Archivos March 2008


Multichannel News

Comcast Miffed At Martin BitTorrent Remarks
Broadcast Newsroom, CA - Mar 31, 2008
I also commend the company for admitting publicly that it was engaging in the practice and now engaging in a dialog with BitTorrent," Martin said. ...
Comcast Performing Peer Review Broadcast Newsroom
BRIEF: FCC to hold campus hearing on Net policy Stanford Daily
Comcast Cable CTO: Bandwidth Hogs Will Experience Slowdowns GigaOm
all 5 news articles

DVICE

Magid: Who's to say Comcast won't meddle with Net again?
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - Mar 31, 2008
By Larry Magid Comcast and BitTorrent last week announced an agreement to collaborate on technologies to make it more efficient to conduct peer-to-peer file ...
The Comcast/BitTorrent Kerfuffle: Let’s Take a Few Steps Back NetworkWorld.com
Peer Review: Comcast teams with BitTorrent, critics skeptical DVICE
Comcast Performing Peer Review Broadcast Newsroom
Stanford Daily - Huffington Post
all 12 news articles

Everyone's a winner in the Comcast BitTorrent detente
Register, UK - Mar 31, 2008
BitTorrent may not be an IETF-sanctioned RFC protocol in its own right, but Comcast has decided to bind itself to traffic management practices that don't ...

Comcast Performing Peer Review
Broadcast Newsroom, CA - 6 minutes ago
That means that instead of throttling back traffic for specific applications such as BitTorrent, Comcast will impose traffic limits only on those users who ...

ISPs limit access to CBC downloads, users say
Reclaim the Media, WA - 8 hours ago
Thousands of viewers have embraced CBC-TV's experiment with BitTorrent, but many Canadians have found their attempts to access a CBC show online restricted ...

Popular Science

Meanwhile, Comcast BitTorrent Throttling Continues...
BroadbandReports.com, NY - Mar 31, 2008
For whatever reason, Comcast says it will take the remainder of the year to cure themselves of their BitTorrent wickedness. Meanwhile, the same test used ...
Comcast Changes its Tune; Maybe Popular Science
Just An Online Minute… Comcast Caves, But Skeptics Wary Mediapost.com
all 4 news articles

Chatter Shmatter

Who's to say Comcast won't meddle with Net again?
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - 9 hours ago
By Larry Magid Comcast and BitTorrent last week announced an agreement to collaborate on technologies to make it more efficient to conduct peer-to-peer file ...
Peer Review: Comcast teams with BitTorrent, critics skeptical DVICE
Comcast Adjusting Its Way Of Handling Web Traffic For BitTorrent Users Chatter Shmatter
Comcast, BitTorrent Pass The ... InternetNews.com
Huffington Post
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DVICE

The Comcast/BitTorrent Kerfuffle: Let’s Take a Few Steps Back
NetworkWorld.com, MA - Mar 30, 2008
For months the Comcast/BitTorrent kerfuffle has raised hackles on all sides, and in an interesting twist last week Comcast and BitTorrent made nice with ...
Magid: Who's to say Comcast won't meddle with Net again? San Jose Mercury News
Peer Review: Comcast teams with BitTorrent, critics skeptical DVICE
Comcast Performing Peer Review Broadcast Newsroom
Stanford Daily - Huffington Post
all 12 news articles

How Bell and CBC Ignited Network Neutrality Debate in Canada
Zeropaid, CA - 12 hours ago
The debate started out as a quiet whisper when Rogers started throttling BitTorrent, but now the debate has gone from chilled to hot - and now, ...

The Young Genius Behind BitTorrent - NPR

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The Young Genius Behind BitTorrent
NPR - Mar 30, 2008
by Andrea Seabrook Would you like to receive information from your local NPR member station? (see NPR's privacy policy) May we contact you with information ...

DVICE

Peer Review: Comcast teams with BitTorrent, critics skeptical
DVICE - Mar 30, 2008
This week Comcast, everyone's favorite neighborhood Internet service provider, announced that it would work with peer-to-peer download service BitTorrent to ...
Comcast Performing Peer Review Broadcast Newsroom
Will Anti-Net Neutrality Flack Mike McCurry Testify For Consumers ... Huffington Post
Spirit of internet at risk, campaigners warn after Comcast move Independent
Computerworld
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Compiled List of Top Private BitTorrent Tracker Sites
Zeropaid, CA - Mar 30, 2008
Sometimes it can take a while to discover new private BitTorrent tracker sites that offer a particular kind of content that you're interested in. ...

Chatter Shmatter

Comcast Adjusting Its Way Of Handling Web Traffic For BitTorrent Users
Chatter Shmatter, Canada - Mar 30, 2008
“What we really want is not only for Comcast to be a better network but for all networks to be better,” the president of BitTorrent, Ashwin Navin, said. ...

Marketing Managers See Bittorrent As Chance For Hollywood
PR-USA.net (press release), Bulgaria - Mar 29, 2008
Bittorrent Network became one of the top distribution channels for Movies and TV Shows. Los Angeles based advertising company DMotion sees piracy as a ...
Torrentspy Alternative PR-USA.net (press release)
all 2 news articles

Canadian ISPs Limiting Access To CBC Shows
Slashdot - Mar 29, 2008
An anonymous reader sends word that, even as ISP interference with BitTorrent traffic is easing in the US, the issue is heating up in Canada. ...
Canadian TV Network Throttled by ISPs Wired News
all 3 news articles

Ridiculously Useless Bittorrent Software
TorrentFreak - Mar 29, 2008
Every now and again, a software release comes out for BitTorrent that is truly revolutionary and revered. And other times, the source code should just be ...

Beleaguered BitTorrent search engine shuts down
Washington Post, United States - 13 minutes ago
Legal bills and ongoing battles prompt the search engine for the BitTorrent file-sharing service to close up shop. Comments that include profanity or ...

BitTorrents: A Legal Issue Around the World ISPs in Europe are a ...
Dslreports - 22 hours ago
There has been a lot of interest in BitTorrent use and throttling in recent weeks. Major United States and Canadian ISPs (ahem … Comcast, Bell Canada) are ...

BitTorrents: A Legal Issue Around the World
BroadbandReports.com, NY - Mar 29, 2008
There has been a lot of interest in BitTorrent use and throttling in recent weeks. Major United States and Canadian ISPs (ahem … Comcast, Bell Canada) are ...

BitTorrent Inc. + Comcast = Love, Peace, Harmony…Not!
TorrentFreak - 26 minutes ago
When Robb Topolski made the initial discovery that Comcast was interfering with BitTorrent traffic, he couldn’t have imagined that it would lead to an FCC ...

BPI Plans Crackdown as BitTorrent Becomes "Too Easy
DailyTech, IL - Mar 29, 2008
The cast of characters surrounding BitTorrent’s ongoing drama just gained another actor, with the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) now entering the fray. ...

Comcast/BitTorrent Truce Raises Questions
Washington Post, United States - 11 minutes ago
Thursday's announcement that Comcast and BitTorrent will work together to solve network management problems won praise from some quarters, including members ...

Comcast/BitTorrent Truce Raises Questions
PC World - Mar 29, 2008
Thursday's announcement that Comcast and BitTorrent will work together to solve network management problems won praise from some quarters, including members ...

Apple's 'Malware' Tactics, Motorola's Split, BitTorrent's New Friend
MacNewsWorld, CA - 16 minutes ago
By ECT News Staff In this episode: Comcast, BitTorrent bury the hatchet; Vista SP1 leaves users disappointed; Microsoft opens Windows Live Contacts API; ...

dBTechno

After TorrentSpy closure, what's next for MPAA?
CNET News.com, CA - Mar 28, 2008
The movie industry has seen mixed results from suing individuals for file sharing but continues to clobber BitTorrent search engines. ...
BitTorrent Tracker TorrentSpy Shuts Down for Good Digital Media Wire
Piracy Wars: Battlelines Intensify in Fight Against Net Piracy PC World
MPAA copyright punch up knocks out TorrentSpy Register
Wired News - Ars Technica
all 37 news articles

Week in review: Social media open for business
CNET News.com, CA - 11 hours ago
After months of sparring, cable provider Comcast and file-sharing company BitTorrent agreed this week to work together on ways to make their technology more ...

Comcast, BitTorrent Pass The ...
InternetNews.com - Mar 28, 2008
The issue surfaced last summer when Comcast subscribers began to notice a degradation in their BitTorrent uploads. Further investigations by individuals ...

Apple's 'Malware' Tactics, Motorola's Split, BitTorrent's New Friend
LinuxInsider.com, CA - Mar 28, 2008
By ECT News Staff In this episode: Comcast, BitTorrent bury the hatchet; Vista SP1 leaves users disappointed; Microsoft opens Windows Live Contacts API; ...
Answer key: You don't know tech The Industry Standard
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Comcast and Bit Torrent collaborate on network traffic management
TechRepublic, KY - 18 minutes ago
In an astounding turn to events, foes turned friends as Comcast and BitTorrent announced their agreement to collaborate on bringing better traffic ...

BPI Crackdown Planned as BitTorrent Becomes ‘Too Easy’
TorrentFreak - Mar 28, 2008
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is said to be planning a BitTorrent clampdown. The trade association, previously heavily involved in the shutdown of ...

EIC Squared: Comcast + BitTorrent, Oracle, Adobe and Facebook
CNET News.com, CA - 26 minutes ago
In this week's EIC Squared podcast, ZDNet's Larry Dignan and I discuss current events--Comcast and BitTorrent teaming up, Oracle's latest earnings, ...

After FAA Audit, Most US Flights to Resume
NPR - Mar 28, 2008
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Adweek

Comcast and BitTorrent are working to avoid the death of the net
Guardian, UK - Mar 28, 2008
The problem is mainly to do with peer-to-peer programs such as BitTorrent. They hog bandwidth by creating multiple streams, to the point where around 10% of ...
Comcast relents on BitTorrent limits VNUNet.com
Comcast, BitTorrent team up to address network, content issu Telecom Paper (subscription)
Comcast's P2P Conversion: I'll Believe It When I See Results BusinessWeek
Webwereld
all 13 news articles

p2pnet.net

Comcast deals with BitTorrent
p2pnet.net, Canada - 22 minutes ago
“Comcast and BitTorrent seems to have solved world hunger - and I’d love nothing more than to be optimistic about it,” he says. “But I cannot be. ...

Adweek

BitTorrent, Comcast Could End Dispute
Adweek, NY - 25 minutes ago
BitTorrent, a P2P service, and the nation's biggest cable operator have been fighting over the issue after Comcast blocked the service citing network ...

Comcast relents on BitTorrent limits
VNUNet.com, UK - Mar 28, 2008
Cable provider Comcast has reached an agreement to end its practice of limiting BitTorrent traffic. The two firms announced a partnership in which both ...

Comcast No Longer Blocking BitTorrent Traffic
webhostdir.com, UK - Mar 28, 2008
Fasthosts: Web hosting, personalised email and great value domain names all from Fasthosts - the UK's number 1 for web hosting. ...

Comcast says it won't single out file-sharing site BitTorrent
Milwaukee Business Journal, WI - 31 minutes ago
Comcast Corp. and BitTorrent Inc. said Thursday they have begun working together and with other Internet content and service providers to address issues of ...

How ISPs learned to stop worrying and love P2P
Webwereld, Netherlands - Mar 28, 2008
Vrijdag 28 maart 2008, 09:29 - One month after Comcast aggressively defended its targeted use of TCP reset packets to delay or stop BitTorrent uploads at an ...
Comcast, BitTorrent team up to address network, content issu Telecom Paper (subscription)
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Comcast, BitTorrent try to settle differences
Seattle Times, United States - Mar 28, 2008
Comcast and BitTorrent, a San Francisco company whose software is used by Web sites, movie studios and cable TV networks to distribute online video, ...

Comcast, BitTorrent team up to address network, content issu
Telecom Paper (subscription), Netherlands - Mar 28, 2008
Comcast and BitTorrent will collaborate with one another and with the broader internet and ISP community to address issues associated with media content, ...

Canoe.ca

CBC Torrent Caught Up in ISPs’ BitTorrent Throttling
NewTeeVee, CA - Mar 27, 2008
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation recently made a bold decision to release an episode of the show Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister through BitTorrent. ...
Bell Canada to BitTorrent junkies: Slow down, tiger Canoe.ca
Canadian TV Network Throttled by ISPs Wired News
Bell crimps P2P file-sharing during peak hours CBC News
InformationWeek - Ontario Now
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Canoe.ca

Bell Canada to BitTorrent junkies: Slow down, tiger
Canoe.ca, Canada - Mar 27, 2008
Yeah, some of it's legit – CBC released the finale of The Next Great Prime Minister via BitTorrent, and P2P is becoming a more accepted way for companies to ...
Bell download throttling: update p2pnet.net
Canadian Providers Limit Access To CBC Ontario Now
For whom does the Bell (Sympatico) sound? p2pnet.net
all 5 news articles

NewsOXY

Comcast-BitTorrent: The Net's finally growing up
CNNMoney.com - 8 hours ago
Comcast (CMCSA) -- the nation's biggest broadband provider - on made a joint announcement with BitTorrent -- the peer-to-peer software and services company ...
BitTorrent president: Comcast agreement is a 'win' CNET News.com
Comcast's BitTorrent conversion Los Angeles Times
Comcast, BitTorrent Pass The Digital Peace Pipe InternetNews.com
InfoWorld - U.S. News & World Report
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CNET News.com

BitTorrent president: Comcast agreement is a 'win'
CNET News.com, CA - Mar 27, 2008
BitTorrent president and co-founder Ashwin Navin talks up the Comcast detente, even though BitTorrent will still be filtered on a 'protocol-agnostic' basis. ...

Los Angeles Times

Comcast's BitTorrent conversion
Los Angeles Times, CA - Mar 27, 2008
The ink was still drying on Comcast's press release this morning announcing a collaboration with BitTorrent Inc. on the touchy subject of network management ...

Afterdawn.com

Heavy web downloaders face broadband fees
Globe and Mail, Canada - 2 hours ago
Much of that traffic is facilitated through peer-to-peer networks and BitTorrent, a file-sharing protocol once synonymous with piracy but which has ...
Rogers reintroduces a contentious pricing scheme Globe and Mail
Net Neutrality – Not in Bell Canada’s Vocabulary Blogger News Network
Bell Canada admits to throttling broadband P2P traffic BetaNews
Neoseeker - InformationWeek
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Comcast-BitTorrent: The Net's finally growing up
CNNMoney.com - Mar 27, 2008
Comcast (CMCSA) -- the nation's broadband provider - on made a joint announcement with BitTorrent -- the peer-to-peer software and services company whose ...

Comcast-Bittorrent: The Net's finally growing up
CNNMoney.com - Mar 27, 2008
Comcast (CMCSA) -- the nation's broadband provider - on made a joint announcement with BitTorrent -- the peer-to-peer software and services company whose ...

Iceland’s Largest BitTorrent Tracker Wins in Court
TorrentFreak - Mar 27, 2008
Like similar cases in the US, SMÁÍS complained to the court about alleged copyright infringement activities on the BitTorrent site, and got a preliminary ...

Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks
Gizmodo - Mar 27, 2008
Okay, so Comcast and BitTorrent are finally making nice after being all Crips and Bloods, even rousing the FCC out of its slumber at one point, ...
Comcast to Change Network Practices; FCC Ain't Buyin' It Marketing Vox News
Time Warner to Give Tiered Pay-Per-Download the Go Marketing Vox News
all 3 news articles

Scientific American

BitTorrent president: Comcast agreement is a 'win'
CNET News.com, CA - 2 hours ago
BitTorrent president and co-founder Ashwin Navin talks up Comcast detente, even though BitTorrent will still be filtered on a 'protocol-agnostic' basis. ...
Comcast, BitTorrent Pass The Digital Peace Pipe InternetNews.com
Comcast/BitTorrent agreement raises questions InfoWorld
Can BitTorrent File Sharing Also Save Comcast? U.S. News & World Report
Bloomberg - CNET News.com
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Comcast, BitTorrent Agree to Team Up on Traffic Issues
Broadcast Newsroom, CA - 21 minutes ago
BitTorrent and others had complained to the Federal Communications Commission about Comcast's network-management techniques for the bandwidth-heavy ...

Digitaltrends.com

Comcast, BitTorrent Pass The Digital Peace Pipe
InternetNews.com - 38 minutes ago
After months of accusations, denials and foot stomping on the part of users, cable giant Comcast and the peer-to-peer file sharing company BitTorrent have ...
Comcast/BitTorrent agreement raises questions InfoWorld
Can BitTorrent File Sharing Also Save Comcast? U.S. News & World Report
Comcast, BitTorrent Will Work to Cut Web Congestion (Update3) Bloomberg
CNET News.com - CNET News.com
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Comcast and BitTorrent Do A Non-Deal Deal To Work Together
Forbes, NY - Mar 27, 2008
The two will “collaborate on ways to run BitTorrent’s technology more smoothly on Comcast’s broadband network, and allow Comcast to transport video files ...

Can BitTorrent File Sharing Also Save Comcast?
U.S. News & World Report, DC - 10 minutes ago
Like Verizon, Comcast says that cooperating with BitTorrent and other file-sharing services could ease congestion on the Internet. ...

Comcast/BitTorrent agreement raises questions
InfoWorld, CA - Mar 27, 2008
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service Thursday's announcement that Comcast and BitTorrent will work together to solve network management problems won praise from ...

Comcast negotiating with the enemy, BitTorrent?
TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - Mar 27, 2008
By Leslie Poston Comcast has been accused by BitTorrent users and the FCC of throttling bandwidth to the site, and in many cases blocking BitTorrent ...

ZDNet

EIC podcast: Comcast-BitTorrent; Oracle; Facebook and OpenSocial ...
ZDNet - Mar 27, 2008
In this week’s EIC squared podcast we cover the Comcast-BitTorrent partnership and what it means–and doesn’t mean. Dan notes that there are a lot of loose ...

Comcast, BitTorrent Will Work to Cut Web Congestion (Update3)
Bloomberg - Mar 27, 2008
The company is working with BitTorrent Inc., the closely held developer of file-sharing software, on ways to improve network management and plans to have a ...

IPI Applauds Private Resolution Between Comcast and BitTorrent
Web Services Journal, NJ - 12 hours ago
DALLAS, March 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The agreement reached today by Comcast and BitTorrent is an important example of solving private company ...

Comcast and BitTorrent: Enemies Become "Net-Neutral" Friends
CNBC, NJ - 12 hours ago
Comcast, the cable giant, and file sharing web site BitTorrent, seem like natural enemies. The cable company wants to keep "broadband-hogging" BitTorrent ...

dBTechno

Beleaguered BitTorrent search engine shuts down
ITworld.com, MA - Mar 27, 2008
Expensive legal battles have caused TorrentSpy, the search engine for the BitTorrent file-sharing service, to shut down. ...
After TorrentSpy closure, what's next for MPAA? CNET News.com
Piracy Wars: Battlelines Intensify in Fight Against Net Piracy PC World
BitTorrent Tracker TorrentSpy Shuts Down for Good Digital Media Wire
Register - Ars Technica
all 40 news articles

NewsOXY

Q&A with Comcast's Joe Waz about BitTorrent detente
CNET News.com, CA - 1 hour ago
Joe Waz, Comcast's senior vice president for external affairs and the company's public policy counsel, speaks about the BitTorrent detente. ...
Comcast and BitTorrent Form Collaboration to Address Network ... FOXBusiness
Comcast and BitTorrent agree to 'collaborate' CNET News.com
Comcast says it won't single out file-sharing site BitTorrent Bizjournals.com
Bizjournals.com - PC Magazine
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Comcast says it won't single out file-sharing site BitTorrent
Bizjournals.com, NC - Mar 27, 2008
Comcast Corp. and BitTorrent Inc. said Thursday they have begun working together and with other Internet content and service providers to address issues of ...

Comcast agrees to stop picking on BitTorrent
NetworkWorld.com, MA - 9 minutes ago
By Brad Reed , Network World , 03/27/2008 Comcast announced today it has decided to stop targeting such P2P protocols as BitTorrent when managing network ...

CNET News.com

Q&A with Comcast's Joe Waz about BitTorrent detente
CNET News.com, CA - 13 minutes ago
Joe Waz, Comcast's senior vice president for external affairs and the company's public policy counsel, speaks about the BitTorrent detente. ...

Comcast, BitTorrent to work together on network management
ITworld.com, MA - 15 minutes ago
Comcast, under fire for slowing some BitTorrent traffic, will work with the P-to-P (peer-to-peer) vendor to come up with better ways to address media ...

Comcast and BitTorrent Form Collaboration to Address Network ...
FOXBusiness - Mar 27, 2008
PHILADELPHIA and SAN FRANCISCO, March 27, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Comcast Corporation and BitTorrent, Inc. announced today that they will undertake ...
Comcast, BitTorrent team up to address network, content issu Telecom Paper (subscription)
Comcast, BitTorrent Collaborate To Address Issues Concerning Rich ... Market Intelligence Center
BitTorrent and Comcast Work Together Slyck
San Jose Mercury News
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Comcast, BitTorrent Collaborate To Address Issues Concerning Rich ...
Market Intelligence Center, VA - 9 hours ago
(CMCSA) and BitTorrent, Inc., a company that delivers high-quality files over the Internet, on Thursday said they would undertake a collaborative effort to ...
BitTorrent and Comcast Work Together Slyck
Biz Break: Comcast plans to ease video and music complaints, team ... San Jose Mercury News
Comcast and BitTorrent Form Collaboration to Address Network ... Hispanic PR Wire (press release)
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SPIN CITY: Comcast, BitTorrent Non-Deal
GigaOm, CA - 3 hours ago
BitTorrent Inc. and Comcast announced a new deal today, thanks to a helping hand provided by Comcast CTO and BitTorrent adviser, Tony Werner. ...

Comcast, BitTorrent settle differences Tampa Bay Business Journal
Bizjournals.com, NC - Mar 27, 2008
A new agreement between cable company and Internet provider Comcast Corp. and the file downloading company BitTorrent Inc. is being applauded by members of ...

Comcast, BitTorrent Work Toward Net Neutrality
PC Magazine - Mar 27, 2008
by Chloe Albanesius After months of back and forth over cable's treatment of file-sharing services, Comcast and BitTorrent on Thursday reached an agreement ...

Comcast agrees not to discriminate against file-sharing site ...
Bizjournals.com, NC - Mar 27, 2008
Comcast Corp. and BitTorrent Inc. said Thursday they have begun working together and with other Internet content and service providers to address issues of ...

Comcast Working With BitTorrent
WebProNews, KY - 8 minutes ago
Taking a less heavy-handed approach than the outright blocking of BitTorrent traffic, Comcast announced the company has begun negotiating ways for ...

Comcast agrees not to discriminate against file-sharing site Bit ...
Philadelphia Business Journal, PA - 14 minutes ago
Comcast Corp. and BitTorrent Inc. said Thursday they have begun working together and with other Internet content and service providers to address issues of ...

Comcast opens up negotiations with BitTorrent on bandwidth
BetaNews - 14 minutes ago
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews In a surprise announcement, the BitTorrent and Comcast will partner to address issues of network management and architecture, ...

Comcast Makes Nice with BitTorrent
Slashdot - 26 minutes ago
An anonymous reader writes "In a dramatic turn-around of relations, cable provider Comcast and BitTorrent are now working together. ...

Comcast, BitTorrent Partner on Network Management
PC World - Mar 27, 2008
Comcast, under fire for slowing some BitTorrent traffic, will work with the P-to-P (peer-to-peer) vendor to come up with better ways to address media ...

Comcast, BitTorrent to work together on network management
Macworld, CA - Mar 27, 2008
by Grant Gross Comcast, under fire for slowing some BitTorrent traffic, will work with the P-to-P (peer-to-peer) vendor to come up with better ways to ...

Gizmodo.com

Comcast Pulls an About Face, Teams Up with BitTorrent for Net ...
Gizmodo.com - 5 minutes ago
In fact, they've decided to stop all the fussin' and the fuedin' and actually team up with BitTorrent for the sake of net neutrality. ...

Comcast, BitTorrent Agree to Collaborate
TMCnet - 7 minutes ago
Now comes word that Comcast (News - Alert) Corp., under fire for traffic shaping of peer-to-peer traffic, has decided to work with BitTorrent to improve the ...

Comcast Will Stop BitTorrent Throttling
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 16 minutes ago
Comcast and BitTorrent this morning jointly announced that by the end of this year, Comcast will migrate "to a capacity management technique that is ...

Comcast, BitTorrent Working Together
The Associated Press - 30 minutes ago
On Thursday, BitTorrent and Comcast said they want to work out these issues privately, without the need for government intervention. ...

Myka: BitTorrent for the Living Room
Idealo Product News, UK - 16 hours ago
The company uses the BitTorrent standard to connect the living room television with the world of peer-to-peer. In order to be completely independent from ...

WSJ: Comcast, BitTorrent in Talks on Internet Traffic
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 49 minutes ago
By Glen Dickson -- Broadcasting & Cable, 3/27/2008 9:04:00 AM Comcast and BitTorrent are now actively talking about ways that BitTorrent’s file-sharing ...

BitTorrent and Comcast Work Together
Slyck, NY - 51 minutes ago
After a lengthy and sometime bitter confrontation, the two Internet giants BitTorrent and Comcast have agreed to work together on the issue of bandwidth ...

2008 03-27 MediaBytes: YouTube Insight - Comcast - BitTorrent ...
Media 3.0, NY - 7 hours ago
COMCAST and BITTORRENT will collaborate to make the P2P software run more smoothly on the Comcast network. Comcast will stop throttling traffic for all ...

Comcast Teams Up With BitTorrent and Promises Net Neutrality
TorrentFreak - 33 minutes ago
Comcast has announced that it will lift the ban on BitTorrent traffic, which prevented its users from sharing files using the popular protocol. ...

In the papers 27 March
ElectricNews.net, Ireland - 37 minutes ago
The Wall Street Journal says that cable provider Comcast and popular file-sharing company BitTorrent are in talks to collaborate on ways to run BitTorrent's ...

TorrentSpy Shuts Down - TorrentFreak

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TorrentSpy Shuts Down
TorrentFreak - 3 hours ago
Little over a year ago TorrentSpy.com was still the most visited BitTorrent site, but times have changed. After an expensive two year battle with the MPAA, ...

Comcast and BitTorrent Do A Non-Deal Deal To Work Together
paidContent.org, CA - 22 minutes ago
The two will “collaborate on ways to run BitTorrent’s technology more smoothly on Comcast’s broadband network, and allow Comcast to transport video files ...

TorrentSpy Closes - Slyck

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TorrentSpy Closes
Slyck, NY - 7 hours ago
TorrentSpy, one of the largest BitTorrent search engines, has ceased operations. According to Justin Bunnell, administrator and owner of TorrentSpy, ...

TorrentFreak

Comcast, BitTorrent To Work Together
Wall Street Journal - 9 hours ago
By VISHESH KUMAR Long at loggerheads, cable provider Comcast Corp. and popular file-sharing company BitTorrent Inc. now are working together. ...
Comcast and BitTorrent Form Collaboration to Address Network ... PR Newswire (press release)
Comcast and BitTorrent Collaborate TMC Net
Comcast Teams Up With BitTorrent and Promises Net Neutrality TorrentFreak
AHN - Philadelphia Inquirer
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TorrentFreak

Mininova Helps CBC to Distribute TV-Show
TorrentFreak - 11 hours ago
It is great to see that mainstream broadcasters use BitTorrent to share their content online, and even better, that they use mininova’s content distribution ...

bit-tech.net

Bell Canada chokes BitTorrent traffic on someone else's ISP
Register, UK - Mar 26, 2008
When Bell Canada started throttling TekSavvy traffic, an astute TekSavvy customer realized his BitTorrent client was acting funny and alerted the rest of ...
Canadian ISPs forced to filter P2P bit-tech.net
all 2 news articles

File Sharers Get Help Spotting ISP Moves
The Associated Press - 6 hours ago
The plug-in works with Vuze's main application, Azureus, which is based on the BitTorrent file-sharing technology. If the user allows it, the plug-in will ...

BitTorrent Bummer - Slyck

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BitTorrent Bummer
Slyck, NY - 22 hours ago
BitTorrent throttling isn't just a concern for Comcast customers. If you're a BitTorrent fan, you might be ready to blame Canada as well. ...
Bell Canada Hit For Slowing Traffic To Independent ISPs InformationWeek
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A Call to Arms: Azureus Asks Users to Help Analyze BitTorrent ...
Zeropaid, CA - 9 hours ago
Wants users of the popular BitTorrent client to install a plug-in that gathers intel about any ISP interference. Yesterday I mention Project Gemini's LiveCD ...
Gemini Project LiveCD Tests Your ISP For BitTorrent Blocking Zeropaid
all 2 news articles

Bell Canada admits to throttling broadband P2P traffic
BetaNews - 13 hours ago
In October, Bell Canada's ISP Sympatico admitted that it had been using Internet traffic management measures on BitTorrent, Gnutella, Limewire, Kazaa, ...
Fight brewing between ISPs and Bell Canada over traffic throttling Neoseeker
ISPs Angered by Traffic Throttling Web Host Industry Review
Bell Canada Throttles Wholesalers Without Notice Slashdot
Dslreports - Dslreports
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BBC News

Canadian public TV latches on to BitTorrent
ITProPortal, UK - Mar 26, 2008
Considering the fact that BitTorrent is most definitely not the current flavour of the moment, I was intrigued to hear that the Canadian public broadcasting ...
Canadian broadcaster users BitTorrent to distribute show thinkbroadband.com
Embracing the torrent of online video BBC News
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ISPs limit access to CBC download, users say
CBC Manitoba, Canada - 18 hours ago
Thousands of viewers have embraced CBC-TV's experiment with BitTorrent, but many Canadians have found their attempts to access a CBC show online restricted ...
Canada’s next great prime-time television experience — throttled ... IT World Canada Blogs
CBTC: Canadian BitTorrenting Corporation Brock Press (subscription)
Canada's Next Great PM: The day after, or, a torrent of bits Canada.com
all 6 news articles

BBC News

Canadian broadcaster users BitTorrent to distribute show
thinkbroadband.com, UK - 2 hours ago
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has offered its viewers a show via the BitTorrent system that has no Digital Rights Management (DRM) attached. ...
Embracing the torrent of online video BBC News
all 7 news articles

E Canada Now

Bell Puts The Squeeze On ISPs
Torontoist,  Canada - 8 hours ago
The day after the CBC announced its plans to release the finale of Canada's Next Great Prime Minister through BitTorrent, Bell Canada has moved quietly to ...
Bell crimps P2P file-sharing during peak hours CBC British Columbia
ISP cries foul over traffic shaping Digital Home
all 16 news articles

TVO targets parents with Yahoo, Ceeb peers up on BitTorrent
Media In Canada, Canada - 21 hours ago
TVO's news follows the release on Sunday of the CBC special Canada's Next Great Prime Minister on BitTorrent - making the Ceeb one of the first major North ...
Ontario Public Ed Channel TVO Will Share Online Programming For ... Washington Post
TVO Next Network to Venture into Online Territory here's how!
TVO Goes Online with YAHOO! Canada Canada NewsWire (press release)
all 10 news articles

Canada’s next great prime-time television experience — throttled ...
IT World Canada Blogs, Canada - 2 hours ago
This is a show that I have to admit I would not have watched except for the fact that CBC decided to do the DRM-free bittorrent experiment. ...
CBC Uses BitTorrent for Program Distro mediacaster
CBTC: Canadian BitTorrenting Corporation Brock Press (subscription)
Canada's Next Great PM: The day after, or, a torrent of bits Canada.com
all 5 news articles

It's time to admit TV is in new era
Calgary Herald, Canada - 12 hours ago
Approximately 50 per cent of all BitTorrent downloads are of TV shows, a figure much higher than music, movie, computer or video game files. ...

Velocix Introduces Live P2P Streaming
NewTeeVee, CA - 53 minutes ago
It developed its own P2P technology, which Robinson described as “a derivative of BitTorrent.” The company’s P2P protocol is backwards compatible with ...

CNet News.com Blog

MIT students erect giant 20-sided die in Gary Gygax tribute
CNET News.com, CA - Mar 25, 2008
In a tribute to Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons & Dragons, MIT students erected a huge 20-sided die on campus. Over at Laughing Squid this afternoon, ...
'Rickrolled basketball game' video is '80s pop fiction CNET News.com
Former Motorola employee blasts current, former management CNET News.com
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TorrentFreak

Help Azureus to Fight BitTorrent Throttling ISPs
TorrentFreak - Mar 25, 2008
ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years now, but only recently this turned into a political issue. The BitTorrent client Azureus has now ...

CBTC: Canadian BitTorrenting Corporation
Brock Press (subscription), Canada - 10 minutes ago
BitTorrent, for those unaware, is a wildly popular form of media sharing that, as the CBC Web site explains, is better than your typical downloading or ...

Gemini Project LiveCD Tests Your ISP For BitTorrent Blocking
Zeropaid, CA - Mar 25, 2008
Simplifies the process of finding out whether or not your ISP is actively throttling your BitTorrent upload speeds. It's no secret among Comcast customers ...

BBC News

Embracing the torrent of online video
BBC News, UK - Mar 25, 2008
Internet law professor Michael Geist applauds the recent use of BitTorrent by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Last Sunday night, the Canadian ...

Windows XP SP3 due next month, says report
Computerworld, MA - 19 hours ago
About two weeks ago, however, XP SP3 caused a minor stir when what was purportedly the newest build leaked to the Internet and hit BitTorrent search sites ...
Technology news Scotsman
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When Capacity Is Never Enough
Broadcast Newsroom, CA - 15 hours ago
The primary program used for efficient distribution of files, BitTorrent, splits tasks between available personal computers. A few central servers "seed" ...

Myka Brings BitTorrent to the Living Room TV
Zeropaid, CA - Mar 24, 2008
And Myka has brought a powerful friend to the party: BitTorrent. And what Myka brings into your life is simple: Connect her to the Internet, plug her into ...

Myka: BitTorrent Set Top Box Moving BitTorrents into the mainstream
Dslreports - Mar 24, 2008
There have been suggestions that a product such as this one could significantly boost the average consumer’s interest in the BitTorrent movement. ...

ZDNet

Fixing the Unfairness of TCP Congestion Control
Slashdot - Mar 24, 2008
Background P2P applications like BitTorrent will experience a more drastic but shorter-duration cut in throughput but the overall time it takes to complete ...
Exploiting Jacobson’s TCP algorithm ZDNet
Once Again Someone Proposes 'Fixing' TCP Reworking Transmission ... Dslreports
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Introducing Myka, the Magic Box for Torrent-to-TV Transfer
eHomeUpgrade (press release), CA - 4 hours ago
And Myka has brought a powerful friend to the party: BitTorrent, the global standard for delivering high-quality files over the Internet. ...

G4 TV

BitTorrent Sites Growing, Stealing
G4 TV, CA - Mar 24, 2008
BitTorrent is pretty much off the chain when it comes to growing in popularity. It seems that the public is even beginning to catch onto them and popular ...

CBC Uses BitTorrent for Program Distro
mediacaster, Canada - Mar 24, 2008
CBC Television is one of the first major broadcasters in North America to use BitTorrent, the Internet based peer to peer file sharing technology, ...
CBTC: Canadian BitTorrenting Corporation Brock Press (subscription)
Canada's Next Great PM: The day after, or, a torrent of bits Canada.com
all 4 news articles

CBC prime time ready for BitTorrent
Toronto Star,  Canada - Mar 24, 2008
This morning it plans to release a high-resolution version of the finale without copy protection on BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer protocol that is often ...
CBC Uses BitTorrent for Program Distro mediacaster
CBC To Use Bittorrent Spacelab
Canada's Next Great PM: The day after, or, a torrent of bits Canada.com
all 6 news articles

Exploiting Jacobson’s TCP algorithm
ZDNet - 7 hours ago
The diagram below shows what happens when an application like BitTorrent uses the network continuously. I wrote about this last month and presented a ...

10 Tips and Tricks for Private BitTorrent Sites
Net4now, UK - Mar 24, 2008
The first thing to notice when you join a private BitTorrent site is the eye-popping quality of the torrents. Each one is carefully culled, hand-picked ...

TorrentFlux.com - PHP BitTorrent Client for Linux
Killer Startups, FL - Mar 23, 2008
“TorrentFlux is an open source bit torrent client for Linux, Unix & BSD platforms that runs on a web server. It is implemented on the LAMP stack. ...

How Network Non-Neutrality Affects Real Businesses
Xconomy, MA - 11 hours ago
These methods typically target peer-to-peer traffic from BitTorrent, a popular music and video file sharing program the ISPs say generates a third or more ...

CBC To Use Bittorrent - Spacelab

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CBC To Use Bittorrent
Spacelab, MN - Mar 23, 2008
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has announced plans to release one of their most popular shows via BitTorrent. The show, titled Canada's Next ...

10 Tips and Tricks for Private BitTorrent Sites
TorrentFreak - Mar 23, 2008
The first thing to notice when you join a private BitTorrent site is the eye-popping quality of the torrents. Each one is carefully culled, hand-picked ...

Multichannel News

Online Video: Data Tidal Wave?
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - 22 hours ago
By Bob Fernandez Software whiz Bram Cohen released BitTorrent for free on the Internet in 2002 so his hippie friends could swap concert videos. ...
When Capacity Is Never Enough Multichannel News
NCAA is tough on workplace networks Kentucky.com
all 6 news articles

BitTorrent site traffic sees impressive growth
Afterdawn.com - Mar 22, 2008
According to TorrentFreak, torrent popularity and torrent site traffic continues to grow with every passing day despite heated efforts by anti-piracy groups ...
BitTorrent Sites Show Explosive Growth TorrentFreak
all 2 news articles

Electronic House

Myka Makes BitTorrent Legit for Living Room
Electronic House, MA - Mar 22, 2008
Remember when BitTorrent was taboo? Now manufacturers are making it semi-legit. Take Myka. They have developed a set-top box that allows you to download ...

BitTorrent set-top-box - ElectricPig.tv

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BitTorrent set-top-box
ElectricPig.tv, UK - Mar 22, 2008
Not only does it pack an 80, 160 or 500GB hard drive, but there’s Linux inside running a BitTorrent client which hooks up to the internet using built-in ...
Is Myka the future of movie distribution or of movie piracy? Coolest Gadgets
all 2 news articles

BitTorrent Sites Show Explosive Growth
TorrentFreak - 8 hours ago
BitTorrent’s popularity is growing every day. Despite efforts from anti-piracy outfits such as the MPAA and IFPI, torrent sites continue to grow traffic ...

TV shows to watch oh so many ways
Seattle Times, United States - Mar 22, 2008
And so, about 18 months ago, I began to look into BitTorrent. For the uninitiated, this involves peer-to-peer file sharing to distribute large files, ...

Security Bites Podcast: Dude, where's my perimeter?
CNET News.com, CA - 14 hours ago
Students at Harvard University also had their applications to grad school exposed and made available on BitTorrent. Is the problem at the perimeter? ...

Hulu offers a twist to TV watching
Inside Bay Area, CA - 5 hours ago
And so, about 18 months ago, I began to look into BitTorrent. This proved to be an incredible amount of work. For the uninitiated, this involves ...

Security Bites Podcast: Dude, where's my perimeter?
CNET News.com, CA - 3 hours ago
Students at Harvard University also had their applications to grad school exposed and made available on BitTorrent. Is the problem at the perimeter? ...

Myka vows torrent-based rival to Apple TV
Electronista, CA - 4 hours ago
Rather than depend on a closed download system such as iTunes, the Myka depends chiefly on BitTorrent downloads to accomplish its download goals. ...

Ownership Doesn't Always Mean Control
Techdirt - 3 hours ago
Indeed, we're already starting to see hints of the kinds of difficulties ISPs will face with Comcast's war against BitTorrent. One of the major results of ...
AT&T: Uh Guys? We 'Embraced' P2P Too Verizon got all of the good ... Dslreports
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Myka sneaks BitTorrent into the living room
Engadget HD, CA - 17 minutes ago
OK, perhaps not so sneaky, there's a nice big BitTorrent logo right up front, but Myka seems to be quite the end-to-end solution for getting those torrents ...

Wired News

CBC Will Become First North American Broadcaster to Use Bittorrent
Wired News - Mar 21, 2008
On Monday, the CBC will become the first North American broadcaster to distribute a show via the Bittorrent protocol. Apparently, the whole thing was ...

TorrentFreak

Get BitTorrent on Your TV with Myka
TorrentFreak - Mar 20, 2008
Now, one company aims to add another option - one which can get the videos itself, via BitTorrent. The Myka box, is a small set top box, ...

CNET News.com

Cable chief: Let us 'experiment' with our networks
CNET News.com, CA - 21 minutes ago
Kyle McSlarrow, president of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, said he's "amused" that in all the coverage of the Comcast-BitTorrent ...

JuicyCampus, free speech, and personal responsibility
ZDNet - 21 hours ago
It is no different than Kazaa or BitTorrent making money off of piracy while proclaiming tongue in cheek that they do not condone copyright infringement on ...

CNET News.com

BitTorrent to Comcast: Let's be friends
CNET News.com, CA - Mar 20, 2008
Last year, Comcast admitted that it had been "throttling" or slowing down Internet traffic using a peer-to-peer protocol originally created by BitTorrent's ...

CNET News.com

BitTorrent to Comcast: Let's be friends
CNET News.com, CA - 43 minutes ago
Last year, Comcast admitted that it had been "throttling" or slowing down Internet traffic using a peer-to-peer protocol originally created by BitTorrent's ...

CNET News.com

Cable chief: Let us 'experiment' with our networks
CNET News.com, CA - 1 hour ago
Kyle McSlarrow, president of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, said he's "amused" that in all the coverage of the Comcast-BitTorrent ...

OverTheLimit.info

CBC Wows by Offering TV Show Through BitTorrent
MarketnewsGadgetTalk, Canada - Mar 20, 2008
The CBC just announced that it will be offering TV show Canada's Next Great Prime Minister for free download via BitTorrent technology, which (to my ...
'Don't crap on Thunder Bay' Edmonton Sun
Mercy, it's Rick Mercer Canada.com
The next great prime minister? Amherst Citizen
all 6 news articles

CNET News.com

Cable chief: Let us 'experiment' with our networks
CNET News.com, CA - 1 hour ago
Kyle McSlarrow, president of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, said he's "amused" that in all the coverage of the Comcast-BitTorrent ...

Social Security, Social Anxiety
TechNewsWorld, CA - 23 hours ago
Having your private information leaked is bad enough, but having it put on BitTorrent is really the final insult. It happened before with MySpace photos. ...

E Canada Now

CBC-TV first in North America to release TV show on BitTorrent
CBC Saskatchewan, Canada - Mar 20, 2008
CBC Television plans to release its Sunday episode of Canada's Next Great Prime Minister on BitTorrent, a file-sharing service that would allow users to ...
CBC Wows by Offering TV Show Through BitTorrent MarketnewsGadgetTalk
'Don't crap on Thunder Bay' Edmonton Sun
CBC Plans Internet Broadcast E Canada Now
Canada.com - Amherst Citizen
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Publisher Gives Books Away for Free on BitTorrent
Zeropaid, CA - Mar 20, 2008
San Fransisco-based No Starch Press has started experimenting with giving away their books for free on BitTorrent via The Pirate Bay. ...

Cyberclinic: Pushing the Limits
Independent, UK - 21 hours ago
The popularity of the BBC's iPlayer service, along with increasing usage of BitTorrent and other download-intensive activities, is moving people who would ...

bit-tech.net

CBC to distribute shows via P2P without DRM
bit-tech.net, UK - 22 minutes ago
If you're wondering what possible use BitTorrent has outside rampant piracy and software distribution, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation may well have ...

PR Web (press release)

The Chagrin of the RIAA Adopted as Business Model for New Rock ...
PR Web (press release), WA - 8 hours ago
bittorrent network in an effort to aid the underground rock and punk community in utilizing new technologies available to them. "We are really enjoying the ...

TV station releases free show on BitTorrent
NEWS.com.au, Australia - Mar 19, 2008
... of the ABC in Australia, has announced that its new reality show Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister would be available to download using BitTorrent. ...

Gizmodo Australia

Canadian Broadcaster To Distribute Show Over BitTorrent
Gizmodo Australia, Australia - 36 minutes ago
It's official: BitTorrent isn't just for pirates anymore. Canadian broadcaster CBC is planning to use the peer to peer technology to distribute a DRM-free ...

TorrentFreak

Free Books by Wired.com's Leander Kahney
Wired News - 20 hours ago
Bill Pollock of No Starch Press has seeded full electronic versions of my coffeetable books -- Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod -- to Bittorrent via Pirate Bay. ...
Publisher Posts Mac Books on The Pirate Bay TorrentFreak
Publisher Uploads The Cult of iPod to The Pirate Bay Mobile Magazine
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"Canada's Next Great Prime Minister" to be found on P2P
Ars Technica, MA - 20 hours ago
By Jacqui Cheng | Published: March 19, 2008 - 06:33PM CT Broadcasters in Europe aren't the only ones experimenting with BitTorrent as a means of ...

CBC to distribute prime-time show on Bit Torrent
Financial Post, Canada - Mar 19, 2008
The CBC is borrowing a page from the Internet pirate's playbook by distributing one of its prime-time TV shows using Bit Torrent technology, ...

Conde Nast Portfolio

Comcast accuses FCC of impotence
Register, UK - Mar 19, 2008
When tests from independent researcher Robb Topolski's first revealed that Comcast throttled BitTorrent traffic - many months ago - Comcast flatly denied ...
FCC to hold Comcast hearings at Stanford ZDNet
FCC Coming to Stanford for Net Neutrality Hearing on April 17th Bay Area Indymedia
FCC plans broadband hearing at Stanford, after all CNET News.com
Wired News - Slashdot
all 13 news articles

CBC experiments with DRM-free bittorrent broadcasts
TechSpot - Mar 19, 2008
Using bittorrent technology, the CBC in Canada will be broadcasting a show next week, making them one of the first major broadcasters to attempt such a feat ...

IFPI Takes out MP3 Top Site Server
Slyck, NY - 2 hours ago
If you like the newsgroups, BitTorrent and electronic music, today's news may come as a bit of an annoyance. The IFPI (International Federation of the ...

Comcast Work Around for Azureus
Zeropaid, CA - 19 hours ago
With more and more BitTorrent users being negatively affected by overly aggressive traffic shaping on Comcast and other ISP networks it's become ...

Canadian public TV to try out BitTorrent
CNET News.com, CA - Mar 19, 2008
Following closely on the heels of Norway, Canada's public broadcasting service is adopting DRM-free BitTorrent distribution for a major prime-time show. ...

Conde Nast Portfolio

FCC to hold Comcast hearings at Stanford
ZDNet - 22 hours ago
... especially Comcast, are improperly blocking, throttling or otherwise limiting consumer access to peer-to-peer applications like BitTorrent. ...
FCC Clears Way for New Hearings on Net Neutrality Wired News
Comcast Says FCC Powerless to Stop P2P Blocking Slashdot
all 5 news articles

BitTorrent: Yesterday's Black Sheep: reader comment from umbrae
CNet News.com Blog - Mar 19, 2008
With all the bad-rap BitTorrent has gotten, it is the best way to transfer large files. Vuze is a good example of tons of HD content delivered over BT. ...

Canadian public TV to conduct BitTorrent trial
CNET Blogs, CA - 1 hour ago
Following closely on the heels of the Norwegians, Canada's public broadcasting service (CBC) is to adopt DRM-free BitTorrent distribution for a major ...

FCC plans broadband hearing at Stanford, after all
CNET News.com, CA - 1 hour ago
At its first field hearing on the topic in Cambridge, Mass., last month, the five commissioners heard from Comcast, BitTorrent, and Verizon representatives, ...

Album release dates: An anachronism?
Globe and Mail, Canada - 20 hours ago
... hasn't confirmed that the move is due to piracy, most of the tracks from the album are already available on file-sharing networks such as BitTorrent. ...

Does Your Mac Need Anti-Virus Software?
Wired News - 22 hours ago
But provided you don’t go downloading every bittorrent or warez file on the web, and you use a decent e-mail provider that scans attachments for viruses, ...
Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software? TidBITS
RE[2]: Vista vs XP vs Apple? OS News
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Broadcast Engineering

FCC plans broadband hearing at Stanford after all
CNET News.com, CA - 1 hour ago
At its first field hearing on the topic in Cambridge, Mass. last month, the five commissioners heard from Comcast, BitTorrent, and Verizon representatives ...
Net neutrality hearing merely a ‘show trial' Politico
'Net neutrality, wireless on collision course NetworkWorld.com
FCC chairman says Comcast Internet policy is troubling Broadcast Engineering
Los Angeles Chronicle
all 5 news articles

Torontoist

CBC show online via BitTorrent
p2pnet.net, Canada - 3 hours ago
Using BitTorrent allows the CBC to meet its statutory mandate, yet with ISPs such as Rogers engaging in non-transparent traffic shaping, ...
CBC: Who Needs TV? Torontoist
all 2 news articles

CBC: Who Needs TV? - Torontoist

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Torontoist

CBC: Who Needs TV?
Torontoist,  Canada - 11 minutes ago
... the CBC is going to release a high-quality copy of the episode via BitTorrent, without any digital rights management (DRM) protection. ...

bit-tech.net

P2P identity thief sentenced
bit-tech.net, UK - 8 hours ago
Unlike BitTorrent which only shares files that have a corresponding .torrent, LimeWire will happily allow any J. Random to download whatever the software ...

TorrentFreak

CBC To Release TV-Show via BitTorrent, For Free
TorrentFreak - Mar 18, 2008
CBC, Canada’s public television broadcaster has plans to release the upcoming TV-show “Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister” for free via BitTorrent. ...

TorrentFreak

VLC Player Vulnerable to Remote Hijack
TorrentFreak - 18 hours ago
VLC is a popular media player among BitTorrent users. Not just for the fact that it is free, also because it includes a huge number of the video codecs, ...
VLC Media Player Vulnerable to Attack PC World
all 9 news articles

Limewire Opens Music Store - Slyck

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Limewire Opens Music Store
Slyck, NY - 19 hours ago
As a free P2P application, it has survived WinMX, BearShare, a myriad of BitTorrent indexers and trackers, Kazaa, iMesh and many others. ...

Mock, mock - Seattle Post Intelligencer

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Seattle Post Intelligencer

Mock, mock
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 13 hours ago
The latest sampling has the Seahawks selecting a tight end, or a tackle or a defensive tackle with the 25th pick in the first round. ...
Pullman pulling punches on ... pulling punches Seattle Post Intelligencer
all 102 news articles

Comcast Cameras to Start Watching You?
NewTeeVee, CA - 19 hours ago
I can’t trust Comcast with BitTorrent, so why should I trust them with my must-be-kept-secret, DVR-clogging addiction to Keeping Up with the Kardashians? ...

Google exec says online video distribution is future of TV
Telecom Paper (subscription), Netherlands - Mar 18, 2008
He argued that the term IPTV can include services like peer-to-peer file sharing system BitTorrent and online video rental service Netflix. ...

TorrentFreak

Ron Jeremy Takes on Porn Pirates
TorrentFreak - Mar 18, 2008
In September we reported that some of the leading adult webmasters were discussing how they could take on BitTorrent sites, something they haven’t succeeded ...
Jeremy Attacks Web Sites Jewtastic
all 3 news articles

Politico

Net neutrality hearing merely a ‘show trial'
Politico, DC - 21 hours ago
The heart of the matter was whether Comcast’s rerouting of traffic using the file-sharing software BitTorrent to less crowded areas of the Internet at peak ...
'Net neutrality, wireless on collision course NetworkWorld.com
Net policy rests with least tech-smart Australian IT
Lost! Net Neutrality. Goodbye everybody! Los Angeles Chronicle
all 4 news articles

NEWS.com.au

Nine Inch Nails make $1.6m on free album
NEWS.com.au, Australia - Mar 17, 2008
“We believe BitTorrent is a revolutionary digital distribution method, and we believe in finding ways to utilize new technologies instead of fighting them,” ...

Would You Pay a Fee for Legal Music File Sharing?
Washington Post, United States - Mar 17, 2008
It is aimed at the people who illegally download free songs through peer-to-peer file-sharing services, like BitTorrent and Kazaa. ...

WBGA-TV

Verizon Striving Hard to Make P2P More Efficient
Laptop Logic, CA - 5 hours ago
P2P experiments using Verizon's Broadband Network and some "tweaks" lashes delivery times and relieves network traffic. Recent tests conducted by Verizon on ...
Verizon unveils P2P experiment to speed file transfer Telecom Paper (subscription)
New technology promises to speed delivery of online video Austin American-Statesman
Verizon Demos Advanced P2P Software Light Reading
Times of India
all 142 news articles

So many TV shows to watch . . . in so many ways
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - Mar 17, 2008
And so, about 18 months ago, I began to look into BitTorrent. This proved to be an incredible amount of work. For the uninitiated, this involves ...
Tech File: Inconvenient flaws of digital convergence San Jose Mercury News
all 6 news articles

Insight on Supply Problems, Larger Hard Drive and Movies on Xbox 360
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Mar 17, 2008
But Microsoft's biggest competition for digital movie distribution on Xbox Live is not Sony but BitTorrent. I have had a theory is that the rise of ...

Pirating technology wins over big business
Indianapolis Star, United States - Mar 16, 2008
Hahn said 12 million to 15 million people are file-sharing across the world at any one time, mainly on the BitTorrent and eDonkey networks. ...

Our P2P Investigation Turns Up Business Data Galore
InformationWeek, NY - Mar 16, 2008
While user numbers are hard to estimate, BitTorrent is thought to be the top network, with more than 10 million users of just one of its tracker sites, ...

Verizon gets into P2P technology
Computerworld Australia, Australia - 7 minutes ago
Typically, P2P technology such as BitTorrent distributes large data files by breaking them up into small pieces and sending them through multiple sources. ...

Does Big Media's One-Two Punch Knock Out the Internet?
Huffington Post, NY - Mar 16, 2008
In kneecapping BitTorrent, Comcast didn't just block pirated content, but all BitTorrent content, including legitimate un-pirated content such as a file ...

Iceland’s Largest BitTorrent Tracker Faces Permanent Shutdown
TorrentFreak - Mar 16, 2008
Since nearly 10% of Iceland’s population were members, Torrent.is was by far the most popular BitTorrent tracker in the country. During November last year, ...

Post a comment - ZDNet UK

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Post a comment
ZDNet UK, UK - 23 hours ago
Besides, if all else fails there's always BitTorrent. I don't mind admitting I've been using it to keep up with programs from home I can't otherwise watch, ...

Cisco to Distribute Grid Networks’ P2P Client
NewTeeVee, CA - 12 hours ago
BitTorrent’s CEO bragged about his own tie-ups in a recent video interview we posted. Apologies: this had been announced earlier last week, but got stuck in ...

Broadband TV News

Google sees future of television in online video distribution
Informitv, UK - 4 hours ago
In fact, he argued that the largest IPTV deployment in the world was BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file sharing system often used to download illicit copies ...
Welcome back to convergence Broadband TV News
all 2 news articles

Peer-to-peer networks becoming legitimate
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - 16 minutes ago
The original Napster was a P2P system, as are the KaZaa and BitTorrent systems now in use. Pando is a prime example of mainstream acceptance: It's providing ...

Verizon Announces BitTorrent File Sharing Network
Half Life Source - Mar 14, 2008
Verizon said it is committed to offer the new P4P, an advanced peer-to-peer file sharing network, serving as the key to BitTorrent cooperation. ...

New technology promises to speed delivery of online video
Austin American-Statesman, TX - 16 minutes ago
File sharing is best known from systems such as BitTorrent and early versions of Kazaa and Napster. Researchers found that file sharing can work more ...

BitTorrent's dysfunctional relationship with Comcast
CNET News.com, CA - Mar 14, 2008
NEW YORK CITY--You've heard about the controversy over Comcast throttling back BitTorrent traffic on its network. But did you know that before the news ...

Paste Magazine

Hulu.com offers free streaming movies
Paste Magazine, GA - 13 hours ago
No, this isn't just a link to a bittorrent site or a marginally legal streaming video site. As proof of that, here's The Big Lebowski in its full-length, ...
Defibrillators Are Being Hacked Fox 28
all 8 news articles

G4 TV

Verizon Exploring Future of Peer-to-Peer
G4 TV, CA - 48 minutes ago
Sure, peer-to-peer transfers like BitTorrent are alright, but they are kind of old and busted. Verizon sees the future with P4P. That's straight up double ...

Cringely: Why Apple CEO Steve Jobs is holding back Blu-ray from Macs
MacDailyNews - Mar 14, 2008
The obvious standard is 1080p and right now you need Blu-ray or BitTorrent to get that. Putting on my near-futurist hat, then, I'm guessing Apple is working ...
Blu-ray reality check Chicago Tribune
Opinion: Why is Apple waiting on Blu-Ray? MacNN
all 5 news articles

WBGA-TV

Peer-To-Peer Networks Go Legit
The Associated Press - Mar 14, 2008
Hahn said 12 million to 15 million people are file-sharing across the world at any one time, mainly on the BitTorrent and eDonkey networks. ...
Verizon unveils P2P experiment to speed file transfer Telecom Paper (subscription)
P4P: The future of downloading? bit-tech.net
Verizon fixes P2P problem - on its network at least ZDNet
ZDNet Blogs
all 192 news articles

P4P Can Slash P2P's Impact on ISPs
Top Tech News, CA - 4 minutes ago
Verizon prefers the P4P technique tested by Yale University and Pando Networks to Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent P2P traffic, but an analyst says other ...

New Gnarls Barkley 'The Odd Couple' Album Leaked to BitTorrent!
Zeropaid, CA - Mar 14, 2008
A pre-release copy of the hit duos upcoming album winds up on the The Pirate Bay well before its official April 8th release date. I don't usually talk about ...

BitTorrent CEO: Comcast Should Come Clean
BroadbandReports.com, NY - Mar 14, 2008
BitTorrent has for several years been trying to monetize developer Bram Cohen's brilliant achievement. They've shifted the client from open to closed source ...

P4P Can Slash P2P's Impact on ISPs
NewsFactor Network, CA - 22 minutes ago
Verizon prefers the P4P technique tested by Yale University and Pando Networks to Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent P2P traffic, but an analyst says other ...

NewsOXY

Verizon Announces BitTorrent File Sharing Network
NewsOXY, FL - Mar 14, 2008
Verizon said it is committed to offer the new P4P, an advanced peer-to-peer file sharing network, serving as the key to BitTorrent cooperation. ...

MTV Uses P2P Data for Playlist Selection
TorrentFreak - 2 hours ago
TMF, a popular Dutch music channel which is part of MTV said it will use data from BitTorrent and other file-sharing networks as a resource for their ...

Boston Globe

Enhancement To P2P Cuts Network Costs
Slashdot - 59 minutes ago
Without the routing tables at hand you don't know the c by CSMatt (1175471) So suddenly the BitTorrent protocol is illegal now? by Dr.Merkwurdigeliebe ...
What a novel idea: Verizon cooperates with P2P file sharers ZDNet
Verizon Gets Cozy With P2P File-Sharers The Associated Press
Verizon optimzes P2P, sees 60% speed boost Electronista
Slashdot - CNET News.com
all 184 news articles

BitTorrent CEO: Rethinking Media Store, No Business Impact From ...
Silicon Alley Insider, NY - Mar 14, 2008
BitTorrent's two big projects: Getting media giants to pay them to deliver video over its peer-to-peer network . And getting BitTorrent's downloading ...

Washington Post

What a novel idea: Verizon cooperates with P2P file sharers
ZDNet - 2 hours ago
It sure beats the approach taken by Comcast with BitTorrent and AT&T, which wants to be the Internet’s traffic cop. Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet ...
Verizon Gets Cozy With P2P File-Sharers The Associated Press
all 153 news articles

bit-tech.net

Harvard database shared via BitTorrent
bit-tech.net, UK - Mar 14, 2008
The person responsible for the breach – or at least the uploading of the data to BitTorrent – included a note with the 125MB archive claiming the attack ...

From Privacy to Censorship - Activists Have Their Hands Full
Zeropaid, CA - 2 hours ago
Some BitTorrent users may still be reeling from Comcasts "delaying" tactics last month. It's an issue that is currently being fought in the FCC. ...

Helios Odyssey Media Hub Now Supports BitTorrent, Emule Downloading
Zeropaid, CA - Mar 13, 2008
Now there's no need to leave your PC on 24/7 — You can install Bittorrent and eMule download clients on Helios Odyssey and turn your Odyssey into a super ...

CNet News.com Blog

Making sense of the MPAA's latest retro take on tech
CNET News.com, CA - Mar 13, 2008
For example, ISPs couldn't block all BitTorrent traffic simply because it might be used for piracy, but they could use video fingerprints to try to stop ...
World Wide Web Movie Association Opposes Net-Neutrality Bill CIO Today
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World Wide Web Movie Association Opposes Net-Neutrality Bill
CIO Today, CA - Mar 13, 2008
While he didn't mention them by name, Glickman was clearly referring to Comcast's blocking of Internet traffic using the BitTorrent peer-to-peer system, ...
MPAA: Net neutrality an assault on creativity ZDNet
More on MPAA and Net neutrality Los Angeles Times
Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) President-CEO Jean ... Business Wire (press release)
Huffington Post - Business of Cinema
all 16 news articles

Harvard server hacked, database of student data on BitTorrent
BetaNews - Mar 13, 2008
However, the hackers made the degree of their compromise visible, by availing all the information on BitTorrent as a 125MB file containing a backup of the ...

Hi, I'm Comcast and I'd Like to Delay You
Slyck, NY - 1 hour ago
So it comes as little surprise that just about everyone who participates on BitTorrent and is unfortunate enough to be using Comcast is uniformly pissed off ...
P2P Meltdown Slyck
all 2 news articles

Price as rated - Macworld

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Macworld

Price as rated
Macworld, CA - 21 hours ago
Besides a comprehensive set of Web browsing capabilities, it includes an e-mail client, RSS reader, IRC chat client, NNTP newsgroup reader, BitTorrent ...

Mobile Digest

BBC puts an end to iPlayer download hack. Back to file sharing ...
Mobile Digest, UK - 1 hour ago
So, it's back to BitTorrent, YouTube, or your file sharing website of choice from now on. Not that we advocate... oh you get the idea.

CNET News.com

Harvard student database hacked, posted on BitTorrent
CNET News.com, CA - Mar 13, 2008
Worse, a compressed 125 M-byte file containing the stolen student data is currently available via BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer network. ...

Idolator: All About The Music

Trent Reznor: (Purportedly) Getting That Paper
Idolator, NY - 28 minutes ago
(Hard to imagine acts who never topped the Billboard album chart in the pre-BitTorrent era--like poor bridesmaid/experiment Saul Williams, ...

Home Theater Magazine

REM Pulls a Radiohead
Home Theater Magazine - 30 minutes ago
The band's chosen vehicle, in this case, is not its own website or BitTorrent but the social networking operation iLike. The new album will be available for ...

Picking up speed - Sydney Morning Herald

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Picking up speed
Sydney Morning Herald, 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. ...

bit-tech.net

Microsoft admits to Home Server data corruption problem
eWeek,  NY - Mar 12, 2008
... Microsoft Office Outlook 2007; Microsoft Money 2007; SyncToy 2.0 Beta; Intuit QuickBooks; and uTorrent, the popular BitTorrent client. ...
Microsoft admits big delay on Home Server bug fix Register
all 18 news articles

Pirate Bay to Hollywood: Open your Own Torrent Site
TorrentFreak - 11 hours ago
Fredrik adds that it is hard to monetize a BitTorrent tracker, because the legal gray zone makes the ad prices drop. The pirate bay does plan to launch a ...

‘IFPI Advertising’ Boosts Visitors To Blocked File-Sharing Site
TorrentFreak - Mar 12, 2008
Last week a court ruled that Israel’s largest ISPs should block access to HttpShare, a BitTorrent and http hyperlink site. Thanks to what the owners call ...
IFPI Turning To Lawsuits Slashdot
Music Industry Starts Suing ISPs For Apathy IFPI Takes aim at ... Dslreports
all 6 news articles

RE[7]: Why don't more people use Opera?
OS News - 9 hours ago
Before answering this question, keep in mind that the panels are hidden by default, and BitTorrent, chat, mail, etc. is also hidden/disabled by default, ...
RE[6]: Why don't more people use Opera? Newmobilecomputing.com
RE[6]: Why don't more people use Opera? Newmobilecomputing.com
RE[4]: Why don't more people use Opera? Newmobilecomputing.com
all 9 news articles

RE[5]: Why don't more people use Opera?
Newmobilecomputing.com - 31 minutes ago
You don't have to care about chat or BitTorrent! They are kept hidden/out of the way unless you activate them by actually using them. ...
RE[4]: Why don't more people use Opera? OS News
all 239 news articles

Helios Odyssey Media Hub Gets BitTorrent, Emule Downloading
Gizmodo Australia, Australia - Mar 11, 2008
The Helios Odyssey, a 1TB, US$169 storage center for your media files, just got an update for BitTorrent and Emule downloading capability. ...

Helios Labs brings forth new eMule and BitTorrent-enabled media ...
CrunchGear, NY - Mar 11, 2008
It’s about what you think; you search for a movie on BitTorrent through the box, it automatically finds and downloads compatible versions to play back and ...

Legal applications of BitTorrent
TechRepublic, KY - Mar 11, 2008
Bit Torrent, the peer to peer file sharing protocol and its implementation software have received much ire from the content creation industries. ...

ISPs Won't Win Neutrality Battle
Marketing Shift.com - 5 hours ago
If ISPs are to continue slowing traffic to protocols such as BitTorrent, they will minimally have to disclose that they are doing so, according to MediaPost ...

Helios Odyssey Media Hub Enclosure runs BitTorrent and eMule
I4U - Mar 11, 2008
Helios updated the software of its Odyssey Media Hub to support Bittorrent and eMule clients. The Helios Odyssey is a fan-less (quite) media hub enclosure ...

bit-tech.net

Microsoft admits big delay on Home Server bug fix
Register, UK - 22 hours ago
... Vista Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Money 2007, Intuit QuickBooks and BitTorrent client uTorrent. ...
No fix until June for Windows Home Server flaw ZDNet UK
Home Server fix delayed until June bit-tech.net
Microsoft has admitted it won't fix a bug that can corrupt files ... PC Pro
all 6 news articles

Mobile Digest

Michael Jackson's company squashes rumours regarding the Beatles ...
Mobile Digest, UK - 4 hours ago
No skin off our noses obviously - it just means we're back to BitTorrent if we want to download some Beatles tunes, with better bitrates, too.
Rumours fly over Beatles catalogue VNUNet.com
Apple and senior rightsholders deny Beatles on iTunes reports Macworld UK
Baby, you're a rich man. Possibly Inquirer
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Is the Net Too Neutral?
MIT Technology Review, MA - Mar 10, 2008
Programs using BitTorrent, for instance, download files from a number of different peers at once. But if a particular peer isn't sending data quickly enough ...
FCC Chair warns ISPs against making "arbitrary distinctions" Ars Technica
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FCC chairman hints at action against Comcast
Afterdawn.com - 8 hours ago
That line is, in fact, exactly what Comcast executives say their practice of altering BitTorrent traffic amounts to - reasonable network management. ...

Interview With The Fansubber
Anime News Network, Canada - 15 hours ago
Sometimes people use bittorrent, but primarily we use the Japanese peer-to-peer trading sites, where a new show will appear typically a couple hours after ...

FCC Chair warns ISPs against making "arbitrary distinctions"
Ars Technica, MA - 4 hours ago
Martin spoke in the aftermath of a February 25 hearing at Harvard Law School over Comcast's interference with P2P applications like BitTorrent. ...

Vote for your favorite finalists:
Webware/Cnet, CA - 16 hours ago
BitLet www.bitlet.org BitLet lets users download BitTorrent files without installing a BitTorrent client. BitTorrent www.bittorrent.com Share large files ...

BitTorrent versus IPTV: Who Wins?
Daily IPTV, CA - Mar 10, 2008
P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing has always been synonymous with online audio and video distribution, and the BitTorrent protocol has played a major role in ...

Dropping 22TB of patches on 6500 PCs in 4 hours ...
Ars Technica, MA - Mar 9, 2008
The school was able to retire 20 of them after adopting a new way to distribute updates: BitTorrent. The peer-to-peer protocol allows PCs to download most ...

A new kind of 'network' TV
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - Mar 9, 2008
It's also the idea behind a peer-to-peer data transfer program called BitTorrent, which has become a major force in online song and video piracy. ...

The BitTorrent Legend Returns: I Am aXXo
TorrentFreak - Mar 9, 2008
It’s the news that many BitTorrent users have been waiting for. Marking his comeback with the movie “I Am Legend” could be seen as symbolic. ...

TorrentFreak

Anonymize BitTorrent Transfers with BTGuard
TorrentFreak - Mar 9, 2008
BTGuard is an easy to use proxy service that adds an extra layer of privacy to your BitTorrent transfers. The service is designed for BitTorrent users who ...

Norwegian Broadcaster Evaluates BitTorrent Distribution Costs
Slashdot - Mar 8, 2008
However, when using the Amazon servers as the originating seed and utilizing BitTorrent, their total cost for distribution of the entire project, ...

TorrentFreak

Diferior, an Easy to Use BitTorrent CMS
TorrentFreak - Mar 8, 2008
Setting up a (private or public) BitTorrent tracker may sound hard to some, but it isn’t. With Diferior, you are only a few clicks away from being the proud ...

Norwegian Broadcaster Evaluates BitTorrent Distribution Costs
Slashdot - 8 hours ago
However, when using the Amazon servers as the originating seed and utilizing BitTorrent, their total cost for distribution of the entire project, ...

P2P News Briefs for This Week - Slyck

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P2P News Briefs for This Week
Slyck, NY - Mar 7, 2008
Unlike the last few weeks which were dominated by BitTorrent and the FCC, this week's news was dominated by BitTorrent, the FCC, and Nine Inch Nails. ...

Riding the Download Wave on YouTorrent
BusinessWeek - 21 hours ago
Some of these sites, such as BitTorrent, the granddaddy of the category, now offer only legal content, while others are populated primarily with illegal ...

FCC's Martin Mum on Net Neutrality
Wired News - Mar 7, 2008
But he didn't go so far as to say whether ISPs had a right to target BitTorrent or other data. "I think that will also trigger heightened scrutiny by the ...
FCC Chairman Says 'Balance' ... InternetNews.com
UPDATE: FCC Chairman Tips Hand On Comcast's Net Neutrality CNNMoney.com
UPDATE 1-FCC chief troubled by some Comcast data practices Reuters
Multichannel News - Broadcasting & Cable
all 10 news articles

TorrentFreak

BitTorrent Throttling Company Sandvine Sees Sales Down 88%
TorrentFreak - Mar 7, 2008
Sandvine, manufacturers of BitTorrent throttling technology has seen its first quarter sales drop 88% in a year. After achieving 42000% growth in 5 years, ...

Dutch University Uses BitTorrent to Update Workstations
TorrentFreak - Mar 6, 2008
In the US, several universities have banned filesharing applications such as BitTorrent, mostly under pressure from the RIAA. ...

Nine Inch Nails Release New Album On Bittorrent
ShortNews.com, Germany - Mar 6, 2008
Nine Inch Nails quietly released their latest album online through popular BitTorrent sites as well as on their official website. Nine inch Nails is not the ...

IFPI Pressure Forces ISPs to Block Another File-Sharing Site
TorrentFreak - Mar 6, 2008
The Haifa District Court in Israel has ordered that the country’s three largest ISPs should block access to HttpShare.com, a BitTorrent and http ...

Hackers find clever new way to hose Google users
Register, UK - 9 hours ago
As a result, at least 20000 Google search results that appeared to lead to pages on the Asian version of ZDNet and the BitTorrent tracker site actually ...

What we want from the iPhone SDK: A buyer's perspective
infoSync World, Norway - Mar 5, 2008
With the increasing speeds of HSDPA and EV-DO wireless data services, file-sharing protocols like BitTorrent are becoming a viable option. ...

Nine Inch Nails confirms album’s official release on BitTorrent ...
CrunchGear, NY - Mar 5, 2008
Comparisons will be made toRadiohead, sure, but Radiohead didn’t encode its release with LAME at 320kbps, nor officially upload it to BitTorrent trackers. ...

CNet News.com Blog

FCC: No plans for a Comcast-BitTorrent hearing at Stanford
CNet News.com Blog - Mar 4, 2008
In this case, however, public-interest groups that filed a complaint against Comcast's admitted delaying of BitTorrent file-sharing uploads cried foul ...

Bittorrent Question - Atomic

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Bittorrent Question
Atomic, Australia - Mar 4, 2008
Everytime after I finished downloading some torrent file, I noticed that the internet connection was still transmitting some data, even when I closed my ...

CNET News.com

FCC: No plans for a Comcast-BitTorrent hearing at Stanford
CNET News.com, CA - Mar 4, 2008
In this case, however, public-interest groups that filed a complaint against Comcast's admitted delaying of BitTorrent file-sharing uploads cried foul ...

eFluxMedia

FCC: No plans for a Comcast-BitTorrent hearing at Stanford
CNet News.com Blog - 4 hours ago
In this case, however, public-interest groups who filed a complaint against Comcast's admitted delaying of BitTorrent filesharing uploads cried foul because ...
Comcast Criticized over Net Limiting, Seat Warming and Nonsense eFluxMedia
all 2 news articles

NIN Releases Part of New Album on BitTorrent
Zeropaid, CA - 25 minutes ago
This can be downloaded from both the album’s site as well as via BitTorrent tracker sites like The Pirate Bay. $5 - download all 36 tracks of Ghosts I-IV ...

eFluxMedia

Nine Inch Nails share album on Pirate Bay
NEWS.com.au, Australia - Mar 4, 2008
Trent Reznor, frontman of Nine Inch Nails, supports the file-sharing network BitTorrent / Supplied INDUSTRIAL metal band Nine Inch Nails has uploaded their ...
Fans flock to Nails site for freebie downloads The Age
Nine Inch Nails Releases Album Via BitTorrent ReadWriteWeb
Nine Inch Nails releases album on BitTorrent CBC Montreal
eFluxMedia - Wired News
all 151 news articles

bit-tech.net

BitTorrent: now available for iPhone
bit-tech.net, UK - Mar 4, 2008
The client – most recently seen in the 8.04 'Hardy Heron' Ubuntu Linux distribution – is most commonly used to download large files via the BitTorrent ...

CBC Montreal

Fans flock to Nails site for freebie downloads
The Age, Australia - 8 hours ago
Now a "free agent", Nine Inch Nails are offering their latest four-volume album, Ghosts I-IV, to fans directly via their website and through BitTorrent file ...
Nine Inch Nails Releases Album Via BitTorrent ReadWriteWeb
Nine Inch Nails releases album on BitTorrent CBC Montreal
NIN Releases Part of New Album for Free through BitTorrent eFluxMedia
Wired News - New York Times
all 178 news articles

BitTorrent on the iPhone? - Zeropaid

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BitTorrent on the iPhone?
Zeropaid, CA - Mar 3, 2008
Hacker announces the release of preliminary version of the Transmission BitTorrent client for Apple's iPhone. I'm not entirely sure how practical this would ...
iPhone or Macbook Air: Which will save you the $$s? tuaw.com
all 2 news articles

AllPeers Firefox BitTorrent Service Shuts Down
InternetNews.com - Mar 3, 2008
By Sean Michael Kerner on March 3, 2008 5:35 PM The AllPeers BitTorrent service for Firefox announced today that they were shutting down their service ...

Nine Inch Nails Uploads New Album to BitTorrent Sites
RealTechNews, CA - Mar 3, 2008
This can be downloaded from both the album’s site as well as via BitTorrent sites. $5 - get all 36 tracks of Ghosts I-IV and a 40-page PDF booklet. ...

Download SXSW 2008 Showcase Bands in One Big Torrent File
Wired News - 2 hours ago
Whether you're attending or not, if you like free music (and who doesn't), download the 3497 MB zip file (BitTorrent client required) that Greg Hewill ...

BitTorrent Comes to the iPhone, iTouch
Slyck, NY - Mar 3, 2008
Today, WickedPsyched reports success in their efforts to operate the BitTorrent protocol via the iPhone. The efforts of the development group didn't exactly ...

BitTorrent unofficially lands for iPhone
Ars Technica, MA - Mar 3, 2008
After much effort, the code has been ported and users can now use BitTorrent on the iPhone from the command line. You would have to be crazy to torrent over ...

CBC Montreal

Nine Inch Nails Releases Album Via BitTorrent
ReadWriteWeb, New Zealand - 9 hours ago
The latest to do so is Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails, which today uploaded part one of its new four part album Ghosts I-IV to BitTorrent sites (you can ...
Nine Inch Nails releases album on BitTorrent CBC Montreal
NIN Releases Part of New Album for Free through BitTorrent eFluxMedia
Nine Inch Nails Releases Album via Torrent, MP3 Store, and Deluxe ... Wired News
CNET News.com - New York Times
all 82 news articles

New Nine Inch Nails Album Free on BitTorrent
PC Magazine - Mar 3, 2008
... Trent Reznor is making good on his promise to offer free music via the torrent services (peer-to-peer programs that use the BitTorrent protocol). ...

NME.com

Nine Inch Nails releases album on BitTorrent
CBC Montreal, Canada - 42 minutes ago
The band also decided to make the first volume of nine tracks available for free over the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol. Trent Reznor, who writes all ...
NIN Releases Part of New Album for Free through BitTorrent eFluxMedia
Nine Inch Nails releases Internet album CNET News.com
Nine Inch Nails Uploads New Album on Torrent Sites TorrentFreak
New York Magazine - Mashable
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isoHunt Indexes 1 Millionth Torrent
Slyck, NY - 1 hour ago
Last month, isoHunt released their new torrent rating system, designed to allow members of the BitTorrent site to gauge the validity and quality of indexed ...

Gizmodo.com

BitTorrent comes to the iPhone
BetaNews - Mar 3, 2008
A preview version of the client is now available for download, which was ported from the open source Transmission BitTorrent client to run on the iPhone's ...
iPhone's First Native P2P Torrent App is Up and Running Gizmodo.com
all 3 news articles

AllPeers Shutters - Profy

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AllPeers Shutters
Profy - 56 minutes ago
It was a far more elegant solution for people to share files than BitTorrent, although they did add support for BitTorrent last year. ...

Advocacy groups bash Comcast's "technical-sounding nonsense"
Ars Technica, MA - 8 hours ago
The goal of both was to undermine the arguments trotted out by Comcast in defense of its BitTorrent "delaying" practices. While the EFF turned in a dense ...
Come on, Comcast - seat hogging at the FCC hearing? BostonNOW
all 3 news articles

Idolator: All About The Music

Trent Reznor Pulls a Radiohead, Sort of
New York Magazine,  USA - 2 hours ago
Most interesting of all, though, is that he's made the first nine tracks officially available for free through various BitTorrent sites like Pirate Bay. ...
Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album Online Switched
Trent Reznor Hoping That Internet May Be Moved To Actually Shell ... Idolator
all 3 news articles

Coastsider News

Advocacy groups bash Comcast's "technical-sounding nonsense"
Ars Technica, MA - 40 minutes ago
The goal of both was to undermine the arguments trotted out by Comcast in defense of its BitTorrent "delaying" practices. While the EFF turned in a dense ...
Seat warming, Internet blocking Boston Globe
You get what you pay for Boston Herald
Come on, Comcast - seat hogging at the FCC hearing? BostonNOW
CNNMoney.com - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
all 22 news articles

isoHunt Now Indexes 1 Million Torrents
TorrentFreak - 5 hours ago
The popular BitTorrent site IsoHunt just reached a new milestone, as they now index over 1 million torrents. In total, the torrents on IsoHunt point to 22 ...

ZDNet

A geek’s trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management
ZDNet - 22 hours ago
After Mr. Saito’s presentation, it certainly made my job a lot easier showing my charts on how BitTorrent and P2P were effectively the primary bandwidth ...

Mobile Digest

Bittorrent TV distribution works - Norway blazing a path into the ...
Mobile Digest, UK - Mar 3, 2008
Remember this update about Norwegian broadcaster NRK putting an episode of a TV show on Bittorrent? Probably not. It's not like developments in Norwegian TV ...

New FrostWire 4.13.5 is Online, Faster, Better Connectivity ...
Emediawire (press release), WA - 3 hours ago
FrostWire is a truly free Peer to Peer software that connects to the Bittorrent and Gnutella networks. FrostWire is a fork of the popular LimeWire client. ...

Mashable

Practice What You Preach: Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album
Mashable, CA - 6 hours ago
Here’s what the band has to say about BitTorrent: “Now that we’re no longer constrained by a record label, we’ve decided to personally upload Ghosts I, ...
NIN's Latest, Ghosts I-IV is Available Now for $0-$300 LAist
New Nine Inch Nails Album Goes Online, With Way Too Many Options paidContent.org
all 3 news articles

TorrentFreak

Nine Inch Nails Uploads New Album on Torrent Sites
TorrentFreak - 8 hours ago
Nine Inch Nails has just released the first volume of their new album “Ghosts” on BitTorrent sites as a free download. The band encourages its fans to share ...

eFluxMedia

Seat warming, Internet blocking
Boston Globe, United States - Mar 1, 2008
The Associated Press couldn't do that last October when it tried to transmit a copy of the King James Bible using BitTorrent, a so-called peer-to-peer ...
Comcast Criticized over Net Limiting, Seat Warming and Nonsense eFluxMedia
You get what you pay for Boston Herald
Comcast Backed By NBC, Viacom In Network Neutrality Dispute CNNMoney.com
GCN.com - Toronto Star
all 12 news articles

BitTorrent Rip Off Sites, and How to Avoid Them
TorrentFreak - Mar 1, 2008
BitTorrent is supposed to be hassle free, that’s why it’s so attractive right? Sadly, it is also used by by scammers to generate money, often through ...

P2P News Wrap Up - Slyck

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P2P News Wrap Up
Slyck, NY - Mar 1, 2008
The news this week was dominated by the FCC hearing into Comcast's practice of "delaying" BitTorrent uploads. This practice has reinvigorated the net ...

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