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The winner of The Top Candidates, a swedish television show aired on SVT, decides to donate his winnings to Pirate Bay.

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So, finally SVT payed up, and the money from Petter’s win at The Top Candidates has found it’s way home.

Obviously SVT didn’t like it that the winner decided to donate his money to two pretty controversial organizations.

One of them The Pirate Bay and, especially, the other “The Invicible Party”, which you’ve probably heard about in the news if you’re a swede.

So they decided to give the money to Petter himself instead, which also makes him have to pay taxes for it, leaving us with only $4 656 USD (35 000 SEK).

As we’ve written earlier, the money went to a new database and search server. We’re also trying to cut down on the advertisements.

Oh, by the way, SVT is Sweden’s public service tv station, so I guess this makes us the first state financed tracker. Pretty cool, huh?

Hm, this is strange. I was looking for a bittorrent client that flew a little lower (read: not blocked by system admin) and thought I had found a solution when I found a few reference to a built in torrent client in Opera, but almost all of the references on the opera site are dead, and searching for torrent or bittorrent on opera.com gives 0 hits.

The links to the 8.02 preview version of Opera that I came across in their forum is dead, and the blogosphere seem to be silent on the subject since july 2005.

Please drop a comment If you have any juice on this subject.

Faster, more efficient downloads in Opera technical preview with BitTorrent

photo credit: andyket

What a sweet service! Movies in the public domain available as torrents. They, or he, rather, recently started putting up sweet weet mpeg4 for ipod (H.264). Alot of cool stuff, like old cartoons and kitchy martial arts movies. I’m being weird trying to keep all the content on my ipod legit (my old 20 gb version only contains legal music, my own stuff, unsigned bands, and loads of podcasts), and I want to do the same with my new 60 video Ipod, and this seem like a good source.

Please support it any way you can, they seem to be getting a tiny bit of buzz and increased server traffic (so seed a few why don’t ya)

I got it just a few days ago and have been to busy to look for good ipod compatible video content, but I’ll try to share a few of them through del.icio.us.

http://del.icio.us/mskogly/ipod+video

If you know of any other good ones, feel free to plug it in the comments.

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“If TV companies were to offer episodes for download at a small cost at the same time as they air offline they could generate revenue in the same way that Apple’s iTunes does. However, they must be aware of the dangers of losing their core audience to a delivery method that is free, unregulated and open to anyone with an internet connection,” Coppin said.

While there are no accurate Australian BitTorrent usage figures, anecdotal evidence and reports from online forums suggest that Australians are downloading TV programmes in large quantities. Australians are also uploading programs like My Restaurant Rules and Rove,’ he added.

A previous survey released by Web monitoring company Envisional found Australia as the second largest downloader of online pirated TV programmes in the world (15.6 percent), second to the United Kingdom (18.5 percent) and ahead of the US (7.3 percent).”
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Then how about putting some ads on those downloads so it will still be free? Thats all it takes. I would gladly ignore an ad if it ment I wouldn’t have to be paranoid about downloading illegally. Maybe :)

Impatient TV viewers turn to BitTorrent: ZDNet Australia: News: Communications

Updated 2009: Bittorrent video on demand anno 2005

Smart Mobs: Prodigem Marketplace: Bittorrent plus Creative Commons plus PayPal: “Stanford graduate student Gary Lerhaupt has put together Bittorrent-like data transfer, Creative Commons licensing, and Paypal to create Prodigem Marketplace. Success will depend on achieving a critical mass of culture creators and paying culture consumers — but if that happens, Lerhaupt might well have come up with a viable answer to the DRM wars. Peer-to-peer distribution isn’t a crime — stealing is a crime. So why not create a p2p marketplace where people can upload their work and know that the system will mediate transactions?”

My comment: Slap some commercial on those files and give it to us for free, that would be the way to go. The success of p2p is conveniency and NO PAYMENT.

Update: Prodigem becomes MoveDigital.

[Via Smartmobs.com]

SXSW did something truly groundbreaking for their 2005 conference, when picked on song from each of the hundreds of bands performing at the festival online, and distributed it them with BitTorrent. If you have ever, like me, worked with clearing content from bands for online publishing, you can appreciate the amount of work this must taken!

And what a perfect music feast it is! Hundreds of songs, free and clear as mp3s. Great for us, and great for the bands I’m sure.