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So you think you know Skype?

With Skype's legal troubles now cleared up, it's a good time to learn more about the company than just what features it offers. Here 10 questions designed to give you a better understanding of the peer-to-peer VoIP vendor.

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News about peer-to-peer

Article | 14/01/2013 US DOJ did not entrap Megaupload, the agency says
The U.S. Department of Justice did not mislead a court and attempt to entrap file storage site Megaupload on copyright infringement charges, the agenc...
Article | 12/10/2011 FTC: P-to-P software shared personal info from smartphones
Peer-to-peer software developer Frostwire has agreed to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that its software would likely cause users to unk...
Article | 5/05/2011 CBS sued for distributing LimeWire software
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 ...
Article | 28/01/2011 Google Instant bans 'BitTorrent' word
What do curse words, porn terms and the word BitTorrent have in common? They're all blacklisted from Google Instant.
Article | 13/01/2011 MIT pioneers ad hoc network-bottleneck breaker
Two researchers may have found a way to greatly reduce traffic bottlenecks that could take place in ad hoc networks. Such work may be essential for th...

Features about peer-to-peer

Article | 28/10/2010 LimeWire's demise: We revisit six peer-to-peer file sharing services
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 releas...
Article | 24/11/2009 So you think you know Skype?
With Skype's legal troubles now cleared up, it's a good time to learn more about the company than just what features it offers. Here 10 questions desi...

Controlling Peer-to-Peer and Recreational Internet Traffic

This paper will discuss strategies for controlling a broad range of recreational Internet traffic such as instant messaging, P2P file downloads and social networking activities that can significantly slow business applications and impact employee productivity. By implementing a solution to effectively detect, classify and control recreational traffic, including encrypted P2P traffic designed to slip past corporate firewalls, organisations can improve employee productivity, accelerate application response times, reclaim bandwidth for business-critical applications and defer costly bandwidth upgrades. Read this whitepaper.