“Groovy Motherfucker”

Hurrah! The founder of OiNK’s Pink Palace found not-guilty of fraud. So in summary, by getting OiNK shut down, the music industry have achieved: Pissing off a large community of music lovers and no conviction. Good work fellas!

Web remote-control plugin for the Transmission bittorrent client. Very handy.

Oink points to Google which points to a blog post which points torrent trackers which point to music.

Excellent article from a musician about the loss of OiNK. OiNK was run by and for music geeks — I’d be willing to bet that CD purchasing by OiNK members is higher on average than the general population — and primarily acted as the kind of complete music archive that the music industry doesn’t have the skill, inclination or cojones to create themselves.

OiNK is raided. *sigh*. /me expects RIAA letter in 5.. 4.. 3..

How free porn has helped the world of networking in the past — Load-testing BitTorrent back in 2002.

BitTorrent.com will host torrents for any file on the web you point them to. I didn’t realise that you could use HTTP to seed torrents — that’s a pretty cool way of bootstrapping.

Interesting attempt to add more social context (eg. trust, recommendations) to BitTorrent donwnloads.

BitTorrent tracker focused on video content of a suitable resolution for video iPods.

I’ve spotted this too. I download a lot of TV, but Safe Peer only goes bezerk stopping nastiness when I’m downloading “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, another HBO show

The first episode of NerdTV — the online-only PBS-funded geek interview show hosted by a Bob Cringely — is now online. There are some really interesting guests lined up, so this definitely has potential.