Ironic, isn't it? This report, from the Association Against Audiovisual Piracy (ALPA) wasn't supposed to be released until September. However, it was leaked earlier this week to --- where else? --- the Internet.
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Ironic, isn't it? This report, from the Association Against Audiovisual Piracy (ALPA) wasn't supposed to be released until September. However, it was leaked earlier this week to --- where else? --- the Internet.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has unveiled an open source tool designed to detect the throttling of your Internet connection. This could come in very handy for Comcast customers who want to make sure Comcast follows the order recently given to it by the FCC, to halt P2P throttling.

Late Friday I received an emailed press release from Jen Howard of Free Press. You may recall that last year, both the AP and Electronic Frontier Foundation confirmed through tests that Comcast was throttling P2P communication, which eventually led to a months-long FCC investigation, launched in response to filings by Free Press and members of the SavetheInternet.com Coalition.

The Pirate Bay is one of the best-known and most popular torrent search engines on the Internet. As such, most don't associate it with oh, say, legal merchandise. Yet here it is, with a legit store - or at least part of it.

The Pirate Bay, the popular BitTorrent tracking site, has decided to expand its services and opened its own blogging site. The site, BayWords, is uncensored, and advertised as a place for bloggers who want to write whatever they want without fear of being shut down by their blog host.
Wait, wait, is this the same Comcast that has been throttling P2P traffic of late? It is? Hmmm.
Today in a joint press release Comcast and BitTorrent announced they are now working together. Yes, I know it's hard to believe.

The four major Japanese ISP associations, under considerable pressure by movie, music and software industries, have agreed to take action against file sharers.

Nine Inch Nails has released its new album, Ghosts I-IV, online and in a somewhat Radiohead-eque way. You'll recall Radiohead released its In Rainbows album with "you" naming the price. Nine Inch Nails doesn't go quite that far, but its still the sort of experimentation more bands should be trying with digital distribution becoming more popular.
