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The Pirate Bay infringes copyright, High Court decides

The High Court ruling in a case brought by a collection of music labels against The Pirate Bay looks likely to lead to the popular file-sharing site being blocked by the UK's major ISPs Read more

21 February, 2012 by David Meyer

BT to lift limits on 'unlimited' broadband

...bandwidth available to certain applications and protocols, such as peer-to-peer (P2P). By contrast, "traffic will not be managed" on the company's cheaper... Read more

10 March, 2011 by David Meyer

UK signs ACTA as activists urge resistance

Twenty-two EU countries have signed the anti-counterfeiting treaty, but their signatures will be worthless if the European Parliament does not back ACTA in a key June vote Read more

26 January, 2012 by David Meyer

Skype takes a new tack for Facebook calls

...video-calling service is made possible by a distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture, in which calls flow over the user network. Users' computers are... Read more

8 July, 2011 by Jack Clark

Web blocking could be illegal, says top EU legal adviser

...s internet services to exchange copyrighted music, particularly via peer-to-peer (P2P) technology. In 2007, another judgement ordered Scarlet to stop its customers from... Read more

15 April, 2011 by David Meyer
Anubis <endeca_term>P2P</endeca_term> 4.1

Anubis P2P 4.1

Anubis P2P (peer-to-peer) is a new file sharing program that includes all... Read more

1 October, 2010

Virgin Media to boost upload speeds, throttle P2P traffic

...calls 'non-time-sensitive traffic', which it classifies as peer-to-peer (P2P) and Usenet traffic. This type of throttling brings Virgin Media's high... Read more

30 September, 2010 by Jack Clark
<endeca_term>P2P</endeca_term> TV Recorder 1.8

P2P TV Recorder 1.8

PPRecorder is the easiest and more powerful way to record P2P TV streaming media video and audio. All the popular P2P TV player... Read more

2 July, 2010

Streaming video to overtake P2P traffic growth

...few years, according to Cisco Systems. For 10 years, peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic, such as BitTorrent, which includes some video, has been the largest... Read more

3 June, 2010 by Marguerite Reardon
Torrent Monster 3.0

Torrent Monster 3.0

...easily entered the top of the most stylish, solid and least cluttered p2p clients around. Torrent Monster is a reliable file sharing app that allows... Read more

23 May, 2012
BitLord 2.1

BitLord 2.1

BitLord is a p2p file-sharing program fully compatible with torrent files, which is one of... Read more

7 May, 2012
Sharetastic 2.7

Sharetastic 2.7

...terms of ease and user-friendliness Sharetastic gets ahead of most of p2p clients currently available. Just hit the "Home" button and you'll see... Read more

30 April, 2012

Ofcom: ISPs must reveal more about traffic throttling

...times of day when more people are watching, and peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic is often allowed less bandwidth at certain times. Ofcom acknowledged that... Read more

24 November, 2011 by Ben Woods
LimeZilla 1.9

LimeZilla 1.9

...available in advanced file sharing software. Derived from Limewire, the most popular p2p application, LimeZilla pushes the convenience and high-speed downloading to the next... Read more

14 October, 2011

Bitcoin-thieving Trojans appear in the wild

...a blog post on Friday. Bitcoin is an encrypted, peer-to-peer (P2P) currency, in existence since 2009, designed as an alternative to government-controlled... Read more

17 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

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