File Sharing

Ex-Hollywood pariah BitTorrent to promote independent film release

2013-04-20 08:00:00

In one of the stranger plot twists in Hollywood, BitTorrent Inc., the technology company whose name was once synonymous in the creative community with Internet piracy, is now doing business with the film industry. The San Francisco company is partnering...

Steal his movie and Simon Klose will thank you

2013-03-30 09:00:00

AUSTIN, Texas — Simon Klose would like you to steal his movie. Stream it, download it, share it with someone in Croatia or Brazil and remix it with videos of kittens playing patty-cake, if that's your kind of thing. Klose, 37, is the director of...

SXSW 2013: Napster film 'Downloaded' comes alive as a documentary

2013-03-09 08:00:00

AUSTIN, Texas -- More than a decade ago, Alex Winter saw a revolution brewing. Winter is perhaps best known as Bill, the blond-haired high school slacker from the 1989 comedy “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.” But he’s also a tech...

File sharing firm BitTorrent and DJ Shadow team up to make money

2012-07-24 17:30:00

BitTorrent, the massively popular file sharing service, may be the last place music executives would go to generate profit for their artists. But the San Francisco company is looking to change that -- and the future of music distribution. On Tuesday,...

Vanuatu islands: Get happy, get a little wild

2011-10-23 00:00:00

My teenage daughter is standing in a lineup of tribesmen and she is angry with me. As I lift my camera, she says, "I look hideous," unaware of the irony of being surrounded by tribesmen wearing next to nothing. "Yu, pikinini blong Amerika (You, child...

Southfork ranch house is still 'Dallas' fans' mecca

2011-11-06 00:00:00

The skyline of downtown Dallas has changed dramatically since the 1980s, when J.R. Ewing rode roughshod over his family and his business partners at Ewing Oil. Twenty miles northeast, in what is still ranch country, things haven't changed much. Sure,...

There's little privacy in a digital world

2011-10-01 16:22:00

During his two-hour morning bike ride, Eric Hartman doesn't pay much attention to his iPhone. But the iPhone is paying attention to him. As he traverses the 30-mile circuit around Seal Beach, Hartman's iPhone knows precisely where he is at every moment,...

Fashion Diary: Designers look to the virtual world

2011-09-18 00:00:00

For all the Beyonc�, Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake sightings, and all the peppy clothes in acid-bright colors and arty prints, what really blew my mind at New York Fashion Week was watching Rico the Zombie in a virtual fashion show. The digitized...

Teen alcohol consumption: A tangled network leads to a surprising conclusion

2011-09-30 11:11:00

When�your teen comes home�slurring, swaying and smelling of�alcohol, here's a research finding that will help you pinpoint whom to finger as the�major "bad influence" in the kid's life.�First, a couple of�hints: It's not that rowdy gang of boys your son...

'Sesame Street' aims to nip bullying in the bud

2011-10-13 13:41:00

We all know that�many bullies get their start in the sandbox, not the boardroom, and that their youngest victims�can nurture the resulting hurt for a�lifetime.�No surprise, then, that next week, "Sesame Street's" Big Bird and Elmo--who despite their...

Liberia's Leymah Gbowee: The power of the powerless

2011-10-09 00:00:00

Friday morning, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee — along with her country's president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Yemeni activist Tawakul Karman — was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. A decade ago, this moment would have seemed unthinkable....

Meghan Daum: What's with the 'hiker hate'?

2011-06-09 00:00:00

The story of Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal and Sarah Shourd, the American hikers who in July 2009 crossed the border — inadvertently, all evidence suggests — from Iraqi Kurdistan into Iran and were imprisoned for espionage, is back in the...

A website enabling the wealthy to show their support for the less well-off was created by two organizations: Resource Generation, which organizes wealthy young people to work for social change; and Wealth for the Common Good, a group of wealthy people and business executives who advocate for what

2011-11-01 19:38:36

Assemblyman V. Manuel P�rez presents a certificate of recognition to Isela Villagrana, selected as Imperial County's Champion Mom by the Network for a Healthy California on Thursday in El Centro.

2011-10-29 03:50:07

at an event in New York, October 3, 2011. Fieri was on-hand to announce a new partnership with the cruise line called "Guy�s Burger Joint," as part of the new Fun Ship 2.

2011-10-26 08:16:00