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"4-Hour Chef" Tim Ferriss Reveals Secrets of Meta-Learning and Living the Good Life

Shira Lazar | Posted 01.18.2013 | Home
Shira Lazar

Following up from his entrepreneur manifesto "The 4-Hour Workweek" and fitness-themed "The 4-Hour Body," best-selling author Tim Ferriss tops off his self-help trilogy with "The 4-Hour Chef," which highlights culinary tips and techniques for healthy, fresh, and easy-to-prepare meals.

Here's What Verizon And Comcast Will Do If They Catch You Downloading Illegally

The Huffington Post | Britney Fitzgerald | Posted 10.25.2012 | Technology

Pirates, beware: Illegally downloading content just got more complicated. The Center for Copyright Information (CCI) will roll out its new Copyri...

Pirate Bay Becomes 'Raid-Proof'

The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 10.17.2012 | Technology

The Pirate Bay, the world's most-visited torrent website, has migrated its operations from physical servers to "the cloud" in a bid to avoid police ra...

The Most-Downloaded Legal Music on BitTorrent

Eliot Van Buskirk | Posted 11.28.2012 | Technology
Eliot Van Buskirk

Our question: who are these artists giving people permission to download singles and entire albums (comprising 78 percent of downloads according to MusicMetric) for free? We were curious, so we asked. Here's the word from BitTorrent.

Top 9 Countries Where Illegal Music Downloads Are Insanely Popular

The Huffington Post | Britney Fitzgerald | Posted 09.17.2012 | Technology

Even with the fall of Napster and rise of Spotify, it appears illegally downloading music is still the fashionable thing to do. The Digital Music ...

10 Countries Where BitTorrents Are The Most Popular

Torrent Freak | Posted 11.17.2012 | Technology

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Pirates, Ye Be Warned: Popular Files Are Being Watched

The Huffington Post | Betsy Isaacson | Posted 09.05.2012 | Technology

How well are digital pirates being hunted online? In the wake of the arrest and likely deportation of Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm in Camb...

My Dad, SOPA and Me

Tanja Aitamurto | Posted 04.24.2012 | Media
Tanja Aitamurto

In our family we have two takes on copyright issues and SOPA. These two approaches reflect the gap between digital and offline worlds. Let's look at ...

What Do Directors Think When People Make a Torrent for Their Movie?

Quora | Posted 02.22.2012 | Entertainment
Quora

The Motion Picture Association of America has never written me a paycheck for anything. They're not backing my picture. These are not nice guys. They are not in this business to help filmmakers at all.

Chicago Lawyer Under Scrutiny After Suing Grandma For Pirating Porn

Posted 09.20.2011 | Chicago

An unnamed 70-something in the Bay Area was slapped with a surprising lawsuit last June. The doting grandmother was charged with illegally downloading...

70-Year-Old Grandmother Sued For Downloading Porn

Robin Wilkey | Posted 09.14.2011 | San Francisco

There's something fishy about the lawsuit against tens of thousands of Internet users who allegedly downloaded copyrighted files. As the 70-year-old g...

23,000 Sued For Illegally Downloading The Same Film

The Huffington Post | Steven Hoffer | Posted 07.10.2011 | Technology

In what could be the largest illegal downloading case in U.S. history, approximately 23,000 BitTorrent users are expected to receive notice this week ...

BitTorrent Gives Rise To Original TV Series

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.29.2011 | Technology

Most people think of torrents as the easiest way to download movies and music for free, but some enterprising artists are taking advantage of the plat...

Google Begins Soft Censorship Of Piracy-Related Queries

techcrunch.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

The efforts of media companies to quash online piracy are a bit like someone trying to put out a forest fire with a wet noodle. The latest pathetic fl...

BitTorrent Claims 100 Million Active Users Worldwide

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Andy Plesser

Pioneering P2P file sharing platform BitTorrent has 100 million active users, the company announced on Monday. In November at the NewTeeVee Live ev...

Movies, Porn Top The List Of Most Popular BitTorrent Searches

PCMag.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Blockbuster Hollywood movies and XXX video were, unsurprisingly, the most searched for content amongst BitTorrent users in 2010, according to torrent ...

Pirate Bay, Others Fight Back With Plan To Stop Website Seizures

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

A BitTorrent-based DNS system has been proposed to combat the government's ability to seize domains at will. Reacting to recent seizures, like this w...

DRM is a Business Decision, Not a Moral Decision

Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Hugh McGuire

When we started building our new audiobook publishing company, iambik, we made an early decision: no digital rights management (DRM). (*See below for ...

Video: Bram Cohen on the Evolving Business of BitTorrent

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Andy Plesser

SAN FRANCISCO -- We caught up BitTorrent founder and chief scientist about the evolving business of his company. Cohen was a speaker at the NewTee...

Hollywood + Silicon Valley = Frenemies?

Daren Tsui | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Daren Tsui

Music labels fought change so hard that by the time they accepted it, fans had gotten used to pirating music. Hollywood needs to learn the same lesson. If it's going to stay viable, Hollywood needs Silicon Valley and vice versa.

Music Sales Up After Sweden Filesharing Crackdown

guardian.co.uk | Katie Allen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Record labels are pointing to the dramatic rise in music sales in Sweden, just months after the country introduced anti-piracy laws, as evidence of wh...

Guardrails for the Internet: Preserving Creativity Online

Michael Lynton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Michael Lynton

In no other realm of our society have we encountered so widespread and consequential a failure to put in place guidelines over the use and growth of such a major industry.

Mark Cuban On File Sharing: "You Can't Stop It"

Epicenter | Betsy Schiffman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Mark Cuban may have a chunky hunk of money invested in the movie business -- he owns Landmark Theaters and Magnolia Pictures -- but piracy doesn't see...

Searching For A Killer iPhone Application

BusinessWeek | Olga Kharif | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Executives at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers had a running bet as they announced a $100 million fund to encourage developers to...