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Crowd sourced funding and distribution brings Pioneer One TV series to life

June 17, 2010June 17, 2010 Doug Groves bit torrent, crowd sourcing, Kickstarter, P2P, Pioneer One, torrent, VODO, vodo.net4 Comments

It was just yesterday at NXNEi that we were talking with Perry Chen, one of the founders of Kickstarter about how the site has really helped facilitate crowd sourcing funding for creative projects, and how it can really help independent creators off the ground. Even as we were talking to him, a Kickstarter funded TV project called Pioneer One saw the premiere of it’s pilot episode (includes .torrent link), via crowd sourced distribution network VODO.net. Pioneer One, which is political thriller with a science fiction element as it’s jumping off…

Attend SXSW virtually

March 9, 2010 Doug Groves festival, SXSW, torrent1 Comment

Every spring, the SXSW music festival invades Austin Texas. In the early days, it was purely a musical affair, but since then has also grown to include both film and interactive festivals that run more or less concurrently. Twitter, for example, launched at SXSE interactive in 2007. As part of it’s musical side, artists both new and established have made MP3s available free to download from the SXSE website. In more recent years those files have been compiled by the public into a huge repository of RIAA safe torrent files….

Download Decade a must read/watch/listen

May 20, 2009May 20, 2009 Doug Groves DRM, torrent1 Comment

Earlier this month, Canadian newspaper The Globe And Mail recently launched The Download Decade series, which is a multimedia cornucopia looking at how the media landscape has changed since Napster launched 10 years ago (as of June 1st). Besides a wealth of articles on all aspects of digital media, the site, which was months in the making, has a number of video and audio features, which can be viewed not only through YouTube and iTunes, but also downloaded via the oft-maligned bit torrent. I can say that this is one…

‘Pirate Bay’ Judge: Conflict of interest?

April 25, 2009 Doug Groves Pirate Bay, Sweden, torrent2 Comments

As most of you know, the guys who run The Pirate Bay, the most popular search engine for torrent files, were found guilty of, well… being pirates even though they don’t actually host the copyright infringing material. A Swedish court on Friday found the four defendants in the high-profile Pirate Bay case guilty, sentencing each to a year in jail. The defendants were also ordered to pay a total of 30 million Swedish kronor ($3.6 million) in damages to copyright holders, among them a number of American media giants. The…