how. Not yet hip to that crazy BitTorrent? Our |
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| It All Comes Together: The getting good with BitTorrent roundup |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 8:00 pm |
| Tags: Bittorrent, File Sharing, It All Comes Together, P2p, Peer To Peer |
| videos and other large files."Intermediate guide to BitTorrent"I'll show your how to set advanced bandwidth allocation, ensure a good share ratio, and guard your computer against anti-BitTorrent nasties that want to spy on your downloads."Tips for speeding up your torrents"The[se] tips should help speed up your BitTorrent downloads if |
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| Web Publishing: Permalink office documents with Zoho Viewer |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 10:30 am |
| Tags: File Sharing, Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Top, Web As Desktop, Web Publishing |
| Document and other rich text file formats, like .rtf's and PDF files; plus, it tracks how many times the document's been viewed online. Here's what an uploaded spreadsheet, PowerPoint presentation and PDF Zoho Viewer file looks like. No more Gmailing yourself entire files for viewing on the go necessary! Zoho Viewer |
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| Linux 101: Mount a Windows shared folder in Linux |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 9:00 am |
| Tags: File Sharing, Home Network, How To, Linux, Linux 101, Networking, Top, Windows Vista, Windows Xp |
| read and write access to the files housed on a nearby Windows computer. If you've used Macs in the past, the process is practically identical. Set up sharing on your PC In Windows, choose the folder you want to share, right click on it and choose properties. In the Sharing tab, turn on sharing. Feel free to name your folder anything you want |
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| Today's kids "don't remember" how they learned to use the Internet |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 5:02 am |
| Tags: Bit Torrent, Bittorrent, Computers, Copyright, File Sharing, Filesharing, Internet, Technology, Torrent |
| downloading music and file-sharing. While the vast majority of the children surveyed seemed to understand the basics of copyright law (essentially, that downloading or sharing music and games for free is illegal), that knowledge didn't stop anyone from doing it. Their responses included "everyone is doing it, so I'll do it too," and "It is |
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| How To: Install uTorrent (and other Windows apps) on a Mac |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 8:00 pm |
| Tags: Bittorrent, File Sharing, How To, Mac Os X, Top, Utorrent, Windows |
| The popular BitTorrent application uTorrent may be Windows-only at the moment, but weblog Simplehelp has a step-by-step guide for installing uTorrent in OS X using freeware application Darwine (the Mac port of the Wine project). The guide walks through what's actually a very simple process, and when you're finished you should be able to use |
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