Stories about: Gnutella

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    FTC: P-to-P software shared personal info from smartphones 12/10/2011 01:35:56

    Peer-to-peer software developer Frostwire has agreed to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that its software would likely cause users to unknowingly share sensitive personal files, including pictures, from their Android devices, the FTC said Tuesday.
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    LimeWire settlement unlikely to blunt music piracy 14/05/2011 06:09:00

    Peer-to-peer software maker LimeWire's willingness to pay a whopping $105 million to settle music piracy claims marks a decisive, if somewhat symbolic, victory for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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    CBS sued for distributing LimeWire software 05/05/2011 07:15:00

    An entrepreneur and over a dozen hip-hop artists are suing CBS over its part in contributing to piracy. The suit, filed by FilmOn founder Alki David in federal court on Wednesday, accuses CBS's CNET arm of exacerbating piracy problem by distributing LimeWire software on its website.
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    LimeWire is quietly resurrected: It's baaack! 10/11/2010 01:35:00

    Less than a month after its "permanent shut down," LimeWire has been resurrected by an anonymous dev team -- and it's better and more powerful than before. Or, well, something like that.
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    LimeWire's demise: We revisit six peer-to-peer file sharing services 28/10/2010 09:18:00

    The demise of the Gnutella client, LimeWire (a study in 2008 showed it was still the number one peer-to-peer client eight years after was first released!), has us reminiscing about some of the popular file sharing applications of the past, which opened up a whole new world of file sharing for us and expanded our musical taste.
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    What's replacing P2P, BitTorrent as pirate hangouts? 10/10/2009 10:44:00

    Driven by increased crackdowns on BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, software pirates are fast-moving their warez to file-hosting Web sites.
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    Cabos 11/08/2009 15:20:00

    iTunes has not killed file sharing using peer-to-peer clients. iTunes has not killed file sharing using peer-to-peer clients. There are still plenty of people who share music, video, and other files with one another. If you're one of those, you may want to give the free Cabos a try.
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    Botnets: 4 Reasons It's Getting Harder to Find and Fight Them 16/04/2009 09:20:00

    The perpetual proliferation of botnets is hardly surprising when one considers just how easy it is for the bad guys to hijack computers without tipping off the users.
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    Study: Other network traffic surpassing P-to-P growth 19/02/2009 01:50:00

    Peer-to-peer file sharing is still growing, but streaming video and other download services are making up an increasing proportion of Internet traffic, according to new research.
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    Study: Comcast, Cox blocking BitTorrent throughout US 16/05/2008 10:28:46

    The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems released a study Thursday showing that Cox Communications and Comcast have been blocking BitTorrent transfers within the United States at both peak and non-peak hours.
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    Study: LimeWire still top P2P software; uTorrent #2 18/04/2008 12:17:20

    LimeWire, a grizzled veteran of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing scene, remains the most popular software for exchanging music, video and software -- much of it pirated -- through the Internet, according to a study released Wednesday.
 
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