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Rumors of the coming Wi-Fi Direct are out and I’m sure it’s got the Bluetooth makers shaking in their boots.  With Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth may no longer be top dog. Just announced at a consortium, some of the biggest players in the tech field are coming together to form an… Continue Reading »

Illegal file sharing is down, and streaming is up, at least when it comes to teenagers.  According to new research, teens are changing their ways when it comes to piracy.  There has been a dramatic drop in the number of youth aged 14 to 18 who are illegally sharing music. … Continue Reading »

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!  Ye makers of The Pirate Bay are apparently not planning to go sailing into waters unknown even amidst all the current legal fiascos they are facing.  They are launching a new site called The Video Bay to be in competition with YouTube.  No one… Continue Reading »

I’ve been saying it was going to happen.  ISPs and music labels would come together to create a subscription service to provide music for users to download legally and it seems it has in the UK. Virgin Media, a UK ISP, just came together with Universal Music Group to form… Continue Reading »

ReverbNation just announced their plan to have 1000 of their artists to start participating in a new Sponsored Songs program.  This program will actually pay the bands $0.50 each time one of their songs is downloaded for free by a user.  Yup, you get it free and the band gets… Continue Reading »

There’s a fairly new file syncing program in town, and it is getting lots of positive feedback from its users.  Dropbox is an online sync and storage service that is able to be used over Windows, Linux or Mac.  It relies on Amazon S3 storage, and has both a free… Continue Reading »

When, oh when, are they gonna learn it is pretty much senseless to even attempt to hunt down the pirates?  Right or wrong, P2P file sharing happens.  And suing the creators of the popular Pirate Bay isn’t gonna stop it.  And now, in a rather obvious attempt to support that… Continue Reading »

It seems like a never ending story doesn’t it?  People are downloading music and not paying for it.  Naughty, naughty.  The industry has their panties in a bunch over the fact people are downloading music illegally.  Threats ensue.  “We’re gonna get you all.”  “Oh no you won’t, pirating will live… Continue Reading »

Apparently it isn’t only pirates that do the attacking.  At least not when it comes to Pirate Bay.  They’ve found themselves under attack quite a bit as of late, and it doesn’t look like that is going to be abating any time soon. Just last week, the trial kicked off… Continue Reading »

You don’t even have to be illegally sharing your files to have the gaming firms after you apparently.  Just ask Gill and Ken Murdoch.  They’re senior citizens who don’t even play computer games and had never even heard the term “peer-to-peer” until they got a letter in the mail telling… Continue Reading »