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Trade Group: P2P Not Illegal Or Immoral
Talkback P2P is the only way I can distribute my original music to the world. As a singular artist and composer I rely on P2P to share my works. To outlaw it places a muzzle on my freedom to reach the world with my expressions and artistic feelings.
[November 13, 2003, 4:09]
P2P Group To Pay Girl's RIAA Bill
News A peer-to-peer group says it will cover costs for a 12-year-old New York girl who agreed to pay record labels $2,000 (£1,280) to settle a file-swapping lawsuit. P2P United, a peer-to-peer industry trade group that includes Grokster, StreamCast...
[September 11, 2003, 10:30]
RIAA: P2P Networks Full Of Child Porn
News The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) appears to be expanding its fight against online piracy by encouraging a legislative crackdown on peer-to-peer networks, warning they are infested with child pornography.
[September 10, 2003, 10:30]
PACISSO: P2P Access Control Incorporating Scalability And Self-Organization For Storage Systems
White Papers A common challenge in fully distributed storage systems is the management of access rights to stored files. PACISSO is an efficient and scalable solution for distributed access control, applicable to systems consisting entirely of untrusted nodes.
[September 11, 2007, 0:00]
P2P To Revolutionise Internet By 2004
News The growth of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications will mean a major transformation for the Internet, and a decline in the relative importance of centralised Web applications. By 2004, most large corporations and enterprises will have carried out large...
[August 13, 2001, 12:45]
P2P Booming As Users Swap Large Files
News Peer-to-peer network traffic is taking up more Internet bandwidth than any other application, according to figures released this week. CacheLogic, a UK network equipment maker, reported that BitTorrent has now superseded FastTrack -- which is used...
[July 14, 2004, 14:20]
A Peer To Peer (P2P) Architecture For Dynamic Workflow Management
White Papers This paper presents the architecture of a novel Peer to Peer (P2P) workflow management system. The proposed P2P architecture is based on concepts such as a Web Workflow Peers Directory (WWPD) and Web Workflow Peer (WWP).
[December 14, 2005, 23:00]
P2P Booming As Users Swap Large Files
Talkback These people obviously haven't heard of DC++. Single hubs share between 100 and 400Tb (yes, terabytes). Imagine P2P with an IRC style chat interface. Movies, MP3's, software, games, it's all there. The catch ?
[July 14, 2004, 14:37]
P2P Foes Defend Hacking Bill
News Supporters of a proposed law that would permit copyright holders to assail peer-to-peer networks angrily defended it on Thursday, saying it had been mischaracterised by opponents. During the first congressional hearing on the bill, Rep.
[September 27, 2002, 10:59]
P2P Firms Claim Filtering 'impossible'
News Responding to sharp criticism from legislators, a group of file-swapping companies told Congress that they have no ability to block copyrighted files or child pornography from their networks. As part of a lengthy letter to Senator Lindsay Graham...
[January 29, 2004, 8:00]
Best Practices - Monitoring And Controlling Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Applications
White Papers Peer to Peer file sharing steals bandwidth that should otherwise be used for business-critical applications. When bandwidth is consumed by P2P applications, the business operations that are tied to those critical applications are threatened, or...
[April 2, 2004, 0:00]
HTTP Beats P2P In North America
Blog Some very interesting stats have been released by a company called Ellecoya, who optimise broadband networks for operators. They relate to North America, but I can't imagine the picture would be radically different in the UK.
[June 19, 2007, 9:53]
Not All ISPs Target P2P As Badly As BT
Talkback BT never targetted P2P this badly before. We never had any issues at all until April, and upon googling and searching forums like utorrent.com's we found many others in the same boat. There were many furious posts from people who know a good deal...
[April 18, 2007, 10:32]
P2P Seeks Refuge On West Bank
News Deep in the tense Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian West Bank, a new file-swapping service is daring record labels and movie studios to turn their piracy-hunting into an international incident. Dubbed Earthstation 5, the new file-swapping...
[August 14, 2003, 17:05]
Privacy Group Fights P2P Crackdown
News The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is launching a counterattack against Hollywood's efforts to crack down on student file-swapping. The privacy advocacy group is sending letters to presidents of colleges across the country, asking...
[November 8, 2002, 7:48]
Selecting A Virtualization System For Grid/P2P Large Scale Emulation
White Papers Virtualization tools are becoming popular in the context of Grid Computing because they allow running multiple operating systems on a single host and provide a confined execution environment. Emulators and experimental tools like Microgrid and...
[April 1, 2007, 0:00]
HD Movies + P2P = ISP Pain
Blog Tired of your ISP's bandwidth caps? Well, if you're a fan of both HDTV and P2P you could end up even less keen. Many thanks to James Enck for pointing out the reality of dodgily sending/receiving high definition movies.
[January 15, 2007, 9:27]
Rights Group Defends P2P In Ad Campaign
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched an advertising campaign demanding changes in copyright law to legalise file sharing. The "Let the Music Play" campaign is intended to encourage the 60 million users of file-sharing software in the US...
[July 1, 2003, 15:26]
Geographical Statistics And Characteristics Of P2P Query Strings
White Papers P2P file-sharing applications are quickly being adopted by a wider and more mainstream audience. There is much to be learned from keyword searches users perform in order to retrieve content from these networks.
[May 23, 2007, 0:00]
Exploring VoD In P2P Swarming Systems
White Papers Digital media companies have recently started embracing P2P networks as an alternative distribution mechanism. However, with current P2P swarming systems users need to download the full video, and hence have to wait a long time before they can...
[May 23, 2007, 0:00]
