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The Hunt for Billy Joel and GAME-ON-DUDE

By Tom Koltai

  OR <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />  Why the Music Industry is Losing Money…..   Whilst researching statistics for an article I am doing, I came across a little historical gem.   The first CD ever issued back in 1982 was “<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />52nd Street” by Billy [...]

File Sharers Don’t Like to Wait for the Ratings Period.

By Tom Koltai

The new episode of House returned to Fox TV on Monday night at 8:00 PM after a two week hiatus in the US for the World Series.   For us down-under (according to Nicky at Channel Ten Programming department,) we will have to wait for an as yet unspecified return date  - Next year, but [...]

We’re Almost at the Redesign the Internet Stage – Or Help – The case of the Missing Sheep.

By Tom Koltai

Farmville the new darling of the Facebook crowd have AJAX server problems, which is what happens when you trust another organisation with your hosting requirements. Unfortunately for us located in the antipodies, lag time on Farmville is now exceeding 5 minutes for a single “Harvest the Hen”.   Although Zynga are trying to keep faith [...]

P2P With a Condom – The Emule Indexes

By Tom Koltai

Using the Search engine inside Emule will usually get hundreds of hits so it would appear that the Emule search index function is working as advertised. (Um, NOT.) Last month I identified that there were a lot of fake Lugundum servers whose role was to interdict your file requests with spam (fake files). In Australia [...]

Emule/ed2K –v- Torrent.

By Tom Koltai

So – you’ve decided to share in the bounty of the internet and utilize P2P. Should you use a Torrent client or a distributed hash file client like eMule/Kademlia? Some of your peers will consider that Torrent rocks, others will tell you that eMule is the best.   Mostly it requires a decision from yourself. [...]

P2P with a Condom Part II – “Etiquette”

By Tom Koltai

In Part one we introduced the concept that operating eMule is like any other program, you have to learn a little to get a lot.   So today we will be discussing Responsible file Sharing and Fake Files.   How do you notice that the file you are downloading is a fake?   Unfortunately – [...]

The Making of a Star With P2P – Part 1 – Demi Lovato.

By Tom Koltai

Chris Gilbey, my business partner at Perceptric, after 30 years in the music business continues to amaze me with his anecdotal stories of how up and coming artists “made it”. I have learnt a lot listening to Chris over the past few years.   However, today I saw a new method of artist promotion. Twitter [...]