Archivos December 2007

Open letter to the RIAA, MPAA - p2pnet.net

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Canada.com

Open letter to the RIAA, MPAA
p2pnet.net, Canada - Dec 31, 2007
p2pnet news view | P2P:- On his blog, Allen Harkleroad says he owns and operates, "a technology, e-commerce hosting, publishing, marketing, computer repair, ...
Digital album packaging should improve in 2008 TREND Information
all 16 news articles

The Consumerist

Top 10 Business Debacles Of 2007
The Consumerist, NY - Dec 31, 2007
Comcast denied disrupting BitTorrent traffic, but said that they reserved the right to manage their network. 8. E.Coli In The Meat Kills Topps Meat Company ...

Ripped to Shreds - New York Magazine

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Ripped to Shreds
New York Magazine,  USA - Dec 30, 2007
Although MP3-downloading sites have been around for at least a decade, OiNK had used a newer technology called BitTorrent to move files around the Web much ...
Drop That Textbook, Take Back That File, or Give Us All You Got bMighty.com
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Digital album packaging should improve in '08
Reuters Canada, Canada - Dec 30, 2007
According to label sources and pirate network tracking firms, fans downloading full albums from BitTorrent sites almost universally choose files that ...

Why is NBC Running Ads on Pirate Bay?
Huffington Post, NY - 15 hours ago
Every major studio is suing the Pirate Bay, which is public enemy number one in the P2P bittorrent world. And NBC is generating ad revenue for them? ...

Ziova CS505 Upscaling DivX/DVD Network Streamer Hands-on: Our ...
Gizmodo Australia, Australia - Dec 30, 2007
We've been known to download DivX files using BitTorrent on occasion, and there's nothing better than using an upscaling DVD player like the Helios H4000, ...

TorrentFreak

3D Realms Use BitTorrent to Promote Duke Nukem Forever
TorrentFreak - Dec 30, 2007
However, as 3D Realms have decided to release their latest teaser on BitTorrent, distribution of their advertising content by this method will be reduced to ...

Hackers Run Wild Spending BitTorrent Tracker’s Donations
TorrentFreak - Dec 29, 2007
The SuperTorrents BitTorrent tracker has been the subject of a major security breach, with hackers donating all the site’s money to a religious group. ...

Install Leopard with Your iPod - Lifehacker

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Install Leopard with Your iPod
Lifehacker, CA - 13 hours ago
(If you happened to download the disk image off BitTorrent or something less legal like that, that disk image would work and you can skip this step, ...

Starting bittorrent downloads remotely from the iPhone
tuaw.com, CA - Dec 28, 2007
But lately, I've been trying to figure out if there was a way to start up bittorrent downloads from my iPhone (we've already been able to control clients ...

Steal This Film 2 Goes Live - TorrentFreak

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Steal This Film 2 Goes Live
TorrentFreak - Dec 28, 2007
I was also really pleased to hear that BitTorrent themselves will be featuring the film since we met them during a screening of STF II in Amsterdam. ...

Put a Head on the BitTorrent Hydra with xbtit
TorrentFreak - Dec 28, 2007
People in the BitTorrent community are familiar with the ‘hydra’ concept. When the mythical creature had one of its heads cut off, others grew in its place. ...

Rant: P2P Is More than Cheap Bandwidth
NewTeeVee, CA - 17 hours ago
Akamai bought Red Swoosh, BitTorrent started to showcase their DNA streaming solution, and Pando inked a deal with NBC to P2P-power the distribution of ...

A Buggy Home Server - BusinessWeek

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eFluxMedia

A Buggy Home Server
BusinessWeek - Dec 27, 2007
The programs affected include Intuit Quicken and Quickbooks, files downloaded using BitTorrent-type software, and Microsoft’s own Money 2007 aqnd OneNote. ...
Windows Home Server trashes files bit-tech.net
Glitch in Windows Home Server Corrupts Files InternetNews.com
all 41 news articles

Afterdawn.com

Report Says 36.4% of World's Computers Infringe on IP
Slashdot - Dec 27, 2007
BitTorrent shouldn't feel left out, though. BitTorrent actually uses more bandwidth, but the article suggests that this is because it is used to share ...
LimeWire Not as Popular as Recent Reports Suggest TorrentFreak
Update: Limewire installed on only 18 percent of PCs Afterdawn.com
all 5 news articles

Analysis: Legality of Torrent Tracking Sites Unresolved Despite
Wired News - Dec 27, 2007
By David Kravets December 20, 2007 | 6:19:40 PMCategories: BitTorrent At first glance, the blistering federal court ruling against TorrentSpy seemed like a ...

Report Says 36.4% of World's Computers Infringe on IP
Slashdot - Dec 27, 2007
BitTorrent shouldn't feel left out, though. BitTorrent actually uses more bandwidth, but the article suggests that this is because it is used to share ...

Options update: MercadoLibre volatility spikes on rally
BloggingStocks - 5 hours ago
MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI), the largest online trading and payment platform in Latin America, is recently up $2.01 to $74.86. MELI January option implied ...
Palm Foleo: the exclusive first and final hands-on engadget
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BitTorrenters seek sanctuary in Pirate Bay
Register, UK - Dec 27, 2007
... and other attacks on illegal file-sharing this year the number of people using the anti-copyright BitTorrent tracker Pirate Bay has almost doubled. ...

Gizmodo Australia

Movie Industry: DRM Is For Customers, Not For Members
TorrentFreak - 22 hours ago
“I Am Legend”, “Gone Baby Gone” and several other movies showed up at BitTorrent sites, presumably leaked with the help of industry insiders. ...
DRM'd DVD Player for Award Screeners Annoyed Voters, Gets Axed Gizmodo.com
Cinea says goodbye to S-View screener player Afterdawn.com
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How the Grinches Stole 'Net Neutrality'
TheTyee.ca, Canada - Dec 27, 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, ...

The Smartest, Dumbest Tech Moves of '07
PC World - 3 hours ago
An Associated Press test in which researchers tried to download the Bible via BitTorrent proved Comcast was blocking BitTorrent content, whether it was ...

$40K to fill an iPod? One third of PCs use LimeWire instead
Ars Technica, MA - 21 hours ago
But a recent report on nighttime P2P traffic levels found Bittorrent to be the dominant P2P protocol, suggesting that either BT clients are even more ...

Radiohead To Promote Album With New Year’s Eve Concert on Current TV
TechCrunch, CA - 19 hours ago
(Although, that did not stop people from downloading it from BitTorrent networks). If fans were going to download the album for free anyway, at least this ...

Pirate Bay Torrent Feeding Frenzy Growing
Wired News - 21 hours ago
By David Kravets December 26, 2007 | 4:06:25 PMCategories: BitTorrent As the shopping malls and online outlets gorge with post-Christmas consumerism, ...

TECH.BLORGE.com

The IFPI aims to block all European P2P traffic
TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - 22 hours ago
... completely block Gnutella and Bittorrent traffic, and also block access to sites that host such services (for example, The Pirate Bay). ...

Speed Download 4.1.19 Improves Leopard Support
The Mac Observer - 18 hours ago
... improved box.net compatibility, improved the ability to handle multiple links from a Web site, added a link to the Bittorrent application Transmission, ...

IFPI: ISPs Should Block BitTorrent and The Pirate Bay
TorrentFreak - Dec 26, 2007
If customers can’t use BitTorrent or any other filesharing protocol piracy will decline, and that’s basically all they care about. What better way to censor ...

Christmas Brings Freedom and Hope for Jailed BitTorrent Admin
TorrentFreak - Dec 26, 2007
Most people in the BitTorrent community know about EliteTorrents. After falling foul of the newly introduced Family Entertainment Copyright Act, ...

If You Need A 2008 Prediction... How About: The Fact Checker Is ...
Techdirt - 22 hours ago
You would think that it would mention things like BitTorrent or file sharing as the usual culprits -- but somehow the Economist reporter thinks it's spam ...
The Economist's Technology Predictions For 2008 Slashdot
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Japanese file-sharing increases 180%
Afterdawn.com - 23 hours ago
Limewire was second with 19 precent and WinMX close behind at 15 percent. Suprisingly, BitTorrent placed fourth with a measly 7.4 percent.

TorrentFreak

Man Downloads TV Shows and Gets a $54000 Cell Phone Bill
TorrentFreak - Dec 25, 2007
Most people know that downloading TV shows doesn’t usually cost anything when you get them using BitTorrent. However, Ian Simpson, a 29 year old factory ...

Mininova launches its own Content Distribution service
Afterdawn.com - Dec 24, 2007
The publishers do not even need any prior knowledge of P2P or BitTorrent as the site will create the torrent and ensure that is seeded. ...

Yazsoft updates Speed Download to 4.1.19 for Leopard
prMac (press release), TX - Dec 23, 2007
As an added bonus, Speed Download now includes a link to Transmission; an incredibly well designed Bittorrent application. Transmission is a free, ...

TorrentSpy loses California copyright lawsuit
ZDNet Asia, Asia - 21 hours ago
By Elinor Mills, CNET News.com A federal judge has ruled against the BitTorrent indexing service TorrentSpy.com saying that its hiding and destruction of ...

Deluge Anonymizing Browser Now Includes Bittorrent
Slashdot - Dec 23, 2007
markybob writes "An open-source bittorrent client, Deluge, now provides an internal, anonymizing browser to protect its users from overzealous ISPs. ...

"Must use Actiontec router; hard to get somebody on the phone for ...
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 17 hours ago
I've also read about p2p problems due to a small NAT table, but haven't run into any issues with bittorrent. Speeds are reliably fast. ...

TorrentFreak

MediaDefender Stock Plunges Due to Leaked Emails
TorrentFreak - Dec 22, 2007
Despite the fact that their decoy and spoofing operations were hugely ineffective on most BitTorrent sites, the company collected millions of dollars from ...

Ten Worst Telco Moments of 2007 - AlterNet

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Ten Worst Telco Moments of 2007
AlterNet, CA - Dec 21, 2007
BitTorrent is rapidly emerging as one of the most successful online platforms for the sharing of large files. Comcast has a natural incentive to keep ...

Japanese File-Sharing Population Explodes
TorrentFreak - 20 hours ago
BitTorrent, which is incredibly popular all over the world with tens of millions of users, ranked just 6th with 7.4 per cent. Japan hit the file-sharing ...

Ten worst telco moments of 2007
Reclaim the Media, WA - Dec 21, 2007
BitTorrent is rapidly emerging as one of the most successful online platforms for the sharing of large files. Comcast has a natural incentive to keep ...

TorrentFreak

Mininova Launches Content Distribution Service
TorrentFreak - Dec 21, 2007
The popular BitTorrent site Mininova officially launched its Content Distribution service, an easy way for indie publishers to share their content with a ...
Try A Little Social Media In 2008 Search Engine Watch
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Wired News

Study: Mac Users Pay For Music, PC Owners Steal It
Wired News - Dec 21, 2007
Who knows why? Are Mac people more honest? Higher earning? Or are they just too stupid to work out BitTorrent? Tell us in the comments.

'I Am Legend' Screener Leaked to BitTorrent
Zeropaid, CA - Dec 20, 2007
Over at ReleaseLog you can find screenshots, a sample to download, along with the all important BitTorrent tracker link to download the movie as well. ...

Analysis: Legality of Torrent Tracking Sites Unresolved Despite ...
Wired News - Dec 20, 2007
By David Kravets December 20, 2007 | 6:19:40 PMCategories: BitTorrent At first glance, the blistering federal court ruling against TorrentSpy seemed like a ...

TorrentSpy Judged To Have Tampered With Evidence During Court Case
Profy - 23 hours ago
TorrentSpy, once a stalwart participant of BitTorrent communications on the Web, found today that its future was no more. News widely emerged this morning ...
Judge rules for MPAA in TorrentSpy case BetaNews
MPAA Wins Copyright Case Against TorrentSpy PC World
Judge rules against TorrentSpy Afterdawn.com
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BitTorrent debuts ad-supported live-streaming films & TV, 'Watch Now'
Mobile Digest, UK - Dec 20, 2007
Everyone's favourite online property, BitTorrent has just launched a massive 'Watch Now' live-streaming section, with over 1000 films and TV episodes, ...

TECH.BLORGE.com

Bittorrent site TorrentSpy loses court case to MPAA
TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - Dec 20, 2007
By Triston McIntyre TorrentSpy, one of the larger Bittorrent indexing sites, lost a suit brought against it by the Motion Picture Association of America. ...

Bright lights and Lite Brites
St. John's Telegram, Canada - 6 hours ago
... far more productive than you might know, whether for basics like Windows or popular applications like BitTorrent, Google's Gmail or Apple's iTunes. ...

TorrentFreak

Klaxxon Starts Where aXXo Left Off
TorrentFreak - Dec 20, 2007
It’s an effective way to get attention because even after a month of absence, aXXo is still among the most searched keywords on most BitTorrent sites. ...

BitTorrent search site loses case - BBC News

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BBC News

BitTorrent search site loses case
BBC News, UK - Dec 20, 2007
The site had ignored an order to retain server logs and the unique online addresses of computers which traded files using the BitTorrent program. ...

Seattle Times

Network neutrality | Hysteria makes for bad law
Seattle Times, United States - Dec 20, 2007
P2P companies like BitTorrent broker the arrangements, providing downloadable software to file-sharing users. Made popular first by the famed Napster, ...
Ten worst telco moments of 2007 Reclaim the Media
As Cable Lures Business, AT&T, Verizon Margins Erode (Update2) Bloomberg
Network neutrality | Freedom of expression at risk Seattle Times
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Test your geek credentials with our quiz
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Dec 19, 2007
26) Joost, Babelgum, BitTorrent. What is their common theme, and which is the odd one out? 27) What did Lily Allen and U2 have in common, sonically? ...

dBTechno

Judge Says TorrentSpy Defendants Destroyed Evidence, Then Lied ...
InformationWeek, NY - 11 hours ago
The company was sued by film companies for directing Internet users to movies they could illegally download with BitTorrent software. ...
Court smacks TorrentSpy Los Angeles Times
TorrentSpy hands Hollywood victory Register
TorrentSpy operators held liable Los Angeles Times
Wall Street Journal - CNET News.com
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Court smacks TorrentSpy - Los Angeles Times

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Court smacks TorrentSpy
Los Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours ago
In other words, it claimed to be just a search engine tuned to BitTorrent, which is a neutral technology that in and of itself doesn't infringe. ...
TorrentSpy hands Hollywood victory Register
TorrentSpy operators held liable Los Angeles Times
Federal Judge Grants Victory To Entertainment Companies In ... Wall Street Journal
CNET News.com - Zeropaid
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MPAA Wins Case Against TorrentSpy - Zeropaid

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MPAA Wins Case Against TorrentSpy
Zeropaid, CA - 6 minutes ago
Federal judge entered a default judgment against the BitTorrent tracker site after finding that it 'engaged in widespread and systematic efforts to destroy ...

RCN Resolves BitTorrent Issue - Dslreports

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RCN Resolves BitTorrent Issue
Dslreports - Dec 19, 2007
Yesterday we mentioned how RCN users were having trouble with BitTorrent connectivity, but suggested it was likely a network issue and not a new effort to ...

RCN Resolves BitTorrent Issue
BroadbandReports.com, NY - Dec 19, 2007
Yesterday we mentioned how RCN users were having trouble with BitTorrent connectivity, but suggested it was likely a network issue and not a new effort to ...

Battle for the network will mark 2008
ZDNet - 15 hours ago
The practical result is that ordinary consumers may soon find it impossible to do things they now take for granted, like use BitTorrent. ...

eFluxMedia

TorrentSpy hands Hollywood victory
Register, UK - 2 hours ago
The Dutch-based site bills itself as the largest BitTorrent search engine. "The court finds that plaintiffs have suffered prejudice, to the extent that a ...
TorrentSpy operators held liable Los Angeles Times
Federal Judge Grants Victory To Entertainment Companies In ... Wall Street Journal
TorrentSpy loses Calif. copyright lawsuit CNET News.com
eFluxMedia - The Money Times
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Vuze Raises $20M More in Series C, Brings Aboard TiVo Co-Founder ...
TechCrunch, CA - Dec 19, 2007
BitTorrent-based video distribution service Vuze, which we last covered in June and was previously known as Azureus, has raised $20M in a Series C round of ...
Vuze Lands $20 Million for Internet-based TV Service Digital Media Wire
Vuze Gathers More Investment, Adds TiVo Founder To BOD Profy
Vuze gets $20M in round 3 Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal Bizjournals.com
C21Media
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TorrentSpy.com loses Copyright Violation Case
The Money Times, India - 3 hours ago
TorrentSpy.com is a peer to peer network based website which allows the users to exchange data with each other by using software called BitTorrent. ...

dBTechno

TorrentSpy operators held liable
Los Angeles Times, CA - 6 hours ago
... TorrentSpy in 2006, accusing it of illegally allowing users around the world to download and store full-length movies using software called BitTorrent. ...
Federal Judge Grants Victory To Entertainment Companies In ... Wall Street Journal
TorrentSpy loses Calif. copyright lawsuit CNET News.com
TorrentSpy.com loses Copyright Violation Case The Money Times
dBTechno - Digital Media Wire
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MP3 Newswire

Federal Judge Grants Victory To Entertainment Companies In ...
Wall Street Journal - 3 hours ago
Known as BitTorrent indexes, many are based overseas. The strategy of continuing to fight such sites in court makes it difficult for the sites to attract ...
TorrentSpy loses Calif. copyright lawsuit CNET News.com
MPAA Wins Copyright Suit Against TorrentSpy.com Digital Media Wire
TorrentSpy loses Calif. copyright lawsuit CNet News.com Blog
InfoWorld - Wired News
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Podcast: Will a judicial left hook floor TorrentSpy for good?
CNET News.com, CA - Dec 18, 2007
By CNET News.com Staff Judge rules against BitTorrent indexing service; harnessing power from the ocean, and Sprint Nextel names CEO. ...

"Incompetent tech support, E-mail now handled by HotMail, P2P ...
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 15 hours ago
Now I can't use BitTorrent while I use something else on my connection because it slow everything down to a crawl. And even when BitTorrent isn't running I ...
"Stay away and avoid the frustration" BroadbandReports.com
"Expensive, email, sevices, deceptive business practices" BroadbandReports.com
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TorrentSpy loses Calif. copyright lawsuit
CNET News.com, CA - 2 hours ago
A federal judge has ruled against the BitTorrent indexing service TorrentSpy.com saying that its hiding and destruction of evidence made a fair trial ...
MPAA Wins Copyright Suit Against TorrentSpy.com Digital Media Wire
TorrentSpy loses Calif. copyright lawsuit CNet News.com Blog
MPAA wins copyright case against TorrentSpy InfoWorld
Wired News
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TorrentSpy loses Calif. copyright lawsuit
CNET News.com, CA - 2 hours ago
A federal judge has ruled against the BitTorrent indexing service TorrentSpy.com saying that its hiding and destruction of evidence made a fair trial ...
MPAA Wins Copyright Suit Against TorrentSpy.com Digital Media Wire
MPAA wins copyright case against TorrentSpy InfoWorld
Judge Terminates TorrentSpy Defense, Citing Alleged Evidence ... Wired News
all 10 news articles

Podcast: Will a judicial left hook floor TorrentSpy for good?
CNET News.com, CA - 4 hours ago
By CNET News.com Staff Judge rules against BitTorrent indexing service; harnessing power from the ocean, and Sprint Nextel names CEO. ...

TorrentSpy loses Calif. copyright lawsuit
CNet News.com Blog - 3 hours ago
In a potentially severe blow to fans of peer-to-peer networks, a federal judge has ruled against the BitTorrent indexing service TorrentSpy.com on grounds ...
TorrentSpy Loses Case Against MPAA TorrentFreak
What a maroon!: reader comment from dargon19888 CNet News.com Blog
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FlixFlux Lets You Download Movies by Box Office and DVD Rental Charts
Zeropaid, CA - 16 hours ago
It's one stop shopping for BitTorrent cinephiles, and may come in handy for those presently unable to get into a private BitTorrent tracker site. ...

BitTorrent Launches Ad Supported Streaming
TorrentFreak - Dec 18, 2007
BitTorrent Inc. officially launched its “Watch Now” section where they have over 1000 movies and TV episodes available to watch for free. ...

RCN Users Report BitTorrent Troubles More traffic shaping or a ...
Dslreports - Dec 18, 2007
Users in our RCN forum are complaining that cable overbuilder RCN is blocking BitTorrent connections. Some RCN technician posts to the forum seem to ...

RCN Users Report BitTorrent Troubles
BroadbandReports.com, NY - Dec 18, 2007
Users in our RCN forum are complaining that cable overbuilder RCN is blocking BitTorrent connections. Some RCN technician posts to the forum seem to ...

RCN Users Report BitTorrent Troubles
Dslreports - 50 minutes ago
Users in our RCN forum are complaining that cable overbuilder RCN is blocking BitTorrent connections. Some RCN technician posts to the forum seem to ...

BitTorrent Is Now Streaming Movies (With Ads). But Where’s The ...
TechCrunch, CA - Dec 17, 2007
For anyone who thinks that full-length movies on the Web are for downloading only should check out the Watch Now section on BitTorrent (you will need Flash ...

Waffles.FM Now Officially in Sweden
Zeropaid, CA - Dec 17, 2007
Things are looking up in the music section of the BitTorrent community, now let's just hope it stays that way. Looking for more stuff to watch or download?

Goetz Weber, CEO of InDplay.com
Television Week, MI - 15 hours ago
Buyers include online services BitTorrent, MovieLink and Vuze and video-on-demand service EuroCinema. Backstory: Mr. Weber founded the company in June 2005 ...

uTorrent Gains Popularity, Azureus Loses Ground
TorrentFreak - Dec 16, 2007
With an install rate of more than 5% on Windows PCs worldwide, uTorrent is now by far the most popular BitTorrent client. Azureus, the most installed ...

Spam a bigger concern than network neutrality
ZDNet - Dec 16, 2007
My idea was that Comcast broke net neutrality principles in banning BitTorrent, while ignoring the bigger bandwidth-wasting problem of spam. ...

LimeWire Goes Deep - Slyck

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LimeWire Goes Deep
Slyck, NY - 11 hours ago
Led by mega-networks like BitTorrent and eDonkey2000, these slightly less numerically popular file-sharing networks help keep any chanting of victory of P2P ...

Independent Filmmakers Benefit from BitTorrent An economic ...
Dslreports - Dec 16, 2007
Independent filmmakers seem to have a counterargument in the fact that their success is often driven by the way that BitTorrent sharing can increase ...

Independent Filmmakers Benefit from BitTorrent
BroadbandReports.com, NY - Dec 16, 2007
Independent filmmakers seem to have a counterargument in the fact that their success is often driven by the way that BitTorrent sharing can increase ...

Studios Leveraging BitTorrent?
Zatz Not Funny, DC - Dec 16, 2007
So, it’sa reasonable strategy to give away episodes as a means to draw in new viewers - whether the giving be done on a website or via BitTorrent. ...

TorrentFreak

BitTorrent, A Boon To Independent Filmmakers
TorrentFreak - Dec 15, 2007
Talented independent filmmakers are benefiting immensely from having their movies distributed for free on BitTorrent. Films that might never have been heard ...

TorrentFreak

Create Your Own BitTorrent Blog With Diferior
TorrentFreak - Dec 14, 2007
Diferior makes it easy for everyone to start a BitTorrent or filesharing community, and more. It is easy to customize and can be used as a blog, a forum, ...

Piracy as a leading indicator of sales
CNET Blogs, CA - Dec 14, 2007
One of them simply asked, Is the show on BitTorrent? How many people are downloading it?? The rest of the group looked genuinely interested in the answer ...

The Comcast Packet Forgery Scandal
NetworkWorld.com, MA - 1 hour ago
... widely discussed interference was with certain BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing communications, but other protocols have also been affected. ...

First Russian BitTorrent User Sentenced, Activists Call For Support
TorrentFreak - Dec 14, 2007
An .nfo relating to the 1C software carries a message which may well be seen more often in the future as BitTorrent seeders are being encouraged to include ...

News - Music, movie, Entertainment RADIOHEAD HIT BACK AT 'POOR ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 6 hours ago
"People moan about the quality of the download, then go onto (file transfer site) BitTorrent to get a superior version - which doesn't exist. ...

'iPhone' places high in Google searches
MacNN, CA - Dec 14, 2007
iTunes remains the most searched-for software related to music, trumping both LimeWire and BitTorrent, the latter two being connected primarily with piracy. ...
Apple, AT&T named in visual voicemail lawsuit Macworld
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30 Trends in Digital Music: 16-20
Mobile Digest, UK - 22 hours ago
Meanwhile, Canadian ISP Bell Sympatico has recently been accused of also throttling BitTorrent traffic on its own network. If European ISPs follow suit, ...

Down And Out For Radiohead
Glasgow Daily Record, UK - 6 hours ago
"People moan about the quality of the download, then go on BitTorrent to get a superior version - which doesn't exist. It's a lot of chit chat. ...

Type of content: VENDOR WHITE PAPER
InformationWeek, NY - Dec 14, 2007
If you are coping with excessive bandwidth consumption due to P2P traffic such as BitTorrent, eMule, eDonkey, DirectConnect, Kazaa, etc., conventional rate ...

TV Industry Using Piracy As A Measure Of Success
Slashdot - Dec 13, 2007
... who describes the way in which 'unofficial' but sanctioned BitTorrent leaks are being used as a measurement of a TV show's likely success. ...

TorrentFreak

What Happened to Demonoid, Will it Ever Return?
TorrentFreak - Dec 13, 2007
However, it is far from impossible since all the BitTorrent sites that were kicked out by the Dutch ISP Leaseweb found a new home within a week. ...

Dismantling a Religion: The EFF's Faith-Based Internet
Register, UK - Dec 13, 2007
(Reset spoofing merely rations the number of Bittorrent seeding sessions a user can offer to the internet at a given time. It doesn't affect BitTorrent ...

New Jackass Movie To Be Offered Free Online
TechCrunch, CA - 18 hours ago
Of course it will take all of about 5 seconds for the movie to be ripped from the site and put onto BitTorrent, but maybe at least in this example, ...

iTunes Canada gets TV shows: three down, 19 to go
Hydrapinion, Australia - 17 hours ago
It's not an Apple-specific problem - TV content from services such as Veoh, BitTorrent and Joost is largely limited to the US. ...

The WGA Strike and the Death of Television
Gizmodo Australia, Australia - 15 hours ago
People are getting used to watching shows when they want, be it through timeshifting using a TiVo or by downloading using iTunes or BitTorrent, ...

Vuze Offering Free 'Neko Rahmen' BitTorrent Downloads
Zeropaid, CA - Dec 12, 2007
Vuze, Inc., the entertainment provider formerly known as Azureus, Inc., is premiering the anime series "Neko Rahmen" worldwide with free, English-subtitled ...

Sigur Rós - Tiny Mix Tapes

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Sigur Rós
Tiny Mix Tapes - 14 hours ago
In a time of instant downloading, BitTorrent, digital recorders, and FLAC, can a studio continue competing against the innovation of technology and the ...

PeerApp, Pando Collaborate to make Peer-to-Peer Palatable to ISPs
Xconomy, MA - Dec 12, 2007
When it comes to peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems such as BitTorrent and Gnutella, the technology world has a like-hate-love relationship. ...
A tool to help curb recreational traffic NetworkWorld.com
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Solid State Networks Announces Patch Delivery Solution for MMO Games
Earthtimes, UK - Dec 12, 2007
For more information, please visit http://www.newsbittorrent.com/cgi-bin/go/7388. BitTorrent is a trademark or registered trademark of BitTorrent, Inc., ...
Solid State Adds Patch Functionality To Solid Axis Gamasutra
all 6 news articles

QNAP TS-109 Pro Honored
HEXUS.net (press release), UK - 10 hours ago
The TS-109 Pro also comes with a plethora of outstanding features: It can stream music…download BitTorrent files, act as a server, back up your PCs, ...

Writers’ Strike: Boon or Doom for Torrent Sites?
NewTeeVee, CA - Dec 12, 2007
BitTorrent traffic will be way up.” This also will help the overall catalog of torrent sites. “The tail should get longer and availability of older titles ...

BitTorrent XXX Next Target For Anti-Pirates
TorrentFreak - Dec 12, 2007
Although only a tiny minority get into trouble, that fear is likely to increase for those sharing hardcore porn on BitTorrent, as Swiss company Logistep ...

Vuze IPTV claims exclusive anime deal
Digital Spy, UK - 12 hours ago
Vuze works through the Azureus BitTorrent client, which shares files on a peer to peer basis. The company said this was the first time any online video ...
Vuze Inks Exclusive Distribution Rights for Popular Anime Series ... Business Wire (press release)
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Cisco, AT&T and the New Internet - eWeek

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Cisco, AT&T and the New Internet
eWeek,  NY - Dec 11, 2007
Then, along came Napster, and then BitTorrent and by 2005, people were estimating that two-thirds of all Internet traffic was from P2P (peer-to-peer) ...

Nicholas’ guide to giving gifts this holiday season
CrunchGear, NY - 19 hours ago
If you’re like me and grab 99 percent of your music from Usenet or BitTorrent trackers (more on that later), so it really doesn’t matter what PMP you get. ...

Pando Teams Up With PeerApp
Silicon Alley Insider, NY - 12 hours ago
PeerApp has already supported common P2P formats like BitTorrent. But now Pando, too, can tell its customers like NBC and ESPN that its service plays nice ...

Optimize Wi-Fi for VoIP, video and gaming
Computerworld, MA - 23 hours ago
You may want to give BitTorrent and other download services a low priority and give your VoIP service a high priority, for example. ...

Idolator: All About The Music

US Economy Tanks, Touring Bands Break The Bank In Europe
Idolator, NY - 13 hours ago
... of exchange rates, they can now make up for all those record sales lost to BitTorrent by getting in a van with the steering wheel on the wrong side! ...

Canadian ISP Modifies Google Homepage, Raises Spectre Of Net ...
Search Engine Land, CT - 10 hours ago
... has recently been revived by allegedly fraudulent activity by Comcast in restricting or trying to prevent use of heavy bandwidth sites like BitTorrent. ...

A tool to help curb recreational traffic
NetworkWorld.com, MA - 6 hours ago
Skype and BitTorrent traffic were designed to use different network ports and file server IP addresses, making it very difficult for firewalls to detect it. ...

bit-tech.net

Rogers forces own content onto users
bit-tech.net, UK - 1 hour ago
Currently the system is simple: by using the deep-packet inspection tools it already has (for looking for naughty bittorrent traffic), Rogers is able to see ...

Verdict: Does all the same work as Bittorrent, but with a better ...
PC Authority Business Centre, Australia - 23 hours ago
The problem with Bittorrent is that it’sa rather basic tool. Does the job, but fairly simply. BitComet is a free file sharing tool that is Bittorrent ...

Why metered Internet is a really bad idea
ZDNet - Dec 10, 2007
That effectively means you can only use BitTorrent for about 6 days out of the month. Compared to the Australian plans which have 8GB noon to midnight caps ...

TorrentFreak

Police Closes Pirate Bay Investigation, Trial Awaits
TorrentFreak - 23 hours ago
On a side note, whilst the police may not have found evidence that the BitTorrent tracker was involved in illegal activity, they did find a bug in TPB’s ...
The Pirate Bay Launches Last.fm Powered Music Section TorrentFreak
The Pirate Bay no longer running on Hypercube Afterdawn.com
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The Corporatenet will be a big 2008 trend
ZDNet - Dec 10, 2007
I tried to download a new copy of OpenOffice yesterday, using the BitTorrent client suggested on the OpenOffice Web site. It never initialized. ...
Will ISP Web Content Filtering Continue To Grow? Slashdot
Start-up gets user data via Web providers USA Today
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p2pnet.net

isohunt’s Gary Fung on Creative Commons
p2pnet.net, Canada - Dec 10, 2007
bittorrent? File sharing? isohunt? T hen take your anarchist sentiments and eat it, because all you will get is being labelled pirates and thieves and ...

tv's Last Gasp - ClickZ News

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tv's Last Gasp
ClickZ News, NY - 21 hours ago
They're not all queuing up their bittorrent clients to pirate content. And if you've ever used bittorrent to try to download some sort of digital content ...

Leaked MediaDefender Emails Show Student P2P Traffic Down
Slashdot - Dec 9, 2007
Plus, it really only deals with the Gnutella network, whereas most of the traffic nowadays would probably be using Bittorrent. ...

TorrentFreak

The Pirate Bay Launches Last.fm Powered Music Section
TorrentFreak - 6 hours ago
For example, flixflux, a bittorrent site dedicated to movies has already a description, IMDB rating and trailers from youtube for every film. ...

2007 Digital Media Winners - MP3 Newswire

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2007 Digital Media Winners
MP3 Newswire, NJ - Dec 8, 2007
Last year Azureus and the BitTorrent client represented the BitTorrent technology on the winners list. In a single year µTorrent - a client that takes up ...

TorrentFreak

The Pirate Bay Now Running on Opentracker
TorrentFreak - Dec 8, 2007
The world’s largest bittorrent tracker is no longer running on Hypercube, the tracker originally developed by Anakata, one of the Pirate Bay founders. ...
The Pirate Bay no longer running on Hypercube Afterdawn.com
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ZDNET: The Evil eff's Quest For Metered Bandwidth
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 20 hours ago
Not only does a metered Internet service plan screw the low-end users, it makes bittorrent or any kind of peer-to-peer networking cost prohibitive. ...

Verdict: Does all the same work as Bittorrent, but with a better ...
PC Authority, Australia - Dec 7, 2007
The problem with Bittorrent is that it’sa rather basic tool. Does the job, but fairly simply. BitComet is a free file sharing tool that is Bittorrent ...

Smelling Blood, BREIN Targets Mininova, Torrentspy and Btjunkie
TorrentFreak - Dec 7, 2007
Following the huge pressure it successfully put on LeaseWeb to shut BitTorrent sites, anti-piracy outfit BREIN smells blood as it casts its net wider to ...

Mobile Digest

30 Trends in Digital Music: 11-15
Mobile Digest, UK - Dec 7, 2007
The next batch of five are DRM-free music, artists throwing hissy fits about itunes, the record industry's fight against bittorrent trackers, ...
Hey, itunes, Move Over BusinessWeek
Apple’s might in online music is set to face Pepsi challenge in ... Times Online
Pepsi's unlikely challenge to Apple Telegraph.co.uk
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Divx decodes multi-core blimey - Inquirer

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Divx decodes multi-core blimey
Inquirer, UK - 1 hour ago
... latest release of their codec to improve the multi-core support, which will no doubt please boffins at Intel and high-end bittorrent downloaders alike. ...
divx 6.8 promises 50 per cent HD speed-up for multi-core cpus HEXUS.net
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Type of content: VENDOR WHITE PAPER
TechWeb - Dec 7, 2007
If you are coping with excessive bandwidth consumption due to P2P traffic such as BitTorrent, eMule, eDonkey, DirectConnect, Kazaa, etc., conventional rate ...

Avoid Downloading Fakes from BitTorrent
Lifehacker Australia, Australia - Dec 6, 2007
If you've been plagued with BitTorrent downloads that won't finish, unplaying videos, or—worse yet—videos that claim to require special players, ...

PC help: Bittorrent... what to click?
Computeractive, UK - Dec 6, 2007
Q I have just downloaded the Bittorrent software Bitcomet, which runs on Windows Vista Home Premium. When I select a file to download, it comes up with a ...

Vancouver's unusual climate - Ars Technica

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Ars Technica

Vancouver's unusual climate
Ars Technica, MA - 22 hours ago
Briscoe argues that fairness goes out the window with P2P applications such as bittorrent. These applications may use as many as 40 to 100 TCP sessions at ...

Will Sendspace Get Sent Into Space By Copyright Lawyers?
Idolator, NY - 10 hours ago
With BitTorrent trackers falling one by one and media attention--including poorly written, vague articles that pile together leak blogs and those that clear ...

directv Expanding Local HD Coverage
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 17 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, ...
directv to roll out local HD programming in additional 11 markets ... CNNMoney.com
jetblue Airways Announces Enhanced DIRECTV Programming Lineup CNNMoney.com
DIRECTV to Deliver Local HD Programming In 76 Markets by Mid-2008 Business Wire (press release)
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Comcast's Secret War on File-Sharing
AlterNet, CA - Dec 5, 2007
In May disgruntled Comcast users started posting on message boards about how BitTorrent and Gnutella weren't working for them anymore. ...

Ars Technica

Growth of P2P leads IETF to debate "fair" bandwidth use
Ars Technica, MA - 10 hours ago
Briscoe argues that fairness goes out the window with P2P applications such as bittorrent. These applications may use as many as 40 to 100 TCP sessions at ...

Technology News - Silicon Valley's Metro

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Technology News
Silicon Valley's Metro, CA - 15 hours ago
In May of this year, disgruntled Comcast users started posting on message boards about how bittorrent and Gnutella weren't working for them anymore. ...
EFF Reports Comcast is Still Using Hacker Countermeasures Against ... Laptop Logic
New Tool Helps Web Users Detect Interference Law.com (subscription)
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Rhodri Marsden: Cyberclinic - Independent

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Rhodri Marsden: Cyberclinic
Independent, UK - Dec 4, 2007
Comcast, the second largest ISP in the US, was recently accused of preventing its customers from using bittorrent, the file-sharing protocol. ...

Fear Factor in BitTorrent debate - ZDNet

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Fear Factor in BitTorrent debate
ZDNet - Dec 4, 2007
Not only does a metered Internet service plan screw the low-end users, it makes BitTorrent or any kind of peer-to-peer networking cost prohibitive. ...

Stop Downloading Fakes and Junk From BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Dec 4, 2007
Many experienced file-sharers can’t understand why relative novices manage to download so much junk from BitTorrent. Fake downloads that never finish, ...

MP3 Blogs Offer File Sharing Even the RIAA Could Love
Wired News - 11 hours ago
There are countless MP3 file-sharing sites that don't look anything like bittorrent or Lime Wire. They're low-key, homegrown blogs that don't host illicitly ...

Optimize Wi-Fi for voip, Video, and Gaming
PC World - Dec 3, 2007
You may want to give bittorrent and other download services a low priority and give your voip service a high priority, for example. ...

Could the Kindle spark book piracy?
Globe and Mail, Canada - 7 hours ago
In a recent article, he speculated that the Kindle could become the vehicle of choice for reading "pirated" e-books downloaded via bittorrent, ...

uPhone Lets You Control BitTorrent Downloads Remotely
Zeropaid, CA - Dec 3, 2007
iPhone users now have a means for controlling their BitTorrent downloads remotely thanks to a new uTorrent webUI recently released by "davidraso" in the ...

December 3rd, 2007 - ZDNet

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December 3rd, 2007
ZDNet - Dec 3, 2007
Just imagine if you accidentally left the bittorrent client on for a weekend or if the kids use Grandma’s computer to download a bunch of videos racking up ...

TorrentFreak

The Hydra Project: An Anti-Piracy Proof BitTorrent Tracker
TorrentFreak - Dec 3, 2007
The Hydra Project is a new script for private BitTorrent trackers designed to resist any attack or raid, and to guarantee the privacy and anonymity of its ...

Marvel Comics goes after BitTorrent users in a short sighted move
TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - Dec 3, 2007
By Sean P. Aune The comic book industry has been in a slump for years, and while the companies should be happy for any acknowledgement of their existence, ...

TechCrunch

Stealing Books For The Kindle Is Trivially Easy
TechCrunch, CA - 12 hours ago
But tens of thousands of newly released books, including best sellers, are readily available on on bittorrent sites as well, right next to movies and music. ...
Chicago Author Bryan Alaspa Participates in Amazon.com Technology ... PR Leap (press release)
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Comic bittorrent Tracker Writes Open Letter to Marvel, Ends Up a ...
TorrentFreak - Dec 2, 2007
... two’ in comics (Marvel and DC) have turned a blind eye to the rampant pirating of their comics and their distribution online via usenet and bittorrent. ...

Everything You Wanted to Know About bittorrent but Were Afraid to Ask
TechNewsWorld, CA - Dec 2, 2007
By Andrew D. Smith bittorrent is a file-sharing protocol that can be used to find, download and enjoy just about any song, movie, TV show or software ...

News for nerds, stuff that matters
Slashdot - Dec 1, 2007
'The investigators say that their tests confirmed an earlier one conducted by the Associated Press that showed that Comcast is interfering with bittorrent ...
On-Call-IT Assists In Government Data Destruction Slashdot
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Vuze CEO: isps Using Hacking Techniques to Block P2P
NewTeeVee, CA - 5 hours ago
Comcast’s interference with bittorrent traffic has brought the net neutrality issue back into the spotlight in recent weeks. The ISP hasn’t been the first ...
FCC Pressed to Stop Internet Blocking Government Technology
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Coming Soon, Mobile Torrents - Slashdot

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TorrentFreak

Coming Soon, Mobile Torrents
Slashdot - 14 hours ago
... bittorent protocol which says 'Mobile implementations of the bittorrent protocol are nearly certain to be part of whatever Google Android comes up with, ...
utorrent webui For The iphone TorrentFreak
Are mobile Torrents the first big trend of 2008? ZDNet
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The Consumerist

Comcast Continues to Block Peer to Peer Traffic
Slashdot - Nov 30, 2007
'The investigators say that their tests confirmed an earlier one conducted by the Associated Press that showed that Comcast is interfering with bittorrent ...
Net Neutrality Roars Back Onto The Congressional Agenda The Consumerist
New Net neutrality laws could backfire Legit Reviews
all 7 news articles

TorrentFreak

moviex Leeches From The bittorrent Community
TorrentFreak - Nov 30, 2007
The private bittorrent tracker Moviex has been setup and configured to leech from public bittorrent users. Through some clever modifications, their tracker ...
The Pirate Bay Dashboard Widget for the Mac TorrentFreak
all 2 news articles

Comcast Continues to Block Peer to Peer Traffic
Slashdot - 3 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 ...
EFF details evidence of Comcast traffic management Afterdawn.com
The EFF 'Test Your ISP' Project Dslreports
EFF Releases Software to Spot Net nonneutrality Slashdot
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