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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 system is closing down in France.

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Apple

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 better. That’s why we all owe some sincere gratitude to the intrepid men and women who bring truly high-speed Internet into our homes.

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E-Books

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 file-sharing protocol. John Wiley and Sons, the publisher of the popular "For Dummies" how-to book series, is suing 27 Bit Torrent users for downloading PDF files of the books, thereby infringing on Wiley's…

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News

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 stopped doing so. The practice, which was then ruled by the FCC to be illegal, struck at the heart of the ongoing and contentious issue of net neutrality. True to its word, Comcast has indeed backed off from…

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NYT

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 networked computers is more sophisticated than the last. Security research company Kaspersky believes it has found one that is almost indestructible. The TDL-4 botnet is 4.5 million PCs strong. It has some unique…

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P2P

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 release today of the Australian horror film The Tunnel. The movie is being released simultaneously on TV, DVD, and yes BitTorrent - the first film to have this sort of global distribution on release day. The…

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NYT

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 rebranded itself as "Research Bay" and is asking users to participate in a brief survey about the values of the file-sharing community. The research is being undertaken by the Cybernorms group at Sweden's Lund…

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P2P

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 have less music piracy. But is that really the case? According to a study released today by the market research company NPD Group, a market research group, it is. The company contends that since a federal…

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Google

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 engine to remove all sorts of references to torrents from its instant search and autocomplete features. In December, Google said it was taking steps towards "making copyright work better online." Among other…

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P2P

"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 go-to scapegoat, the reason that the music industry is struggling. And one of the sites that the industry often points to (and in its recent report, lauded governments for trying to quash) as a major culprit…

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Shaky "Six-Strikes" Copyright Alert System Just Won't Go Away

A Love Letter to the Cable Guy, or How Really Fast Broadband Changes Everything

Book Publishers Start Suing Bit Torrent Users

Which ISPs Still Throttle Bit Torrent Traffic?

TDL-4: The Indestructible Botnet

Indie Filmmakers Opt to Distribute Their New Film "The Tunnel" for Free via BitTorrent

Researchers (and The Pirate Bay) Want to Know What Motivates People to File-Share

Report Suggests LimeWire's Closure Means Less Music Piracy, But Is That Really True?

Google Starts To Censor Torrent-Related Search Queries

"Fear This!" Says the Pirate Bay, Hinting at a New Music Site