Late last week the verdict was announced in the most closely watched P2P related legal skirmish to date, the Swedish trial of the four administrators of The Pirate Bay. All of the defendants were found guilty of “assisting in making copyright content available” and received 1-year jail sentences and a fine totaling over $3.5m.
In the aftermath of the decision, many folks are speculating that Google might be an entertainment industry target of opportunity because the most widely used search engine provides the ability to locate copyrighted content owned by the music and movie studio. Is this really a possibility?
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Over this weekend CNN was running one of their “Quick Vote” polls and the question was, “Do you use Twitter?” The overwhelming majority of respondents, approximately 94%, answered either “No” or “What’s Twitter?” compared to the meager 6% who stated they do use the micro-blogging service. The CNN audience reflects the average user, most of whom have no clue what the service is all about. So this begs the question, what benefits can the average user appreciate from using Twitter?
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While the rest trudge through Following and being Followed on Twitter, Ashton Kutcher rolled out a full-on Tweet assault and became the first Twitterer ever to rack up 1 million Followers.
Kutcher attained his coveted Twitter status just a few thousand Followers ahead of runner-up @CNNBrk who [even with Larry King] couldn’t rally the Twitter world to a million in time.
Did Kutcher (known as @aplusk on Twitter) pull off a rerun of President Obama’s grassroots campaign?
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This has been an exciting few weeks for us camera lovers. On March 25th Canon announced the 15.1 Megapixel Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i. Yesterday, Nikon took the wraps off the D5000, which has many of the same features as Nikon’s very successful D90 and adds an articulating 2.7 inch LCD screen. Both of these cameras offer excellent image quality, high ISO performance, and the ability to shoot high definition video. The best part, both of these cameras are under $900 with a kit lens!
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BitTorrent is a powerful peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for downloading large-sized files from a variety of sources very quickly. One of the most popular uses for BitTorrent these days is for downloading TV shows. With so many people connecting their computers directly to a TV for the sole purpose of watching TV shows and movies, it quite practical to use an automated TV downloading workflow. The TechMiso Crew will teach you how to use uTorrent on Windows as a “digital video recorder” of sorts to automagically download TV shows as they are released online.
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In the land of lawless content aggregators — where it appears legal to abscond with web news and repackage it as your own — endgame may have come for these internet outlaws. They may be singing their final songs.
Associated Press decided to stand its ground and is ready to set industry precedence [again] for the second time in three years. AP Chairman Dean Singleton said in an AP news release,
We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories.
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WordCamp Japan 2009 was held this past Sunday in Tokyo, Japan and the TechMiso Crew was there to enjoy the festivities, hoping to become more educated on the excitement the platform has to offer. The crew attended the conference portion of the WordCamp event and here are our thoughts on how things went from the perspective of an audience member.
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One of the online rages these days is aggregating web-based social interactions in to a single entity known as a lifestream. There are a number of methods for facilitating lifestreaming – services like FriendFeed are designed to aggregate content from around the web and keep users on their site, to micro-blogging services like Tumblr which offer a mix of a service provided solution with customization, to self-hosted lifestream blogs offering complete. In this article the TechMiso Chefs show you five ways to self-host your own lifestream.
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Although the current generation of Internet users may not believe it, email has not always been web-based like it is today. Desktop email clients used to be the only method for accessing email. One of the more popular free email clients from back in the day was Mozilla’s Mail and News. After Firefox was spun off of Mozilla, the Mail and News app followed suit and Thunderbird was born. Given the widespread use of web-based email these days, are desktop email clients a dying breed?
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