New LimeWire Music Service

June 30, 2010 by · Comments Off
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It may have lawsuits piling up against it, but P2P file-sharing firm LimeWire is still hoping to re-launch later this year with a brand-new music service.

LimeWire hopes to release the new, legal, service in “late 2010″ in what is described as a “post-lawsuit relaunch”. The new subscription-based service will incorporate both downloading and streaming and will be accessible from a range of platforms and devices including mobile, desktop and web-based clients.

Cloud-based storage will feature heavily, as will iTunes integration; users will reportedly be able to sync their iTunes library to the LimeWire cloud as well as sync newly-downloaded tracks back to iTunes and portable music devices.

According to a Digital Music News article, an unnamed LimeWire exec said:

Users will have complete and instant access to their entire library and catalog across their desktop, devices, and in the cloud … By syncing iTunes playlists and content to the cloud, users’ existing libraries are available to access and stream to a wide range of connected devices.

Before such a service could launch, LimeWire must first resolve its legal woes. With some in the music industry claiming that LimeWire could be liable for up to $1 billion, this might prove to be a tall order for the company.

However, LimeWire seem confident that a settlement can be reached that would allow the company to transition to provisioning a new, legal service. Despite the lawsuits, the company claims that music industry executives are enthusiastic about the planned new service.

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Contribute with the File-Sharing Survey

June 30, 2010 by · Comments Off
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An important part of the file-sharing and copyright law debate is making the opinions and attitudes of those they effect known so that lawmakers can legislate in a more holistic fashion.

Too often only copyright holders have their ear and we see this manifested in the form of draconian laws like the UK’s Digital Britain Act.

An undergraduate of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, is conducting the research on the attitudes of illegal file-sharing, the biggest part of which, he says, is a survey that he’s asking file-sharers to take.

“The purpose of the research is to discover whether there are differences in attitudes and status between the general population and those with a stake in the copyright law debate, as well as between those on different sides of that debate, other than the disagreement itself,” says the initiator.

The responses are completely anonymous lest anybody be concerned with being too honest about otherwise questionable behaviors.

Take the survey here!

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International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing

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The Fifth International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing will take place from 4 to 6 November 2010 in Fukuoka, Japan.

Peer to peer (P2P), grid, cloud and internet computing technologies have seen increased attention in the past few years. They have emerged as new ways of solving complex problems by enabling large-scale aggregation and sharing of computational, data and other geographically distributed computational resources.

Continuous research and development are making possible the development of large scale applications in many fields of science and engineering.

The aim of this conference is to present innovative research results, methods and development techniques from both theoretical and practical perspectives related to P2P, grid, cloud and internet computing.

A number of workshops will take place at the conference, covering the following topics:

- securing information in distributed environments and ubiquitous systems,

- simulation and modelling of emergent computational systems,

- data management for information explosion in wireless networks,

- streaming media delivery and management systems,

- middleware in large-scale distributed systems,

- new frontiers in service-oriented computing,

- business intelligence and distributed systems,

- multimedia, web and virtual reality technologies and applications – emerging data technologies for collective intelligence.

For further information on registration, please visit: http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~net4all/3PGCIC-2010/workshops.html

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Top 10 Most Downloaded Movies via BitTorrent

June 22, 2010 by · Comments Off
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TorrentFreak has published the data they collected with the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent for the week ended June 20. All the films included in this chart are DVDrips (unless mentioned otherwise).

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘Green Zone’ tops the chart this week followed by ‘The A-Team’. ‘She’s Out of My League’ completes the top three.

This week there are only two newcomers in the top 10. Green Zone is the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent for the second week in a row.

Rank Last week Movie Rating/Trailer
1 (1) Green Zone 7.2 / trailer
2 (4) The A-Team (TS) 7.5 / trailer
3 (2) She’s Out of My League 6.7 / trailer
4 (.3) Hot Tub Time Machine (R5) 7.2 / trailer
5 (…) Toy Story 3 (CAM) 9.4 / trailer
6 (…) The Bounty Hunter 5.1 / trailer
7 (6) The Book of Eli 7.0 / trailer
8 (9) Kick-Ass (R5) 8.3 / trailer
9 (8) The Wolfman 6.2 / trailer
10 (7) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time(TS) 6.9 / trailer

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Hello, Transmission 2.0!

June 22, 2010 by · Comments Off
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The most used non-commercial BitTorrent client, Transmission, has reached version 2.0. This is a community driven aplication that is installed on millions of computers arround the world is now smarter and faster than before announces its developer Charles Kerr.

Nearly five years ago was the first Transmission public release, gathering a steady user-base of millions of users.

The default BitTorrent client of various Linux distros like Ubuntu and Fedora is Transmission, allso being one of the most-used Mac BitTorrent clients.

This week Transmission, often praised by its users for being full-featured but lightweight, reached version 2.0.

TorrentFreak spoke with Transmission developer Charles Kerr who walked us through some of the most notable improvements in the latest Transmission release.

“Transmission 2.0′s code is faster and smarter,” Charles Kerr said. “We’ve profiled the code for CPU bottlenecks and removed them. Startup, peer management, blocklists, and verifying local data are all faster. Transmission 2.0 is also smarter about detecting and handling network lag.”

“For 24/7 remote seedboxes, headless systems, and embedded systems, we’ve made Transmission-daemon easier to build, added hooks for scripting, and shrunk the memory footprint. Transmission-daemon has one of the smallest footprints — if not the smallest — of any BitTorrent client.”

Transmission is a community developed BitTorrent, unlike unlike bigger clients such as uTorrent, Vuze and BitComet.

Charles told TorrentFreak that this also comes with a downside, because future development relies on its community of volunteers.

“It means development happens only when volunteers are available,” he said. “For example, if any of your readers are Windows or ExtJS programmers who want to work on the Windows or Web clients, the Transmission team would like to hear from them.”

Indeed, you’re reading it right, a native Windows application is a serious option if there are skilled volunteers available. For now, however, Transmission’s expansion possibilities are limited to the other platforms while it has to settle for the title of the most-used BitTorrent client without a Windows version.

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