Archivos November 2007


FCC Pressed to Stop Internet Blocking
Government Technology, CA - 6 hours ago
The company is cutting off legal peer-to-peer file-sharing networks such as bittorrent and Gnutella, as well as business applications such as Lotus Notes. ...
New Net neutrality laws could backfire Legit Reviews
all 11 news articles

TorrentFreak

What.cd To Launch New BitTorrent Tracker Script
TorrentFreak - Nov 30, 2007
What.cd, one of the private BitTorrent trackers that aims to be a replacement for OiNK, also has plans to replace the slightly outdated TBSource script. ...

Net neutrality may not resolve Comcast vs. BitTorrent
CNET News.com, CA - Nov 30, 2007
By Anne Broache Comcast's recent efforts to throttle file transfers that use the BitTorrent protocol have led to a renewed call for Congress to enact stiff ...

My iTablet

iPhone uTorrent UI makes remote BitTorrent control easy
My iTablet, AZ - Nov 30, 2007
As for how to do that, you’ve got two options: either a full remote setup using something like VNC, or function specific such as this uTorrent BitTorrent ...

New Net neutrality laws could backfire
Legit Reviews - 12 hours ago
Comcast's recent efforts to throttle file transfers that use the bittorrent protocol have led to a renewed call for Congress to enact stiff Net neutrality ...
Congressman to Introduce Net Neutrality Bill eWeek
all 8 news articles

Net neutrality may not resolve Comcast vs. bittorrent
CNET News.com, CA - 4 hours ago
By Anne Broache Comcast's recent efforts to throttle file transfers that use the bittorrent protocol have led to a renewed call for Congress to enact stiff ...
Congressman to Introduce Net Neutrality Bill eWeek
Net neutrality to get new life in Congress CNET News.com
all 11 news articles

Net to be whupped by TV in attention battle
Register, UK - 3 hours ago
In the US, Comcast's decision to control the amount of video-heavy bittorrent traffic it carries so that other internet services can continue to operate ...

Etology Terminate Bittorrent Sites from Network
ADOTAS, NY - Nov 30, 2007
Etology, an online advertising firm based in the US announced that it will stop serving ads to all BitTorrent sites in their advertising network on December ...

Net neutrality may not resolve bittorrent v. Comcast
CNET News.com, CA - 51 minutes ago
By Anne Broache Comcast's recent efforts to throttle file transfers using the bittorrent protocol have led, perhaps predictably, to a renewed call for ...
Congressman to Introduce Net Neutrality Bill eWeek
Net neutrality to get new life in Congress CNET News.com
Rep. Markey Prepares Net Neutrality Bill AOL News Newsbloggers
all 8 news articles

BitTorrent and eDonkey are most popular P2P networks – study
Telecom Paper (subscription), Netherlands - Nov 30, 2007
BitTorrent and eDonkey are the most popular P2P networks and the two protocols combined account for between 70 percent and 97 percent of all P2P traffic, ...

The Major Metropolitan Dallas News tells its readers how to use ...
Linux Journal - Nov 29, 2007
The lower headline read, "BitTorrent pours out movies, TV shows - and controversy". I have a feeling you've already jumped to conclusions, but this was a ...

Etology Cuts BitTorrent Sites Out of Ad Network
Marketing Vox News - Nov 29, 2007
US-based online ad firm Etology has decided to stop serving ads to BitTorrent sites, effective December 1st. According to Ars Technica, ...

Are mobile Torrents the first big trend of 2008?
ZDNet - 15 hours ago
Mobile implementations of the bittorrent protocol are nearly certain to be part of whatever Google Android comes up with, and if not someone will have one ...

EFF Confirms Comcast's bittorrent Degredation
Dr. Dobb's Journal, CA - Nov 29, 2007
... and by observing differences in transmitted and received data, the EFF claims it can prove Comcast is targeting bittorrent and Gnutella traffic for ...
New software detects traffic shaping Globe and Mail
all 8 news articles

File Hosting, the New P-to-P? - PC World

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File Hosting, the New P-to-P?
PC World - Nov 29, 2007
Peer-to-peer users are moving to file-hosting Web sites as isps slow downloads for file-sharing services like bittorrent. As isps constrict file-sharing ...
bittorrent and edonkey are most popular P2P networks – study Telecom Paper (subscription)
P2P file-sharing recognizes no borders Register
New P2P Study Says that 20% of Europeans are File-Sharers Zeropaid
Emediawire (press release)
all 21 news articles

Codemasters Set Lawyers Loose on BitTorrent Colin McRae Fans
TorrentFreak - Nov 29, 2007
... has nothing to do with the system they use to catch alleged BitTorrent infringers - all of the documentation refers to their eDonkey tracking system. ...

BitTorrent users face traffic jam
Globe and Mail, Canada - Nov 29, 2007
Much of that traffic is facilitated through BitTorrent, a file-sharing protocol once synonymous with piracy but which recently has developed into a ...

EFF study confirms Comcast's bittorrent interference
Ars Technica, MA - Nov 28, 2007
The tests confirmed that bittorrent performance was being selectively degraded by unexpected TCP reset packets. Previous independent research conducted by ...

Legit bittorrent users face traffic jam
Globe and Mail, Canada - 4 hours ago
Much of that traffic is facilitated through bittorrent, a file-sharing protocol once synonymous with piracy but which recently has developed into a ...

Etology to Torrents: No Ads for You!
NewTeeVee, CA - 46 minutes ago
Online advertising firm Etology will no longer serve ads to bittorrent sites in its ad network, torrentfreak reports. In an email sent out by the company to ...

P2P file-sharing recognizes no borders
Register, UK - 7 minutes ago
Doubtlessly to spurn prying eyes and bandwidth-pinching internet providers, the firm found about 20 per cent of bittorrent and edonkey traffic is already ...

EFF fires an upper-cut at Internet traffic interference
NetworkWorld.com, MA - Nov 28, 2007
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. ...
New Software Detects Web Interference The Associated Press
EFF Strikes Back Against ISP Interference WebProNews
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Verizon Wireless lowers the drawbridge and lets in the barbarians ...
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - 12 hours ago
... or an underpowered ATI graphics card or a poorly configured Netgear wireless router or a Comcast Internet connection bogged down by bittorrent hogs. ...

TorrentFreak

P2P Traffic Is Booming, bittorrent The Dominant Protocol
TorrentFreak - Nov 28, 2007
Interestingly, the study also shows that about 20 percent of all bittorrent traffic is encrypted. Ipoque, a German based company that specializes in ...
File Hosting, the New P-to-P? PC World
P2P file-sharing recognizes no borders Register
Internet study shows P2P traffic reigns supreme in Internet Afterdawn.com
all 16 news articles

Comcast Using Malicious Hacker Techniques Against Own Customers ...
Wired News - 21 hours ago
The investigators say that their tests confirmed an earlier one conducted by the Associated Press that showed that Comcast is interfering with BitTorrent ...

Ars Technica

New P2P Study Says that 20% of Europeans are File-Sharers
Zeropaid, CA - 3 hours ago
bittorrent is the most popular P2P protocol by far except in Southern Europe where Donkey still dominates. 57% of all P2P traffic. ...
ipoque Internet Study 2007: P2P File Sharing Still Dominates the ... Emediawire (press release)
Nocturnal P2P transmissions account for 95 percent of Internet ... Ars Technica
all 7 news articles

TorrentFreak

Speed Up Your BitTorrent Transfers by 500%! Only on TorrentFreak!
TorrentFreak - Nov 28, 2007
Following a breakthrough discovery of hidden potential in the BitTorrent protocol, we bring the news that you are probably not getting anywhere near the ...

Internet traffic dominated by P2P protocols
TechSpot - 2 hours ago
Of all the data gathered, king among protocols used for amount of traffic generated was bittorrent. Given the myriad of both illegal and legal uses for the ...
The EFF 'Test Your ISP' Project Dslreports
all 4 news articles

Spike TV Extends Worldwide Biggies Pact for Video Game Awards
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 18 minutes ago
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... NBC Universal and News Corp.’s long-awaited Hulu.com ...

axxo Temporarily Stops Releasing dvdrips
TorrentFreak - 9 hours ago
The popular DVD ripper axxo is a bittorrent cult figure, despised by some, worshiped by others. An estimated one million people download axxo’s rips every ...

TechCrunch

Music Search Engines Tread Fine Legal Line
TechCrunch, CA - 4 hours ago
Music search engines are just one of the many ways to get free music on the Internet (bittorrent and mp3sparks, formerly allofmp3, are other popular ways). ...

The Pirate Bay cancels boink - Afterdawn.com

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The Pirate Bay cancels boink
Afterdawn.com - 7 hours ago
The Pirate Bay will be leaving the revival of thousands of music albums to more specialized private bittorrent trackers instead. ...
The Pirate Bay stops development of boink TechSpot
all 2 news articles

BitTorrent shares movies, TV shows and controversy
WFAA, TX - Nov 27, 2007
Frankly, BitTorrent was pretty technical when it debuted a few years back. But BitTorrent enthusiasts have since created a very simple system for file ...

BitTorrent shares movies, TV shows and controversy
Dallas Morning News, TX - Nov 27, 2007
Frankly, BitTorrent was pretty technical when it debuted a few years back. But BitTorrent enthusiasts have since created a very simple system for file ...

The code monkey's guide to cryptographic hashes for content-based ...
Computerworld Australia, Australia - 7 hours ago
... or compare-by-hash), an innovation which eventually spread to software like bittorrent, git, and many document storage products on the market. ...

Etology Removes All BitTorrent Sites From Their Ad Network
TorrentFreak - Nov 27, 2007
Etology, an online advertising firm based in the US announced that it will stop serving ads to all BitTorrent sites in their advertising network on December ...

TorrentFreak

Iceland’s Largest bittorrent Tracker Shut Down
TorrentFreak - Nov 26, 2007
Torrent.is, the largest bittorrent site in Iceland has been taken offline due to efforts from a coalition of anti-piracy organizations. ...
Iceland’s biggest torrent site gets taken down Afterdawn.com
all 2 news articles

nnsquad Prepares to Nail — or Exonerate — Comcast and Other isps
VoIP News, CA - Nov 26, 2007
First, the cable company came under heavy fire after getting caught blocking bittorrent traffic traveling over its Internet service. ...

The Pirate Bay Quits 'boink' Project, but Plans New Music Section
Zeropaid, CA - 21 hours ago
Realizes that other bittorrent tracker sites like Waffles and What eliminate the need for new music trackers, especially ones that aren't share-ratio-based. ...

DigitalJournal.com

Bush-friendly Sarkozy and file sharers
p2pnet.net, Canada - 17 hours ago
Sniffing users’ IP addresses is something that the music and movie studios can do with open emule and bittorrent p2p networks. But the French will just be ...
France’s New Anti-Piracy Project Will Close Net Accounts of Offenders DigitalJournal.com
all 2 news articles

Rogers Hi-Speed - BroadbandReports.com

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Rogers Hi-Speed
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 1 hour ago
When they started throttling bittorrent traffic, it was relatively easy to circumvent for tech savvy users. When Rogers realized this they started ...

CNET News.com

Rudd must avoid US broadband idea
Australian IT, Australia - Nov 26, 2007
... and cable firms from offering tiered broadband or blocking certain data classes (such as Comcast's recent alleged disruption of bittorrent traffic). ...
Republican Sens.: FCC May Be Overstepping Authority Broadcasting & Cable
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Box Office Prophets

MARVEL AND DC WORK TOGETHER AGAINST BITTORRENT SITE
iFMagazine - Nov 26, 2007
In any case, the only way to get comics on line now - apart from finding some other Bittorrent site that has them (and I'm not saying you should, ...
Z-CULT FM REMOVES MARVEL, NEW POLICY FOR DC comic Book Resources
Comics Weekly Box Office Prophets
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Torrents made for sharing
London Free Press, Canada - Nov 25, 2007
It's a Torrent, slang for bittorrent files, and in the past couple of years, it has become the new standard for downloading music, movies, ...

Cent Papiers

quebectorrent Lawsuit: Backdoor to Banning All Canadian bittorrent ...
TorrentFreak - Nov 25, 2007
Now, there are fears that a legal precedent may be being sought by shutting this site, one which could affect all Canadian bittorrent sites. ...
Industry vs. Academia: Part 1 Crawdaddy
all 3 news articles

The Internet must not be proprietary - ZDNet

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The Internet must not be proprietary
ZDNet - Nov 24, 2007
There is an important lesson which can be drawn as a string through a host of recent stories, from Comcast and Cox Cable throttling bittorrent to Verizon ...

bittorrent Comic Tracker Re-Opens Despite Marvel and DC Threats
TorrentFreak - Nov 24, 2007
If Marvel understood how bittorrent works, they would realize this.” “Contrary to popular belief, United States’ laws are not, in fact, applicable outside ...

From the Newsdesk - Ars Technica

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From the Newsdesk
Ars Technica, MA - 9 hours ago
It's almost guaranteed to be faster, and let's face it: most bittorrent software is quite adept at managing large downloads. Perhaps I want to throttle it ...

TorrentFreak

Movie Director Uses bittorrent as Lawyers Chase Those Downloading ...
TorrentFreak - Nov 23, 2007
The director of a successful Norwegian ‘Kill Bill’ parody movie who admits to downloading TV shows via bittorrent himself, doesn’t support his distributor ...

bittorrent Throttling Affects Scientific Development
BroadbandReports.com, NY - Nov 23, 2007
When Canadian ISP Bell Sympatico admitted to bittorrent throttling, their defense for the action was that it was in the best interest of their customers. ...

Whose Web is it, anyway? - Rabble.ca

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Whose Web is it, anyway?
Rabble.ca, Canada - Nov 23, 2007
You might have also heard of it as sharing files via bittorrent. You might also have heard that bittorrent is only used by scofflaws, pedophiles, ...

Afterdawn.com

Mark Cuban upset with P2P freeloaders
Afterdawn.com - 12 hours ago
However, rival content providers are testing P2P technology, most notably bittorrent, for their own content delivery. Even the music industry is looking at ...
Mark Cuban Calls on isps to Block P2P Slashdot
Mark Cuban Calls on isps to Block P2P Slashdot
Mark Cuban Urges isps to Block P2P So competing services can ... Dslreports
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forced exodus of bittorrent sites is imminent
TorrentFreak - Nov 22, 2007
the dutch isp leaseweb can’t take the pressure from brein anymore. as a preliminary measure they have now ordered dozens of bittorrent sites - including ...

tvnz's Trump card - New Zealand Herald

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tvnz's Trump card
New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - Nov 22, 2007
In news likely to have more viewers returning to their favourite illegal bittorrent sites, the bigwigs of TVNZ are still deciding when they will screen ...

Brainstorm: The ultimate widgety Music 2.0 mash-up
Mobile Digest, UK - 10 hours ago
I want to see a website where I type in a band's name, and am immediately presented with a selection of youtube videos, Last.fm song streams and bittorrent ...

Mobile Digest

pickypirate mashes up metacritic with bittorrent
Mobile Digest, UK - Nov 22, 2007
those crafty online pirates, what will they come up with next? while the music and film industries set about taking down the most popular bittorrent servers ...

Marvel and DC Comics Join Forces to Target bittorrent
TorrentFreak - Nov 22, 2007
A little while ago when Marvel mentioned bittorrent in one of its comics, it seemed quite an amusing thing to do. Seen by some as a gentle swipe at an ...

bittorrent's battle for bandwidth intensifies
PC World - Nov 21, 2007
"isps like comcast want to throw the baby out with the bathwater," says ashwin navin, president and cofounder of bittorrent. another company, vuze, ...

pickypirate: metacritic meets bittorrent
TorrentFreak - Nov 21, 2007
it’s not hard to determine what’s hot on bittorrent, just go to your favorite bittorrent site and order the results by most seeds or peers. however, ...

Work-time surfers face closer scrutiny
VNUNet.com, UK - Nov 21, 2007
The company cited Skype, bittorrent, myspace and Facebook as among the most common web applications that send encrypted peer-to-peer network traffic over ...
Exinda Networks Enhances WAN Optimization Appliances TMCnet
Exinda Networks Controls Internet Traffic Comms-express.com
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Exinda Networks Enhances WAN Optimization Appliances
TMCnet - 10 minutes ago
According to Exinda, Skype, bittorrent, myspace and Facebook (News - Alert) are among the most common Web applications that send encrypted peer-to-peer ...

The latest trend in online movie piracy.
Slate - Nov 21, 2007
For the bulk of Glickman's tenure, bittorrent pirates have been the new sheriff's main target. Glickman's anger at the proliferation of illegal copies of ...

whose web is it, anyway? - Rabble.ca

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whose web is it, anyway?
Rabble.ca, Canada - Nov 20, 2007
... music and videos. you might have also heard of it as sharing files via bittorrent. you might also have heard that bittorrent is only used by scofflaws, ...

Cox does a Comcast on edonkey - TechRepublic

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Cox does a Comcast on edonkey
TechRepublic, KY - 5 hours ago
According to Robb Topolski - the networking guru who first revealed that Comcast was busting bittorrent back in May. Cox is using some sort of network ...
First Comcast, Now Cox Busted 'Managing' Traffic WebProNews
all 2 news articles

Exinda Networks Controls Broad Range of Recreational Internet ...
iTWire (press release), Australia - 7 minutes ago
Skype, bittorrent, myspace and Facebook are among the most common Web applications that send encrypted peer-to-peer network traffic over corporate networks. ...

SCTE Foundation Names Board Officers
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 8 hours ago
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... NBC Universal and News Corp.’s long-awaited Hulu.com ...
Jackson: Martin’s 70/70 Finding ‘Deeply Disturbing’ Broadcasting & Cable
STRIKE COVERAGE: ANA Postpones Family Programming Forum Broadcasting & Cable
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Exinda Networks Controls Broad Range of Recreational Internet ...
Emediawire (press release), WA - Nov 20, 2007
Skype, bittorrent, myspace and Facebook are among the most common Web applications that send encrypted peer-to-peer network traffic over corporate networks. ...
Opinion: voip security industry -- Guilty as charged Computerworld
all 8 news articles

faq: comcast vs. bittorrent - PC World

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faq: comcast vs. bittorrent
PC World - Nov 19, 2007
... at least throttling -- traffic from subscribers trying to share files through the popular bittorrent peer-to-peer network. what's bittorrent? bittorrent ...

Vuze and Comcast - Los Angeles Times

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Vuze and Comcast
Los Angeles Times, CA - Nov 19, 2007
In particular, Comcast was interdicting some types of file-sharing, including bittorrent, which Vuze uses to deliver its content partners' videos. ...
Obama Aide: P2P Throttling Would Be Illegal Zeropaid
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Cox pulls a Comcast with edonkey - Register

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Cox pulls a Comcast with edonkey
Register, UK - Nov 19, 2007
"I'm seeing the same thing with Cox and edonkey that I saw with Comcast and bittorrent," Topolski told us. In essence, Cox is preventing P2P users from ...
Comcast to be sued in US over peer to peer limits thinkbroadband.com
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Cox: Yes, We Do Throttle P2P - Zeropaid

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Cox: Yes, We Do Throttle P2P
Zeropaid, CA - 9 minutes ago
Robb Topolski, who was the first to discover Comcast's bittorrent throttling efforts, was asked to investigate the claims. He soon discovered that Cox is ...

a legal bittorrent-based service is blocked by isps, looks to fcc ...
Profy - Nov 19, 2007
... do provide linking services for illicit means. but some entities that rely on p2p technologies like bittorrent to operate are entirely valid. vuze, ...

FAQ: Comcast vs. bittorrent - Computerworld

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BusinessWeek

FAQ: Comcast vs. bittorrent
Computerworld, MA - 12 hours ago
What's bittorrent? bittorrent is a networking protocol that lets users who download client software share (transmit and receive) files from other users. ...
Blocking bittorrent Is Sue-tastic InternetNews.com
Vuze and Comcast Los Angeles Times
Mounting Peer-to-Peer Pressure for Comcast MSNBC
TechRepublic
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Comcast to be sued in US over peer to peer limits
thinkbroadband.com, UK - 2 hours ago
Comcast, a cable broadband provider in the US, has been caught at the game of managing peer to peer traffic, namely bittorrent, as can be read about over at ...
Ofcom mulls future of UK wholesale broadband SeekBroadband
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blocking bittorrent is sue-tastic
InternetNews.com - Nov 19, 2007
comcast could have a semantic argument, that it never said it was "blocking" bittorrent traffic but it was slowing it. there's no attempt to hide this ...

Comcast Targets Unlicensed Anime Torrenters
Slashdot - Nov 18, 2007
The site notes that while illegal content trading is a common use of the technology, Bittorrent is emerging as an effective medium for transferring ...

BusinessWeek

Mounting Peer-to-Peer Pressure for Comcast
BusinessWeek - Nov 18, 2007
Specifically, charges have focused on Comcast's throttling of files sent using a peer-to-peer standard called bittorrent that by some measures is as popular ...

FAQ: Comcast vs. bittorrent - Computerworld

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BusinessWeek

FAQ: Comcast vs. bittorrent
Computerworld, MA - 9 hours ago
What's bittorrent? bittorrent is a networking protocol that lets users who download client software share (transmit and receive) files from other users. ...
Mounting Peer-to-Peer Pressure for Comcast BusinessWeek
Comcast Slapped With Net Neutrality Suit eWeek
FCC Petitioned for Rules on ISP Throttling CIO Today
ZDNet Blogs - IT Business Edge
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The global machine - Atomic

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The global machine
Atomic, Australia - 4 hours ago
Bittorrent is a guide here -- as you youtube has shown, video is hot property. Media companies would love to tie into this, but assuming the industry gets a ...

PACKETEER RELEASES NEW GAMING, INSTANT MESSAGING VIDEO AND P2P ...
PR-USA.net (press release), Bulgaria - 7 hours ago
Gaming applications such as Halo 3, file sharing programs such as bittorrent and instant messaging applications using IP-based video are now widely ...

Appliance Lets Network Managers Control Recreational Traffic
eWeek,  NY - Nov 17, 2007
The new Layer 7 Heuristics Engine in its WAN optimization appliances can classify hard-to-identify recreational traffic such as bittorrent music file ...

FCC Urged to Stop ISP Traffic 'Throttling'
PC World - Nov 17, 2007
The petition filed by Vuze, which uses the bittorrent P-to-P (peer-to-peer) protocol to distribute Web content, asks the FCC to set rules for network ...

Opera 9.5 build 9656 beta
PC Authority Business Centre, Australia - 7 hours ago
Opera also supports bittorrent downloads. These type of downloads make best use of available bandwidth by splitting files up and downloading the different ...

Sci Fi Tech

winnif Air Speakers offer wireless control of a psychedelic ipod ...
Sci Fi Tech, NY - 10 hours ago
The market is flooded with ipod speakers that let the world know what you've been snatching from bittorrent sites, but only one speaker system lets you add ...

Hasbro to Develop Merv Griffin’s Crosswords Game
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 18 minutes ago
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... I expected more gore from the Halloween episode of Reaper, ...

Will There Be A New Bittorrent? - Techdirt

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Will There Be A New Bittorrent?
Techdirt - Nov 16, 2007
At the end of October one of the admins of the world's largest Bittorrent site sat down for an interview and predicted the protocol's demise. ...

Slyck

Comcast Slapped With Net Neutrality Suit
eWeek,  NY - 13 hours ago
15 complaining that the cable giant slows or cuts off peer-to-peer file-sharing networks like bittorrent and Gnutella. The lawsuit asks the court to certify ...
Vuze Throws Gauntlet Down against Comcast Slyck
FCC Petitioned for Rules on ISP Throttling CIO Today
Vuze Complains Comcast Violating Net Neutrality PC Magazine
PC World - Slashdot
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P2P File Sharing

Steal This Film II..Stolen!
P2P File Sharing, CA - 2 hours ago
Upcoming documentary on the P2P scene, Steal This Film II (the original was about The Pirate Bay's raids), has been leaked to Bittorrent, before it has hit ...

Hispanic Federation Questions FCC’s Cable 70/70 Findings
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 20 hours ago
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... I just remembered what I meant to write about last week, ...
Vuze Quizzes FCC on Comcast’s Network Management Broadcasting & Cable
all 7 news articles

Leaseweb Forced To Shut Down More bittorrent Sites
TorrentFreak - Nov 16, 2007
The Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has forced leaseweb to take down several bittorrent sites. Although the ISP is determined to fight for its customers in ...

CNN Names Tokyo Correspondent
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 8 hours ago
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... In this edition of Broadcasting & Cable techtalk, ...
Primetime Ratings: House Boosts Fox Again Broadcasting & Cable
all 8 news articles

ZDNet

Video Distributor Asks FCC to Stop Content ‘Throttling’
IT Business Edge, KY - Nov 16, 2007
Video distributor Vuze, which uses bittorrent peer-to-peer protocol, wants the FCC to set rules for network management. Gilles bianrosa, the company’s CEO, ...
Future Darkens for US Control of Internet American Thinker
Vuze Petitions Federal Communications Commission to Restrict ... Broadcast Newsroom
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FCC Petitioned for Rules on ISP Throttling
CIO Today, CA - 1 hour ago
By Richard Koman Video provider Vuze, a company that distributes HD video using bittorrent, has petitioned the FCC to take up the issue of whether isps such ...

CBS Files Motion to Dismiss Rather Lawsuit
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 16 hours ago
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... In this edition of Broadcasting & Cable techtalk, ...
Major Expansions at CNN International Bureaus Broadcasting & Cable
all 8 news articles

Dingell, Markey Ask Martin to Slow Down on Cross-Ownership Loosening
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 22 hours ago
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... In this edition of Broadcasting & Cable techtalk, ...
Consumer Groups Push Back on Martin Cross-Ownership Plan Broadcasting & Cable
Major Expansions at CNN International Bureaus Broadcasting & Cable
all 14 news articles

Earthtimes

Comcast dragged to court for allegedly blocking bittorrent
Earthtimes, UK - Nov 16, 2007
... by a California subscriber who alleges that the company is interfering with download speeds on peer-to-peer file sharing programs including bittorrent. ...
California man sues Comcast over throttling Broadband TV News
Comcast sued over bandwidth throttling VNUNet.com
all 8 news articles

Sorry RIAA, Internet pirates' ships cannot be sunk
Oregon Daily Emerald, OR - Nov 16, 2007
But then in 2001, Bram Cohen - a programmer from San Francisco - designed a new form of P2P programming called bittorrent. And since bittorrent's rise to ...

ZDNet Blogs

Vuze Petitions FCC To Restrict Traffic Throttling
Slashdot - Nov 15, 2007
mrspin writes "Vuze, an online video application that uses the peer-to-peer protocol bittorrent, has petitioned the US Federal Communications Commission to ...
Things getting hot on the Comcast front ZDNet Blogs
Comcast in more hot water over blocked content Afterdawn.com
Comcast sued over P2P blocking TechSpot
Marketing Vox News
all 10 news articles

Mobile Magazine

Run Mac OS X On Your Asus Eee PC
Mobile Magazine - 7 hours ago
You also have to bear in mind that the build of Mac OS X floating around on bittorrent isn't exactly legal either, although the PC-patched copy makes for a ...
Nancy's Leopard Upgrade Advice & Tips for Mac Novices The Mac Observer
all 2 news articles

Lawsuit Calls Comcast's Conduct Unscrupulous
Top Tech News, CA - 30 minutes ago
The case stems from an Associated Press report that documented that Comcast was interfering with users uploading files via bittorrent and other applications ...

obama would make comcast's interference with bittorrent illegal ...
Wired News - Nov 15, 2007
... candidate's recently unveiled technology policy. asked whether obama would make behavior such as comcast's blocking of the bittorrent protocol illegal, ...

Cox Throttling edonkey Upload Speeds?
Zeropaid, CA - Nov 15, 2007
Much has been discussed about how Comcast has been throttling bittorrent traffic, but now it seems the problem is spreading to other isps, which in this ...

Vuze Complains Comcast Violating Net Neutrality
PC Magazine - 6 hours ago
... network traffic. by Roy Mark Vuze, a video distributor using bittorrent peer-to-peer technology, petitioned the Federal Communications Commission Nov. ...
Video Provider Says isps Are Restricting P-to-P Traffic PC World
FCC Complaint Filed Over Comcast P2P Blocking Slashdot
Vuze Petitions FCC To Restrict Traffic Throttling Slashdot
Business Wire (press release) - Broadcast Newsroom
all 12 news articles

Comcast Sued for Blocking P2P Sites
PC Magazine - 20 minutes ago
Hart filed suit in Alameda County Superior Court Tuesday, accusing Comcast of blocking customer access to peer-to-peer sites like bittorrent and Gnutella ...

Comcast Sued Over P2P Blocking - Slashdot

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Comcast Sued Over P2P Blocking
Slashdot - 1 hour ago
CRISTAROL writes "Comcast has been sued by a California resident for blocking bittorrent and other traffic. 'John Hart describes himself as a Comcast ...
FCC Complaint Filed Over Comcast P2P Blocking Slashdot
Video Provider Says isps Are Restricting P-to-P Traffic PC World
Vuze Petitions FCC To Restrict Traffic Throttling Slashdot
Business Wire (press release) - Channel Insider
all 13 news articles

Seventh Conviction In Copyright Infringement Case
North Country Gazette, NY - 17 hours ago
... against the illegal distribution of copyrighted movies, software, games and music over P2P networks employing the bittorrent file sharing technology. ...

Comcast Sued in California Over bittorrent Throttling
Digital Media Wire, CA - Nov 15, 2007
We do not block access to any applications, including bittorrent and do not alter Internet speed," the company told Wired in a statement.

Cox Also Disrupting P2P Traffic Using the same forged packet ...
Dslreports - Nov 15, 2007
We asked Topolski if the same practice was being used to disrupt bittorrent traffic. He noted that thus far there's just "anecdotal reports that are similar ...

Cox Also Disrupting P2P Traffic - Dslreports

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Cox Also Disrupting P2P Traffic
Dslreports - 22 minutes ago
We asked Topolski if the same practice was being used to disrupt bittorrent traffic. He noted that thus far there's just "anecdotal reports that are similar ...

Inside INdiana Business (press release)

Comcast Establishes Partnership with National Urban League
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 10 hours ago
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... NBC Universal and News Corp.’s long-awaited Hulu.com ...
Eli Lilly and Company to Receive Honor from National Urban League CNNMoney.com
Lilly wins one, loses one with civil rights groups Indianapolis Business Journal
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California Man Sues Comcast over bittorrent Restriction
TMCnet - Nov 15, 2007
By Tim Gray The Comcast (News - Alert) bittorrent brawl has gone West Coast. A California man is now suing the cable giant claiming it secretly engages in ...

Dingell Asks Martin to Slow Down on Cross-Ownership Loosening
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 4 hours ago
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... Terry London is in acquisition mode. ...
Court TV Cuts Web Team in Half Broadcasting & Cable
Major Expansions at CNN International Bureaus Broadcasting & Cable
all 7 news articles

Comcast gets sued for blocking bittorrent traffic
Afterdawn.com - Nov 15, 2007
A California man has filed suit against the cable giant Comcast claiming that they have engaged in unfair business practices by limiting download speeds for ...

Portal IT

Comcast Slapped With Lawsuit Over Its Meddling With bittorrent Speeds
Portal IT, Romania - Nov 15, 2007
Comcast's nasty practice of limiting speeds of peer-to-peer software such as bittorrent ignited the first lawsuit against the company. ...

Comcast Slammed with bittorrent Blocking Suit
PC World - Nov 15, 2007
Comcast has firmly states it does "not block access to any Web site or applications, including bittorrent," according to a statement posted on its Web site. ...

dBTechno

Comcast Sued For Blocking bittorrent
dBTechno, MA - Nov 15, 2007
Sacramento (dbtechno) - A man from California has filed a lawsuit against Comcast for limiting or blocking the use of services such as bittorrent. ...

Comcast Faces bittorrent Interference Lawsuit
WebProNews, KY - Nov 15, 2007
When Comcast put roadblocks on the popular file-sharing technology bittorrent, they aroused the ire of thousands of customers. At least one of them wants ...

man sues comcast over bittorrent flap; net neutrality to the front ...
ZDNet - Nov 15, 2007
the comcast bittorrent flap just won’t go away. a california man is suing comcast in a california state court because the cable giant secretly limited ...

Californian sues Comcast over bittorrent throttling
Register, UK - Nov 15, 2007
... of customers using peer-to-peer technology such as bittorrent, it was a question of when - not if - someone from the state of California would sue. ...

FCC Complaint Filed Over Comcast P2P Blocking
Slashdot - 23 hours ago
Enter Sandvine writes "A handful of consumer groups have filed a complaint with the FCC over Comcast's "delaying" some bittorrent traffic. ...
Vuze Complains Comcast Violating Net Neutrality PC Magazine
Video Provider Says isps Are Restricting P-to-P Traffic PC World
Vuze Petitions FCC To Restrict Traffic Throttling Slashdot
all 12 news articles

The Pirate’s Code - Chicago Reader

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Chicago Reader

The Pirate’s Code
Chicago Reader - 5 hours ago
By Miles Raymer In late October the beloved bittorrent bazaar formally known as Oink’s Pink Palace was shut down, accused of facilitating the illegal ...

NTV Live P2P Networking Lunch Recap
NewTeeVee, CA - 17 hours ago
Aswhin Navin from bittorrent, Gaurav Dhillon from Jaman, Gilles bianrosa from Azureus and Bo Wandell from gridnetworks joined me and about 40 other ...

Enhanced bittorrent Music Browsing With oinkplus
Zeropaid, CA - Nov 14, 2007
Luckily for the bittorrent community Indieana has modified it so that it now works with Waffles.fm, What.cd, Stmusic.org, Libble.com, thepiratebay.org, ...

Comcastic! Comcast Sued Over bittorrent Blocking
TechCrunch, CA - Nov 14, 2007
Californian Jon Hart has filed a lawsuit against Comcast arguing that its throttling of bittorrent violates federal computer fraud laws, user contracts and ...

The Reptilians release entire catalog at The Pirate Bay for free ...
The Gauntlet, CA - 18 hours ago
Rather than releasing the albums in the traditional print and package medium, the band has decided to release the albums via the infamous bittorrent website ...

Comcast Sued Over bittorrent Traffic Interference
TorrentFreak - Nov 14, 2007
We first reported that Comcast was actively disconnecting bittorrent seeds back in August. Comcast of course denied our allegations, even though we had ...

Court TV Cuts Web Team in Half
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 22 hours ago
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... In this edition of Broadcasting & Cable techtalk, ...
Major Expansions at CNN International Bureaus Broadcasting & Cable
WWOR Says Yes to YES Broadcasting & Cable
Consumer Groups Push Back on Martin Cross-Ownership Plan Broadcast Newsroom
all 8 news articles

WRBJ-TV

Motorola: Football Fans Prefer Big-Screen to Bleachers
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 1 hour ago
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... Once a month or so, a fire alarm will deafen everyone here ...
Motorola Survey: Nearly Half of Americans Would Rather Watch ... CNNMoney.com
Football Fans Prefer HD to Live? TVPredictions.com (press release)
Survey: 45% Prefer Football on HDTV Multichannel News (subscription)
all 6 news articles

GameSHOUT

California Man Sues Comcast for bittorrent Blocking
GameSHOUT - Nov 14, 2007
Comcast is facing a lawsuit filed by a California man for allegedly limiting or blocking the use of services such as bittorrent. Comcast has faced recent ...

Enhance bittorrent Music Browsing With oinkplus
Zeropaid, CA - 5 hours ago
Luckily for the bittorrent community Indieana has been modified so that it now works with Waffles.fm, What.cd, Stmusic.org, Libble.com, thepiratebay.org, ...

Comcast Sued Over bittorrent Blocking
Wired News - Nov 14, 2007
Comcast refuses to plainly explain what it does to control bittorrent traffic, but independent analyses have shown that Comcast is severely throttling ...

Major Expansions at CNN International Bureaus
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - Nov 14, 2007
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... I expected more gore from the Halloween episode of Reaper, ...
CNN Names Tokyo Correspondent Broadcasting & Cable
all 8 news articles

Primetime Ratings: House Boosts Fox Again
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 3 hours ago
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... I expected more gore from the Halloween episode of Reaper, ...

Internet video player Miro version 1.0 released
Heise Online, Germany - Nov 14, 2007
The Participatory Culture Foundation has released version 1.0 of their combined video player / RSS reader / bittorrent client "Miro". ...

BuddyTV

Pirate Fined $888 for Uploading 'Simpsons' Flick Ahead of ...
Wired News - Nov 13, 2007
By David Kravets November 13, 2007 | 11:06:40 pmcategories: bittorrent A 21-year-old Sydney, Australia man was fined $888 Tuesday for being the first to ...
Man Behind Pirated 'Simpsons' Film Copy Fined by Magistrate BuddyTV
Simpsons Movie pirate fined Sydney Morning Herald
all 132 news articles

Court TV Cuts Web Team in Half
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 1 hour ago
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... I expected more gore from the Halloween episode of Reaper, ...

TorrentFreak

Steal This Film 2 Leaked on bittorrent
TorrentFreak - Nov 13, 2007
Ironically, a cammed version of the documentary already leaked on bittorrent a couple of days before its official launch. Steal This Film part 1, ...

Leading bittorrent Admins Discuss The Future of bittorrent
TorrentFreak - Nov 13, 2007
bittorrent is by far the most popular way to transfer large files over the Internet, but where will it be five years from now? To get some answers to this ...

ZDNet

The enemy of my enemy is my friend: the telephone companies ...
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - 20 hours ago
By Vindu Goel The cable giant, you’ll recall, got caught disrupting bittorrent and other peer-to-peer sharing services used by its Internet customers to ...
Net neutrality foes back FCC investigation into Comcast traffic ... Ars Technica
Hands off the Internet asks FCC to look into Comcast bandwith delays ZDNet Blogs
Apartment dweller: ‘The letter forcing me to switch to Comcast is ... CrunchGear
PC World - TMCnet
all 10 news articles

Miro Media Player Released; Billed as Open Joost Competitor
TechCrunch, CA - 5 hours ago
Since videos must load via bittorrent, playback is not instant; but the videos load pretty quickly so it’s not a huge drawback. ...
The future of TV The Utility Belt
all 2 news articles

Miro Turns 1.0 - Slashdot

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Wired Blogs

Miro Turns 1.0
Slashdot - Nov 13, 2007
Miro is a free and open-source (GPL) RSS aggregator and video player with bittorrent support and a built-in guide of video feeds. ...
Miro 1.0 Delivers The Video Web To Your Door Wired Blogs
Tune In To The Miro Science Channel Wired News
To Joost's Dismay, Open-Source TV App Miro Launches Out of Beta Marketing Vox News
all 5 news articles

Tribune Could Get Temporary Cross-Ownership Waivers
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 1 hour ago
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with BitTorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... Terry London is in acquisition mode. ...
CBS’ The Doctors Ups Its Clearances Broadcasting & Cable
all 17 news articles

Wired Blogs

Miro 1.0 Delivers The Video Web To Your Door
Wired Blogs - 24 minutes ago
bittorrent and RSS support — Miro can download individual bittorrent files and torrents that are in feeds and you can subscribe to any video RSS feed you ...

TorrentFreak

Producer Thanks Pirates For Stealing His Film
TorrentFreak - 29 minutes ago
All the attention for his film was boosted by a positive review on rlslog, a weblog that reviews some of the new releases on bittorrent. ...

Gizmodo.com

divx Support Added To playstation 3
Wired News - 16 hours ago
By Chris Kohler November 13, 2007 | 1:16:29 pmcategories: Tech Start pumping all those bittorrent files straight onto your playstation 3, because the giant ...
PS3 is Getting divx; PS3 is Getting Better Gizmodo.com
all 2 news articles

ZDNet

New Developments In Realm Of P2P, Both Strange And Scary
Profy - 2 hours ago
... Kevin Martin essentially offering their support for an investigation into alleged BitTorrent blocking by Comcast, a US-based Internet service provider. ...
Hands off the Internet asks FCC to look into Comcast bandwith delays ZDNet Blogs
all 5 news articles

Net neutrality foes back FCC investigation into Comcast traffic ...
Ars Technica, MA - 5 hours ago
The group told FCC Chairman Kevin Martin that it supported an FCC investigation into Comcast's alleged BitTorrent blocking. As increased evidence of ...

Prosecutor sets date for Pirate Bay showdown
Register, UK - 14 hours ago
By Chris Williams → More by this author Swedish prosecutors say they will file charges against five individuals involved in bittorrent tracking operation ...
Pirate Bay targeted by Plod Inquirer
all 2 news articles

ZDNet

Hands off the Internet asks FCC to look into Comcast bandwith delays
ZDNet Blogs - 8 hours ago
So, the anti-net neutrality group Hands off the Internet chimed in on the debate about Comcast blocking/delaying bittorrent and other traffic. ...
Telco Sock Puppet Wants Comcast Investigated BroadbandReports.com
all 4 news articles

Album Reviews: Booka Shade, Henrik Schwartz, Ricardo Villalobos
Broward New Times, FL - 5 hours ago
Every 14-year-old with bittorrent can grab Ableton and begin to make mash-ups in minutes. Still, the mix CD endures. And that's because, to be frank, ...

TorrentFreak

Mininova Enters List of 50 Most Popular Sites on the Internet
TorrentFreak - 8 hours ago
Together with most other bittorrent sites, Mininova has experienced some massive growth over the past year, which proves that bittorrent’s popularity ...

WWOR Says Yes to YES - Broadcasting & Cable

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WWOR Says Yes to YES
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 6 hours ago
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... Terry London is in acquisition mode. ...
CBS’ The Doctors Ups Its Clearances Broadcasting & Cable
all 5 news articles

Net neutrality foes back FCC investigation into Comcast traffic ...
Ars Technica, MA - 10 hours ago
The group told FCC Chairman Kevin Martin that it supported an FCC investigation into Comcast's alleged bittorrent blocking. As increased evidence of ...

Webware/Cnet

Prince Plans Lawsuits Against File-Sharing Hub The Pirate Bay
Digital Media Wire, CA - 7 hours ago
... Prince is planning to file lawsuits against notorious bittorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay in Sweden, France and the US, CNET News.com reported. ...
COOL WEB 2.0 APPS FOR EVERYONE Webware/Cnet
Prince Suing Pirates Not Fans antiMUSIC.com
all 6 news articles

14 Year Old BitTorrent Hacker Threatens to Sue What.cd Users
TorrentFreak - 35 minutes ago
Users of OiNK-replacement What.cd, are receiving emails from what appears to be the RIAA. In it are threats that users must either stop their ‘criminal acts ...

Hungary Shuts Down bittorrent Sites, Pre-Empts US Action
TorrentFreak - Nov 12, 2007
Last week saw many Hungarian bittorrent trackers and warez sites shut down by the police. Is it just a coincidence that the US is planning to put a federal ...

Content makers piracy battle win
NEWS.com.au, Australia - Nov 12, 2007
... to indexes of the music, software and video files that their millions of users were sharing, most commonly using the BitTorrent file sharing protocol. ...

Packeteer ® Releases New Gaming, Instant Messaging Video and P2P ...
Business Wire (press release), CA - 1 hour ago
Gaming applications such as Halo 3, file sharing programs such as bittorrent and instant messaging applications using IP-based video are now widely ...

CNET Crave Blog

Prince swears purple murder against The Pirate Bay, sues illegal ...
Mobile Digest, UK - 13 hours ago
Prince is showing he can walk the walk as well as talk the talk, and has prepared a lawsuit against The Pirate Bay, the renowned Swedish bittorrent indexing ...
Prince Plans Lawsuits Against File-Sharing Hub The Pirate Bay Digital Media Wire
Prince To Take On The Pirate Bay TorrentFreak
Prince to sue The Pirate Bay The Local
Webware/Cnet - antiMUSIC.com
all 12 news articles

PBS branching out from itunes to bittorrent and Vuze
Afterdawn.com - Nov 11, 2007
Meanwhile bittorrent is quietly becoming a major player in multimedia delivery over the internet, which shouldn't be particularly surprising. ...

oinkplus Adds Music Discovery to bittorrent Sites
TorrentFreak - Nov 11, 2007
A greasemonkey script that was supposed to enhance music discovery for oink users has now expanded to include other bittorrent sites and is available for ...

Torrential Reign - Walrus Magazine

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Walrus Magazine

Torrential Reign
Walrus Magazine, Canada - Nov 10, 2007
A mega file-sharing protocol called bittorrent is making the music piracy of yesteryear look like petty theft. by Matthew mckinnon I have two televisions at ...

seedpeer Prides Itself On Borrowed bittorrent Client
TorrentFreak - Nov 10, 2007
A few weeks ago the bittorrent site seedpeer, formerly known as Meganova, announced their very own bittorrent client. They claimed that they have been ...

The Register Misunderstands bittorrent Encryption
Techdirt - Nov 9, 2007
The Register recently had a story about an explosion of encrypted bittorrent traffic. They speculate that this is an attempt to evade the recording industry ...

Who paid what for Radiohead's album?
Globe and Mail, Canada - 2 hours ago
Meanwhile, a report came out from Big Champagne -- which tracks activity on peer-to-peer download networks such as bittorrent -- that said more than 500000 ...

Over 6500 Bittorrent downloads kickstart writing venture
PR Leap (press release), CA - Nov 9, 2007
He recorded samples of his stories and posted it on various Bittorrent sites at the same time as distributing larger written samples on websites and also ...

(Credit: Simplify Media) - Daily Download

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(Credit: Simplify Media)
Daily Download, CA - Nov 9, 2007
(Read more) Peer-to-peer company bittorrent is set to announce on Tuesday morning the availability of a new enterprise content delivery product, bittorrent ...
Simplify Media now lets Winamp users share music anywhere Daily Download
all 7 news articles

STRIKE COVERAGE: CBS Late-Night Shows Remain in Repeats
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - Nov 9, 2007
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... I expected more gore from the Halloween episode of Reaper, ...
The Reruns Must Go on in Late-Night The Associated Press
all 68 news articles

CRIA shuts down popular bittorrent website
Canada.com, Canada - Nov 9, 2007
While Demonoid did not host any media content on its site, it hosted the bittorrent files that users would download to link to other users sharing the same ...

Idolator: All About The Music

Another bittorrent Site With A Cute Icon Bites The E-Dust
Idolator, NY - Nov 9, 2007
The Canada-based bittorrent tracker Demonoid, which has been a target of the Canadian Recording Industry Association for a few months now, has apparently ...

TorrentFreak

Demonoid Torrent Tracker Gone For Good
Wired News - 15 hours ago
By Scott Gilbertson November 09, 2007 | 10:08:37 amcategories: P2P The popular bittorrent tracker Demonoid has been taken offline again and this time it ...
Demonoid Shuts Down Again TorrentFreak
Demonoid Torrent Tracker Site Shut Down by Canadian RIAA Wired News
all 3 news articles

bittorrent site Demonoid.com downed by Canadian record industry
Register, UK - Nov 9, 2007
By Chris Williams → More by this author Popular bittorrent site Demonoid.com has been taken offline after legal threats to its webhost by the Canadian ...

PBS Signs Download Deals with bittorrent, Vuze
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - Nov 8, 2007
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... In this edition of Broadcasting & Cable techtalk, ...

Encrypted UK bittorrent Traffic Increases by 1000%
Net4now, UK - 15 minutes ago
... mean that the proposed initiative will largely be ineffective for the number of bittorrent users encrypting their traffic has increased dramatically.

TorrentFreak

bittorrent Encryption Confuses the BPI, isps and Journalists Who ...
TorrentFreak - Nov 8, 2007
A recently published article by The Register claims that an increase in encrypted bittorrent traffic is due to the fact that people want to hide or scramble ...

Ten-Fold Jump In Encrypted bittorrent Traffic The traffic shaping ...
Dslreports - Nov 8, 2007
Enabling forced encryption in their bittorrent client seems to do the trick for most users. Encryption has traditionally been the first step in the growing ...

Profy

Ten-Fold Jump In Encrypted bittorrent Traffic
Dslreports - 47 minutes ago
Enabling forced encryption in their bittorrent client seems to do the trick for most users. Encryption has traditionally been the first step in the growing ...
Encrypted Torrents Growing Fast In the UK Slashdot
The War Against bittorrent: Attack of the isps TorrentFreak
ISP-led Manipulation of Bittorent Traffic Now An International Concern Profy
all 5 news articles

Encrypted UK bittorrent Traffic Increases by 1000%!
Zeropaid, CA - Nov 8, 2007
In the last 12 months alone encrypted bittorrent traffic has increased from 4 to 40%. Instead of encrypted torrents accounting for a mere 20Mbit/s of total ...

The Consumerist

Tell The FCC, Congress To Support Net Neutrality
The Consumerist, NY - 3 hours ago
Comcast believes that deliberately destroying connections to the popular communications protocol bittorrent amounts to "reasonable network management," ...
Just An Online Minute... Network Neutrality Squad To The Rescue? Mediapost.com
all 3 news articles

Profy

Encrypted Torrents Growing Fast In the UK
Slashdot - 1 hour ago
I could be using BitTorrent completely legally, and still have an ISP trying to delay/block/throttle/etc those packets. If I encrypt them, it's harder to do ...
The War Against BitTorrent: Attack of the ISPs TorrentFreak
ISP-led Manipulation of Bittorent Traffic Now An International Concern Profy
all 3 news articles

'Battlestar Galactica: Razor' DVD Leaked to bittorrent
Zeropaid, CA - Nov 8, 2007
"Battlestar Galactica: Razor" is a made-for-TV movie not scheduled to air until November 24th, 2007 on the Sc-Fi Channel, but its leak to bittorrent means ...

PBS signs download deals with bittorrent, Vuze
Video Business (subscription), CA - Nov 8, 2007
8 | FROM B&C: PBS signed new online deals for its TV shows with bittorrent and Vuze. Both are download-to-own arrangements for shows including Nova, ...
Income lifts 71% for Gaiam in Q3 Video Business (subscription)
Studios' digital dilemma Video Business (subscription)
all 3 news articles

MP3 Blogs: "Killing Music With Love"
Idolator, NY - 1 hour ago
bittorrent sites are no biggie because they involve a little more effort, which surely discouraged those 180000 oink users? And it's cool because those kids ...

p2pnet.net

Torrent encryption increase good: BPI
p2pnet.net, Canada - 2 hours ago
p2pnet news | Music:- Figures from a large UK ISP show the portion of bittorrent traffic encrypted by file-sharers has risen 10-fold in the last 12 months, ...

Industry heavyweights ride out for net neutrality
VNUNet.com, UK - Nov 8, 2007
"Recent events, such as Comcast's lack of candour regarding its secretive disruption of bittorrent protocols, and Verizon's altering of domain name lookup ...
Vint Cerf and Co. sic the world on Comcast Register
all 7 news articles

TVPredictions.com (press release)

CNN HD Gains Carriage with Cablevision Systems
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 1 hour ago
It’s ironic that PBS has signed up with bittorrent (and Vuze, separately) to distribute its co... I expected more gore from the Halloween episode of Reaper, ...
Cablevision Adds CNN HD to Leading High-Defintion Lineup, Network ... CNNMoney.com
Cablevision Adds CNN HD TVPredictions.com (press release)
all 9 news articles

Surge in encrypted torrents blindsides record biz
Register, UK - 9 hours ago
The number of file-sharers disguising their BitTorrent activity with encryption is skyrocketing. Figures from a large UK ISP obtained by The Register show ...

What else is on - Chicago Sun-Times

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What else is on
Chicago Sun-Times, United States - Nov 8, 2007
BY DOUG ELFMAN Television Critic David Letterman and Johnny Carson honored the 1988 writers strike by airing reruns -- for a while. ...
The reruns must go on in late-night Seattle Post Intelligencer
Girls Inc. to Honor Grasso, Bicks, Lindman Broadcasting & Cable
all 69 news articles

The Pirate Bay is developing a new P2P protocol to replace bittorrent
Afterdawn.com - Nov 7, 2007
Apparently motivated by bittorrent's high profile dealings with content owners, Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, says the site is working to ...
sumotorrent: The New bittorrent Juggernaut TorrentFreak
all 2 news articles

TorrentFreak

sumotorrent: The New bittorrent Juggernaut
TorrentFreak - Nov 7, 2007
In just a few months sumotorrent managed to grow from 0 to 350000 visitors a day, which makes it one of the most widely used bittorrent sites. ...
Demonoid Shuts Down Again TorrentFreak
all 2 news articles

Salon

Prince wants to sue his fans, undo the Internet
Salon - 11 hours ago
In September, Prince announced that he would sue youtube, ebay and the bittorrent sharing site The Pirate Bay because people had posted his copyrighted ...

Appscout

bittorrent and PBS Pair up for Distribution
Slyck, NY - Nov 7, 2007
bittorrent, Inc. received an endorsement of sorts from the US government, as the subsidized television network PBS (Public Broadcasting System) has agreed ...
PBS Teams up With bittorrent Appscout
all 2 news articles

PBS to Sell Content Online Through bittorrent, Vuze
Digital Media Wire, CA - 16 hours ago
Through the deals, both San Francisco-based bittorrent and Palo Alto-based Vuze will make available such PBS shows as "History Detectives," "Nova" and ...
Vid-Biz: bittorrent, NBC, Xbox NewTeeVee
all 2 news articles

PBS Partners with bittorrent to Reach Audiences Online
StreamingMedia.com (press release), CT - Nov 7, 2007
San Francisco and Arlington, VA (November 7, 2007) - bittorrent and PBS today announced the availability of PBS programming via the bittorrent Entertainment ...
PBS to Sell Content Online Through bittorrent, Vuze Digital Media Wire
PBS Inks Distribution Deal With bittorrent AHN
PBS Signs Download Deals with bittorrent, Vuze Broadcasting & Cable
Silicon Alley Insider - Business Wire (press release)
all 10 news articles

PBS Inks Distribution Deal With bittorrent
AHN - 17 hours ago
The blog Silicon Alley Insider reports a "Nova" episode selling for $7.99 on itunes is available at bittorrent and Vuze for $5.99. ...

PBS Teams up With bittorrent - Appscout

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Appscout

PBS Teams up With bittorrent
Appscout, NY - Nov 7, 2007
Just in case anyone was doubting bittorrent's decision to go legit, the company is partnering with PBS--that bastion of Muppets, Masterpiece Theatre, ...

Network Policies Should Be Open, Not Neutral
eWeek,  NY - Nov 7, 2007
By Larry Seltzer Opinion: The bittorrent-Comcast dispute is a great example of how net neutrality advocates get out of control. ...
Encryption is the name of the game NetworkWorld.com
all 5 news articles

Vid-Biz: bittorrent, NBC, Xbox - NewTeeVee

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Vid-Biz: bittorrent, NBC, Xbox
NewTeeVee, CA - Nov 7, 2007
PBS Partners with bittorrent and Vuze; hit shows like Nova, History Detectives and even Teletubbies will be available through the platforms. ...

PBS Signs Download Deals with bittorrent, Vuze
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 19 hours ago
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 11/7/2007 11:59:00 AM PBS signed new online deals for its TV shows with bittorrent and Vuze. ...
PBS Downloads to Vuze, bittorrent Silicon Alley Insider
STRIKE COVERAGE: ABC to Air Partial Season of Lost Broadcasting & Cable
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Canada.com

Pirate Bay's P2P Software Sharing Standard To Rival bittorrent
SDA India Magazine, Singapore - 17 hours ago
Swedish web site The Pirate Bay, the biggest ad-supported site using the software of bittorrent which offers thousands of illegal programs and media files, ...
Pirate Bay puts plank out for bittorrent 10:06AM, Wednesday 7th ... PC Pro
Pirate Bay Seeks New P2P Client as bittorrent Goes Hollywood Digital Media Wire
Pirate Bay Developing bittorrent-like Protocol BetaNews
MacNN - ZDNet
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Canada.com

Pirate Bay puts plank out for bittorrent 10:06AM, Wednesday 7th ...
PC Pro, UK - 39 minutes ago
The Pirate Bay - poster child of the file sharing lobby - has announced plans to ditch bittorrent in favour of its own software. The website is thought to ...
Pirate Bay Seeks New P2P Client as bittorrent Goes Hollywood Digital Media Wire
UPDATE 1-File-sharing pirates attempt new software standard Reuters
Pirate Bay starts on alternate download standard MacNN
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Canada.com

Pirate Bay Seeks New P2P Client as bittorrent Goes Hollywood
Digital Media Wire, CA - 9 hours ago
The fear is that bittorrent, Inc. may add features that discourage sharing of copyrighted media by the software's 150 million users -- which is The Pirate ...
UPDATE 1-File-sharing pirates attempt new software standard Reuters
Pirate Bay starts on alternate download standard MacNN
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Pirate Bay Developing BitTorrent-like Protocol
BetaNews - 19 hours ago
The site has long used BitTorrent to trade files between its users. However, the creators of that technology have taken great strides to market legal uses ...

Software Pirates Develop New File-Sharing Standard
PC World - 26 minutes ago
Swedish purveyors of pirated movies and software are working on their own file-sharing technology now that BitTorrent is going legit. ...

Canada.com

UPDATE 1-File-sharing pirates attempt new software standard
Reuters - 3 hours ago
The Pirate Bay, http://www.newsbittorrent.com/cgi-bin/go/6672, is the biggest ad-supported site using the software of bittorrent Inc. The program has been a good match for ...
Pirate Bay starts on alternate download standard MacNN
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File-Sharing Pirates Attempt New Software Standard
InformationWeek, NY - 9 minutes ago
The Pirate Bay, http://www.newsbittorrent.com/cgi-bin/go/6672, is the biggest ad-supported site using the software of bittorrent. The program has been a good match for Internet ...

Web hogs plus shared cable equals network meltdown
ZDNet - Nov 6, 2007
Comcast doesn’t actually block bittorrent usage and several people I know have no issues getting bittorrent to work with legal or illegal copyrighted ...
Why the GOS will fail ZDNet
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File-sharing pirates attempt new software standard
Washington Post, United States - 25 minutes ago
The Pirate Bay, http://www.newsbittorrent.com/cgi-bin/go/6672, is the biggest ad-supported site using the software of bittorrent Inc. The program has been a good match for ...

Profy

The War Against bittorrent: Attack of the isps
TorrentFreak - Nov 6, 2007
There has been a lot of fuss lately about Comcast’s efforts to throttle and interfere with bittorrent traffic, but they are by no means the only ISP ...
ISP-led Manipulation of Bittorent Traffic Now An International Concern Profy
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Effort for open Net resumes - Boston Globe

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Effort for open Net resumes
Boston Globe, United States - Nov 5, 2007
Comcast senior vice president Mitch Bowling said that bittorrent users absorb a disproportionate amount of network capacity. That makes it necessary to ...

Internet equality
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, MA - 14 hours ago
Comcast has been accused of intentionally blocking BitTorrent traffic on their network. A coalition of consumer groups has asked the Federal Communications ...
Encryption is the name of the game NetworkWorld.com
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Harold and Kumar go to Comcastle - Register

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Harold and Kumar go to Comcastle
Register, UK - Nov 5, 2007
The basis of the complaint is the claim that Comcast discriminates against BitTorrent in particular and Peer-to-Peer file swapping applications in general. ...

Bell Sympatico admits to blocking bandwidth traffic
Canada.com, Canada - 16 hours ago
Peer-to-peer (P2P) services affected by Bell Sympatico's traffic shaping include bittorrent, Gnutella, Limewire, Kazaa, edonkey, emule and winmx. ...

Windows Home Server Ships, at Last
Yahoo! Tech, CA - 8 hours ago
(Note to Redmond: Just kidding about the bittorrent thing. Sorta.) Well, after a wait of nearly 10 months, the first Home Server hardware is finally on sale ...

completorrent Lets You Search 101 bittorrent Tracker Sites At Once
Zeropaid, CA - Nov 5, 2007
completorrent is the latest and greatest bittorrent tracker search engine to grace the bittorrent community, and the indexing of 101 sites immediately ...

Bell Sympatico's War On 'Network Abusers' Company admits ...
Dslreports - 41 minutes ago
For several months now, users of Canadian ISP Bell Sympatico have been noticing that the company has been throttling user BitTorrent traffic. ...
Canadian ISP admits limiting P2P traffic Afterdawn.com
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Getting Stressed Out With Anonymous bittorrent
TorrentFreak - Nov 5, 2007
With 6-figure file-sharing fines being handed out, people like oink facing prison and isps meddling with bittorrent, hiding your online activity is becoming ...

Slyck

Sympatico Admits to bittorrent, P2P Limiting
Slyck, NY - Nov 5, 2007
The most Comcast has admitted is "delaying" bittorrent upload traffic. As reported by Ars Technica,Canadian ISP Sypatico has taken a somewhat more open ...
"Traffic shaping, constant billing errors, misleading advertising ... BroadbandReports.com
all 2 news articles

Why the GOS will fail - ZDNet

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Why the GOS will fail
ZDNet - 18 hours ago
You already know about Comcast stopping bittorrent. Do you know Verizon is now copying the Verisign “sitefinder” scandal, redirecting misspelled requests to ...

bittorrent blocking goes north: Canadian ISP admits to throttling P2P
Ars Technica, MA - Nov 5, 2007
The forum administrator also provides a list of affected applications, which includes bittorrent, Gnutella, Limewire, Kazaa, and other widely-used P2P ...

XBoxer

Guitar Hero obsessives to get the South Park slapdown
XBoxer, UK - 3 hours ago
But it'll get taken down a few hours later when the copyright holders complain to YouTube, so you'll have to turn to Bittorrent. Always happens. ...
'Guitar Queer-O' - South Park Honours Gaming Spong
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Shareaza 2.2.5.7 RC2 - Quelloffenes Filesharing-Tool
WinFuture, Germany - 2 hours ago
Shareaza vereint zahlreiche Filesharing-Netzwerke unter einer Oberfläche, darunter auch das inzwischen trackerlose bittorrent. parsevolume(): Return 0 for ...

Yazsoft updates Speed Download to 4.1.17 for Leopard.
prMac (press release), TX - 11 hours ago
As an added bonus, Speed Download now includes a link to Transmission; an incredibly well designed Bittorrent application. Transmission is a free, ...

Pot o’ gold at end of ‘Rainbows’
UW Badger Herald, WI - Nov 4, 2007
Later in the month, one of the largest bittorrent trackers was shutdown. And in between both events, a British rock band released its new album exclusively ...

eFluxMedia

The Federal Communications Commission Asked to Check on Comcast
eFluxMedia - 10 minutes ago
... from the United States , that is Comcast, is blocking its costumers from accessing the popular, as well as controversial P2P service bittorrent. ...

TechCrunch

Combating Piracy: Earth To Big TV
TechCrunch, CA - Nov 3, 2007
However big TV still really doesn’t get it: bittorrent continues to thrive like it never has before, dishing up the latest and greatest of American ...
Sunday's Highlights Los Angeles Times
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TorrentFreak

mediadefender Emails Disprove MPAA Claims
TorrentFreak - 13 hours ago
Last Month The Pirate Bay filed complaints against some of the key players in the entertainment industry for corrupting and sabotaging their bittorrent ...

eFluxMedia

Thanks to BitTorrrent, Net neutrality debate reignites
CNET News.com, CA - Nov 2, 2007
The most glaring accusation of abuse is Comcast, which critics say is filtering and blocking BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic. ...
The Federal Communications Commission Asked to Check on Comcast eFluxMedia
Comcast's Gonna Get It Linux Journal
FCC Gets Comcast Complaint HULIQ
CRN - Emediawire (press release)
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Thanks to bittorrrent, Net neutrality debate reignites
CNET News.com, CA - 3 hours ago
The most glaring accusation of abuse is Comcast, which critics say is filtering and blocking bittorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic. ...
Groups Ask FCC to Investigate Comcast for bittorrent Blocking BetaNews
Complaints Filed to FCC Allege Comcast P2P Blocking PC World
Comcast Denies Once Again The bittorrent Foul Play Issue Portal IT
InternetNews.com - eWeek
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Thanks to bittorrrent, Net neutrality debate reignites
CNET News.com, CA - 23 minutes ago
The most glaring accusation of abuse is Comcast, which critics say is filtering and blocking bittorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic. ...

Groups Ask FCC to Investigate Comcast for BitTorrent Blocking
BetaNews - Nov 2, 2007
"Comcast's blatant and deceptive BitTorrent blocking is exactly the type of problem advocates warned would occur without Net Neutrality laws. ...

The Unreasonable Stance: Time Warner Cable
CrunchGear, NY - 22 hours ago
Every time I open my bittorrent client, the speed of our network goes to hell in under 10 seconds. Same goes for my roommates. Even if we limit the upload ...
Cable/Sprint Pivot Project on Hold BroadbandReports.com
360AM: Sprint, msos Halt Pivot; U-verse to Resume in CT Cable360.net
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Internet video player Miro positions itself against rival Joost
Heise Online, Germany - 18 hours ago
The program, which is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, is a video player, an RSS reader and a bittorrent client rolled into one. ...

Comcast Denies Once Again The bittorrent Foul Play Issue
Portal IT, Romania - Nov 2, 2007
Consumer groups are urging the Federal Communications Commission to prevent Comcast from toying with its users' bittorrent traffic. In the mean time, ...

bittorrent's Gone Legit, But Still Faces Obstacles
StreamingMedia.com, CT - Nov 1, 2007
As we lead up to one of Streaming Media West 2007's most anticipated keynotes—by bittorrent President Ashwin Navin—we take a look at the company that's been ...

Philadelphia Inquirer

Comcast Again Denies P2P Throttling
InternetNews.com - 5 hours ago
By Andy Patrizio Cable giant Comcast is once again denying it throttles bittorrent and other peer-to-peer traffic just as an alliance of consumer groups are ...
Comcast Support Continues to Lie about bittorrent Interference TorrentFreak
Comcast Hit with FCC Network Neutrality Complaint eWeek
FCC Complaint Filed Over Comcast P2P Blocking Slashdot
The Associated Press - AlterNet
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News for nerds, stuff that matters
Slashdot - Nov 1, 2007
Enter Sandvine writes "A handful of consumer groups have filed a complaint with the FCC over Comcast's "delaying" some bittorrent traffic. ...

Sci Fi Tech

SHIFT: Get free Radiohead music, support The Man
Sci Fi Tech, NY - 3 hours ago
They use Limewire and bittorrent to share music illegally. Many argue that they would stop if only the record companies weren't so evil about paying their ...
Taste the radiohead rainbow Binghamton University Pipe Dream
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Comcast Support Continues to Lie about BitTorrent Interference
TorrentFreak - Nov 1, 2007
By now probably every Comcast customer knows that Comcast is interfering with BitTorrent traffic. The only ones that keep denying are the Comcast PR ...

Wired News

Pass the Syrup: Waffles Promises to be Next Oink -- Update
Wired News - Nov 1, 2007
By David Kravets November 01, 2007 | 3:57:00 pmcategories: bittorrent Another illicit music file-sharing venue is set to debut in the wake of last week's ...

Philadelphia Inquirer

FCC Complaint Filed Over Comcast P2P Blocking
Slashdot - 1 hour ago
Enter Sandvine writes "A handful of consumer groups have filed a complaint with the FCC over Comcast's "delaying" some bittorrent traffic. ...
Groups Seek Stop to Comcast Net Meddling The Associated Press
Net Neutrality Violation: Complaint Says Comcast Blocking User Access AlterNet
Consumer Groups Ask FCC To Fine Comcast Dslreports
CNet News.com Blog - Ars Technica
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My Chemical Toilet

Trent Reznor fan of Bit Torrent, not a fan of itunes
My Chemical Toilet, UK - Nov 1, 2007
Reznor is... or should I say was... a big fan of the oink private bittorrent tracker, until it was closed down. In a recent interview Reznor spilled the ...

ABC News

Net Neutrality Violation: Complaint Says Comcast Blocking User Access
AlterNet, CA - 2 hours ago
The company is cutting off legal peer-to-peer file-sharing networks such as BitTorrent and Gnutella, as well as business applications such as Lotus Notes. ...
Groups Seek Stop to Comcast Net Meddling The Associated Press
Advocacy group to FCC: Comcast's traffic blocking defense is bogus Ars Technica
Groups Call For FCC Fine of Comcast Over Blocked Internet AHN
Motley Fool - San Jose Mercury News
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The Consumerist

Comcast Hunts bittorrent Memo Leaker
The Consumerist, NY - Nov 1, 2007
According to an inside source, Comcast is trying to hunt down who leaked the internal bittorrent memo to us last week. The rumor is that they're ...

Pirate Bay aims to sink BitTorrent
Register, UK - Nov 1, 2007
By Chris Williams → More by this author The buccaneers of Pirate Bay are working on a replacement for the BitTorrent protocol in fear their access to free ...

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