Xavier Defrang

As BitTorrent gets more and more popular — after the RIAA busted a handful of infamous trackers — and evildoers #1 start making convenient websites it has never been easier and comfortable to infringe copyright laws.

Some very popular and addictive shows are already available only a few hours after they aired. With an ever increasing population of seeders, we may soon reach a theoretical tipping point where the download time of a show is actually shorter than the cumulated duration of all advertisement sequences you have to endure if you watch it live on television...

Living the web 2.0 high life can be a daunting task. You know, all those feeds to scrutinize, those french translations to write. It's almost a full-time occupation to play catch up.
So, as bored and nasty as I am, I came up with this little automator workflow (screenshot) which streamlines the process of creating a podcast about the latest trends in technology.

Your only guarantee is It's as boring as the real thing!

Virtual worlds crowded with hordes of gamers are valuable new territories for evangelization.

EFF speaks out in favor of file swapping. It looks to me that they produced the ultimate argument for the legitimacy of P2P sharing : there are more than 60 million people in the United States alone who use file sharing--more than the number of people who voted for our current President.

Scapy is Python-based shell designed for network packet manipulation and more!

An in-depth analysis of real-life DoS attacks (pdf) like burrying your house under snail-mail spam.

A record executive and his son make a formal case for freely downloading music. The gist: 50 million Americans can't be. A really great, well-written manifesto.

Pr0n industry is to leverage P2P networks to distribute content... If this sort of drone-based content delivery technique becomes common, P2P networks will be quickly full of pr0n spam hidden behind popular audio or video files.

The O'Reilly Wireless DevCenter is running an article about Zeroconf (that's Rendezvous for OS X users). Zeroconf is an IETF backed Internet standard whereas its concurrent UPnP is just another Microsoft toy.

I wonder if such a stratellite would be enough to provide wireless internet access to an entire small country such as Belgium? If this is the case, I'd just say : go venture capitalists, go!

A US newspaper said that an RIAA inspired raid lead to the seizure of 100 US Navy midshipmens' computers at the Naval Academy which allegedly contain copyrighted music and films. If any of the computers do contain illegally copied material, the midshipmen may face a court martial. Come on, this is insane!