Aston Kutcher Film Premier Cammed… by Kutcher
13 minutes of new film Killers was broadcast on the Internet during it’s premier. It’s no ordinary case of camming though, as the person responsible, the films star Aston Kutcher, is the one behind it.
Archive for the ‘Media Distribution’ Category
Blockbuster Goes Bust In Portugal, Blames Internet/Piracy
The famous chain renting out DVD, Blu-ray, and video games discs worldwide has announced it has gone bust in Portugal. Of course, it blames piracy.
Warner Music Dumps Spotify and All Streaming Services
Successful streaming services like Spotify are set to be dumped by Warner Music since they are “clearly not positive for the industry”.
Music Pirates Aren’t Going To Love MusicDNA
MusicDNA, the new music format being touted to take over from the humble MP3, is being promoted by the creators as a possible solution to piracy. But it doesn’t seem likely that music pirates will fall over themselves to adopt this new filetype.
What Happened to the Old Torrentspy Community?
We have all heard of Digg, Reddit, and Twitter. Recently, however, Freakbits has discovered a different type of social news website. And this one is ran by pirates for pirates.
Will Movie Streaming Destroy Piracy?
The Washington Post is reporting that a new study done by Global Web Index, a London based internet research organization, suggests the end of piracy is nigh. Streaming sites, they say, have taken over and could possibly become the nail in the coffin for illegal downloads.
MediaFire Asks Mozilla to Ban SkipScreen
In an attempt to prevent its users from bypassing the download delay, filehoster Mediafire has sent a takedown request to Mozilla for the SkipScreen addon that does just this.
Zoink.it Opens a Torrent Storage Cache
A few weeks ago Torrage, the world’s first torrent hosting service, opened up its source code to the public. With this code everyone can easily start a torrent hosting service to offer the BitTorrent community a little more redundancy, and Zoink.it is one of the first to do so.
Search Rapidshare with Rapidshare.net
All around the internet, webmasters have blogs and forums showing rapidshare.com links for their downloads. However, unlike BitTorrent Rapidshare doesn’t have an official file index. That’s where Rapidshare.net comes in.
Interview With a BitTorrent Embracing Record Label
Beep! Beep! Back up the Truck is a Dutch record label that offers torrent downloads of their entire catalog of music for free under a Creative Commons license. Freakbits had a chance to talk to the label’s co-founder to find out why.
Aion Distributes Open Beta Client With BitTorrent
Last week we reported that Entropia Universe would start using BitTorrent for distribution. Now ‘Aion’ – another MMORPG – is getting in a BitTorrent state of mind with its open beta client.
Create Your Own Torrent Storage Cache
Torrage, the world’s first torrent hosting service has opened up its source code to the public. Now everyone can easily start a torrent hosting service to offer the BitTorrent community a little more redundancy.
Pirate Bay Downtime Boosts PublicBT Tracker
Earlier today The Pirate Bay was taken offline by Swedish authorities. As a result many BitTorrent fans were forced to get their BitTorrent fix on other sites and through other trackers, resulting in huge traffic spikes for these alternatives.
The Content Bay Launches
A new site has launched which allows movie producers to upload their movies for distribution to customers. Called The Content Bay (no prizes for guessing the inspiration behind that) the site allows movie creators to set not only their own selling price for their products but also which territories their movie can be sold in, [...]
