Archivos October 2007


Pirates’ Quest May Spell Trouble for bittorrent
NewTeeVee, CA - Oct 31, 2007
The Pirate Bay will move away from the bittorrent protocol within the next 12 months, one of the site’s admins has announced in a video interview. ...

Wired News

Pass the Syrup: Waffles Promises to be Next Oink
Wired News - 21 hours ago
By David Kravets October 31, 2007 | 5:39:54 PMCategories: BitTorrent Another illicit music file-sharing venue is set to debut in the wake of last week's ...

The Pirate Bay develops P2P protocol to replace bittorrent
TechSpot - Oct 31, 2007
By Jose Vilches, techspot.com bittorrent’s recent decision to make newer versions of its client closed source has raised some concerns among many in the ...

Wired Blogs

The Pirate Bay Wants To Ditch bittorrent
Wired Blogs - Oct 31, 2007
By Scott Gilbertson October 31, 2007 | 11:24:12 amcategories: P2P The Pirate Bay (TPB) isn't happy with the fact that bittorrent Inc. is no longer making ...

MP3 Newswire

Pirate Bay Intros .P2P. Splits bittorrent
MP3 Newswire, NJ - Oct 31, 2007
By Richard Menta 10/31/07 The Pirate Bay is one of the web's most popular bittorrent sites, but the bittorrent corporation itself would like to possess ...

OiNK Goes Down - Crawdaddy

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OiNK Goes Down
Crawdaddy - 4 hours ago
The 24-year-old Ellis was the creator of the BitTorrent site OiNK’s Pink Palace, usually referred to as simply, OiNK. OiNK was a private BitTorrent Tracker ...
NIN's Trent Reznor Claims To Have Account At Torrent Site OiNK Profy
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The Uncertain Future of bittorrent
Slashdot - Oct 31, 2007
javipas writes "The people behind the popular bittorrent tracker is working on a new version of the bittorrent protocol that could become the successor to ...

bittorrent to be killed by Pirate Bay plans?
Tech, UK - Oct 31, 2007
Millions of users of the bittorrent file-sharing standard could be on the verge of extinction if the 'freedom fighters' at The Pirate Bay have their way and ...

Waffles.fm Wil Be PRIVATE, Sweden-Based bittorrent Music Tracker Site
Zeropaid, CA - Oct 30, 2007
Waffles.fm is a new PRIVATE bittorrent tracker scheduled for launch at midnight PST tonight. It promises to be based off of the recently shuttered oink's ...

TECH.BLORGE.com

The Pirate Bay developing new P2P protocol to replace bittorrent
TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - Oct 30, 2007
By Dave Parrack The Pirate Bay, one of the largest bittorrent trackers in the world, is reported to be actively working on developing a new peer to peer ...

bittorrent CEO Says Comcast's Throttling is 'Symptom of a Larger ...
Zeropaid, CA - Oct 30, 2007
There's an interesting new interview on The Post with bittorrent Inc.'s President and CEO Ashwin Navin in which he gives his take on the whole Comcast ...

Whispers Emerge Of A Torrent-Free Future
WebProNews, KY - 15 hours ago
Closing up parts of the BitTorrent protocol may have been a necessary business decision by Bram Cohen and company, but it's motivated the people behind The ...

The Pirate Bay: 'bittorrent as a Protocol Won't Last Much Longer'
Zeropaid, CA - Oct 30, 2007
One of bittorrent's most senior pirates speaks out in an in interview for a German blog and what he has to say may cause some concern over at bittorrent ...
Waffles.fm Wil Be PRIVATE, Sweden-Based Music Tracker Site Zeropaid
What to Use Instead of oink Zeropaid
all 4 news articles

Pirate Bay Crafting bittorrent Replacement
BroadbandReports.com, NY - Oct 30, 2007
Not particularly impressed with bittorrent's decision to make their protocol closed source, the folks behind the Swedish website the Pirate Bay say they've ...
The Pirate Bay wants to develop its own P2P protocol CrunchGear
all 3 news articles

GridNetworks Gets $9.5M
Northwest innovation, WA - 4 hours ago
... the firm's technology competes against content delivery networks, and similar offerings from BitTorrent, Move Networks, and others.
GridNetworks raises $9.5M Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) Bizjournals.com
Internet TV Delivery Firm GridNetworks Lands $9.5 Million Digital Media Wire
Panorama Capital Leads $9.5 Million Series A Funding in ... Business Wire (press release)
all 9 news articles

Comcast and Friends Aren't So Neutral After All
Motley Fool - Oct 30, 2007
Take, for example, recent word that Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) has been blocking BitTorrent traffic. This comes after Comcast was recently accused of blocking ...
Blocking Internet file transfers: How big is the problem? San Jose Mercury News
Comcast's Internet 'Throttling' Exposes Tip of the Iceberg Huffington Post
Will AT&T and Verizon Kill the Internet? WebWire (press release)
Huffington Post
all 6 news articles

I guess truth is not an option for telcos
NetworkWorld.com, MA - 1 hour ago
In mid-October the Associated Press reported that a series of experiments it had performed had proven that Comcast was blocking the use of bittorrent. ...
Netuitive upgrades service-management software ARNnet
Five Things Tom Ridge Has Learned About Risk CIO
all 17 news articles

Filesharing takes another hit with shutdown of Oink’s Pink Palace
Daily Cardinal, WI - 22 hours ago
One of the most prestigious and revered sources for BitTorrent filesharing, Oink’s Pink Palace, was shut down by Interpol. ...

TorrentFreak

The Pirate Bay Sees a Future Without bittorrent
TorrentFreak - 21 hours ago
For a while now, they have been working on a brand new protocol - which may come to replace bittorrent in the near future. Why a new protocol? ...

360AM: BitTorrent CEO Addresses Comcast P2P Actions; Freston Joins ...
Cable360.net, NY - Oct 30, 2007
Comcast "symptom of a larger problem," says BitTorrent head; Tom Freston will chair merged US philanthropic groups co-founded by Bono; and more Tuesday news ...

Fiber Makers to Benefit From ISP Bandwidth Woes
Seeking Alpha, NY - 2 hours ago
... transfer is cut off when they try to download legal copies of movies when they use peer-to-peer, file-swapping software like BitTorrent and Gnutella. ...

BitTorrent CEO talks technology
The Post Online, OH - Oct 29, 2007
The Post’s Dave Hendricks interviewed Ashwin Navin, president and CEO of BitTorrent Inc., on file sharing and the recording industry’s lawsuits against ...

OiNK Back Online - Slyck

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OiNK Back Online
Slyck, NY - 16 hours ago
It's been an interesting week for the BitTorrent site OiNK. The private BitTorrent tracker has had it rough lately, being forced off line, ...

Blocking Internet file transfers: How big is the problem?
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - 22 hours ago
One big question is whether the approach Comcast uses for interrupting bittorrent and other peer-to-peer services is the most technically efficient way to ...
Vindu's View: Comcast often pulls plug on some file-sharing San Jose Mercury News
Comcast to employees: talking about blocking P2P can get you fired Ars Technica
Comcast May Block Access to Certain Online Content Howard University The Hilltop (subscription)
Huffington Post - Huffington Post
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Through the Wire - Broadcast Newsroom

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Through the Wire
Broadcast Newsroom, CA - 8 hours ago
The alleged smoking gun: The AP tried to share a digitized copy of the King James Bible using bittorrent software and Comcast's cable modems, ...

What to Use Instead of OiNK - Zeropaid

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What to Use Instead of OiNK
Zeropaid, CA - Oct 29, 2007
Brokep from The Pirate Bay lays down a nice list of music related BitTorrent tracker sites to use while the dust settles from the recent closure of the once ...

Gadget Envy: Vudu Movie Download Service
Rolling Stone - 22 hours ago
Why It’s Worthy: Since it uses peer-to-peer technology (the same as BitTorrent), Vudu’s download process is fast, meaning if you have a decent broadband ...

Vindu's View: Comcast often pulls plug on some file-sharing
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - Oct 28, 2007
... modem and start downloading a legal copy of the vintage Hitchcock thriller "The Man Who Knew Too Much" using BitTorrent, a popular file-sharing program. ...
From driving to file-sharing, the Brits do it backwards CNET Blogs
Comcast's Internet 'Throttling' Exposes Tip of the Iceberg Huffington Post
all 6 news articles

LEAKS: Insider Tells Us There's Proof Comcast Contracts bittorrent ...
The Consumerist, NY - Oct 27, 2007
In the reports about Comcast's disruption of traffic between customers using the bittorrent file-sharing protocol, it's alleged that Comcast outsources the ...

OiNK Makes a Statement and Supports the BitTorrent Hydra
TorrentFreak - Oct 27, 2007
The tracker won’t return anytime soon but Oink.cd is now linking to a Google search that links to a list of private BitTorrent trackers. ...

Senators want probe of Comcast's bittorrent 'discrimination'
CNet News.com Blog - Oct 27, 2007
Sens. Byron Dorgan (DN.D.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) on Friday sent a letter asking Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) to convene a hearing as soon as possible ...
Senators Use Comcast Blocking to Revive Net Neutrality Debate BetaNews
all 5 news articles

Ars Technica

Hottest act in town, and on BitTorrent: Mac OS X Leopard
Ars Technica, MA - Oct 27, 2007
BitTorrent was the first thing we checked, and to no one's surprise, Leopard is readily available to anyone who wants to "pirate" it. ...

How leaked Comcast “what to say” memo on bittorrent throttling ...
ZDNet - Oct 26, 2007
Note that the recommended response is that”we do not block access… to Bit Torrent.” The keyword there is “block.” That’s different than priority packetize, ...

Sharing Is Never Easy - New York Times

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Sharing Is Never Easy
New York Times, United States - Oct 26, 2007
But an anonymous Comcast executive admitted that in some cases peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic like that generated by BitTorrent, is delayed, ...

MP3 Newswire

Oink Users Recall Defunct Song-Swap Site's Strange, Stringent Rules
Wired News - Oct 26, 2007
By Monty Phan 10.26.07 | 6:30 PM When authorities shut down Oink.cd on Oct. 23, former users of the private BitTorrent tracker lamented the loss of one of ...
Oink: We're no Different From Google MP3 Newswire
British, Dutch police close file-sharing Web site OiNK, arrest its ... SunJournal.com (subscription)
Yoni Goldstein: Goodbye, Oink; Google beware National Post
Canada.com - MTV.com
all 13 news articles

LEAKS: Insider Tells Us There's Proof Comcast Contracts BitTorrent ...
The Consumerist, NY - 19 hours ago
In the reports about Comcast's disruption of traffic between customers using the BitTorrent file-sharing program, it's alleged that Comcast outsources the ...
Comcast Ceases Throttling Traffic After Negative AP Story? The Consumerist
all 2 news articles

KPIC

What’s Online Sharing Is Never Easy
New York Times, United States - 1 hour ago
But an anonymous Comcast executive admitted that in some cases peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic like that generated by BitTorrent, is delayed, ...
Comcast, Verizon troubles illustrate peer-to-peer software opportunity CNET News.com
Comcast as Big Brother: Internet giant interrupts file-sharing ... San Jose Mercury News
Comcast denies blocking BitTorrent traffic TechSpot
TMCnet - MediaPost Publications
all 75 news articles

Comcast's "We Don't Throttle BitTorrent" Internal Talking Points Memo
The Consumerist, NY - Oct 26, 2007
It's regarding recent reports that the cable company disrupts traffic between customers using the BitTorrent file-sharing program: You may get customers who ...

TorrentFreak

TI Free On Bail, Ace of Base Reunites, Morrissey Is Not Amused
Rolling Stone - 7 hours ago
The nation of Pirate Bay is looking to resurrect the raided BitTorrent site OiNK and launch it under the new name BOiNK. Two mega groups from the Nineties ...
The Pirate Bay To Bring Back OiNK TorrentFreak
The Pirate Bay to bring back OiNK? TechSpot
Pirate Bay Working on an OiNK Sequel Called BOiNK Wired Blogs
all 5 news articles

Comcast’s Wrong Approach - CircleID

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Comcast’s Wrong Approach
CircleID, Canada - 23 hours ago
Recently Comcast has received a serious black eye for blocking BitTorrent traffic in what it says was just a legitimate exercise in protecting most users ...

TorrentFreak

BitTorrent Site Promises to Bring Back OiNK
BetaNews - Oct 26, 2007
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews The Pirate Bay said Friday that it was working on bringing back OiNK, a BitTorrent tracker that featured music files from "hundreds ...
TI Free On Bail, Ace of Base Reunites, Morrissey Is Not Amused Rolling Stone
The Pirate Bay promises to bring back OiNK Afterdawn.com
OiNK Domains Now Point To The Pirate Bay DNS TorrentFreak
TechSpot - Wired Blogs
all 6 news articles

Senators want probe of Comcast's BitTorrent 'discrimination'
CNet News.com Blog - Oct 26, 2007
Sens. Byron Dorgan (DN.D.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) on Friday sent a letter asking Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) to convene a hearing as soon as possible ...
Senators urge committee chairman to hold Net Neutrality hearing Afterdawn.com
Telecoms' Controversial Policies Spark Senators' Request for ... Wired News
all 3 news articles

Acquisition (0(v201)) - ZDNet

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Acquisition (0(v201))
ZDNet - 2 hours ago
Acquisition supports both the Gnutella network and BitTorrent. Version 2.0 Build 201 includes unspecified updates. (Is this item miscategorized? ...

Pirates work together to bring back OiNK
Canada.com, Canada - 1 hour ago
Much to the chagrin of the music industry and international law enforcement, the swashbuckling operators of The Pirate Bay — a BitTorrent website in the ...

The Consumerist

Comcast BitTorrent Meddling Draws The Attention Of Congress
The Consumerist, NY - Oct 26, 2007
Comcast's meddling with BitTorrent has prompted a member of congress to say something nice about file sharing. Aww! "Comcast has made a major mistake in ...
Sharing Is Never Easy New York Times
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The Consumerist

Congress Backs Up BitTorrent
Linux Journal - Oct 25, 2007
It's long been alleged that Comcast was targeting BitTorrent users by throttling their downloads. Last week, the AP reported that it had conducted tests ...
Comcast BitTorrent Meddling Draws The Attention Of Congress The Consumerist
Boucher takes Comcast to task ZDNet
Comcast controversy digs up Net Neutrality TechSpot
all 5 news articles

KPIC

Comcast, Verizon troubles illustrate peer-to-peer software opportunity
CNET News.com, CA - Oct 25, 2007
First, Comcast admitted it uses traffic shaping to reduce the bandwidth demands of peer-to-peer file-sharing applications such as BitTorrent. ...
Comcast as Big Brother: Internet giant interrupts file-sharing ... San Jose Mercury News
Comcast Dismisses Claims it Blocks File-Sharing TMCnet
Just An Online Minute… Is Comcast Interfering With Its Competition? MediaPost Publications
Dr. Dobb's Journal - Portal IT
all 67 news articles

Wired News

Apple's Leopard Falls Prey to Torrent Feeding Frenzy
Wired News - Oct 25, 2007
By David Kravets October 25, 2007 | 1:39:45 PMCategories: BitTorrent BitTorrent tracker sites are churning with the seeding and leaching of Apple's latest ...
Apple's New Leopard Hits Illegal Download Sites Switched
all 3 news articles

Congressman Tells Comcast, Hands Off BitTorrent
Slashdot - Oct 25, 2007
... AT&T censoring Pearl Jam's anti-war comments from a streaming concert, and most recently, Comcast finally admitting to using anti-BitTorrent filters. ...

This Just In: If You Hate On BitTorrent Sites You Are Committing A ...
Idolator, NY - Oct 25, 2007
Okay, we give. This will be Idolator's last OiNK-related post unless some actual news drops. There will be no more "commenting on the commentary. ...

KPIC

Congressman to Comcast: Stop interfering with bittorrent
CNet News.com Blog - 1 hour ago
I asked Boucher what he would do if Comcast stuck to its guns and kept discriminating against bittorrent. In particular, I asked him if he would propose ...
Comcast Chided For Managing bittorrent Network Traffic InformationWeek
Comcast, Verizon troubles illustrate peer-to-peer software opportunity CNet News.com Blog
Comcast as Big Brother: Internet giant interrupts file-sharing ... San Jose Mercury News
New York Times - TechSpot
all 175 news articles

Comcast, Verizon troubles illustrate peer-to-peer software opportunity
CNet News.com Blog - 49 seconds ago
First, Comcast admitted it uses traffic shaping to reduce the bandwidth demands of peer-to-peer file-sharing applications such as bittorrent. ...

(Not quite) Crossing the Chasm - Forbes

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(Not quite) Crossing the Chasm
Forbes, NY - 5 hours ago
When discussing why Disney content won't appear on bittorrent anytime soon, he said, "We don't want a Disney movie to be next to Best Breasts on the Web. ...

University Raids Graduate Student Office for Using BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Oct 25, 2007
Sam Zwenger is a graduate student at UNCO and, like many hundreds of thousands of students throughout the US, makes use of bittorrent. ...

p2pnet.net

oink Down, Norwegian bittorrent Trackers Next
TorrentFreak - 19 hours ago
With the bittorrent world spinning on its heels after the shock takedown of the huge oink tracker, there are now indications that the shutdowns may continue ...
oink Database Didn’t ‘Self Destruct’, Wasn’t Encrypted But Users Safe? TorrentFreak
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Hollywood Reporter

'American Gangster' Screener Leaked to BitTorrent
Zeropaid, CA - Oct 24, 2007
Debuts on BitTorrent tracker sites everywhere more than a week before its official release date. The much anticipated crime film "American Gangster" has ...
Ridley Scott, filmmaker Hollywood Reporter
Jay-Z to Get Gangsta at HOB - Nov 6 LAist
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Comcast on BitTorrent: We’re only delaying, not blocking
TechRepublic, KY - Oct 24, 2007
Comcast is left juggling a potential public relations disaster in the wake of a report last week by Associated Press that the company blocks some of its ...

Comcast May Face Lawsuits Over BitTorrent Filtering
Slashdot - Oct 23, 2007
The company is terminating its customers' BitTorrent sessions by sending misleading data onto the network. The end result is that instead of targeting key ...

CNet News.com Blog

After consultations security expert believes Comcast may be ...
ZDNet - 20 hours ago
I do not believe that it would be too difficult to prove that Comcast obtains a benefit by impersonating others to eliminate or reduce BitTorrent traffic. ...
class action lawsuit CNet News.com Blog
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Comcast Chided For Managing BitTorrent Network Traffic
InformationWeek, NY - Oct 23, 2007
"Comcast does not block access to any Web sites or online applications, including peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent," the company said in a statement to ...

Police, IFPI make bacon of oink bittorrent tracker
Ars Technica, MA - Oct 23, 2007
IFPI and BPI, the UK music trade group, spent two years investigating the private bittorrent tracker and worked with police in both the UK and the ...

bit-tech.net

Private BitTorrent Site Raided, Operators Arrested
BetaNews - 19 hours ago
The service hosted hundreds of thousands of torrent files, and had millions of users connecting to those torrents, making it one of the largest BitTorrent ...
Bittorrent site OINK raided and shut down Punknews.org
OiNK Is The Latest BitTorrent Site To Fall Wired Blogs
Police shut down illegal music piracy website Telegraph.co.uk
Portal IT - NME.com
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CNet News.com Blog

Comcast May Face Lawsuits Over BitTorrent Filtering
Slashdot - 2 hours ago
The company is terminating its customers' BitTorrent sessions by sending misleading data onto the network. The end result is that instead of targeting key ...
class action lawsuit CNet News.com Blog
all 2 news articles

Gigwise

Bittorrent site OINK raided and shut down
Punknews.org - 44 minutes ago
Many of you wrote in with the news that popular private BitTorrent music site Oink was raided and shutdown by Interpol after a two year investigation. ...
OiNK Is The Latest BitTorrent Site To Fall Wired Blogs
Illegal download site shut down in police raid NME.com
OiNK Taken Down by Interpol, Investigation Into Users Continues Zeropaid
Slyck - PC Pro
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PhysOrg.com

OiNK Is The Latest BitTorrent Site To Fall
Wired Blogs - 47 minutes ago
By Scott Gilbertson October 23, 2007 | 9:57:02 AMCategories: P2P It's a bad week to be a site admin, earlier today OiNK, a private BitTorrent site ...
Illegal download site shut down in police raid NME.com
OiNK Busted Slyck
Police smash pre-release music site PC Pro
Web User - CMJ.com
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Comcast To Face Lawsuits Over bittorrent Filtering
Hard OCP, TX - Oct 23, 2007
There is an interesting editorial at C|Net today on the ever-so-popular topic of Comcast filtering bittorrent content. There is a good deal of information ...

Cops crash invite-only BitTorrent network
Register, UK - Oct 23, 2007
By Chris Williams → More by this author Police raids in the UK's North East and the Netherlands today have shut down invitation-only BitTorrent music ...

Police shut down OiNK BitTorrent site
CrunchGear, NY - Oct 23, 2007
Police raided and shut down the OiNK BitTorrent site earlier today after a two-year investigation, shocking users across the BT community. ...

The Consumerist

Comcasts says it only ‘delays’ bittorrent traffic, doesn’t block it
CrunchGear, NY - Oct 23, 2007
Comcast, in responding to last week’s AP investigation that found it blocks bittorrent traffic, said today it only “delays” the traffic and doesn’t outright ...
Comcast Ceases Throttling Traffic After Negative AP Story? The Consumerist
Comcast 'Delaying' Not 'Blocking' Traffic BroadbandReports.com
Comcast Impersonates Users' Computers To Meddle With Internet Traffic The Consumerist
all 6 news articles

CNET Blogs

Comcast to face lawsuits over bittorrent filtering
CNET Blogs, CA - Oct 23, 2007
The blogosphere is abuzz over an Associated Press investigative article this past Friday on the subject of Comcast's bittorrent filtering. ...
Comcast shooting itself in the foot with traffic shaping ... Ars Technica
Comcast Admits Delaying, Not Blocking, P2P Traffic PC Magazine
Comcast Traffic Filtering Could Lead To Legal Showdown Wired Blogs
CIO Today
all 10 news articles

Margins Check: BitTorrent strategies, YouTube copyright issues ...
RCRNews.com, CO - Oct 23, 2007
--Peer-to-peer network enabler BitTorrent appointed a new CEO and shifted its current CEO and founder to the role of chief scientist. ...

Comcast: We’re Delaying, Not Blocking, BitTorrent Traffic
New York Times, United States - Oct 22, 2007
“Comcast does not block access to any Web sites or online applications, including peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent” read a written statement. ...

Wired Blogs

Comcast Admits Delaying, Not Blocking, P2P Traffic
PC Magazine - 17 hours ago
"Comcast does not block access to any Web sites or online applications, including peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent," a Comcast spokeswoman said Monday. ...
Comcast Traffic Filtering Could Lead To Legal Showdown Wired Blogs
Reality check: Comcast packet forging proves you can’t have ... ZDNet
Comcast traffic blocking: even more apps, groupware clients affected Ars Technica
CNet News.com Blog
all 9 news articles

Kotaku.com

Manhunt 2 leaked by Sony Europe employee
Register, UK - 2 hours ago
Last month, word got out that an uncensored beta of the game leaked into various BitTorrent sites. The warez build allowed gamers with modded PS2s to play ...
Take-Two blames Sony for Manhunt 2 leaks Play.tm
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bittorrent Gets More Social with allpeers
TorrentFreak - Oct 22, 2007
allpeers is a social bittorrent extension for Firefox. The ease of use and the appealing user interface make it especially popular among people who are ...
Comcast Slowing Some Torrents; Says They Hog Bandwidth Marketing Vox News
all 2 news articles

Comcast Impersonates Users To Control P2P Traffic
NewsFactor Network, CA - 20 minutes ago
Apparently in an effort to maintain quality of service, Comcast cuts off uploads of files to BitTorrent and other P2P networks. While observers agree that ...

Comcast Internet Interference Shows Need For Net Neutrality ...
eHomeUpgrade (press release), CA - 3 hours ago
By NEWS RELEASE [4 Reads] Public Knowledge President Gigi B. Sohn said today that Comcast’s suppression of peer-to-peer traffic shows yet again that ...

Digitaltrends.com

More Evidence of Comcast Internet Filtering
Digitaltrends.com, OR - 32 minutes ago
The shutdown technique is virtually identical to that cited by the Associated Press in its investigation of BitTorrent sharing on machines using Comcast ...

Comcast Is Blocking More Than BitTorrent Including Lotus Notes
InformationWeek, NY - Oct 22, 2007
Yesterday, we posted about some experiments showing that Comcast is forging packets in order to interfere with its customers' use of BitTorrent. ...

Take-Two blames Sony for Manhunt 2 leaks
Play.tm, UK - 7 hours ago
A Sony Computer Entertainment Europe employee has officially been blamed by Take-Two for leaking unrevised code for Manhunt 2 onto the internet last month. ...

Wired Blogs

Comcast Traffic Monitoring A Slap In The Face To Net Neutrality
Wired Blogs - 36 minutes ago
The Associated Press recently ran some tests and discovered that, yes, Comcast does throttle BitTorrent traffic. So how can Comcast say it doesn't throttle ...

CNet News.com Blog

Reality check: Comcast packet forging proves you can’t have ...
ZDNet - Oct 22, 2007
Yesterday, we posted about some experiments showing that Comcast is forging packets in order to interfere with its customers’ use of BitTorrent. ...
Comcast traffic blocking: even more apps, groupware clients affected Ars Technica
Comcast impedes hi-speed file sharing p2pnet.net
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'I Was a Hacker for the MPAA' - Slashdot

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ABC News

'I Was a Hacker for the MPAA'
Slashdot - 18 hours ago
Wired has up an article with a man named Robert Anderson, who was recruited by the MPAA in 2005 to inform on people in the BitTorrent community. ...
Former TorrentSpy collaborator turns to MPAA TechSpot
MPAA hacker comes clean in interview Afterdawn.com
I Was a Hacker for the MPAA Dslreports
ABC News - Dslreports
all 11 news articles

Comcast resets BitTorrent users; net neutrality lovers lash out ...
Computerworld, MA - Oct 22, 2007
It's IT Blogwatch: in which Comcast gets outed for secretly disconnecting BitTorrent seeds. Not to mention contrasting views of the West and the Middle-East ...

Comcast caught blocking BitTorrent traffic
VNUNet.com, UK - Oct 22, 2007
US cable provider Comcast is interfering with BitTorrent file transfer traffic for its broadband subscribers. A test by Associated Press demonstrated that ...

Don’t like Net Neutrality? What about “Structural Separation?”
ZDNet - 13 hours ago
Taking note of Comcast’s admission/confession that they “shape” BitTorrent and other high-bandwidth Internet traffic in order to manage their network, ...

Comcast traffic blocking: even more apps, groupware clients affected
Ars Technica, MA - 11 hours ago
By Eric Bangeman | Published: October 21, 2007 - 11:15PM CT Last week, we reported on mounting evidence that Comcast is targeting and disrupting BitTorrent ...

Gizmodo.com

Exclusive: I Was a Hacker for the MPAA
Wired News - 11 hours ago
Here's a screenshot of his Powerpoint pitch, illustrating for the MPAA the Bittorrent ecosystem. Promises of Hollywood fame and fortune persuaded a young ...
'I Was a Hacker for the MPAA' Slashdot
MPAA hacker comes clean in interview Afterdawn.com
I Was a Hacker for the MPAA Dslreports
Gizmodo.com - BroadbandReports.com
all 8 news articles

What’s on tonight? Just tape it off the internet
TechCrunch, CA - 20 hours ago
He designed the site a year ago when BitTorrent was the main source of online TV. However, as he says, “This year has been a complete turnaround and the TV ...
Tioti.com wins ’seven figures’ from Pond TechCrunch
all 2 news articles

Report Reveals Comcast Interferes with Peer-to-Peer Traffic
ToTheCenter.com, NY - 8 hours ago
The report supposedly indicates that problems only arise with such sites as file-sharing site BitTorrent when downloading a file. ...

How To Bypass Comcast’s BitTorrent Throttling
TorrentFreak - 17 hours ago
Back in August we reported that Comcast was limiting BitTorrent traffic. Comcast denied our allegations, even though we had some pretty solid evidence. ...
POLL ON: AP tests show Comcast blocks BitTorrent transfers of King ... ZDNet
Report: Comcast Possibly Throttling BitTorrent Traffic Wired News
Comcast Blocking Online Access To Christian Scripture Wired Blogs
Dslreports
all 7 news articles

TECH.BLORGE.com

Comcast sabotage user uploads
TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - 1 hour ago
BitTorrent does have legal uses, and while they may be in the minority any claim that they don't exist would be a massive faux pas. ...

10 Private BitTorrent Trackers Open for Signup
TorrentFreak - Oct 20, 2007
Private BitTorrent trackers are known for their high speed downloads and are considered to be “safer” than public trackers. The only downside is that it is ...

Comcast, bittorrent and spam spam spam
ZDNet - Oct 20, 2007
Many small isps, especially if they’re based on wifi, routinely throttle down bittorrent and other peer-to-peer applications. They have done so for years. ...

p2pnet.net

Comcast impedes hi-speed file sharing
p2pnet.net, Canada - 6 hours ago
If widely applied by other ISPs, the technology Comcast is using would be a crippling blow to the BitTorrent, eDonkey and Gnutella file-sharing networks. ...

Comcast busted for bagging BitTorrents (again)
Register, UK - Oct 19, 2007
"Comcast does not block access to any Websites or online applications, including peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent," reads the company's canned ...

Biz Break: Stock market echoes Black Monday
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - 13 hours ago
Although the networks are mainly known as venues for trading of copyrighted music, software and movies, bittorrent and others have emerged recently as a ...

Comcast Suspected of Limiting BitTorrent Use
InternetNews.com - Oct 19, 2007
By Andy Patrizio After months of allegations that Comcast has been throttling BitTorrent uploads, a report from the Associated Press on Friday appears to ...

Comcast exec comments on BitTorrent controversy
InfoWorld, CA - Oct 19, 2007
Asked whether ISP Comcast was disrupting BitTorrent file-sharing traffic and peer-to-peer communications, a Comcast official at the Web 2.0 Summit on Friday ...

Report: Comcast Blocks File-Sharing Traffic
Broadcast Newsroom, CA - 11 hours ago
(Multichannel News) _ Comcast "actively interferes" with attempts by some high-speed Internet subscribers to share files using the bittorrent application, ...

POLL ON: AP tests show Comcast blocks BitTorrent transfers of King ...
ZDNet - Oct 19, 2007
AP selected the King James Bible, with transfers attempted via BitTorrent from Comcast-connected computers in the Philadelphia and San Francisco metro areas ...

Comcast really does block BitTorrent traffic after all
CNET News.com, CA - Oct 19, 2007
For a few months Comcast has been the subject of scattered reports that say it throttles BitTorrent traffic. TorrentFreak said in August that Comcast was ...

German Court Tells Telco It Can't Advertise On BitTorrent Search ...
Techdirt - Oct 19, 2007
A German court has apparently not only decided that it doesn't like bittorrent search engines, but that it's somehow illegal to advertise on one. ...
Telecoms Outfit Banned From BitTorrent Advertizing TorrentFreak
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KCBY.com 11

Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
The Associated Press - 1 hour ago
If widely applied by other ISPs, the technology Comcast is using would be a crippling blow to the BitTorrent, eDonkey and Gnutella file-sharing networks. ...
ISP Comcast actively blocking customer's use of BitTorrent Neoseeker
Comcast caught throttling BitTorrent traffic MacNN
How Comcast blocks your Internet traffic Salon
NewTeeVee - Ars Technica
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Report: Comcast Possibly Throttling BitTorrent Traffic
Wired News - Oct 19, 2007
By Terrence Russell October 19, 2007 | 1:35:53 PMCategories: Telecom What happens when you cross the Bible, Comcast, BitTorrent, and a curious news ...

Comcast Does Indeed Block BitTorrent
NewTeeVee, CA - 23 minutes ago
The AP’s tests showed that Comcast (CMCSA) is not hindering the downloading of BitTorrent files, but the company does block or delay uploads. ...

KIMA CBS 29

Comcast goes for the money, not service
Globe and Mail, Canada - 55 minutes ago
File-sharing chews up considerably more than half the traffic on the Internet, and file-sharers, using such services as BitTorrent, are in a small minority. ...
Report: Comcast Blocks File-Sharing Traffic Multichannel News (subscription)
Report: Comcast Blocking File-Sharing Users AHN
Comcast blocks some Internet traffic BusinessWeek
all 180 news articles

Evidence mounts that Comcast is targeting BitTorrent traffic
Ars Technica, MA - 1 hour ago
By Jacqui Cheng | Published: October 19, 2007 - 11:40AM CT Comcast has been "caught" blocking BitTorrent traffic in some areas, according to tests performed ...

Estimates: Radiohead Made $6-$10 Million on Initial Album Sales
Wired News - Oct 19, 2007
Meanwhile, Forbes and BigChampagne revealed that on the first day the album was available, approximately 240K people downloaded it for free over BitTorrent, ...
Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album Slashdot
all 2 news articles

Comcast Confirmed as Discriminating Against FileSharing Traffic
Slashdot - 4 hours ago
The site notes that while illegal content trading is a common use of the technology, Bittorrent is emerging as an effective medium for transferring ...

Telecoms Outfit Banned From BitTorrent Advertizing
TorrentFreak - 5 hours ago
A federation of video and media outlets has taken out an injunction against a major telecoms company to forbid them from advertising on a BitTorrent site ...

The Associated Press

AP Tests Comcast's File-Sharing Filter
The Associated Press - 2 hours ago
An AP reporter attempted to download, using file-sharing program BitTorrent, a copy of the King James Bible from two computers in the Philadelphia and San ...
Report: Comcast Blocking File-Sharing Users AHN
all 116 news articles

KIDK

Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
The Associated Press - 6 hours ago
If widely applied by other ISPs, the technology Comcast is using would be a crippling blow to the BitTorrent, eDonkey and Gnutella file-sharing networks. ...
Comcast Does Indeed Block BitTorrent NewTeeVee
Evidence mounts that Comcast is targeting BitTorrent traffic Ars Technica
Comcast goes for the money, not service Globe and Mail
The Associated Press - Bizjournals.com
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Bittorrent sites enjoy booming web traffic
Tech, UK - Oct 19, 2007
With home broadband connections handling increased amounts of web traffic, bittorrent is becoming an ever-more popular method of downloading entertainment ...

P2P vs Radiohead's "free" Rainbows: why P2P can be a hard habit to ...
Ars Technica, MA - 11 hours ago
Despite that, BitTorrent swapping of the album has been on the level of other major releases. Are people really so cheap that they won't even register with ...
Radiohead's newest album isn't 'In Rainbows' - it's the pot of gold Tufts Daily
The economics of Radiohead's "In Rainbows" The Republican - MassLive.com
all 3 news articles

Voice of America

BitTorrent to be Pimped by Nobel Prize Winning Theory
TorrentFreak - Oct 18, 2007
P2P researchers are working with the Harvard mechanism design group on implementing the “Nobel prize winning” mechanism design theory into their BitTorrent ...
2007 Nobel in Economics: Designing Better Markets Voice of America
Full Text Science Magazine (subscription)
all 3 news articles

It's Here! Ubuntu 7.10 Arrives - eWeek

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It's Here! Ubuntu 7.10 Arrives
eWeek,  NY - 18 hours ago
Users can also download Ubuntu 7.10 via BitTorrent. In these early hours, we found that the Ubuntu Torrents are not especially fast. ...

TheMustangNews.com

"In Rainbows" Pirated A Lot, Despite Name-Your-Price Deal
The Consumerist, NY - Oct 18, 2007
They do know their favorite BitTorrent site and they use it every day," he says. "It's quite simply easier for folks to get the illegal version than the ...
Dash Express gets enhanced geo-feeds engadget
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Wired Blogs

Microsoft Office For Mac 2008 Beta Hits Bittorrent
Wired Blogs - Oct 18, 2007
... posting new feature tours every week, but now someone has leaked the private beta on to the bittorrent network and hands-on user reviews are starting to ...

After Demonoid, Canadian Music Labels Take on bittorrent Trackers
TorrentFreak - Oct 18, 2007
After the CRIA forced Demonoid to block access to Canadian users, four recording labels have turned their attention to two other bittorrent trackers hosted ...

BitTorrent names Douglas Walker as CEO
Telecom Paper (subscription), Netherlands - Oct 18, 2007
BitTorrent, home to the global standard for content delivery on the internet, has appointed Douglas Walker as CEO. Walker used to be CEO of Alias Systems. ...

Web 2.0 Summit hosts News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, MySpace CEO ...
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 8 hours ago
And many of Web 2.0's big stars showed up, from DeWolfe and Murdoch to YouTube's Chad Hurley, Slide's Max Levchin and BitTorrent's Bram Cohen.

New York Times

Networks Start to Offer TV on the Web
New York Times, United States - Oct 17, 2007
Using free BitTorrent technology, they can find and illegally download almost any episode of any recent TV show to their computers. (Just don’t get caught. ...
TOTALLY TV BLOG: 'Battle of the Network Stars' revisited Bridgewater Courier News
STUDIO BRIEFING TV: October 16, 2007 MovieWeb
all 5 news articles

New York Times

Networks Start to Offer TV on the Web
New York Times, United States - 4 hours ago
Using free BitTorrent technology, they can find and illegally download almost any episode of any recent TV show to their computers. (Just don’t get caught. ...
All networks have a slide rule of nerds now Houston Chronicle
TOTALLY TV BLOG: 'Battle of the Network Stars' revisited Bridgewater Courier News
all 4 news articles

Introducing gigaom Facebook App, Question of the Day
GigaOm, CA - 8 hours ago
Om Malik on bittorrent Finally Has A New CEO, CTO Bitter do you work for bittorrent? It seems like you do... because otherwise you would have used your real ...
Web 2.0 Summit: Zuckerberg Admits to Deal-Making GigaOm
all 2 news articles

Caroline mccarthy - Daily Download

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Caroline mccarthy
Daily Download, CA - 14 hours ago
Peer-to-peer company bittorrent is set to announce on Tuesday morning the availability of a new enterprise content delivery product, bittorrent DNA. ...
Skype Equips myspace Users to Make Free Calls TechCrunch
all 2 news articles

BitTorrent Bets on New CEO, New Business Model
Wired News - Oct 17, 2007
By Julie Sloane 10.17.07 | 12:00 AM BitTorrent co-founders Bram Cohen (left) and Ashwin Navin (right) flank new CEO Doug Walker. Here's a business conundrum ...

BitTorrent Finally Has A New CEO, CTO
GigaOm, CA - Oct 17, 2007
BitTorrent, the San Francisco-based company that has long been looking for a new chief executive officer, has finally found one: Douglas Walker, ...
Cisco Brazil Scandal: Official Statement and Relevant Facts GigaOm
Trouble in Telco Land: Cisco Brazil Raided, Ericsson Blows Up GigaOm
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BitTorrent Names New CEO, CTO - NewTeeVee

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BitTorrent Names New CEO, CTO
NewTeeVee, CA - 2 hours ago
BitTorrent today said it has named Douglas Walker, former chief executive of Alias Systems, as its new CEO, and Eric Klinker, former chief technology of ...
BitTorrent Appoints Walker CEO Television Week
all 4 news articles

DomPlayer Rips Off aXXo BitTorrent Fans for $$$
TorrentFreak - Oct 17, 2007
Here at TorrentFreak we feel we have a responsibility to let the BitTorrent community know if someone is planning to disrupt their free-flowing file-sharing ...

infoworld Daily Podcast - InfoWorld

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infoworld Daily Podcast
InfoWorld, CA - Oct 17, 2007
Open Source Initiative approves a pair of Microsoft licenses, US Congress asks Yahoo to explain false statements, Intel shines up Diamondville chip, ...

50x Faster Than BitTorrent? Dream On!
TorrentFreak - Oct 17, 2007
First of all, if Kaiser Kuo’s claim is right this would mean that on average, BitTorrent users would use less than 2% of their available bandwidth when ...
Chinese P2P Trumps US Technologies Wired News
Another Example Of Less Intellectual Property Protection Leading ... Techdirt
all 3 news articles

Tech Chronicles - San Francisco Chronicle

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Tech Chronicles
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 6 hours ago
BitTorrent plans to announce today that Bram Cohen, the wunderkind developer who created the original BitTorrent file-sharing technology, is stepping aside ...

Industry Moves: BitTorrent Appoints New CEO; Focus on Streaming P2P
paidContent.org, CA - Oct 17, 2007
A long due move from BitTorrent, the San Francisco-based P2P file-sharing tech firm: it has appointed Doug Walker as its new CEO Wednesday, reports Wired. ...

Apple TV Fails to Tap the Net's Limitless Library
Wired News - Oct 16, 2007
The Apple TV could have been in a similar situation with modern file-sharing technologies like bittorrent and Usenet, but it's designed to play video ...
User: itunes-ipod sync involves “too many processes” ZDNet Blogs
all 2 news articles

YuMe and $9 million - BloggingStocks

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YuMe and $9 million
BloggingStocks - 7 hours ago
What's more, YuMe has snagged some top customers, such as Microsoft and BitTorrent. However, it's a tricky market. What kind of ad formats work? ...
YuMe Closes $9 Million Series B TechCrunch
YuMe gets $9M in 2nd round Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal Bizjournals.com
YuMe Closes $9 Million from Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners, BV ... PR Newswire (press release)
Television Week
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CrunchGear

Chinese Bittorrent 50X faster than ours, but you feel hungry again ...
CrunchGear, NY - Oct 16, 2007
China’s Blin.cn bittorrent service lets you download and preview something like season six of 24 in just a few minutes while our Bittorrent and network ...

Chinese P2P Trumps US Technologies
Wired News - 11 hours ago
Kuo talks about up and coming Chinese web services, specifically Blin.cn, which Kuo claims offers streaming downloads at 50 times the speed of BitTorrent ...

Free? Steal It Anyway - Forbes

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Ontario Now

Free? Steal It Anyway
Forbes, NY - 23 hours ago
They do know their favorite BitTorrent site and they use it every day," he says. "It's quite simply easier for folks to get the illegal version than the ...
The Price Is Right Cleveland Free Times
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50x Faster Than BitTorrent: I Want
TechCrunch, CA - Oct 16, 2007
Kuo claims that Blin.cn is 50 times faster than BitTorrent and when downloading the show 24 season 6 he was able to start watching it with 2.2% downloaded ...
China Taking P2P to the Next Level? Zeropaid
all 3 news articles

New York Times

All networks have a slide rule of nerds now
Houston Chronicle, United States - Oct 15, 2007
By MEKEISHA MADDEN TOBY Such qualities make Mike, the bespectacled, cowboy-hat-wearing council leader on Kid Nation, the perfect poster boy for socially ...
TOTALLY TV BLOG: 'Battle of the Network Stars' revisited Bridgewater Courier News
all 5 news articles

China Taking P2P to the Next Level?
Zeropaid, CA - 3 hours ago
An example is Blin.cn that has created a client that is reportedly an unbelievably 50 times faster than BitTorrent! The amazing download speeds lie in the ...

bit-tech.net

The Pirate Bay absconds with domain name of its nemesis
Register, UK - Oct 15, 2007
The lobby group for the record industry has grown fond of branding the leading BitTorrent site as an international hub for illegal file sharing. ...
International Anti-Pirating Group Gets Swashbuckled Wired News
Pirate Bay Takes Anti-Piracy Domain Web Host Industry Review
Pirate Bay Takes Over Anti-Piracy Domain BetaNews
Sydney Morning Herald - Tech
all 31 news articles

p2pnet.net

International Anti-Pirating Group Gets Swashbuckled
Wired News - 1 hour ago
Sweden's The Pirate Bay, the notorious BitTorrent site pointing the way to thousands of copyrighted movies for free, now owns one of the domain ...
Pirate Bay Takes Anti-Piracy Domain Web Host Industry Review
Pirate Bay Takes Over Anti-Piracy Domain BetaNews
Pirates take over anti-piracy website Tech
Inquirer - Appscout
all 14 news articles

TECH.BLORGE.com

Bittorrent lands Apple’s OS X Leopard Gold Master
TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - Oct 15, 2007
... purchase a fully-legit copy, you might be interested to find that the final Gold Master of Leopard is now running wild on the bittorrent sidestreets. ...
Apple to announce Leopard’s release date tomorrow? TECH.BLORGE.com
all 2 news articles

TorrentFreak

Pirate Bay Takes Anti-Piracy Domain
Web Host Industry Review - 4 hours ago
The site is the world's largest BitTorrent tracker with over 630000 torrents that include illegal copies of audio CDs, TV shows, movies, software and video ...
Pirate Bay Takes Over Anti-Piracy Domain BetaNews
Pirates take over anti-piracy website Tech
Pirates commandeer anti-piracy domain name Inquirer
Sydney Morning Herald - Slashdot
all 13 news articles

BitTorrent Hankers for Respectability
Home Theater Magazine - Oct 15, 2007
By Mark Fleischmann October 15, 2007 — What are all those corporate logos doing on the BitTorrent homepage? Isn't this bastion of P2P technology a den of ...

Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard Golden Master hits BitTorrent sites
MacDailyNews - Oct 15, 2007
"Leopard has reached the Golden Master status. It means that Leopard is ready, because Gold Master status is given the final shipping version of the ...
BitLet Bookmarklet: Directly Download Torrents in your Browser TorrentFreak
all 2 news articles

Pirates take over anti-piracy website
Tech, UK - 6 hours ago
The Pirate Bay is, of course, infamous for being the world's largest BitTorrent tracker with over 630000 torrents that comprise illegal rips of audio CDs, ...

TorrentFreak

BitTorrent: Bypass any Firewall or Throttling ISP with SSH
TorrentFreak - Oct 14, 2007
On some networks impossible to use BitTorrent. For example, if you’re at work, school, or connected to Comcast or a public hotspot. ...

BitTorrent hopes to speed commercial content streaming
Computerworld New Zealand, New Zealand - Oct 14, 2007
By Brad Reed Framingham | Monday, 15 October, 2007 BitTorrent wants to shake up the way content is streamed online by taking its method for downloading ...

Radiohead dreams up a hit
Houston Chronicle, United States - 28 minutes ago
It is also below the threshold set by many peer-to-peer sites like BitTorrent, which mandates files be encoded at 192 kbps. The kicker, however, is that ...

OPINION: Leveling the scale
Video Business (subscription), CA - Oct 12, 2007
12 | “BITTORRENT” IS STILL a dirty word in Hollywood. But BitTorrent Inc. could some day help the studios clean up. With its announcement this week that it ...

MPAA Still Wants TorrentSpy's Server Log Data
Zeropaid, CA - 17 hours ago
Apparently the MPAA is out for blood in its case against the once mighty TorrentSpy BitTorrent tracker site and it isn't looking pretty for believers of net ...

MPAA after TorrentSpy. Again - p2pnet.net

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MPAA after TorrentSpy. Again
p2pnet.net, Canada - 17 minutes ago
However, this isn’t enough, according to the MPAA which has filed another complaint and asked the judge for sanctions against the popular BitTorrent site. ...

Vancouver Sun

Worth of Radiohead determined by fans
Bowdoin Orient, ME - Oct 12, 2007
In light of how many people are downloading music off person-to-person networks such as Limewire or BitTorrent, this radical move by Radiohead does make ...
Radiohead sells album online for any price fans set Xinhua
all 293 news articles

BitTorrent goes corporate - PC Authority

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BitTorrent goes corporate
PC Authority, Australia - Oct 11, 2007
By Clement James 12 October 2007 10:45AM BitTorrent Delivery Network Accelerator (DNA) is a peer-accelerated content delivery service that provides faster, ...

Coolest Gadgets

Internet2 is faster…naturally
Coolest Gadgets, UK - 5 hours ago
How do you see this affect the BitTorrent downloading habit of many people? Hopefully the technology will be affordable enough to many when it rolls out for ...
100Gbps Internet2 is ready Register
US switches on 100 Gigabit research network PC Pro
all 3 news articles

MPAA Not Done With TorrentSpy Yet
TorrentFreak - 13 hours ago
However, this is not enough according to the MPAA who has filed another complaint and asked the judge for sanctions against the popular BitTorrent site. ...
Movie studios to judge: TorrentSpy defies court order Webware/Cnet
TorrentSpy In More Legal Hot Water Wired Blogs
all 5 news articles

Argh matey, there be pirates aboard
NDSU The Spectrum, ND - 20 hours ago
BitTorrent is currently the most popular method of peer to peer sharing: If you use BitTorrent there are a few things you should know, first you need a ...

MPAA Asks for Sanctions Against TorrentSpy in Copyright Case
Digital Media Wire, CA - 2 hours ago
San Francisco - The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has asked a federal judge to rule that the movie files linked to through BitTorrent search ...

BitTorrent Goes Legit with Content Delivery Service
Enterprise IT Planet, CT - Oct 11, 2007
By Andy Patrizio Controversial peer-to-peer file sharing company BitTorrent, Inc., is making new moves toward establishing itself as a legitimate content ...

MoviesOnline

28 Weeks Later for 99cents For our Readers
MoviesOnline, Canada - 4 hours ago
We have a very special offer for readers of MoviesOnline courtesy of Fox Atomic and BitTorrent. You as readers of our site can get 28 Weeks later for ...

TorrentFreak

Sailing To A New Island With The Pirate Bay
TorrentFreak - 3 hours ago
Sealand and its native hosting company HavenCo have no copyright regulations making it an attractive target location for the world’s largest BitTorrent ...

In Rainbows - Rolling Stone

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Wired Blogs

In Rainbows
Rolling Stone - Oct 11, 2007
These wily boys may have a secret album-title exchange program with Kelly Clarkson, but everything else about In Rainbows is typically hard-rocking ...
How Fast Did Your Radiohead Album Download? Wired Blogs
In Rainbows Review By Radiohead: In Rainbows Download Post Chronicle
all 4 news articles

Movie studios to judge: TorrentSpy defies court order
CNET Crave Blog - 3 hours ago
Part of what the judge wanted was to identify the BitTorrent files that visitors requested and the dates and times of those requests. ...

BitTorrent goes corporate - VNUNet.com

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BitTorrent goes corporate
VNUNet.com, UK - Oct 11, 2007
BitTorrent Delivery Network Accelerator (DNA) is a peer-accelerated content delivery service that provides faster, more reliable and more efficient access ...

CNN International

TheStar.com | entertainment | Nothing overrated about Radiohead album
Toronto Star,  Canada - Oct 11, 2007
... a couple of hours hence, every BitTorrent-esque file-sharing site on the planet for free – is the most hyped album of Radiohead's career. ...
Worth of Radiohead determined by fans Bowdoin Orient
Radiohead sells album online for any price fans set Xinhua
Reaction Floods in to New Radiohead Disc The Associated Press
New York Magazine
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Wired News

Having Trouble Downloading Radiohead's New Album? Try BitTorrent
Wired News - Oct 10, 2007
The official store at the In Rainbows website was so overloaded and slow this morning, I was able to download the entire album over BitTorrent before I ...

BitTorrent Streaming Service Launched
TorrentFreak - Oct 10, 2007
BitTorrent Inc. has officially launched its P2P streaming service allowing content providers to save a lot of bandwidth. On the other hand, ...

BitTorrent goes legit - Times Online

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BitTorrent goes legit
Times Online, UK - Oct 10, 2007
BitTorrent, the internet file-sharing technology that became notorious as a tool beloved of online pirates, is making another push towards legitimacy in a ...

Adrants

When Everyone's an Advertiser Where Does the Money Go?
Corante, MA - 23 hours ago
TiVo, YouTube, BitTorrent, Kazaa – the names are legion, and will be endless. iTunes was perceived as offering a fair price and great model, until NBC said ...
Radiohead Thinks its Fans Can Set Prices Just Fine, Thanks Adrants
Radiohead releases album online before its available in stores The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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BitTorrent moves from piracy to video streaming
Reuters UK, UK - Oct 10, 2007
By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - BitTorrent Inc., which was co-founded by the developer of a software program widely used to share pirated music and video ...

Web 2.0 Journal

Brightcove Teams Up with BitTorrent to Distribute Full-Screen ...
Web 2.0 Journal, NJ - Oct 10, 2007
Allaire was speaking as Brightcove announced that it is teaming up with BitTorrent to distribute full-screen video using the latest version of Adobe Flash. ...

TechShout!

BitTorrent cleans up its act 9:58AM, Wednesday 10th October 2007
PC Pro, UK - 10 hours ago
BitTorrent, the company behind the software widely used to share pirated music and video over the web, plans to start helping media companies stream videos ...
BitTorrent offers 'peer accelerated' content delivery iTWire
BitTorrent DNA: Torrenting No Longer A Dirty Word TechCrunch
BitTorrent hopes to speed commercial content streaming PC World Canada
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Techtree.com

BitTorrent in Bid for Faster Streaming
Techtree.com, India - Oct 10, 2007
BitTorrent, notorious for the sharing of pirated music and videos, has now tied-up with video Web site, Brightcove, to make for faster streaming over the ...

Rogers rumoured to be LOWERING bandwidth caps for internet service
Digital Home, Canada - 13 hours ago
If the rumours Digital Home is hearing are true, Rogers High Speed Internet (HSI) customers that love Bittorrent, downloading movies and watching lots of ...

BitTorrent hopes to speed commercial content streaming
LinuxWorld.au, Australia - Oct 9, 2007
BitTorrent wants to shake up the way content is streamed online by taking its method for downloading large files and applying it to multimedia streaming. ...

Wired Blogs

Radiohead Will Still Use Labels In order to take advantage of ...
Dslreports - 23 hours ago
Were this an industry label release scheduled for tomorrow, these tracks would already be leaked and available on BitTorrent trackers. ...
Will Radiohead's Servers Be Able to Handle All Tomorrow's Downloads? Wired News
How Fast Did Your Radiohead Album Download? Wired Blogs
all 7 news articles

What’s On GigaNET: BitTorrent, Sun, Craig Venter & More
GigaOm, CA - Oct 9, 2007
Que puedes comprar con lo que vale Google en WallStreet? Leí el día de hoy en GigaOM que las acciones de Google alcanzaron el… Homo Homini Lupus on Google: ...

Brightcove Show full screen video using BitTorrent DNA
Informitv, UK - 13 minutes ago
Brightcove, the broadband video company, is teaming up with BitTorrent and their peer-assisted Delivery Network Accelerator to distribute full-screen video ...

BitTorrent Morphing into Internet 'Broadcast TV' Service
BetaNews - Oct 9, 2007
This afternoon, a BitTorrent spokesperson confirmed to BetaNews that it is indeed producing "a productized version of BitTorrent that we are now making ...

Silicon Alley Insider

BitTorrent To Storm The Big-Media Online Video Market? Not So Fast
Silicon Alley Insider, NY - Oct 9, 2007
BitTorrent, whose file-sharing technology is the platform of choice for software, music, and movie pirates, has spent the last two years trying to go legit. ...
AmTech Has Great Expectations for Akamai, Limelight Seeking Alpha
Akamai (AKAM) Rallies on Brokerage Initiation International Business Times
all 4 news articles

BitTorrent Rolls Out New Delivery Tools
Top Tech News, CA - Oct 9, 2007
By Richard Koman Can BitTorrent find legitimacy in Hollywood after being a favorite of movie pirates? It's too early to tell, said analyst Tim Bajarin, ...

BitTorrent jumps into enterprise market with content delivery service
CNET News.com, CA - Oct 9, 2007
Peer-to-peer company BitTorrent is set to announce on Tuesday morning the availability of a new enterprise content delivery product, BitTorrent DNA. ...

BITTORRENT TO OFFER HIGH-QUALITY STREAMING
Contactmusic.com, UK - Oct 9, 2007
BitTorrent, the San Francisco company whose file-sharing technology has frequently been condemned by film studios and TV networks for "facilitating" ...

Brightcove teams with BitTorrent for new online video service
infoSync World, Norway - Oct 9, 2007
By Matthew Ruiz, Tuesday 9 October 2007 Using BitTorrent's new BitTorrent DNA technology, Brightcove promises high-quality fullscreen video with greatly ...

BitTorrent Moves into B2B with DNA
NewTeeVee, CA - Oct 9, 2007
In a significant move that could usher in faster and cheaper streaming video delivery, online video startup BitTorrent today made available a product it’s ...

BitTorrent serves up DNA - Inquirer

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BitTorrent serves up DNA
Inquirer, UK - Oct 9, 2007
By Jesse Denzin-Weber: Tuesday, 09 October 2007, 5:04 PM IF YOU VENTURE over to P2P leader BitTorrent’s website, starting today you’ll find a whole new ...

New York Magazine

Radiohead Would Like You to Buy Their CD Too, Thanks
New York Magazine,  USA - 17 hours ago
Also worth noting is the fact that popular BitTorrent website OiNK — which was giving away music for free on the Internet way before Thom Yorke had the idea ...

BrightCove First to Use BitTorrent Commercial Service
Broadcast Newsroom, CA - Oct 9, 2007
BitTorrent DNA is taking the San Francisco-based company's proven P2P technology -- first used to illicitly distribute popular TV shows and movies across ...

Briefs: Google Advertisers to Get Tie-In YouTube Vids, BitTorrent ...
The Daily Reel, CA - Oct 9, 2007
Forbes: BitTorrent has debuted tools on the video service Brightcove that spread the work of delivering video files among many users' computers at once, ...
Internet TV Wars: The Media Empires Strike Back (at YouTube) The Utility Belt
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BitTorrent software to power Hollywood downloads
Afterdawn.com - Oct 9, 2007
BitTorent Inc. announced a deal to license their new BitTorrent DNA streaming video service to Brightcove, a company that distributes video over the ...

BitTorrent DNA: Torrenting No Longer A Dirty Word
TechCrunch, CA - Oct 9, 2007
BitTorrent has been getting somewhat of a bad rap. Although BitTorrent itself sells copyrighted content over its P2P file sharing protocol, the service has ...

BrightCove First to Use BitTorrent Commercial Service
Broadcasting & Cable (subscription), NY - Oct 9, 2007
BitTorrent DNA is taking the San Francisco-based company’s proven P2P technology -- first used to illicitly distribute popular TV shows and movies across ...

BitTorrent’s Delivery Network Accelerator (DNA) Service Improves ...
Business Wire (press release), CA - Oct 9, 2007
BitTorrent DNA is a peer-accelerated content delivery service that provides consumers faster, more reliable, more efficient access to rich content through ...

Brightcove Unleashes A BitTorrent Stream
Forbes, NY - Oct 9, 2007
BitTorrent, a company whose name has long meant digital piracy to content owners, now wants to be the online media industry's humble servant. ...

TorrentFreak

BitTorrent More Popular Than Ever, Releases Triple in a Year
TorrentFreak - Oct 9, 2007
The number of new releases published on BitTorrent nearly tripled compared to last year according to research from the German P2P analysis company ...

BitTorrent target service launched
MSNBC - Oct 9, 2007
By Chris Nuttall in San Francisco BitTorrent, whose file-sharing technology is responsible for more than 40 per cent of internet traffic, will announce a ...

Companies Try New Ways To Boost Web Video Quality
Wall Street Journal - 8 hours ago
BitTorrent Inc., a leading developer of peer-to-peer file-sharing software, is planning today to unveil a technology that it says will make high-quality Web ...

Azureus And Babelgum Opening Platforms To Indies
NewTeeVee, CA - 23 hours ago
... evidence that the company is starting to be successful in transitioning users of its popular BitTorrent client to its new commercial platform. ...

Data hogs, beware - The Spokesman Review

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Data hogs, beware
The Spokesman Review, WA - Oct 8, 2007
The new breed of file-transfer applications relies on a protocol called BitTorrent, which allows users across the planet to move huge gobs of data to many ...

TorrentFreak

iTunes accidentally becomes source of piracy
Afterdawn.com - Oct 7, 2007
Quickly after the leak, the episode made its way to BitTorrent and other P2P networks. The mistake has not been made public by Apple but the company has ...
iTunes Store Mistakingly Leaks Stargate Atlantis Episode TorrentFreak
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See 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer' for under a buck!
Comics2Film, MI - Oct 7, 2007
By Rob M. Worley Remember last week when we showed you a special link into BitTorrent that would allow you to download 'Superman: Doomsday' for less than a ...

Is BitTorrent Blocking the New Trend? Will RIAA’s legal success ...
Dslreports - Oct 7, 2007
The RIAA won its first case against file trading last week and the MPAA is winning its war against BitTorrent sites. Recently TorrentSpy blocked US users ...

Is BitTorrent Blocking the New Trend?
Dslreports - Oct 7, 2007
The RIAA won its first case against file trading last week and the MPAA is winning its war against BitTorrent sites. Recently TorrentSpy blocked US users ...

TorrentFreak

iTunes Store Mistakingly Leaks Stargate Atlantis Episode
TorrentFreak - 13 hours ago
Soon after the episode leaked it spread to BitTorrent and other P2P networks. The mistake was has not been made public by Apple but caused quite a bit of ...

OU to host panel discussion about file sharing debate
Athens Messenger, OH - Oct 6, 2007
The panel discussion, moderated by Billy Zero of XM Satellite Radio, includes: Ashwin Navin, president of BitTorrent; Jonathan Lamy, of the Recording ...

TorrentSpy Traffic Plunges After US Ban
TorrentFreak - Oct 6, 2007
The MPAA has caused TorrentSpy, once the most popular BitTorrent site, some serious headaches. After a federal judge ordered TorrentSpy to log all user data ...
Is BitTorrent Blocking the New Trend? Dslreports
TorrentSpy traffic declines dramatically since US ban Afterdawn.com
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BitTorrent Addiction: The Thrill of the Chase
TorrentFreak - Oct 5, 2007
It’s great to have access to a huge library of media via your torrent client, no one can deny that, but for many users BitTorrent is more than just a ...

Fon and BT in Internet Sharing Love-In
Wired News - Oct 5, 2007
Use is tracked, so you won't get max out your bandwidth allowance if the neighbors get BitTorrent-happy, and any use you make while roaming is added back to ...
Corporate Encouragement For Sharing Your WiFi Slashdot
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Wired News

Q&A: Azureus's CEO on Growing P2P Video's Audience
Wired News - Oct 4, 2007
To answer this, we chatted with Azureus CEO Gilles BianRosa (pictured right) about the BitTorrent client's new P2P platform Vuze, and some of the trends the ...

Mininova.org Servers and Traffic: 2006 vs 2007
TorrentFreak - 22 hours ago
Mininova is without a doubt the most popular BitTorrent site in terms of traffic. According to Alexa they are among the 100 most visited sites on the ...

Even Supervillians Use BitTorrent?
Zeropaid, CA - Oct 4, 2007
Blogger posts interesting panel image from Fantastic Four issue 549 where the "power of BitTorrent" is used to bring back a supervillian from the dead. ...

The Inevitable March of Recorded Music Towards Free
TechCrunch, CA - Oct 4, 2007
Today, a billion or so songs are downloaded monthly via BitTorrent, mostly illegally. Eventually, unless governments are willing to take drastic measures to ...
Hail To the Yes Daily Californian
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ISOHunt: 'We Only Block US Visitors from Using OUR Trackers'
Zeropaid, CA - Oct 2, 2007
We BitTorrent users here in the US have been increasingly pressed into an odd MPAA-approved sandbox of sorts where one by one our favorite BitTorrent ...

Demon Annoyed - Torontoist

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Demon Annoyed
Torontoist,  Canada - Oct 2, 2007
Canadians can no longer access Demonoid.com, the world's second-most popular bittorrent tracker. According to a statement on Demonoid's website, ...
Is Demonoid back? Or isn’t it? p2pnet.net
BROADCASTER’S WEDNESDAY PODCAST--EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DUNCAN ... Broadcaster
Demonoid mystery partly solved p2pnet.net
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Mobile Digest

Time to download Heroes, as The Pirate Bay has added four new ...
Mobile Digest, UK - 18 hours ago
The world's most popular BitTorrent tracker, based in Sweden, has been down for a few hours today, and, according to Torrent Freak, this is due to the ...

isoHunt Clarifies US Blacklisting - Slyck

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isoHunt Clarifies US Blacklisting
Slyck, NY - Oct 2, 2007
isoHunt is a popular BitTorrent website which offers a large database for torrents. Unfortunately, it seems pressure is causing sites like ISOHunt to start ...

Major Torrent Tracker Back Online After Legal Threats
IDM.net.au, Australia - Oct 1, 2007
By Nathan Statz October 2, 2007: Popular bittorrent tracker, Demonoid is back online after legal threats from the Canadian Recording Industry Association ...

Guide for Canadians Wanting to Access Demonoid
Zeropaid, CA - 18 hours ago
Demonoid forum moderator offers a quick step guide to circumventing the recent decision to block Canadians from visiting the popular BitTorrent tracker site ...
Demonoid Back Online, But Blocking Canadian Users Zeropaid
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South Park to be Available Uncensored on iTunes and BitTorrent.com
Zeropaid, CA - Oct 1, 2007
... that starting Friday all new season 11 episodes will be available "uncensored" on Apple's iTunes, xBox, Amazon Unbox, Walmart.com and Bittorrent.com. ...

TorrentFreak

The Pirate Bay is Developing a New BitTorrent Tracker
TorrentFreak - Oct 1, 2007
The Pirate Bay is without a doubt the most popular BitTorrent tracker. Unfortunately their current tracker system is not performing as it used to and has ...

Joost finally sheds invite-only status, opens up to the public
Ars Technica, MA - 23 hours ago
... model like that of BitTorrent—instead of pulling video content from a central server, it would instead stream it from multiple users around the 'Net. ...

Is Demonoid back? Or isn’t it?
p2pnet.net, Canada - 20 hours ago
Yesterday, “BitTorrent tracker Demonoid’s normal service has almost resumed,” I posted, “almost” because we Canadians saw only a message saying Demonoid was ...
Demonoid is back online p2pnet.net
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MediaDefender MiiVi - The Return
p2pnet.net, Canada - Oct 1, 2007
On the contrary, the Miivi tracker is a project in part sponsored by The Pirate Bay and other BitTorrent sites. Initially MediaDefender, an anti-piracy ...

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