9 posts and columns on torrent

Convenient Directory of Least-Private Facebook Members Now Available

in Social on July 28, 2010 at 10:40 am PT

Facebook users may have control over how their information is shared, but they don’t always get to decide where and in what form that information is shared unless they proactively choose to. Case in point: The torrent of account details for more than 100 million Facebook users that surfaced today.

Google Buzz Makes Gmail Less Socially Awkward

in Mobile on February 9, 2010 at 10:27 am PT

Can a microblogging twist on Gmail raise Google’s profile in social networking? We’ll soon find out. At an event at company headquarters today, Google announced Google Buzz, a new Twitter-style status update system for the email service that will allow users to share their everyday mundanities and inanities and follow those of selected contacts.

Twitter Discloses User Password Theft Scheme Via Torrent Sites

in News on February 3, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

Twitter said it has identified a scheme to try to steal user account names and passwords and is asking some users to update their passwords as a result. The micro-blogging service disclosed in a notice to developers late Tuesday that an unidentified person had been creating so-called “torrent” sites and forums for “a number of years” with the sole purpose of getting users to input user names and passwords the person could use to gain access to Twitter accounts.

Is The Pirate Bay Really Going Legit? Of Course Not.

in Media on June 30, 2009 at 6:32 am PT

You can hear the head-scratching going on at movie studios and music labels across the world: What just happened to The Pirate Bay? Reports out of Sweden are murky at best. But supposedly, a Scandinavian software outfit is buying the world’s most notorious file-sharing site for about $8 million and will create a service that pays copyright owners when people download their work. But let’s be honest: That’s never going to happen.
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TorrentSpy Takes a Dirt Nap

in News on March 27, 2008 at 11:42 am PT

If the Motion Picture Association of America is so intent on shuttering BitTorrent trackers, perhaps it should set its sites on the really big offenders, like say … Google. It’s going to have to sooner or later, because some day there won’t be any smaller operations left for it to sue.

This Is an Ex-DVD Format

in News on February 19, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

No Contracts. No Hidden Fees. No Gotchas! … No Company, Either.

in News on July 17, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

I Smell the Work of Lord Voldem … I Mean 'He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named'

in News on July 17, 2007 at 6:08 am PT

When the manuscript of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”– the seventh and final novel in the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling–was carried by hand from London to New York, the attorney for Scholastic, the book’s American publisher, sat on it throughout the flight. When it was bound and printed, the factory workers who [...]

I Smell the Work of Lord Voldem … I Mean ‘He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named’

in News on July 17, 2007 at 6:08 am PT

When the manuscript of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”– the seventh and final novel in the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling–was carried by hand from London to New York, the attorney for Scholastic, the book’s American publisher, sat on it throughout the flight. When it was bound and printed, the factory workers who [...]