Even Free Can’t Compete With Music Piracy. illegal downloads of Radioheads new release will probably top free legal downloads this week. at least they didn’t have to pay for the bandwidth.

Skype: What happened on August 16. skype claims that their outage was due to a crazy number of reboots from a windows security update.

Viacom to license content to Joost. as if those Real World marathons weren’t enough, now you’ll be able to get it over joost.

Complete List of Civil Rights Violations Regarding The Pirate Bay Raid | DaBlade’s Blog. In the world of piracy, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups:the police who commit raids and some bold individuals in Sweden. These are their stories.

Lessons of Kontiki - GigaOM. you rarely get ROI analysis for VC funded startups. Om points out that p2p startup Kontiki got bought for $64M but had $41M in funding. Granted, if the company was going to tank, $64Mil aint bad.

Is AllPeers FireFox’s P2P “Killer App”?. some big claims in the post, but seems interesting. a good, cross platform, privateP2P client is dieing to be out there.

Slashdot | Poisoned Torrents Plague Mybittorrent. If any of you remember, I actually started a company back in 2002 that actually did just this on other p2p networks. Too bad we didn’t have the drive to completely sell our souls to the RIAA. Also, I’m not a big fan of Slashdot comments, but some of this stuff is pretty funny as it’s people talking about their “right” to download The OC.

P2P Still Growing; Traffic Shifts to eDonkey. Over at the blog Freedom To Tinker there’s a post about CacheLogic’s latest presentation about internet usage and specifically P2P traffic. It seems eDonkey usage is getting huge. The last time I used eDonkey (circa 2001) it had nothing but porn and queues in the ballpark of 20,000 users. Now I love waiting in line for porn as much as the next guy, but am I missing something? is the ‘Donk actually useful?