IFPI, Childnet Offer Guidance For Proper Downloading Mashable, CA - So before you go out a BitTorrent spree, pick up a copy of the IFPI’s guide. You may just think twice about your frustration with copyright law and various ... |
Archivos April 2008
Rogers to limit `free' Internet Toronto Star, Canada - ... Internet users could soon be reaching for their wallets before they download "free" movies or video games from file-sharing websites such as BitTorrent. ... UPDATE 3-Rogers seals key iPhone deal as profit soars |
Hollywood taking sides in Net neutrality debate Seattle Times, United States - The FCC is investigating Comcast for allegedly blocking some customers from using BitTorrent, a program for sharing large files. ... |
Mininova Downtime Puts BitTorrent Sites Under Pressure TorrentFreak - The popular BitTorrent site mininova has been down for a few hours due to hardware issues. It is expected that the downtime will continue for several hours, ... |
Hollywood Taking Sides in Network Neutrality Debate All About Jazz, PA - The FCC is investigating Comcast, accused of blocking some customers from using BitTorrent, a program for sharing large files. ... |
Sydney Morning Herald | Metallica Changes Its Tune, Finally Decides Web is Good PC World - And while the shutdown of Napster was horrible, it did lead to bigger and better file distribution methods like Bittorrent. With that being known I think ... Metallica may join the free music movement The Best Album You Never Bought 4.29.08: Steal This Column |
Run Your Own Encrypted Decentralized Filesharing Network TorrentFreak - It’s very easy to setup and scale your own decentralized network with BitTorrent-like ’swarming’ capabilities using Alliance, and as the software just ... |
bit-tech.net | uTorrent doubles userbase bit-tech.net, UK - The BitTorrent client uTorrent, on the other hand, has enjoyed a doubling of its installed user base in the same time period. While LimeWire still accounts ... |
Broadcast Engineering | FCC’s Martin says Comcast’s Internet practices need government ... Broadcast Engineering, KS - The cable operator described its network management as a “reasonable choice,” but it also announced in March that it would work with BitTorrent and other ... Senate rejects FCC’s media ownership rules |
Book Authors See BitTorrent As a Promotional Tool TorrentFreak - Authors are becoming less concerned with piracy, and having pirated copies of their books listed on BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay is even ... |
Girlfriend test OS News - Change it to Transmission Bittorrent Client or something similar. OpenOffice Draw in default installation? They would have also seen what works, ... |
Gizmodo | AT&T Accused of Blocking 'Net Traffic PC Magazine - Comcast has subsequently reached an agreement with BitTorrent that calls on Comcast to develop a protocol-agnostic network management policy by year's end. ... AT&T criticizes Vuze Corp for publishing ISP reset findings Azureus/Vuze Says AT&T Is Pulling a Comcast, Resetting Torrents We don't throttle P2P users, says AT&T |
TorrentFreak | uTorrent Marked as Trojan by Avast Anivirus TorrentFreak - Their favorite BitTorrent client was recognized as a trojan by Avast, and deleted form their computers. Attempts to redownload the software from ... |
AT&T To Vuze: We Don't Throttle BitTorrent BroadbandReports.com, NY - Last week P2P client developers Azureus released data they collected from a new Azureus plugin. That plugin detects the total number of network ... |
PhysOrg.com | `GTA IV' expected to sell 9 million copies at launch The Associated Press - LOS ANGELES (AP) — There's no Burger King tie-in or special flavor of Mountain Dew. No commercial directed by Peter Jackson, or even an action figure. ... Grand Theft Auto IV leaked online It has been decided, GTA IV is best on Xbox 360…. No wait! Grand Theft Auto IV Leaked Copies appear on the Internet |
Bad Meat: DVD Talk, OR - I guess BitTorrent would be a better option, but you get my point. Bad Meat is a crackpot comedy of such questionable quality that it makes similar grubby ... |
When Authors Ask Us About the Consequences of "Piracy" O'Reilly Radar, CA - [emphasis added] So long as the royalty checks are strong, take BitTorrent as a sign of success rather than a problem. A wise dog doesn't let his fleas ... |
COMCAST VS. BITTORRENT Buffalo News, United States - Christopher S. Yoo, professor at the University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA — Software whiz Bram Cohen released BitTorrent for free on the Internet in 2002 ... |
Tech Digest | Planex DigiJuke NAS - downloads YouTube and BitTorrent video and ... Tech Digest, UK - The MZK-NAS02SG1T (to give it the full name) is available in Japan, using its DigiJuke browser for searching and tagging BitTorrent and YouTube content you ... |
Canadian Tracker Scheduled For Summer Attack From Media Groups Mashable, CA - Earlier today, we referred you to some findings having to do with global growth of BitTorrent usage. And if you happen to be into technological expansion ... |
Pivotal Canadian BitTorrent Showdown Looming TorrentFreak - In three months time, the Canadian music, movie and TV industries will unleash their combined legal might on a little known BitTorrent tracker. ... |
Usage Of BitTorrent-Owned Client uTorrent Doubles In 12 Months Mashable, CA - Alas, the flow of BitTorrent traffic is ever increasing, with usage rates going up and up. According to data relayed by Ernesto of TorrentFreak, ... |
uTorrent Eclipsing LimeWire in BitTorrent Ap Popularity Downloads ... Dslreports - A shift seems to be taking place in BitTorrent client trends. LimeWire has traditionally been the most-installed BitTorrent application around the world. ... |
TorrentFreak | Filesharing Report Shows Explosive Growth for uTorrent TorrentFreak - The BitTorrent client is most popular in Europe - with an install rate of 11.6% - and least popular in the United States, where 5.1% of the PCs have ... |
AT&T to FCC: 'We Don't Throttle BitTorrent' Zeropaid, CA - Earlier this week I reported how Azureus had finally made the results of its BitTorrent throttling plugin available. Users of the Azureus BitTorrent client ... |
Distributed Debian Distribution Development Advogato - Debtorrent is a modified version of bittorrent that basically first goes and looks to see if there is a debtorrent swarm to download a package from, first. ... |
Multichannel News | AT&T: We don't throttle P2P traffic CNET News.com, CA - The statement came in response to a report released earlier this week (PDF) by Vuze, which offers a BitTorrent-based client primarily used for distributing ... AT&T: We Don't Reset P2P Connections Comcast opens up about how it manages traffic AT&T Denies Resetting P2P Connections |
AT&T: We don't throttle P2P traffic CNET News.com, CA - The statement came in response to a report released earlier this week (PDF) by Vuze, which offers a BitTorrent-based client primarily used for distributing ... |
Big Media Continues to Fight Against Net Neutrality Yahoo! News - In knee-capping BitTorrent, Comcast didn't just block pirated content, but all BitTorrent content, including legitimate un-pirated content such as a file ... |
Grand Theft Auto IV Leaked to BitTorrent Zeropaid, CA - Both the NTSC and PAL versions of Grand Theft Auto IV for the Xbox 360 have been leaked to BitTorrent. This latest Grand Theft Auto epic from Rockstar games ... |
The Pirate Bay - 12 Million Peers and Counting Zeropaid, CA - Despite the entertainment industry's best efforts, the world's largest BitTorrent tracker site continues to grow. Everybody in the BitTorrent community is ... |
Wired News | Test: BBC iPlayer vs BitTorrent Wired News - I pitted the iPlayer against my usual method of watching Brit TV; BitTorrent. Specifically, isohunt.com and the quite excellent software client Transmission ... |
Canada.com | Big Media's "Common Interest" with ISPs -- Use "Piracy" as Smoke ... Huffington Post, NY - In kneecapping BitTorrent, Comcast didn't just block pirated content, but all BitTorrent content, including legitimate un-pirated content such as a file ... FCC Reports Comcast P2P Blocking Was More Widespread FCC Looking into Comcast’s BitTorrent Throttling Surfing without |
P2P site cries traffic shaping foul at Canuck ISP Register, UK - Comcast - America's second largest internet provider - is facing an FCC investigation after using resets to throttle BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer ... |
ZeroPaid Interviews an Operator of WinMXWorld Zeropaid, CA - Positively speaking, this seems to show that even the "old WinMX client" seems to dodge the filters unlike something like BitTorrent. ... |
Opera 9.5 "Kestrel" Browser Gets a Second Beta PC Magazine - Opera is the only well-known Web browser that can double as a BitTorrent client, and beta 2 improves this capability by reducing the CPU drain during a ... |
NewsOXY | Ubuntu 8.04 Released Slashdot - Kant uses BitTorrent because he asserts that one should download such that the protocol for one's download may scale to serve all downloaders ... Ubuntu 8.04 Released Hardy Heron Is Here Ubuntu 8.04 Brings Power and Polish to the Linux Desktop |
TorrentFreak | The Pirate Bay Smashes 12000000 BitTorrent Users TorrentFreak - The notorious Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker has reached yet another milestone as it serves more than 12 million peers. The site is also throwing down a ... |
eFluxMedia | FCC Reports Comcast P2P Blocking Was More Widespread Slashdot - After defending its actions and being investigated by the FCC over the past few months, Comcast has tried to repair its image by making nice with BitTorrent ... FCC Looking into Comcast’s BitTorrent Throttling Surfing without FCC Chief Says Comcast P2P Blocking Was Widespread |
Markets Still Rule in Protocol Issues The Heartland Institute, IL - A big tech policy story in recent weeks was Comcast's announcement that it will stop impeding BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic and instead will ... |
FCC Looking into Comcast’s BitTorrent Throttling ShortNews.com, Germany - FCC Chairman, Chairman Kevin Martin has told a Senate committee that Comcast has been using a “blunt” means of restricting BitTorrent traffic. ... |
Azureus Releases Data from BitTorrent Throttling Plugin Zeropaid, CA - Releases data collected from more than 8000 users to show that Comcast isn't the only interfering with BitTorrent traffic. About a month ago I mentioned how ... |
Subscribe to TV Shows Using BitTorrent on OSX TorrentFreak - Last year TorrentFreak covered the TV-Shows application which allowed the user to subscribe to TV shows using BitTorrent. Sadly, until the software is ... |
E Canada Now | CRTC to debate on Bell's unpopular 'bandwidth throttling' Ottawa Citizen, Canada - Bell blames the congestion on users downloading video and music from peer-to-peer file sharing programs such as BitTorrent and Limewire. ... Study: All Major Broadband Providers Disrupt P2P P2P throttling leading to net neutrality showdown in Canada Canadian CRTC To Tackle Bandwidth Issue |
The BitTorrent guru keeps it legal Metro, Sweden - The 32-year-old New York native revolutionized the internet in 2001 through the development of BitTorrent technology, which makes file sharing fast and ... |
Recruiting Friendly Botnets To Counter Bad Botnets Slashdot - ... using the servers in networks such as Akamai as mailboxes; ultimately they would like to piggyback the good-botnet functionality onto BitTorrent. ... |
Most Popular DVDrips on BitTorrent (wk16) TorrentFreak - The top 10 most downloaded DVDrips on BitTorrent, “The Bank Job” tops the chart this week. We do not link to actual torrent files because linking to files ... |
NewsOXY | Net neutrality battle returns to the US Senate CNET News.com, CA - The saga of Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent file-sharing traffic--and intense interest from the Federal Communications Commission, including a hearing at ... FCC Chair Infers Comcast Blocked, Not Delayed, Data Martin Accuses Comcast of Widespread Throttling FCC's Martin: Comcast Blocking Was Widespread |
CBC.ca | Cogeco ranks poorly in internet interference report CBC.ca, Canada - Internet resets are a commonly used method of traffic shaping and interference with peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, Vuze said. ... Cogeco named in traffic throttling wars Traffic shaping: ‘I am appalled …’ CRTC ‘inundated’ with ‘throttling’ calls, emails. |
FCC Chair Infers Comcast Blocked, Not Delayed, Data PC Magazine - Comcast came under fire last year when an Associated Press article accused the provider of blocking access to P2P Web sites like BitTorrent. ... |
Recruiting Friendly Botnets To Counter Bad Botnets Slashdot - ... using the servers in networks such as Akamai as mailboxes; ultimately they would like to piggyback the good-botnet functionality onto BitTorrent. ... |
dBTechno | Martin Accuses Comcast of Widespread Throttling eWeek, NY - Martin's comments come after two FCC hearings on charges that the nation's largest cable provider deliberately throttles P2P applications like BitTorrent ... Net neutrality battle returns to the US Senate FCC's Martin: Comcast Blocking Was Widespread ISPs Blow Off Stanford Net Neutrality Hearing |
TechRadar.com | Biohazard bassist in BitTorrent rant TechRadar.com, UK - However, Seinfeld’s apparently free-spirited and liberal approach to life doesn’t quite extend into the world of P2P and BitTorrent file-sharing. ... |
To defeat a malicious botnet, build a friendly one New Scientist (subscription), UK - Using the distributed file-sharing system BitTorrent would provide one way of doing that, he adds. "It is a very interesting approach that integrates a ... |
ABC News | FCC's Martin: Comcast Blocking Was Widespread PC World - FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, testifying before a Senate committee, said Comcast's blocking of BitTorrent P-to-P (peer-to-peer) traffic appeared to happen when ... US FCC chief again critiques Comcast network tactics ISPs Blow Off Stanford Net Neutrality Hearing Net Neutrality Hearing at Stanford without Big ISPs |
eFluxMedia | US FCC chief again critiques Comcast network tactics Reuters - Subsequently last month, Comcast announced it would change the way it manages its network and cooperate with BitTorrent and other critics to resolve the ... ISPs Blow Off Stanford Net Neutrality Hearing Net Neutrality Hearing at Stanford without Big ISPs Lessig leads Net Neut charge in Stanford inquisition |
Anti-Piracy Blunder Shuts Down BitTorrent Tracker TorrentFreak - A large BitTorrent tracker dealing only in documentaries has been shutdown after an anti-piracy company wrongfully identified content being tracked by the ... |
Azureus Releases Data From BitTorrent Throttling Plugin As we knew ... Dslreports - While Wikis have been made to track which ISPs throttle BitTorrent traffic, the information has never been all that reliable. ... |
TechRadar.com | Biohazard bassist in BitTorrent rant TechRadar.com, UK - However, Seinfeld’s apparently free-spirited and liberal approach to life doesn’t quite extend into the world of P2P and BitTorrent file-sharing, ... |
Net Neutrality – the Wall Street Journal Got it Wrong NetworkWorld.com, MA - In an April 12th editorial, the Wall Street Journal trumpeted that: "An agreement worked out recently between cable giant Comcast and BitTorrent, ... |
TorrentFreak | BitTorrent Tracker Software “Gazelle” Debuts on What.cd TorrentFreak - After a sneak peak and trial run last month, the what.cd team has finally made a semi-public release of the Gazelle tracker and site software, ... |
How To Download From UseNet For Free Using NZB Files Via ISP Zeropaid, CA - Some today may think, 'well, I use BitTorrent and I get everything I want at max speeds. I don't need anything else!' Well, that may be all fine and true, ... |
Study: BitTorrent sees big growth, LimeWire still #1 P2P app Ars Technica, MA - Gnutella is still the top P2P network, but BitTorrent has been steadily rising. LimeWire still rules the P2P world. It is by far the most popular single P2P ... |
eFluxMedia | ISPs Blow Off Stanford Net Neutrality Hearing Slashdot - FsG writes "Over the past few weeks, more and more Comcast users have reported that their BitTorrent traffic is severely throttled and they are totally ... Net Neutrality Hearing at Stanford without Big ISPs Lessig leads Net Neut charge in Stanford inquisition Cable, Telco Interests Sit Out Net Neutrality Hearing |
eFluxMedia | Comcast, Pando Partner For "P2P Bill of Rights" Slashdot - Last month, Comcast announced that it had reached an agreement with BitTorrent whereby Comcast agreed to alter its network management practices, ... Net Neutrality Hearing at Stanford without Big ISPs Cable, Telco Interests Sit Out Net Neutrality Hearing ISPs Assailed at FCC Hearing |
TorrentFreak | BitTorrent Throttling ISPs Exposed by Azureus TorrentFreak - Data collected by the BitTorrent client Azureus shows that Comcast might only be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to BitTorrent throttling ISPs. ... |
Fedora 9 Linux postponed, but new preview is available Heise Online, Germany - The Fedora Project has released a "preview" version of the Fedora 9 Linux distribution for download via Bittorrent. Shortly beforehand, the Project had ... |
eFluxMedia | Net Neutrality Hearing at Stanford without Big ISPs eFluxMedia - It also launched collaboration with BitTorrent. The two companies have been working together on ways to improve BitTorrent applications for the Comcast ... Cable, Telco Interests Sit Out Net Neutrality Hearing ISPs Assailed at FCC Hearing FCC commissioners hear panelists, public overwhelmingly support ... |
Bell rejects call to curb internet traffic shaping Telecom Paper (subscription), Netherlands - ... objected to the company's use of network-management technology that discriminates against peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent. ... |
Oops! MPAA lawsuit gives free publicity to torrent site Ars Technica, MA - That's not all: two years ago, the MPAA sued BitTorrent, eDonkey, USENET, and TorrentSpy (among others) for making it easy to find and download copyrighted ... |
The Tech Herald | Cable, Telco Interests Sit Out Net Neutrality Hearing Consumer Affairs - It was the discovery that Comcast was blocking access to BitTorrent that reignited the net neutrality debate, leading to lawsuits against the cable giant ... ISPs Assailed at FCC Hearing Tech.view Delivering the bits A One-Sided Net Neutrality |
BitTorrent Super Sunday: A Look at the Past Week's Top DVD-Rips Zeropaid, CA - List of the past week's 10 most popular DVD-rips courtesy of FlixFlux, the popular BitTorrent search engine. It's kind of a slow news day today, ... |
No bad publicity: lawsuits boost BitTorrent use Dallas Morning News, TX - The film industry has filed a number of lawsuits recently, hoping to destroy file sharing sites that ignore copyrights. The strategy has succeeded against ... |
KOMO | ISPs Assailed at FCC Hearing eWeek, NY - Speaker after speaker harangued Comcast for allegedly cracking down on frequent users of BitTorrent, using a technique called "deep packet inspection ... Tech.view Delivering the bits Absent Comcast in hot seat at FCC hearing A One-Sided Net Neutrality |
Freetards fill their boots - music survey Register, UK - ... music is being downloaded as people switch from the flakey post-Napster P2P services such as LimeWire, to the fast and much more reliable BitTorrent. ... In the US, 58% of music isn't paid for NPD's latest internet survey confirms more people steal music than ... |
Security Bites Podcast: What's on your network? CNET News.com, CA - ... Palo Alto Networks found that 90 percent of the sites they looked at had peer-to-peer applications such as eMule and BitTorrent on individual desktops, ... |
MPAA Secretly Tells Court Why BitTorrent Tracking Sites Violate ... Wired News - By David Kravets April 18, 2008 | 6:38:05 PMCategories: BitTorrent The answer to the question of whether BitTorrent tracking sites are legal in the United ... |
TorrentFreak | Private BitTorrent Trackers Under Threat From Major Exploit TorrentFreak - Thousands of private BitTorrent trackers using the popular TBDev code are vulnerable to hostile takeover. According to a security researcher, a successful ... |
E Canada Now | Bell Won't Back Down, Says Traffic Shaping a Must MarketnewsGadgetTalk, Canada - The telecommunications company feels that slowing down P2P and BitTorrent use is necessary in order to improve overall bandwidth performance for all users. ... Ground rules required Bell Canada - We are Overloaded, 33% Capacity Peak is Overloaded Bell rejects call to curb traffic shaping |
Suing Backfires. BitTorrent Traffic Up 24% NewTeeVee, CA - You know those high-profile lawsuits the MPAA are bringing against the Pirate Bay and other BitTorrent sites? Well…they’re kinda helping boost BitTorrent ... |
You'll learn to love mobile TV Register, UK - When I get Desperate Housewives using BitTorrent, I don't get the adverts. Some dedicated seeder has chopped them out. And anyway, when I've downloaded the ... |
KOMO | Tech.view Delivering the bits Economist, UK - Ever since, Comcast has been scrambling to prevent the FCC from rewriting its rules about peer-to-peer (P2P) software like BitTorrent, which is widely used ... A One-Sided Net Neutrality Absent Comcast in hot seat at FCC hearing Will the Internet remain neutral? |
dBTechno | Konami Uses BitTorrent On PS3 With Metal Gear Online dBTechno, MA - Boston (dbTechno) - Konami is using BitTorrent on the PS3 to patch their Metal Gear Online Beta, which was released to the public and made available for ... |
In the US, 58% of music isn't paid for Guardian, UK - This is because of the shift of many users from Limewire to BitTorrent, which makes it easier to download whole albums. One thing hasn't changed: people ... NPD's latest internet survey confirms more people steal music than ... |
Gossip Girl Streams Pulled Off CW's Site Due To, Well, Popularity ... Washington Post, United States - More power to BitTorrent, of course? LAT: The move is designed to boost ratings for the program, which has developed a loyal online following but has failed ... |
Comcast refuses invite Stanford Daily, CA - The hearing came about because of BitTorrent, peer-to-peer software that allows its users to exchange content such as music and video. ... |
FCC convenes at Stanford Stanford Daily, CA - Software quality engineer Robb Topolski, whose initial discovery of Comcast’s methods of blocking access to BitTorrent ignited the net neutrality debate, ... |
Not Many Fireworks in Latest Net Neutrality Debate TMCnet - The ISPs, and Comcast in particular, are under fire for slowing or throttling traffic on their networks, in particular peer-to-peer traffic like BiTTorrent, ... |
KOMO | Absent Comcast in hot seat at FCC hearing CNET News.com, CA - Robb Topolski, the software engineer who ignited controversy around Comcast's disruption of BitTorrent peer-to-peer traffic, was in the spotlight here at ... Comcast Pushes 'P2P Bill Of Rights' BitTorrent Throttling ISPs Exposed by Azureus FCC's Stanford forum highlights key Net neutrality issues |
No Consumer Linux from Novell or Red Hat PC World - Each company independently confirmed this week that you may as well keep those BitTorrent clients running: Neither Red Hat nor Novell has any plans to ... |
BitTorrent Use Up 24% Since November Slashdot - dingalig writes "It looks as though the MPAA's fight against The Pirate Bay and other BitTorrent sites isn't going very well. Ars Technica reports that ... |
KPIC | FCC meets at Stanford on 'network management' San Jose Mercury News, USA - BitTorrent is a company that uses peer to peer technolgy to distribute media files. But many at the meeting pressed the commission to take action against ... FCC Gets an Earful from Open Net Defenders at Stanford FCC weighs dispute over network practices Comcast’s Concession to Net Neutrality |
KIMA CBS 29 | Absent Comcast in hot seat at FCC hearing CNET News.com, CA - Robb Topolski, the software engineer who ignited controversy around Comcast's disruption of BitTorrent peer-to-peer traffic, was in the spotlight here ... FCC meets at Stanford on 'network management' FCC Gets an Earful from Open Net Defenders at Stanford FCC weighs dispute over network practices |
KEPR 19 | FCC Gets an Earful from Open Net Defenders at Stanford Wired News - He also disputes Comcast's defense that it only messes with BitTorrent when the network is congested, saying he recently suffered from insomnia and noticed ... FCC weighs dispute over network practices Comcast’s Concession to Net Neutrality FCC's Stanford forum highlights key Net neutrality issues |
TorrentFreak | Judge Orders Marshall University to Help RIAA Dslreports - In fact, all of the media attention to the RIAA cases as well as other filesharing cases have caused BitTorrent traffic to increase 24% since last November. ... Marshall University loses to the RIAA Purdue University Launches P2P Network to Bypass RIAA |
Ringing up mobile data Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - If you're using your phone as a modem for your notebook then you might want more but, unless you're heavily into multimedia or BitTorrent, 3GB per month ... |
OverTheLimit.info | Ground rules required CanadianBusiness.com, Canada - Chances are, you don't use BitTorrent to download music or video, legally or otherwise. Most people don't, according to the major ISPs. ... Bell rejects call to curb traffic shaping Bell Canada urges regulator to toss out ISP's injunction |
Top 5 BitTorrent Clients for MAC Zeropaid, CA - BitTorrent has really gone mainstream in the last 2-3 years, Mac has a nice list of applications to take advantage of this, some of them are freeware and ... |
Comcast’s Concession to Net Neutrality New York Times, United States - The reason this all is an issue, of course, is that Comcast had been slowing down file transfers that used the BitTorrent protocol, a move that prompted an ... |
BitTorrent use soars as MPAA fights on against P2P sites Ars Technica, MA - Even as the MPA, MPAA, IFPI, and other groups have scored legal victories over torrent sites, BitTorrent use is growing. In fact, average BitTorrent traffic ... |
Pirate Bay launches free-speech blogging service PC Pro, UK - The site will join the group's existing uncensored image sharing site, BayIMG, and the hugely popular BitTorrent search engine, Pirate Bay. ... |
Study: LimeWire remains top P2P software; uTorrent fast-rising #2 Computerworld, MA - LimeWire only recently released an upgrade that lets users search and exchange files via BitTorrent. Finally, like Napster, LimeWire has faced several ... |
Canada lags behind in entertainment access Leader Post, Canada - Even BitTorrent has gotten in on the legal action with its online movie rental store. And whereas downloading pirated video can take hours -- some Internet ... |
KPIC | FCC's Stanford forum highlights key Net neutrality issues San Jose Mercury News, USA - At the center of the FCC discussion is BitTorrent, software that allows its users to trade large files such as music or videos via a peer-to-peer network. ... Comcast’s Concession to Net Neutrality FCC Continues Press for Clarity In Web Providers' Delivery Practices FCC Looks at Network Management |
P2P ISP Filtering Test Published, Labels Deny Ensuing Criticism Zeropaid, CA - eDonkey traffic completely fell off the radar for both vendors while only Ipoque PRX-5G could detect even half of the RC4 encrypted BitTorrent traffic. ... |
Mark Glaser: Journalist, Critic, Facilitator, New Media Expert PBS - Bell Canada started “throttling,” or slowing web access for people using BitTorrent and other file-sharing services, not only slowing their own users’ Net ... |
Comcast’s Concession to Net Neutrality New York Times Blogs, NY - The reason this all is an issue, of course, is that Comcast had been slowing down file transfers that used the BitTorrent protocol, a move that prompted an ... |
KPIC | FCC Continues Press for Clarity In Web Providers' Delivery Practices Wall Street Journal - But his stance changed last year when Comcast was accused of deliberating dropping some traffic by users of file-sharing service BitTorrent, Inc. Consumer ... Comcast Pushes 'P2P Bill Of Rights' Advocacy Groups Skeptical of P-to-P Bill of Rights Idea Comcast Touts New P2P Initiative |
Listen up pirates: Stop stealing Daily Aztec, CA - Using BitTorrent software to pirate music is also illegal. BitTorrent is a protocol that breaks files into much smaller pieces to be distributed between ... |
Forget Comcast's P2P Bill of Rights, how about the rights of couch ... iTWire, Australia - With a growing number of legitimate services using BitTorrent as a distribution tool, customers are entitled to be upset. Still, let's face it, ... |
BitTorrent Tracker Shoots Back at IFPI Volleys DailyTech, IL - Swedish BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay is demanding compensation from the IFPI for a court decision that found the site blocked from customers of the ... |
New Zealand Herald | A P2P bill of rights? Yeah right New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - You'll remember that Comcast, after throttling peer-to-peer traffic on its network for years, came to an agreement with BitTorrent to alter its network ... |
Gizmodo.com | Crestron Home Automation Adds Windows Sideshow Support Gizmodo.com - Not only does it read data, you can even send control information back to Windows to change a song or turn off your BitTorrent downloads because you're ... |
KOMO | Comcast Pushes 'P2P Bill Of Rights' CRN, NY - According to the petitions, Comcast interfered with managing peer-to-peer applications from software providers BitTorrent, which has been called a ... Advocacy Groups Skeptical of P-to-P Bill of Rights Idea Comcast Touts New P2P Initiative A P2P bill of rights? Yeah right |
TorrentFreak | BitTorrent site sues for IFPI compensation over block BetaNews - By Ed Oswald, BetaNews The Pirate Bay has asked a Dutch court to order music industry group IFPI for monetary compensation for a block placed on it by ISP ... The Pirate Bay to Turn Tables, Sue International Music Industry |
Comcast calls for ISP “bill of rights” to protect file sharers ... CrunchGear, NY - Comcast has been in the news for “traffic shaping“, or favoring certain types of traffic over others, notably putting BitTorrent and other P2P traffic on a ... |
MediaShift | Digging Deeper Your Guide to Net Neutrality MediaShift, CA - Bell Canada started “throttling,” or slowing web access for people using BitTorrent and other file-sharing services, not only slowing their own users’ Net ... |
But Why Do We Need A P2P Bill Of Rights In The First Place? Techdirt - Of course, this process started with the relationship with BitTorrent -- which was woefully short on details. This "Bill of Rights" plan is, in some ways, ... |
KIMA CBS 29 | Comcast Touts New P2P Initiative eWeek, NY - By Roy Mark Pando Networks joins BitTorrent as the latest P2P firm to work with the cable giant. If nothing else, Comcast's announcement of its latest new ... Comcast, Pando Partner for 'P2P Bill of Rights' Comcast loves file sharing, honest! Comcast proposes file-sharing 'bill of rights' |
BitTorrent Landscape Shifts (UTorrent's Gain Is Azureus's Loss) Wired News - According to a new study, the Azureus BitTorrent client, which peaked in popularity last March, has been surpassed by uTorrent, which was found on 6.35 ... |
TorrentFreak | The Pirate Bay to Turn Tables, Sue International Music Industry Gizmodo.com - ... essentially, the international RIAA) went to court and got Danish ISP Tele2 to block access to the famous BitTorrent tracker. ... Hip-Hop Artist Refuses To Stand Against The Pirate Bay |
Comcast, Pando call for pact on P2P rights Infoworld, Netherlands - The move comes a few weeks after cable operator Comcast said it would work with P2P software company BitTorrent on network management. ... |
Comcast Adds On File- Sharing Tests And 'P2P Bill Of Rights' Washington Post, United States - A few weeks after Comcast's (NSDQ: CMCSA) non-deal deal with BitTorrent on making the latter's P2P apps run more smoothly for the cable operator's broadband ... |
Comcast loves file sharing, honest! Los Angeles Times, CA - Was it really just a few months ago that Comcast was surreptitiously interfering with BitTorrent uploads? How quickly things change. ... |
CBC.ca | Comcast proposes file-sharing 'bill of rights' CBC.ca, Canada - File-sharing, which uses peer-to-peer (P2P) technology such as BitTorrent, is popular among internet users for swapping copyrighted works such as movies or ... |
MMORPG blog | Gaming News - Eve Online Source Code Hacked and Leaked Overclockers Club, AL - The source code for Eve Online, a popular science-fiction MMORPG, has been leaked onto the Internet by BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay. ... EVE Leak "Grossly" Exaggerated EVE Online Source Code Stolen, Leaked CCP Promises No Security Risks With Leaked Source Code |
dBTechno | Comcast, Pando Partner for 'P2P Bill of Rights' PC Magazine - by Chloe Albanesius On the heels of its arrangement with BitTorrent , Comcast on Tuesday announced that it would partner with Pando Networks to create a P2P ... Comcast loves file sharing, honest! Comcast proposes file-sharing 'bill of rights' Comcast Adds On File- Sharing Tests And 'P2P Bill Of Rights' |
Ditching the boob tube U Weekly, OH - One such offering is turning to BitTorrent, a file-sharing network that’s legal by itself, but most often used to share and distribute illegal copies of ... |
Ars Technica | Comcast to spearhead creation of P2P Bill of Rights Ars Technica, MA - Between this announcement and the recent deal with BitTorrent, Comcast has reversed its tough stance on the issue of network management. ... Comcast, Pando Networks To Analyze Data Flow Using P2P Comcast Proposes 'P2P Bill Of Rights' Comcast and Pando Networks to Lead Creation of 'P2P Bill of Rights ... |
The Pirate Bay targets Big 4’s IFPI p2pnet.net, Canada - And, promises the famous Swedish BitTorrent tracker, if it manages a win, the money will go to independent artists who share their music for free. ... |
YouTorrent shifts policy and goes up for sale Afterdawn.com - Since its launch in early January, YouTorrent has become one of the most, if not the most, popular BitTorrent search engines. The site, which claims it is ... TorrentFreak’s Top 10 YouTorrent Alternatives YouTorrent Goes Legal, and Up For Sale |
The Bandwidth Conundrum PC Magazine - Understanding this phenomenon, by the way, is the reason BitTorrent was invented and has become one of the few useful download methodologies in an ... |
Popular BitTorrent site goes legit, looks for buyer BetaNews - The indexer only launched in early January, but it has quickly become one of the Web's most visited BitTorrent sites. According to the company, ... |
TechRadar.com | Thanks to the Internet, stealing is easy TechRadar.com, UK - But the real P2P revolution was the introduction of the BitTorrent protocol. This splits files into identical pieces from 64KB to 1MB in size, ... |
Popular BitTorrent goes legit, looks for buyer BetaNews - The indexer only launched in early January, but it has quickly become one of the Web's most visited BitTorrent sites. According to the company, ... |
Targeted P2P? TMCnet - In fact, the whole idea behind SafeMedia's technology is to allow legal BitTorrent applications to operate while possibly-dangerous and certainly unknown ... International Computer Staffing and Consulting Company Selects ... |
YouTorrent: 2 Legit and Quit? NewTeeVee, CA - BitTorrent meta-search engine YouTorrent is going legit and will only index sites that source legal torrent files from now on, according to TorrentFreak. ... YouTorrent On The Market, Switches To Legal Torrents YouTorrent Goes Legit, Looks To Cash In |
BitTorrent Search Engine Kicks Out The Pirates. What's It Worth? Silicon Alley Insider, NY - Search-engine-for-BitTorrent downloads YouTorrent is about to find out. YouTorrent, which indexed a handful of illegal torrent sites and let users search ... |
E Canada Now | Internet service providers cry foul Telegraph-Journal, Canada - One main target is peer-to-peer file transfer such as BitTorrent, used to transfer files such as music and video. Tom Copeland, chairman of the Canadian ... More Bell Canada misinformation and misdirection in attempt to ... Canadian CAIP Cries Internet Foul Threat to computers overstated: cyber-security firm |
Digital-Lifestyles.Info | Demonoid BitTorrent Tracker Returns Digital-Lifestyles.Info, UK - This latest resurrection continues the cat and mouse battle between the BitTorrent trackers and The Man, with their attempts to block Canadian users failing ... |
SlashGear | SlashGear Week in Review - April 7th through April 13th SlashGear, AZ - For starters we have a new BitTorrent Set Top Box from Myka, no more will you have to waste power by leaving your entire computer running all night just to ... |
YouTorrent On The Market, Switches To Legal Torrents TechCrunch, CA - YouTorrent, the bittorrent meta search engine we wrote about in January, is on the market and has switched to legal torrents only. ... |
YouTorrent Goes Legit, Looks To Cash In Mashable, CA - YouTorrent, which popped up in the BitTorrent scene a scant four months ago, has decided to go wholly legit with its linkage - and possibly even sell itself ... |
YouTorrent Goes Legal, and Up For Sale TorrentFreak - In just a matter of weeks since its launch, YouTorrent has become one of the most popular BitTorrent meta-search engines. This weekend, however, it revealed ... |
Demonoid is Back DailyTech, IL - ... to prevent its takedown in November, and the site’s BitTorrent tracker reappeared briefly in Malaysia around January before disappearing once more. ... |
Infamous Bittorrent tracker Demonoid dances again TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - By Triston McIntyre There’sa dance-off on the internet, and its between big name torrent trackers and the media protection groups. Demonoid, once one of the ... |
TechShout! | BitTorrent site Demonoid is back online, once again! TechShout!, India - BitTorrent users all over the world have a reason to rejoice! Demonoid, one of the most popular BitTorrent website, is back online. ... |
After Rocky Stint Around The Globe, Demonoid Reappears Mashable, CA - Back in November of last year, the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) pressured Demonoid, a popular BitTorrent tracker site, into shutting down. ... Demonoid's Back Online! |
An Alternative to 'Net Neutrality' Wall Street Journal - An agreement worked out recently between cable giant Comcast and BitTorrent, the creator of a popular file-sharing program, offers a private-sector ... ISPs Say P4P Negates Need for Net Neutrality Regs |
Demonoid's Back Online! Zeropaid, CA - After a long hiatus, one of the BitTorrent community's most beloved tracker sites rises back from the dead. Earlier today I reported how Deimos, ... |
p2pnet.net | Demonoid Is Back Online TorrentFreak - Yesterday, we reported that the popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid was to be resurrected, under a new administrator. Now, less that a day later the site ... Demonoid To Be Resurrected Under New Admin Demonoid Tracker Is Back Online |
Exclaim! | CBC Becomes the First TV Network in North America to Release a ... Exclaim!, Canada - ... made a small bit of history recently when it released an episode of Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister through the BitTorrent file-sharing network. ... |
Exclaim! | Bell Canada Begins Throttling BitTorrent Traffic Exclaim!, Canada - (Throttling is exactly what you think it is: the deliberate slowing down of your connection when using bittorrent and other peer-to-peer file sharing ... |
SlashGear | Myka - the set top box for those with lower moral standards SlashGear, AZ - After you get everything setup and connected, simply point the BitTorrent client to a torrent file and you are off and running filling up your 80, 160, ... |
Wired News | Myka: One Set Top Box To Rule Them All? Wired News - The Myka is a set-top BitTorrent device which dispenses with proprietary technology in favor of open standards. Unlike vendor-specific hardware like Apple ... |
Is Content Worthless? Huffington Post, NY - No need, when YouTube and BitTorrent make videos, and pirated movies and TV, free for the asking. Subscribe to a newspaper or magazine? ... Does Premium Viral Content Exist? |
OverTheLimit.info | Traffic throttling must cease 24 Hours Vancouver, Canada - For example, CBC's show Canada's Next Great Prime Minister, was offered to viewers via BitTorrent for download: CBC is one of the first broadcasters to do ... Traffic Shaping a la Bell Independent Internet Providers Take Bell to Task Pressure Grows For True Internet Neutrality |
Netgear Expands Wireless-N Networking Products Smart House, Australia - To ensure the best-possible experience for users who access movies, music, TV shows, games and software through their BitTorrent subscriptions, ... Photo Gallery: Netgear sets sail with Wireless-N range |
Demonoid To Be Resurrected Under New Admin TorrentFreak - It’s great news for the BitTorrent community that the future of Demonoid is in trusted hands and for some, quite a surprise after such a wait. ... |
TechRadar.com | Does the Internet Need More Roads or Better Traffic Signals? GigaOm, CA - Comcast throttling BitTorrent traffic as a way to protect network integrity (or so it says) is one example. Another can be found in the arguments of a ... P2P Tests Show Speed Boost on Cable, Telco Networks Pando Field Test Results Attract Cable and Telco Ops to P2P ‘Good ... |
A short history of cable and telephone companies pushing for more ... Sacramento News & Review, CA - Comcast was caught blocking BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer Internet services by cybersleuths last fall, and on November 1, 2008, Free Press formally ... |
BBC Radio Offers New Who Episode Commentary Wired News - But, it's not likely to set off a global piracy war to assume most American fans of the show caught up with The Doctor via Bittorrent, Limewire or ... |
Net neutrality debate hampers Sandvine Waterloo Record, Canada - Critics suggest Comcast is interfering with traffic on its networks, particularly file sharing that originates on sites like BitTorrent. ... Sandvine slides into the red Sandvine swings to Q1 net loss as sales decline; reiterates 2008 ... Sandvine Welcomes New Board Member |
Tubin’! Sen. Stevens Back on Net Neutrality NewTeeVee, CA - But given revelations that Comcast blocked BitTorrent traffic and is now angling to throttle heavy web users, while Road Runner, Charter and Cox already ... ACA Chairman Says HDTV Exemption Gets To Root Of Capacity Issue |
Comcast, BitTorrent Reach Throttling Agreement eWeek, NY - LOS ANGELES—The agreement between Comcast and BitTorrent to resolve issues involving the throttling of P2P traffic may end a government investigation into ... |
Comcast to Modify Network Practices eWeek, NY - The cable giant has been accused by consumer groups of blocking some file-sharing services, such as BitTorrent, that distribute TV shows and movies on the ... |
Comcast’s true speeds and the BitTorrent deal ZDNet - We also talked about the Comcast-BitTorrent deal – and btw, George will be on one of the panels at next week’s FCC hearing at Stanford. ... |
Breaking the Internet video gridlock Telecommunications Magazine, MA - A BitTorrent request might result in hundreds or even thousands of answers pushing content toward the end user. GridNetworks’s technology selects from only ... |
Rogers Continues to Throttle BitTorrent Traffic, Despite ... TorrentFreak - The problem is, however, that Rogers continues to throttle BitTorrent traffic, so most BitTorrent users will never reach their quota anyway. ... |
How ISPs throttle legitimate internet users like you and me Guardian, UK - In Canada, the national telco, Bell Canada, is doing one better: it is simply throwing away some or all of the BitTorrent packets generated by its customers ... |
How ISPs throttle legitimate internet users like you and me Guardian, UK - In Canada, the national telco, Bell Canada, is doing one better: it is simply throwing away some or all of the BitTorrent packets generated by its customers ... |
'Throttling' Net Traffic TheTyee.ca, Canada - They do it, they say, because practices like BitTorrent's peer-to-peer file sharing protocol clog their networks, reducing speed for other customers. ... |
Rush to judgment: Comcast not blocking web traffic after all Ars Technica, MA - Instead of giving up the practice of using TCP reset packets to manage BitTorrent traffic, it appeared that Comcast was doing the opposite: extending it to ... |
BitTorrent President Slams Comcast Critics Appscout, NY - BitTorrent on Tuesday shot down suggestions that Comcast would not follow through with its recent promise to work with the file-sharing site and overhaul ... |
BitTorrent: FCC Needs to Look at Other ISPs Extreme Tech - By Chloe Albanesius BitTorrent on Tuesday shot down suggestions that Comcast would not follow through with its recent promise to work with the file-sharing ... |
Full Disclosure Is Key to Good Internet Rules screenplays magazine, CO - Hence, in peak periods Comcast (and no doubt other SPs) has taken to throttling back high-volume peer-to-peer traffic from BitTorrent, Vuse and other ... |
Mac HTPC | AppleTV on your Mac Update Mac HTPC - If you miss it and you’re dying to try it out you’ll probably have to acquire the software via IRC or BitTorrent. The software works by replacing your Front ... WWDC 2008: Switch on that reality distortion field, Steve |
University of Colorado Researchers Retract Claims Updated ... Dslreports - The researchers claim this broader approach now impacts far more than just BitTorrent traffic, and can now impact e-mail or web browsing: Surprisingly, ... Comcast Blocks Web Browsing |
BitComet Reaches Milestone with v1.00 TorrentFreak - BitComet has come a long way, and despite its (unfounded) image as the BitTorrent bully, it remains popular among BitTorrent users. ... |
Comcast goes after its own subscribers again TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - By Leslie Poston Busted for throttling BitTorrent users and raked over the coals by the FCC, Comcast recently switched tactics. This seemingly random act of ... |
CNET News.com | How do you sell free products? Times Online, UK - He’s got loads more films stored on Sky+ box, another 40 stored on his Media Centre PC downloaded from BitTorrent, and his flatmate is a customer of ... Amazon Accelerates Its Move to Digital |
Is My ISP Throttling BitTorrent? Test Your Connection Online Zeropaid, CA - Research institute creates a BitTorrent-like transfer between your machine and its server, and determines whether or not your ISP is limiting such traffic. ... |
NewsOXY | Comcast Blocks Web Browsing Slashdot - One has to hope this isn't the congestion management system they are touting as no longer targeting BitTorrent, which they are deploying in reaction to the ... Comcast Moves Into Faster Lane With High-End Broadband Service Comcast Debuts Fastest Internet High-Speed Fiber Awash In War of Words |
Comcast to change the way it manages Internet traffic Broadcast Engineering, KS - The change was part of a recent announcement by Comcast that it had been working with BitTorrent on ways to optimize the company’s applications for the ... |
Comcast Blocks Web Browsing Slashdot - One has to hope this isn't the congestion management system they are touting as no longer targeting BitTorrent, which they are deploying in reaction to the ... |
P2P site calls for ISP rules TechRadar.com, UK - Comcast's decision to work with BitTorrent Inc to ease criticism over their controversial traffic-shaping has stirred up debate from other peer to peer ... |
Comcast and BitTorrent confirm rumors Daily Vidette, IL - Last week, after months of build-up, accusations and denials, cable giant Comcast and the peer-to-peer network BitTorrent announced a deal that would ... |
Internet Irony: Amazon Getting Disrupted By Apple, BitTorrent ... Silicon Alley Insider, NY - A decade after Amazon's explosive entrance into book and music retailing dented big retailers and put smaller ones out of business, Amazon is getting a ... |
TorrentFreak | BitTorrent Tracker Sends Takedown Request to Torrent Indexers TorrentFreak - After being spammed with takedown request from several companies, ELiTE-TEAM, a French private BitTorrent tracker recently asked several torrent indexers to ... |
Online video's growth spells data tidal wave Bloomington Pantagraph, USA - By Bob Fernandez PHILADELPHIA -- Software whiz Bram Cohen released BitTorrent for free on the Internet in 2002 so his hippie friends could swap concert ... |
Web Filters Prove Less Effective Than MPAA, RIAA Might Like Mashable, CA - According to the statistics gathered in the SNEP-Internet Evolution trial, Arbor “wasn’t able to detect BitTorrent traffic with strong RC4 encryption. ... Study Shows: P2P Filters Can Be Easily Circumvented |
A smart way to download dumb videos Jerusalem Post, Israel - Users of the system who were trying to download video files via BitTorrent networks noticed that things weren't running as quickly as they were supposed to, ... |
Study Shows: P2P Filters Can Be Easily Circumvented NewTeeVee, CA - The data show why: Both appliances were able to detect and regulate BitTorrent as well as other common P2P protocols in real time, with detection rates for ... |
ImageShack Testing Free BitTorrent Download Service Hard OCP, TX - Popular free image host ImageShack is looking to expand their footprint and is currently beta-testing a new torrent download service. ... |
TorrentFreak | ImageShack Starts Free BitTorrent Download Service TorrentFreak - The popular media hosting website ImageShack just launched a new service that lets you download torrent files onto their servers. ... |
ISPs Using "Deep Packet Inspection" on 100000 Users Slashdot - Comcast already has ways to throttle Bittorrent. If they are doing deep packet inspection, I would think that they would know down to the data block what ... ISPs Using "Deep Packet Inspection" on 100000 Users |
Pirate Bay Alternative Provides DRM-Free Movie Downloads An ... Dslreports - Say the phrase “Swedish BitTorrent” and people will automatically assume that you’re talking about The Pirate Bay. However, a new company in the country ... Legal and DRM-free Movie Torrents from Sweden |
CBC News | CRTC asked to stop Bell's 'throttling' Toronto Star, Canada - The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. recently said it would make an episode of Canada's Next Great Prime Minister available on BitTorrent as part of an ... Canadians debating net neutrality in wake of Bell throttling ISPs go on offence in speed battle with Bell Bell Canada takes heat from clients |
Scientific American | Clarification: Faster Internet Story The Associated Press - The Philadelphia-based company agreed last Thursday to collaborate with BitTorrent Inc. and develop a better system for managing congestion. ... Comcast Offers Superfast Internet Comcast opens up super-speedy Internet What's Up? DOCSIS: Comcast Launches Higher-Speed Internet |
Legal and DRM-free Movie Torrents from Sweden TorrentFreak - For most people, Sweden and BitTorrent equals The Pirate Bay. There is more though, Headweb, a new online movie store now offers over 500 authorized and ... |
IEEE Spectrum | Pirates vs. Ninjas: Marketing in P2P Environments ClickZ News, NY - Recent studies show that upwards of 50 percent of all BitTorrent (define) downloads at any given time are for TV content. Almost 25 percent are for ... Europe Looks for a Peer-to-Peer TV Alternative |
What Comcast/Bittorrent Actually Means: Bittorrent Selling Hardware Techdirt - Comcast's decision to collaborate with Bittorrent, Inc. attracted a predictably huge amount of attention and analysis. But surprisingly little of it has ... |
DailyTech | Comcast VP Defends "Blocking," Lashes Out at FCC Chairman DailyTech, IL - For the benefit of our customers, it is essential that the migration be appropriately timed, a reality that BitTorrent and numerous commentators acknowledge ... |
NBC's "Friday Night Lights" DirecTV Deal: Big Win For BitTorrent Silicon Alley Insider, NY - ... get to go back to Dillon, Texas (a non-starter); subscribe to DirecTV (a hassle, and costly); or familiarize themselves with Bittorrent (cheap and free. ... |
Scientific American | Comcast Offers Superfast Internet NewsFactor Network, CA - Comcast's service in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area uses DOCSIS 3.0 and comes just a week after Comcast promised to work with BitTorrent on P2P traffic. ... What's Up? DOCSIS: Comcast Launches Higher-Speed Internet Comcast opens up super-speedy Internet Comcast Initiates New High-Speed Service |
Comcast VP calls out FCC Chair for comments on P2P blocking Ars Technica, MA - Meanwhile, Vuze has also filed with the Commission, warning that whatever arrangements Comcast and BitTorrent make, the agency still has to set rules for ... Comcast and Verizon: Foxhole conversions? |
Comcast Offers 50 Mbps Residential Speeds Slashdot - We've recently discussed Comcast's BitTorrent throttling and promise to quit it, and their low-quality 'HD' programming. How attractive will $150 for 50 ... Comcast HD quality suffers under compression Comcast Defends Low Quality HD Signal 'We will work towards ... Comcast swaps HD quality for quantity |
PSP site calls for ISP rules TechRadar.com, UK - Comcast's decision to work with BitTorrent inc. to ease criticism over their controversial traffic shaping has stirred up debate from other peer to peer ... |
Scientific American | What's Up? DOCSIS: Comcast Launches Higher-Speed Internet Broadcasting & Cable, NY - By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/2/2008 7:33:00 PM One week after announcing that it would work with BitTorrent on ways to better manage Internet ... Comcast Plans Faster Net Speeds Comcast Debuts ‘Wideband’ in Twin Cities Turbocharged connection |
5 Ways to Test If Your ISP Throttles P2P NewTeeVee, CA - Or maybe you’re having problems with BitTorrent’s new streaming service, which just doesn’t seem to work on your system? There’sa good chance your ISP is at ... |
What is BitTorrent? A Beginner's Guide Zeropaid, CA - Many people are still unaware of what exactly BitTorrent is or what it does. BitTorrent is a P2P protocol, or method, that allows people to share data much ... |
File sharing: to fight or accommodate? Los Angeles Times, CA - The file-sharing protocol of choice these days is BitTorrent, which enables people to download multiple pieces of a digital work simultaneously from ... Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other? |
InteractiveTV Today [itvt] | [itvt] Radio - BitTorrent President, Ashwin Navin, on the Company ... InteractiveTV Today [itvt], CA - ... co-founder and president of peer-to-peer technology provider, BitTorrent, discusses that company’s recently announced agreement with Comcast, ... |
NewsOXY | What's Up? DOCSIS: Comcast Launches Higher-Speed Internet Broadcasting & Cable, NY - By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/2/2008 3:33:00 PM A Week after announcing it would work with BitTorrent on ways to better manage Internet ... Comcast Plans Faster Net Speeds Comcast Debuts ‘Wideband’ in Twin Cities Turbocharged connection |
IEEE Spectrum | Europe Looks for a Peer-to-Peer TV Alternative IEEE Spectrum, NY - BitTorrent, widely used today for downloading TV shows from the Internet, is designed to distribute large amounts of data without the original distributor ... |
BitTorrent Throttling: Interview With Gemini Project TorrentFreak - When it was first revealed that Comcast had been using hacker techniques to limit the effectiveness of BitTorrent traffic, there was quite an uproar and ... |
The Beauty of Not Asking Permission E-Commerce Times - Months ago, in fact, The Associated Press caught Comcast throttling back on BitTorrent traffic. Now, the ISP says it will work with BitTorrent, Inc., ... Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit |
Comcast revises history, meddles disingenuously Yale Daily News, CT - As early as August of last year, reports that Comcast had been actively interfering with the popular peer-to-peer file sharing protocol BitTorrent began to ... |
Comcast and BitTorrent make nice FierceIPTV, DC - Comcast and BitTorrent Inc. last week agreed to bury the hatchet and work together to try and make BitTorrent software run more smoothly on Comcast's ... |
Comcast acquires BitTorrent for $53bn Register, UK - By Cade Metz in San Francisco → More by this author Exclusive Just hours after acquiring BitTorrent Incorporated for $53bn in cash and stock, ... |
TorrentFreak | Don’t Be a BitTorrent Fool Today TorrentFreak - It isn’t just on April Fool’s Day that people will be tricked into paying money for otherwise free BitTorrent related stuff on the internet. ... |
File sharing: to fight or accommodate? Los Angeles Times, CA - The file-sharing protocol of choice these days is BitTorrent, which enables people to download multiple pieces of a digital work simultaneously from ... Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other? Virgin Internet to trial piracy tracking in UK Virgin Media Will be the First UK ISP to Disconnect Illegal File ... |
The fit over 'Fitna Jerusalem Post, Israel - There are plenty of files legally available for Bittorrent protocol users; you can find a nice list of sources for such files at http://www.newsbittorrent.com/cgi-bin/go/10016. ... |
Comcast’s Blurry High Definition Picture New York Times, United States - By Saul Hansell Not only has Comcast been slowing down Internet users exchanging files with the BitTorrent protocol, it has been quietly reducing the ... |
Canadian union decries ISP bandwidth issues Hollywood Reporter, United States - The union said attempts by online users to upload the CBC TV show "Canada's Next Great Prime Minister" from BitTorrent were greatly slowed by ISPs, ... How Bell and CBC Ignited Network Neutrality Debate in Canada |