Archive for April, 2008
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At least for the time being, the RIAA’s Boston University subpoena has been quashed until the judge in question can examine the university’s terms of service for student internet access. This is another in a [...]
April 19th, 2008 | Posted in Business, File Sharing, Financial, Internet, Misc, Movies, Music, Opinion, news | Comments Off
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I just saw a bit of cool news. There’s plans in the works for a new “big budget, big screen” production of Dune. I especially like the fact that they’re looking for screenwriters to create a “faithful adaptation” of Dune. It means that there’s a least a [...]
April 18th, 2008 | Posted in Movies, Opinion, news | Comments Off
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All too aware of the coming shutdown of analog tv signals I’ve been doing a lot of the same things that many others have done… checking my options. Our current tv is just old enough to have an analog receiver, which means that it’s one of the millions of sets [...]
April 9th, 2008 | Posted in Electronics, Hardware, Misc, Opinion, Tech | 1 Comment
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Lots of things I suppose but primarily it’s the way you recognize something. However, that gets difficult when you’ve got two of something that have the same name.
In my case, I’ve got two blogs named “Dilithium Crystalworks“. The situation came about some time ago when I bought a domain, [...]
April 8th, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, Internet, Misc, Websites, blogs | Comments Off
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Tanya Anderson, originally sued for copyright infringement by the RIAA in 2005 and has since been fighting back, has filed an amended complaint against the RIAA. This case is getting more interesting as it continues. The latest move is no doubt going to have the RIAA and their lawyers [...]
April 6th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, File Sharing, Financial, Internet, Misc, Movies, Music, Networking, Opinion, freenet, news | Comments Off
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Seems it wasn’t all that long ago when Comcast was caught deliberately spoofing reset signals to both clients and servers in the BitTorrent network, thus stopping transfers in progress.
Then there was a lot of noise made about it and unless I’m seriously mistaken, the folks over at BitTorrent started working on [...]
April 5th, 2008 | Posted in Business, File Sharing, Internet, Movies, Music, Networking, Opinion, news, software | Comments Off