Category The Internet

BitTorrent Pirates Spend More on Movies

…a study that finds BitTorrent users actually spend more money on movies than the general Internet population… (ArsTechnica)
I always knew there was something suspicious about the free loading, I-don’t-fucking-wanna-know-about-your-blockbuster, culture hating non-movie goers.

Caught on Camera

“+100 geek points” – Alex Kent.
Had no idea they caught me on their wheeling cameras but they did. Pretty cool. I’m the only person I know on there. It really puts those privacy issues on to another level when it’s you. It’s the same with a lot of other things. We know that the ‘information [...]

ISPs Don’t Like the iPlayer

Briefly,
Recently, many ISPs in the UK have been complaining that the – maybe surprisingly large – success of iPlayer is putting strain on their networks. Now they want a slice of the TV license fee payed by the UK households.
This is ridiculous.
BBC already pays a considerable amount of money to feed their programming into the [...]

Traffic Shaping

I’m just downloading Ubuntu, don’t ask me why, maybe I just want to have a game of minesweeper. Preferred method for obtaining it is obviously downloading using BitTorrent. I’m actually a bit surprised that they don’t make a bigger deal of using .torrents. Then again, they must have a few universities up their sleeve where [...]

Jaiku Sells To Google

Congratulations to Jyri and Petteri for being bought! It’s good to sell out.
–kristian