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Lords vote against entrapment proposal
News Efforts by Tory peer Baroness Blatch to update the Indecency with Children Act 1960 so British police can use entrapment to catch Internet paedophiles was voted out by the House of Lords Wednesday. Attorney General Lord Williams of Mostyn, a...
[November 9, 2000, 7:45]
Kazaa loses court battle
News An Australian court on Monday ruled makers of peer-to-peer software Kazaa had authorised users to infringe on music copyrights and directed them to modify the application to reduce the practice. Far from taking steps that are likely to effectively...
[September 5, 2005, 15:55]
Analyzing and Improving a BitTorrent Network's Performance Mechanisms
White Papers In recent years, BitTorrent has emerged as a very scalable peer-to-peer file distribution mechanism. The evaluation focuses on several important metrics, including peer link utilization, file download time, and fairness amongst peers in terms of...
[May 24, 2007, 1:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Peer-to-peer file sharing is going through changes, and people are moving ever more quickly from the big public areas to the private online clubs of the darknet. Things are going to move ever more quickly with peer-to-peer this year.
[January 21, 2005, 15:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Peer-to-peer file sharing software Kazaa announces that it's including peer-to-peer voice-over-IP software Skype with its next release. Tuesday 23/11/2004 It's not the only one: Siemens is selling a USB dongle that links its handsets to the service...
[November 26, 2004, 17:00]
Interfering with the revolution
News Skype chief executive Niklas Zennström vowed to shake up the phone industry 20 months ago with his creation, the first ever peer-to-peer Internet phone service. More than 110 million downloads and 2 billion minutes of phone conversation later...
[May 26, 2005, 14:20]
UK man threatened with BitTorrent lawsuit
News A UK man who runs a Web site that once supported the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing application is facing the threat of being sued by four major US movie studios. Kevin Reid has been accused of copyright infringement by Paramount Pictures...
[March 18, 2005, 16:35]
Chulalongkorn University Deploys Cisco Service Control Engine to Optimize Bandwidth Usage for Researchers, Students and Staff
White Papers Chulalongkorn has been an early adopter of networking and Internet technologies, but the popularity of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking applications was beginning to consume a disproportionate amount of campus bandwidth, as well as posing security...
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
Firms facing file-sharing probes
News Employers whose staff run peer-to-peer applications over their corporate networks could soon face investigation by legal authorities looking for illegal file sharers in UK companies, according to IT services and telecommunications firm Energis.
[March 24, 2005, 17:10]
Can ISPs and P2P Users Cooperate for Improved Performance?
White Papers Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems, which are realized as overlays on top of the underlying Internet routing architecture, contribute a significant portion of today's Internet traffic. On the one hand, this is a problem for Internet Service Providers (ISPs...
[October 19, 2007, 1:00]
The technology behind BitTorrent means smarter P2P for all
White Papers Despite a somewhat controversial reputation, peer-to-peer networks are a vital tool for situations requiring the efficient sharing of large content files across a large user base. BitTorrent divides large files into smaller fragments that peer...
[May 23, 2006, 1:00]
Grokster, the Supreme Court, and us
News On Monday morning, the US Supreme Court ruled that peer-to-peer companies could be held liable for the widespread copyright infringement of their users. Some analysts say that companies that don't go as far as peer-to-peer providers in enabling...
[June 28, 2005, 17:20]
Billionaire backs defendant in landmark P2P case
News Billionaire Mark Cuban has announced that he will finance Grokster's defence against MGM's peer-to-peer lawsuit, which is expected to be argued before the US Supreme Court on Tuesday. Studios and labels sued the companies in 2001, following...
[March 29, 2005, 12:10]
Skype founders sue eBay over copyright dispute
News Joltid, a peer-to-peer software company established by Skype's founders, filed a copyright suit against Skype on Wednesday alleging that Joltid's technology is being infringed on by Skype users "in the United States at least 100,000 times each day".
[September 17, 2009, 8:50]
Receiver-Driven Bandwidth Sharing for TCP and Its Application to Video Streaming
White Papers Applications using Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), such as web-browsers, ftp, and various Peer-to-Peer (P2P) programs, dominate most of the Internet traffic today. In many cases, users have bandwidth-limited last mile connections to the...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
Supreme Court rules against file swapping
News The US Supreme Court handed movie studios and record labels a sweeping victory against file-swapping, ruling on Monday that peer-to-peer companies such as Grokster could be held responsible for the copyright piracy on their networks.
[June 27, 2005, 20:20]
Hollywood heads to court over movie-swapping
Talkback Personally I'm getting tired of seeing valid, useful technologies like BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer content distribution technologies tied up in court battles to protect aging, failing "product" distribution models.
[November 5, 2004, 15:07]
A: Blu-Ray, B: HD-DVD, C: none of the above
Blog The one thing that will surely finish off the studios, record labels and their pals isn't piracy, peer-to-peer file transfer or bootlegging. It's always been thus, of course, but piracy, peer-to-peer file transfer and bootlegging over the Net have...
[August 22, 2007, 17:28]
IM Lock Enterprise
Downloads IM Lock controls and blocks access to Instant Messaging and peer to peer services that waste time and compromise computer security. You can also block popular peer-to-peer file sharing programs, and individual web sites.
[August 1, 2006, 8:00]
FeedTree Web Proxy
Downloads FeedTree is a peer-to-peer application that brings Web feeds to your desktop faster. FeedTree users work together to share news as soon as it is available; news arrives immediately, instead of on a polling schedule, making RSS as instantaneous as e...
[March 14, 2006, 7:00]
