BitTorrent Users Logged Within Hours
Do
you share files with BitTorrent? If so, then say hello to Big Brother!
A study by researchers at Birmingham University reveals that most illegal
file-sharers downloading the latest film or music releases are logged
[...]
Don’t Copy That Floppy!
Even before The Pirate Bay and BitTorrent, people have been copying software. And along with that activity came anti-piracy public service announcements.
Here are two of our favorite anti-piracy ads of yore:
Don’t Copy That Floppy
Produced by the Software Publishers Association in 1992, the video campaign
starred actor M.E. Hart [...]
The Visual Poetry of Corrupt Video
In this five-minute video, we see portions of a Mad Men episode (episode 408, “The Summer Man”) as it appears when incompletely downloaded via BitTorrent. The video is extraordinarily corrupt, showing strange artifacts like missing blocks of the picture, “melting” video, repeated actions, and other such glitches. Taken together, and with a surprisingly [...]
