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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 »Music Downloading Still Favored by Students over Streaming
It’s been raining with studies lately – just last month we reported about one concerned with the shared popularity between p2p networking and video streaming . We said then that contrary to what the numbers showed and what many believed, p2p was not really “in danger” and wasn’t really losing ground over streaming. So here’s a new study conducted by the University of Reading targeting university students, according to which most of them still prefer to download music (whether from iTunes, Amazon MP3 or p2p networks) rather than stream it or buy it directly from stores.
Continue reading »Tenenbaum P2P circus: judge’s "indulgence is at an end"
The Jammie Thomas-Rasset file-sharing case may be dramatic, but it has nothing on the crazed circus that the similar Joel Tenenbaum case in Masschussetts has become. Judge Nancy Gertner, who oversees the Tenenbaum case, has had enough of it, too, and has demanded that the bizarre behavior come to an end. What’s been going on?
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