Archivos February 2008


PC World

Comcast Backed By NBC, Viacom In Network Neutrality Dispute
CNNMoney.com - Feb 29, 2008
BitTorrent Inc. is the software application that Comcast stands accused of slowing and blocking. Eric Klinker , the company's chief technology officer, ...
P2P News Wrap Up Slyck
Comcast facing backlash after hearing Boston Globe
'Net Neutrality': Ignore at your own risk Baltimore Sun
Register - Newsweek
all 25 news articles

NBC: P2P Is Evil — Except When We Use It
NewTeeVee, CA - Feb 29, 2008
NBC Universal filed comments with the FCC this week that side with Comcast on BitTorrent blocking. The company opposes Net Neutrality regulations because it ...
NBC to Distribute Shows via P2P Zeropaid
all 2 news articles

OPINION: Traffic jams on broadband
Video Business (subscription), CA - Feb 29, 2008
What it discovered was that at certain times, Comcast was intentionally degrading BitTorrent service—a practice also called throttling—apparently in an ...

A Comcastic Blast - InternetNews.com

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A Comcastic Blast
InternetNews.com - Feb 29, 2008
Right, sending out BitTorrents makes you a virus. No, it makes you a bandwidth pig. I'm no great fan of Comcast. It has done more than a few things wrong in ...

Cashing In on Naive BitTorrent Users
TorrentFreak - Feb 29, 2008
BitTorrent sites are overloaded with ads for malware ridden BitTorrent clients and paid tutorials that promise to quadruple your download speed. ...

Digitaltrends.com

Comcast facing backlash after hearing
Boston Globe, United States - Feb 28, 2008
So when a computer with BitTorrent downloads a TV show, it starts uploading the same show to other users. As a result, many Internet users now upload far ...
FCC Tackles Comcast’s BitTorrent Throttling xchange Magazine
'Net Neutrality': Ignore at your own risk Baltimore Sun
Whose Web Is It, Anyway? Newsweek
Record-Harvard Law School - PC World
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Whose Web Is It, Anyway? - Newsweek

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Newsweek

Whose Web Is It, Anyway?
Newsweek - 20 hours ago
For example, Lessig argues, if Comcast were to deliberately slow the upload time for applications like BitTorrent, which lets users exchange large files ...
Congress should act to preserve Net neutrality San Mateo County Times
all 7 news articles

How To: Share Files on Usenet - Wired News

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How To: Share Files on Usenet
Wired News - Feb 28, 2008
Usenet has one main advantage over other P2P file-trading methods like BitTorrent and Kazaa, and that's the fact that your download speed is only limited by ...

PC World

FCC Considers Hearing Do-Over in Light of Comcast Seat Hogging Charges
PC World - 14 hours ago
... focuses of Monday's hearing was Comcast's practice of "limiting," also known as blocking, access to P2P file sharing applications such as BitTorrent. ...
FCC might hold second Comcast hearing at Stanford ZDNet
Search BostonHerald.com for Past 7 days Archives Boston Herald
all 6 news articles

'Net Neutrality': Ignore at your own risk
Baltimore Sun, United States - Feb 28, 2008
The complainers were Comcast customers who like to trade videos online with a peer-to-peer file-sharing system called BitTorrent and similar software from ...

FreeBSD 7.0 Release Now Available - Slashdot

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FreeBSD 7.0 Release Now Available
Slashdot - Feb 28, 2008
In addition to being available from many FTP sites, ISO images can be downloaded via the BitTorrent tracker, or for users of earlier FreeBSD releases, ...
RE: I tried to use it as desktop but OS News
RE[3]: I tried to use it as desktop but Newmobilecomputing.com
RE[2]: ZFS OS News
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Cool Rules for the FCC: In the Lions's Den
Register, UK - Feb 28, 2008
Clark's old friend David Reed, the very presentable new CTO at BitTorrent, Eric Klinker, and a fellow from Sony I should have known from the home networking ...

PhysOrg.com

Comcast hardly Internet neutral
Baltimore Sun, United States - 4 hours ago
The complainers were Comcast customers who like to trade videos online with a peer-to-peer file-sharing system called BitTorrent and similar software from ...
FCC chief grills Comcast on BitTorrent blocking CNET News.com
FCC Tackles Comcast’s BitTorrent Throttling xchange Magazine
Comcast Slams Critics, Denies Blocking BitTorrent PC Magazine
CNET News.com - Slashdot
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FreeBSD 7.0 Release Now Available - Slashdot

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FreeBSD 7.0 Release Now Available
Slashdot - 10 hours ago
In addition to being available from many FTP sites, ISO images can be downloaded via the BitTorrent tracker, or for users of earlier FreeBSD releases, ...

FCC Tackles Comcast’s BitTorrent Throttling
xchange Magazine, AZ - Feb 27, 2008
s alleged practice of throttling BitTorrent Inc. traffic, believing it violates net neutrality, though it’s unclear if the FCC has the authority to act on ...

Comcast pays Americans to oppose net neutrality
Register, UK - Feb 27, 2008
It's not just that Comcast is throttling BitTorrents. It's that the company did so without telling its customers. Even now, eight months after the practice ...

Mobile Digest

PiraBoogle: Google meets BitTorrent
Mobile Digest, UK - Feb 27, 2008
To be honest, the name is the coolest thing about PiraBoogle, a new torrent search engine. It makes me think of salty seadogs boogling round a hornpipe. ...

CNET News.com

FCC chief grills Comcast on BitTorrent blocking
CNET News.com, CA - Feb 26, 2008
The FCC convened Monday's hearing as part of an investigation into Comcast's practice of stalling uploads to BitTorrent protocol clients. ...

ABC News

New York subpoenas Comcast 'reasonable network management' records
Register, UK - Feb 26, 2008
In the wake of the FCC's investigation into Comcast's long history of BitTorrent busting, Cuomo has subpoenaed traffic data from the big-name American ISP. ...
Comcast Gets Subpoena From New York Attorney General (Update2) Bloomberg
Scrutiny Over Comcast's Traffic Handling Grows CRN
NY AG Subpoenas Comcast on Broadband The Associated Press
Digital Media Wire - AHN
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Gizmodo

FCC and NY Attorney General 'Bout to Stomp on Comcast for ...
Gizmodo - Feb 26, 2008
As promised at CES, the giant boot of the FCC is hovering over Comcast, ready to make it the FCC's bitch for throttling P2P applications. ...

What Will Come of the FCC Comcast Hearing
Slashdot - Feb 26, 2008
But if they can't cap BitTorrent, they have to cap volume, and I expect that's what's going to happen. by Smordnys s'regrepsA (1160895) on Monday February ...

Comcast Executive Grilled at FCC Hearing
Top Tech News, CA - 15 minutes ago
By Richard Koman Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen insists BitTorrent wasn't blocked but managed. The issue for the Federal Communications ...

Conde Nast Portfolio

Comcast hires these people off the street to help fill gallery for ...
ZDNet - 2 hours ago
... a sympathetic gallery crowd for yesterday’s FCC hearings about the broadband Internet giant’s habit of thwarting BitTorrent packets and connections. ...
Comcast paid people to take up seats at FCC hearing ZDNet Blogs
Tuning into today’s FCC hearing today might be tough ZDNet Blogs
Did Comcast Hire Public Stand-ins For Neutrality Hearing? Dslreports
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EU Funds P2P-Based Internet TV Standard
Slashdot - Feb 26, 2008
It will be based on the BitTorrent technology. The four-year research project will try to build a system that can stand alongside the other ways that ...

Side-Line

Little harmony in music download debate
Reuters - 23 hours ago
O: Quote, Profile, Research) has complained that customers overwhelm the network by using file-sharing applications like BitTorrent. ...
British ISPs could be punished over file sharing PCWorld.co.nz
Are ISPs responsible for the record industry's woes? BloggingStocks
Australia Considers ISP Policing of File-Sharing Digital Media Wire
New Zealand Herald - Side-Line
all 14 news articles

Gizmodo

Popcorn Hour A-100 Networked Media Streamer Reviewed (Verdict ...
Gizmodo - 1 hour ago
NMT's Popcorn Hour network streamer looks great on paper (YouTube/Google Streaming, DVD Image playback, XviD, MPEG4, and even BitTorrent client support), ...

FREE Music Download of the Day - SXSW 2008
Zeropaid, CA - 1 hour ago
Last year I stumbled accross a worthwhile music compilation made available for free BitTorrent downlaod by teh folks over at the annual South by Southwest ...

Slyck

Digital Music: Buying More and Spending Less
Slyck, NY - 9 minutes ago
Napster, Scour, AudioGalaxy, LimeWire, BitTorrent and iTunes have all achieved stellar levels of success, thanks to their ability to connect people to the ...

Exacerbating the Cable and Wireless spectrum scarcity
ZDNet - Feb 26, 2008
Cable broadband providers can move up to DOCSIS 3.0 like Comcast’s new “Blast” service which increases the upstream capacity 12-fold but BitTorrent and ...

Comcast in the hot seat - TechRepublic

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Comcast in the hot seat
TechRepublic, KY - 8 hours ago
Comcast has already confessed to slowing down certain peer-to-peer file transfer, namely that of BitTorrent. What has got everyone so uncomfortable is ...

New York Times

FCC Weighing Limits on Slowing Web Traffic
New York Times, United States - 1 hour ago
The commission has been considering complaints made by the downloading services Vuze and BitTorrent and several consumer groups that Comcast has violated a ...

FCC Weighing Limits on Slowing Web Traffic
Tuscaloosa News (subscription), AL - 1 hour ago
The commission has been considering complaints made by the downloading services Vuze and BitTorrent and several consumer groups that Comcast has violated a ...

FCC tackles Net neutrality
Hollywood Reporter, United States - 3 minutes ago
Markey has an ally in Vuze, a Silicon Valley-based company that provides high-definition content over the Internet using BitTorrent file-sharing technology. ...

CNET News.com

FCC chief grills Comcast on BitTorrent blocking
CNET News.com, CA - Feb 25, 2008
The FCC convened Monday's hearing as part of an investigation into Comcast's practice of stalling uploads to BitTorrent protocol clients. ...

NY Attorney General Investigating Comcast
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 9 hours ago
From PC Magainze: Comcast denied blocking BitTorrent or any other file-sharing application, and said that an Associated Press article that first accused the ...

Comcast Slams Critics, Denies Blocking BitTorrent
PC Magazine - Feb 25, 2008
"Comcast is blocking BitTorrent and that's the end of the story," Timothy Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School, said at a Federal Communication Commission ...

CNET News.com

Rep. Markey: Don't turn BitTorrent into 'BitTrickle'
CNET News.com, CA - Feb 25, 2008
BitTorrent dispute and are ready to take action against network management practices that disrupt Internet users' experiences. The remarks came at the start ...

Webware/Cnet

FCC chief grills Comcast on BitTorrent blocking
Webware/Cnet, CA - 6 minutes ago
The FCC convened the hearing at Harvard Law School as part of an investigation into Comcast's practice of stalling uploads to BitTorrent protocol clients. ...

FCC Hearing Focuses on Comcast Internet Blocking
NewsFactor Network, CA - 22 hours ago
By Richard Koman BitTorrent throttling by Comcast is on the table as the Federal Communications Commission opened a public hearing on the Internet at ...

FCC threatens action over bandwidth “throttling”
The Industry Standard, CA - 57 minutes ago
This process, known as “throttling” has been the subject of controversy recently as Comcast was outted as utlizing it against BitTorrent, the file-sharing ...

Mobile Digest

Europe funding Bittorrent-like internet TV standard
Mobile Digest, UK - Feb 25, 2008
You know Bittorrent? The evil scourge of the media world? Well, it's being pursued by the EU as a possible standard for distributing TV online throughout ...

Rep. Markey: Don't turn BitTorrent into 'BitTrickle'
CNet News.com Blog - 3 hours ago
BitTorrent dispute and are ready to take action against network management practices that disrupt Internet users' experiences. The remarks came at the start ...
FCC to Act on Delaying of Broadband Traffic New York Times
Oh, No -- It's Comcastic InfoWorld
FCC Hits The Road To Hear Evidence On Web Network Management CNNMoney.com
Sci-Tech Today
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P2P in play - TelephonyOnline

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ZDNet Blogs

P2P in play
TelephonyOnline - 3 hours ago
AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, Vuze and others made filings in an FCC rule-making proceeding initiated by Comcast’s alleged blocking of BitTorrent traffic. ...
Comcast ‘on trial’ at FCC hearing Monday ZDNet Blogs
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The Future of the Internet: Open or Closed?
NewsBlaze (press release), CA - Feb 25, 2008
Comcast is deliberately targeting and interfering with legal peer-to-peer technologies like BitTorrent and others. These technologies are used to quickly ...

TorrentFreak

Oscar Winners 2008 Popular on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Feb 25, 2008
It happens almost every year, a few hours after the Oscar winners are announced, people fire up their BitTorrent clients. The day after the award show is ...

dBTechno

FCC Hearing To Focus On Comcast, BitTorrent Struggle
dBTechno, MA - Feb 25, 2008
The FCC is looking to try and settle a struggle between Comcast and BitTorrent. Comcast has been accused of purposely blocking or slowing down traffic of ...

Europe funds internet TV standard - BBC News

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BBC News

Europe funds internet TV standard
BBC News, UK - Feb 25, 2008
It will be based on the BitTorrent technology many people already use to share movies and music. Dubbed P2P Next, the four-year research project will try to ...
European internet TV receives funding Broadband Finder
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Oh, No -- It's Comcastic - InfoWorld

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KVAL

Oh, No -- It's Comcastic
InfoWorld, CA - 8 hours ago
In its defense, Comcast claims that its steps to arbitrarily slowing BitTorrent or other traffic are "reasonable network management practices" that Internet ...
FCC Hits The Road To Hear Evidence On Web Network Management CNNMoney.com
Comcast vs. BitTorrent to be focus of FCC hearing CNET News.com
FCC hearing Monday on ISPs' network management practices open to ... Afterdawn.com
BusinessWeek - Boston Globe
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Road test: mobile broadband - The Age

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The Age

Road test: mobile broadband
The Age, Australia - 20 hours ago
... mobile wireless counts uploads as well as downloads towards your final monthly tally, so avoid using peer-to-peer software such as BitTorrent. ...

Net Neutrality Debate Comes to Europe
Net4now, UK - 5 minutes ago
Networks, namely BitTorrent, were blamed for a large amount of stress on ISP networks. BitTorrent tried to implement the Cache Discovery Protocol which ...

Little harmony in music download debate
Special Broadcasting Service, Australia - 56 minutes ago
And in the United States, ISP Comcast Corp has complained that customers overwhelm the network by using file-sharing applications like BitTorrent. discover ...

CNET News.com

FCC Hits The Road To Hear Evidence On Web Network Management
CNNMoney.com - 7 hours ago
Specifically, the cable and broadband giant is accused of slowing or blocking access to peer-to-peer file sharing application BitTorrent. ...
Comcast vs. BitTorrent to be focus of FCC hearing CNET News.com
FCC hearing Monday on ISPs' network management practices open to ... Afterdawn.com
Beyond Net neutrality Boston Globe
Boston Herald - Ars Technica
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Mininova Speaks on BitTorrent Business Differs from The Pirate Bay ...
Dslreports - Feb 24, 2008
TorrentFreak did an interview this week with the CEO of Mininova, one of the largest BitTorrent sites in the business. The interview reveals that the ...

Mininova Speaks on BitTorrent Business
BroadbandReports.com, NY - Feb 24, 2008
TorrentFreak did an interview this week with the CEO of Mininova, one of the largest BitTorrent sites in the business. The interview reveals that the ...

Net Neutrality Debate Comes to Europe
Zeropaid, CA - Feb 24, 2008
Networks, namely BitTorrent, were blamed for a large amount of stress on ISP networks. BitTorrent tried to implement the Cache Discovery Protocol which ...
iPlayer Brings Net Neutrality Debate to Europe NewTeeVee
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Mininova: Serving Billions of Torrents and Buying Bugattis
TorrentFreak - Feb 23, 2008
Don’t you think you have a responsibility to help out the BitTorrent community here, especially now there are only a few reliable BitTorrent trackers out ...

Beyond Net neutrality - Boston Globe

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Beyond Net neutrality
Boston Globe, United States - Feb 22, 2008
Comcast has gained FCC focus because it seems to have been blocking the Internet service BitTorrent, which is useful for downloading large files. ...
Get ready for a crackdown on broadband use The Times
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CNET News.com

Comcast vs. BitTorrent to be focus of FCC hearing
CNET News.com, CA - Feb 22, 2008
By Anne Broache The high-profile squabble over Comcast's slowdown of BitTorrent file-sharing traffic--and broader questions of network handling by Internet ...

COMMENT & ANALYSIS Editorial comment
Financial Times, UK - Feb 22, 2008
Both have struggled to enforce copyrights on the internet, not least because of file sharing protocols such as BitTorrent, through which users can download ...
A sour note for Internet users Toronto Star
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Popcorn Hour A-100: Geeky alternative to the Apple TV
TV Squad, CA - 5 hours ago
This $179 box supports YouTube, Flickr, Shoutcast, BitTorrent, and a slew of other internet protocols. It can handle MPEG 1/2/4, WMV, H.264, MP3, AAC, ...
When good toys go bad X: Elmo makes death threats to toddler engadget
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Little harmony in music download debate
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Feb 22, 2008
And in the United States, ISP Comcast Corp has complained that customers overwhelm the network by using file-sharing applications like BitTorrent. ...

British ISPs could be punished over file sharing
Washington Post, United States - Feb 22, 2008
Earlier this month in Denmark, a court ordered one of the country's largest ISPs to block access to a Web site that forms a critical part of the BitTorrent ...

Internet censorship -- it's real
Computerworld, MA - Feb 22, 2008
Another ISP, Comcast, has decided to "throttle" -- or block, in essence -- certain content such as BitTorrent traffic. Yet that network is used for ...
China to open hole in Great Firewall during Olympics National Post
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TorrentFreak

SXSW 2008 on BitTorrent: 3.5 GB of Free Music
TorrentFreak - Feb 22, 2008
For the fourth year in a row, SXSW has released a DRM-less collection of songs that - thanks to Greg Hewgill - can now be downloaded for free via BitTorrent ...

Product Reviews

FCC Meeting on Comcast’s traffic shaping: Sony PS3, P2P ...
Product Reviews, UK - Feb 22, 2008
It seems Tiscali does not understand the different between P2P gaming and P2P BitTorrent sites. The meeting being held in the US was requested by BitTorrent ...

RIAA marks one year of college threat-letter drive
CNET News.com, CA - Feb 21, 2008
This time around, it accuses individuals of stealing music through peer-to-peer services such as Ares, BitTorrent, Gnutella, Limewire, and Morpheus, ...
RIAA Threatens 400 (More) Students Over Piracy Conde Nast Portfolio
Judge Dismisses RIAA Racketeering Lawsuit Wired News
RIAA Sends More File-sharing Settlement Letters to Colleges Digital Media Wire
Los Angeles Times
all 7 news articles

SeedPeer, a BitTorrent Tracker Site With 'Verified Torrents'
Zeropaid, CA - Feb 21, 2008
As we all know, sometimes trying to find content that's actually what's advertised can be a bit difficult on public BitTorrent tracker sites. ...

Net neutrality is a civil rights issue
Reclaim the Media, WA - 14 hours ago
BitTorrent is perfectly legal. Hollywood studios and music companies use BitTorrent to distribute high quality films, TV shows and music. ...

Unease at filesharing crackdown
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Feb 20, 2008
Equally, BitTorrent - the commercial company built around the bittorrent protocol - distributes music and film from its site via filesharing. ...
Burnham targets illegal downloading Guardian Unlimited
ISPs reject proposed law in call for self-regulation Computing
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Could BitTorrent Be Disabled Automatically?
Corante, MA - Feb 20, 2008
This is being painted in the context of net neutrality and copyright enforcement; I see it as a way to automate attacks on any particular users of any ...

Harvard Site Hacked, Content Hits BitTorrent
Washington Post, United States - Feb 20, 2008
One of Harvard University's Web sites appeared on Monday to have been hacked, with its contents appearing on the BitTorrent file-sharing network. ...

EU Plans Launch of BitTorrent Client: P2P-Next
Mashable, CA - Feb 20, 2008
Ernesto at TorrentFreak has reported that the the European Union has decided to invest $22 million in the development of an open-source BitTorrent client. ...

Trivial thoughts on the joys of modern computing
ZDNet UK, UK - 4 hours ago
Monday's report on Harvard University’s Web site being seriously hacked - with copies of the main server database appearing on a BitTorrent file-sharing ...

peer-to-peer - CNET Blogs

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peer-to-peer
CNET Blogs, CA - 41 minutes ago
One of the biggest names taking part is the BBC, who will use the new BitTorrent client to stream TV programs. Other partners in the P2P-Next project are ...
EU Sponsors P2P TV With 19M Euros NewTeeVee
Former CEO of AOL joins OpenX as chairman CNET Blogs
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EU Invests $22 Million in Next-Generation BitTorrent Client
TorrentFreak - Feb 20, 2008
The team behind the social BitTorrent client Tribler is responsible for the core P2P technology for the project, dubbed P2P-Next. The project received $22 ...

NEWS.com.au

Yahoo sinks pirates without a trace
NEWS.com.au, Australia - Feb 19, 2008
Other BitTorrent trackers such as MiniNova and IsoHunt are still directly linked from Yahoo search results. Yahoo has recently been at the centre of a ...
Pirate Bay gets scuppered by Yahoo iTWire
Search BostonHerald.com for Past 7 days Archives Boston Herald
Yahoo Can’t Find the Pirate Bay TechCrunch
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EU Sponsors P2P TV With 19M Euros - NewTeeVee

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EU Sponsors P2P TV With 19M Euros
NewTeeVee, CA - 4 hours ago
Tribler is a social BitTorrent client that offers its users collaborative filters to download content matching their taste very much the same way Last.fm ...

BitTorrent developers seek traffic-shaping route-around
TelephonyOnline - Feb 19, 2008
In the latest turn of a long game of cat-and-mouse, BitTorrent developers has said they are working on extensions to the core peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol to ...
Competitors Ally With Comcast In FCC P2P Filings Slashdot
Comcast Sued Again over P2P Throttling Slashdot
Legal Eagles Circle Comcast Light Reading
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Harvard grad school site hacked, files distributed on BitTorrent ...
SC Magazine US - Feb 19, 2008
The attacker posted what purported to be four files from the GSAS site on the BitTorrent P2P network. The files were then listed on the Pirate Bay, ...
Harvard University Website Hacked Web Host Industry Review
Digital Intruders Hack Into a Harvard Web Site and Publish Private ... Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
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Demonoid Tracker Back Online, Now Hosted in Malaysia
Zeropaid, CA - 3 hours ago
Site still down, but something seems to be brewing at the once popular BitTorrent tracker site. It was last November that a Canadian ISP caved to pressure ...

Harvard Web site hacked - InfoWorld

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Harvard Web site hacked
InfoWorld, CA - 11 minutes ago
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service One of Harvard University's Web sites appeared on Monday to have been hacked, with its contents appearing on the BitTorrent ...

Nielsen Data Shows a New Prime Time Online
Wired News - 20 hours ago
Ars Technica has an interesting theory about this: "...it may be that men are more likely to get their TV shows in other ways (eg, via BitTorrent). ...
Online-Video Firm Revver Is Acquired by LiveUniverse Wall Street Journal
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Cable and telcos side with Comcast in FCC BitTorrent dispute
Ars Technica, MA - Feb 19, 2008
By Matthew Lasar | Published: February 19, 2008 - 04:57AM CT The race is on to get the last word in on the Comcast/BitTorrent controversy. ...
Access wars NetworkWorld.com
Comcast's defense of P2P traffic management practices meets skepticism NetworkWorld.com
all 7 news articles

ITBusiness.ca

Finding an ISP that shuns data discrimination
ITBusiness.ca, Canada - 2 hours ago
One easy solution is to look to the Web site of the popular BitTorrent client Azureus. The Azureus Wiki page maintains a list of ISPs that in some way limit ...

Comcast Asks the FCC: How Stupid Do We Look?
Mashable, CA - 13 hours ago
Over the weekend, Paul brought to our attention BitTorrent’s commitment to circumventing the promise by Comcast to continue to place limitations on the ...

BitTorrent developers working on encryption to defeat ISP interference
Afterdawn.com - Feb 18, 2008
It was only a matter of time before the BitTorrent community decided to take on the "network management" practices of ISPs like Comcast. ...
Australian Government Considers Copying UK Copyright Law Ideas Slashdot
all 3 news articles

Search BostonHerald.com for Past 7 days Archives
Boston Herald, United States - 9 hours ago
Case in point, a search for “Pirate Bay” on Yahoo no longer turns up a link to the controversial BitTorrent search engine. It appears that Yahoo has decided ...

BitTorrent busts Comcast BitTorrent busting
Register, UK - Feb 18, 2008
Unhappy that Comcast is busting BitTorrents, BitTorrent has decided to bust this BitTorrent busting. On Friday, as reported by the TorrentFreak, ...

Verizon: Copyright infringement may be good for business
Computerworld, MA - Feb 18, 2008
In the Times interview, Tauke says that Verizon won't slow down files being exchanged by the BitTorrent protocol, something that Comcast is doing. ...

NEWS.com.au

Harvard Web site hacked, database on file-sharing site
Computerworld, MA - Feb 18, 2008
By Jeremy Kirk One of Harvard University's Web sites appeared on Monday to have been hacked, with its contents appearing on the BitTorrent file-sharing ...
Search BostonHerald.com for Past 7 days Archives Boston Herald
Yahoo Can’t Find the Pirate Bay TechCrunch
all 18 news articles

Harvard Site Hacked and Leaked on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Feb 18, 2008
... website appears to have been the subject of a major security breach, as server backups, site databases and contact databases are leaked to BitTorrent. ...
Harvard Web site hacked, database on file-sharing site Computerworld
all 16 news articles

Strange Glue Music

Prince and Village People dive into Pirate Bay
Register, UK - 18 hours ago
According to a report on Swedish news website E24.se, Web Sheriff’s John Giacobbi has been talking up plans to sue the BitTorrent tracker site in both US ...
Village People sue Pirate Bay Inquirer
Prince & Village People Fire On Pirate Bay Strange Glue Music
all 3 news articles

MiniNova - 4 Billion Downloads - Zeropaid

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MiniNova - 4 Billion Downloads
Zeropaid, CA - 18 hours ago
Niek of MiniNova has announced on the MiniNova blog that the popular BitTorrent indexing site has recently hit its 4 billionth torrent download. ...

Researcher maps out plan to target BitTorrent uploaders
Ars Technica, MA - Feb 17, 2008
The MPAA can then use an automated mechanism to inform the ISPs in question, which can then block the IP address of the BitTorrent user for a short time. ...

MiniNova hits 4 Billion Downloads - Slyck

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MiniNova hits 4 Billion Downloads
Slyck, NY - 21 hours ago
There are two juggernauts of the BitTorrent community, The Pirate Bay and MiniNova. While The Pirate Bay takes most of the headlines for the world's largest ...

This Week in P2P News - Slyck

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This Week in P2P News
Slyck, NY - 22 hours ago
ISPs, the entertainment industry, and BitTorrent once again dominated the file-sharing headlines this week. As ISPs such as Comcast become growingly hostile ...

BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption
Slashdot - Feb 16, 2008
Dean Garfield writes "An article at TorrentFreak notes that several BitTorrent developers have proposed a new protocol extension with the ability to bypass ...

BitTorrent Developers Working on Ways to Get Around Sandvine
Dslreports - 4 hours ago
Comcast may insist that its traffic-shaping practices are reasonable but people who use BitTorrents are in the business of trying to stop the company from ...

PRQ Fire Takes Down Several Torrent Sites
TorrentFreak - 2 hours ago
Whilst it didn’t take out The PirateBay’s site, it did take down several of their ancillary activities, as well as other BitTorrent sites hosted there. ...

BitTorrent Developers Pledge To Subvert Comcast Filters
Mashable, CA - Feb 16, 2008
You didn’t think the BitTorrent diehards would take Comcast’s conviction, as stated quite publicly this past week to filter out file sharing from its ...

BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption
Slashdot - Feb 15, 2008
Dean Garfield writes "An article at TorrentFreak notes that several BitTorrent developers have proposed a new protocol extension with the ability to bypass ...

BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption
Slashdot - Feb 15, 2008
Dean Garfield writes "An article at TorrentFreak notes that several BitTorrent developers have proposed a new protocol extension with the ability to bypass ...

BitTorrent swings back At Comcast
TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - Feb 15, 2008
By Leslie Poston BitTorrent developers are banding together to fight back against the bandwidth throttling methods of Comcast and other heavy hitting ISPs. ...

BitTorrent firms: Comcast throttling is anticompetitive
CNET News.com, CA - Feb 15, 2008
BitTorrent and other companies that provide bulk file distribution lashed out at Comcast on Thursday, saying the throttling of peer-to-peer connections is a ...

BitTorrent Developers Introduce Comcast Busting Encryption
TorrentFreak - 5 hours ago
Several BitTorrent developers have joined forces to propose a new protocol extension with the ability to bypass the BitTorrent interfering techniques used ...

Half of all BitTorrent downloads are TV shows
TV Squad, CA - Feb 15, 2008
... but now comes this news from TorrentFreak.com: 50% of all people using BitTorrent at any given point in time are downloading a TV series. ...

Ottawa Citizen

Cyberclinic: Who Needs Filesharing?
Independent, UK - Feb 15, 2008
... of downloading copyrighted material, they're generally referring to the use of filesharing networks like Limewire or Soulseek, or indeed BitTorrent. ...
Google to Enter China Online Music Market TMCnet
Google to announce deal with Chinese music download site Bigmouthmedia News
More Details on Google's Chinese Music Plans PC Magazine
all 27 news articles

Net Neutrality in the Spotlight Again
TMCnet - 24 minutes ago
According to Brodsky, Comcast has been observed to close down traffic from BitTorrent, a site for sharing video. Some public-interest groups, ...

Gadgets On The Go - Sydney Morning Herald

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Gadgets On The Go
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 17 hours ago
Don't they have a backlog of Lost and Underbelly BitTorrent downloads to catch up on? Is it in case they quickly need an audition tape for Big Brother, ...

TorrentFreak

New and Promising BitTorrent Sites
TorrentFreak - Feb 14, 2008
BitTorrent’s popularity is still growing, and new sites are launched every day. Unfortunately it is impossible to feature all the new sites here, ...

Comcast admits throttling BitTorrent usage on customers
Half Life Source - Feb 14, 2008
The cable provider said that it was limiting peer-to-peer BitTorrent traffic to generously provide more bandwidth for all customers. ...

P2P Companies Band Together Against Comcast’s BitTorrent Blocking
NewTeeVee, CA - Feb 14, 2008
The FCC’s inquiry into Comcast’s blocking of BitTorrent has resulted in a new wave of unity among P2P companies, with competitors like BitTorrent, ...

Comcast to FCC: 'Yes, We Throttle BitTorrent Traffic, but So What?'
Zeropaid, CA - 29 minutes ago
The company's network management practices that cause a disruption in BitTorrent traffic is the subject of formal complaints to the FCC from consumer groups ...

Comcast Defends Role As Internet Traffic Cop
Slashdot - Feb 14, 2008
Everybody is slamming bittorrent but missing the point that internet video is probably going to be the next killer app. I don't know about you, ...
New Legislation Could Eventually Lead to ISP Throttling Ban Slashdot
all 2 news articles

Comcast Says Its Traffic-Slowing Policies Do Not Discriminate
MediaPost Publications, New York - 5 minutes ago
Web users who visit peer-to-peer sites like BitTorrent often do so to access videos. Given Comcast's own interest in providing Web video, Gigi Sohn, ...

Microsoft swoops into schools to teach P2P morality
Register, UK - Feb 14, 2008
So the firm has put up its own beta website in the hope of convincing young miscreants to abandon their BitTorrent-loving ways and become "good online ...

Comcast admits to throttling BitTorrent
VNUNet.com, UK - Feb 14, 2008
Researchers had accused Comcast of blocking traffic when an independent investigation first suggested that the provider was locking off BitTorrent traffic ...

As the Comcast Saga Unfolds, Be Careful What You Wish For
CircleID, Canada - 15 hours ago
File sharing applications like Kazaa, Napster and BitTorrent came along and wreaked havoc with the broadband oversubscription model, creating the need to ...

Inside Net Neutrality: Protect your privacy when using BitTorrent
Macworld, CA - Feb 13, 2008
One of the first lines of defense is to begin encrypting your BitTorrent traffic. This essentially means that the data you send and receive will be ...

50% Of All BitTorrent Downloads are TV-Shows
TorrentFreak - Feb 13, 2008
Reports show that 50% of all people using BitTorrent at any given point in time do so to download TV-series, quite an impressive number. ...

Canada.com

Comcast Admits and Defends Network Throttling
NewsFactor Network, CA - 10 hours ago
By Richard Koman BitTorrent P2P file sharing threatens network capacity, Comcast said in comments to the Federal Communications Commission. ...
New Bill Reignites Net Neutrality Debate NewTeeVee
House receives new net neutrality legislation Electronista
all 171 news articles

Danish Service Provider to Fight Injunction
New York Times, United States - Feb 13, 2008
BitTorrent has many legitimate uses, including software distribution, and is used by some media companies to deliver their content. ...
Pirate Bay blockage may violate EU law Electronista
Pirate Bay Sails on Despite Court-Ordered 'Shutdown' CIO Today
Danish ISP Decides to Fight Order to Block The Pirate Bay Zeropaid
The Industry Standard
all 14 news articles

Comcast to FCC: We block only 'excessive' traffic
CNET News.com, CA - 14 minutes ago
Comcast is mounting an aggressive defense of its BitTorrent blocking, telling the Federal Communications Commission that its decision to slow some file ...

Pirate Bay blockage may violate EU law
Electronista, CA - 48 minutes ago
... in error when it told Tele2 to prevent customers from reaching The Pirate Bay, a site well-known for aiding piracy through hosting BitTorrent trackers. ...

Comcast cops to BitTorrent busting
Register, UK - Feb 13, 2008
By Cade Metz in San Francisco → More by this author Eight months after an independent researcher revealed that Comcast was secretly throttling BitTorrent ...

FCC Serious About Network Neutrality
MEDIAWEEK - 26 minutes ago
In an investigation last year, The Associated Press found that Comcast in some cases hindered file sharing by subscribers who used BitTorrent. ...

dBTechno

Comcast traffic management issue before FCC
ZDNet - 2 hours ago
Independent groups last year found that Comcast was sending TCP RESET packets to BitTorrent seeders at various times of the day to cut back the number of ...
Comcast Responds To Claims Of Network Discrimination CNNMoney.com
Comcast fesses to FCC: yea we have right to, and we do, mess with ... ZDNet
Officials Step Up Net-Neutrality Efforts Wall Street Journal
Reuters - Washington Post
all 347 news articles

Danish ISP Will Fight Order to Block Pirate Bay
Washington Post, United States - 10 minutes ago
BitTorrent has many legitimate uses, including software distribution, and is used by some media companies to deliver their content. ...

Comcast Responds To Claims Of Network Discrimination
CNNMoney.com - 14 minutes ago
The specific allegation made against Comcast is that it blocked or slowed down some customers' access to a file-sharing software called BitTorrent. ...

Why Internet Neutrality Matters
Marketing Shift.com - Feb 13, 2008
Comcast says it uses "reasonable measures" when it slows down the traffic to sites such as BitTorrent to ease congestion. This is discrimination but it ...

Washington Post

Comcast fesses to FCC: yea we have right to, and we do, mess with ...
ZDNet - 44 minutes ago
As the inventor of BitTorrent (the most popular P2P protocol currently being used) was recently quoted explaining, “My whole idea was, ‘Let’s use up a lot ...
Officials Step Up Net-Neutrality Efforts Wall Street Journal
Comcast defends Web traffic methods with US regulators Reuters
Comcast Defends Role As Internet Traffic Cop Washington Post
Hollywood Reporter - WebProNews
all 206 news articles

Danish ISP prepares to fight Pirate Bay injunction
Macworld, CA - 23 minutes ago
BitTorrent has many legitimate uses, including software distribution, and is used by some media companies to deliver their content. ...

Popular P2P network for sharing files
PC Authority Business Centre, Australia - Feb 13, 2008
Tip: try Opera 9 for BitTorrent support. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer protocol designed to transfer files. Users connect directly to send and receive ...

dBTechno

Comcast Defends Slowing Internet Traffic Music, Movie Downloads
dBTechno, MA - 2 hours ago
This slowed traffic would slow down downloads of music and movies, possibly coming from P2P networks such as BitTorrent and others. ...
Verizon: No 'need' to degrade P2P traffic...yet CNET News.com
Verizon Won't Slow P2P Service "at the Current Time" bMighty.com
Verizon Executive Expects Conditions On Rural Cellular Deal CNNMoney.com
all 7 news articles

PhysOrg.com

Officials Step Up Net-Neutrality Efforts
Wall Street Journal - 9 hours ago
Public interest groups worry Comcast's decision to delay Internet traffic from peer-to-peer file sharing networks such as BitTorrent is just the beginning. ...
Comcast defends Web traffic methods with US regulators Reuters
Comcast Defends Role As Internet Traffic Cop Washington Post
FCC serious about net neutrality Hollywood Reporter
Philadelphia Inquirer - Afterdawn.com
all 193 news articles

PhysOrg.com

Comcast Defends Role As Internet Traffic Cop
Washington Post, United States - 2 hours ago
Specifically, the company imposes "temporary delays" of video, music and other files shared between computers using such technologies as BitTorrent. ...
`Bandwidth hogs' strain Web Toronto Star
Demand for Video Reshaping Internet The Associated Press
all 207 news articles

Tagoo emerging as the Russian Napster
Wired News - Feb 12, 2008
And a week ago, a Denmark court pulled the plug on that country's largest internet service provider from offering The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent tracking ...
Anakata of The Pirate Bay Speaks Out on TV TorrentFreak
all 2 news articles

YuMe Bolsters Online Video Ad Platform
InformationWeek, NY - Feb 12, 2008
Last April multimedia file-sharing site BitTorrent inked a deal with YuMe to display ads along with its video content. Online ad companies like YuMe, ...
YuMe Launches Adaptive Campaign Engine to Help Publishers Maximize ... FOXBusiness
all 7 news articles

What.CD Leaves Sweden, Moves to Canada
Zeropaid, CA - 17 hours ago
BitTorrent tracker site praises the benefits of increased security offered by a Canadian ISP, says the "site is even safer" than it was with Sweden's PRQ. ...
Pirate Bay Captain Speaks Out on TV for the First Time Zeropaid
all 2 news articles

P2P uploader hoaxes leading BitTorrent blog
Register, UK - Feb 12, 2008
The story was first published by the BitTorrent fan blog Torrentfreak and written by its founder "Ernesto". His sole source for the fanciful tale, ...

Kuwait Government Blocks 20 BitTorrent Sites
TorrentFreak - Feb 12, 2008
As of today, the Kuwait government ordered ISPs to block access to 20 BitTorrent sites. The ultimate goal of the state of Kuwait is to ban all BitTorrent ...

The Age

Pirates promise Underbelly downloads
The Age, Australia - Feb 12, 2008
BitTorrent is the main technology for the distribution of illegally copied video around the world. Vast numbers of movies and TV shows are uploaded and ...
Memo from Sydney: get a load of these gangsters The Age
all 4 news articles

TorrentFreak

Sharereactor admin found guilty
Afterdawn.com - 2 hours ago
However, the comeback was brief, most likely due to the fact that many users had already switched to BitTorrent. As this is written Sharereactor.com is ...
ShareReactor Admin Found Guilty of ‘Commercial’ Copyright Infringement TorrentFreak
all 2 news articles

UK takes tough stance on piracy - BBC News

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Telegraph.co.uk

UK takes tough stance on piracy
BBC News, UK - 21 hours ago
Monitoring traffic that is shared using file-sharing tools like BitTorrent is perfectly feasible - as the programs use specific internet ports. ...
Internet pirates could be banned from web Telegraph.co.uk
all 5 news articles

Mashable

Editorial: File-sharing requires caution
The California Aggie Online, CA - 5 hours ago
Even when obtaining legal content through peer-to-peer applications such as LimeWire or BitTorrent, your content is still available for others to download ...
RIAA Exec Was “Simply Musing” About Content Filters In Your Home Mashable
all 2 news articles

The Age

Underbelly ban useless in file-sharing era
NEWS.com.au, Australia - 21 hours ago
By staff writers and wires February 12, 2008 04:05pm BitTorrent ... file-sharing networks will almost certainly undermine a Victorian court's ban on ...
Net to undermine Underbelly ban Sydney Morning Herald
Illegal Underbelly downloads a 'problem' The Age
all 227 news articles

What ???: reader comment from nuckelhedd
CNet News.com Blog - 4 hours ago
Tell me how yiou distinguish between what is a data packet for Bittorrent as opposed to a data packet for Adobe? To my knowledge you would have to open it ...

File sharing takes up to 95% of net use at night
Times Online, UK - 18 hours ago
... music and television shows generally use software known as peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing programs such as BitTorrent, KaZaA and Soulseek. ...
‘Blocking illegal activity will also hit the innocent’ Times Online
all 4 news articles

NewsOXY

First Vista update: the missing link
The Age, Australia - 2 hours ago
And some have resorted to risky BitTorrent downloads to test its performance. The update, called SP1, is designed to fix many of the new system's most ...
Vista SP1, Server 2008 RTMs leak to Web Computerworld
Users blast Microsoft over Vista SP1 schedule Computerworld
TechNet subscribers revolt over Vista SP1 'debacle' Computerworld
all 63 news articles

NewsOXY

First Vista update: the missing link
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - Feb 11, 2008
And some have resorted to risky BitTorrent downloads to test its performance. The update, called SP1, is designed to fix many of the new system's most ...
Vista SP1, Server 2008 RTMs leak to Web Computerworld
Users blast Microsoft over Vista SP1 schedule Computerworld
TechNet subscribers revolt over Vista SP1 'debacle' Computerworld
PC World Magazine
all 114 news articles

CNet News.com Blog

Verizon: No 'need' to degrade P2P traffic...yet
CNET News.com, CA - Feb 11, 2008
WASHINGTON--Verizon Communications doesn't currently block or slow down peer-to-peer file-sharing applications like BitTorrent on its broadband network, ...
Verizon Won't Slow P2P Service "at the Current Time" bMighty.com
Verizon Executive Expects Conditions On Rural Cellular Deal CNNMoney.com
all 6 news articles

SeeqPod Suit Thoughts - MP3 Newswire

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SeeqPod Suit Thoughts
MP3 Newswire, NJ - 2 hours ago
Not only copied, but improved upon as the likes of Gnutella, BitTorrent and Ares bear witness. This is why Warner Music Group's recent lawsuit against ...

CNet News.com Blog

Verizon: No 'need' to degrade P2P traffic on our network...yet
CNet News.com Blog - 44 minutes ago
WASHINGTON--Verizon Communications doesn't currently block or slow down peer-to-peer filesharing applications like BitTorrent on its broadband network, ...
Comcast changes Terms of Service to allow traffic throttling MacDailyNews
all 2 news articles

Pirate Bay Captain Speaks Out on TV for the First Time
Zeropaid, CA - 3 hours ago
Gottfried Svartholm Warg of The Pirate Bay, the world's largest BitTorrent tracker site, grants a rare interview to "Russia Today. ...

YouTorrent Interview - Slyck

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Slyck

YouTorrent Interview
Slyck, NY - Feb 11, 2008
Just about any BitTorrent fan knows there are plenty of trackers to choose from. There are many indexing sites to pick through as well. ...
Pirate Bay Captain Speaks, BitTerrorists Swab YouTube's Deck In ... Idolator
all 2 news articles

Vista SP1 out now... for beta testers
engadget, CA - 6 minutes ago
Get it now if you're a beta tester... or have a BitTorrent client. And they [Microsoft] fucked over MSDN subscribers--assholes. exactly, ...

The Futility of Fighting Media “Pirates”—How MediaDefender Got Hacked
TechCrunch, CA - Feb 10, 2008
It seeds BitTorrent, for instance, with fake files to try to make P2P file-sharing a hassle and annoyance. Last September, a hacker fought back by uploading ...

(ratings match consensus)
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 8 hours ago
Can't do BitTorrent on roadrunner, it's either blocked or very slow speeds. The past 3 weeks , it seems they cut my speed from 20mbs/ 1mbs to 6mbs/120kbs ...

Road Runner, Charter and Cox TOS Also Include Anti-P2P Provisions
NewTeeVee, CA - Feb 10, 2008
Comcast, which underwent heavy criticism last year for blocking file-sharing services like BitTorrent, has reportedly been caught quietly changing its Terms ...

TECH.BLORGE.com

Comcast goes to tiered internet
TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - 17 hours ago
By Leslie Poston Comcast has recently been accused of throttling traffic, especially to specific sites like BitTorrent. In response the company is being ...

Mininova, BitLet Launch Streaming Music Service
Mashable, CA - 18 hours ago
Mininova, one of the more popular torrent tracking sites in the BitTorrent community, has launched a new feature that enables users to stream a song from ...

Mininova Launches Music Torrent Streaming
TorrentFreak - Feb 9, 2008
The popular BitTorrent site Mininova just released a set of new features, including music torrent streaming. The new music streaming feature uses a Java ...

Comcast changes Terms of Service to allow traffic throttling
MacDailyNews - Feb 8, 2008
"Months after third parties were able to demonstrate that Comcast was throttling some BitTorrent (and Lotus Notes, since fixed) traffic, the cable giant has ...
Comcast Puts Its Speed ... InternetNews.com
Comcast's New Terms of Service Disclose Traffic Management Slashdot
Comcast Changes TOS In Response To Traffic Shaping Firestorm ... Dslreports
all 6 news articles

Gizmodo

College Funding Bill Passes House, P2P Provision Intact
Slashdot - 22 hours ago
Then go from there. by milsoRgen (1016505) Yeah blizzard uses a patcher that functions much like BitTorrent. by Palpitations (1092597) * Yeah blizzard uses ...
House Bill Makes Colleges Make Plans for Network Filtering Gizmodo
all 3 news articles

P2P News Wrapup - Slyck

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P2P News Wrapup
Slyck, NY - Feb 8, 2008
The file-sharing landscape was dominated by two entities this week, the ISP and BitTorrent. Danish ISP Tele2 was forced to filter out The Pirate Bay from ...
The Pirate Bay: No Drop in Danish Traffic Slyck
all 2 news articles

TorrentFreak

TorrentFreedom Offers 100% Anonymous and Unrestricted BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Feb 8, 2008
What sort of dedicated optimizations can BitTorrent users look forward to when using your service? Faust: We’ve tested the service extensively with just ...

Vista SP1 and Server 2008 RTM versions hit torrent sites
Ars Technica, MA - 7 hours ago
Many BitTorrent trackers are relieving the impatient. A quick search reveals that what appear to be the RTM versions of both operating systems are readily ...
The Hulk of Redmond Boston Globe
Vista marketing chief moving on Ars Technica
Wow… lots of news… NetworkWorld.com
ARNnet
all 20 news articles

Comcast Puts Its Speed ...
InternetNews.com - 21 hours ago
Recent terms of service change codifies what BitTorrent users have known for a while. By Andy Patrizio: More stories by this author: Comcast, ...
Comcast's New Terms of Service Disclose Traffic Management Slashdot
Comcast Changes TOS In Response To Traffic Shaping Firestorm ... Dslreports
all 5 news articles

Shocker: Vista SP1 Hits BitTorrent - CRN

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Shocker: Vista SP1 Hits BitTorrent
CRN, NY - Feb 7, 2008
As of Thursday afternoon, one popular BitTorrent site, Mininova, showed six files labeled as Vista SP1 RTM as available for download, ranging in size from ...

New York Times

Comcast Lobbyist Wired for Web Access
The Associated Press - 13 hours ago
In an investigation last year, The Associated Press found that Comcast in some cases hindered file sharing by subscribers who used BitTorrent, ...
Verizon Rejects Hollywood’s Call to Aid Piracy Fight New York Times
all 51 news articles

Comcast tweaks Terms of Service in wake of throttling uproar
Ars Technica, MA - 2 hours ago
By Eric Bangeman | Published: February 07, 2008 - 02:07PM CT Months after third parties were able to demonstrate that Comcast was throttling some BitTorrent ...

Vista SP1 Leaked to BitTorrent - Zeropaid

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Vista SP1 Leaked to BitTorrent
Zeropaid, CA - Feb 7, 2008
Although official release has been delayed until March, BitTorrent users can now download it from tracker sites like The Pirate Bay. ...

Gallery: Free and essential Windows apps
ZDNet - 7 hours ago
uTorrent, the BitTorrent client, is a must-have for anyone who wants an effective file sharing application that allows you to download large files. ...

Tele2 Denmark may challenge court-ordered Pirate Bay block
Telecom Paper (subscription), Netherlands - 11 hours ago
Earlier, the ISP was ordered to shut off access to the BitTorrent site as a Danish court concluded that Tele2 was assisting its customers to violate ...

Vista SP1, Server 2008 RTMs leak to Web
ARNnet, Australia - Feb 6, 2008
The RTM, or release to manufacturing, versions of both operating systems can easily be found on BitTorrent tracker sites such as Pirate Bay, which has made ...

Spacelab

Danish ISP Tele2 Challenges Pirate Bay Blockade
Slashdot - 16 hours ago
Pirate writes "A Danish court ruled in favor of the IFPI, and ordered the Danish ISP Tele2 to block all access to the popular BitTorrent tracker. ...
Tele2 Denmark may challenge court-ordered Pirate Bay block Telecom Paper (subscription)
IFPI wins Danish block on Pirate Bay Register
The Pirate Bay Hit By Another Legal Volley Wired News
Spacelab - MediaPost Publications
all 49 news articles

TorrentFreak

Courts Force Danish ISP to Block Torrent Tracker
Slashdot - Feb 6, 2008
Pirate writes "A Danish court ruled in favor of the IFPI, and ordered the Danish ISP Tele2 to block all access to the popular BitTorrent tracker. ...
The Pirate Bay Fights Danish ISP Block TorrentFreak
The Pirate Bay fights back against ISP block Afterdawn.com
Danish ISP Blocks Access To Pirate Bay Dslreports
all 10 news articles

Vista SP1, Server 2008 RTMs leak to Web
Computerworld, MA - Feb 6, 2008
The RTM, or release to manufacturing, versions of both operating systems can easily be found on BitTorrent tracker sites such as Pirate Bay, which has made ...
Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP1 hits RTM Ars Technica
all 17 news articles

Living In The Dark: How BitTorrent Admins Hide From MPAA/RIAA
Mashable, CA - Feb 6, 2008
Their latest article is a very interesting insight into the daily online activities of an admin of a BitTorrent tracker; the article goes through all the ...

How a BitTorrent Tracker Owner Hides from the MPAA/RIAA
TorrentFreak - Feb 6, 2008
TorrentFreak spoke to the admin of a BitTorrent tracker to find out how he stays safe, not sorry. “I’m fairly paranoid and I find that’sa good start point” ...

A dozen free & essential apps for Windows
ZDNet - Feb 6, 2008
uTorrent - This is the BitTorrent client that is a must have for anyone who wants an effective file sharing application that allows you to download large ...

From Sundance to the Oscars: How Long is BitTorrent’s Tail?
NewTeeVee, CA - Feb 6, 2008
The very nature of the BitTorrent protocol itself tips the balance towards mass-market movie fare. BitTorrent has been designed to efficiently distribute ...

TorrentFreak

Pirated by iTunes, Artist Turns to BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Feb 5, 2008
It’s available on BitTorrent on sites like The Pirate Bay, with so-called ‘OiNK replacement’ site, What.cd, providing the album on ‘free leech’ to encourage ...

Verizon to Hollywood: 'We Won't Help You Fight Piracy'
Zeropaid, CA - 5 hours ago
On the issue if BitTorrent throttling, or traffic shaping, Tauke says that “We don’t want to solve any network congestion issues by restricting the flow of ...
Will AT&T's Proposed Internet Filter Slow Down VoIP? VoIP-News
all 2 news articles

OiNK Admin's Bail Extended for Second Time
Zeropaid, CA - 12 hours ago
It's been almost 4 long months now that the BitTorrent world watched in horror as the venerable music tracker site OiNK was shut down by UK and Dutch ...

New York Times

Verizon Rejects Hollywood’s Call to Aid Piracy Fight
New York Times, United States - Feb 5, 2008
Some have suggested that Comcast sent false signals to computers in order to have computers reject the BitTorrent session. If they are in essence altering ...
Comcast Lobbyist Wired for Web Access Chicago Tribune
all 51 news articles

Danish ISP Blocks Access To Pirate Bay
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 22 minutes ago
Reuters reports that a Danish court has ordered Denmark-based ISP Tele2 to restrict their customers' access to popular BitTorrent tracker Pirate Bay. ...

TorrentFreak

IFPI wins Danish block on Pirate Bay
Register, UK - Feb 5, 2008
... anti-piracy lobby has won a court victory to force Tele2 Denmark, a large ISP, to block access to the Swedish BitTorrent tracker site Pirate Bay. ...
Tele2 Denmark may challenge court-ordered Pirate Bay block Telecom Paper (subscription)
Danish ISP Tele2 Challenges Pirate Bay Blockade Slashdot
The Pirate Bay Hit By Another Legal Volley Wired News
Spacelab - MediaPost Publications
all 47 news articles

Javno.hr

The Pirate Bay Hit By Another Legal Volley
Wired News - 12 hours ago
By David Kravets February 04, 2008 | 5:28:53 PMCategories: BitTorrent A Danish court is ordering a Denmark internet service provider to shut down access to ...
The Pirate Bay Cache Blocked in Denmark Slyck
Pirate Bay ordered blocked by Danes Inquirer
Danish Court Orders ISP to Begin Blocking The Pirate Bay Zeropaid
CNET Blogs - Reuters
all 18 news articles

Courts Force Danish ISP to Block Torrent Tracker
Slashdot - 22 hours ago
Pirate writes "A Danish court ruled in favor of the IFPI, and ordered the Danish ISP Tele2 to block all access to the popular BitTorrent tracker. ...

Norway uses BitTorrent for good
Globe and Mail, Canada - Feb 4, 2008
One of the most popular file-sharing services in the world right now is BitTorrent, a "peer-to-peer" network in which every user downloading a file also ...

TorrentFreak

Police Extend OiNK’s Bail Date Once Again
TorrentFreak - Feb 4, 2008
Three months ago, the popular private BitTorrent tracker OiNK was effectively shut down in a joint effort by Dutch and British law enforcement. ...
OiNK's bail date extended Afterdawn.com
OiNK Admin's Bail Date Extended Until May Wired News
all 3 news articles

BitTorrent admin's police bail extended (again)
Register, UK - Feb 4, 2008
From 2004 until his arrest last year, Ellis ran OiNK as an invitation-only BitTorrent tracker that focused on high-quality music files. ...

TorrentFreak

Courts Force Danish ISP to Block Torrent Tracker
Slashdot - 2 hours ago
Pirate writes "A Danish court ruled in favor of the IFPI, and ordered the Danish ISP Tele2 to block all access to the popular BitTorrent tracker. ...
Big Revenue Allegations against Pirate Bay Were 'Fabricated' eFluxMedia
all 3 news articles

Fox Reality Channel's Original ``Paradise Hotel 2'' Presents ...
Centre Daily Times, PA - 2 hours ago
The Fox Reality Channel TV-MA episodes of "Paradise Hotel 2" will be available for purchase from iTunes, Amazon and BitTorrent following the broadcast debut ...

TorrentFreak

IFPI Forces Danish ISP to Block The Pirate Bay
TorrentFreak - 1 hour ago
A Danish court ruled in favor of the IFPI, and ordered the Danish ISP “Tele2″ to block all access to the popular BitTorrent tracker. ...

Tokyo Anime Center's Kubo Offers Proposal on Fansubs
Anime News Network, Canada - 9 hours ago
Currently, 6 million copies of illegal, English-subtitled Japanese animated videos are said to be downloaded from BitTorrent each week ...

Swedish prosecutors close in on The Pirate Bay
LinuxWorld.au, Australia - Feb 3, 2008
Swedish prosecutors have until Thursday to file charges against The Pirate Bay, one of the most widely used BitTorrent search engines. ...
Swedes file charges against Pirate Bay four LinuxWorld.au
Pirate Bay four facing jail in Sweden iT News
all 4 news articles

isoHunt Receives 2 Quad Cores from AMD
Slyck, NY - 3 hours ago
isoHunt is one of the largest BitTorrent sites on the net. Although it's not a tracker like The Pirate Bay, it receives a similar amount of traffic. ...

Analysis: How ISPs Can Solve the BitTorrent Problem
PC Magazine - Feb 3, 2008
Flash forward now to a recent article on Jan 8, where Comcast is now being investigating by the FCC for blocking BitTorrent traffic. ...

Pirate Bay defiant despite criminal charges
International Herald Tribune, France - Feb 3, 2008
Analysts say file-sharing services based on a protocol called BitTorrent have shown the fastest growth lately. The Pirate Bay is a so-called BitTorrent ...

TorrentFreak

“The Federation” Targets BitTorrent Pirates at the Workplace
TorrentFreak - Feb 3, 2008
The UK’s Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) has launched the third phase of ‘Operation Tracker’, an initiative to monitor people using BitTorrent to ...

Telegraph.co.uk

The Pirate Bay defiant despite criminal charges
International Herald Tribune, France - 21 hours ago
Analysts say file-sharing services based on a protocol called BitTorrent have shown the fastest growth lately. The Pirate Bay is a so-called BitTorrent ...
A Defiant Pirate Bay Says It's Not Going Anywhere Wired News
Sweden Charges Operators of Pirate Bay NewsFactor Network
Please input the letters/numbers that appear in the image below ... DailyTech
Digital Media Wire - Slyck
all 51 news articles

BitTorrent Trend Suggests ISPs Need to Improve Networks
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 6 hours ago
An article over at TorrentFreak this week took a look at the alternatives that ISPs can consider to deal with their “BitTorrent problem”. ...

BitTorrent Trend Suggests ISPs Need to Improve Networks
Dslreports - Feb 2, 2008
An article over at TorrentFreak this week took a look at the alternatives that ISPs can consider to deal with their “BitTorrent problem”. ...

RE: BitTorrent takes on movie download rivals
NetworkWorld.com, MA - Feb 1, 2008
BIT TORRENT- Go for it, When you launch your Movie Store, send me an E- mail .I am a rookie in the movie arena, yet I think I am providing access to the ...

TorrentFreak

Decluttering The Tubes, Solutions to the BitTorrent Problem
TorrentFreak - Feb 1, 2008
Hundreds of larger and smaller ISPs all over the world try to limit BitTorrent traffic on their networks. They often argue that they have no other options, ...

A Defiant Pirate Bay Says It's Not Going Anywhere
Wired News - Feb 1, 2008
By David Kravets February 01, 2008 | 5:30:56 PMCategories: BitTorrent The world's most notorious BitTorrent tracking site, The Pirate Bay, won't be going to ...

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Sweden Charges Operators of Pirate Bay
NewsFactor Network, CA - 54 minutes ago
Rather than offer actual downloads of content, Pirate Bay lists only BitTorrent files -- a metadata file that contains information about where a BitTorrent ...
Should it be illegal to point? Globe and Mail
Swedes file charges against Pirate Bay four ITworld.com
Sweden charges Pirate Bay with copyright offences CBC Manitoba
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Microsoft quick to kick The Pirate Bay when it's down
Mobile Digest, UK - 15 hours ago
The popular BitTorrent site is still alive and kicking, and vowing to stay online even if it loses the case brought against it by a Swedish public ...
Pirate Bay in the dock Register
Microsoft comments on Pirate Bay prosecution TechRadar.com
Surprise! Pirate Bay found guilty of piracy TechRadar.com
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Pirate Bay founders hit with legal action
Telecom Paper (subscription), Netherlands - Feb 1, 2008
Four men who run BitTorrent sharing site The Pirate Bay have been hit with legal action, the BBC News reports. The men have been charged with conspiracy to ...

Analysis: How ISPs Can Solve the BitTorrent Problem
Extreme Tech - 15 hours ago
Flash forward now to a recent article on Jan 8, where Comcast is now being investigating by the FCC for blocking BitTorrent traffic. ...
P2P Fans Pound Comcast In FCC Comments Slashdot
How Pervasive is ISP Outbound Email Filtering? Slashdot
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U2 manager slams free download - NDTV.com

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U2 manager slams free download
NDTV.com, India - 20 hours ago
He said, "It seems that the majority of downloads were through illegal P2P download services like BitTorrent and LimeWire even though the album was ...

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