Today’s Links (Piracy is Good?)

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[theory.isthereason] Mindjack writes a feature-length article on "How Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TV", essentially about how internet based "hyperdistribution" of TV episodes changes the dynamics of the audience being passive to active seekers/purverors of media. Keywords: networks, p2p, social, torrents, trends, video

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Natek.typepad.com] Nate Koechley's Blog: HOWTO's and Tutorials: Description and notes: "BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc". I more or less accidentally downloaded this one after desiring more features and a more comfortable look-n-feel that the original BitTorrent Client (by Bram Cohen, above)

[Natek.typepad.com] Nate Koechley's Blog: References: Description and notes: "BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc". I more or less accidentally downloaded this one after desiring more features and a more comfortable look-n-feel that the original BitTorrent Client (by Bram Cohen, above)

[Natek.typepad.com] Nate Koechley's Blog: Blogging, RSS: And so, what blogging and these notifications are about is that you make it very easy to write something that you can think of, like an e-mail, but it goes up onto a Web site. And then people who care about that get a little notification. And so, for example, if you care about dozens of people whenever they write about a certain topic, you can have that notification come into your Inbox and it will be in a different folder and so only when you're interested in browsing about that topic do you go in and follow those, and it doesn't interfere with your normal Inbox.

[Natek.typepad.com] Nate Koechley's Blog: Browsers: Description and notes: "BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc". I more or less accidentally downloaded this one after desiring more features and a more comfortable look-n-feel that the original BitTorrent Client (by Bram Cohen, above)

[Skytg24.blogs.com] SKY TG24 Pianeta Internet: Citizen Journalism: MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program ”” for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information.  You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your MP3 collections

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Wifi, Wireless Networking News

Posted at May 27, 2005 12:16 PM