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net neutrality

Will Your ISP F You In the A? Bandwidth Hogs Beware

As the amount of bandwidth we devour has skyrocketed, so has ISPs' need to police our appetites, even as they offer more bandwidth to whet it. We talked to the biggest ISPs around to get their official positions on traffic management and content filtering to see what's in store for your pipes. Here's where you find out which ISPs may screw you, and which ones swear to Giz they won't. Update: We've got new responses from AT&T and Speakeasy. More »

Feature

12:45 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By matt buchanan
35,630 views, 70 comments

Latest by n/a: Stuff like this is why digital distribution becoming the primary media delivery means is still a long time away. more »

software

iPhone's First Native P2P Torrent App is Up and Running

Core, an iPhone Hacker with mad hacking skills, has managed to port to the iPhone a functioning P2P client based on Transmission, which is a popular torrent app for Macs. This is the first time P2P torrent software has run natively on the iPhone, and the prospect has us in tizzy fits of excitement. More »

7:40 PM on Sun Mar 2 2008
By Haroon Malik
22,423 views, 22 comments

microsoft

Vista SP1 Leaked to BitTorrent

Time to fire up uTorrent, Vista pirates users, the RTM version of SP1 has been leaked to the Pirate Bay and other major torrent trackers. The torrent appears to be a complete Vista install, not just an upgrade, so be careful and back up your files before you proceed—or else, wait until mid-March when it's a free system upgrade. Let us know how it goes. [PC World]

11:31 AM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By Benny Goldman
8,710 views, 43 comments

p2p

CarTorrent: Yes, Exactly What It Sounds Like

Most of us have heard about the P2P filesharing network BitTorrent, so when we present the term CarTorrent, you probably already grasp the concept. A UCLA project with big partners like BMW and Toyota, cars communicate through 5.9GHz wireless LAN over ranges of 100-300 meters. During its first implementation—currently project for 2012—the system will communicate navigation info (road/traffic conditions), various media (ads and attractions) and surveillance (data from car cameras, etc for police to comb through later). More »

2:04 PM on Sun Jan 20 2008
By Mark Wilson
7,540 views, 35 comments

Latest by LookitsJ: FYI....I won't ever buy a car with *On-star*, or anything else like it. Why? You are placing a "bug" in the car. The authorities can use that as a wire-tap....all they need to get is a search more »

yarrr

The Pirate Bay Developing New P2P Protocol to Replace BitTorrent

The Pirate Bay's pretty busy these days, reviving dead sites and whatnot, but their latest scheme is even bigger: They're working on an entirely new P2P protocol designed to replace BitTorrent, since BitTorrent Inc. is no longer making additions to the source code entirely open, which TPB believes grants them too much influence. The new extension, .p2p, will be backward-compatible with .torrent, and designed from the start to limit the effectiveness of spammers and anti-piracy organizations (no word on how, exactly). On the flip side of the coin, The Pirate Bay's clout isn't exactly insignificant anymore, and spearheading development of a new protocol it intends to rule the P2P roost is only going to grant it more sway if it takes off. [TorrentFreak]

6:00 PM on Tue Oct 30 2007
By Matt Buchanan
6,337 views, 19 comments

Latest by ideaman2020: @Rususeruru: "It is a bad business practice to bankrupt or have your users jailed/harassed." And yet, that seems to be the RIAA's business model... more »

coming soon to a torrent tracker near you

"Fat Guy Stuck in the Internet" Not Based on Your Life, Surprisingly


A new Adult Swim show entitled "Fat Guy Stuck on the Internet" is coming, and you should be excited about it. Featuring actual actors in front of a green screen, it's a step away from the standard, you know, animated fare on Cartoon Network's stoner block. However, the premise, that a "rock and roll computer programmer" gets stuck in the Internet, gets chased by a mustachioed bounty hunter named Chains, and completes a quest that references basically every sci-fi movie ever. More »

1:30 PM on Mon Apr 30 2007
By Adam Frucci
2,586 views, 17 comments

Latest by bbfreak: Ick, that was totally not funny. more »

bittorrent

BitTorrent Entertainment Network Emerges from Seedier Side of Intarwebs on Monday

The BitTorrent Entertainment Network we told you about a couple month ago launches tomorrow with "around 3,000 new and classic movies and thousands more television shows, as well as a thousand PC games and music videos." More »

5:16 PM on Sun Feb 25 2007
By Matt Buchanan
9,944 views, 21 comments

software

Vista Torrent Site Closed

We talked about VistaTorrent last week and lo and behold MS has shut it down. The owners of the site were understandably miffed. More »

1:48 PM on Mon Jun 19 2006
By johnb
1,058 views, 3 comments

software

Get Yourself Some Vista Beta

Because Microsoft won't Torrent, the Interweb will. Two Vista fans, Chris and Jake, are hosting a copy of Vista Beta. That doesn't mean you can just download it and run. You still need to get a product key and purchase Deep Thought, the planet-sized computer, in order to run its fancy new interface. More »

2:40 PM on Mon Jun 12 2006
By johnb
210 views, Comment

pcs

MacIntel Torrent is Spreading

I'm not about to download this after my previous Goatse experience, but according to a guy who knows a guy who told my friend who told me, there's a torrent out there called something like Apple.OS.X.x86.Developer.Kit.Install.DVD-phe*NIX. If you feel like searching for it, go ahead, but I'm not about to point you in the proper direction, you filthy, dirty pirate. More »

12:22 PM on Mon Aug 1 2005
By johnb
363 views