P2P

  • Bill would restrict P2P use on US government networks 19/11/2009 07:17:00

    House bill is in response to embarrassing data leaks
    House lawmakers introduced a bill that would restrict the use of peer-to-peer technology on government networks in response to several embarrassing data leaks.
  • Q&A: isoHunt founder says P2P can help create post-piracy world 07/11/2009 11:41:00

    Gary Fung holds out hope of working together with Hollywood and the music industry
    Gary Fung founded BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.com in 2003 when he was a 19-year-old student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
  • McAfee: P2P sites on the rise 04/11/2009 03:26:00

    Hackers swamping site with malware
    The number of peer-to-peer (p2p) websites that allow users to share copyrighted materials has increased, says McAfee.
  • Pirate Bay appeals postponed until next year 20/10/2009 07:05:00

    The question of bias forces a court to postpone the trial indefinitely
    The appeals of those convicted in April in the high-profile Pirate Bay copyright violations trial won't be heard until next year, the court said on Monday.
  • Opera delivers Unite beta, touts in-browser P2P 15/10/2009 05:33:00

    Again, it says browser-based collaboration platform will reinvent the Web
    Opera Software today released the beta of Opera Unite, a platform for authoring peer-to-peer (P2P) and Web server-based applications that it's promised will reinvent the Web.
  • What's replacing P2P, BitTorrent as pirate hangouts? 10/10/2009 10:44:00

    RapidShare, others provide 'essentially your own private FTP server'
    Driven by increased crackdowns on BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, software pirates are fast-moving their warez to file-hosting Web sites.
  • Prospective buyer of The Pirate Bay finds new exchange 17/09/2009 05:03:00

    But questions about the acquisition are still unanswered
    The stock of prospective Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) will from Wednesday be traded on Mangoldlistan, a Swedish exchange run by a securities brokerage company. But GGF's new home, on an exchange that lists only seven companies, hasn't answered any of the questions about its proposed acquisition of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.
  • Soon to sink, Pirate Bay's torrents come ashore 16/09/2009 06:27:00

    Supporters of the torrent site continue the pirate tradition by making its database of torrents available
    The old news kiosk in the center of Weimar, Germany, doesn't sell newspapers any more, but you can find pointers to plenty of other media there.
  • ISP appeals verdict that temporarily closed Pirate Bay 15/09/2009 06:19:00

    The district court made a very controversial decision, CEO says
    Swedish ISP Black Internet has decided to appeal in the Stockholm district court the verdict that led to it closing file-sharing site The Pirate Bay's data connection.
  • LimeWire chairman: P2P concerns overblown 05/08/2009 00:17:00

    Music industry behind FUD, says Mark Gorton
    Lime Group Chairman Mark Gorton found himself in the hot seat last week during a hearing on the problem of inadvertent data leaks on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks including his company's, LimeWire. The hearing was held by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
  • Private P2P networks add trust to file sharing 11/07/2009 00:32:00

    In the past few years, private file sharing has evolved, steadily improving in speed, security, and functionality
    Stephane Herry says that he founded his private file-sharing network GigaTribe out of frustration at not being able to share files with his friends on Kazaa. Every time he searched for a file that he knew a friend had uploaded, he saw only similar files uploaded by strangers.
  • Battle against file sharing starts in Norway 18/06/2009 04:56:00

    ISP Telenor versus movie and record companies
    Movie and record companies want Norwegian operator Telenor to block access to The Pirate Bay file-sharing site and have filed documents in a Norwegian district court seeking a temporary injunction.
  • Researchers turn Conficker's own P2P protocol against itself 23/04/2009 14:51:00

    Symantec, Ron Bowes join forces to detect infected PCs by chatting with worm over P2P
    Security researchers have updated a free tool that sniffs out the notorious Conficker worm on infected PCs by using the same peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol the malware relies on to communicate with its hacker masters.
  • Researchers applying P2P to traffic control 08/01/2009 12:06:00

    802.11 wireless-based ad hoc networks of vehicles would be formed.
    University of California, Irvine researchers are applying lessons learned from music and video peer-to-peer file transfer networks to a system for reducing traffic jams on the roads.
  • Internet industry backs iiNet in copyright fight 21/11/2008 16:07:00

    Movie industry has “allegations, not evidence”.
    The Australian Internet industry has supported iiNet in its defence against legal action filed by the leading US media giants and the Seven Network, which experts say could force providers to police peer-to-peer traffic if the Federal Court rules in favour of the plaintiffs.
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