The Digital Economy Bill (DEB) has been suggested by a few sources on the Net. How accurate is this? Who knows, but IF the current government looses the general election how will that affect the bill? Many questions and is now to early to be second guessing?

Over the last few months Ive covered many topics on piracy.  Ive tried to suggest possible alternatives although from what Ive seen the argument falls into two distinct categories, those who wish to legislate with other the top and unnecessarily complex rules/operating polices/legislation and those on the other side of the argument who seem to want a file sharing free for all in the name of freedom of data.

I would ask that people keep with me on this article and ask for one person, just one to justify the file sharing stance (ideally more).  The last article on this subject had over 2000 UIP’s in the first hour of publication, so I know that people are reading it (I also see where the hits are comming from) and yet out of all the incoming hits from pro- p2p sites, not one person tried to put forward a counter.  This article is  yet another attempt by myself to get a better understanding about the pro-file sharing argument which I really can’t see where its coming from.

I have seen the rumoured legislation that is alleged to be passed with the Digital Economy Bill, I offer my interpretation of what is being proposed.

I would stress that none of the information I am quoting has been confirmed and would ask everyone until we get it from “the horses mouth” and its actually in place, to keep an open mind.  The main question I have about any of the proposals would be the upcoming general election and how that will affect this proposal.  That question IMO has yet to be answered.

Before I go any further I should clarify my stance (for those who don’t already know)  I am against the sharing of copyrighted material and believe it harmful to the industry.  I will make the point again later with examples but in the meantime its only fair that you understand I am writing from that viewpoint.  conversely though (which will also be covered later) it is my belief that file sharing has been met with knee-jerk policy, umbrella legislation and a complete ignorance of what is practicable in the “fight”/”campaign” against piracy/file sharing.  I am not for the criminalization of file sharers.  I am not for the three strikes policy nor the possible massive fines your kids could pick up if they downloaded the latest track from Lady Gaga.

The Proposal

So lets start with this link: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/19/breaking-leaked-uk-g.html and look at the pointed proposal this site offers in respect of the DEB (digital economy bill)

The Secretary of State would get the power to create new remedies for online infringements (for example, he could create jail terms for file-sharing, or create a “three-strikes” plan that costs entire families their internet access if any member stands accused of infringement)

This in my opinion is just  scare mongering on behalf of the site reporting.  The secretary of state COULD instigate the death penalty for file-sharers (with the support of parliament and the removal of a few other pieces of legislation) the secretary of state COULD make file-sharers dress like chickens and run through the streets.  The keyword is COULD, they COULD do a lot of things, lets wait and see what exactly they are.

The Secretary of State would get the power to create procedures to “confer rights” for the purposes of protecting rightsholders from online infringement. (for example, record labels and movie studios can be given investigative and enforcement powers that allow them to compel ISPs, libraries, companies and schools to turn over personal information about Internet users, and to order those companies to disconnect users, remove websites, block URLs, etc)

I am not quite sure which world the author of that article lives in, but under current legislation if a record label (for example) wanted to seek civil recompense in a UK court because you were sharing its material, it could simply apply for a court order demanding your ISP to hand over your details.  This is nothing new and certainly not something that is being brought in with the DEB.  If for example a school was allowing its students to share music, a possible suit which saw the school being held accountable would have the same effect and I would challenge you to find a school that would rather appear in court than simply block a URL.  It happens all the time anyway, usually a quick email to the school concerned will have the IT dept blocking that URL.

The Secretary of State would get the power to “impose such duties, powers or functions on any person as may be specified in connection with facilitating online infringement” (for example, ISPs could be forced to spy on their users, or to have copyright lawyers examine every piece of user-generated content before it goes live; also, copyright “militias” can be formed with the power to police copyright on the web)

Again, what world has this author been living in?  Read your contract/T&C of your ISP.  They also reserve the right to cut you off under current legislation and have “investigatory” powers already.  I am with O2 broadband, here is a quote from the current terms and conditions  (14.3):

You authorise us to use and disclose, in the UK and abroad, information about you and your use of the Services including, but not limited to, how you conduct your account for the purposes of operating your account and providing you with the Services, for credit control purposes; for fraud and crime detection and prevention and the investigation and prevention of civil offences; or as required for reasons of national security or under law to our associated companies, partners or agents, any telecommunications company, debt collection agency and fraud-prevention agency or governmental agency and other users of these agencies who may use this information for the same purpose as us.

Comments such as “its as bad as it gets” really don’t help any.   Comments such as “declaration of war against free speech” are, in my opinion rather weak.  Let me put this to you:  Recently T-Mobile’s customer data was copied and sold on (allegedly) presumably the detractors to their being copyright legislation, support the cloning of customers personal data?

The three strikes policy (IMO) is a pointless/toothless tiger since firstly ISP’s can already disconnect you (as per terms and conditions) and secondly because the whole implementation/investigation of such a policy would be a logistical nightmare (IMO).  How can you tell if an infringement has been made by little Peter, his friend or his mum and dad.  If an infringement is made by person X at a different venue, who gets cut off?  Who/what does the strike get recorded against? the person or the venue?

Putting that to one side though, the BBC reports a slightly less aggressive approach by policy (and until evidence to the contrary is given) then its just as valid for their view to be put forward: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8366255.stm

The plans for tackling illegal file-sharing, detailed earlier this year, will be a two-stage process. Initially the government will aim to educate consumers and, those identified as downloading illegal content, will be sent letters.

If this proves insufficient, technical measures which will include the powers to disconnect persistent pirates, will be introduced in the spring of 2011.

So until we hear the final word maybe its a little too early to second guess however exactly new legislation will manifest itself?

Looking on though, the Open Rights Group has a very detailed (and interesting) blog entry on this issue, this can be found here and it does shed a little more light on what exactly will be introduced.

They mention about a Henry VII clause which in a nutshell enables the creation of new legislation to counter or intercept new technologies.  In response to that point I would add that really that clause would be expected, since there are alternatives to the BT protocol already in development (and have been covered here before) the fact that they want to prevent having to play catchup again is no surprise.

The Open Rights Group refer to the ISP’s as being “piggy in the middle” with fines for non-compliance and they say “even those they gain nothing from the process”  Really?  Has the ORG completely forgotten that the ISP’s make money from the customers who use their service?  Nothing to gain?  How long have the ISP’s used fast speeds to promote sales, whilst not appearing to be overly concerned about file sharing?  I would cite Virgin Media as an exception, since it appeared on one hand to go out of its way to advertise fast speeds, yet on the other hand report/challenge file sharing.  Have the Open Rights Group already checked their own ISP terms and conditions? Might they have already digitally agreed to the same already?

The ORG makes reference to “copyright holders shouldn’t act as cops” to which I agree, although the majority of fines etc that have come about as a result of a user sharing are civil cases and theres an important distinction between civil and criminal.  I would certainly hope copyright holders do not act as cops in a criminal case, but in civil cases I think they are well within their right to police their own material.  Any fines enforced will have to undergo due process anyway since without being backed up by a court they are worthless IMHO.

All aboard me hearties! The penalties that COULD be brought in with regards to piracy are IMO over exaggerated....lets wait and see.

The law as it stands – Goblin’s interpretation

I have to say this before I continue.  This piece is relevant to UK law and is my opinion.  It is always best practice to seek your own independent legal advice if you should find yourself in breach or summoned for anything talked about below.  I would not suggest that my opinions are anything more than that and would welcome a challenge/correction to any of the interpretations I have made.

In my opinion there has been a mass mis-interpretation of the laws surrounding copyright, its civil consequences and/or criminal.  This misunderstanding I believe is on both sides.  Firstly on behalf of the government where they, IMO fail to consider the consequences tackling the issue at a customer level with such a heavy hand and also on behalf of the user, where they seem to read a piece of legislation and run screaming “war on freedom of speech” and such like.

I have repeatedly said (and apparently it hasn’t sunk in) that in respect of criminal law (forgoing any issues of indecent material etc) there is no remit within UK criminal law for the mere act of downloading copyrighted material.  The issues can arise when users share.  If you think about it for a minute, most of us engage in something similar to downloading copyrighted material every day, when you record coronation street, or Back to the Future 3 off TV to watch later.  Now correct me if Im wrong, you don’t own the IP rights to either, yet you are storing it on a medium for later use.  Just because the material is on TV makes it no more or less “copyright” than say Harry Potter 20 that hasn’t been released in the cinema yet.

Now applying a mere download to a civil case, if you haven’t shared material, its likely a case could only hold you accountable for the cost of that product (if at all) now tell me, is Warner Bros going to take you court for the price of one copy of Harry Potter?  I shouldn’t think so.

This is why I said before that the legislation as it stands is wholly inappropriate to tackle the downloading of copyrighted material.  Sure P2P could be “outlawed” or “policed” but when no sharing is involved what happens to the Newsgroup Binaries?  The original source may be held to task for putting it on the server, but what could be done about the downloaders?  I’d suggest nothing.  Same goes for IRC.  Since the “share” only occurs with the person sharing the data, all the downloaders would not be covered under legislation since they are not sharing anything.

Currently, unless Im mistaken Copyright “rights” include adapting, distributing (either electronically or via other means) selling, renting etc.  Where are the “rights” for a downloader from a .binaries?

Compulsory licensing of ISP’s

The “answer” that I have suggested previously, takes away the nightmare of investigation, takes away the criminality/restriction on the user and makes the ISP’s directly responsible.  I would like to see a system where ISP’s are licensed in a similar fashion to a public house/liquor license.  Ask yourself this, if a pub is repeatedly causing problems because of its customers, is it not the landlord/landlady who is ultimately looked to to provide a solution/resolution?  Things like the restriction of sale of alcohol (which by the way its an offense to sell liquor to a drunk person) upping of age limits, earlier closing time.  If a landlord/landlady cannot show they have taken reasonable steps to tackle the issue they can lose their license.

As anyone who has looked at a BT swarm, the harvesting of IP’s is rather simple.  But by holding the ISP, not the user responsible then it would be far easier for anyone with an interest in the material to solve the issue.

An ISP could easily block all the known BT sites (both private and public) and this would eliminate a massive amount of file sharing overnight, simply because I don’t think the vast majority of BT users would have the first clue in how to circumvent that (and maybe explains why IRC/NG’s never saw mainstream popularity as their operation is more complex than BT or similar)

This is where I see the problem occurring. Providing that legislation is not passed that either adds to or changes the copyright theft Act then I fail to see what could but done if these “remedies” cause a mass migration to IRC or NG binaries, this is the problem.  In my opinion the entertainment industry and the government have neglected the technological implications on the industry to a point where now they a desperately trying to play catchup with over the top legislation.

The answer to this needs to be kept simple.  ISP self regulation by licensing is, in my opinion far more of a simple solution that prevents the end user from being cut off the internet, the subject of an incomplete or incorrect investigation and maybe more importantly criminalization.

Counters/arguments/reasons?

Since a pro-file sharing opinion has never really been represented here by any reader, I will put some of the comments which I have seen used to justify file-sharing.

1. “A survey showed that file sharers spend more on music than those that don’t file share.” – Lets say for one minute that we believe a survey where the respondents that file share are actually telling the truth and not just saying it in order to further the pro-sharing cause, how can they answer for the people who they share material to?  This counter is, in my opinion unprovable since its like trying to measure the amount of crime a CCTV camera has prevented.  Its impossible.

2. “Data should be free for everyone, you cannot “steal” data”.  In respect of “steal” its maybe a bad choice of words.  Theft according to Sec(1) of the Theft act states – To dishonestly appropriate property belonging to the other with the intention of depriving the other of it. Since the data is not being “taken” more duplicated, I’d suggest that in respect of file sharing “theft” is a bad choice of words.  Maybe a “loss of revenue” type offence wording would be more relevant?  In respect of the free data for everyone, I ask file-sharers to comment on the duplication of personal data from the recent news report of T-Mobile.  Should that data be free too?  If all data should be free then surely it applies to ANY data?

3. “Companies make enough money as it is, they shouldn’t complain”.  - In respect of titles such as Harry Potter, I don’t think it can be argued about the massive revenues it generates even with file sharing, but thats not really the point as you can’t put all file-sharing under the same umbrella.  What about the bedroom coder who releases software to make a little money for him/herself?  should their work be distributed?  I would like to cite an example here “Crayon Physics” is a game made by a chap who is not a mult-national company.  I don’t suppose he has a private jet or holds shareholders meetings, yet even though his work is sold for a small sum, it is still distributed on a massive scale on BT trackers.  Are file sharers saying “Its ok to file share that which we deem has made enough money”? – I’d suggest not, and if you want to justify file-sharing its either all or nothing.

4. “Blocking sites is an attack on free speech, its a breach of human rights!” - Unless I am grossly mistaken the Human Rights Act is secondary to the law of the land.  Like it or not blocking sites needs to happen and we cannot live in a society without censorship (IMO).  For those thinking that there should be no blocking/censorship I would ask your opinions on a site displaying indecent material.  Should users be allowed to see that under the umbrella of free speech?  What about sites promoting hate about faith/sexuality? should we really have those too?  I’d hope the majority of people would agree with me when I say that racism/sexism/homophobia should be removed as should anything which falls under the banner of indecent.

These are just some of the counters Ive read by people trying to justify their actions.  If you have any more, I’d really like to hear them.

Finally…

I sometimes wonder about the society we live in.  File sharing after all is the sharing of material such as games/music/film which really at the end of the day is not critical to our daily survival.  I would agree that the pricing can be high but then as an adult if I believe something is too expensive for what it is I either don’t buy it or wait until it is reduced.  A good example was a recent film.  When it was released on DVD I considered it far too much money, so I merely waited until Blockbuster offered it ex-rental and bought it for a significantly reduced price.  If people disagree with pricing, why can’t they simply wait?  Are movies/music/games that important in their lives that they must have it now and preferably for free?  I can understand this of a young person, but an adult (which apparently accounts for much of the file sharing community) really?

Sources of further information

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/20/britains-new-interne.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8366255.stm

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/19/breaking-leaked-uk-g.html

http://torrentfreak.com/european-commission-no-3-strikes-without-judicial-oversight-091124/

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog

Goblin – bytes4free@googlemail.com

Un aspect nou si trei caracteristi noi pentru Google Translate:

• Traducerea se face mai rapid dintr-o limba in alta pe măsură ce tastaţi, fara a mai fi nevoie sa dati tot timpul click pe butonul “traduceti”
• Posibilitatea de a scrie si in limbile care utilizeaza alte litere, cum ar fi chineza folosind optiunea “Show romanization”. Asta functioneaza pentru toate limbi non-romane, cu excepţia ebraică, arabă şi persană.
• Un mare adaos este translatorul vocal “Text-to-speech”, momentan disponibil doar in engleza.

Google Translate oferă 51 de limbi, reprezentând peste 98% din utilizatorii de Internet. Mai multe detalii gasiti pe Blogul Oficial Google

Articole asemanatoare:

• Traduceţi instantaneu orice site în Firefox cu Bara de Instrumente Google – Aţi avut vreodată nevoie să traduceţi pagini Web din alte limbi în română? Selectaţi „Traduceţi pagina în română” din meniul Traducere al Barei de instrumente pentru a vedea pagini din toate limbile acceptate de „Traduceţi pagina în română”.
• Google Toolbar with Sidewiki – Cei care isi instaleaza aplicatia “Google Toolbar with Sidewiki” pot pune comentarii la orice site si pot si vizualiza ce au scris altii.
• Metode de promovare Toolbar! – Metode de promovare Community Toolbar este cel mai rapid mod de a folosi serviciile oferite de noi, prin intermediul unui singur click.
  Fii la curent cu cele mai importante stiri oferite de site-ul Metode de promovare, cu ajutorul feedului RSS de stiri. Pentru noi conteaza parerea ta si, de aceea, cu ajutorul toolbarului nostru poti sa votezi in cele mai importante sondaje ale noastre.

uTorrent Expansion SBI Leecher Pack v11 (based on uTorrent 1.8.5 Build 17091)

Questa leecher contiene diverse versioni modificate di uTorrent, tutte hanno varie caratteristiche ( moltiplicano l’upload, mostrano il download come upload ecc..). Da provare

Ecco una veloce lista delle mod incluse:

-Original.exe
-DHT-Patch.exe
-Fakeup-2x.exe
-Fakeup-5x.exe
-Fakeup-8x.exe
-Multi-11x.exe
-Multi-111x.exe

-NoComplete.exe
-NoComplete_Fakeup-2x.exe
-NoComplete_Fakeup-5x.exe
-NoComplete_Fakeup-8x.exe
-NoComplete_Multi-11x.exe
-NoComplete_Multi-111x.exe

-NoComplete_Report-Seeder.exe
-NoComplete_Report-Seeder_Fakeup-2x.exe
-NoComplete_Report-Seeder_Fakeup-5x.exe
-NoComplete_Report-Seeder_Fakeup-8x.exe
-NoComplete_Report-Seeder_Multi-11x.exe
-NoComplete_Report-Seeder_Multi-111x.exe

-NoComplete_NoReport-Leecher.exe
-NoComplete_NoReport-Seeder.exe
-NoComplete_NoReport-Tracker.exe

Dacă o înconjurăm în acțiuni formale si legale, mișcări și ideologii, riscăm să uităm că pirateria este totuși ilegală. Oricât am vrea, nu putem înfrumuseța starea actuală sau condiția istorică a piraților.

Cred că pirateria este o stare latentă la suedezi, moștenire genetică datorată vikingilor probabil, partidul piraților nefiind unica mișcare pe o scală mai mare pe care ei o întrepind.

The Pirate Bay (TPB) – Golful Piraților – este un site suedez ce se autoproclamă ca fiind cel mai mare tracker de torrente și, în cea mai mare măsură, își permite auto-titulatura deoarece are un Alexa Rank de 107.

Poate v-am încurcat puțin. Să vă explic: pentru oricine folosește torrente pentru a downloada filme, muzică, kit-uri de instalare etc. TPB-ul nu este un site nou. Dar pentru cei care sunt în continuare adepți ai ODC-ul/StrongDC-ului, s-ar putea să fie necesară o descriere a torrentelor.

The Pirate Bay, Seedpeer, Mininova și o întreagă listă de astfel de site-uri oferă niște fișiere cu ajutorul cărora poți downloada tot ce dorește suflețelul tău de pe internet folosindu-te de un program ca µTorrent. E simplu și e sigur (dacă ești atent cine a uploadat torrentul respectiv pe site), chiar dacă nu este rapid uneori.

Cât despre Alexa Internet, aceasta este o companie subsidiară Amazon.com ce oferă rapoarte de trafic ale site-urilor. Numele firmei a fost inspirat de la antica și faimoasa Bibliotecă din Alexandria. Mai multe informații găsiți la linkurile de mai jos.

Acum, întorcându-ne la TPB: Cu o siglă ce, semiotic vorbind, nu lasă mult interpretării (o corabie pe a cărei velă principală stă inscripționat un simbol al pirateriei – un craniu cu două oase încrucișate – ceva mai modernizat: o casetă cu două oase încrucișate), The Pirate Bay a luat naștere în noiembrie 2003 ca acțiune întreprinsă de organizația anti-copyright Piratbyrån (Biroul Pirateriei). Din octombrie 2004, site-ul funcționează separat de creatorii săi, fiind condus de Gottfried Svartholm si Fredrik Neij.

Pe 31 mai 2006, poliția din Stockholm, primind un mandat oficial, au controlat serverele site-ului, închizându-le pentru trei zile. Pe 17 aprilie 2009, conducerea TPB-ului a fost acuzată de încălcarea drepturilor de autor, primind ca pedeapsă un an în închisoare și o amendă de puțin peste 2,5 milioane de euro.

În ciuda acestor întâmplări, site-ul a continuat să funcționeze fără probleme. Pirații din Caraibe au competiție. Internetul este noul Ocean Planetar.

Mai multe informații aici:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay – The Pirate Bay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Internet – Alexa Rank

Comcast/NBCU Announcement This Week? Two sides have reportedly reached a tentative deal wherein the cable company would own 51 percent of NBC Universal. (The New York Times)

uTorrent 2.0 to Be a Network Friendly BitTorrent Protocol; will eliminate the need for ISPs to throttle BitTorrent traffic because the protocol will be network-aware and will throttle itself. (TorrentFreak)

FOX to Do On-Air Scavenger Hunt for The Simpsons; during the week of Nov. 9 – 13, viewers can watch for Simpsons shout-outs, tributes and clues, and enter to win a prize package. (TV by the Numbers)

TV Networks Tuning In to Google Video Box Ads; the ad, which brings up video when clicked on, being used by The CW, ABC, and USA. (MediaWeek)

FiOS TV Growth Slowing Down; telco added 191,000 video subscribers, and is now at 2.7 million overall. (Multichannel News)

Can Twitter and Social Marketing Save the Movies? Revision3 CEO says his company was able to help Paranormal Activity become a hit by using social media in conjunction with Rev3’s shows and talent. (Jim Louderback)

This is weird: the next version of µTorrent, currently in beta, uses an updated version of the BitTorrent protocol that decreases your speed (usually uploads) when it detects network congestion. Will it slow downloads? Not necessarily…apparently.

"uTP measures the time a packet takes to get sent from peer A to peer B, so in theory uTP will detect congestion anywhere on that path, although in practice the congestion most often happens somewhere on the first-mile uplink connection."

So won’t that effect seeding—the very concept torrenting is based on? What if you’re throttling yourself while everyone else is downloading like mad with a non-uTP client? TorrentFreak says that beta testers haven’t reported any significant issues, and suggests that a more efficient use of the network may actually boost download speeds. uTorrent has a massive user base, and if all those users switched over, maybe that could happen.

If you’re with an ISP who slows you down when you use too much bandwidth (like Comcast), or any provider that slows down when it’s congested, uTP could actually be a very positive thing.

These days, µTorrent is developed by BitTorrent, Inc itself, and they’ve been looking to extend an olive branch in the whole net neutrality debate for a while now:

This will have a huge impact on ISP networks according to Simon Morris, BitTorrent’s VP of Product Management. "If uTP is successful it should result in a multi-billion dollar windfall in terms of savings for ISPs," Morris told TorrentFreak

Cool…but I can’t really see this making ISPs who shape torrent traffic suddenly go changing their mind. But I’m all for something being tried, and I’d love to hear your impressions of the beta if you’ve been using it for a while. Detailed background at: [TorrentFreak]

En este tutorial se explica de forma sencilla y clara, como descargar torrents y abrir puertos en el modem tanto en Mac OS X como en Windows, el video explica el procedimiento  para modems de 2wire de Infinitum pero aplica para otras marcas.

Transmission

uTorrent

isohunt

mininova

The pirate bay

utorrent este un client de torrent ca si alte torrente.

Descarca utorrent

WinRAR
• WinRAR este un o unealta de compresie deosebit de puternica care contine multe functii aditionale integrate, care il ajuta pe utilizator sa isi organizeze arhivele comprimate.
• Datorita faptului ca arhivele create sunt foarte mici, WinRAR este adesea cel mai rapid produs de compresie.
• WinRAR suporta toate formatele populare de compresie (RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z si 7-Zip).
• WinRAR este solutia ideala pentru fisierele multimedia. Produsul recunoaste si selecteaza automat metoda de compresie. Algoritmul special de compresie comprima fisiere multimedia, fisiere executabile precum si biblioteci de obiecte.
• WinRAR permite impartirea arhivelor in volume separate, facand posibila salvarea lor pe mai multe discuri.
• WinRAR este de asemenea ideala pentru trimiterea datelor pe web. Criptarea sa cu parole pe 128 de biti si tehnologia sa de autentificare pe baza de semnanatura ofera securitatea de care utilizatorul are nevoie.

Nero 7 (nu este ultima versiune)
Cu peste 18 aplicatii noi si updatate intr-un soft puternic, Nero 7 Ultra Edition este cu adevarat achizitia perfecta.

Winamp(ultima versiune)
Winamp este unul dintre cele mai populare playere audio (începând cu versiunile mai recente suportă şi video) pentru sistemul de operare Microsoft Windows (de aici şi numele). Situl l-a aşezat pe Winamp între cele mai bune aplicaţii iar PC World a numit Winamp-ul “cel mai bun player de media” în martie 2007.Este un program complex, cu multe caracteristici incluse (egalizator, sisteme de vizualizare etc.), dar adevăratele capacităţi sunt scoase în evidenţă de către plugin-urile sale. Acestea sunt fie incluse (plugin-urile pentru decodarea diverselor formate), fie se instalează şi dau noi capacităţi playerului.

Bs-Player
BS.Player este un player media pentru Windows, creat de compania sloveniană Webteh, ce suportă diferite tipuri de fişiere multimedia (incluzând AVI, MPEG, Ogg, Matroska, ASF, QuickTime, MP4, WAV, mp3 etc.).

BS.Player, ca majoritatea playerelor, are nevoie de codecuri specifice pentru a reda formatele nesuportate de codecurile implicite. După instalare, el verifică dacă sunt instalate toate codecurile standard şi se oferă să le instaleze (dacă utilizatorul doreşte). Există două versiuni: FREE (gratuită) şi PRO (profesională). Eu v’o ofer pe ce-a free

ACE mega Codecs
Ultima versiune din deja celebra colectie de codecuri Ace Mega Codecs Pack. Aici veti gasi o multime de codecuri, filtre, playere si alte lucruri folositoare, cat si cateva instrumente pentru procesare video si audio.

Yahoo Messenger
Yahoo! Messenger este un client de mesagerie instantă în timp real dezvoltat de compania americană Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger este unul din cele mai populare softuri de chat şi interacţionare socială pe internet, el putând fi descărcat gratuit, iar utilizatorii putând folosi un singur Yahoo! ID pentru toate serviciile companiei.
Pe lângă faptul că utilizatorii pot purta conversaţii în timp real, acest program oferă şi un mediu interactiv plăcut, utilizatorii putând alege dintr-o multitudine de interfeţe grafice, avatare, jocuri ori mesaje de disponibilitate configurabile.

Power ISO
Este aproape la fel ca ultra iso sau alchol . Este folosit la dezarhivare unor imagini virtuale.

uTorrent
Acesta este un client gratuit de file sharing compatibil cu reteaua BitTorrent si caracterizat prin faptul ca foloseste foarte putine resurse (incarcare procesor si memorie, spatiu pe disc).

Firefox 3.5
Firefox aduce un spor semnificative de performaţă. Noua versiune va oferi si un sistem intern de sincronizare a bookmark-urilor pe mai multe calculatoare.

Foxit PDF reader
Foxit Reader este o alternativa la Adobe Acrobat Reader. Ruleaza pe toate sistemele de operare Windows, se incarca aproape instantaneu si este gratuit pentru uz personal. Introduce suport pentru utilizarea campurilor de tip text interactive, iar aceasta versiune vine cu o interfata de instalare.

Atat pentru astazi o zi buna

Voor diegenen die problemen hebben met utorrent onder Windows 7: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/fix-for-utorrent-in-windows-7/

Si por alguna razón te interesa o quieres experimentar en el mundo de linux[1], una distribución recomendable es Ubuntu, y si no posees una conexion a internet, pero quieres disfrutar de la mayoria de las aplicaciones más utilizadas es recomendable la versión de Ubuntu Ultimate, el cual contiene ya por default una cantidad de plugins, codecs, programas para el uso inmediato del sistema, además de otros como Amsn programa parecido al Messenger. Esta versión esta al español como en casi todas las distribuciones de linux.

En linux no tienes que pagar absolutamente nada, es gratis al igual que miles de programas del ramo. Con esto se evita las licencias del tipo Windows.

Su versión actual es: Ubuntu Ultimate 2.3 versión 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

La descarga la realizas mediante un servidor (links) que contiene la página, esto depende de la versión a ocupar. Si tienes un procesador de 32bits es recomendable el Ubuntu 32bits, en caso contrario el Ubuntu de 64bits (ejemplo: Procesadores AMD Athlon Dual Core, 64, Turion, X2). Si no conoces que procesador ocupa tú maquina es recomendable bajar la de 32 bits.

El archivo ocupa un espacio de 2.1 GB, la extensión del archivo es ISO, lo cual quiere decir que lo podemos quemar con algún programa para el fin, como Nero, Roxio, etc., o alguno gratuito.

Mi recomendación es bajar el archivo torrent y utilizar un programa de torrents, como utorrent para su descarga. Lo mejor es configurarlo y la velocidad de descarga se aumenta en ocasiones considerablemente en comparación con la descarga directa (por el uso de los servidores).

Fuente: Página para descargar Ubuntu Ultimate. (Directa y por Torrent)

[1]Es aconsejable respaldar tu información antes de “meter mano en tu pc”, dentro de la fuente esta un manual en imágenes de como instalar el Ubuntu. La primera vez que se corre lo hace en modo live (Corre en la memoria RAM, por lo que no modifica ninguna información del disco).

Video de Ubuntu Ultimate 2.3

Si tienes interes en algunos foros linux pueder ir a la pestaña de DESCARGAS, ahí en la parte inferior hay una cantidad considerable de links a paginas de soporte, foros, etc.

Ich habe ja schonmal (link : Ein wenig Mac Software) ein wenig Mac Software gepostet um den Umstieg auf Mac OS zu erleichtern, ich wahr selber Jahrelang Windows User aber würde nie mehr Tauschen. Besonders wenn ich meine Freundin mit ihrem XP Rechner sehe dauernd Viren und Neuinstallieren, mein imac ist 3 Jahre ohne eine Neu-Installation, Formation oder schweren Fehler am laufen. Ich habe nur einmal für 45Euro auf 2GB erweitert ! Das im Preisvergleich zu den kosten am PC über 3 Jahre… Fast jedes Jahr neue Grafikkarte, Mainboard, Ram damit die neusten Anwendungen laufen.

Back To Topic ! Ich nutze im Moment :

Email Software (Apple Mail liegt dem OS bei)
Mail ist auf dem ersten Blick vielleicht etwas gewöhnungsbedürftig weil es nicht grade eine “klicki bunti” Oberfläche wie Outlook hat aber es filtert deutlich besser Spam, es lassen sich auch mehrere Accounts verwalten. Ich selber habe 2x pop3 account und einen hotmail account eingebaut. Für Hotmail muss man etwas tricksen über ein Plugin http://httpmail.sourceforge.net/ funktioniert aber dann einwandfrei.

Apple Neue E-Mail mit Stationery Pack

Für Email junkies empfehle ich noch ein Addon mit Namen Stationery Pack ; es können Grafische Email vorlagen zu jeder Gelegenheit ausgewählt werden. Also E-mailen the Mac Way

Browser (Safari)

Safari ist nicht nur ein schöner Browser der mittlerweile auch keine Probleme mit ungewöhnlichen Flash/Java Programmen macht, hat eine Phising Warnung bevor sich “unseriöse” Webseiten öffnen. Ich glaube Safari ist auch der schnellste Browser auf dem Markt… Kostenlos bei MacOS dabei Es kann aber auch Firefox installiert werden. Die Aktuellste Build ist auch immer für den Mac zum Download.

Webseiten Programmieren (CODA,  Rapidweaver)

Coda Mac (webpage programming)

Coda ist (wie ich finde) das non-plus Ultra für jeden PHP, HTML Code Guru Es hat soviele Funktionen das es schwer ist auf alle wirklich einzugehen. Wer Erfahrung im erstellen von Webcode hat wird Coda einfach lieben! Für den Anfänger ist es zu kompliziert und da empfehle ich viel lieber :

Rapidweaver

RapidWeaver Mac Website Builder

Rapidweaver besitzt bereits viele PlugIns um eine Webseite wie ein Profi zu bauen, es können aber auch noch weitere gekauft werden wie ein SHOP System, es gibt auch schon sehr viele Angebote zum Thema “Templates” für die Grafik. Ich empfehle bei Rapidweaver jedoch öfters das abspeichern manchmal hängt es sich einfach auf, grade bei dem einbauen von PHP/Java Code… Wie gesagt da ist CODA die bessere wahl ! Rapidweaver ist Homepage bauen im Baukasten System mit sehr schönen Resultaten. Es kann direkt auf einen FTP Server geladen werden und bei Updates werden nur die veränderten Daten ausgetauscht, man kann auch auf Festplatte Speichern.

Rapidweaver Webseite

Meine Private Webseite ist mit Rapidweaver gebaut : http://mikeswat.de

Forklift (Dateiverwaltung)

Wer seine Daten am Mac richtig verwalten mag und dazu noch einen sehr gutes FTP Programm braucht der kommt um ein extra Programm neben Finder (sowas wie Windows Explorer) nicht herum. Finder bietet wie die Windows Version nicht wirklich viele Möglichkeiten, die PC Alternative ist ja Windows Commander. Der Mac hatte in letzter Zeit viele Programme die versuchten die spalte zu erobern, für mich hat sich Forklift zu eins der besten entwickelt. Pathfinder ist mir ehrlich gesagt viel zu “Systemlastig”, groß und schwer geworden. Forklift ist schön schnell, leicht und bietet alle Funktionen die man (ich) braucht.

ForkLift Dateiverwaltung am Mac

uTorrent , Transmisson (P2P)

uTorrent ist jetzt auch für den Mac erhältlich aber noch sehr Systemlastig und Schwer (es geht fast nichts anderes mehr) für neu Umsteiger empfehle ich daher Transmission. Ist fast genau so aufgebaut wie uTorrent nur sehr viel leichter und stabiler

µTorrent Mac

Transmission Mac

Rapidshare uploader

RSUploaderX Rapidshare uploader Mac

Rapidshare Uploader, einfach, günstig und praktisch mal eben eine Datei auf Rapidshare werfen.

uTorrent now commands 60 percent market share among BitTorrent clients that are available to file sharers, according to the latest numbers released this week by the Tribler P2P team at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

That’s bad news for Azureus Vuze, which had been gaining, and the official client from BitTorrent — both of which lost over 20 percent of their share since last month, with BitTorrent’s client on a losing streak since June. In the “winner takes most” world of the Web, these numbers put uTorrent in a commanding lead. However, Transmission is growing at a rapid clip, posting nearly a 24 percent gain over September.

The Tribler team simply counted the client application reported by peers connected to a number of torrent swarms. What’s not clear is how the location, time, or selected torrents might have affected results — for instance, if Tribler was connecting from Delft, the results may be skewed toward European users.

All of which leaves this Vuze user wondering if he shouldn’t switch to uTorrent. Vuze’s attempts to position Azureus as a media platform and not just a torrent download application just seems to get in the way of sharing files.

uTorrent is my favourite bit-torrrent client , which is powerfull and resource efficient.To enable preview while downloading ………..

go to Option——->Preference——–>Advanced

then enable “bt.prio_first_last_piece” ie to true

Then after completing 5-6 % ……. try preview using vlc player or Mediaplayer Classic

Well, uploaded the .torrent file for adobe illustrator cs4 by me. Just download the .torrent file and you are all set to open it with your most favourite torrent client. BitTorrent, uTorrent etc.

http://sharecash.org/download.php?id=107707
That is the link, alternatively, click HERE

Enjoy!