Archivos July 2008


Boston Globe

Lawmaker Crying Foul Ahead of FCC Net Neutrality Decision
Wired News - 14 hours ago
Independent tests showed that Comcast sometimes sent stop signals via fake RST packets to file sharing programs that were uploading BitTorrent files. ...
Network interference Los Angeles Times
Will Comcast Ruling Prompt More Openness? PC Magazine
FCC May Vote On Complaint That Comcast Wrongly Blocking BitTorrent InformationWeek
eFluxMedia - Xinhua
all 96 news articles

Sony Euro Boss: 'Get Games From BitTorrent if You Want To'
Zeropaid, CA - Jul 31, 2008
Download the games from BitTorrent. "We are a PAL market and we are going to do it in PAL and we are going to do it properly, you can wait for it and you ...

BitTorrent News Web Site Claims It Has Proof BUCKCHERRY 'Leak' Was ...
Blabbermouth.net, NY - Jul 31, 2008
The popular BitTorrent news web site TorrentFreak has published a lengthy article allegedy exposing the recent "leak" of a BUCKCHERRY track, "Too Drunk… ...

AT&T to FCC: We Ban P2P Traffic
ZDNet - 17 hours ago
... traffic by throttling back BitTorrent packets last year, shouldn’t the second item be AT&T’s open degradation of all P2P traffic, on its airwaves? ...
AT&T To Cut Off P2P Users Slashdot
all 7 news articles

Will Comcast Ruling Prompt More Openness?
PC Magazine - 3 hours ago
An FCC investigation found that Comcast is "broadly and arbitrarily" blocking certain applications like BitTorrent, which in turn, denies "subscriber access ...
Top House Republican Scolds FCC for Comcast Reprimand CNNMoney.com
Another Wrong-Headed WSJ Editorial CircleID
FCC vote could slow your downloads Annapolis Capital
all 9 news articles

Escapist Magazine

Sony's David Reeves Points Gamers At Bittorrent
Escapist Magazine, NC - Jul 31, 2008
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe CEO David Reeves is here to remind you that Bittorrent is your friend. Folks in Australia and New Zealand say they're ...

Dr. Horrible Not So Horrible, And It's Now On Hulu (Update: And ...
Washington Post, United States - 10 hours ago
... of video format that is professionally produced and designed to spread virally (although Whedon is stopping short of supporting BitTorrent trading). ...

OiNK Admin's Bail Extended for 4th Time, Charges Dropped Against 2 ...
Zeropaid, CA - 1 hour ago
OiNK, the long shuttered music-oriented BitTorrent tracker site, made the headlines once again with news today that bodes well for cases against both the ...

bit-tech.net

Sony boss suggests PSNers use BitTorrent
Play.tm, UK - Jul 31, 2008
by Luke Guttridge Talking to website ButtonMasher, Sony's European bigwig David Reeves has implied that continental PS3 owners could use BitTorrent while ...
Sony: "You can always bittorent PSP games" bit-tech.net
all 2 news articles

The Pirate Bay Now Supports Tagging
TorrentFreak - 18 minutes ago
Although tags are fairly common for blogs and other online publications, The Pirate Bay is one of the first BitTorrent sites to implement this feature. ...

Band Leaks Track to BitTorrent, Blames Pirates
TorrentFreak - Jul 31, 2008
When BuckCherry found out that their latest single had leaked on BitTorrent, they didn’t try to cover this up, or take the file down. ...

bit-tech.net

Sony: "You can always bittorent PSP games"
bit-tech.net, UK - Jul 31, 2008
... you can wait for it and you can have it in good quality, you know you can get the stuff from Bittorrent if you want to and download PSP games, ...

Dr. Horrible Not So Horrible, And It’s Now On Hulu
TechCrunch, CA - 3 hours ago
... of video format that is professionally produced and designed to spread virally (although Whedon is stopping short of supporting BitTorrent trading). ...

IETF tackling P2P data traffic
Heise Online, Germany - 22 hours ago
He underscored this by pointing to the interest of P2P companies like BitTorrent. To the consternation of many internet service providers, like Comcast, ...

How to keep the Net free
The Gazette (Montreal), Canada - Jul 31, 2008
... Communications have been targets of consumer anger for slowing the Internet speeds of people who share files on peer-to-peer networks like BitTorrent. ...

New York Times

Network interference
Los Angeles Times, CA - 19 hours ago
The action by the Federal Communications Commission, expected to be made official Friday, comes months after Comcast pledged to stop singling out BitTorrent ...
Lawmaker Crying Foul Ahead of FCC Net Neutrality Decision Wired News
Will Comcast Ruling Prompt More Openness? PC Magazine
FCC May Vote On Complaint That Comcast Wrongly Blocking BitTorrent InformationWeek
Xinhua - NetworkWorld.com
all 80 news articles

Slyck

Interview with Anomos - Encrypted, Pseudonymous BitTorrent Client
Slyck, NY - Jul 30, 2008
As stellar as Usenet is to many people, BitTorrent is the file-sharing medium of choice - and a bull's eye for many ISPs looking to cut down on bandwidth ...

Heavy Metal Islam - Free Times

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Free Times

Heavy Metal Islam
Free Times, SC - 12 hours ago
... through such sites as BitTorrent, and the company could ++face penalties++ from the Federal Communications Commission for violating the principles, ...

Interview with Anomos - Encrpyted, Pseudonymous BitTorrent Client
Slyck, NY - 8 hours ago
As stellar as Usenet is to many people, BitTorrent is the file-sharing medium of choice - and a bull's eye for many ISPs looking to cut down on bandwidth ...

IETF tackling P2P data traffic
Current IT news from heise online, UK - 15 hours ago
He underscored this by pointing to the interest of P2P companies like BitTorrent. To the consternation of many internet service providers, like Comcast, ...

Controversy as Rookie Admin Aspires to BitTorrent Domination
TorrentFreak - Jul 30, 2008
The site owner announced she will link the site to a non-profit organization as part of a wider plan to unite all BitTorrent sites in a new air of ...

Two OiNK Uploaders Walk Free
DailyTech, IL - 6 hours ago
Much of the OiNK community has since scattered to a handful of spinoff BitTorrent trackers, and popular opinion contends that none of the spinoffs are at a ...

New BitTorrent Stores Open in Undisclosed Locations
BBSpot (satire), MI - Jul 29, 2008
... and people lined up outside, might not be the crack house you suspect it is, it could be one of the new "We Download Your Stuff on BitTorrent" stores. ...

Italians break up illegal file-share site
Variety, CA - Jul 29, 2008
As the biggest BitTorrent tracker site in Italy, Colombo-BT.org made available more than 390000 music files and 500000 movie files, including numerous ...

FCC May Vote On Complaint That Comcast Wrongly Blocking BitTorrent
InformationWeek, NY - Jul 29, 2008
... regulations regarding "reasonable network management" by jamming users attempting to share files via the BitTorrent protocol over its cable modems. ...

Police Shut Down File-Sharing Hubs in Italy, Mexico
Digital Media Wire, CA - Jul 29, 2008
Rome - Italian police have shut down what is believed to be the largest BitTorrent tracker file-sharing hub in Italy, Colombo-BT.org, according to the ...

OverTheLimit.info

FCC May Vote On Complaint That Comcast Wrongly Blocking BitTorrent
InformationWeek, NY - 4 hours ago
... regulations regarding "reasonable network management" by jamming users attempting to share files via the BitTorrent protocol over its cable modems. ...
FCC to rule against Comcast in BitTorrent scandal Xinhua
FCC probably can't police Comcast's BitTorrent throttling CNET News
FAQ: Comcast vs. BitTorrent PC World
San Francisco Chronicle - Zeropaid
all 462 news articles

p2pnet.net

eD2k servers under assault
p2pnet.net, Canada - 12 hours ago
Although revision3 contacted the FBI, it doesn’t appear MediaDefender was punished for illegally taking down a Website which uses BitTorrent to distribute ...

Colombo-BT.org, Largest Italian BitTorrent Site, Busted
Zeropaid, CA - Jul 29, 2008
Colombo-BT.org, the largest BitTorrent tracker site in Italy, has been closed following police action it was announced today. BitTorrent trackers help users ...
Italians break up illegal file-share site Variety
Police Shut Down File-Sharing Hubs in Italy, Mexico Digital Media Wire
all 3 news articles

The Pirate Bay Downtime - No Worries
Slyck, NY - Jul 29, 2008
Whenever a BitTorrent indexing/tracking site experiences some downtime, there's always the accompanying speculation that something terrible has happened. ...

OverTheLimit.info

FCC May Vote On Complaint That Comcast Wrongly Blocking BitTorrent
InformationWeek, NY - 3 hours ago
... regulations regarding "reasonable network management" by jamming users attempting to share files via the BitTorrent protocol over its cable modems. ...
FCC to rule against Comcast in BitTorrent scandal Xinhua
FCC probably can't police Comcast's BitTorrent throttling CNET News
FAQ: Comcast vs. BitTorrent PC World
San Francisco Chronicle - Zeropaid
all 458 news articles

TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent (wk30)
TorrentFreak - 13 hours ago
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 ...

Colombo-BT Shut down - Slyck

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Colombo-BT Shut down
Slyck, NY - 9 hours ago
The IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) helped score a sizable victory against Colombo-BT.org, a BitTorrent site touted as the ...

Six-month anti-piracy strategy delays Dark Knight piracy for just ...
Gizmag, Australia - 39 minutes ago
... Gatos firm that does online tracking of copyrighted works. By Sunday, it could be downloaded on BitTorrent file-sharing sites or viewed on YouTube, he said.

Modern LaTeX Replacement? - Slashdot

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Modern LaTeX Replacement?
Slashdot - Jul 28, 2008
javierzinho writes "For many years I have been using LaTeX to compose scientific documents, but truly I am getting tired of its complexity. ...

News for nerds, stuff that matters
Slashdot - Jul 28, 2008
McDowell is one of the two FCC commissioners who did not vote with the majority to punish Comcast for their BitTorrent throttling.
Modern LaTeX Replacement? Slashdot
all 4 news articles

FCC to rule against Comcast in BitTorrent scandal
Xinhua, China - Jul 28, 2008
The US largest cable provider FCC will rule that communications giant Comcast violated federal policy by throttling network performance of the BitTorrent ...

Gizmodo

FCC Commissioner Urges, Don't Regulate the Internet
Slashdot - Jul 28, 2008
McDowell is one of the two FCC commissioners who did not vote with the majority to punish Comcast for their BitTorrent throttling. ...
FCC Head Wants to Bust Open Cable and the Internet (But Without ... Gizmodo
Comcast's Growth to Come from High-End Web Usage, Not TV Marketing Shift.com
all 5 news articles

FCC Commissioner Urges, Don't Regulate the Internet
Slashdot - Jul 28, 2008
McDowell is one of the two FCC commissioners who did not vote with the majority to punish Comcast for their BitTorrent throttling. ...

Converge Network Digest

Intelligent Networks Made Possible with a Policy Management Platform
Converge Network Digest - 3 hours ago
Early on, applications like Napster and more recently BitTorrent-based applications gave individual subscribers a method of distributing and sharing more ...
Vonage Trumps New Services, Maybe New CEO Marketing Shift.com
all 2 news articles

Torrent websites in South Africa
MyADSL, South Africa - 1 hour ago
Some of the most popular services in this space include bittorrent clients, Limewire and Azureus - now called Vuze. Because many South African ADSL ...

UK Threatens To Cut Off Filesharers' Internet Access
Idolator, NY - 18 minutes ago
For instance, a couple of years ago a guy I know grabbed The Machinist off of BitTorrent. He gave up on it halfway through, and deleted it make more room ...

FCC to rule against Comcast for blocking P2P traffic
TechSpot - 18 minutes ago
... last year for using some rather dubious tactics to block file sharing and peer to peer traffic to customers who use BitTorrent sites for sharing files. ...

New York Times

FCC probably can't police Comcast's BitTorrent throttling
CNET News, CA - Jul 28, 2008
Federal regulators are planning to meet on Friday and declare that Comcast violated Net neutrality principles when throttling BitTorrent traffic on its ...
FCC to fine Comcast for blocking Bit Torrent Dallas Morning News
Comcast Violated Agency Principles for Throttling BitTorrent ... Zeropaid
Who Should Solve This Internet Crisis? Washington Post
ZDNet - ZDNet
all 497 news articles

MiniNova Updates - Slyck

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MiniNova Updates
Slyck, NY - 22 hours ago
MiniNova, like most BitTorrent trackers and developers, has an affinity for artist who embrace the file-sharing concept, and has worked thoroughly to ...

Jossip

Get Free Access to Your Favorite Magazines (While It Still Lasts)
Jossip, NY - 2 hours ago
Like BitTorrent, but for magazines, Mygazines.com is a dumping ground for your favorite printed materials. Full issues of popular titles all scanned for ...

Apple’s MobileMe Service Is A Mess: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer ...
Media 3.0, NY - 12 hours ago
The ruling comes months after BitTorrent users accused Comcast of throttling its service. Comcast admitted that it slowed some traffic, but claims it was ...
NBC, NFL Have Faith in Hill Brandweek Magazine
all 2 news articles

FAQ: Comcast vs. BitTorrent - PC World

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FAQ: Comcast vs. BitTorrent
PC World - Jul 28, 2008
What's BitTorrent? BitTorrent is a networking protocol that lets users who download client software share (transmit and receive) files from other users. ...
FCC probably can't police Comcast's BitTorrent throttling CNET News
FCC to fine Comcast for blocking Bit Torrent Dallas Morning News
FCC expected to rule against Comcast Aug. 1 ZDNet
Washington Post - Zeropaid
all 497 news articles

FCC Expected to Rule Against Comcast's Web Video Blocking
PC World - 20 hours ago
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Comcast admitted "delaying" traffic to file sharing sites and services like BitTorrent but deemed the measure as ...

Buckcherry Gets Avenged - Pollstar

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Buckcherry Gets Avenged
Pollstar - 1 hour ago
which was recently leaked on a number of BitTorrent sites. In response, the band quickly cut a video, which is available for viewing on the band's web site. ...

ZDNet.com.au

BitTorrent hole in ISP filter tests
ZDNet.com.au, Australia - Jul 28, 2008
... illegal content or block entire peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent, but could not identify illegal content shared on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. ...

UK ISPs Threat Against File-sharers - Will B&P Be the Way of the ...
Zeropaid, CA - 12 hours ago
It's an age old system that predates BitTorrent. Frequently, users simply go to specialty forums to connect to each other. It isn't very common-place now ...

CNET News

FCC expected to rule against Comcast Aug. 1
ZDNet - 10 hours ago
1 that Comcast’s network shaping of BitTorrent was wrong. According to the Wall Street Journal, regulators are expected to rule that Comcast violated policy ...
Who Should Solve This Internet Crisis? Washington Post
Report: FCC expected to rule against Comcast CNET News
FCC to fine Comcast for blocking Bit Torrent Dallas Morning News
Wall Street Journal - eFluxMedia
all 321 news articles

FCC set to punish Comcast for breaking net neutrality laws
Afterdawn.com - 16 minutes ago
Comcast is the United States' largest cable company but has been in the news over the last year for violating net neutrality laws by throttling BitTorrent ...

eFluxMedia

Three of Five FCC Commissioners Want Comcast Punished for Throttling
eFluxMedia - 3 hours ago
A simple test by the AP last October has found that Comcast appeared to interfere with the BitTorrent traffic in ways which poses ethics questions and also ...
FCC orders Comcast to stop restricting access to the Internet Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog
Comcast P2P Critic Launches Class-Action Bid Multichannel News
FCC Votes To Punish Comcast Slashdot
Consumer Affairs - CNET News
all 301 news articles

Live BitTorrent Streaming Gains in Popularity
BroadbandReports.com, NY - Jul 27, 2008
Live BitTorrent streaming seems to be a hot area of exploration for innovators right now. Last week, it was announced that 20+ European countries are ...

New York Times

FCC to fine Comcast for blocking Bit Torrent
Dallas Morning News, TX - Jul 26, 2008
This report from the Wall Street Journal predicts an imminent victory for supporters of Net Neutrality, not just because Comcast may have to pony us some ...
Comcast Violated Agency Principles for Throttling BitTorrent ... Zeropaid
FCC expected to rule against Comcast Aug. 1 ZDNet
FAQ: Comcast vs. BitTorrent PC World
CNET News - Product Reviews
all 497 news articles

College textbook publishers fight growing piracy threats
Austin American-Statesman, TX - Jul 26, 2008
Once copied, some files are distributed through peer-to-peer file-sharing networks such as the popular BitTorrent. To find a title, an Internet user could ...

CNET News

FCC orders Comcast to stop restricting access to the Internet
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog, WA - 17 hours ago
... the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to order Comcast to stop restricting its customers' access to the Internet, blocking BitTorrent traffic, ...
Comcast P2P Critic Launches Class-Action Bid Multichannel News
Comcast Tries To Polish Image Consumer Affairs
FCC set to punish Comcast on P2P blocking CNET News
Wall Street Journal - Appscout
all 296 news articles

TorrentFreak

BitTorrent video streaming hits EZTV
Afterdawn.com - Jul 26, 2008
Over the last year the consortium P2P Next has set out to develop a new bandwidth efficient video streaming BitTorrent client, mainly by utilizing the ...
EZTV Trials TV-Torrent Streaming TorrentFreak
all 2 news articles

TorrentSpy Hacker Spied on The Pirate Bay for MPAA
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 22 hours ago
The MPAA has gone to extreme lengths to obtain information on illegal filesharing in an effort to shut down popular BitTorrent sites. ...
TorrentSpy Appeals, Pirate Bay Knights Slyck
all 3 news articles

Web Video and the Net's Creaking Backbone
TechNewsWorld, CA - Jul 26, 2008
Take, for instance, BitTorrent, a free, open source file-sharing protocol that effectively distributes very large software and media files. ...

TorrentFreak

EZTV Trials TV-Torrent Streaming
TorrentFreak - Jul 26, 2008
BitTorrent streaming is the ideal low-cost distribution model for online video. Here at TorrentFreak we have been testing out the Swarmplayer since its very ...

FCC Nears Finding On Policy Violation
Wall Street Journal - 1 hour ago
The FCC would require Comcast to stop slowing or blocking access to certain online applications, mostly video file-sharing services such as BitTorrent. ...
Cable Industry Likens Itself to Academe in Managing Network Traffic Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
all 14 news articles

TorrentFreak

The Pirate Bay Promotes “The Dark Knight” Leak
TorrentFreak - 12 hours ago
Although Warner did all it can to protect the film from leaking, a Cam version leaked onto BitTorrent sites soon after it premiered. ...

Multichannel News

Comcast P2P Critic Launches Class-Action Bid
Multichannel News, NY - Jul 25, 2008
Topolski claims to have conducted tests that first identified that Comcast was intentionally disrupting BitTorrent file transfers, which he posted on the ...

Lovefilm 1, BitTorrent/iTunes/retail 0
Reg Hardware, UK - Jul 25, 2008
By Tony Smith [More by this author] Editors' Blog I've given up buying DVDs, though I haven't stopped watching them. Quite the reverse - I'm watching more ...

How the 'educational' three-month trial will work
Financial Times, UK - 23 hours ago
The BPI says any user of peer-to-peer file-sharing technologies - such as BitTorrent, Gnutella and eDonkey - gives away the information necessary to ...

Commonsense step to defuse download minefield
Times Online, UK - Jul 24, 2008
... illegal downloader on LimeWire or BitTorrent - and then pass on the internet identities it harvests to the relevant internet provider to take action. ...

Torrentz Celebrates 5th Anniversary
TorrentFreak - 3 hours ago
Torrentz.com, the largest BitTorrent meta-search engine, celebrates its 5th anniversary today. The site, one of the oldest torrent sites around, ...

TechRadar.com

BPI and ISPs Agree to challenge P2P Piracy in the UK
Slyck, NY - 17 hours ago
While indeed the P2P population hasn't moved much over the course of the last several years, the BitTorrent population has. The file-sharing community has ...
ISPs and music industry announce piracy crackdown Custom PC
Online crackdown: what you need to know Radio 1
Music Piracy Deal Breakthrough AVreview.co.uk
Shiny Shiny - Times Online
all 529 news articles

Open Source P2P Streaming Getting Ready to Disrupt CDN Business Models
NewTeeVee, CA - 23 hours ago
The team, led by Pouwelse, has been publishing the social BitTorent client Tribler, and it started to test P2P Next’s BitTorrent-based streaming earlier ...

Comcast Slapped with Three BitTorrent-Related Lawsuits
PC World - Jul 24, 2008
Now lawyers representing angry Comcast customers in California, Illinois and New Jersey have banded together and filed three lawsuits against the cable ...

TrustedReviews

Online crackdown: what you need to know
Radio 1, UK - 34 minutes ago
Peer-to-peer, or P2P, networks allow users to swap data files over the internet, but one of the most popular is a network called BitTorrent. ...
ISPs agree to throttle broadband of illegal file sharers. ISPs suck. Shiny Shiny
Parents to be punished for children’s net piracy Times Online
ISPs agree "ground-breaking" piracy deal Pocket-lint.co.uk
all 428 news articles

Telegraph.co.uk

Cyberclinic: Music downloads – resistance is futile
Independent, UK - 12 hours ago
When the BitTorrent tracker called Oink was taken down a few months back, its users were appalled. But to imagine that they're all now in HMV spending their ...
Music piracy measures strike the wrong note Telegraph.co.uk
all 2 news articles

Comcast Tries To Polish Image
Consumer Affairs - 13 hours ago
Ever since the cable giant was caught blocking access to the BitTorrent file-sharing engine, the cable behemoth has been targeted as a symbol of the need ...
Comcast to sign New York's anti-child-porn code Philadelphia Inquirer
all 329 news articles

Halite Does Super-Lightweight BitTorrent
Lifehacker Australia, Australia - Jul 23, 2008
Windows only: Free, open-source application Halite is a BitTorrent client with a focus on a small memory footprint. With Halite running and actively ...

BitTorrent Users Seek Compensation from Comcast
TorrentFreak - Jul 23, 2008
Comcast is facing a nationwide class action lawsuit for cutting off the BitTorrent traffic of their subscribers. The lawsuit aims to stop the misleading ...

uTorrent Tip - How to Organize Your Active Torrents
Zeropaid, CA - 14 hours ago
Quick guide for those looking to make their BitTorrent downloads and uploads more readily accessible. For those of you in the BitTorrent community who ...

So imagine that everyone's PVR starts seeding programmes via ...
guardian.co.uk, UK - Jul 23, 2008
The Impossibox - a large storage system which records TV and then seeds it, via Bittorrent, to other boxes. You'd only have to sell a surprisingly small ...

Buckcherry Faking Track Leak to BitTorrent?
Zeropaid, CA - Jul 22, 2008
from its upcoming "Black Butterfly" album leaked to BitTorrent well ahead of its scheduled September 16th release date. "Honestly, we hate it when this s*** ...
Buckcherry Catching Butterflies IGN
all 2 news articles

Platinum-Certified Hard Rockers Buckcherry Announce New Album ...
Starpulse.com, CT - 23 hours ago
"Too Drunk…," a featured track from Black Butterfly, recently appeared online at a number of BitTorrent sites. Buckcherry has released an official statement ...

Network-Management Filings from Comcast, Free Press
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - 12 hours ago
... one he is proposing against Comcast stemming from a complaint by Free Press and BitTorrent that Comcast blocked peer-to-peer traffic using BitTorrent. ...

Avenged Sevenfold, Buckcherry map co-headlining tour
LiveDaily.com - Jul 22, 2008
By Tjames Madison / LiveDaily Contributor Hard rockers Avenged Sevenfold [ tickets ] and Buckcherry [ tickets ] will launch a co-headlining tour this fall ...

Does BuckCherry Think The BitTorrent Community is Stupid?
TorrentFreak - Jul 22, 2008
BuckCherry are complaining that a track from their latest album has leaked to BitTorrent. How do they complain? Via an Atlantic Records press release. ...
SOURCE: Atlantic Records Market Wire (press release)
all 6 news articles

Buckcherry Catching Butterflies - IGN

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Buckcherry Catching Butterflies
IGN, CA - Jul 22, 2008
by IGN Music July 22, 2008 - Buckcherry have announced the release of Black Butterfly, their new studio album which is due to hit stores on September 16th, ...

'P2P Next' Project Tests Out P2P TV
Zeropaid, CA - 23 hours ago
The P2P Next consortium have developed a BitTorrent client called SwarmPlayer that can stream video and are looking for folks to help test out the system. ...

Buckcherry Slams BitTorrent Leak
Slyck, NY - Jul 22, 2008
from their upcoming album “Black Butterfly” has appeared on a number of BitTorrent sites – nearly 2 full months prior to its September 15 release date. ...

SOURCE: Atlantic Records
Market Wire (press release) - Jul 22, 2008
"Too Drunk...," a featured track from "BLACK BUTTERFLY," recently appeared online at a number of BitTorrent sites. Buckcherry has released an official ...

TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent (wk29)
TorrentFreak - 16 hours ago
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 ...

Techwatch

£11m P2P stream project starts public trial
Digital Spy, UK - 13 hours ago
P2P-Next has now made a BitTorrent application called SwarmPlayer available for public download. The software, which can be used to view a five-minute BBC ...
Testing starts on P2P Next Techwatch
Net TV technology seeks testers BBC News
all 3 news articles

TorrentFreak

Halite, a Fast and Lightweight BitTorrent Client
TorrentFreak - Jul 21, 2008
During the last three years, not many new BitTorrent clients have surfaced. Together, the likes of uTorrent, Azureus and BitComet have a 90% market share, ...

Speed Up Your BitTorrent Downloads
Lifehacker Australia, Australia - 10 hours ago
The TorrentFreak weblog wants to speed up your BitTorrent downloads with practical advice for getting around your firewall and managing your upload speed. ...

Tips for speeding up your torrents
Lifehacker, CA - 22 hours ago
Bittorrent is slow This is probably one of the most frequently asked questions I get about Bittorrent. Unfortunately there s not some kind of magic trick ...

BBC News

Net TV technology seeks testers
BBC News, UK - Jul 21, 2008
In a bid to create a system that can support huge audiences, the SwarmPlayer draws on the widely used BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology. ...

ISP Secretly Copies BitTorrent Tracker Data
TorrentFreak - Jul 20, 2008
Last month, the prominent Malaysian ISP “Shinjiru” had shut down several torrent sites, following pressure from the government. Strangely enough, after a ...

EU Aims To Replace TV with Live BitTorrent Streaming
BroadbandReports.com, NY - Jul 19, 2008
Researchers in 21 different European nations have come together to create a project designed to bring live BitTorrent streaming to the Internet and to ...

TorrentFreak

Speed Up Your Torrents, Tips from a BitTorrent Developer
TorrentFreak - Jul 19, 2008
BitTorrent is without a doubt the best way to share large files, as long as you follow some basic rules, that is. We asked one of the leading BitTorrent ...

Researchers Test BitTorrent Live Streaming
Slashdot - Jul 18, 2008
More details about how to set up your own BitTorrent live stream are also available." The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted ...

European Researchers Introduce Live BitTorrent Streaming, Aim to ...
CircleID, Canada - Jul 18, 2008
Dutch academic, Dr. Pouwelse from Delft University of Technology and the P2P-Next scientific director, says: "To be relevant we remain BitTorrent compatible ...

Live video streaming over BitTorrent 5:15PM, Friday 18th July 2008
PC Pro, UK - Jul 18, 2008
The EU-funded P2P-Next project is built on BitTorrent, in a bid to bring peer-to-peer technology to live broadcasts as well as downloaded video. ...
iPlayer and YouTube more popular than ever TechRadar.com
BBC iPlayer and YouTube popularity soars in past year Tech Digest
all 4 news articles

P2P-Next Introduces Live BitTorrent Streaming
TorrentFreak - 5 hours ago
With SwarmPlayer, the user can simply click on a “live” .torrent file and tune into any live BitTorrent channel. To make this possible, the P2P-Next ...

iPlayer and YouTube more popular than ever
TechRadar.com, UK - Jul 18, 2008
Web streaming is more popular than ever, according to broadband provider PlusNet. In fact, those who are choosing the internet to watch media content rather ...

Speckly - 'BitTorrent Search Simplified'
Zeropaid, CA - Jul 18, 2008
Site displays results returned from 10 different BitTorrent tracker sites in a manner that's user friendly and easy to read. The BitTorrent community loves ...

BBC iPlayer and YouTube popularity soars in past year
Tech Digest, UK - Jul 18, 2008
Since the BBC's iPlayer was launched last year, the popularity of web streaming has increased by 168%, according to web usage statistics from PlusNet's ...

Major EU P2P research project hopes to kill traditional TV
Ars Technica, MA - 8 hours ago
By Nate Anderson | Published: July 18, 2008 - 06:00AM CT Dutch academic Dr. Johan Pouwelse knows BitTorrent well, having spent a year of his life examining ...

Textbooks, free and illegal, online
Boston Globe, United States - 13 hours ago
Once copied, some files are distributed through peer-to-peer file-sharing networks like the popular BitTorrent. To find a title, an Internet user could ...

Daily Download

Remote everything using Remobo
Daily Download, CA - 12 hours ago
You add the folders or files you want to share, and then using your BitTorrent client, it automagically creates a torrent that gets downloaded by the ...

T-Mobile Appeals To FCC To Rethink 'Free Internet' Proposal
CNNMoney.com - Jul 17, 2008
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- T-Mobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG (DT), flew in its chief technical officer Thursday to plead with the Federal ...

MediaPost Publications

How the FCC's Comcast ruling could affect traffic management
NetworkWorld.com, MA - Jul 17, 2008
... ability to upload files with P2P protocols by sending TCP RST packets to BitTorrent users informing them that their connection would have to be reset. ...
FCC moves toward prohibiting Comcast traffic management Computerworld
The FCC scolds Comcast, but there’s still a long Internet fight to ... Christian Science Monitor
Cracking down on Comcast guardian.co.uk
Ars Technica - Reclaim the Media
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YouTorrent relaunches with focus on legal downloads
BetaNews - 20 hours ago
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews One of the fastest-growing new BitTorrent sites said late Wednesday that it had relaunched its search engine, indexing nearly six ...

Group warns FCC: Comcast's good behavior just a "trick play"
Ars Technica, MA - Jul 17, 2008
The company inked deals with BitTorrent, for instance, along with the P4P group and Vonage. Comcast touts those deals as showing that regulation isn't ...

QNAP Announces Next Generation 500MHz CPU+256MB DDRII
HEXUS, UK - 15 hours ago
The new models are equipped with enhanced software functions, including the new BitTorrent download engine, built-in Joomla! ...
QNAP launches TS-109 and TS-209 Pro II Turbo NAS series HEXUS
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FCC Chairman to Seek Enforcement Action Against Comcast
Bay Area Indymedia, CA - Jul 17, 2008
It wasn't until investigations by the Associated Press fully revealed the practice that Comcast admitted targeting people who used BitTorrent file-sharing ...

TorrentFreak

YouTorrent Relaunches with 67170 Legal Torrents
TorrentFreak - 21 hours ago
YouTorrent is without a doubt the most talked about newcomer in the BitTorrent scene this year. The site initially indexed all the popular torrent sites, ...

Interview: Tad Kubler of The Hold Steady
National Post, Canada - Jul 16, 2008
And you spend a lot of time on the quality of the sound and mastering, and then people are out there listening to really shitty BitTorrent files that are ...

BitTorrent Made Easy with Speckly
Slyck, NY - Jul 16, 2008
Surely there's a BitTorrent search engine that's as simple to use as Google... Indeed there is. A new BitTorrent search engine dubbed Speckly aims to ...

Cracking down on Comcast
guardian.co.uk, UK - Jul 16, 2008
Trying to stave off an FCC response, Comcast then announced a series of suspiciously timed side deals with companies like Pando Networks, BitTorrent Inc. ...

The FCC's proposal to punish America's largest cable company for ...
guardian.co.uk, UK - 12 minutes ago
Trying to stave off an FCC response, Comcast then announced a series of suspiciously timed side deals with companies like Pando Networks, BitTorrent Inc. ...

Ars Technica

Martin be damned, cable ISPs want network management freedom
Ars Technica, MA - Jul 16, 2008
The proud chronology begins with Comcast's deal with BitTorrent in March—"a joint effort to address issues associated with network capacity management and ...

QuebecTorrent Clone Outmanoeuvres Music Industry
TorrentFreak - 11 hours ago
Just days after the QuebecTorrent BitTorrent tracker was taken down by an injunction in a blaze of publicity, a near identical clone of the 108000+ member ...

Speed Up Your Torrent Downloads, Get a Seedbox
TorrentFreak - Jul 15, 2008
A seedbox is BitTorrent jargon for a dedicated high-speed server, used exclusively for torrent transfers. With a seedbox you’ll be able to download and ...

Christian Science Monitor

The FCC scolds Comcast, but there’s still a long Internet fight to ...
Christian Science Monitor, MA - Jul 15, 2008
The incident that kicked this off was Comcast’s decision to choke off the bandwidth of customers who used software called BitTorrent. ...

The Heartland Institute

Study: Cable System Is Interfering with BitTorrent Downloads
The Heartland Institute, IL - Jul 15, 2008
A new study reports Cox Communications may be routinely interfering with customers' attempted file transfers through BitTorrent applications. ...

MediaPost Publications

FCC moves toward prohibiting Comcast traffic management
Computerworld, MA - Jul 15, 2008
July 11, 2008 (IDG News Service) Amid news reports that the US Federal Communications Commission is moving to prohibit Comcast from throttling BitTorrent ...
FCC Slaps Comcast On Wrist For BitTorrent Violation MediaPost Publications
Cracking down on Comcast guardian.co.uk
Martin be damned, cable ISPs want network management freedom Ars Technica
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TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent (wk28)
TorrentFreak - Jul 15, 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 ...

Web Host EuroAccess Must Provide Details of Torrent Site Administrator
HostSearch.com - Jul 15, 2008
July 15, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Web host EuroAccess must provide details of a torrent site administrator who hosted the site “Torrent.to” on its servers, ...

CNET News

Featured Freeware: Transmission
CNET News, CA - Jul 15, 2008
Once upon a time, Mac users got the short end of the stick when it came to BitTorrent clients. Those days are gone, thankfully--and Transmission is a ...

dBTechno

Comcast and Vonage agree to play nice with over-the-top VoIP
Telecommunications Magazine, MA - 3 hours ago
Comcast also hopes its collaborations with BitTorrent and Pando Networks, along with its participation in the P4P Working Group under the Distributed ...
FCC Finds Comcast Guilty of Violating 'Net Neutrality Publish
FCC Chairman Wants Comcast To Rid Of Traffic Management System dBTechno
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OverTheLimit.info

FCC and Comcast: Reasonably Vague
CircleID, Canada - 21 hours ago
Perhaps it is similar to the developers of, say, photocopiers or guns (or, uh, BitTorrent), where as long as some legitimate use of the product can be ...
Government urged to spend spectrum proceeds on broadband CBC.ca
FCC Chief Proposes Comcast Sanctions Ontario Now
all 4 news articles

FCC chief seeks action against Comcast
Trading Markets (press release), CA - 21 hours ago
After news stories revealed the practice, Comcast admitted targeting people who used BitTorrent, a file-sharing software that consumes massive amounts of ...

Web Host Loses BitTorrent Appeal
Web Host Industry Review - Jul 14, 2008
The Netherlands was previously considered a safe location for BitTorrent sites to host their file-sharing networks. But just a year ago, Dutch anti-piracy ...
BitTorrent Host Loses in Court, Site Moves to Sweden TorrentFreak
Web Host EuroAccess Must Provide Details of Torrent Site Administrator HostSearch.com
all 4 news articles

eFluxMedia

Martin Makes Example out of Comcast
Wireless Week - 5 hours ago
Comcast said it was slowing down service to customers using file-sharing services such as BitTorrent, due to network management issues. ...
Kevin Martin Plans to Sanction Comcast for Imposing Web Restrictions eFluxMedia
FCC to Comcast: Throttling Broadband is Unlawful Marketing Vox News
Kevin Martin Tries To Thread The Needle In Sanctioning Comcast Techdirt
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BitTorrent Host Loses Court Appeal
Web Host Industry Review - 1 hour ago
The Netherlands was previously considered a safe location for BitTorrent sites to host their file-sharing networks. But just a year ago, Dutch anti-piracy ...
BitTorrent Host Loses in Court, Site Moves to Sweden TorrentFreak
all 2 news articles

QuebecTorrent Shutdown by Canadian Entertainment Industry
Zeropaid, CA - 23 hours ago
The Canadian entertainment industry managed to shutdown BitTorrent tracker site Quebec Torrents late last week. ADISQ, which represents music artists, ...

dBTechno

FCC Finds Comcast Guilty of Violating 'Net Neutrality
Publish, MA - 4 hours ago
... network neutrality woes began late last year when AP testing caught Comcast throttling P2P applications such as BitTorrent during peak network hours. ...
FCC Chairman Wants Comcast To Rid Of Traffic Management System dBTechno
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FCC boss reshapes hardline stance on Comcast
Register, UK - Jul 14, 2008
Martin said that it wasn’t just Comcast’s decision to target BitTorrent users that was a problem, but also that it didn’t tell the fellas at the FCC what it ...
US FCC Boss chides Comcast - threatens sanctions for net throttling TelecomTV
ISP set for punishment for restricting online traffic Business Feet
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ISP set for punishment for restricting online traffic
Business Feet, UK - Jul 14, 2008
US internet service provider (ISP) Comcast could face punishment for restricting their customers' internet traffic and access, it has been revealed. ...

MediaPost Publications

FCC Slaps Comcast On Wrist For BitTorrent Violation
MediaPost Publications, New York - Jul 14, 2008
FCC chairman Kevin Martin noted in a press conference the agency deemed Comcast actions a "wrong practice" that blocked some Internet users of BitTorrent, ...

New Trojan in the wild targeting MP3, WMA and WMV files
iTWire, Australia - 1 hour ago
But if they are transferred to another system, whether directly or via a peer-to-peer network such as BitTorrent or Limewire, it's a different story. ...
New Trojan in the wild targeting multimedia files iT News
Trojan infects MP3 and Windows Media files Search Security
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US FCC Boss chides Comcast - threatens sanctions for net throttling
TelecomTV, UK - Jul 13, 2008
... eg BitTorrent peer-to-peer or file-sharing movies. It simply galls them that content utilising their net resources does not also net them revenues. ...

Washington Times

Comcast buys time in case on neutrality
Washington Times, DC - 19 hours ago
The FCC is investigating a complaint against Comcast over whether the Internet giant's slowing of BitTorrent, revealed by an Associated Press investigation ...
Net neutrality goes public FierceTelecom
Comcast-Vonage Deal Generates Critics FierceVoIP
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Comcast Inks Deal with Vonage
SDA Asia Magazine, Singapore - 13 hours ago
In March, Comcast reached a deal with BitTorrent whereby Comcast pledged to develop a protocol-agnostic network management practice by year's end. ...

BitTorrent Host Loses in Court, Site Moves to Sweden
TorrentFreak - Jul 13, 2008
Until a year ago, The Netherlands was considered to be a safe haven for BitTorrent sites. However, due to legal pressure from the Dutch anti-piracy outfit ...

Closing of Canadian Torrent Site Isn't Precedent-Setting
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 22 hours ago
The entertainment industry in the country has said that this case sets precedent for other BitTorrent trackers but QuebecTorrent’s owner argues that this ...

FCC Chief Recommends Comcast Imposed Web Restrictions To Be Barred
eFluxMedia - Jul 13, 2008
By Matthew Williams Federal regulators are ready to take some action against Internet providers that intend to restrict their customers’ moves and actions ...

FCC: Bar Comcast from Imposing Web Restrictions
All About Jazz, PA - 9 minutes ago
Comcast's practice of slowing the use of BitTorrent, a method of trading video, music and software files, provides such a case. The practice was intended to ...

Large Private BitTorrent Site Deep Bass Nine Back Online
Zeropaid, CA - Jul 13, 2008
After about a week of being offline, one of the largest Drum N' Bass private BitTorrent websites is finally back online. The news comes as relief to many ...

Techtree.com

Opera 9.5 - Now leaner and meaner!
Techtree.com, India - Jul 12, 2008
It has a BitTorrent client built-in that no other browser offers. Even the search bar has a BitTorrent search option. Yes, this certainly will not match the ...

Shanghaiist Sunday Show: Ted Koppel does China
Shanghaiist, China - 10 hours ago
... Channel in the US For those of you who can't wait for the bittorrent, here are some clips from the series, most of which was filmed in Chongqing. ...

No Anti-BitTorrent Precedent Achieved in Canada
TorrentFreak - Jul 12, 2008
The smaller battle against this site is over, the larger one against Canadian BitTorrent sites in general appears unaffected. Yesterday we reported that, ...
Court orders Quebec file-sharing site shutdown National Post
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Gizmodo Australia

FCC Ready To Slam Comcast For P2P Filtering
Gizmodo Australia, Australia - Jul 12, 2008
It looks as though Republican FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is ready to lay the hammer down on Comcast regarding their wanton BitTorrent blocking. ...

Sans Digital offers up AccuNAS AN2L 2-bay NAS enclosure
engadget, CA - 1 hour ago
You'll also find that this thing doubles triples as an iTunes music server and BitTorrent client, which makes it all the more tempting, does it not? ...

FCC Chief Clarifies His Statement On Comcast
Slashdot - Jul 12, 2008
Several readers sent in word that the FCC chairman, Kevin Martin, is calling for sanctions and enforcement actions against Comcast for resetting BitTorrent ...

ABC News

FCC Chief Would Bar Comcast From Imposing Web Restrictions
New York Times, United States - Jul 12, 2008
Comcast’s practice of slowing the use of BitTorrent, a method of trading video, music and software files, provides such a case. The practice was intended to ...
Comcast Ordered to Stop BitTorrent Traffic Interference TorrentFreak
FCC Head: 'Comcast Should be Punished for BitTorrent Throttling' Zeropaid
FCC: Comcast Broke Rules, But Will Not Face Fines PC Magazine
Neoseeker - Slyck
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FCC chief seeks action against Comcast
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Jul 12, 2008
After news stories revealed the practice, Comcast admitted targeting people who used BitTorrent, a file-sharing software that consumes massive amounts of ...

Multichannel News

Martin Throws P2P Penalty Flag At Comcast
Multichannel News, NY - Jul 11, 2008
The brouhaha over Comcast’s practice of throttling back BitTorrent file transfers was touched off by an AP story last fall. In that story, the wire service ...

FCC Chariman Hints at Order Against Comcast
EFF, CA - Jul 11, 2008
... order against Comcast in the wake of the scandal over their use of packet forgery to interfere with BitTorrent, Gnutella, and other Internet protocols. ...

Marketplace

FCC considers Comcast's net blocking
Marketplace, CA - Jul 11, 2008
Jeremy Hobson: Comcast is in trouble for slowing down users of the popular file sharing program BitTorrent. Comcast says when a user is uploading or ...

FCC rules against Comcast's illegal BitTorrent throttling
Neoseeker - Jul 11, 2008
As you may have read here on Neoseeker, Comcast has been throttling BitTorrent traffic for some time now, and have been less than forthcoming about their ...

Comcast vs. Your Torrents: A Recap
NewTeeVee, CA - Jul 11, 2008
FCC chairman Kevin Martin has finally decided that he’s had it with Comcast’s BitTorrent blocking. As the AP first reported last night, Martin has drafted ...

No Fines for Comcast - CircleID

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No Fines for Comcast
CircleID, Canada - Jul 11, 2008
Still, in response to critics, the company decided to work with BitTorrent and experiment with other traffic-management techniques to handle the loads on ...

Inside the Motion Picture Industry's Cuddliest Anti-Piracy ...
Wired News - 23 hours ago
In 2005, the Los Angeles-based group paid a hacker $15000 for stolen internal records about TorrentSpy, a BitTorrent search engine that went defunct under ...

FCC Chief: Comcast Needs To Change Its Ways
bMighty.com, NY - Jul 11, 2008
Specifically, they said Comcast was blocking file-sharing applications and services, such as BitTorrent, which distributes movies and other media online. ...

ABC News

FCC: Comcast Broke Rules, But Will Not Face Fines
PC Magazine - Jul 11, 2008
That investigation found that Comcast is "broadly and arbitrarily" blocking certain applications like BitTorrent, which in turn, denies "subscriber access ...
FCC rules against Comcast's illegal BitTorrent throttling Neoseeker
FCC Chief Would Bar Comcast From Imposing Web Restrictions New York Times
FCC Chief Clarifies His Statement On Comcast Slashdot
VNUNet.com - New York Times
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FCC to push for Comcast sanctions over throttling
BetaNews - 31 minutes ago
Its move is a result of an earlier complaint that users of BitTorrent were being blocked from using the service. A proposal to sanction Comcast was put on ...

ABC News

FCC Head: 'Comcast Should be Punished for BitTorrent Throttling'
Zeropaid, CA - Jul 11, 2008
The ISP has long been throttling BitTorrent as part of supposed network bandwidth management efforts, but many have proven that it did so even at times when ...
FCC: Comcast Broke Rules, But Will Not Face Fines PC Magazine
FCC rules against Comcast's illegal BitTorrent throttling Neoseeker
FCC Chief Would Bar Comcast From Imposing Web Restrictions New York Times
Slashdot - TorrentFreak
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FCC May Prohibit Comcast Traffic Management
PC World - Jul 11, 2008
Amid news reports that the US Federal Communications Commission is moving to prohibit Comcast from throttling BitTorrent traffic on its broadband network, ...
Comcast Ordered to Stop BitTorrent Traffic Interference TorrentFreak
FCC Head: 'Comcast Should be Punished for BitTorrent Throttling' Zeropaid
FCC Chair Sides with BitTorrent, Comcast in Violation Slyck
PC Magazine - Neoseeker
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ABC News

Comcast Ordered to Stop BitTorrent Traffic Interference
TorrentFreak - Jul 11, 2008
ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years now, but only recently has this turned into a political issue. In a huge victory for BitTorrent users ...
FCC Head: 'Comcast Should be Punished for BitTorrent Throttling' Zeropaid
FCC Chair Sides with BitTorrent, Comcast in Violation Slyck
FCC: Comcast Broke Rules, But Will Not Face Fines PC Magazine
Neoseeker - VNUNet.com
all 762 news articles

Enews 2.0

FCC Chair Sides with BitTorrent, Comcast in Violation
Slyck, NY - 51 minutes ago
In other words, if both a BitTorrent user and Skype user are consuming a disproportionally high amount of upstream bandwidth, both will be managed to ...
FCC Chief Says Comcast Violated Internet Rules Slashdot
FCC seeks to punish Comcast in Internet probe: report Reuters
An Imminent Victory for ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates New York Times
VNUNet.com - WebProNews
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FCC seeks to punish Comcast in Internet probe: report
Reuters - 20 minutes ago
... of blocking some Web traffic via services such as file-sharing applications like the popular BitTorrent used by consumers to share large media files. ...

Permanent Injunction Closes QuebecTorrent
TorrentFreak - Jul 11, 2008
QuebecTorrent, the Canadian-based BitTorrent tracker has lost its legal battle against the Canadian recording industry. Targeted in 2007, they faced the ...

Enews 2.0

An Imminent Victory for ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates
New York Times, United States - 6 hours ago
... cable company was manipulating Internet protocols to intermittently block file transfers made by customers using a popular program called BitTorrent. ...
Comcast and Vonage agree to work together VNUNet.com
Comcast Facing FCC Penalty Over P2P Practices WebProNews
FCC seeks to punish Comcast for throttling Electronista
CRN - Reuters
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Slyck

Legal Torrents and the BitTorrent Downloader
Slyck, NY - Jul 10, 2008
BitTorrent websites of all shapes and sizes have found their way into households around the world. There never seems to be any short supply of trackers and ...

G4 TV

Pirate Bay To Encrypt Entire Internet?
G4 TV, CA - 12 hours ago
Those wacky Swedish pirates over at ThePirateBay are not satisfied with providing the underground of the internet with BitTorrent video and music. ...
Pirate Bay wants to help you encrypt the whole Web The Industry Standard
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Mininova introduces remote downloading of torrents
Geek.com - 23 hours ago
by Gavin Robinson posted on July 10, 2008 10:03 am BitTorrent has become an incredibly popular way to share your files and Mininova is one of the top ...

Comcast Flips, Flops Way Around Throttling Lawsuit Now says the ...
Dslreports - 11 hours ago
While initially denying the practice, Comcast currently throttles upstream BitTorrent traffic for all users 27/7 using forged TCP packets. ...

The Pirate Bay Wants To Encrypt...Everything
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 4 hours ago
The folks from the popular BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay say they're working on a new encryption technology aimed at keeping the snooping eyes of ISPs ...

Featured Freeware: Vuze - CNET News

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CNET News

Featured Freeware: Vuze
CNET News, CA - Jul 10, 2008
Formerly the feature-rich Azureus, Vuze takes Azureus' BitTorrent foundation and builds on top of it a network for video discovery and user-created video ...

Comcast and Vonage agree to work together
VNUNet.com, UK - Jul 9, 2008
Comcast has already signed similar deals with BitTorrent and Pando Networks, as well as joined in the P4P Working Group organised by the Distributed ...

Mininova Adds Remote BitTorrent Downloads
Lifehacker Australia, Australia - Jul 9, 2008
Popular BitTorrent tracker Mininova has unveiled a new bookmarking feature that makes it easy to start a BitTorrent download on your home computer from ...

Mininova Adds Bookmarks, Remote Downloading
Zeropaid, CA - Jul 9, 2008
The popular BitTorrent tracker site adds new features and functions that further set it apart from all the others. Mininova has introduced several cool and ...

Slyck

Comcast to work with Vonage on network management
Reuters - 5 hours ago
Since then Comcast has announced a string of partnerships with file-sharing Internet companies including BitTorrent Inc, Pando Networks and a joint working ...
Comcast, Vonage Partner on Network Management PC Magazine
Comcast: We won’t bump Vonage over network management ZDNet
Comcast Strikes Deal with Vonage Slyck
Consumer Affairs - GigaOm
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Download BitTorrent files at home from wherever
CNET News, CA - Jul 9, 2008
By Josh Lowensohn – July 9, 2008 12:16 PM PDT BitTorrent tracker Mininova has a cool and useful new feature that lets you download any file to your machine ...
Mininova Adds Bookmarks, Remote Downloading Zeropaid
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Comcast, Vonage Partner on Network Management
PC Magazine - 8 hours ago
In March, Comcast reached a deal with BitTorrent whereby Comcast pledged to develop a protocol-agnostic network management practice by year's end. ...
Comcast: We won’t bump Vonage over network management ZDNet
Comcast Agrees To Work With Vonage Multichannel News
Comcast Dials Up Vonage Broadcasting & Cable
Dslreports - Business Wire (press release)
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Web Service sends gigabytes of data via email.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release), NY - 17 hours ago
"The solution we have designed to enable large file transfers is entirely based on open standards such as http and BitTorrent so it easily handles files and ...

BitComet 1.03 Beta
PC Authority Business Centre, Australia - 6 hours ago
The problem with Bittorrent is that it’sa rather basic tool. Does the job, but fairly simply. BitComet is a free file sharing tool that is Bittorrent ...

Swedish Prosecutor Won't Investigate Top Cop's MPAA Ties
Zeropaid, CA - 1 hour ago
Even though he was employed by them during his investigation of the The Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker site, prosecutor decides to drop the investigation ...

Google says 'traffic-shaping' technology unjust
Hollywood Reporter, United States - Jul 8, 2008
TORONTO -- Google on Tuesday branded the use of "traffic-shaping" technology by domestic phone giants to choke off BitTorrent and other bandwidth hogs as ...

Google says 'traffic-shaping' technology unjust
Hollywood Reporter, United States - Jul 8, 2008
By Etan Vlessing TORONTO -- Google on Tuesday branded the use of "traffic-shaping" technology by domestic phone giants to choke off BitTorrent and other ...

Download Torrents Remotely with Mininova Bookmarks
TorrentFreak - Jul 8, 2008
With this new feature from mininova you only have to bookmark the torrent, and it will start downloading automatically when your BitTorrent client is ...

Comcast Succeeds in Delaying Customer Lawsuit
PC Magazine - Jul 8, 2008
Hart sued Comcast after an Associated Press news report accused Comcast of blocking access to P2P Web sites like BitTorrent. Comcast admitted to delaying ...

MiniNova Introduces Remote Downloading
Slyck, NY - Jul 8, 2008
Remote computing, bookmarking and BitTorrent are a great combination. While this aspect of file-sharing has accompanied Usenet for some time, many enjoy the ...

CBC.ca

Google adds fuel to Canada's BitTorrent throttling fracas
BetaNews - Jul 8, 2008
By Jacqueline Emigh, BetaNews This week, Google jumped into the battle against Bell Canada's anti-BitTorrent practices, this time through the country's ...
Google says 'traffic-shaping' technology unjust Hollywood Reporter
Bell's internet throttling illegal, Google says CBC.ca
Google says 'traffic-shaping' technology unjust Hollywood Reporter
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Bypass Bell Canada's Throttling
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 17 hours ago
A user wishing to download content via BitTorrent needs only to configure their client to use the VPN TCP port to transfer content, associate any remaining ...

RE: They know what they are doing
OS News - 4 hours ago
That would have the added benefit of discouraging piracy, as bittorrent and the like would fill your quota quite quickly.
RE: They know what they are doing Newmobilecomputing.com
They know what they are doing Newmobilecomputing.com
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RE[2]: Id like to know... - OS News

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RE[2]: Id like to know...
OS News - 4 hours ago
Now, thanks to the RIAA and MPAA, technology like tor, bittorrent, and others are going to become mainstream and these creapy pedophiles are going to start ...
RE: Id like to know... OS News
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TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent (wk27)
TorrentFreak - 15 hours ago
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 ...

G8 Summit to Iron Out ACTA - DailyTech

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G8 Summit to Iron Out ACTA
DailyTech, IL - 1 hour ago
... to criminalize the facilitation of copyright infringement on the internet – text arguably written specifically to beat pirate BitTorrent trackers. ...

Sundance buzz is annoying and meaningless
Variety, CA - 5 hours ago
... I realized that the locals were up-to-date on all the current US releases months before those flicks hit their theaters. Thanks to BitTorrent.

CBC.ca

Bell's internet throttling illegal, Google says
CBC.ca, Canada - Jul 7, 2008
"Of course, because some P2P applications (BitTorrent for example) restrict download speed to the maximum upload speed provided by the user, a customer’s ...

2008 Beijing Olymics as a Media Test-Bed
Slashdot - Jul 7, 2008
And when it comes to the "too much bandwidth" argument, couldn't they just use bittorrent? I know the reason probably has to do with money... but I'm not ...

NYTimes tackles Comcast's blacklist "restrictions"
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - Jul 7, 2008
... on bandwidth-hungry customers, after talking to the company: For now, these restrictions are just as mysterious as the secret blocking of BitTorrent. ...

2008 Beijing Olymics as a Media Test-Bed
Slashdot - Jul 7, 2008
And when it comes to the "too much bandwidth" argument, couldn't they just use bittorrent? I know the reason probably has to do with money... but I'm not ...

Dutch Court Rules BitTorrent Tracker Site Hosting Illegal
Zeropaid, CA - 4 hours ago
Last year, BREIN stepped up its attacks against Dutch-based BitTorrent websites. BREIN won an injunction against LeaseWeb, compelling the company to divulge ...

Pioneer Reveals 400 GB Optical Disc
Slyck, NY - Jul 7, 2008
ISPs shouldn't force large bandwidth consumers, such as BitTorrent or Google, into a higher priced tier for service. Conversely, there's the antithesis of ...

Internet Provider As Gatekeeper: FCC Mulls The Limits
National Journal, DC - 22 hours ago
These include an alliance with onetime nemesis BitTorrent on optimizing the delivery of broadband content; collaboration with Pando Networks, a file-sharing ...
Mobile service providers unhappy with FCC auction plan Nextgov
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Pioneer Announces 500GB Optical Disc: The Ultimate in Sneakernet ...
Wired News - Jul 7, 2008
Who needs BitTorrent to "share" these things when you have a shard of plastic and a fleet of carrier pigeons at the ready?

CNET News

ISPs prepare for video revolution
CNET News, CA - Jul 7, 2008
Peer-to-peer technology provider BitTorrent says it can help. Video consumes more network resources than any other media distributed on the Web. ...
NYTimes tackles Comcast's blacklist "restrictions" The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
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LeaseWeb Loses BitTorrent Appeal to BREIN
webhostdir.com, UK - Jul 7, 2008
As the battle to close BitTorrent websites in the NetherLands heats up, the Amsterdam Court of Appeals has ruled that LeaseWeb must divulge the personal ...

What's the effect of clamping down on Bit Torrent?
Cnet Asia, CA - Jul 6, 2008
But once a blanket licensing scheme is set up at least in sunny Singapore, legal Bittorrent downloads should be allowed to resume, and it costs the IP ...

LegalTorrents Offers CC Works Via BitTorrent
Slashdot - Jul 6, 2008
('We distribute content with the full permission of the rights holders and use the peer-2-peer file-sharing technology called Bittorrent. ...

LegalTorrents Offers CC Works Via BitTorrent
Slashdot - Jul 6, 2008
('We distribute content with the full permission of the rights holders and use the peer-2-peer file-sharing technology called Bittorrent. ...

LegalTorrents Offers CC Works Via BitTorrent
Slashdot - 41 minutes ago
('We distribute content with the full permission of the rights holders and use the peer-2-peer file-sharing technology called Bittorrent. ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Review: Netgar ReadyNas Duo
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - Jul 6, 2008
... interface to unlock features such as the inbuilt BitTorrent software, which lets you set the box to automatically download from the internet. ...

Ipoque Study: Middle East Doesn’t Watch YouTube
NewTeeVee, CA - Jul 5, 2008
There are few things that bring people from all around the world together, and the Pirate Bay’s BitTorrent tracker server seems to be one of them. ...
Net Monitor Finds Big Gaps Between West And Middle East Mashable
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TorrentFreak

Top Torrent Sites Ranked by Google
TorrentFreak - Jul 5, 2008
BitTorrent’s popularity is growing every day. Despite the lawsuits that some of the larger torrent sites are involved in, they continue to grow traffic wise ...

BitTorrent Tracker Hosting Illegal Says Dutch Court
TorrentFreak - Jul 4, 2008
Leaseweb, the former ISP of BitTorrent trackers such as Demonoid, What.cd and Waffles.fm lost the appeal against the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN. ...
LeaseWeb loses court appeal to BREIN Afterdawn.com
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LeaseWeb loses court appeal to BREIN
Afterdawn.com - Jul 4, 2008
"Leaseweb is to file an appeal against the preliminary injunction relating to the 'Everlasting' bit torrent site hosted by Leaseweb. ...

Slyck

LeaseWeb Loses Appeal to BREIN
Slyck, NY - Jul 4, 2008
The Bittorrent situation in the Netherlands has become more hostile today, as the Amsterdam Court of Appeals has ruled that LeaseWeb must divulge the ...

Gizmodo

Fantasy Gadget: The Ultimate Next Generation Connected TiVo Box
Gizmodo - Jul 4, 2008
Most importantly, they need to embrace the internet, which includes BitTorrent. There's no sense in fighting it since people are currently using software ...

Radio 1

Virgin Media blames 'administrative oversight' for threats on ...
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 22 hours ago
... of 14- to 24-year-olds in the UK said they had shared music files on the internet using peer-to-peer networks such as Limewire and BitTorrent. ...
The letters sent to Virgin customers guardian.co.uk
Virgin ISP takes action against downloaders Entertainment 3.0
Virgin Warns Its Customers To Play Safe With File Sharing ITProPortal
The Herald - Radio 1
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Copyright? What Copyright? Your Guide to Bittorrent Software ...
Open Media Boston, Massachusetts - Jul 3, 2008
Read on if you're curious about bittorrent but have never tried it, or if you already use bittorrent but are concerned about privacy and security. ...

'Heroes' Producer Sees Upside to File Sharing
Wired News - 22 hours ago
"People watching shows such as 'Lost' and 'Heroes' on BitTorrent is the present world reality," Alexander told Torrent Freak. "TV Networks have to recognize ...

Techwatch

Games firm wins rulings against British BitTorrent users
Out-Law.com, UK - Jul 3, 2008
The case involved the BitTorrent system of file sharing, which automatically makes users who download material distributors of that material in order to ...
File Sharers fined over pin ball game Techwatch
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Techwatch

File Sharers fined over pin ball game
Techwatch, UK - Jul 3, 2008
by David Allen The flood gates could be about to open, as in a landmark case a computer games company, Topware, has managed to win a court action against ...

ITProPortal

The letters sent to Virgin customers
guardian.co.uk, UK - 23 hours ago
... and they might have shared these files with others by using unauthorised "peer-to-peer/P2P" filesharing networks like "BitTorrent" or "Limewire". ...
Virgin ISP takes action against downloaders Entertainment 3.0
Virgin Warns Its Customers To Play Safe With File Sharing ITProPortal
BT to get tough over illegal file sharing The Herald
Radio 1 - p2pnet.net
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Virgin Media defend file-sharing clampdown
Independent, UK - 19 hours ago
The comments came after the company sent letters to 800 customers last month, warning that they should not be using file-sharing networks such as BitTorrent ...

A New Challenger: Textbook Publishers Step Into the BitTorrent Ring
DailyTech, IL - Jul 3, 2008
While sites such as The Pirate Bay and OiNK have enjoyed the majority of content owners’ wrath, a number of smaller BitTorrent sites have existed out of the ...

Minor update to the popular web browser
PC Authority Business Centre, Australia - 1 hour ago
Opera also supports BitTorrent downloads. These type of downloads make best use of available bandwidth by splitting files up and downloading the different ...

No defence for stealing music
BBC News, UK - 13 hours ago
The two companies have started their education campaign to try and stop people from using tools like Limewire and BitTorrent to share copyright songs. ...

Radio 1

Virgin defends file-sharing campaign
Radio 1, UK - 1 hour ago
... of 14-24 year olds in the UK say they swap files using a system like BitTorrent while 42% have let other users upload music from their own computers. ...
Letters go to music file-sharers BBC News
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Drobo Open SDK Makes Apps for DLNA Devices, Bittorrent, Media ...
Gizmodo Australia, Australia - Jul 2, 2008
They can expect apps that will allow them to stream data across DLNA devices, work as a bittorrent client, interface with wi-fi devices like the Eye-Fi or ...

‘Heroes’ Producer Recognizes Benefits of BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Jul 2, 2008
Half of the people who use BitTorrent do so to download TV-shows. Some episodes of popular shows such as ‘Heroes’ and ‘Lost’ get up to 10 million downloads. ...

Game file-sharers sued - CVG Online

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Game file-sharers sued
CVG Online - Jul 2, 2008
PC develop Topware Interactive, known for titles such as Emergency - Fighters for Life, Earth 2150 and Jagged Alliance 2, have won a court ruling against ...

Court Hits BitTorrent Users Who Failed to Appear
TorrentFreak - Jul 2, 2008
Last week, lawyers Davenport Lyons who are currently threatening hundreds of BitTorrent users with legal action, tasted victory in Central London County ...
Game file-sharers sued CVG Online
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Vint Cerf: The Internet Is Killing Innovation
InformationWeek, NY - Jul 1, 2008
Likewise, peer-to-peer applications like BitTorrent use the network at top capacity at all times, rather than the more typical peaks and valleys of usage ...
Nielsen Report: Viewers Still Prefer TV Sets to Websites World Screen News
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Slyck

Textbook Torrents Disables 78 BitTorrent Listings
Slyck, NY - Jul 1, 2008
It's not an unusual situation for BitTorrent trackers to find themselves in. I know Demonoid has been served with hundreds of such notices and has complied ...

Nielsen Report: Viewers Still Prefer TV Sets to Websites
World Screen News, NY - Jul 1, 2008
ALEXANDRIA/NEW YORK, July 1: While online viewing is on the rise, 94 percent of cable/satellite TV subscribers in the US still prefer watching content on ...

Slyck

Textbook Torrents Disables BitTorrent Listing
Slyck, NY - 1 hour ago
Textbook Torrents may have had the best of intentions going into the BitTorrent fray, yet didn’t quite realize the resolve of publishers to avoid “Napster ...

Podmailing(R): The Web Service to Send Several Giga-Bytes of Data ...
NewsBlaze, CA - 10 hours ago
"The solution we have designed to enable large file transfers is entirely based on open standards such as http and BitTorrent so it easily handles files and ...

TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent (wk26)
TorrentFreak - Jul 1, 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 ...

Roundup: Canadian iPhone revolt, mobile Olympics and more
VentureBeat, CA - 4 hours ago
Early BitTorrent administrator facing 10 years of jail time — 26-year old Daniel Dove was a long-time lead administrator at an illegal file-sharing site ...
China Mobile Said to First Offer 2G iPhones in China Trading Markets (press release)
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BitTorrent Seeder Plants 10 Years In Jail
G4 TV, CA - Jun 30, 2008
26-year-old BitTorrent seeder Daniel Dove faces 10 years of jail time after being convicted of copyright infringement last Friday as announced by the US ...
MPAA Assists in EliteTorrents Criminal Copyright Conviction Digital Media Wire
all 2 news articles

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