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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]
P2P Video Live Streaming With MDC: Providing Incentives for Redistribution
White Papers This paper considers applying multiple description coding in data-driven P2P live streaming networks to provide incentives for redistribution. In the system, a video is encoded into multiple descriptions with each description having equal importance.
[February 1, 2009, 0:00]
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]
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, 1:00]
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 CacheLogic, a UK network equipment maker, reported that BitTorrent has now superseded FastTrack -- which is used...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]
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 file-sharing policy
White Papers Many organizations have policies that cover acceptable e-mail and Internet use, but P2P file-sharing applications don't always get the attention they deserve. We've updated this simple but explicit policy that you can use to establish clear...
[May 16, 2006, 4:41]
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 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 TV Recorder
Downloads PPRecorder is the easiest and more powerful way to record P2P TV streaming media video and audio. All the popular P2P TV player channels are supported(PPStream, PPLive, TVUPlayer, PPMate, SopCast, Feidian, UUsee, coolstreaming, QQLive and so on).
[December 15, 2006, 20:19]
P2P-Based Roaming Between Home WLAN Hotspots
White Papers The increased amount of broadband Internet connections at home, combined with the low cost of WLAN access points and other WLAN hardware, has made it possible for individual end-users to contribute to the wireless landscape by allowing open access...
[November 10, 2006, 0:00]
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]
Using Layered Video to Provide Incentives in P2P Live Streaming
White Papers This paper designed a distributed incentive mechanism for mesh-pull P2P live streaming networks. In the system, a video is encoded into layers with lower layers having more importance. The system is heterogeneous with peers having different uplink...
[February 1, 2009, 0:00]
Microsoft tunes P2P for Windows
News Microsoft is introducing additions to Windows XP designed to make the operating system better tuned for peer-to-peer applications. The software giant on Wednesday unveiled a beta, or testing version, of the Windows XP Peer-to-Peer Software...
[February 27, 2003, 7:39]
Sun: P2P works for business
News Sun Microsystems, aiming to demonstrate that its open-source peer-to-peer software is gaining ground, on Tuesday announced a new version and highlighted how customers are using it. Sun's Jxta software, introduced with great fanfare nearly two years...
[March 5, 2003, 10:50]
Stochastic Fluid Theory for P2P Streaming Systems
White Papers This paper develops a simple stochastic fluid model that seeks to expose the fundamental characteristics and limitations of P2P streaming systems. This model accounts for many of the essential features of a P2P streaming system, including the peers...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Kazaa founders tout P2P VoIP
Talkback I have allways wondered who was the person or persons who was putting these hundreds of blank dummy downloads on the Kazaa P2P system. I found out recently the film industry hires companies to put these blank downloads on the internet so as to...
[August 17, 2004, 15:24]
Source Vs Data-Driven Approach for Live P2P Streaming
White Papers Live streaming applications are increasing on the Internet. These applications are delay sensitive and need group communication. Presently, protocols designed for this kind of communication do not rely on the classical client/server model used in...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
A Simple Model for Analyzing P2P Streaming Protocols
White Papers P2P streaming tries to achieve scalability (like P2P file distribution) and at the same time meet real-time playback requirements. It is a challenging problem still not well understood. This paper describes a simple stochastic model that can be...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
