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Trackon, The BitTorrent Tracker Tracker
Public torrent have their critics, who mostly comment that they’re slow, unverified or unreliable. Only the latter is down to the tracker itself – the others are down to peers and sites. Often public or open trackers are heavily loaded and operated on a shoestring budget, either as an ancillary project or out of someone’s pocket.
Continue reading »Student boffins take on iTunes’ not-so-smart Genius
‘You like the Shadows? You’ll love Herman’s Hermits’ Boffins in California say they have produced music-recommendation software which produces playlists “as good as” those from Apple’s iTunes Genius – and which has the advantages of collecting no user data and having in its repertoire a lot of music that “Genius knows nothing about”.…
Continue reading »Anti-Pirate Bay Site In Pirate T-Shirt Failure
Earlier this week I stumbled across an interesting forum discussion. Someone claimed to have an artist ‘friend’ who had been hatching a cunning plan to get his own back on The Pirate Bay. The individual noted that The Pirate Bay are making a lot of money from T-shirts.
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