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Spain: Non-Commercial File Sharing Is Legal (19)
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When we talk about file-sharing, there’s a whole spectrum of issues that usually get mixed up or treated as one when they’re really very different things.Is it OK to borrow an audio CD I just bought? Is it OK to play it to some friends at a party? Can I convert it into MP3 files or make a copy? Is it fine if I put it in a shared folder of a P2P application such ...Shared by a77ila (242) BoH (41) Carlo (35) casek (27) Daphne (18) FlorinGrozea (33) foleymo (117) Fresh (45) giovanni (4) Jay (100) and nine more »- giovanni said: Como dices? "equo compenso por copia privada"? La tuia tiene que ser broma, hermano italiano
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File Sharing And Torrent Websites Now Legal In Spain (14)
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File sharing just became legal in Spain, changing the rules on what is legal, and what is fair.In a court ruling that will surely shake the Spanish and European legal scene for years to come, a Spanish judge has today declared not only that sites containing links to copyrighted information are legal, but that torrenting copyrighted information for non-profit reasons is also inside of the law.If you think that we are in some way confused, ...Shared by AG (42) Chuck (77) climenole (201) dani (25) Gyro108 (25) Kol Tregaskes (557) Marcus (11) mfubib (35) Ren (56) robdiana (514) and four more »Comment View comments -
FeelHome Gives Easy Remote Access to Your Files Across Platforms [Downloads] (13)
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Windows/Mac/Linux: If you would like to easily access, edit, and save files across multiple computers, free application FeelHome allows you to share files across operating systems and over the web.Once you install FeelHome on your computer and specify which folders you want to share, you can access those files from the web or from another computer in your virtual FeelHome network. Files aren't stored on the FeelHome servers, and FeelHome isn't an online storage solution ...Shared by 9ja (29) David (7) Eric (58) Frank Müller (21) iBspoof (62) JS (62) Muju (27) reburnham (268) Roberto (57) Steve (60) and three more »Comment View comments -
Get Gigabytes of Free, Legitimate Music from SXSW 2010 [Dealhacker] (74)
onEvery year music lovers from across the country head to Austin, Texas for SXSW, and for the past six of those years, SXSW has offered hundreds of DRM-free tracks from artists playing at SXSW—and it's all available via BitTorrent. Just head to the Home of the Unofficial SXSW torrents to grab the first torrent, featured 646 tracks weighing in at 3.35 GB. These songs are all freely available on the official SXSW web site, but ...Shared by Aaron (11) Aaron Mayer (78) Adam (29) Amy (111) Andy (26) angelchrys (86) Art (129) bc (21) Bloody (116) C (409) and 64 more »Explore read five notes
- Jack said: Listening to them now!
- mwilliams said: This time of the year already? Usually some good tracks in here.
- Eric said: Free music.
- lostalpinist said: Woo! It's back again! I discover more new music through the SXSW torrent than in any other distribution method.
- bc said: It'll bomb the shit out of your itunes library, but its also guaranteed to expand your musical horizons
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5 Applications To Use With Dropbox To Make It Even More Useful (20)
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Dropbox, if you don’t know about it yet, is an excellent synchronization tool. In fact it is one of our favorite tools to sync and backup files and other important data. Dropbox can seamlessly sync your files across multiple computers and also provides features like shared and public folders allowing you to share/sync only the content you want to be synced with the other computer. Out of the box Dropbox works really well with support ...Shared by Clay (41) Coson (26) Dedalus (103) Derrick (53) hasamba (49) iRFS (9) jenks8 (137) Joe (2) Juanito (11) Le (340) and 10 more »Comment View comments -
Drop.io Outlook Plug-In Sends 100MB Attachments [Downloads] (22)
onWindows: drop.io is a quick way to share up to 100 MB in files, but it's easy to forget about. With a beta Outlook plug-in, drop.io can become your go-to means of sending really large files without annoying your recipients.Photo by the How-To Geek. Drop.io's plug-in puts two buttons on the Message window, one for "attaching" files by uploading them to a new "drop" at drop.io, the other generating a unique conference call number to ...Shared by Al (14) Amy (111) Avi (208) Courtney (168) Danie (73) dmitry (9) Evans (53) Geoff (18) Henk (19) jratlee (41) and 12 more »Explore read four notes
- Al said: Nice solution for a common problem.
- Courtney said: But - I still don't like using Outlook or any software based email readers.
- Mark said: best plugin i've seen for MSFT Office since xobni.
- kevinpshan said: This is the solution to a full inbox.
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Former Teen Cheerleader Dinged $27,750 for 37 Songs by RIAA (49)
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Whitney Harper must pay the RIAA $27,750 for file sharing that began when she was 14 A federal appeals court is ordering a university student to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $27,750 — $750 a track — for file sharing 37 songs when she was a high school cheerleader. The decision Thursday by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a Texas federal judge who had ordered defendant Whitney Harper to pay ...Shared by adam (1287) Alberto (332) Arthur D. (515) Brian (382) Brian Moore (62) Cameron Yeager (20) Casey Sousa (49) Chris Kourmoulakis (3) dagorret (668) Daniel (994) and 39 more »Comment View comments -
How to Investigate a Fake BitTorrent Tracker [File Sharing] (23)
onEd. note: Ever go on a BitTorrent scavenger hunt but end up with bum files from a fake tracker? All-things-BitTorrent site TorrentFreak explains how to quickly determine the authenticity of a torrent tracker.Image from BitTorrent visualization. Seeding fake files on BitTorrent is nothing new, and the practice has been carried out by anti-piracy groups and malware spreaders for a long time. While many of them choose to use various open and public BitTorrent trackers, others ...Shared by cesarcardoso (340) Chris (491) Dedalus (103) Felipe (13) Hasan (116) Jon (4) Jon, the Beartato of FF (27) medraught (9) Michael (22) Mikul (1) and 13 more »Comment View comments
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What's the Easiest Way to Share Large Files and Media with Friends? [How To] (73)
onWhen you want to to share music, movies, photos, or other files online, you've got countless options. We've examined most, and for our money, one tool emerges on top of the heap for its ease of use, wide support, and all-around excellence.Sharing files publicly has always been a subject of hot debate, but put aside any legal concerns for the moment and consider: What if you want to just share some home videos or music ...Shared by Andy (15) Andy (15) Anski (35) Aram Zucker-Scharff (78) benjamin (47) Carl (4) Chester Tam (12) Dan (29) Daniel (359) Darren (33) and 63 more »Explore read six notes
- Dorian said: dropbox alternative anyone?
- Gambrill said: Haven't tried this, but looks awesome. I'll stick with Dropbox for now.
- Willscoot4food said: I have tested this and it is, indeed, very easy - even for your non-techy friends and family.
- Joel said: Has anybody used this? Ever since Hello went down I've been looking for a good app to share pics and stuff with the family. Been using LiveSync lately, but always looking for something better.
- Vince said: The Answer: Opera UniteFor this writer and tech enthusiast's money, the easiest and best way to share large files of any kind with your friends and family is to simply install Opera Unite, walk through a couple of quick configuration screens, and then send them the URL and password to access your content from any browser.
- Ua said: If you have any experience using Opera as your home browser, can you let me know your thoughts on it. I have used it as a mobile application but not on my PC. The Opera Unite feature seems very interesting. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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Turn Google into Your Personal Napster with a Bookmarklet [Google School] (31)
onLast week Lifehacker reader UnMicD offered a simple bookmarklet for searching Craigslist in our #openthread. Over at the Productive Geek forums, user Brady modified that bookmarklet to search file-sharing site MediaFire. The results: It's a little like when Napster was good.To create the bookmarklet (this is how you do it on Firefox—other browsers should be similar), just right-click your bookmarks toolbar, select New Bookmark, and paste the text below into the Location field: javascript:var searchterms ...Shared by Baljinder (54) Ben (7) BrokenRhino (4) Darin (289) Elizhah (10) Fu (58) Gagah (43) Hasan (116) Inti (53) Jared (2) and 21 more »Comment View comments
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uTorrent 2.0 Brings Performance Updates, Bandwidth Control, UDP Support, and More [Downloads] (30)
onWindows only: uTorrent is far and away the most popular BitTorrent client among Windows users, and they've recently pushed out a shiny new 2.0 release, bringing with it bug fixes, performance improvements, UDP support, automatic bandwidth regulation, and more.We explained the UDP update when uTorrent 2.0 beta came out way back in August of last year, but in a nutshell it means better performance for torrent trackers and ultimately for you, the user. We also ...Shared by Aaron (191) Abdullah (58) Andrew (51) Anski (35) Baljinder (54) Chris (491) Chris (120) Compuwizard123 (167) Daniel (359) DMClark84 (28) and 20 more »Comment View comments
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Five Best Public BitTorrent Trackers [Hive Five] (74)
onA great BitTorrent client is all well and good, but you need a great tracker to get the actual torrent files and stoke the bandwidth burning fire in your client of choice. Here's a rundown of five of the most popular options.A bit of clarification is in order before we share the list of the top five contenders with you. In our call for contenders we asked for you to share your favorite BitTorrent trackers, ...Shared by Aaron Mayer (78) Adam (138) Ade (8) Anski (35) Art (129) Ben (0) Bonstio (21) Chagel (11) cjw333 (28) Compuwizard123 (167) and 64 more »Comment View comments
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ReactorFeed Creates Custom RSS Feeds for Downloading Torrents Remotely [BitTorrent] (25)
onEver stumbled onto a torrent on-the-go and wished you could start the download on your home computer? ReactorFeed allows you to create a custom RSS feed and add items from popular torrent sites that your home BitTorrent client can automatically start downloading.We've featured ways to download torrents remotely before, such as with Dropbox—unfortunately, that method requires that you actually download the file to sync it via Dropbox. That's fairly simple, but if you're on a ...Shared by Aaron (0) Andrew (51) apkennedy1 (11) BaddMann (64) bkund (5) Blu (9) BrokenRhino (4) Carl (4) CBrookins (18) Daniele Bazzano (dAn) (142) and 15 more »
- Erich said: too bad there's still no good way to do torrent RSS on a mac
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