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« HP Labs - Research - StoryCast: Simple, digital storytelling with photos and narration \| Main \| The documentary robot » June 07, 2005 Shut Down For Pirating Your Own Content? (via Techdirt) Everyone knows that plenty of content that is transferred using BitTorrent is perfectly legit, right? Apparently not the bright folks at 1and1 Internet, one of the world's most popular hosting firms. According to Boing Boing they sent a cease and desist letter to a website owner, claiming he was guilty of copyright infringement for hosting torrents of his own films. Once again, it looks like a clueless company is associating the protocol BitTorrent, with the activity of distributing unauthorized material. I wonder where they got that idea? Update: The company is now claiming the policy is in place partly for legal reasons, but also because BitTorrent uses up too much bandwidth, suggesting they have no clue how BitTorrent actually works, as that's exactly what BitTorrent is designed to avoid. Via Techdirt Originally from Techdirt, remediated by yatta on Jun 7, 2005 at 01:34 AM Comments Excerpt: Post a comment Name: Email Address: URL: Remember personal info? YesNo Comments:	unmediated.av: The Weekly Show Today we would like to introduce a new way to get.info from the unmediated blog: the unmediated quickcast. Quickcasts are short, 1-5 minute "mini-podcast" (audio) versions of original, non-reblogged posts in the voice of the original author. They provides you with an alternative way of reading posts when you're not in a position to read. They also provide us with a way to practice and test some of the media blogging tools and processes we're working on. Unmediated quickcasts will show up as enclosures in both the unmediated full RSS 2.0 feed and the unmediated Weekly Show feed. We hope you find these quickcasts as informative as we find them useful. The Weekly Show resumes production, Monday afternoon at 2.00pm EST. We are working on a way to "open source" The Weekly Show, by putting together a basic program structure and technical infrastructure for allowing you to host the show on weeks that we aren't available. We're still in the planning stages, so we would love to hear your ideas on this. So please speak up and drop your thoughts in the comments section. [mp3] Comments (1) Featured Project Contagious Media Workshop: New York, NY - May 7, 2005 Saturday at high noon join in of a day of workshops and lectures about tactical media making with some of the web’s most notorious pioneers and players. Join special guests from The Yes Men, the Electronic Freedom Foundation and creators of Subservient Chicken (Crispin Porter + Bogusky), Black People Love Us, Rejection Line, FundRace, How to Dance Properly, del.icio.us, Blogdex, Nike Sweatshop Email, Dog Island and Pizza Party to learn the tips and tricks to win the Showdown. Recent Comments Kedora TV - Broadcatching with RSS and BitTorrent(1) Watch free online TV p2p wrote: The last "hot" thing is Peer-to-Pee...[more] Samsung debut's world's biggest plasma screen(1) bob wrote: how much would this plasma screen c...[more] Economist.com - The real Digital Divide(1) Sameer Padania wrote: Here are some responses from variou...[more] Broadcatch/Podcast for the PSP(1) Josh wrote: FireANT on Windows is a fully capab...[more] Hacks for the Linksys WRT54G wireless router(8) louie wrote: Solution to the Linksys web cam bri...[more] Re.Cites (Technorati) + ( : ) del.icio.us/tag/unmediated [+] About unmediated unmediated is a group blog that tracks the tools, processes, and ideas being used to decentralize media production and distribution. Current editors eli chapman +kenyatta cheese + jay dedman + shawn van every + kevin lahoda + dan melinger + drazen pantic + ryan shaw how to Contribute > Submit a link via email > Bookmark it with del.icio.us and tag it 'unmediated' Search Archives June 2005 / May 2005 / April 2005 / March 2005 / February 2005 / January 2005 / December 2004 / November 2004 / October 2004 / September 2004 / August 2004 / July 2004 / June 2004 / May 2004 / April 2004 / March 2004 / February 2004 / January 2004 / Reblog Sources (Reblog list as OPML) Open Content This weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Powered by Movable Type 3.15 reBlog 0.9 del.icio.us	flickr/tag/ citizenmedia [+] RSS feeds Full Feed [RSS 2.0] Full Feed [RSS 1.0] The Weekly Show [RSS 2.0]