torrents.ru no more

Russian prosecutors have closed domain delegation of torrents.ru which is a 4-30m users torrent tracker. Arguably the largest one in .ru zone. In a couple of hours the tracker came back under another domain name. The Russian Internet is full of speculations though the idea is clear, western copyright fighters just have got another bone from Russian government. Once pirates haven Russia is eager for western money and...

MPEG LA’s AVC License Will Continue Not to Charge Royalties for Internet Video that is Free to End Users

free cookie! free cookie! if you give away h264 encoded video for free then you don’t owe anything to MPEG LA. if not, or if you make players/encoders – start paying from Jan 2011. Will you jump on this patented train? MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to end users (known as Internet Broadcast AVC Video)...

The Story of Stuff

http://storyofstuff.org/well, I was speaking of it all the time now she does it a way better learned two new terms though planned and perceived obsolescence via storyofstuffproject on...

warriors of the net

long time ago, like a decade or so… I’ve seen this video for the first time on a workshop. unforgettable experience. the thing is that watching it today again i don’t only feel nostalgic but also I realize that today it all works the same and nothing has changed from the technology point. but who cares about packets today? routing? people say NET when they mean WEB taking the underlying for...

do they hire?

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