Category: P2P

  • Western Digital: audio/video police included

    Western Digital: audio/video police included

    What could be the use of network hard disk drive of one Tera-Byte which would strictly refuse to serve files because there may be a risk of breaching licensing agreement potentially applicable to them? This is the question that potential buyers should ask before purchasing the Western Digital disc drives using WD Anywhere Access: WD…

  • Missing codec? CodecInstaller

    Missing codec? CodecInstaller

    If you are downloading a large number of movie files form the Internet, you know that dreaded moment when your media player announces that it does not know what codec to use to read the file. You’ll get either no sound or no image or both. Here comes CodecInstaller.

  • UltraNewb: A beginner’s guide to BitTorrent

    “Despite the fact that BitTorrent has been around for a good 6 years now, the lightning fast file sharing protocol hasn’t completely taken off in the mainstream. Since we post a decent amount about BitTorrent around here, we figured it was just time we put out a beginner’s guide to BitTorrent. This is the guide…

  • News from the P2P front line

    It has been quite some time that I did not write about the P2P news. They start popping up everywhere and it is time to talk about the wonderful things happening right under our eyes. First, the Internet users start to find again -in Europe- some protection since a decision from the European Justice Court:…

  • All the Warner catalog for free

    And it does not even look illegal: Warner signed a partnership with imeem to share the adveertisment revenues from the web site when the North American users freely listen to the music freely available from the Warner catalog (including Madonna, Linkin Park, Green Day, Josh Groban, Faith Hill, My Chemical Romance, Big & Rich, John…

  • Watch TV online for free

    OK, I know that I don’t have TV because I don’t want to be continuously force-fed with mindless junk. However, plenty of people would like to be able to have their TV on the Internet. Up to now, you were mostly depending on your ISP and possibly some subscription additional to your basic broadband Internet…

  • Music without limits

    The recent news lead me to talk again about digital music and its cohabitation (or lack of) with network technology. As a matter of fact, we learn this week that our new French President is in favor of a strong action against pirated music and downloads. This is not very new, indeed, but the confirmation…

  • µTorrent in beta for Vista

    Popular torrent client µTorrent released a new public beta earlier today. The beta is an early build of µTorrent version 1.7 and the most significant new feature is full support for Windows Vista. Source: Wired.com.

  • Old Linksys WRT54G/GL/GS routers running any P2P app

    The following note does NOT apply to WRT54G/GS v5/v6/v7s! Use the latest official firmware (1.00.9+) with those; They do not suffer from this specific problem (though they do suffer from different problems). A little bit of information I collected from the uTorrent FAQ. The default firmware for Linksys (and all replacement firmwares except for the…