Will BitTorrent Sites Become Obsolete? TorrentFreak - Researchers from several Universities are currently working on a search technology that could make BitTorrent sites obsolete. While the idea of a completely ... |
Archivos May 2008
MediaDefender Defends Revision3 SYN Attack Wired News - By David Kravets May 31, 2008 | 4:55:37 PMCategories: BitTorrent When MediaDefender rained down an attack of some 8000 SYN packets a second on an open ... |
eFluxMedia | Revision3, MediaDefender, and The BitTorrent War Blogcritics.org, OH - Because they provide video in high definition, which requires a lot of bandwidth, they use BitTorrent as one distribution mechanism for their shows. ... MediaDefender Defends Revision3 SYN Attack MediaDefender's BitTorrent-Based DOS Takes Down Revision3 Revision3 Denial Of Service Attack Traced To Anti-Piracy Company |
Former OiNK User Arrested by UK Police Zeropaid, CA - Alleged to have uploaded a single pre-release album to the music-oriented BitTorrent tracker site back in early 2007. OiNK, the fabled and long shuttered ... |
Copyright Police unhinged: When security firms attack Blogger News Network - The website Revision3, which uses a Bittorrent to download it’s perfectly legal TV programs, has itself been the target of a “denial of service” attack by ... |
NewsOXY | The FCC hearing brought together a number of disparate interest ... NewsOXY, FL - Most speakers argued that Comcast service practices on frequent users of BitTorrent cause inbound connections to disconnect during midstream from computers. ... |
What the DOS Attack Against Revision3 Was Really About NewTeeVee, CA - The company uses BitTorrent to serve its own legal content and shouldn’t have been targeted by Mediadefender in the first place. It’s good vs. evil, ... |
Productivity, piracy and you: Or, how much sense does this make? CrunchGear, NY - I’ll divide this into two parts: helping make the most of your BitTorrent experience, and doing that Usenet thing as painlessly as possible… while you still ... |
Tools To Test Your ISP For BitTorrent Shenanigans Dslreports - Most recently came the Glasnost Project, a more sophisticated test that uses multiple criteria before accusing an ISP of interfering with BitTorrent traffic ... |
PC World | Revision3's Servers Knocked Offline by Copyright Cop PC World - Revision3 uses the BitTorrent peer-to-peer model to distribute its video files, which are often HD-quality and larger in size. This saves money on its end ... |
Media Defender Is Accused Of Illegally DDoS’ing Revision 3 Security Pronews, KY - Media Defender is accused of illegally DDoS'ing Revision 3, a media delivery company, because a back door to their bittorrent tracker was shut down. ... |
MediaDefender attacks Revision3 site, FBI involved BetaNews - Their claim is that the BitTorrent tracking server they had targeted had an open backdoor which allowed MediaDefender to host torrents pointing to ... |
Bloomington Pantagraph | Hackers Down Comcast.net — Payback for BitTorrent Woes? Geek.com - ... have just been hacked for the LULS, but some are theorizing that this was done as payback for Comcast’s repeated attempts to throttle BitTorrent users. ... Comcast Hacked in BitTorrent Throttling Payback? Comcast portal for Internet customers hacked The Night Comcast Internet Was Lost Like Jeremy Bentham |
For seeding a single album, arrests made in OiNK BitTorrent ... CrunchGear, NY - A former OiNK user was arrested last week, TorrentFreak has learnt. The user, who was not identified, was later released on bail. More arrests are expected. ... |
Digitaltrends.com | Anti-Piracy Company Launches DoS Attack? Digitaltrends.com, OR - Louderback has pointed out that Revision3 uses the BitTorrent protocol for its media, and the BitTorrent protocol has been generally classed as a bad boy ... |
Popcorn Hour A-100 Media Streamer Washington Post, United States - MKS and ISO are favored formats for file-swappers trading high-def movie rips, and the BitTorrent client makes it easy to download movies directly to the ... |
Security alarmism helps the bad guys win TechRepublic, KY - The example of the Napster case set the stage for the eventual attacks on BitTorrent trackers and, while BitTorrent itself is not designed particularly with ... |
Half Life Source | FCC: FCC Hearing Speakers Lash Out at Comcast Half Life Source, FL - Most speakers argued that Comcast service practices on frequent users of BitTorrent cause inbound connections to disconnect during midstream from computers. ... |
B2B Cyber Attacks About - News & Issues, NY - To coordinate delivery of its shows to subscribers, Revision3 runs a Bittorrent tracker. Enter MediaDefender - which claims to be a P2P anti-piracy and ... |
Comcast portal for Internet customers hacked Milwaukee Business Journal, WI - Comcast and BitTorrent agreed in late March to work together to solve traffic-management issues that BitTorrent users create when they share large files ... |
ReadWriteWeb | MediaDefender Behind the Attack on Revision3 ReadWriteWeb, CA - They're the ones seeding BitTorrent with fake files - a tactic they hope will make filesharing appear to be too much of a hassle and therefore not worth the ... |
MediaDefender's BitTorrent-Based DOS Takes Down Revision3 Slashdot - Now 700MB of MediaDefender's internal emails from the last 6 months have been leaked onto BitTorrent trackers. The emails detail their entire plan, ... |
Media police assault takes down legit video website Register, UK - By Dan Goodin in San Francisco → More by this author BitTorrent watchdog MediaDefender is once again taking heat after it was accused of launching a ... |
Revision3 Denial Of Service Attack Traced To Anti-Piracy Company InformationWeek, NY - Revision3 uses BitTorrent, a popular peer-to-peer protocol, to efficiently distribute its content. MediaDefender, Louderback notes, gets paid to disrupt ... |
Collateral damage in the war on piracy CNET News, CA - Revision3 happened to use a BitTorrent tracker for perfectly legitimate content distribution. But BitTorrent has also figured in unauthorized sharing of ... |
eFluxMedia | MediaDefender's BitTorrent-Based DOS Takes Down Revision3 Slashdot - Now 700MB of MediaDefender's internal emails from the last 6 months have been leaked onto BitTorrent trackers. The emails detail their entire plan, ... Revision3, MediaDefender, and The BitTorrent War MediaDefender Defends Revision3 SYN Attack Revision3 Denial Of Service Attack Traced To Anti-Piracy Company |
Remind me again — what color hats do the bad guys wear? Good Morning Silicon Valley, CA - The shows are distributed from the site on several platforms, including BitTorrent. Over the Memorial Day weekend, Revision3 was slammed by a ... |
Usher's album illegally downloaded 500000 times Ireland Online, Ireland - The album and individual leaked tracks were downloaded a total of 554716 times via BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing application, alone. |
Comcast Vows ‘Protocol Agnostic’ Approach TV Technology, VA - Its executives in March joined long-term nemesis BitTorrent in announcing a “collaborative effort” to manage traffic more efficiently, on a “protocol ... |
Comcast hack: Just a generic attack or BitTorrent revenge? ZDNet - The big question: Was Comcast just a big target or was this a BitTorrent revenge attack as some folks have speculated? If you recall, Comcast had drawn some ... |
Comcast’s DNS records hijacked, redirect to hacked page ZDNet Blogs - For a couple of hours yesterday, Comcast’s Internet Portal (comcast.net) had its DNS records hijacked and a defaced web page was loading from third-party ... |
Corporate Black-Hats 'Attack' Revision3 PC Magazine - This means that they find innocent third parties, without those companies' knowledge or permission, and direct massive amounts of BitTorrent traffic to ... |
Anti-piracy efforts blamed for crash of popular Internet TV network Los Angeles Times, CA - That's because the overwhelming flood of requests to connect to Revision3's network were fielded by a company computer that was using the BitTorrent ... |
E Canada Now | Comcast Hacked in BitTorrent Throttling Payback? TorrentFreak - It has become apparent during the last few hours that Comcast, everyone’s favorite ISP (especially in the BitTorrent world) has been hacked. ... Comcast portal for Internet customers hacked The Night Comcast Internet Was Lost Like Jeremy Bentham Comcast Hackers Fess Up, Remain at Large |
Revision3 Sends FBI after MediaDefender TorrentFreak - He found out that MediaDefender used the Revision3 BitTorrent tracker for the fake torrents they upload to various BitTorrent sites. ... |
Mvix MX-780HD Media Streamer Washington Post, United States - Many users cite the convenience of archiving their DVD collections on it, and BitTorrent download capability is rumored to be coming via a future firmware ... |
Popcorn Hour A-100 Media Streamer Washington Post, United States - MKS and ISO are favored formats for file-swappers trading high-def movie rips, and the BitTorrent client makes it easy to download movies directly to the ... |
Mvix MX-780HD Media Streamer PC World - Many users cite the convenience of archiving their DVD collections on it, and BitTorrent download capability is rumored to be coming via a future firmware ... MediaGate MG-450HD |
Popcorn Hour A-100 Media Streamer PC World - MKS and ISO are favored formats for file-swappers trading high-def movie rips, and the BitTorrent client makes it easy to download movies directly to the ... |
Usher's Album Illegally Downloaded 1/2 Million Times Showbiz Spy, UK - The album and individual leaked tracks were downloaded a total of 554716 times via BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing application, alone. |
Half Life Source | Technology: FCC Hearing Speakers Lash Out at Comcast Half Life Source - Most speakers argued that Comcast service practices on frequent users of BitTorrent cause inbound connections to disconnect during midstream from computers. ... Technology: Comcast partners with Pando P2P file sharing company Technology: Comcast Network Practices Questioned by FCC Tech: Comcast Unveils P2P Bill of Rights to Cheers and Jeers |
Orb Opens iPhones - No More iTunes Jail NewsBlaze, CA - Orb's new OrbLive iPhone application enables users to enjoy content in any video format -- downloaded BitTorrent files, TiVo-to-Go files, DivX, Mov, MP4, ... Analyst: Apple boosting iPod orders |
DigitalJournal.com | Canadian MP Announces Net Neutrality Bill During 300 Person Strong ... Zeropaid, CA - A lot of the controversies surrounded the throttling of BitTorrent - one common occurrence was the throttling of the BitTorrent download of a CBC released ... NDP to introduce 'net neutrality' private member's bill |
What.CD, SumoTracker, BTMon, and FullDls Targeted by CRIA Zeropaid, CA - MoxioColo, the ISP for each of the BitTorrent tracker sites, was recently served with cease and desist orders. It looks like things are heating up again in ... |
What.cd, other BitTorrent trackers ordered shut by Canadian ... CrunchGear, NY - There’sa bit of a scare going around the BitTorrent community today, with word that the Canadian Recording Industry Association has “ordered” the closure of ... |
BitTorrent, Orb Partnership Makes Downloads Available on Any ... Zeropaid, CA - Orb's media center application now streams BitTorrent downloads and online content to any other Internet-connected device like an iPhone, TV, ... |
CRIA Orders ShutDown of What.cd, Other Major BitTorrent Trackers TorrentFreak - A company which hosts many BitTorrent trackers has been ordered by the CRIA to close at least four major sites. MoxieColo was issued with cease and desist ... |
International copyright talks seek BitTorrent-killer laws Register, UK - By Chris Williams → More by this author A new international trade agreement could seek to strengthen criminal sanctions against BitTorrent tracker sites ... Music and film industry to get police force |
eFluxMedia | Online Music Pirate Meets Jailers…Others Will Follow eFluxMedia - In May last year, Chan Nai-ming was found guilty of distributing three Hollywood films by a BitTorrent client. He lost his appeal and was jailed for three ... |
Music and film industry to get police force Inquirer, UK - By Nick Farrell: Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 9:45 AM A TOP-SECRET DEAL being ironed out by G8 nations will give the Music and film industry a state-paid force of ... |
TorrentFreak | Mininova, 5 Billion Downloads and Counting TorrentFreak - Mininova is currently the most visited BitTorrent site, and with approximately 3.5 million visitors a day, the site has gathered a spot among the 50 most ... |
Half empty or half full? Globe and Mail, Canada - ... provides less instant gratification than downloading a movie or TV show of dubious provenance using BitTorrent: How can a store stocked with a small ... |
BitTorrent Tracker Insider Infiltrates Anti-Piracy Lobby TorrentFreak - Anti-piracy oufits have gained access to private BitTorrent trackers before, but the opposite has never happened, until now. Over the past few weeks, ... |
BC man who runs popular file-sharing website targeted in Hollywood ... The Canadian Press, VANCOUVER - BitTorrent works differently than other popular file sharing methods. Users download a small file - called a torrent - connecting them to a tracker, ... |
TV becomes social again BBC News, UK - PVRS, video on demand, BitTorrent, digital download stores, DVD box sets have all helped to fracture the common viewing experience. ... |
GameSHOUT | Comcast: Comcast, BitTorrent Collaborate File-Sharing Services GameSHOUT - Comcast stated on Thursday it has taken a collaborative effort with file-sharing service BitTorrent to work out a growing network traffic dispute. ... |
BitTorrent coming to every internet device TechWhack (press release), India - BitTorrent has announced that they are now collaborating with Orb Networks to enable users to view BitTorrent downloads on any Internet-connected device. ... |
Half Life Source | FCC: FCC Hearing Speakers Lash Out at Comcast NewsOXY, FL - Most speakers argued that Comcast service practices on frequent users of BitTorrent cause inbound connections to disconnect during midstream from computers. ... Comcast: Comcast Network Practices Questioned by FCC |
BitTorrent’s Achilles’ Heel NewTeeVee, CA - The popular BitTorrent web site Mininova was sued by the Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN this week in a bid to get Mininova to filter unlicensed ... |
Control BitTorrent downloads from Facebook with Morrent Daily Download, CA - Try out Morrent instead, a simple tie-in to the popular BitTorrent software uTorrent that runs right in Facebook (read: sans software) and lets you monitor ... |
Half Life Source | Technology: Comcast, BitTorrent Collaborate File-Sharing Services Half Life Source - Comcast stated on Thursday it has taken a collaborative effort with file-sharing service BitTorrent to work out a growing network traffic dispute. ... |
P2P BitTorrent Tool Could Replace Pirate Bay Slashdot - With the US and other G8 countries trying to outlaw The Pirate Bay and its ilk, an anonymous reader suggests that a solution may have emerged out of Cornell ... US Plots "Pirate Bay Killer" Trade Agreement |
BitTorrent and Orb Team to Make Rich Media Available, Anytime, on ... TMCnet - By Raju Shanbhag Enabling the Bittorrent downloads on any connected device, BitTorrent (News - Alert), the global standard technology for the delivery of ... |
Bittorrent tosses Orb into Apple's walled garden Register, UK - By Andrew Orlowski → More by this author Bittorrent Inc. announced a deal with Orb yesterday to bundle the streaming media centre software with its own P2P ... Workshop: Transfer television recordings to an iPod |
BitTorrent, Orb Networks Team Up PC Magazine - by Chloe Albanesius BitTorrent is partnering with Orb Networks to allow users to view BitTorrent downloads on any Internet-connected device. ... BitTorrent and Orb Team to Make Rich Media Available, Anytime, on ... |
Home Media Magazine | BitTorrent, Orb Bring Downloads to Connected Devices Home Media Magazine, CA - P2P media purveyor BitTorrent has partnered with streaming media company Orb Networks to enable BitTorrent downloads on connected devices. ... BitTorrent Teams Up With Orb |
Home Media Magazine | BitTorrent Teams Up With Orb NewTeeVee, CA - Popular peer-to-peer network BitTorrent is continuing efforts to grow its reach by signing a partnership agreement with Orb Networks. ... BitTorrent, Orb Bring Downloads to Connected Devices |
Report: StarHub puts brakes on file-share program Malaysia Star, Malaysia - According to the report, released last Friday by a German research firm, only two other Internet service providers (ISPs), both American, block BitTorrent. ... |
TorrentFreak | Manage Your BitTorrent Downloads on Facebook TorrentFreak - In addition, the application can also search your favorite BitTorrent sites from Facebook, and allows you to add new torrents remotely. ... |
Watch BitTorrent Content on IP-Enabled Devices with Orb Gearlog, NY - BitTorrent is partnering with Orb Networks to allow users to view BitTorrent downloads on any Internet-connected device. Installing BitTorrent and the Orb ... |
Verizon, Comcast Say They Are P2P Friendly Slashdot - 2 out of 2 BitTorrent transfers were interrupted while uploading (seeding) using forged TCP RST packets. It seems like your ISP hinders you from uploading ... |
BitTorrent teams with Orb to stream content anywhere BetaNews - Since Orb makes users' PCs accessible through most Wi-Fi connected devices equipped with a browser, the new partnership looks to expand the BitTorrent ... |
Digitaltrends.com | BitTorrent and Orb Partner on Streaming Digitaltrends.com, OR - BitTorrent and Orb Networks have announced a partnership to bundle the BitTorrent client with the Orb PC application to push users' media to any device. ... |
Verizon, Comcast Say They Are P2P Friendly Slashdot - ... have recently been targeting torrent aggregators like PirateBay, because the aggregators are the vulnerable components of the BitTorrent protocol. ... Comcast collaborates with P2P provider GridNetworks |
Legitimate goal mad.co.uk, UK - Ashwin Navin was brought on board BitTorrent to turn the file-sharing technology into a legal money-spinning business. Adrian Pennington finds how he ... |
BitTorrent and Orb Team to Make Rich Media Available, Anytime, on ... Business Wire (press release), CA - SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BitTorrent, the global standard technology for the delivery of rich media on the Internet, and streaming media leader Orb ... |
The Tech Herald | Astaro targets Skype with version 7.2 of Astaro Security Gateway The Tech Herald, IN - For example, many companies use BitTorrent to exchange large files or software downloads. In some companies, administrators struggle with messenger and P2P ... |
Washington Post | Web News: P-to-P Blocking, Social Networking, CNET Buyout Washington Post, United States - Does your ISP have a BitTorrent blockade?Read our article, thendiscuss the issuewith other readers. Opinions seem pretty heated. What are the most annoying ... Sprint may limit its unlimited 3G plan Summer Travel Tips Gay marriage decision was unnecessary judicial intrusion |
Readers discuss ISPs that filter peer-to-peer sharing, social ... PC World - If your ISP wants to slow down your service because you're using BitTorrent (or any other P2P network), it should be stated up front in the ISP's Terms of ... |
NewsOXY | Comcast sued over BitTorrent throttling NewsOXY, FL - Comcast is facing a lawsuit by Jon Hart who says the company is using secret measures to limit his bandwidth which violates federal computer fraud laws, ... |
NewsOXY | Comcast admits throttling BitTorrent usage on customers NewsOXY, FL - The cable provider said that it was limiting peer-to-peer BitTorrent traffic to generously provide more bandwidth for all customers. ... |
NewsOXY | Comcast Responds to FCC NewsOXY, FL - Comcast policies are designed to protect most of its subscribers from degraded services created by excessive broadband usage such as BitTorrent and P2P ... |
NewsOXY | Verizon Announces BitTorrent File Sharing Network NewsOXY, FL - 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. ... |
NewsOXY | Comcast, BitTorrent Collaborate File-Sharing Services NewsOXY, FL - Comcast stated on Thursday it has taken a collaborative effort with file-sharing service BitTorrent to work out a growing network traffic dispute. ... Comcast admits throttling BitTorrent usage on customers Verizon Announces BitTorrent File Sharing Network Comcast Responds to FCC |
Bell's small-screen debut Globe and Mail, Canada - Most of the traffic being shaped by Bell's system is peer-to-peer and BitTorrent-based, two download technologies which are used to distribute large files, ... Bell launches online video store Bell opens a large can of worms |
Bell opens a large can of worms Globe and Mail, Canada - The main reason that Bell is using traffic-shaping technology is that many of its subscribers are using bandwidth-hungry applications such as BitTorrent to ... |
STUDY: Cox Communications Also Throttling BitTorrent Zeropaid, CA - What's also very interesting, perhaps even slightly disturbing, is that results also show that all the BitTorrent traffic interference encountered by users ... |
p2pnet.net | YouTube, Skype, BitTorrent killer? — Part II p2pnet.net, Canada - P2P programs like Red Swoosh, BitTorrent, and LittleShoot don’t have this limitation, and it means Flash can’t save web sites as much bandwidth as those ... |
TorrentFreak | SceneAccess and NFOrce Under Pressure from BREIN TorrentFreak - Anyone with an interest in BitTorrent sites will tell you that many of them are hosted in the Netherlands, due to what is perceived by many as a legal gray ... |
p2pnet.net | Comcast cabled almost $2.7M into 1Q lobbying Forbes, NY - AP 05.20.08, 6:10 PM ET Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable operator and second largest Internet provider, spent $2.7 million in the first quarter to ... Comcast invests in P2P startup Comcast invests in P2P start-up GridNetworks Comcast invests in P2P video-delivery startup |
Comcast admits throttling BitTorrent usage on customers GameSHOUT - The cable provider said that it was limiting peer-to-peer BitTorrent traffic to generously provide more bandwidth for all customers. ... |
Comcast Responds to FCC GameSHOUT - Comcast policies are designed to protect most of its subscribers from degraded services created by excessive broadband usage such as BitTorrent and P2P ... |
GameSHOUT | Verizon Announces BitTorrent File Sharing Network GameSHOUT - 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. ... |
Astaro controls the abuse of Skype in corporate networks Dark Reading, NY - For example, many companies use the file sharing protocol BitTorrent to exchange large files or software downloads. In such cases, administrators need a way ... |
Mininova faces legal action CD Freaks.com, Netherlands - Mininova, widely known as one of the largest and most popular BitTorrent sites, is now facing legal action from the Dutch anti-piracy organisation BREIN. ... |
PC Plus | The Pirate Bay breaches top 100 PC Retail, UK - The Pirate Bay, one of the internet’s leading bittorrent sites, has reached a new milestone by becoming one of the world’s top 100 visited websites, ... Movie moguls and musicians line up to sink Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay enters the web top 100 Pirate Bay sieges into top 100 websites |
KEPR 19 | I Am Failing To Get Excited About Napster's 6 Million Songs Washington Post, United States - And¿cough¿BitTorrent. The days of paying for recorded music are nearly over. And there's nothing Napster can do to change that. Napster launches iTunes-rivalling MP3 store |
bit-tech.net | BREIN targets Mininova bit-tech.net, UK - This isn't the first time that BREIN has threatened to see BitTorrent trackers in the courtroom. Back in December the anti-piracy organisation was targeting ... |
Enews 2.0 | The New York Times Calls For Network Neutrality Legislation Wired News - Under that deal, Comcast and BitTorrent have agreed to work together to find both hardware and software solutions to enable BitTorrent's peer-to-peer system ... Study: Comcast, Cox blocking BitTorrent throughout US Cox: BitTorrent interruptus? How Free Press breaks the citizens' network |
Mininova faces legal action from Dutch anti-piracy agency TechSpot - By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com Even though Mininova currently is the most popular BitTorrent site with over 30 million unique monthly visitors, they somehow ... Mininova Faces Legal Action: Filter or Else |
BREIN to Mininova: Filter Copyrighted Content or Face Legal Action Zeropaid, CA - The Dutch anti-piracy organization warns the BitTorrent tracker site that it must "take effective measures to prevent it and if they can not then it must ... Mininova Faces Lawsuit From Dutch Anti-Piracy Agency Mininova, The World’s Largest Torrent Site, Facing A Lawsuit |
Los Angeles Times | The future of entertainment, USC style Los Angeles Times, CA - And while they used to rely on BitTorrent to grab the shows they wanted to watch, now they use the authorized sites -- unless, of course, the only source ... |
BitTorrent tracker Mininova faces legal action Register, UK - By Jan Libbenga → More by this author Dutch anti-piracy body BREIN says it will ask a judge to halt all activities of Dutch BitTorrent-tracker Mininova, ... |
Broadcasting & Cable | Experts Say FCC’s Martin Isn’t Done Yet Broadcast Newsroom, CA - It said it delayed BitTorrent traffic, uploads in particular, to reduce congestion at peak hours. Although Comcast sent a representative to Harvard, ... CABLESHOW-Sec Gutirrez supports cable Web traffic practices Cable Show '08: Gutierrez Backs Network Management |
The Heartland Institute | A Bill of Rights to Enshrine Net Neutrality? The Heartland Institute, IL - After changing its mind about throttling Bittorrent traffic in March, Comcast pulled a 180º turn on network neutrality. The firm recently announced plans to ... Court Allows ISP to Block Spammer |
Enews 2.0 | Print Version Sponsored By eWeek, NY - According to a number of reports, Sandvine gear is currently being used by Comcast to throttle or block BitTorrent traffic. Sandvine, based in Waterloo, ... Research shows Comcast, Cox hinder file-sharing services |
Home Media Magazine | Comcast invests in P2P startup GridNetworks Seattle Post Intelligencer - "It is not a BitTorrent free for all," said Naughtin, referring to the file sharing service that has caused traffic headaches for Internet service providers ... Comcast invests in P2P startup Comcast invests in P2P start-up GridNetworks Comcast invests in P2P video-delivery startup |
Comcast invests in P2P start-up GridNetworks TechSpot - This marks yet another move in that direction, following collaboration with Pando and BitTorrent as part of its “protocol-agnostic” means of managing ... |
Michael Jackson to Sue File Swapping Site - The Pirate Bay PC World - Artist Michael Jackson is throwing his name into the hat of a group of fading artists suing The Pirate Bay, the largest BitTorrent tracker Web sites. ... |
How Free Press breaks the citizens' network Register, UK - So we were intrigued when it sent out a press release last week titled "Comcast and Cox Caught Blocking BitTorrent All Day, All Night". ... |
Comcast invests in P2P startup CNet News.com Blog - Companies, such as GridNetworks and BitTorrent, which invented a very popular P2P protocol, say they can help service providers harness the economic ... |
Movie moguls and musicians line up to sink Pirate Bay Own It, UK - Pro-BitTorrent site ZeroPaid has more details. Doctor Who is proving to be an unexpectedly fertile source of IP stories of late. ... The Pirate Bay enters the web top 100 Pirate Bay sieges into top 100 websites The Pirate Bay: 97th most visited website in the world |
Research shows Comcast, Cox hinder file-sharing services Telecom Paper (subscription), Netherlands - The study found that traffic from peer-to-peer sharing site BitTorrent was hindered at all times, seven days a week. Comcast insists that it does not block ... |
Mininova Faces Legal Action: Filter or Else TorrentFreak - Mininova is currently the largest BitTorrent site with over 30 million unique visitors per month. Mininova displays user submitted torrents and carries ... |
GridNetworks: Comcast Invested in Us, Too NewTeeVee, CA - Comcast also has public relationships with GridNetworks competitors Pando and BitTorrent, though those are more related to Net Neutrality. ... |
Comcast, StarHub throttling BitTorrent to over half their ... TelecomTV, UK - Comcast routinely cuts the BitTorrent connections of more than half of the cable company's broadband subscribers, despite claiming otherwise, it was claimed ... |
2008 CABLE SHOW: Comcast Invests In P2P Video Delivery Startup Multichannel News, NY - Other companies pitching software and services for P2P-based video delivery include BitTorrent and Pando Networks. In fact, Comcast is collaborating with ... |
Michael Jackson and other artists sueThe Pirate Bay Afterdawn.com - The Web Sheriff has announced today that Michael Jackson, Prince, the Village People, UB40 and the estate of Bob Marley have joined together to sue the ... |
TorrentSpy Bans US Users Half Life Source - TorrentSpy.com has started barring use of its BitTorrent tracking site to any user IPs from the United States. This really comes as no surprise as a US ... TorrentSpy Looses MPAA Copyright Case |
Comcast Charged with Blocking File Sharing Half Life Source - The latest reports are that Comcast is deliberately disrupting the file-sharing service BitTorrent. In fact, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation ... |
Half Life Source | Comcast admits throttling BitTorrent usage on customers Half Life Source - The cable provider said that it was limiting peer-to-peer BitTorrent traffic to generously provide more bandwidth for all customers. ... |
Half Life Source | Comcast Responds to FCC Half Life Source - Comcast policies are designed to protect most of its subscribers from degraded services created by excessive broadband usage such as BitTorrent and P2P ... |
Half Life Source | Verizon Announces BitTorrent File Sharing Network Half Life Source - 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. ... |
Half Life Source | Comcast, BitTorrent Collaborate File-Sharing Services Half Life Source - Comcast stated on Thursday it has taken a collaborative effort with file-sharing service BitTorrent to work out a growing network traffic dispute. ... |
Half Life Source | FCC Hearing Speakers Lash Out at Comcast Half Life Source - Most speakers argued that Comcast service practices on frequent users of BitTorrent cause inbound connections to disconnect during midstream from computers. ... |
TorrentFreak | The Pirate Bay Enters List of 100 Most Popular Webites TorrentFreak - The BitTorrent tracker even managed to slip into the list of 100 most visited websites on the Internet, and it doesn’t seem to stop there. ... |
Pirate Bay Faces Off Against Corrupt Entertainment Industry BroadbandReports.com, NY - Much of the entertainment industry has it in for the big BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay. A man dubbed The Web Sheriff has been working with has-been ... |
Cable ISPs block P2P traffic at all hours Inquirer, UK - To the contrary, testing found that cable ISPs blocked BitTorrent upload traffic "independent of the time of day." The Max Planck Institute collected data ... |
p2pnet.net | YouTube, Skype, BitTorrent killer? p2pnet.net, Canada - In the BitTorrent case, it’s mostly a matter of usability. As with Skype, you no longer need a separate install. Depending on what’s built in to the Flash ... |
Is it P2P ‘Packetism’ or ISP Customer Service? DaniWeb, VA - The packets of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent have become the target of throttling—even complete blockage—by Internet service providers on ... |
Martin Not Done Yet Multichannel News, NY - It said it delayed BitTorrent traffic, uploads in particular, to reduce congestion at peak hours. Although Comcast sent a representative to Harvard, ... McSlarrow's War |
How to avoid the BitTorrent blockade PC Advisor, UK - With this in mind we've rounded up a number of tips and tools that can help you determine whether you're facing a BitTorrent blockade and, if so, ... |
Enews 2.0 | Comcast Does Interfere with P2P Traffic Enews 2.0, UK - ... US cable broadband providers Comcast and Cox Communications are not slowing down BitTorrent traffic during peak hours alone, but all throughout the day. ... |
CRTC opens net neutrality debate to public CBC.ca, Canada - CAIP in April complained that Bell had extended its traffic shaping — which slows speeds of internet applications such as BitTorrent — to its members, ... |
Mid-May Miscellaneous Updates Washington Post, United States - Cable-modem provider Comcast got in a lot of hot water last year when people discovered that it sometimes blocks the popular BitTorrent file-sharing program ... |
Study: BitTorrent blocking common on Comcast, Cox, StarHub BetaNews - By Jacqueline Emigh, BetaNews Blocking of BitTorrent traffic is widespread among some ISPs in the US and Singapore, but not in Canada or any other country ... |
ISP traffic throttling scandal escalates p2pnet.net, Canada - Now new data from the Max Planck Institute say BitTorrent connections for more than half of Comcast and Cox users are being interfered with. ... |
What To Do With Old Laptops? Slashdot - ... @10:44AM (#23433432) Homepage Autoconfig, extended range wireless adaptors, bittorrent 24x7 from every network you can get connected to; you know, ... |
Peer-to-Peer Networks Turn Web Saviors U.S. News & World Report, DC - Peer-to-peer file sharing, in which end users link their computers using software like Napster and BitTorrent for downloading large files, was long seen as ... |
What To Do With Old Laptops? Slashdot - An anonymous reader writes "I've recently acquired a few old P2/P3 laptops. Most either work properly but are slow, or have various problems with power ... |
Enews 2.0 | Cox Caught Throttling BitTorrent Traffic, Report Claims PC World - The ongoing soap opera between Internet service providers and peer-to-peer file sharing services like BitTorrent continues to rage and evolve as new ... Study Shows Comcast and Cox Slow P2P Traffic How Free Press breaks the citizens' network The New York Times Calls For Network Neutrality Legislation |
All Talk, Little Action on 'Net Neutrality Front? TMCnet - Comcast claims it has at least taken the first step toward a workable solution by offering a collaborative olive branch to BitTorrent, a P2P file-sharing a ... |
All Talk, Little Action on 'Net Neutrality Front? Internet News, CA - Comcast claims it has at least taken the first step toward a workable solution by offering a collaborative olive branch to BitTorrent, a P2P file-sharing a ... |
uTorrent - A Beginner's Guide to BitTorrent Downloading Zeropaid, CA - For most people getting started with the whole "BitTorrent downloading thing" can be pretty intimidating. Sure maybe some of you had practice with Napster ... |
California Man Sues Comcast for BitTorrent Blocking GameSHOUT - According to Hart and others, Comcast refuses to plainly explain what id does to control BitTorrent traffic but that some independent analysis has shown ... |
GameSHOUT | Comcast sued over BitTorrent throttling GameSHOUT - Comcast is facing a lawsuit by Jon Hart who says the company is using secret measures to limit his bandwidth which violates federal computer fraud laws, ... |
Gizmodo Australia | Comcast Blocks BitTorrent Traffic 24 Hours a Day Gizmodo Australia, Australia - One of Comcast's main defenses of their BitTorrent blocking is to make sure the network isn't congested for other users during peak hours. ... |
Enews 2.0 | Comcast, Cox Slow BitTorrent Traffic All Day Slashdot - narramissic writes "A study by the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems found that Comcast and Cox Communications are slowing BitTorrent traffic at all ... Cox Caught Throttling BitTorrent Traffic, Report Claims Study Shows Comcast and Cox Slow P2P Traffic How Free Press breaks the citizens' network |
Study: Cox, Comcast Play Traffic Cop Day and Night E-Commerce Times - Cox Communications is actively blocking BitTorrent file-sharing users from enjoying unfettered Internet services, according to a new study based on more ... |
Enews 2.0 | Study: Comcast, Cox blocking BitTorrent throughout US Computerworld, Norway - The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems released a study Thursday showing that Cox Communications and Comcast have been blocking BitTorrent transfers ... The New York Times Calls For Network Neutrality Legislation Cox: BitTorrent interruptus? How Free Press breaks the citizens' network |
Comcast, Cox Accused of Constant P2P Blocking PC Magazine - by Chloe Albanesius Comcast and Cox Communications have manipulated BitTorrent traffic at all hours of the day, not just during times of peak congestion, ... |
Comcast continues blocking Internet traffic, joined by rival Cox VentureBeat, CA - I’m not sure what the name for a compulsive Bittorrent-traffic blocker is, but that or “idiot” is certainly a label that could apply to giant Internet ... |
ABC News | Comcast Restricted Bandwidth To BitTorrent Users 24/7, Study Charges InformationWeek, NY - The Max Planck Institute released a study showing that Comcast has engaged in routine blocking or throttling of BitTorrent files at all hours of the day. ... Cox: BitTorrent interruptus? Study: Comcast, Cox slowing P2P traffic around the clock Comcast Lied to FCC, Blocks BitTorrent Traffic 24/7 |
Cox: BitTorrent interruptus? Los Angeles Times, CA - The public drubbing Comcast has received for interfering with BitTorrent uploads may not have been enough to stop other ISPs from doing the very same thing. ... |
Some file-sharing uploads hindered: study Reuters - The study collected data from thousands of computer users around the world between March 18 and May 15 and found BitTorrent traffic was hindered at all ... |
Comcast and Cox Caught Blocking BitTorrent All Day, All Night Common Dreams (press release), ME - Their sophisticated testing shows that Comcast and Cox block BitTorrent applications at all times of the day -- not just at times of peak traffic. ... |
TorrentFreak | Study: Comcast, Cox slowing P2P traffic around the clock ITworld.com, MA - US cable broadband providers Comcast and Cox Communications are slowing BitTorrent traffic at all times of the day, not just during peak traffic, ... Comcast Lied to FCC, Blocks BitTorrent Traffic 24/7 Study: Comcast, Cox blocking BitTorrent throughout United States Cox Caught Blocking BitTorrent |
German study finds Comcast blocking BitTorrent traffic all day ... CrunchGear, NY - A German study has found that BitTorrent blocking really only occurs in two countries, here in the US and in Singapore. Moreover, only cable ISPs bother to ... |
Ars Technica | Cox, Comcast biggest BitTorrent blockers in the world Ars Technica, MA - Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems have just released results of their own tests into BitTorrent blocking from around the world, ... |
AP: Cox also guilty of blocking BitTorrent traffic Electronista, CA - Comcast is not the only company guilty of sabotaging BitTorrent traffic, the Associated Press reports. While that company has taken the brunt of criticism ... |
Torrent2exe Turns Torrents Into Executable Downloads Zeropaid, CA - Web-based utility removes the need for a BitTorrent client and lets you share torrents with non-BitTorrent users. There's an awesome new service out called ... |
Bell Canada’s packet inspection violates privacy law, group says ZDNet - Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network, the Canadian ... |
CBC.ca | CRTC opens net neutrality debate to public CBC.ca, Canada - CAIP in April complained that Bell had extended its traffic shaping — which slows speeds of internet applications such as BitTorrent — to its members, ... |
Study: Cox, Comcast Internet subscribers blocked The Associated Press - The blocking observed by Gummadi's group occurs when a subscriber has downloaded a file using the BitTorrent application and tries to upload it, ... |
P2P Distribution Case Studies ClickZ News, NY - The initial download from BitTorrent would be counted, but every transfer and view beyond that wouldn't be tracked. The results so far? ... |
Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade Slashdot - This PC World report shows you a number of tips and tools can help you determine whether you're facing a BitTorrent blockade and, if so, help you get around ... Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade |
New Bill Makes Network Neutrality an Antitrust Issue VoIP-News, CA - It made headlines and sparked outrage when it first secretly blocked traffic from BitTorrent Inc.'s P2P (peer-to-peer) service — and then both denied and ... |
Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade Slashdot - This PC World report shows you a number of tips and tools can help you determine whether you're facing a BitTorrent blockade and, if so, help you get around ... |
For Now, No Net Neutrality for Canadians NewTeeVee, CA - The commission did, however, acknowledge that “there is a serious issue to be determined” when it comes to the effect of Bell’s BitTorrent blocking. ... |
Mininova - 2 Billion People Downloading 'Iron Man?' Zeropaid, CA - Probable glitch says that some 2147483647 BitTorrent users, or about 33% of the world's population, are currently downloading a Spanish "screener" copy of ... |
Uber-Review | Understanding Anti-Piracy Enforcement TorrentFreak - Most recently, cases centering around BitTorrent sites have focused more on vicarious infringement, as in the Pirate Bay and oink cases. ... Torrent2Exe Makes Your Torrents Look Like Viruses |
Lifehacker Australia | Torrent2Exe Turns BitTorrent Links into Double-Click Downloads Lifehacker Australia, Australia - Free web utility Torrent2Exe takes torrent download links—the kind you'd normally pass to your favourite BitTorrent client—and creates tiny .exe programs ... |
CBC.ca | Bell Canada BitTorrent action OK'd Hollywood Reporter, United States - TORONTO -- Canadian phone giant Bell Canada can use "traffic-shaping" technology to choke off BitTorrent and other bandwidth hogs, Canada's telecoms ... CRTC opens net neutrality debate to public CRTC Rules In Favour of Bell's "Bittorent and File-Sharing Throttling" Internet throttling to continue as CRTC rejects call for action |
Exclaim! | CRTC Rules In Favour of Bell's "Bittorent and File-Sharing Throttling" Exclaim!, Canada - ... of Internet Providers (CAIP), allowing Bell to continue its policy of throttling bittorrent and other file-sharing connections over its network. ... |
HD VUDU: How Hefty Is The Payload? EDN.com, MA - ... (such as the upstream bandwidth throttle settings found in Bittorrent clients) by which VUDU's consumers can tone down the service's bandwidth grabs. ... HD VUDU: Delay-Induced Doo-Doo |
CBC.ca | Internet throttling to continue as CRTC rejects call for action CBC.ca, Canada - Bell has been slowing the speeds of its own subscribers who use peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent since November, and extended the practice to ... |
RIAA employee outlines pirate-hunting tactics Yahoo! Tech, CA - While other services, including eDonkey and BitTorrent, offer just as much (or more) copyrighted material, it's interesting to see that LimeWire may be a ... Advice to student file-sharers: Don’t do the Lime if you can’t pay ... How the RIAA looks for pirates RIAA: 'We're Targeting Colleges to Make them More Aware' |
Uber-Review | Torrent2Exe Makes Your Torrents Look Like Viruses Uber-Review - This brings everybody and his or her grandparents within the scope of Bittorrent and makes me more than a little concerned. While I am certain that the ... |
Outcry over BitTorrent blocking stretches to Canada BetaNews - By Jacqueline Emigh, BetaNews Canadians are joining Americans in their outcry over ISPs allegedly blocking BitTorrent and other P2P applications. ... ISPs To Start Booting More P2P Users But why make the ... |
ISPs To Start Booting More P2P Users But why make the ... Dslreports - Looking closely at new incumbent anti-piracy plans, the passage of the new Pro-IP Act and the new P4P Working Group, you'll notice we've entered a new era ... |
ChattahBox | It's not iTunes, it's HBO Macworld, CA - And finally, there’s this: In the case of HBO, BitTorrent is not your friend. Unlike some other TV networks, HBO is very aggressive about protecting its ... HBO Lands on iTunes (with Variable Pricing) HBO, NBC may be cracking Apple's uniform iTunes pricing |
Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released Slashdot - Overall, there are a lot of improvements worth looking at, and the Bittorrent seeds are already feeding the release fairly effectively. ... |
Fedora 9 Released OS News - The Fedora Project has pushed out its 9th release. The release announcement is one of those fancy story ones, without much actual information, ... |
Wired News | Fedora 9 Gives Ubuntu a Run For Its Money Wired News - By Scott Gilbertson May 13, 2008 | 10:56:23 AMCategories: Linux, software The Fedora Project has released Fedora 9, a significant upgrade for the popular ... |
BitTorrent Community Mourns as Tracker Founder Passes Away TorrentFreak - Last month, TorrentFreak had the pleasure of interviewing Merrin, the founder of the 150000 member MVGroup tracker. It is with great sadness that we bring ... |
Crave | Hands-on with the Olympus LS-10: 24-bit voice and music Crave, UK - In fact, we took it to Pendulum's album launch party last night (no, it won't be on BitTorrent) for 'testing' and the results were terrific. ... |
Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade PC World - So I was stung when I recently tried to download a live recording of a Dave Matthews concert only to discover that my BitTorrent client was dead in the ... |
TorrentFreak | Best-Selling Author Turns Piracy into Profit TorrentFreak - In part, he puts this success down to BitTorrent, as he saw a huge increase in sales when his books appeared on sites such as The Pirate Bay. ... |
Viacom Versus Fair Use PC Magazine - Sumner Redstone thinks posting a clip on YouTube is the same as pirating a movie on BitTorrent. He's wrong. by John C. Dvorak While in Seoul , South Korea, ... |
The Standard | A torrent of trouble from file-sharing The Standard, Hong Kong - The file-sharing system BitTorrent is a popular application among netizens. It allows users to share files in a peer-to- peer manner. ... |
Introduction to Port Forwarding Zeropaid, CA - In the first box you will enter the name of the application this will apply to, be it BitTorrent, eMule , eDonkey, or whatever. For arguments sake we will ... |
TV is Everywhere, and It's Confusing RedOrbit, TX - 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 ... |
ITProPortal | TorrentSpy fined $11m for copyright infringement ComputerworldUK, UK - By Grant Gross TorrentSpy.com, the BitTorrent peer-2-peer (P2P) site has been hit with an $11m (£5.5m) fine for copyright infringement. ... MPAA aims at taking The Pirate Bay down with $15.4m lawsuit US courts get heavy on piracy as cableco suggests capping download ... |
Zune update will pose problems The Spokesman Review, WA - If you use BitTorrent to find and download episodes of "Heroes" or other NBC shows, think twice before buying a Microsoft Zune to watch them. ... |
Vint Cerf supports municipal broadband networks ITworld.com, MA - ... around practices at Comcast, which says it has slowed some customer access to the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol during times of network congestion. ... |
MHR Scouting Services -- Getting Organized Mile High Report, CO - This is helpful for those of us who like to type out our thoughts, and even more helpful for the ones who watch their games via Sopcast or bitTorrent. ... |
ITProPortal | MPAA aims at taking The Pirate Bay down with $15.4m lawsuit ITProPortal, UK - BitTorrent website The Pirate bay has been slapped with a $15.4m lawsuit bill from the MPAA (The Motion Picture Association of America) for copyright ... US courts get heavy on piracy as cableco suggests capping download ... |
Vint Cerf Supports Municipal Broadband Networks PC World - ... around practices at Comcast, which says it has slowed some customer access to the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol during times of network congestion. ... |
Victorious BitTorrent Tracker to Return TorrentFreak - Rounding off a series of court decisions and actions regarding BitTorrent sites, torrent.is users will have something to celebrate. ... |
London Lawyers Demand £600 For One Game Slashdot - ... a demand for a £600 out-of-court settlement from lawyers claiming to have forensic evidence that he illegally downloaded a PC game on BitTorrent. ... |
Radio 1 | Studios seek $15m Pirate Bay damages Radio 1, UK - The Motion Picture Association of America has filed the claim against Swedish website, The Pirate Bay, which lets users swap files using the BitTorrent ... Hollywood sues The Pirate Bay for $15m Pirate Bay sued Mafiaa demands $15 million from Pirate Bay |
London Lawyers Demand £600 For One Game Slashdot - ... a demand for a £600 out-of-court settlement from lawyers claiming to have forensic evidence that he illegally downloaded a PC game on BitTorrent. ... |
BitTorrent Shrugs Off Massive Malware Attack TorrentFreak - But thanks to its system strength - and the work of torrent site moderators - such outbreaks are shrugged off by BitTorrent. Anti-piracy outfits, like all ... |
KBCI CBS 2 | Shuttered BitTorrent tracker sued back to the stone age DailyTech, IL - A federal judge court inflicted $110 million in penalties on shuttered BitTorrent tracker TorrentSpy.com, after the site defaulted on a court request to ... MPAA Wins $110M Judgment from TorrentSpy Judge Slaps TorrentSpy With $111M Damages Defunct TorrentSpy kicked while down |
Managing Against Illegal Content Forbes, NY - Indeed, the recent announcement made by Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA - news - people ) and BitTorrent that they will work together to find a market-based solution ... |
London lawyers demand £600 for game download PC Pro, UK - ... sent the demand to one PC Pro reader, after claiming it had "forensic computer analysis" that shows he downloaded the game Two Worlds using BitTorrent. ... |
Comcast considering bandwidth caps, surcharges ZDNet - First they implemented Sandvine to forge TCP packets and kill BitTorrent traffic, now bandwidth caps and surcharges. Comcast Floats a 250GB Monthly Bandwidth Limit Comcast considers bandwidth cap for heavy downloaders Proposed Bandwidth Caps Loom Over Gamers |
Is Your ISP Throttling BitTorrent? Overclockers Club, AL - Recently, Comcast has been the center of attention in many news stories detailing its alleged throttling of legitimate BitTorrent traffic - Steam users, ... |
Comcast Considers Capping Transfer Web Host Industry Review - In an issue even more directly related to Bittorrent traffic, Comcast has been criticized for being one of a relatively long list of ISPs that either block ... Comcast considers bandwidth cap for heavy downloaders Comcast mulling 250 GB monthly transfer cap and overage charges |
Proposed Bandwidth Caps Loom Over Gamers Shacknews - North American internet provider Comcast is evaluating a monthly bandwidth cap and charging users that exceed the limit, according to dslreports.com. ... |
TorrentSpy tortured even after death - US court fines closed ... Tech Digest, UK - Closing their Bittorrent portal TorrentSpy was not enough to save founders Justin Bunnell and Wes Park from getting hammered by the US courts to the tune of ... |
Judge Slaps TorrentSpy With $111M Damages PC World - A US judge has ruled on a nearly US$111 million copyright-infringement decision against TorrentSpy.com, the BitTorrent peer-to-peer search site. ... Defunct TorrentSpy kicked while down TorrentSpy Bankrupt, Won't Pay $111M in Damages to MPAA MPAA awarded $110 million in damages from TorrentSpy |
Comcast Mulls 250GB Monthly Cap, Disconnecting File-Sharers Zeropaid, CA - After having been reprimanded buy the FCC and skewered by network neutrality advocates, BitTorrent users and companies, and almost everybody in between for ... |
TorrentSpy to Appeal $110 Million Judgment Zeropaid, CA - Site's attorney says the defunct BitTorrent tracker site filed for bankruptcy in England last week and can't afford to pay the ludicrous amount of money. ... |
eFluxMedia | TorrentSpy ordered to pay $111 million BetaNews - By Ed Oswald, BetaNews A Los Angeles federal judge has delivered a default judgement against the BitTorrent site finding it guilty of copyright infringement ... Federal Judge Issues Bill To TorrentSpy: $110 Million Torrentspy Dinged $110 Million in MPAA Lawsuit Judge Orders TorrentSpy to Pay MPAA $110 Million in Damages |
KBCI CBS 2 | MPAA Wins $110M Judgment from TorrentSpy PC Magazine - by Chloe Albanesius TorrentSpy was dealt another blow this week when a Los Angeles federal judge ordered the BitTorrent tracker to fork over $110 million ... Judge Slaps TorrentSpy With $111M Damages Defunct TorrentSpy kicked while down TorrentSpy to Appeal $110 Million Judgment |
See if your ISP slows BitTorrent traffic Dallas Morning News, TX - Comcast made headlines recently for slowing down BitTorrent transfers, but other ISPs have largely escaped scrutiny, If you're wondering whether your ISP ... |
Studios win $100 million judgment against TorrentSpy CNET News.com, CA - @Ikrupp Considering the amount of traffic BitTorrent and P2P services generate and all the pirate content on video sites, you may as well just expand that ... |
Hollywood Wants $15 Million From Pirate Bay PC World - Pirate Bay is one of the most widely used BitTorrent trackers for music, movies and software. Previously the recording industry, computer game developers ... |
eFluxMedia | Federal Judge Issues Bill To TorrentSpy: $110 Million Portal IT, Romania - Un till recent, the only question remaining was how much was this lawsuit going to cost the BitTorrent tracker. And the answer came: $110 million The judge ... Torrentspy Dinged $110 Million in MPAA Lawsuit Judge Orders TorrentSpy to Pay MPAA $110 Million in Damages TorrentSpy ordered to pay $110 million in damages to MPAA |
bit-tech.net | How to detect BitTorrent blocking bit-tech.net, UK - Preliminary results from the Glasnost tests show that the UK is mercifully free of BitTorrent blocking, unlike the US. If you're curious as to whether your ... |
Stop Your ISP from Throttling BitTorrent Speeds Lifehacker Australia, Australia - If you've followed our beginner and intermediate guides but your BitTorrent download speeds are still less than stellar, there's a chance your ISP may be ... How to Check if Your ISP is Throttling Your BitTorrent Traffic |
Determine If Your ISP is Throttling Your BitTorrent Traffic Lifehacker Australia, Australia - Web application Glasnost simulates BitTorrent downloads on your computer to determine whether or not your internet service provider (ISP) is throttling your ... |
MPAA is Awarded $110 million in TorrentSpy Case Slashdot - Oh well, BitTorrent was good while it lasted. by Anonymous Coward You won $110 million from a site that doesn't even exist anymore. by afxgrin (208686) on ... Wireless Power Companies Merge, But No Real-Life Devices Yet China's Cyberwaar Against India Smarter Electric Grid Could Save Power |
Comcast’s Near-Unlimited Bandwidth Limits New York Times, United States - ... they want to rein in only the tiny minority of very heavy users, many of whom are downloading pirated movies and television shows by way of BitTorrent. ... Libin: Lessons in love Comcast mulling Net usage cap to discourage 'excessive' use |
How to Check if Your ISP is Throttling Your BitTorrent Traffic Gizmodo Australia, Australia - Our ISP is currently Comcast, which is probably definitely throttling torrent traffic in this area, but how can we know for sure? Here's how. ... |
MPAA Wins $100 Million Judgement Against TorrentSpy Zeropaid, CA - The BitTorrent tracker site opted to instead simply cut off access to US visitors. It apparently wasn't enough to satisfy the Federal Judge presiding in the ... |
Studios win $100 million judgment against TorrentSpy CNET News.com, CA - The Los Angeles judge also issued a permanent injunction against TorrentSpy, which was once one of the most popular indexes of BitTorrent files before it ... |
Torrentspy Dinged $110 Million in MPAA Lawsuit Wired News - By David Kravets May 07, 2008 | 4:36:04 PMCategories: BitTorrent A federal judge is dinging the shuttered TorrentSpy service with a $111 million penalty for ... |
Defunct TorrentSpy kicked while down Los Angeles Times, CA - US District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper has handed BitTorrent index site TorrentSpy a bill it couldn't possibly pay. Having ruled in favor of the major ... |
Defunct TorrentSpy kicked while down Los Angeles Times, CA - US District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper has handed BitTorrent index site TorrentSpy a bill it couldn't possibly pay. Having ruled in favor of the major ... |
Test Your ISP For BitTorrent Shenanigans New Glasnost Project ... Dslreports - Torrentfreak directs our attention to the Glasnost Project, a new Java applet project aimed at testing whether ISPs are fiddling with user BitTorrent ... |
MPAA Defeats TorrentSpy Slyck, NY - Unlike many other BitTorrent websites such as The Pirate bay, MiniNova, or isoHunt, TorrentSpy was never quite able to shake off the MPAA's legal pursuit. ... |
Canada.com | Microsoft May Build A Copyright Cop Into Every Zune New York Times, United States - By Saul Hansell If you like to download the latest episodes of “Heroes” or other NBC shows from BitTorrent, maybe you shouldn’t buy a Microsoft Zune to ... Get TV shows for your Zune |
Azureus - A Beginner's Guide to BitTorrent Downloading Zeropaid, CA - The subject of much debate between those who regularly use the BitTorrent P2P protocol is what the best client server to use is. Three are those who swear ... |
US, Singapore ISPs Most Likely To Block BitTorrent New Glasnost ... Dslreports - Torrentfreak directs our attention to the Glasnost Project, a new Java applet project aimed at testing whether ISPs are fiddling with user BitTorrent ... |
US, Singapore ISPs Most Likely To Block BitTorrent BroadbandReports.com, NY - Torrentfreak directs our attention to the Glasnost Project, a new Java applet project aimed at testing whether ISPs are fiddling with user BitTorrent ... |
Comcast mulling 250GB cap, excess fees? Electronista, CA - The provider has also regularly used Sandvine throttling tools to artificially slow down BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer connections in a form that has ... |
Jossip | Andrew Cuomo’s New Effort to Crack Down on New York’s Disappearing ... Jossip, NY - You know, those shady dudes who “cam” movies and then send them off to BitTorrent. But who are we kidding? It’s doubtful that New York’s law enforcement is ... |
BitTorrent: FCC Needs to Look at Other ISPs Extreme Tech - 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 ... ISPs & P2P, Getting Along Without Getting Cozy Comcast Scraps P2P 'Bill Of Rights' Idea Will instead work with ... |
TECH.BLORGE.com | Comcast fails to popularize its P2P Bill of Rights TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - ... been receiving a lot of negative attention as of late because of the way it has been throttling Bittorrent and other P2P traffic rather underhandedly. ... |
Top Azureus Plugins Revealed Zeropaid, CA - One of the coolest features about Azureus is the fact that has so many plugins available as compared to other BitTorrent software for one to download and ... |
isoHunt tells judge it's just another search engine Ars Technica, MA - The torrent site accuses the MPAA of playing fast and loose with the truth about the BitTorrent download process in order to build its case against. ... |
Playboy Online Loses To Porn Streaming The Channel Guide, CA - But movie studios, faced with increasing piracy and popularity of peer-to-peer video sharing sites like BitTorrent, are learning to sell their films on the ... |
Piracy Becomes Focus Of Net Neutrality Debate InformationWeek, NY - Comcast recently acknowledged slowing down BitTorrent files, often used in piracy, or illegal sharing of copyrighted music and video, to handle heavy ... RIAA: Don't let Net neutrality hurt piracy fight Markey Says Internet Bill Won't Protect Illegal Downloaders Congress addresses net neutrality |
Swedish Man Convicted for Illegal-File Sharing Zeropaid, CA - It's the reason why more and more people are using BitTorrent because users aren't making copyrighted works available per se, but rather portions of them as ... |
Broadcasting & Cable | Broadband group: Some P-to-P blocking reasonable ITworld.com, MA - Comcast has said it slowed BitTorrent traffic during times of peak network use, but US Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said last ... Libin: Lessons in love ISPs & P2P, Getting Along Without Getting Cozy McSlarrow: Networks Aren’t Blocking Content |
Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees Insider provides ... Dslreports - This practice of using forged TCP packets to "break" BitTorrent connections was discovered first in our forums in May of last year, some five months before ... |
Isohunt Founder at Center of US Torrent-Tracking Legal Battle Wired News - By David Kravets May 06, 2008 | 2:59:34 PMCategories: BitTorrent His programming skills have grown considerably since that first computer and his mastery of ... |
Researchers use Akamai to find local BitTorrent peers Ars Technica, MA - The researchers have implemented this logic via a Java-based plugin called Ono that works with the Azureus BitTorrent client. When Ono starts up, ... |
Exclaim! | Swedish Man Convicted For File-Sharing Exclaim!, Canada - While it sets an unsettling precedent, the average bittorrent user in Canada needn’t worry too much: the Direct Connect application used in the case was a ... |
Comcast Abandons P2P Bill of Rights NewTeeVee, CA - The proposal came just two days before an FCC hearing at Stanford University about Comcast’s ongoing practice of throttling BitTorrent traffic. ... |
Most Popular DVDrips on BitTorrent (wk18) TorrentFreak - The top 10 most downloaded DVDrips on BitTorrent, “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” tops the chart this week in a row. We do not link to actual torrent ... |
Ars Technica | Libin: Lessons in love Financial Post, Canada - The issue came to a boil last fall, when Comcast in the US was discovered to be slowing file transfers over its network that were using the BitTorrent ... ISPs & P2P, Getting Along Without Getting Cozy McSlarrow: Networks Aren’t Blocking Content House Committee Debates 'Internet Preservation' |
CNET Blogs | Get TV shows for your Zune CNET Blogs, CA - ... you can boast to your iPod-toting frenemies that you can watch The Office and Heroes on the go without recording, conversion, or BitTorrent woes. ... Zune update: first impressions Zune update adds TV, "social," and software fixes |
Pittsburgh Post Gazette | Christopher Kuttruff: Net Neutrality Scoop.co.nz, New Zealand - In August and September 2007, reports started surfacing from Comcast customers that their BitTorrent transfer speeds were being slowed or even blocked. ... Lawmakers, consumer groups, ISPs debate future of Internet ... McSlarrow: Net Neutrality Law Not Needed |
Gateway launching three new lines of desktops tomorrow CrunchGear, NY - If you’re into watching movies on your desktop or you’re a BitTorrent freak, you’ll want to look at the GT series. They feature a variety of configurations ... Gateway Bows New Retail, Direct Desktops |
New Buzz Phrase: 'Protocol Agnostic' BroadbandReports.com, NY - After being raked over the coals for using forged TCP packets to throttle upstream BitTorrent traffic specifically, Comcast has promised to embrace a ... |
Scaling Twitter for the masses (from a technical perspective) CNET Blogs, CA - File sharing systems like Limewire and BitTorrent that store pieces across a wide variety of machines 3. Something like XMPP that has presence without a ... |
BBC News | Trent Reznor gives away new album Globe and Mail, Canada - Even though nine of the tracks were released for free through the BitTorrent network, more than 2500 bought the deluxe version and Reznor said he made ... Nine Inch Nails Gives Away Another Album Online: No Payments Accepted Nine Inch Nails Did It Again, Gives Away “The Slip” For Free Nine Inch Nails Give Away New Single on Facebook |
QNAP Debuts Next Generation 500MHz CPU+256MB DDRII TS-109 Pro/TS ... IT Business Net, CA - The new QNAP NAS models come with enhanced software functions, including the new BitTorrent download engine, built-in Joomla! ... |
Digitaltrends.com | QNAP Revs Up SOHO NAS Drives Digitaltrends.com, OR - The TS-109 Pro II also includes a new BitTorrent client supporting DHT, TCP, UDP, and encrypted BT downloads. The TS-209 Pro II offers a similar ... |
ISPs & P2P, Getting Along Without Getting Cozy Slashdot - Ono is available as a plugin for the Azureus BitTorrent client, an open tracker and an standalone service you can integrate into any P2P system. ... Internet Mysteries: How Much File Sharing Traffic Travels the Net? |
Stereogum | Nine Inch Nails Gives Away Another Album Online: No Payments Accepted PC World - ... download from the NIN site, but the other three options come as torrents that can be downloaded using client software BitTorrent, uTorrent, and Vuze. ... Nine Inch Nails Did It Again, Gives Away “The Slip” For Free Nine Inch Nails Give Away New Single on Facebook New Nine Inch Nails Album "One Hundred Percent Free" (With An E ... |
p2pnet.net | isoHunt sets Hollywood straight p2pnet.net, Canada - And on a sidenote of the MPAA’s rhetoric that piracy is killing them, which is what this whole case is about: First they made peace with BitTorrent.com and ... |
QNAP Debuts Next Generation 500MHz CPU+256MB DDRII TS-109 Pro/TS ... - Business Wire (press release)
QNAP Debuts Next Generation 500MHz CPU+256MB DDRII TS-109 Pro/TS ... Business Wire (press release), CA - The new QNAP NAS models come with enhanced software functions, including the new BitTorrent download engine, built-in Joomla! ... |
Gigwise | Nine Inch Nails Did It Again, Gives Away “The Slip” For Free eFluxMedia - after 9 of their 36 tracks on the ‘Ghost: I – IV’ album became available for free on BitTorrent? Well, you can say that again! The band thanked its fans for ... Nine Inch Nails Give Away New Single on Facebook Nine Inch Nails Keeps On Giving, Offers New Single For Free NIN Releases Yet Another Album For Free |
p2pnet.net | Frostwire on Gentoo p2pnet.net, Canada - p2pnet news | P2P:- We almost missed the fact FrostWire, the indie P2P file sharing program for the Gnutella and BitTorrent protocols, is now available on ... |
Idolator | New Nine Inch Nails Album "One Hundred Percent Free" (With An E ... Idolator, NY - The FLAC, Apple lossless, and WAV versions of the album are being distributed via BitTorrent because of the huge file sizes, while the MP3 version is a ... |
Software doubles P2P file sharing speeds iT News, Australia - The software is called Ono, and has been deployed for the Azureus BitTorrent P2P file-sharing client. Ono is open source and does not demand the deployment ... |
Editorial: Unmasking P2P secrets on campuses Computerworld, MA - ... called The 40 Thieves, whose initial mission was to outsmart WPI's network operations center by countering its measures to block BitTorrent downloads. ... |
TechCrunch | Mininova Heads Towards 5 Billion Downloads TechCrunch, CA - The Pirate Bay may get all the headlines, but BitTorrent directory Mininova continues to grow. Stats from the site above (some are public, ... |
Use BitTorrent To Verify, Clean Up Files Slashdot - jweatherley writes "I found a new (for me at least) use for BitTorrent. I had been trying to download beta 4 of the iPhone SDK for the last few days. ... |
Mashable | Nine Inch Nails Keeps On Giving, Offers New Single For Free Mashable, CA - As you may recall, Nine Inch Nails released a portion of their latest album, Ghosts, for free via BitTorrent. For those wishing to get the complete set, ... |
isoHunt and MPAA Debate Legality of BitTorrent Sites TorrentFreak - The legality of BitTorrent sites has always been highly debated. As of today, no court has ever ruled that a website offering .torrent links is legal or not ... |
NIN Moves Forward with Free Music Model BroadbandReports.com, NY - Nine Inch Nails has been a front runner in proving to the world that it makes sense for bands to release their music for free to the public using BitTorrent ... |
Rate This Article Financial Express, India - 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 ... |
Strange Glue Music | OiNK Charges Postponed Strange Glue Music, UK - It's now been more than six months since private BitTorrent tracker OiNK was raided and shut down by Dutch and British police and it has now emerged that ... |
Mashable | Nine Inch Nails Give Away New Single on Facebook TorrentFreak - After experimenting with free BitTorrent distribution on their last album, ‘Ghosts’, The Nine Inch Nails are today releasing their latest single ‘Echoplex’ ... Nine Inch Nails Keeps On Giving, Offers New Single For Free NINE INCH NAILS: New Album 'The Slip' Available For Free Download ... Nine Inch Nails shock fans with surprise free new album |
Strange Glue Music | Nine Inch Nails Release Free Single Strange Glue Music, UK - As well as releasing free tracks via their website, and even uploading material onto popular Bittorrent site The Pirate Bay, the band have also experimented ... |
e-linux.it | Development Release: openSUSE 11.0 Beta 2 e-linux.it, Italy - Interested beta testers can download the installation DVD images via BitTorrent: openSUSE-11.0-Beta2-DVD-i386.iso (4370MB), ... |
MPAA Silently Drops Case Against BitTorrent Site TorrentFreak - In 2005, DVDr-core was the first BitTorrent site that was targeted by the MPAA outside the US. A classic story: Man runs site, man gets sued over site, ... |
NewTeeVee | Whatever Happened to Red Swoosh? NewTeeVee, CA - That’s Red Swoosh’s own Firefox BitTorrent extension. The service made a lot of noise when it first got released back in March of 2007, with one developer ... |
'Ono' - New Azureus Plugin Increases Download Speeds by 883%? Zeropaid, CA - Everybody in the BitTorrent community is always looking for ways to improve their download speeds. From the general methods like proper configuration and ... |
Windows XP SP3 still officially AWOL, but can be found on ... Computerworld, MA - Days before that, however, copies of the RTM build had leaked to the Internet and were easily available through BitTorrent search sites such as The Pirate ... |
OiNK’s Bail Date Extended Yet Again by Police TorrentFreak - Over six months have passed since the popular private BitTorrent tracker OiNK was raided in a joint effort by Dutch and British law enforcement. ... |
OpenBSD 4.3, the free Unix spin-off, is ready Heise Online, Germany - The distribution is ready for download as an ISO image for a range of hardware architectures, and also via BitTorrent. As always, the system can also be ... |
P2P: Understanding the File-Sharing Audience ClickZ News, NY - There were many personality types, from geeks who frequently debated what the superior P2P platform was (most agreed it was BitTorrent) to creative-class ... |
e-linux.it | BSD Release: OpenBSD 4.3 e-linux.it, Italy - Installation ISO images for a variety of architectures are available for download from these OpenBSD mirrors and also via BitTorrent; quick links to the ... |
P2P File Sharing TV Technology, VA - Recently, however, the technology has received somewhat of a reprieve, due to legitimate applications powered by applications such at BitTorrent. ... |
Streaming is Coming to Usenet NewTeeVee, CA - ... and tasks like finding and merging 400 parts of a movie download seemed a little too laborious in comparison to the ease of use of BitTorrent. ... |
ZeeVee’s Box Brings the PC to TeeVee NewTeeVee, CA - ... and you can then control your PC wirelessly and play your iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, Joost, BitTorrent content — whatever you can access from your PC — on ... |
'Hannah Montana' Star Miley Cyrus Sees Biggest Jump on Lycos Top ... PR Newswire (press release), NY - Ashlee Simpson, BitTorrent, Stimulus Rebate Checks, Among Big Search Gainers on Lycos The Lycos 50(TM) for Week Ending April 26, 2008 WALTHAM, Mass., ... |