Swarmcast Recieves Major Funding for P2P Digital Cinema Distribution
P2P company, ‘Swarmcast’ has received $5 million in funding to develop a secure and fast system to distribute very high definition (upto 250GB) Hollywood movies to digital cinemas. With all the uproar about BitTorrent Inc lately, the deal that Swarmcast made has remained relatively unnoticed. Swarmcast actually invented the concept of ’swarming downloads’, which is also [...] [SHOW]

Court rejects Appeal of first BitTorrent convict
Chan Nai-ming, the first man ever convicted for using BitTorrent lost his appeal. Chan was charged last year for copyright infringement for uploading the movies “Daredevil”, “Miss Congeniality” and “Red Planet”. He was eventually sentenced to three months in prison, but was released on bail pending appeal, which he now lost. Chan was arrested at his [...] [SHOW]

The Nintendo Advent Calendar = Brilliant

Trust Nintendo to pull out all the stops for the otherwise-humble advent calendar. A simple, old-fashioned, chocolate-filled calendar was obviously too passé for Iwata and gang (well...his European posse, at least); in a deliciously clichéd move, they´ve taken it into 2006 and turned the humble advent calendar into...what else...a 2D platformer. No chocolate, but it´s free, so that more than makes up for it.

There are a ton of games you have to pay for that aren´t this good. I think the agonizing countdown to Christmas just got a little bit more bearable. Luke Plunkett

Mission In Snowdriftland [Nintendo Europe]

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