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Leechpack: Cloud downloading for Rapidshare, Megaupload and torrents
Leechpack is soft-launching a new service to remotely download files from one-click hosters and torrents sites this week. The site offers similar services as Furk.net or BTaccel.com , but adds sites like Rapidshare and Megaupload to the mix, making it possible to download files from these services without jumping through unnecessary hoops. leechpack Registered users of the service can simply add links to torrents or files hosted on one-click hosters, and Leechpack will automatically start to download the content to its own servers.
Continue reading »Toshiba preps telly-friendly content store
Networkable media hard drive en route Toshiba is to take on LaCie, Western Digital, Seagate and all the other HDD sellers offering drives designed to be hooked up to an HD TV.… ?
Continue reading »HowTo Remember Authentication Mounted Drive in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic
The new policykit in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic doesn’t have a GUI for remembering settings like authentication password to mount a drive/partition. Even without a GUI you can change policies fairly easy by going to /usr/share/polkit-1/actions and editing the right XML file with your favorite editor.
Continue reading »DRM On a USB Drive: Now Just $29
Just as a reminder, Digital Rights Management was introduced to prevent people from using digital content in ways that its producer didn’t approve of. In many instances this means preventing unauthorized copying of MP3s or software. In reality however, DRM simply amounts to an annoyance for legitimate customers, while those people who weren’t planning to buy but pirate, have plenty of ways to hack or crack the copy protection schemes.
Continue reading »ZapShares or PeerMatrix, anyone?
“ZapShares has no privacy policy on their website,” said p2pnet World headline compiler Marc in an email, asking, “Shouldn’t a Canadian company have a privacy policy?” Of course it should. So should any online entity. But not ZapShares, which feels qualified to advise the US congress.
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