The Register - Music and MediaBiting the hand that feeds ITU2 tracks disappear from YouTube- August 18, 2008 Windows leak blamed A Dutch U2 fan on holiday in France overheard, and recorded, four tracks from the new U2 album and stuck them on YouTube.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/18/u2_window_leak/ World shocked (shocked!) by Legal P2P- August 13, 2008 Old news sinks in Why does the idea of legal P2P - something music fans have been clamouring for since the original Napster - still cause so much confusionhttp://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/13/legal_p2p_shocker/ Fake feet trip up Olympic opening coverage- August 11, 2008 Made in China games better than reality Video footage of the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing included CGI images because of worries that broadcasters would not be able to properly film parts of the firework display.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/11/olympics_feet_faked/ Pirate Bay evades Italian blockade- August 11, 2008 Blasts Italian fascists Italian ISPs are doing their best to block access to torrent site the Pirate Bay, but the Swedish site has already acted to help Italians evade the ban.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/11/pirate_bay_italy/ Apple challenges Reg to patent duel- August 8, 2008 New invention has familiar ring Apple will fill in some long-awaited missing features from its iPod and iPhone mobile players, a patent application published this week suggests. There's just one problem: Much of Apple's "invention" was dreamed up by Reg readers several years ago - and one embodiment is already on the market.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/08/apple_orbish_patent/ Project Kangaroo gets more time to defend anti-trust claims- August 8, 2008 Probe into commercial iPlayer delayed The Competition Commission said today that its anti-trust investigation into Project Kangaroo, the joint internet TV venture by BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, will take longer than expected.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/08/kangaroo_extension/ World's dumbest file-sharer: Judge to the rescue- August 5, 2008 Verdict may be nullified The Judge who presided over the first successful prosecution of an American P2P file sharer has hinted that he has changed his mind - and may nullify the trial.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/05/riaa_mistrial_hint/ US court liberates Cablevision 'remote DVR'- August 5, 2008 No hard drive No problem A US appeals court has given the thumbs up to Cablevision's new-age DVR, which stores recorded shows on remote servers rather than in-home hard drives.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/05/court_backs_cablevision_re... P2P radio goes titsup- August 4, 2008 Farewell then, Social.FM Social.fm, the company formerly known as Mercora, has closed down. The service, which allowed users to stream their music collections to each other, cites no reasons for shutting up shop.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/04/socialfm_closes/ Millions chose torrents over Radiohead's own site - survey- August 1, 2008 You can pry my email address from my cold, dead hands At least 2.3 million people preferred to download Radiohead's In Rainbows from torrent sites rather than the band's own site, a survey this week reports, even though the cost was the same: Zero.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/01/radiohead_rainbows_million... |