Neowin News Feed for: Downloading

Ubisoft adjusts bandwidth usage during the coronavirus outbreak

Usman Khan Lodhi — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 03:10:02 +0000

Digital services have been strained as more and more people are staying at home during the coronavirus outbreak. Ubisoft announced that it will lower download speeds to preserve internet speeds. Read more...

You're not the only one having issues with Windows 10 build 17017

Usama Jawad — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:57:47 +0000

Microsoft rolled out Windows 10 Insider Preview build 17017 to Fast ring users just a few hours ago, however, many are facing problems updating their devices. Microsoft is now working on a fix. Read more...

Netflix now lets you download shows for offline viewing

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:30:44 +0000

After more than a year of speculation and rumors, Netflix has finally launched offline playback. The feature is available on all plans, but only some shows can currently be downloaded. Read more...

Music streaming eradicates piracy in Norway

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 12:58:02 +0000

Piracy, especially music piracy, has apparently disappeared from Norway. This seems to be because of easy to access to affordable, convenient and legal music streaming services. Read more...

UK ISPs offered voluntary code to collect data on music piracy

Paul Ferson — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 23:02:20 +0000

A voluntary code to be discussed by the British Phonographic Institute, major ISPs and David Cameron at 10 Downing Street in September could bring new policies to counter illegal downloads of music. Read more...

Three more torrent sites disappear from the UK radar

Paul Ferson — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:00:00 +0000

Three more torrent sites have disappeared in the United Kingdom, producing the same error message as The Pirate Bay and ensuring people don't even think about breaching copyright regulations. Read more...

Japan begins to crack down on piracy with two million yen fines

Paul Ferson — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:34:05 +0000

Japan's government has agreed to new legislation against criminals caught downloading illegally, bringing in a maximum fine of two million yen or a potential two year stay in a prison cell. Read more...

MPAA: Hotfile is the 'most blatant inducer of copyright infringement'

Paul Ferson — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:53:30 +0000

The Motion Picture Association of America has deemed file-sharing hub Hotfile the "most blatant inducer of copyright infringement" during legal proceedings, beating even Megaupload and torrent sites. Read more...

Filesonic goes offline with no explanation provided

Paul Ferson — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:48:01 +0000

Filesonic, previously one of the major file-sharing websites on the internet, has been gone for the past few days with no explanation, and the main domain having suddenly changed hands. Read more...

Kim Dotcom to receives up to $6 million from government for legal battle

Paul Ferson — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:20:43 +0000

Kim Dotcom is to receive up to $6,000,000 from the New Zealand government to aid his legal battle for the future. This money will be secured from $10,000,000 in bonds that were frozen back in April. Read more...

Google Takedown requests increase by 1137% compared to 2011

Paul Ferson — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:18:52 +0000

Google's Takedown requests have increased by over 1,000% compared to last year. The search giant now handles more than a million takedown requests weekly, from various groups and reporters. Read more...

UK politician wants fastest broadband in Europe by 2015

Paul Ferson — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:09:19 +0000

UK Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt has decided that he wants the country to be blazing the trail for internet speeds in Europe by 2015, offering super-fast connections to at least 90% of its populace. Read more...

Demonoid domains go on sale; you could own history

Paul Ferson — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:45:13 +0000

With the closure of Demonoid, there had been hopes that the site would return. These hopes seem to have been dashed by the discovery that you could buy the rights to the infamous domains. Read more...

Philippines could introduce its own variant of a SOPA-like bill

Paul Ferson — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:22:52 +0000

Irwin Tieng, a prominent Filipino politician, has put forth the possibility of a bill echoing SOPA, which was rejected earlier this year after major internet protesting. Read more...

Censoring the Pirate Bay is pointless, people bypass it easily

Paul Ferson — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:07:25 +0000

After The Pirate Bay was blocked in an attempt to curb illegal downloading, it has been found that the exercise was ineffective. Even information shared by ISPs seem to correspond with this. Read more...

SOPA rises from the grave once more

Paul Ferson — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:36:56 +0000

After fighting against SOPA earlier this year, the Internet rejoiced at its ability to come together against controversial bills. Now it's coming back again, ready for another round. Read more...

Opera's Turbo feature circumvents site bans

Paul Ferson — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:20:54 +0000

Opera's Turbo feature allows the browser to be used to bypass restrictions and bans online, thereby allowing certain groups to access sites which were previously thought to have been blocked. Read more...

Courtroom notes paint damning tale about MPAA prosecution

Paul Ferson — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:17:26 +0000

Information from the trial of Anton Vickerman, the owner of SurftheChannel, suggests that the MPAA's methods were totally corrupted, forcing the jury to believe his guilt from the onset. Read more...

India blocks The Pirate Bay and Vimeo

Paul Ferson — Sun, 06 May 2012 22:31:45 +0000

Indian internet providers have taken steps to reduce the amount of piracy ongoing in the country, blocking sites such as The Pirate Bay, as well as Vimeo, for seemingly no discernible reason. Read more...

RIAA President holds massive weight over your family

Paul Ferson — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:04:18 +0000

President of the RIAA Cary Sherman holds an incredible amount of sway over the inner workings of ISPs now, and his power will only grow further when all ISPs are forced to comply. Read more...

Lawyers target thousands of illegal file-sharers

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:38:24 +0000

ACS:Law said it will be sending thousands of letters to alleged file-sharers of copyright infringement. The lawsuits will go out in the New Year to thousands of suspected file-sharers, asking them for a compromise... Read more...

7 million 'criminal' downloaders in UK

James Hall — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:20:47 +0000

According to the BBC, more than seven million people in Britain are illegally downloading copyrighted materials. Given the numbers involved, these cannot be all students. While many of these "criminals" do not know what they... Read more...

The Pirate Bay must pay half of their fees now

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:57:51 +0000

The Pirate Bay is having a bad time after losing the court case about copyright infringement, and the threat of spending up to a year behind bars due to the massive public torrent web site.... Read more...

MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:35:05 +0000

Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong. In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44... Read more...

RealPlayer Beta Allows Video Downloading

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:00:58 +0000

The growing popularity of video on the Web has prompted RealNetworks Inc. to launch a beta version of its RealPlayer software that allows users to easily record and download videos to their PCs. The software,... Read more...

PS3 1.60 Firmware to Add Background Downloading

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:20:28 +0000

An upcoming system update to bring the PlayStation 3 firmware to version 1.6 will give users the ability to download files from the PlayStation Network in the background. Currently, PlayStation 3 owners must halt all... Read more...

Italian Court: Downloading OK if not for Profit

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:54:47 +0000

Italy's top criminal court has ruled that downloading music, movies and software over the Internet isn't a crime if profit isn't the motivation. The question is, will the ruling have an effect on copyright laws?... Read more...

George Lucas Sees Movie Downloading as the Future

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:25:01 +0000

US movie director, George Lucas, sees the future of film in downloads. Speaking to Variety, the Star Wars director revealed that, while he's not rushing to be among the first to release movies through iTunes,... Read more...

Pepsi ads wink at music downloading

Sat, 24 Jan 2004 06:36:21 +0000

A new sort of Pepsi Generation will get air time on the Super Bowl: music downloaders. Some 20 teens sued by the Recording Industry Association of America, which accuses them of unauthorized downloads, will appear... Read more...

12 year old sued by the RIAA for downloading music!

Tue, 09 Sep 2003 15:36:15 +0000

The music industry has turned its big legal guns on Internet music-swappers - including a 12-year-old Upper West Side girl who thought downloading songs was fun. Brianna LaHara said she was frightened... Read more...

MS03-017: Flaw in Windows Media Player Skins Downloading

Thu, 08 May 2003 05:13:41 +0000

Thanks everyone who made a post about this. Microsoft Windows Media Player provides functionality to change the overall appearance of the player itself through the use of "skins". Skins are custom overlays that... Read more...

Downloading a whole CD in 13 seconds! WOW!

Thu, 23 May 2002 14:09:29 +0000

An international team set a new record for Internet performance by transferring the equivalent of an entire compact disc's contents across more than 7608 miles (12,272 km) of network in 13 seconds. The rate of... Read more...

Downloading Files and Storms, download 6,000 songs in 2 days!

Fri, 08 Mar 2002 06:41:15 +0000

Found this over on my friendly Slashdot which points to an interesting article over on the New York Times.. Every year Michael Greene, the president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and... Read more...