Archivos June 2008


MPAA Assists in EliteTorrents Criminal Copyright Conviction
Digital Media Wire, CA - Jun 30, 2008
Washington - A federal jury has handed down the first criminal copyright infringement conviction, finding a 26-year-old Virginia man guilty for his role in ...

How The FBI Dismantled a BitTorrent Community
TorrentFreak - Jun 30, 2008
Had the FBI really raided one of the largest BitTorrent communities and put up a badly made Word document, or were hackers to blame? ...

Using Linux to get around Comcast’s BitTorrent throttling
CrunchGear, NY - Jun 30, 2008
Long story short, Comcast uses an application called Sandvine to disrupt certain BitTorrent traffic. That is to say it’s not always Sandvine preventing your ...

Encrypted Traffic No Longer Safe From Throttling
Slashdot - Jun 30, 2008
(Encrypted BitTorrent, SSH, and nearly all encrypted protocols except the various VPN systems are an encrypted application s by Anonymous Coward on Monday ...
Encrypted Traffic No Longer Safe From Throttling Slashdot
all 2 news articles

BitTorrent sites suspended by Malaysian Government
Geek.com - Jun 30, 2008
by Matthew posted on June 30, 2008 12:05 pm If news reports coming out of Malaysia are to be believed, a number of BitTorrent tracker sites have been closed ...

Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Copyright Infringement Conviction
Technology News Daily, AZ - 14 hours ago
Elite Torrents used BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) technology to distribute pirated works to thousands of members around the world. ...

First Bytes: Rhapsody and the Labels, Family Guy, BitTorrent, more
Conde Nast Portfolio, NY - Jun 30, 2008
[WSJ] -- A BitTorrent "seed farmer" has been found guilty of copyright infringement and faces 10 years in prison. Twenty-six year old Daniel Dove apparently ...

Maxtor's Monolithic Media Server Packs One Terabyte
Wired News - 9 hours ago
But after about five minutes of BitTorrent shenanigans, I realized my naiveté. I also realized that offloading files, especially music files, to an external ...

MiniNova Not Jumping on the Encryption Bandwagon
Slyck, NY - 15 hours ago
isoHunt and The Pirate Bay, two of the largest and most popular BitTorrent sites, have recently incorporated encryption in hopes of offering their populaces ...

Beating Comcast's Sandvine On Linux With Iptables
Slashdot - Jun 29, 2008
HiroDeckard writes "Multiple sites reported a while ago that Comcast was using Sandvine to do tcp packet resets to throttle BitTorrent connections of their ...

Jury convicts Web site operator in P2P case
PC World Magazine, Australia - 13 hours ago
EliteTorrents, which ceased operating in May 2005, used BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology to distribute pirated copies of movies, software, music and video ...

Ars Technica

BitTorrent seed farmer found guilty, faces 10 years in jail
Ars Technica, MA - Jun 29, 2008
At the time, EliteTorrents was one of the most popular Bit Torrent trackers around and had gained notoriety for making available prerelease movies like Star ...

CNET News

Feds deliver piracy conviction
Variety, CA - 17 hours ago
"Elite Torrents used BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology to distribute pirated works to thousands of members around the world." A federal jury in Big Stone ...
Criminal conviction in P2P piracy case CNET News
EliteTorrents.org operator found guilty Hollywood Reporter
all 5 news articles

BitTorrent Administrator Found Guilty in First P2P Criminal Jury Case
DailyTech, IL - Jun 29, 2008
Despite the severity of Dove's punishment, Slyck writer Thomas Mennecke notes that his involvement with the site stands far beyond the average BitTorrent ...

Jury Finds EliteTorrents Administrator Guilty
Slyck, NY - 23 hours ago
EliteTorrents was one of the largest and most popular BitTorrent trackers during 2003-2005. Administrators of the site were responsible for uploading the ...

Another Inventor of the Internet Wants To Gag It
Slashdot - 23 hours ago
Random Bittorrent transfers can easily accommodate a few extra seconds of delay. Your VoIP phone call cannot. Bear in mind that QoS only matters when links ...

Mashable

Give P2P Some Respect, Will You Mr Man?
Mashable, CA - Jun 28, 2008
If Rodney Dangerfield were to have left this world prior to BitTorrent’s debut, I suspect it might be plausible to assume the man had been reincarnated to ...

MPAA Scores First P2P Jury Conviction
Slashdot - Jun 27, 2008
According to the BitTorrent news site Slyck.com, the Department of Justice is proclaiming their first P2P criminal copyright conviction against an Elite ...
EliteTorrents administrator found guilty Afterdawn.com
all 3 news articles

Former EliteTorrents Admin Faces 10yrs in Prison
Zeropaid, CA - Jun 27, 2008
26yo Daniel Dove has become the first person ever to be convicted by a jury for using BitTorrent to illegally distribute copyrighted material. ...

Former EliteTorrents Admin Faces 10yrs in Prison
Zeropaid, CA - 10 minutes ago
26yo Daniel Dove has become the first person ever to be convicted by a jury for using BitTorrent to illegally distribute copyrighted material. ...

MPAA Scores First P2P Jury Conviction
Slashdot - 57 minutes ago
According to the BitTorrent news site Slyck.com, the Department of Justice is proclaiming their first P2P criminal copyright conviction against an Elite ...

DOJ sinks another EliteTorrent admin
Register, UK - 1 hour ago
By Austin Modine → More by this author Another ex-administrator of former BitTorrent tracker Elitetorrents is facing prison time for his part in the site's ...

Jury Convicts Web Site Operator in P2P Case
New York Times, United States - Jun 27, 2008
EliteTorrents, which ceased operating in May 2005, used BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology to distribute pirated copies of movies, software, music and video ...

Can Any Router Guarantee Bandwidth For VoIP?
Slashdot - Jun 27, 2008
I run BitTorrent actively on two separate PCs, and at the same time, we have VoIP and we play delay-sensitive online games. I did some crucial settings ...

Verizon Receives Approval to Provide FiOS TV Services in Stow
RedOrbit, TX - Jun 27, 2008
The Board of Selectmen in Stow, Massachusetts has granted a cable franchise to Verizon, to provide the area residents with another choice for their cable ...

Federal Jury Convicts High Ranking Web Site Administrator in Peer ...
Biloxi Sun Herald,  USA - 5 minutes ago
Elite Torrents used BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) technology to distribute pirated works to thousands of members around the world. ...

Jury convicts Web site operator in P2P case
NetworkWorld.com, MA - 8 minutes ago
EliteTorrents, which ceased operating in May 2005, used BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology to distribute pirated copies of movies, software, music and video ...

Federal Jury Convicts High Ranking Web Site Administrator in Peer ...
Earthtimes (press release), UK - 22 hours ago
Elite Torrents used BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) technology to distribute pirated works to thousands of members around the world. ...

OiNK’s Bail Date Extended for the 4th Time
TorrentFreak - 2 hours ago
During October 2007, the popular BitTorrent tracker OiNK was shut down in a joint effort by Dutch and British law enforcement. Today, the bail date for OiNK ...

p2pnet.net

Dump cable TV for a PC? No freakin Way!
p2pnet.net, Canada - 2 hours ago
But with the advent of high speed cable internet, BitTorrent, and stand-alone dvd players that play xvid and divx video files, who wants to sit at a desk to ...

Stow grants cable franchise for Verizon FiOS TV
Boston Globe, United States - Jun 27, 2008
Verizon Communications Inc. said that the board of selectmen in Stow has granted a cable franchise for Verizon's FiOS TV service. ...

TorrentFreak

Malaysian Government Orders Immediate Torrent Site Blackout
TorrentFreak - 9 hours ago
Reports are coming in that the government in Malaysia has ordered the immediate suspension of all BitTorrent trackers hosted in the country. ...

Ashwin Navin, Trying to Make BitTorrent 'Good'
Conde Nast Portfolio, NY - Jun 27, 2008
Kevin Maney writes: I sat down yesterday with Ashwin Navin, president of BitTorrent, to talk about his challenges running one of the most controversial ...

CNET News

Verizon's fiber guru talks strategy
CNET News, CA - Jun 27, 2008
But is it acceptable to identify and slow down specific types of traffic like BitTorrent or other peer-to-peer applications? Wegleitner: Well, it's sort of ...
Stow grants cable franchise for Verizon FiOS TV Boston Globe
Verizon Receives Approval to Provide FiOS TV Services in Stow RedOrbit
Verizon's FiOS TV service to be available in Stow, Massachusetts Trading Markets (press release)
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ISP introduces upload cap to stymie P2P servers
TechRadar.com, UK - 5 hours ago
... of most normal users, OCN is clearly targeting customers who are up to no good, most likely running servers on file-sharing networks like BitTorrent. ...
Japanese ISP becomes first to cap uploads Broadband Genie
all 2 news articles

Can Any Router Guarantee Bandwidth For VOIP?
Slashdot - Jun 26, 2008
The downside is now bittorrent messes up the phone again. by c_forq (924234) Couldn't you do a low heat/low power CPU that doesn't need active cooling, RAM, ...

Can Any Router Guarantee Bandwidth For VOIP?
Slashdot - 53 minutes ago
... to the MAC address of the Vonage box, low priority to the BitTorrent box, and medium quality to everything else, which helps a little, but not enough. ...

IsoHunt Goes Secure, Adds SSL Encryption
TorrentFreak - 23 hours ago
ISPs and authorities increasingly use Deep Packet Inspection hardware to block access to BitTorrent sites, or spy on users’ browsing habits. ...

Daily Debrief: Defusing a P2P crisis before it starts
CNET News, CA - 21 hours ago
The backlash against BitTorrent is only beginning. Mark Cuban and others have raised the idea of charging for upstream bandwidth usage. ...

BT starts threatening music downloaders with internet cut-off
Register, UK - Jun 26, 2008
Ares can be used as a client for both Gnutella and BitTorrent networks. Geoff Taylor, chief of UK record industry trade body the BPI, told The Register in a ...

NIN Releases Album Download Details via Google Earth
Zeropaid, CA - 14 hours ago
It's released part of an album on BitTorrent for fans to check out and pique interest on the remainder. It's even offered a free digital tour sampler so ...

Arrested OiNK Uploaders Bail to be Extended
TorrentFreak - 16 hours ago
The six individuals who are arrested for allegedly sharing music on the OiNK BitTorrent tracker, are due to report to police at the start of July. ...

BitTorrent, P2P Criticized by Internet Founder
Slyck, NY - Jun 26, 2008
Bloggers from Structure 08, a technology industry trade show hosted in San Francisco, reported on another intriguing assessment of P2P technology’ impact on ...

CNET News

Inventor of the Internet takes aim at BitTorrent
CNET News, CA - Jun 25, 2008
By Rafe Needleman – June 25, 2008 9:40 PM PDT In the 1960s, Dr. Lawrence Roberts invented computer networking via data packets, which led directly to the ...

Microsoft eats humble pie over XP
Australian Personal Computer, Australia - 14 hours ago
(In the absence of any further explanation from Mr Veghte, we're sure BitTorrent will fulfil many people's needs for years to come. ...

Multichannel News

SCTE: Cable CTOs Dish On Bandwidth
Multichannel News, NY - Jun 25, 2008
Comcast was criticized by Internet activists for throttling back peer-to-peer applications that use the BitTorrent protocol, complaining that the practice ...

TorrentFreak

Joss Stone: Piracy is Brilliant, Music Should be Shared
TorrentFreak - 17 hours ago
Last year rapper 50 Cent made some positive remarks about filesharing, and Nine Inch Nails takes it even further, as they upload their music onto BitTorrent ...

Multichannel News

SCTE: Cable CTOs Dish On Bandwidth
Multichannel News, NY - 1 hour ago
Comcast was criticized by Internet activists for throttling back peer-to-peer applications that use the BitTorrent protocol, complaining that the practice ...

Horrors: No more iTunes cards at Starbucks
CrunchGear, NY - 17 hours ago
In other music-related news, it looks like Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida” sold quite well, despite the fact that it was available on BitTorrent sites for some ...

Japanese ISP Limits Uploads to 30GB per Day
Zeropaid, CA - 15 hours ago
Data caps seem to be where ISPs are heading these days in lieu of interfering with certain types of traffic, notably BitTorrent, since the practice ...

Sorry Sweden, you're barred - BCS

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Sorry Sweden, you're barred
BCS, UK - Jun 25, 2008
The BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay is to add encryption that will counter the new legislation. Writing in his blog, Peter Sunde - the co-founder of the ...
Torrent site encrypts piracy for privacy Inquirer
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CentOS 5.2 released - Heise Online

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CentOS 5.2 released
Heise Online, Germany - Jun 25, 2008
... i386 and x86_64 architectures at various mirror servers. To avoid overloading the HTTP mirrors the project recommends downloading via Bittorrent. (jk/c't)

eFluxMedia

Initiative Group Lobbies For Prioritizing Broadband Access
eFluxMedia - 11 hours ago
Big names such as Google (represented by its Chief Technology Evangelist Vint Cerf), BitTorrent, ACLU, Skype, the Writers Guild of America and others also ...
Google's Cerf advocates regulatory approach to opening broadband ... BetaNews
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Safe Peer-to-Peer sharing - ITvoir

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Safe Peer-to-Peer sharing
ITvoir, India - 6 hours ago
Whether it is Gnutella or BitTorrent, peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are a popular way of sharing files among users. Music, videos, movies…people pick them all ...

Torrent site encrypts piracy for privacy
Inquirer, UK - Jun 25, 2008
By Wily Ferret: Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 10:25 AM THE PIRATE BAY, perhaps the world's most notorious source for internet downloads, has announced that it is ...

bit-tech.net

45% of all traffic is P2P, say Sandvine
bit-tech.net, UK - Jun 25, 2008
Unsurprisingly, the figures are even more damning for upstream data transfer where P2P accounts for a massive 75 percent, meaning that BitTorrent and ...

Pirate Bay uses encryption to scupper new law
PC Advisor, UK - 16 hours ago
Controversial BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay is adding encryption to its website in order to counter a new Swedish law that allows wiretapping of internet ...
Torrent site encrypts piracy for privacy Inquirer
all 2 news articles

e-linux.it

Distribution Release: eAR OS 1.10
e-linux.it, Italy - 15 hours ago
Visit the project's news page to read the full release announcement. Download the live CD via BitTorrent: earos_v1_10b.iso (657MB, MD5)

TorrentFreak

Leaked TV Episodes Popular on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - 12 hours ago
This week, seven shows leaked on BitTorrent, before they actually aired on TV. Four of those made it into the top 10 of most downloaded TV-shows. ...

P2P Throttling Company Says 44% of Traffic is P2P
Zeropaid, CA - 18 hours ago
Company that helped Comcast throttle BitTorrent traffic also says the net neutrality debate will "be laughable in the next two or three years. ...

PC World

Avast Ye Bootleggers: Three Strikes and You're Out!
PC World - Jun 24, 2008
(What's Bittorrent? What's a tracker? A seed? A swarm? What's a TCP socket? PHE? A symmetrical cipher? An HTTP GET request? An SHA1 hashing algorithm? ...

Sandvine: 44% of Web Traffic is P2P
NewTeeVee, CA - 2 hours ago
Sandvine devices were reportedly used in Comcast’s throttling of BitTorrent traffic, and the company recently released FairShare, a network management tool ...

Chessbase News

Armageddon decider – more readers' feedback
Chessbase News, Germany - 13 hours ago
The letters keep pouring in, and even BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen, who once beat Irina Krush, has weighed in with a proposal for a new blitz clock. ...

Flashback: Internet Relay Chat
Connected Internet, UK - 8 hours ago
It withered in the face of competition from web forums, mailing lists and blog comments, and to an extent, BitTorrent. It didn’t help that by the end most ...

Sandvine: close to half of all bandwidth sucked up by P2P
Ars Technica, MA - 14 hours ago
Sandvine was the largely-rumored equipment supplier that enabled Comcast's controversial decision to filter BitTorrent traffic without actually telling any ...

15th Anniversary: 5 Things Wired Pronounced Dead Prematurely
Wired News - Jun 23, 2008
BitTorrent? D'oh! Futurism (December 2003) Predicting the death of predictions? Niiiice. Brands (november 2004) Would someone please tell the tweens — and ...

Himalayan Times

D-Link updates DNS-323 NAS unit with BitTorrent client
engadget, CA - 42 minutes ago
... but it's getting even more flexible today with the addition of an official BitTorrent client that'll run independently of your computer. ...
MIT fabricates nanowire mats to selectively absorb oil Portalino
Dig Dug Pillows spark dreams of retro gaming paradise engadget
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Apps we love - Globe and Mail

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Apps we love
Globe and Mail, Canada - Jun 23, 2008
It's the unique features, like built-in Bittorrent and IRC clients, mouse gestures and a speed dial function that grants easy access to your nine favourite ...

The TV Addict Takes A Stand By Not Downloading FRINGE
DVR Playground (press release), IL - 14 hours ago
But since I have yet to go the BitTorrent route and download the ‘leaked’ pilot, I’m going to have to take his word for it. You see, this TV Addict is ...

The Pirate Bay Pledges ISPs to Block Sweden
TorrentFreak - 21 hours ago
In addition, the BitTorrent tracker will add SSL encryption to their site, and roll out a new VPN service. Earlier this week, Swedish parliament had voted ...
SSL Encryption Coming To The Pirate Bay Slashdot
Pirate Bay bringing SSL encryption for its users Afterdawn.com
all 5 news articles

The Pirate Bay to Add SSL Encryption Starting this Week
Zeropaid, CA - Jun 22, 2008
The Pirate Bay, one of the world's largest BitTorrent tracker sites, is once again at the forefront of privacy rights in Sweden with news that it plans to ...

D-Link network storage device functions as independent BiTorrent ...
AME Info (press release), United Arab Emirates - Jun 22, 2008
Recognized by BitTorrent, Inc., provider of the global standard technology for high-quality content delivery on the Internet, the D-Link DNS-323 two-Bay ...

Sandvine CEO Says Internet Monitoring a Necessity
Slashdot - Jun 21, 2008
An anonymous reader writes "It's been widely reported by now that Comcast is throttling BitTorrent traffic. What has escaped attention is the fact that ...

Sandvine CEO Says Internet Monitoring a Necessity
Slashdot - 1 hour ago
An anonymous reader writes "It's been widely reported by now that Comcast is throttling BitTorrent traffic. What has escaped attention is the fact that ...

5 Billion Files - Slyck

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5 Billion Files
Slyck, NY - Jun 21, 2008
In the time it takes to write an article, millions of files fly across the BitTorrent community. Since BitTorrent is more of a protocol rather than a ...

Comcast Begins Testing Net Neutrality
All About Jazz, PA - 21 hours ago
The move is designed to set aside complaints that the Philadelphia-based company has been throttling BitTorrent data and other peer-to-peer traffic to ...

IsoHunt adds 10.000 Free and Legal Albums
TorrentFreak - Jun 21, 2008
When BitTorrent sites have come under attack by media groups and their battalions of lawyers, it’s usual for them to pull up the drawbridge and keep the ...
IsoHunt adds thousands of authorized albums Afterdawn.com
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5 Reasons to Ditch Your Cable Box or Satellite Dish
PC World - Jun 20, 2008
The other thing that makes Vuze different is that it uses BitTorrent, which makes big downloads much faster (though dicier, too, if your ISP throttles ...

ISPs Experimenting With New P2P Controls
Slashdot - Jun 20, 2008
alphadogg points us to a NetworkWorld story about the search by ISPs for new ways to combat the web traffic issues caused by P2P applications. ...

Qwest CTO talks about industry in flux
NetworkWorld.com, MA - Jun 20, 2008
By Brad Reed , Network World , 06/20/2008 LAS VEGAS – Many Internet service providers are finding themselves going through a period of transition, ...

ISPs experimenting with new P2P controls
Computerworld, MA - Jun 20, 2008
Typically, P2P technology such as BitTorrent distributes large data files by breaking them up into small pieces and sending them through multiple sources. ...

Read the Manuals Before you buy Tech gear
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Jun 20, 2008
I called tech support and asked for the port info that the BitTorrent app needed and the rep told me to email it. So I emailed it and I got a response ...

OpenSuse 11 is here
Current IT news from heise online, UK - Jun 20, 2008
As planned, the developers of the OpenSuse Linux distribution issued Version 11 on Thursday. This new major version contains updated software, ...

DailyTech

Scientists demonstrate that it's possible to implicate most ...
DailyTech, IL - 13 hours ago
The group at UW says it was able to bait DMCA enforcers by querying popular BitTorrent trackers “without uploading or downloading any file data whatsoever. ...

Change of heart attributable to fears of further legislation
DailyTech, IL - Jun 20, 2008
A panel of executives from AT&T and Verizon urged the FCC to take action in the ongoing Comcast BitTorrent saga, in order to show that legislation is not ...

Jamie's Random Musings on Video IM
ZDNet UK, UK - Jun 20, 2008
It took about 3 hours, using a BitTorrent client on my current Ubuntu system. I also opted for the 64-bit version, since the two laptops I am planning to ...

AT&T and Verizon say FCC Net neutrality principles work
DailyTech, IL - 14 minutes ago
A panel of executives from AT&T and Verizon urged the FCC to take action in the ongoing Comcast BitTorrent saga, in order to show that legislation is not ...

bit-tech.net

Alone in the Dark review piracy kerfuffle
XBoxer, UK - 1 hour ago
Kotaku received tips that the new Alone In The Dark had leaked to bittorrent and that Atari were contacting games sites who had reviewed the game and ...
Alone in the Dark Reviews Prompt Legal Action Cubed3
Early Alone in the Dark reviews upset Atari bit-tech.net
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openSUSE 11.0 First Impressions
ZDNet UK, UK - 2 hours ago
It took about 3 hours, using a BitTorrent client on my current Ubuntu system. I also opted for the 64-bit version, since the two laptops I am planning to ...

Relay That Torrent - Slyck

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Relay That Torrent
Slyck, NY - Jun 19, 2008
Many know there are plenty of web based interfaces for BitTorrent. Most leading BitTorrent clients such as Azureus and uTorrent take advantage of web based ...

ISPs experimenting with new P2P controls
NetworkWorld.com, MA - 19 hours ago
Typically, P2P technology such as BitTorrent distributes large data files by breaking them up into small pieces and sending them through multiple sources. ...

Digital TV foreshadows erosion of Internet rights
Computerworld Australia, Australia - 12 hours ago
The rationale points to the bandwidth wasted by BitTorrent. That doesn't ring true. There are other flavours of traffic such as VOIP, streaming news, ...

Torrent Relay - the Website that Functions as a BitTorrent Client
Zeropaid, CA - Jun 18, 2008
Load either the URL of a BitTorrent tracker or one already saved on your PC and download content via your web browser. For regular BitTorrent users it can ...

Vuze (antes Azureus Bit Torrent) 3.1.0.0
TechSpot - Jun 18, 2008
Azureus es un avanzado cliente multiplataforma de BitTorrent escrito en Java que incluye un rastreador y un creador de torrents, por ende ofreciendo todos ...

Expanding the view on Vuze
Los Angeles Times, CA - Jun 18, 2008
A little more than a year ago, the creators of Azureus -- a file-sharing program based on the BitTorrent protocol -- launched Vuze, a version that ignored ...

Consumer Groups Dig Inside NebuAD Technology And find a slew of ...
Dslreports - 49 minutes ago
Broadband Reports user Robb Topolski, who first discovered Comcast's upstream BitTorrent throttling, ran a series of tests and found the technology forges ...
Watchdogs Claim NebuAd Hijacking Sites eWeek
Groups: Ad Firm Used by ISPs Spies on Users PC World
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Ixia Announces Industry's Most Scalable, Realistic Peer-to-Peer ...
WELT ONLINE, Germany - Jun 18, 2008
Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA), a leading, global provider of IP performance test systems, today announced the industry’s most realistic and scalable simulation of ...

Comment: France's anti-piracy law is like holding a tissue up to ...
Times Online, UK - Jun 18, 2008
The culprit of choice these days tends to be BitTorrent. There have been dozens in between - Kazaa, Limewire, and Grokster, to name a few. ...

What BitTorrent throttling really means
InfoWorld, CA - Jun 18, 2008
Internet providers' throttling of BitTorrent traffic is a warning sign of descent toward a loss of Internet freedoms because, while providers point to ...
Digital TV foreshadows erosion of Internet rights InfoWorld
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Ixia develops P2P traffic simulation tool
NetworkWorld.com, MA - Jun 18, 2008
... that slow Web traffic for individual users who consume a “disproportionate” amount of bandwidth by using P2P protocols such as BitTorrent and eDonkey. ...
Ixia Announces Industry's Most Scalable, Realistic Peer-to-Peer ... WELT ONLINE
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Blanket licensing for BitTorrent downloads--Massive approval
Cnet Asia, CA - Jun 18, 2008
I'm revisiting my post here, on blanket licensing for BitTorrent downloads where one pays a certain amount every month so one can download whatever he likes ...

Digital TV foreshadows erosion of Internet rights
InfoWorld, CA - Jun 18, 2008
The rationale points to the bandwidth wasted by BitTorrent. That doesn't ring true. There are other flavors of traffic such as VOIP, streaming news, ...

Pulling the Plug on American UseNet
Zeropaid, CA - 19 hours ago
It’s likely that a few users were generating a lot of bandwidth, causing problems similar to the ones ISPs are facing with BitTorrent, the obvious ...

Qnap Unveils New High-speed NAS Series
ChannelTimes.com (press release), India - 17 hours ago
By ChannelTimes Staff Qnap Systems joined hands with Bittorrent to enable a new powerful peer-to-peer (P2P) download engine embedded in its all-in-one Turbo ...

Ars Technica

"Cubit" P2P search protocol could one day sink The Pirate Bay
Ars Technica, MA - 20 hours ago
By Nate Anderson | Published: June 17, 2008 - 10:25PM CT In popular perception, BitTorrent is a decentralized protocol; after all, all that data is coming ...

Azureus is no more as Vuze eats it up
TechWhack (press release), India - 8 hours ago
The popular BitTorrent application is now completely integrated with the Vuze content distribution platform. Vuze CEO Gilles BianRosa spoke about the ...

Fringe Pilot Leaks Online Three Months Before Premiere
Wired News - 17 hours ago
The pilot episode for JJ Abrams' supernatural sci-fi drama Fringe has surfaced on file-sharing network BitTorrent. The episode leaked earlier this week, ...

Update: Mozilla servers back up, serving Firefox 3.0
Computerworld, MA - Jun 17, 2008
Anonymous says: Use Bittorrent instead! It's already available for download on the Pirate Bay: (Link to related site.) June 17, 2008 (Computerworld) After a ...

Time for Meters on the Internet?
RedOrbit, TX - 14 hours ago
Last year Comcast disclosed that it was temporarily turning off the connections of customers who used file-sharing services like BitTorrent, arguing that ...
Major ISPs agree to block child porn newsgroups Mexia Daily News
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Vuze is Another Good Download for Today; BitTorrent Client Gets ...
ReadWriteWeb, CA - Jun 17, 2008
The law-abiding and popular BitTorrent client Vuze added some key new features this week that make it an even better choice of ways to get video on the ...
Firefox 3 - Good PR, Poor Execution OStatic
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The Consumerist

The Methods That Target DMCA Violators Are Flawed
The Consumerist, NY - 5 hours ago
The article says, In two separate studies in August 2007 and May of this year, the researchers set out to examine who was participating in BitTorrent ...

Recording Industry Now Making Up Facts To Support Having ISPs ...
All Things D Blogs, CA - 6 hours ago
Thompson explains that he’s been known to use BitTorrent to get a copy of a TV show he missed on TV and forgot to record on his DVR, wondering why this ...

The Money Times

AT&T: Metered Net use is "inevitable"
Yahoo! Tech, CA - 14 hours ago
I'm guessing most of those heavy users are uploading and downloading pirated media and movies via BitTorrent—and hey, if AT&T wants to penalize those who ...
Changing the Rules of the Internet ToTheCenter.com
Fees for heavy Internet use "inevitable", says AT&T Afterdawn.com
Charging By The Byte To Curb Internet Traffic Free Internet Press
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Students (unaware/don’t care) about music legalities
ZDNet - 19 hours ago
Not only that, the servers block many file-sharing ports which support BitTorrent, Limewire, UseNeXT and suchlike, to crack down on bandwidth hoggers, ...

Bittorrent Users refusing to pay fines....
P2P File Sharing, CA - Jun 16, 2008
... letters to people who have supposedly downloaded, or uploaded games via bittorrent, and is demanding money, or making threats as to what will happen. ...

TorrentFreak

Azureus is Dead, Vuze Goes Social
TorrentFreak - Jun 16, 2008
After 5 years, the popular BitTorrent client Azureus is no more. The Vuze team has officially abandoned the Azureus name and the new “social” BitTorrent ...

Researchers get MPAA/RIAA to bust a Printer for P2P File Sharing
Audioholics, FL - 3 hours ago
We also find strong evidence to suggest that current monitoring agents are highly distinguishable from regular users in the BitTorrent P2P network. ...

Vuze Becomes Social, Tears Down Walls
NewTeeVee, CA - 6 hours ago
The popular BitTorrent media platform Vuze, formerly known as Azureus, is releasing a major update later today that offers some social features as well as a ...

Vuze (Azureus) Readies new Version
Slyck, NY - Jun 16, 2008
For the hardened file-sharer who demands utilitarianism over style, Vuze is little just another well-dressed BitTorrent client. But for the less hardened, ...

G4 TV

Verizon Blocks Most USENET Groups
G4 TV, CA - 23 minutes ago
While this won't directly too many people, it will have a trickle down effect on other file-sharing services like BitTorrent and whatever else the kids are ...

Techwatch

Virgin sends file-sharing warnings to customers
Out-Law.com, UK - 4 hours ago
... and they might have shared these files with others by using unauthorised ‘peer-to-peer/P2P’ filesharing networks like ‘BitTorrent’ or ‘Limewire’. ...
Campaign starts against Virgin Media Techwatch
Independent campaign calls on users to boycott Virgin Media Broadband Genie
Virgin plans controversial anti-neutrality scheme gamezine.co.uk
all 4 news articles

Nearly Half of Music on iPods is Stolen
Mobile Magazine - 4 hours ago
Going further, half of the group questioned said that they were happy to share their music through BitTorrent and other online means. ...
Average Teen Stores 842 Stolen Tracks on their iPod Gizmodo.com
all 2 news articles

Will the web revert to pay-as-you-go?
Times Online, UK - 14 hours ago
... is OK and whose isn't, critics say, and the cable firm Comcast in particular has taken a lot heat for allegedly targeting the BitTorrent video service. ...

Google Working on Network Management ID Tools
PC Magazine - Jun 16, 2008
The issue took center stage last year when Comcast was accused of blocking access to file-sharing networks like BitTorrent . At the time, Comcast admitted ...

Average Teen Stores 842 Stolen Tracks on their iPod
Gizmodo.com - 1 hour ago
In additional, half of this group was happy to share all of their music, though probably more often through BitTorrent than Times Online's "hundreds, ...

Google to expose connection-throttling ISPs
PC Pro, UK - 4 hours ago
Some ISPs block access to bandwidth-intensive applications such as BitTorrent, while others reduce a customer's speed if they pass a download threshold ...

Kadokawa asks site to cut links
Variety Asia, Hong Kong - 13 hours ago
The titles, which are available as so-called "fansubs" on the BitTorrent network, have not yet been sold to US distribs. In addition to cracking down on ...

Google backing net neutrality - developing ISP throttling detector ...
TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - 18 hours ago
By Dave Parrack Ever since it was discovered that American ISP Comcast was throttling BitTorrent and peer-to-peer traffic last year, net neutrality has been ...

BitTorrent Users Refuse To Pay Copyright Fines
TorrentFreak - Jun 15, 2008
During the last couple of years, hundreds of people have received letters from lawyers demanding compensation for the alleged uploading of copyright works. ...

Anti-Technology Technologies?
Slashdot - Jun 15, 2008
For example, BitTorrent is excellent for rapidly increasing the availability of popular files while automatically balancing the network traffic, ...

Anti-Technology Technologies?
Slashdot - 1 hour ago
For example, BitTorrent is excellent for rapidly increasing the availability of popular files while automatically balancing the network traffic, ...

ABC News

Changing the Rules of the Internet
ToTheCenter.com, NY - 21 hours ago
... because the Internet’s going to grow, and nothing’s going to stop that,” said Eric Klinker, the chief technology officer of BitTorrent.
Fees for heavy Internet use "inevitable", says AT&T Afterdawn.com
Charging By The Byte To Curb Internet Traffic Free Internet Press
all 63 news articles

Kadokawa asks site to nix links
Variety, CA - 4 hours ago
The titles, which are available as so-called "fansubs" on the BitTorrent network, have not yet been sold to US distribs. In addition to cracking down on ...

How To Promote Your TV Show on P2P Networks
NewTeeVee, CA - Jun 13, 2008
People tend to download their shows via BitTorrent instead — if they’re in the US, that is. Other countries have other favorites, so the right choice really ...

In the Future, Where There Is No Internet
Reason Online, CA - 20 hours ago
The move is designed to set aside complaints that the Philadelphia-based company has been throttling BitTorrent data and other peer-to-peer traffic to ...
Watching TV on Web may replace old-school cable Ventura County Star
all 2 news articles

SHIFT: Big media, adapt or die - DVICE

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SHIFT: Big media, adapt or die
DVICE - 4 hours ago
Yet a click away is every single Blu-ray release, available for download via the illegal shadows on BitTorrent. Some content creators, like the broadcast ...

Torrent Sites - Zeropaid

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Torrent Sites
Zeropaid, CA - Jun 12, 2008
Torrent sites allow you to download content via BitTorrent, the fastest P2P protocol. A BitTorrent tracker coordinates the P2P transfer of files among ...

Good Browser for older PC's. - OS News

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Good Browser for older PC's.
OS News - 2 hours ago
It also seems really good for non tech-savvy kids (rare these days, I know) who download lots of stuff because of it's built-in BitTorrent. ...

COOL WEB 2.0 APPS FOR EVERYONE
CNET News, CA - Jun 12, 2008
By Josh Lowensohn – June 12, 2008, 11:39 AM PDT BitTorrent, one of the more useful file sharing mediums out there is not without its complications. ...

Grab BitTorrent files in your browser with Torrent Relay
CNET News, CA - Jun 12, 2008
By Josh Lowensohn – June 12, 2008, 11:39 AM PDT BitTorrent, one of the more useful file sharing mediums out there is not without its complications. ...

Legal music torrents from Jamendo on isoHunt
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 8 hours ago
Jamendo, the largest global platform for free and legal music downloads and isoHunt, one of the leading search engines for BitTorrent downloads, ...

Nas meets torrent in QNAP attack
Inquirer, UK - Jun 12, 2008
By Paul Taylor: Thursday, 12 June 2008, 9:35 AM PR-ISH AS THIS MAY SOUND, QNAP have come out with a new range of BitTorrent-certified NAS devices that are ...

TorrentRelay Downloads Any Torrent Through Your Browser
Lifehacker Australia, Australia - 10 hours ago
Not only does that mean that you can download files over BitTorrent without installing a new BitTorrent client if you're on someone else's computer, ...

TorrentFreak

BitTorrent Trio Hit a Billion Pageviews a Month
TorrentFreak - Jun 11, 2008
Following Mininova and The Pirate Bay, isoHunt is now the third BitTorrent site to enter the list of top 100 most visited websites on the Internet. ...

TITLE: BitTorrent Web UI Malformed HTTP "Range" Header Denial of ...
SecuObs, France - Jun 11, 2008
DESCRIPTION: Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in BitTorrent, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). ...

TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent (wk23)
TorrentFreak - Jun 11, 2008
TV shows are by far the most wanted files via BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s fast becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people ...

Radio's click-to-buy music service goes titsup
Register, UK - 15 hours ago
While songs were more expensive than on Amazon or iTunes, Cliq made acquiring music even easier than finding a web browser, or loading up Bittorrent. ...

MHR Scouting Services -- Torrents
Mile High Report, CO - 11 hours ago
Your first step will be to download a bitTorrent client. This is a program that essentially tells your computer what these fancy files are, and keeps the ...

CBC.ca

Rogers says its internet interference is necessary, but minimal
CBC.ca, Canada - Jun 10, 2008
Peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent have emerged as an efficient way to distribute large files such as video because they allow users to download ...

QNAP launches a BitTorrent Certified High-speed, Energy-saving NAS ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 12 minutes ago
QNAP Systems, Inc. today announced its cooperation with BitTorrent, Inc. to enable a new powerful peer-to-peer (P2P) download engine embedded its All-in-One ...

QNAP and BitTorrent Cooperate to Enable a Powerful All-in-One ...
24-7PressRelease.com (press release) - Jun 10, 2008
According to Mr. Shawn Shu, Vice President of QNAP, "Most people are used to using PCs for BitTorrent downloads. However, this can induce a high cost of ...

CNET News

Game Over. Hulu Wins. They Have The Daily Show. And Colbert.
Washington Post, United States - 1 hour ago
No more Tivo. No more dealing with BitTorrent. I can just log in and watch the show in 480p, and that makes me very, very happy.
Game Over. Hulu Wins. They Have The Daily Show. And Colbert. TechCrunch
Comedy Central to offer Stewart, Colbert on Hulu Reuters
Surprise! Stewart and Colbert have come to Hulu CNET News
CNN International - Hartford Courant
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Japanese pics go online - Variety

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Japanese pics go online
Variety, CA - 15 hours ago
By MARK SCHILLING TOKYO -- BitTorrent plans to webcast 29 Japanese pics and toons, along with 10 trailers for new pics, until June 13 in cooperation with ...

eHomeUpgrade (press release)

D-Link Network Storage Device Functions as Independent BitTorrent ...
eHomeUpgrade (press release), CA - Jun 9, 2008
Recognized by BitTorrent, Inc., provider of the global standard technology for high-quality content delivery on the Internet, the D-Link® two-Bay Network ...
NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo Named Best Buy and Selected as Top Network ... eHomeUpgrade (press release)
all 2 news articles

Virgin territory for ISPs - BBC News

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ITProPortal

Virgin territory for ISPs
BBC News, UK - 15 hours ago
Like almost every technically-competent internet user of my acquaintance I've used BitTorrent to get my hands on a copy of a TV show that I missed, ...
Virgin Music Campaigns Against Illegal File-Sharing PC World
Virgin Media and BPI join forces to attack illegal filesharing Register
Virgin Media To Spy On & Threaten Downloaders Slashdot
all 43 news articles

2008 06-09 MediaBytes: APPLE - WIMAX - ICAHN - YAHOO - MICROSOFT ...
Media 3.0, NY - Jun 9, 2008
COMCAST (NASD: CMCSA) was slapped with three Class Action lawsuits over its decision to throttle the internet connection of customers downloading BitTorrent ...

Comcast sued over BitTorrent throttling
Afterdawn.com - Jun 8, 2008
The broadband provider Comcast has been served with three class-action lawsuits this week for its former practice of throttling BitTorrent file transfers ...

TECH.BLORGE.com

BitTorrent users find safe harbor on AT&T’s Network
TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - Jun 8, 2008
By Contributor ATT&T’s new chief technical officer John Donovan has stated that AT&T will not be interfering with BitTorrent users. Donovan told Wired.com ...

Computex 2008:QNAP launches a BitTorrent Certified High-speed ...
BigNews.biz (press release), MA - Jun 8, 2008
QNAP Systems, Inc. today announced its cooperation with BitTorrent, Inc. to enable a new powerful peer-to-peer (P2P) download engine embedded its All-in-One ...

Legal Trouble For Multiple ISPs
Slashdot - 4 hours ago
The site notes that while illegal content trading is a common use of the technology, Bittorrent is emerging as an effective medium for transferring ...

Legal Trouble For Multiple ISPs
Slashdot - 54 minutes ago
The site notes that while illegal content trading is a common use of the technology, Bittorrent is emerging as an effective medium for transferring ...

eFluxMedia

Policing The Bandwidth Pigs
Multichannel News, NY - 1 hour ago
It has been widely reported that Comcast has used Sandvine’s system to throttle back BitTorrent-based peer-to-peer traffic. In March, Comcast said it would ...
Customers cry fraud over Comcast P2P meddling in new lawsuit Ars Technica
all 98 news articles

Gizmodo

AT&T Embraces BitTorrent, Considers Usage-Based Pricing
Slashdot - Jun 7, 2008
He contrasts his view of BitTorrent and P2P in general against the controversial policies adopted by other ISPs. Donovan also explains why AT&T is ...
AT&T Considers Usage-Based Pricing as BitTorrent Solution AT&T ... Dslreports
Welcome to the Future of Broadband: Third Major ISP AT&T Testing ... Gizmodo
all 4 news articles

Gizmodo

Welcome to the Future of Broadband: Third Major ISP AT&T Testing ...
Gizmodo - Jun 7, 2008
It's increasingly video, not BitTorrent. The whole pro-BitTorrent thing is a smokescreen, because BitTorrent is less and less of an issue—video, ...

TorrentFreak

Artist Releases Album Exclusively on Demonoid
TorrentFreak - 16 hours ago
Tens and thousands of artists share their music on Demonoid, The Pirate Bay, Mininova and other BitTorrent sites. We got in touch with one of them to find ...

AT&T Considers Usage-Based Pricing as BitTorrent Solution AT&T ...
Dslreports - Jun 7, 2008
AT&T is considering a move to usage-based pricing which would allow the company to continue to let BitTorrents thrive on the site but at a price to the ...

AT&T Considers Usage-Based Pricing as BitTorrent Solution
Dslreports - Jun 7, 2008
AT&T is considering a move to usage-based pricing which would allow the company to continue to let BitTorrents thrive on the site but at a price to the ...

AT&T Testing Usage-Based Pricing in Fall, Supports BitTorrent
Hard OCP, TX - 22 hours ago
Details are thin at this time but it's definitely something you need to be aware of, especially if you're a BitTorrent or other heavy-bandwidth user. ...

Rhever Offers Legal (But Questionable) Alternative to BitTorrent ...
Dslreports - Jun 7, 2008
There’s an interesting article over at TorrentFreak discussing a company called Rhever which aims to replace BitTorrent and LimeWire filesharing with what ...

DailyTech

AT&T Embraces BitTorrent, Considers Usage-Based Pricing
Slashdot - Jun 7, 2008
He contrasts his view of BitTorrent and P2P in general against the controversial policies adopted by other ISPs. Donovan also explains why AT&T is ...
Time Warner Cable To Test Metered Internet Access InformationWeek
Time Warner Cable to Charge $1 for Each GB of Allotted Content TMCnet
Cable Companies Test Bandwidth Management Schemes Sci-Tech Today
Consumer Affairs - Zeropaid
all 327 news articles

AT&T Embraces BitTorrent, May Consider Usage-Based Pricing
Wired News - Jun 6, 2008
The statement stands in contrast to other ISPs, such as Comcast, which has, a lawsuit alleges, blocked BitTorrent traffic. Comcast has stated that it does ...

Comcast Hit With 3 Class Actions Over BitTorrent Throttling
Digital Media Wire, CA - Jun 6, 2008
... lawsuits this week in three states over its practice of throttling the BitTorrent file transfers of some of its users, Ars Technica reported. ...

Study: DMCA Takedown Notices Based on Flawed Investigations
Digital Media Wire, CA - 1 hour ago
The researchers monitored file-sharing activity on the BitTorrent network last year, and in the course of their study received 206 complaints of ...
Laser Printers Found Guilty of "Making Available" Crimes EFF
all 3 news articles

TorrentFreak

Be Afraid of BitTorrent, Very, Very Afraid
TorrentFreak - Jun 6, 2008
It appears to be trying to scare users away from BitTorrent and LimeWire, and onto its service. Their promo videos are entertaining, I admit that, ...

Customers cry fraud over Comcast P2P meddling in new lawsuit
Ars Technica, MA - 5 hours ago
For those just catching up, complaints from suspicious customers began surfacing last fall about Comcast using questionable methods to block BitTorrent ...

TrustedReviews

Virgin Music Campaigns Against Illegal File-Sharing
PC World - 2 hours ago
BPI investigators will closely monitor BitTorrent activities and inform Virgin Media of the IP addresses involved. The ISP will be responsible for ...
Virgin Media and BPI join forces to attack illegal filesharing Register
all 23 news articles

BitTorrent's Top 10 TV shows (not that you would do that)
TV Squad, CA - Jun 6, 2008
In fact, 50% of BitTorrent activity is apparently the downloading of television shows, with literally millions of downloads for each episode of those top ...

Virgin Media and BPI join forces to attack illegal filesharing
Register, UK - 5 hours ago
Investigators will monitor BitTorrent swarms and log Virgin Media IP addresses, which will be passed on to the ISP to identify the customers. ...
Virgin Media to 'educate' illegal file sharers PC Advisor
all 19 news articles

UK Police begin arresting BitTorrent users
Playlouder news, UK - 12 hours ago
Police have confirmed that they have arrested six UK residents in connection with posting pre-release albums on the now defunct, BitTorrent associated, ...

Ars Technica

Study paints grim picture of automated P2P enforcement
Ars Technica, MA - 8 hours ago
In the course of doing earlier research on BitTorrent in 2007, the researchers attracted 206 complaints by accident, even though none of their machines were ...

TorrentFreak

Study Reveals Reckless Anti-Piracy Antics
TorrentFreak - 16 hours ago
Whether a false positive sent to a user that has never even used BitTorrent or a truly infringing user that relies on incomplete IP blacklists, ...
U. of Washington Researchers: Study Attracted Bogus DMCA Notices Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
University study uncovers flaws in DMCA takedown notices TechSpot
all 4 news articles

CBC.ca

Comcast Tests User Throttling
eWeek,  NY - Jun 5, 2008
Comcast's first response to the problem was to throttle P2P applications such as BitTorrent during peak network hours. That approach, however, led to ...
Comcast rolls out 'bandwidth blacklists' Register
New Comcast traffic management targets users, not protocols NetworkWorld.com
Heavy Internet Users Targeted Washington Post
Wired News - New York Times
all 155 news articles

Comcast rolls out 'bandwidth blacklists'
Register, UK - Jun 5, 2008
For at least a year - and maybe more - Comcast has used TCP reset flags to throttle BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer traffic, claiming that P2P file ...

Comcast High-Usage Throttling Test to Begin
HULIQ (press release), NC - Jun 5, 2008
You'll recall earlier I wrote about Comcast's new collaboration with BitTorrent. More interesting to me however, was that in that same statement Comcast ...

Comcast testing Internet traffic management system
Bizjournals.com, NC - Jun 5, 2008
In March, Comcast announced it would stop targeting specific file-sharing applications, such as the ones developed by San Francisco-based BitTorrent Inc., ...

Time Warner Cable to Charge $1 for Each GB of Allotted Content
TMCnet - Jun 5, 2008
The Max Planck Institute reported that Comcast (News - Alert) is engaging in a bitter battle with BitTorrent clients by blocking them or throttling of ...

Ofcom asks ISPs nicely to stop mis-selling broadband on speed
Register, UK - 2 hours ago
If an ISP has deployed kit to throttle specific protocols such as BitTorrent, it should publish the fact on its website, and provide details of the times ...

"Bittorrent filtering, bad customer service, prices keep going up"
BroadbandReports.com, NY - Jun 5, 2008
If it were about $20 cheaper - it'd be a bargain. But $94/month for basic internet and basic television is ridiculous. Tech support is decent; ...

US ISPs to test restricting heavy Internet users
Men's News Daily, CA - Jun 4, 2008
... to the FCC that Comcast had specifically targeted customers using applications that made use of the BitTorrent system, a popular form of file sharing. ...

Comcast, TWC test curbs on heavy Internet use
BetaNews - Jun 4, 2008
But David L. Cohen, Comcast's executive VP, has admitted to a "limited form of network management" in which requests for BitTorrent files are "delayed" but ...

Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Jun 4, 2008
TV shows are by far the most wanted files via BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s fast becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people ...

Comcast begins network management trials this week
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Jun 4, 2008
Comcast has since started working with BitTorrent, Pando and others to easily identify their traffic and work on management techniques. ...

CBC.ca

Comcast Tests a New Bandwidth Black List
New York Times, United States - Jun 4, 2008
Until now, Comcast has been using devices that interfered with the BitTorrent protocol—the most common method for downloading large files from computers of ...
Comcast Tests User Throttling eWeek
Comcast rolls out 'bandwidth blacklists' Register
Comcast begins network management trials this week San Francisco Chronicle
NetworkWorld.com - Washington Post
all 155 news articles

Cable Companies Test Bandwidth Management Schemes
NewsFactor Network, CA - Jun 4, 2008
Instead, it promised to adopt a protocol-agnostic scheme to slow heavy users during peak traffic times without necessarily targeting BitTorrent P2P users. ...

Cable Companies Test Bandwidth Management Schemes
Sci-Tech Today - Jun 4, 2008
Instead, it promised to adopt a protocol-agnostic scheme to slow heavy users during peak traffic times without necessarily targeting BitTorrent P2P users. ...

Time Warner Cable to start capping Internet usage
CD Freaks.com, Netherlands - Jun 4, 2008
Comcast originally tried solving this by interfering with BitTorrent traffic, but got heavily criticised over this attack. Now Comcast Corp and Time Warner ...

New Comcast traffic management targets users, not protocols
NetworkWorld.com, MA - Jun 4, 2008
The new methods mark a shift in Comcast's traffic-management policies, which had previously targeted peer-to-peer protocols such as BitTorrent and eDonkey ...

TW, Cable test bandwidth limits for P2P
ZDNet - Jun 4, 2008
The Comcast move is especially ballsy, considering all the pressure it faces over BitTorrent blocking. “We want to deliver the best online experience for ...

• Internet Providers Ponder Bandwidth Limits For Heavy Users
Consumer Affairs - Jun 4, 2008
In May a report found both Comcast Cable and Cox Communications were using technologies that block or slow customers' access to the BitTorrent file-sharing ...

D-Link Functions PC-less
Byteandswitch.com, NY - 18 hours ago
The D-Link storage device connects directly to a home network and acts as a media hub for BitTorrent-enabled content. Through the BitTorrent Device Partners ...

Findings Of Federal Communications Commission Probe On Comcast Out ...
Gant Daily, PA - Jun 4, 2008
The complaint was filed by public interest groups in November over Comcast's block of BitTorrent users. Comcast said its tests will be conducted in ...

D-Link Adds BitTorrent Support
socalTech.com, CA - Jun 4, 2008
The upgrade will turn the D-Link device into a BitTorrent Media Hub. According to D-Link, the upgrade comes through BitTorrent's licensing and certification ...

Comcast Weighs 250 GB/Month Limit
PC Magazine - Jun 4, 2008
... Commission said it would investigate complaints by consumer groups over the blocking of file-sharing services such as BitTorrent on Comcast's service. ...

D-Link(R) Network Storage Device Functions as Independent ...
Earthtimes (press release), UK - Jun 4, 2008
The D-Link storage device connects directly to a home network and acts as a media hub for BitTorrent-enabled content. Through the BitTorrent Device Partners ...

MediaDefender accused of taking down legitimate site
Legalbrief (subscription), South Africa - 5 hours ago
BitTorrent watchdog MediaDefender is in hot water after it was accused of launching an attack that brought down a Web-based distributor of legal video, ...

Heavy Internet Users Targeted
Washington Post, United States - Jun 3, 2008
Public interest groups complained in November that Comcast targeted users of BitTorrent, a file-sharing application, by blocking or delaying video and other ...

Heavy Internet Users Targeted
Washington Post, United States - 2 hours ago
Public interest groups complained in November that Comcast targeted users of BitTorrent, a file-sharing application, by blocking or delaying video and other ...

Comcast Tries New Ways To Control Bandwidth Pigs
Multichannel News, NY - Jun 3, 2008
It has been widely reported that Comcast has used Sandvine’s system to throttle back BitTorrent-based peer-to-peer traffic. Douglas said Comcast has ...

Comcast to Test Protocol-Agnostic Network Management
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 1 hour ago
That pledge came at the same time Comcast and BitTorrent agreed to team up to find ways that BitTorrent’s P2P file-sharing system could be used by Comcast ...

Deluge Does Lightweight BitTorrent Across Platforms
Lifehacker Australia, Australia - Jun 3, 2008
Windows/Mac/Linux: Freeware application Deluge is a lightweight, cross-platform BitTorrent client. Aside from the standard BitTorrent functionality (you ...

Six arrested in follow up to OiNK raid
Digital Spy, UK - Jun 3, 2008
Membership of OiNK, a BitTorrent tracker which specialised in high quality music, was by invite only. It is thought to have been targeted because of its ...

How to Get Into Private BitTorrent Tracker Sites
Zeropaid, CA - Jun 3, 2008
Getting into the right private BitTorrent tracker sites takes a little bit of time and patience. But, like everything in life you have to start somewhere. ...

Time Warner Cable To Test Metered Internet Access
InformationWeek, NY - Jun 3, 2008
A study by the Max Planck Institute found that Comcast has engaged in routine blocking or throttling of BitTorrent files at all hours of the day, ...

Comcast Beginning 'Net Neutrality' Testing
Wired News - Jun 3, 2008
The move is designed to set aside complaints that the Philadelphia-based company has been throttling BitTorrent data and other peer-to-peer traffic to ...

Comcast Begins Testing 'Protocol Agnostic' Network Management
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 4 hours ago
Comcast originally came under fire after one of our users discovered the company was forging TCP packets to disrupt BitTorrent communications. ...

Six arrested over alleged piracy
Web User, UK - Jun 3, 2008
The OiNK site has since returned to its domain owner and offers bespoke web design services as well as news on the closure of the BitTorrent site last ...

CBC.ca

WaPo 'Web Cops' Editorial Misfires
Huffington Post, NY - 19 hours ago
In its discussion of the throttling of BitTorrent applications by Comcast, the Post attempts to strike a feeble balance - ISPs have a right to manage their ...
Comcast Begins Testing 'Protocol Agnostic' Network Management BroadbandReports.com
PRESS DIGEST - Washington Post Business - June 4 Reuters
Comcast testing protocol-agnostic traffic management Ars Technica
BusinessWeek
all 88 news articles

Review: The new high-def streaming tools
Computerworld, MA - 23 hours ago
If you're a tech-savvy video hound who likes to download movies using BitTorrent or to rip all your DVDs to hard disk, a new category of streaming ...

Gigwise

First UK music file-sharing arrests made
NME.com, UK - Jun 3, 2008
Six British people were recently arrested by police for illegally downloading music files prior to their official release – the first time such arrests have ...
Six quizzed over music downloads BBC News
all 13 news articles

Half Life Source

Comcast Network Practices Questioned by FCC
Half Life Source, FL - 4 hours ago
Subsequently last month, Comcast announced it would change the way it manages its network and cooperate with BitTorrent and other critics to resolve the ...

Radio 1

File sharers in first ever arrests
Radio 1, UK - Jun 3, 2008
The free site allowed its 180000 members to swap high quality music files with each other using the Bittorrent protocol. Membership was by invite-only and ...

Six alleged music uploaders arrested in OiNK case
guardian.co.uk, UK - Jun 2, 2008
... have confirmed that six people were arrested in connection with the uploading of pre-release music to OiNK, a BitTorrent site closed down last year. ...

Time Warner Cable to Test Out COMBINED Monthly Upload and Download Cap
Zeropaid, CA - Jun 2, 2008
For BitTorrent users who frequent private tracker sites and so are mindful of share ratios the caps must be halved to account for a 1:1 seeding for each ...

Post's 'Web Cops' Are Off The Beat on Net Neutrality
Public Knowledge Tech News and Comment, D.C. - 18 hours ago
In its discussion of the throttling of BitTorrent applications by Comcast, the Post attempts to strike a feeble balance – ISPs have a right to manage their ...

More On Media Defender's Latest Screw Up 'They should have called ...
Dslreports - 1 hour ago
The company, with 2000 servers and 9Gbps of dedicated bandwidth at their disposal, says that Revision3's BitTorrent tracker was being used for legal content ...

Gigwise

UK cops arrest six alleged BitTorrent music uploaders
Register, UK - Jun 2, 2008
Many BitTorrent users had believed further arrests were unlikely, however. Control of the domain has since returned to its owner. ...
Six alleged music uploaders arrested in OiNK case guardian.co.uk
File sharers in first ever arrests Radio 1
Six arrested in follow up to OiNK raid Digital Spy
Web User - NME.com
all 13 news articles

Open Suse 11.0: Release Candidate 1 available for download
Heise Online, Germany - 10 hours ago
... CDs with installer in Gnome or KDE4 versions are available for direct download and a DVD images of x32 or x64 versions is available from via BitTorrent. ...

The New High-Def Streaming Tools
Washington Post, United States - 12 minutes ago
If you're a tech-savvy video hound who likes to download movies using BitTorrent or to rip all your DVDs to hard disk, a new category of streaming ...

News for nerds, stuff that matters
Slashdot - Jun 1, 2008
Sivar recommends an article by George Ou examining why BitTorrent affects performance so much more than other types of file transfer and a recommendation on ...

MediaDefender launches denial of service attack against Revision3
HULIQ (press release), NC - 3 hours ago
The attack was launched after Revision3 discovered that their servers were being used by MediaDefender to post spoofed BitTorrent index files and Revision3 ...
Revision3 Under DDoS By MediaDefender HULIQ (press release)
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Why BitTorrent Causes Latency and How To Fix It
Slashdot - 5 hours ago
Sivar recommends an article by George Ou examining why BitTorrent affects performance so much more than other types of file transfer and a recommendation on ...

MediaDefender Explains Itself
Slashdot - 17 hours ago
... "Wired has an interview with MediaDefender in which they try to explain why they attacked Revision3, which uses BitTorrent to host its own content. ...

Best Practices in Podcasting
Digital Podcast News, CA - 1 hour ago
... determine whether a content delivery network is being utilized and we can also observe the use of advanced file sharing technologies like BitTorrent. ...

Torrent Woes - Hard OCP

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Torrent Woes
Hard OCP, TX - 14 hours ago
So would it be possible to engineer BitTorrent to transmit data uniformly and what would be the effect? I came up with the following chart to illustrate ...

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