Remember Kazaa? For early twenty-somethings it was “the” way to get music in the late, late 90′s and early 2000′s. The past several years, however, have seen the service (as well as many other similar ones) completely redone or closed entirely. Kazaa looked like it would face the same dead end fate. But the company is back with a new subscription service and iOS app… For $10/month users can now stream an unlimited amount of songs from...
The Pirate Bay may hold a special place in your heart and a thorn in content owners’ sides, but love it or hate it a new service is being born from the same mind. The site is called “BayFiles” and is partially founded by Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij. Different from The Pirate Bay, however, is that BayFiles” will allow users to anonymously upload files for public sharing with a few anti-piracy measures. First and foremost, BayFiles does not...
The long-running battle between once popular P2P file sharing service Limewire and various music labels is finally over. Just one short week after the end of the official trial, the second trial to determine damages has ended with a settlement of $105 million USD reached. While said amount may sound like a lot of money (because it is), it pales in comparison to the $150,000/song major music labels had voiced before, totaling trillions in damages. Thankfully common sense...
In news that should make every music label and movie publishing company ecstatic, BitTorrent announced today via an official press release that they have now climbed above 100 million active monthly users spanning across 220 countries. If we drill down to the daily level, it works out to roughly 20 million users swapping some 400,000+ files — impressive numbers indeed. Everything from desktops to rooted Android phones are sucking down torrents at increasing rates....
Internet phone services such as Skype are about to have a much harder time operating within China’s borders, if at all. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that “We are carrying out with relevant authorities a campaign to crack down on illegal Voice over Internet Protocol phone services” — In this case, “illegal” means any service that is not state-owned and under the direct control of the Chinese...
