links for 2008-03-04
by Martin Belam, 4 March 2008
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"Nine Inch Nails has just released the first volume of their new album “Ghosts” on BitTorrent sites as a free download. The band encourages its fans to share the album with friends, post it on websites and play it on podcasts".
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Not convinced I'll use it, but a very, very nifty piece of work.
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"ASUS wouldn't let us turn it on since it's all so very secret at the moment, but they did confirm the 9-inch Eee will hit in the 'middle' of 2008, with that €399 pricetag for the 12GB version". Looking good, although I love the 7" version already.
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"A patent application from Yahoo provides a long list of factors that it might look at to determine how usable a web page might be".
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"Didn't you get the memo? Email spam is out, and the latest trend (for spammers) is to spam/scam people through Google Calender".
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File under P for Patronising. "Don't foreigners do the darndest things with their alphabet..."
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"Copyright-free"? Surely they mean DRM free?
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Not convinced 0 to 20% in two years is slow myself. More interestingly, the report claimed "70 per cent of respondents said they would stop downloading illegally if they received a cease and desist order from their ISP".
It's great that NiN have pushed forward with a torrent-based album, it's one step on from Radiohead's In Rainbows. However, although officially only vol 1 is available (9 of 36 tracks, I believe), when one searches for "NiN Ghosts" torrents for the whole collection show up. How is a naive user to know, which to choose?
Regardless, it demonstrates that gov plans to ban torrent sites at the ISP level will never work because there *are* lots of legit uses for torrents.
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