1,000,000,000 : The VLC project celebrates a billion downloads!

The Video Lan Project, the open source project behind VLC the uber popular- here in Kenya anyway - media player reached one billion downloads of the app over the weekend. That's huge but the bigger picture is even huger! This statistics may not reflect the total number of VLCs in the wild as the stats counter was only started in February 2005 a couple of versions in. Here's the link to the counter page http://www.videolan.org/vlc/stats/downloads.html From the a-dollar-for-every-download dept.

The Bit-Torrent KIller?

Two Russian brothers and their friend have founded a company that has dveloped technologyb that will thwart illegal downloads Dmitry Shuvaev,Alexei and Andrei Klimenko's start up Pirate Pay has already attracted $US100,000 from Microsoft’s seed investment fund, and further investment from the Bortnik Fund. It's however unclear exactly how the technology work although it's been hinted that they might be operating a cloud based Denial Of Service attack that specifically targets Bit Torrent. Only time will tell how this puns out. Open Sorcery Daily though isn't exactly holding it's breathe.

Nairobi GNU/Linux User Group holds first meet up.

The Nairobi GNU/Linux usergroup held it's first met up on Saturday 5th May at KFC Kimathi street. Posted a more detailed account of the meeting on my personal blog. From the lug-of-extraordinary-gentlemen dept.