Previous
File Sharing
Blog Recently, I have read a number of items about file sharing, both here and elsewhere. When I became aware of file sharing of copyright material, before even the wide spread adoption of broadband, I could not understand why this could not be stopped.
[June 26, 2008, 9:30]
File sharing nightmare
Member Review Well, the one most crippling thing its done is to disable our file sharing, two boxes running W2K. Yes, there are settings apparently to permit and block Windows file sharing, give access to 'trusted' computers, etc.
[June 18, 2004, 9:03]
File-sharing networks go into battle
News In a sign that file-sharing communities may start to turn on each other, Altnet said Thursday that rival networks may be violating its patent for digital tags and it plans to bring to them in line. Kazaa is one of the most popular file-sharing...
[June 6, 2003, 8:31]
File sharing legal - Canada
Talkback I say newly released cd prices should go back down to 14 dollars if the music industry really wants to deter kids from file sharing. Hi, I think its great that a nation finally stands up for the rights of copyright holders.
[April 1, 2004, 23:39]
File-sharing programs carry Trojan horse
News A pair of popular file-sharing programs have become privacy time bombs, according to computer experts. Antivirus company Symantec last week reported the presence of "spyware" bundled with Grokster and Limewire, two popular file-swapping downloads.
[January 3, 2002, 9:37]
File Sharing
Blog Comment Of the 118 comments to the item, I did not find a single one that agreed that file sharing of music, video and DVDs is actually wrong and to be deprecated. Of course, the time to have put a stop to illegal file sharing was many years ago when file...
[July 2, 2008, 20:05]
Secure Internet File-Sharing With PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript
White Papers This paper presents the authors optimized PHP program as a practical example for file sharing on Internet. It demonstrates how to integrate open source libraries and frameworks, use a database abstraction layer, and decouple application logic from...
[December 22, 2008, 0:00]
Napster court case throttles file sharing
News The number of people actively sharing files over the Internet using peer-to-peer systems has almost halved since Napster -- one of the most popular file-sharing services -- was taken to court. As well as the overall drop in people using peer-to...
[October 29, 2001, 14:04]
ISPs face renewed threat of file-sharing laws
News The government has renewed its threat to introduce laws to force ISPs to control online illegal downloading and file-sharing of music and films. ISPA said it is committed to finding a "practical" solution to address intellectual rights holders...
[June 19, 2008, 8:55]
Privacy-Invasive Software in File-Sharing Tools
White Papers In an experiment presented in this paper, five file-sharing tools are investigated and found that they all contained ad-/spyware programs, and, that these hidden components communicated with several servers on the Internet.
[April 14, 2006, 0:00]
ISPs given deadline for file-sharing crackdown
News Whitehall has told ISPs they have until April next year to crack down on file-sharing of copyrighted material. Currently ISPs bear no liability for illegal file-sharing as the content is not hosted on their servers.
[February 22, 2008, 12:57]
Firms facing file-sharing probes
Talkback now that they are scaning networks for file sharing activities so they soon scan messangers or maybe they will put a Net-policeman behind you even at home,where are we going
[March 30, 2005, 17:09]
Free-Riding, Fairness, and Firewalls in P2P File-Sharing
White Papers Peer-to-peer file-sharing networks depend on peers uploading data to each other. This paper proves that it is impossible to prevent free-riding when more than half of the peers are firewalled, and the paper will provide bounds on the sharing ratios...
[November 5, 2008, 0:01]
BPI wins landmark file-sharing case
Talkback Well go ahead that don't change anything.over 100 million people all over the world is using a file sharing software. Why not try to put 100 million ppl in jail. Don't think so.million ppl is a too big mass.
[January 27, 2006, 20:32]
Integrating Mac OS and NetApp Storage: Integration, Configuration and Performance in Mixed File Sharing Environments
White Papers The inclusion of both the NFS and CIFS network file sharing protocols in Mac OS X dramatically simplifies the integration of Apple systems into multiprotocol file sharing environments that include Windows, UNIX, and other systems.
[August 31, 2007, 1:00]
Database Servers on Windows XP and the Unintended Consequences of Simple File Sharing
White Papers This paper presents some unexpected consequences of running database servers on Windows XP with Simple File Sharing enabled. In one case an attacker can easily gain DBA access to the database if Simple File Sharing is enabled.
[October 1, 2008, 1:01]
A File Discovery Control Scheme for P2P File Sharing Applications in Wireless Mobile Environments
White Papers Thus, how to improve the resource discovery and retrieval for P2P file sharing applications in wireless mobile networks becomes a critical issue. Peers' movements in wireless mobile network change the routing path which affects the file retrieval...
[August 13, 2007, 15:14]
Simulative Performance Evaluation of a Mobile Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing System
White Papers Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file-sharing has become the killer application in the wired Internet and might also be highly attractive for mobile networks. This paper investigates the performance of an eDonkey-based mobile P2P file-sharing system by means of...
[November 22, 2005, 0:00]
BigSpeed File Sharing SDK
Downloads BigSpeed File Sharing SDK includes two ActiveX controls (client and server) that dramatically simplify and accelerate the development of private file sharing solutions over the Internet. The application can seek, read, an write bytes to the stream...
[October 30, 2008, 8:01]
BPI wins landmark file-sharing case
News The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has won a landmark legal victor against two British citizens who distributed music over the Internet using peer-to-peer file-sharing programs, it announced on Friday.
[January 27, 2006, 16:40]
