New submitter Bad_Feeling sends in a followup to the story we discussed on Monday about a new site that scanned a few popular torrent trackers and linked torrents to IP addresses. The folks at TorrentFreak decided to check IP addresses belonging to major companies in the entertainment industry and published lists of pirated files from several, including Fox, Sony, and NBC Universal. Of course, they used the information to make a slightly different point than the industry usually does:
“By highlighting the above our intention is not to get anyone into trouble, and for that reason we masked out the end of the IP addresses to avoid a witch hunt. An IP address is not a person, IP addresses can be shared among many people, and anyone can be behind a keyboard at any given time.”

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Music lovin’ grampas here and in Europe will be doing The Charleston when they hear about Rara.com, a cloud-based music service with them in mind, which launched today. Powered by Omnifone, the same whitelabel service behind Sony’s Music Unlimited, Rara hopes to appeal to the 70 percent of people its research shows “do not ‘do’ digital music.” There’s access to the same ten-million-strong music library as other services, and pricing starts at a frugal 99c/p for the first three months (rising to 4.99 from there on in) for the web-only option. Those with a little more tech-smarts can use an Android service too, which launches at 1.99 (going to 9.99) with the web-service bundled in. Those directly north and south of the border can look forward to access later this week, with Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore lighting up before Christmas. An iOS app will complete the set soon. Tap the PR after the break for more.

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Downloading a big file via BitTorrent can take a long time, and you don’t want to sit there and watch it all day. Here’s how to set up the remote web interface in your favorite torrent client, and monitor those torrents from any remote computer or mobile device. More »

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We’ve seen plenty of extreme action sports videos before (thanks largely to the GoPro video camera), but jetskier Franky Zapata‘s ridiculously awesome “Dolphin Jetpack” hit the waves and the web last weekend and it is, as they say, a doozy.

As Kottke notes, the apparatus imparts Iron Man-like superpowers to the otherwise mild-mannered athlete.

Thanks to our Core77 Design Awards intern Marko for the tip.

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Previously, if you weren’t on Windows, you couldn’t take full advantage of all the awesomeness that was in SkyDrive, Microsoft’s neato cloud storage service. Not anymore! They’ve just released an iOS app that’ll let you upload photos, files, documents and manage SkyDrive folders straight from your iPhone. More »

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You spend hours in your browser every day. Hell, Google Chrome is even a full-fledged operating system. The more shortcuts you know, tricks you master, and tweaks you understand, the more quickly and efficiently you can use your browser—whether you’re checking Facebook, buying something on Amazon, or, you know, doing bona fide work. Whether you’re a Chrome lover or a Firefox fanatic, get to know the best features of your favorite browser with our power user’s guides for Firefox and Chrome. More »

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Here’s a happy holidays gift from Google to you: You can continue making free calls from within Gmail to US and Canadian phone numbers next year. More »

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Last week Google launched Schemer, their new webapp designed to help you find awesome things to do. The catch: You need an invite to get started, and we only had a meager 200. Well, if you weren’t able to sign up then, you should be golden now, because we’ve got a much larger bucket of invites to hand out to Lifehacker readers. To sign up, just click here. More »

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