July 20, 2012
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The Darknet is something I deep into for research purposes and to get an idea of whats emerging… However I keep having to defend the innovation, expertise and pure genius of the darknet. I use darknet in lei of a … Continue reading
September 29, 2011
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Nice little paper written by Abigail DeKosnik of the University of California, Berkeley. Its also formed a part of my talk at BarCampMediaCity. One of the headings is the Advantages of Pirating TV and the subpoints are… Single Search Simple … Continue reading
July 10, 2011
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10 years of Bit Torrent I wrote in a recent twitter post, after reading Torrent freak on my kindle a while back… It feels like so much longer and I wonder if thats a sign of real disruption? It feels … Continue reading
April 9, 2009
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So finally its been revealed what I've been working on recently. R&D TV is a pilot project between BBC Backstage (which is part of BBC R&D) and BBC RAD Labs. The pilot is monthly technology programme made up of interviews … Continue reading
November 28, 2006
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From Torrent freak, which I've been meaning to blog for a while… The award winning Canadian documentary The Corporation has been released on BitTorrent for free. Filmmaker Mark Achbar just released an updated official torrent of it. Everyone is free … Continue reading
November 14, 2006
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In a long series of things which I've been meaning to blog for a while. I saw this on Torrent Freak. Singer/songwriter Jeff Tweedy is part of the growing group of artists that understands that there’s more to music than … Continue reading
September 27, 2006
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Torrent freak has done some digging and found that the Torrent sites are becoming even more popular. Mininova.org is still the most popular (no suprise there), Torrentspy is 2nd and The PirateBay is 3rd. The freak have also followed up … Continue reading
August 21, 2006
by ianforrester
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Quoting from Torrent Freak Steal this film is a series of documentaries about filesharing, and p2p networks. The first part is about the Piratebay, and their vision on the things that went down the end of May. Steal this film … Continue reading
March 6, 2006
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One of the best features of Bit Torrent and UK nova is when it pulls up gems from TV's past. Someone posted up the first season of Desmonds which is a classic Channel4 TV programme from the late 80's. Its … Continue reading
January 18, 2006
by ianforrester
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I just had a quick look at my audioscrobbler/last fm rss and noticed i'm listening to the same 3 tunes over and over again. Its not a mistake, its actually me loving these tunes which I stayed up to 2am … Continue reading
October 30, 2005
by ianforrester
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Thanks to a comment by Duncan in my kill TV post a while ago, I've now checked out Tape it off the internet.com. Although its not actually a web 2.0 application or social tool yet. Its got a lot of … Continue reading
September 21, 2005
by ianforrester
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To the person(s) who put prison break.season 1.ep 1 inside of the lost season 2.ep1 torrent today and yesterday. I was, (lets say it gently) slightly pissed off. This is the kind of thing you see on old school p2p … Continue reading