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[Posted on December 20, 2006 - 1:45 PM]
BBC has announced a partnership with Azurues to distribute full-length television shows on Zudeo. Azureus launched its high-definition file-sharing network earlier this month with much hype. This is the first concrete deal with a major content provider. — Brian Ward Go to story from BBC Online...

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[Posted on December 4, 2006 - 2:46 PM]
Flush with cash from a $12 million second round of funding from Redpoint Ventures and BV Capital, Azureus launched a video sharing service named Zudeo in Beta today. The new service will allow users to upload videos of any size and quality, there will be no limit on file size. Azureus is an open-source, file-sharing client based on BitTorrent technology,...

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[Posted on November 29, 2006 - 2:15 PM]
You'd think that a reported $25 million round of funding would be great news for Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent. Unfortunately, you'd be wrong, if the whole report is to be believed. Alongside an official announcement of even more deals with movie and television studios, comes the report, originally from Om Malik at GigaOm that BitTorrent has raised additional...

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[Posted on October 26, 2006 - 12:51 PM]
If you aren't familiar with BitTorrent, it's a technology that allows users to download huge files from the Internet, and it's also the delivery method of choice for pirates. Television shows, movies, radio, software: You name it and you can probably find an illegal copy of it on a torrent search engine. Tape it Off the Internet, or TIOTI, has...

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[Posted on October 23, 2006 - 3:44 PM]
It was almost a year ago when BitTorrent's creator Bram Cohen announced he was going legit. Several months later, the company announced deals with movie studios. At the time, I was wondering where the movies were? Well, if you go to BitTorrent today, you still can't find movies to buy, but I'd assume they're still coming. In the meantime, the...

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[Posted on September 5, 2006 - 6:37 PM]
Last fall, The Deal wrote about how peer-to-peer computing was shedding its outlaw image. Reporter Stacey Higginbotham cited as examples the VC dollars flowing into startups such as open-source software developer BitTorrent Inc. and also Vivox Inc., a specialized Boston-based P2P voice service for Internet dating and gaming sites. Of course, the biggest news on the P2P front in 2005...

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[Posted on August 29, 2006 - 1:40 PM]
We've come a long way since Lars Ulrich, the drummer from Metallica, spearheaded a movement to bring down illegal file-sharing through Napster. Napster has gone legit and struggled to gain a piece of the market Apple has dominated with iTunes. A la carte, paid downloads revolutionized the digital music movement. The circle seems to be nearly complete. Today, SpiralFrog announced...

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[Posted on July 10, 2006 - 1:38 PM]
Hilary Rosen may be the Johnny Damon of the music world. Damon, formerly the center fielder for the Boston Red Sox took the money and ran to the arch-rival New York Yankees, a move met with hatred in Boston and skepticism in New York. Rosen went from being chief of the Recording Industry Association of America, to consulting for XM...

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[Posted on June 29, 2006 - 12:57 PM]
Good news for all you peer-to-peer rebels out there. All you counter-culture, "Apple won't get a dime from me," "Digital content belongs to everyone," damn-the-Man revolutionaries who still, even after the RIAA, the MPAA, the U.S. government and even Lars Ulrich from Metallica has come after you, who still feel compelled to illegally download and share files on the Internet...

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[Posted on June 23, 2006 - 2:58 PM]
If you've ever browsed a torrent search engine you've probably been amazed that a great deal of the movies floating around haven't even been released on DVD yet. The obvious question is, how do these "screener" copies get out there? Well, according to this post on Cinematical, Paul Sherman, a freelance movie critic, is being accused of selling 117 movie...

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