Shaky "Six-Strikes" Copyright Alert System Just Won't Go Away
U.S. cable and media companies are still revving up the so-called "six-strikes" Copyright Alert system - even after a prototype model of the…
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Articles tagged "P2P"
Mon, 17 September 2012
Mon, 2 July 2012
A Love Letter to the Cable Guy, or How Really Fast Broadband Changes Everything
You might think your existing broadband Internet connection is fast enough. It’s not. When it comes to Internet speeds, more is always…
Mon, 31 October 2011
Book Publishers Start Suing Bit Torrent Users
Joining their counterparts in the film industry, large book publishing houses are the latest to take aim at users of the BitTorrent…
Thu, 20 October 2011
Which ISPs Still Throttle Bit Torrent Traffic?
After Comcast was caught throttling Bit Torrent traffic on its networks in 2007, the company caught quite a lot of heat and voluntarily…
Thu, 30 June 2011
TDL-4: The Indestructible Botnet
Every time a botnet is taken down, another is waiting in the wings to take its place. Each successive iteration of malware infected…
Wed, 18 May 2011
Indie Filmmakers Opt to Distribute Their New Film "The Tunnel" for Free via BitTorrent
Although some people would like to blame P2P traffic for Internet piracy, that's not a completely accurate assessment. Case in point, the…
Mon, 18 April 2011
Researchers (and The Pirate Bay) Want to Know What Motivates People to File-Share
If you head over to the file-sharing website The Pirate Bay today, you'll notice an important name change. The website has temporarily…
Wed, 23 March 2011
Report Suggests LimeWire's Closure Means Less Music Piracy, But Is That Really True?
It's an argument that the music industry likes to make: go after P2P file-sharing sites, sue them, shut them down, and as a result we'll…
Thu, 27 January 2011
Google Starts To Censor Torrent-Related Search Queries
Searching for file-sharing information via Google is going to take a little bit more effort now, thanks to new steps taken by the search…
Sun, 23 January 2011
"Fear This!" Says the Pirate Bay, Hinting at a New Music Site
As we noted last week when the music industry released an annual report detailing its continued decline in revenue, "piracy" seems to be the…
Wed, 5 January 2011
Direct Donations Now Available via Peer-to-Peer Micropayment Service Flattr
The social micropayment startup Flattr has rolled out a change to its service today. As we first reported last month, users of the site can…
Mon, 3 January 2011
A Milestone for BitTorrent: 100 Million Monthly Active Users
The company BitTorrent announced a significant milestone today: 100 million monthly active users of its software, BitTorrent Mainline and…
Mon, 27 December 2010
The Most Popular BitTorrent Searches of 2010
Noting that both Google and Bing have released their year-end "top search" lists, TorrentFreak has released its "BitTorrent Zeitgeist 2010…
Thu, 2 December 2010
LimeWire Closes Online Store, Ends Plans for Legal Music Subscription Service
It appears as though a recent court decision forcing LimeWire to halt its P2P services is having a ripple effect to other parts of the…
Tue, 30 November 2010
P2P-Based DNS Seeks to Counter ICANN and Thwart Domain Seizures
With the news of Pirate Bay convictions upheld in Sweden, website seizures in the U.S., and now threats to "do something" about Wikileaks…
Fri, 26 November 2010
Swedish Court Upholds Conviction in Pirate Bay File-Sharing Case
The verdict against three people assoiated with the BitTorrent tracking site Pirate Bay was upheld by the Swedish Appeal Court today. Peter…
Sun, 31 October 2010
As LimeWire Shuts Its Doors, Other P2P Clients See a Surge in Usage
Less than a week since LimeWire was ordered to shut down its operations, almost all other major file-sharing applications are reporting a…
Sun, 17 October 2010
Gene Simmons Threatens Anonymous, Responds to DDoS Attacks Against His Site
"Some of you may have heard a few popcorn farts re: our sites being threatened by hackers," wrote KISS bassist Gene Simmons on his website…
Thu, 18 March 2010
LoKast : The Disposable Social Network
Here's an idea for you: instead of slowly amassing followers, like on Twitter, or carefully culling your friends list over time on Facebook…
Mon, 22 February 2010
UK Nixes Internet Ban for P2P Infringement
In November, we told you about a move in the UK to monitor P2P sharing and permanently ban users who infringed on copyright from using the…
Mon, 1 February 2010
Fighting File Sharing on Campus: UCLA Partners with Clicker
Students at UCLA don't have to rely on torrent sites to get their fix of online TV anymore - or at least that's the message the school wants…
Sun, 13 December 2009
P2P Sharing Being Blocked Around the World, Where Next?
Last week, we told you about peer-to-peer and torrent file-sharing sites were being systematically shut down all over China. Not too long…
Thu, 10 December 2009
Downloading Frenzy in China: Gov't Blocking All Torrent Sites Soon?
Over the past 10 days, Chinese downloaders have flooded - and in some cases, crashed - major P2P and torrent sites after rumors that the…
Tue, 8 December 2009
PayPal Partnering with Philips for NetTV Monetization
It's been a month since PayPal released its global payment APIs and the company is already primed to make some new announcements at…
