TorrentFreak | Google’s Insights on BitTorrent Clients TorrentFreak - We take a look at the search volume for three popular BitTorrent clients, how this changed over time, and how it differs worldwide. ... |
Archivos August 2008
TorrentRelay’s BitTorrent Download Service Expands TorrentFreak - In June we wrote about TorrentRelay, a site which enabled anyone with a web-enabled device to download torrent without a BitTorrent client. ... |
BitTorrent tracker Araditracker shut down Afterdawn.com - The private torrent tracker AradiTracker has been closed down by its administrators, exactly one year after having legal action pursued against them by the ... |
Comcast's Stupidity Knows No Limit DaniWeb, VA - Earlier this year, reports such as this one from Information Week began to surface that Comcast was blocking legitimate P2P sites such as BitTorrent in ... |
ABC News | Comcast's Answer to ... InternetNews.com - By Andy Patrizio: More stories by this author: BitTorrent downloaders who thought they had scored a victory when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ... Comcast sets 250GB ceiling Comcast Busts a Cap in Your Broadband Ass Comcast Sets Monthly Bandwidth Cap For Residential Customers |
Comcast's Answer to Downloaders: Monthly Limits TMCnet - (www.internetnews.com Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) BitTorrent downloaders who thought they had scored a victory when the Federal Communications Commission ... Comcast to implement 250GB cap in October? Comcast To Limit Customer Broadband Usage |
CNET News | ZvBox isn't the ultimate PC-to-TV box we'd been hoping for CNET News, CA - ... iTunes, BitTorrent, or whatever other Web- or PC-based video strikes your fancy. Unfortunately, we found the ZvBox had too many caveats. ... |
Avast Home Edition Cnet Asia, CA - ... Network traffic--intrusion detection, lightweight firewall; P2P protection for Kazaa, BitTorrent; Web shield--monitors and filters all HTTP traffic; ... Avast Professional Edition |
Ode to an Internet Patrolman Mashable, CA - “No more of that HD nonsense for you bandits, BitTorrent or no BitTorrent, iTunes or no iTunes,” you’ll say to them come October. ... The GigaOM 250 GB Challenge |
Araditracker BitTorrent Site Shutdown After Legal Action TorrentFreak - After four years of operation, the private torrent site AradiTracker has been closed down by the administrators. After surviving ISP troubles exactly one ... |
Digitaltrends.com | Comcast Busts a Cap in Your Broadband Ass Open Media Boston, Massachusetts - Take note, though, that P2P technologies like bittorrent rely on users uploading as well as downloading. To share data fairly on a bittorrent network, then, ... Comcast Limits Users to 250 GB Per Month Critics Question Comcast Broadband Caps Comcast to restrict monthly broadband use |
ABC News | Comcast sets 250GB ceiling ZDNet - This is how Comcast manages its network when it can’t cut off BitTorrent users. Comcast says most users use 2 to 3 GB. The thing is, isn’t Comcast’s future ... Comcast Busts a Cap in Your Broadband Ass Comcast Sets Monthly Bandwidth Cap For Residential Customers Comcast Sets Monthly Bandwidth Limit for Customers |
Comcast's Internet cap Indianapolis Star, United States - The other big losers in this -- indeed, the main targets of this cap -- are the serious users of BitTorrent and other P2P clients who make up less than one ... Comcast Caps Will Stifle Internet Video Dems Do TV End-Run With Live 'HD' Online |
Goodbye, BitTorrent. Hello, Streaming. Washington Post, United States - But BitTorrent and other such traffic is all about downloading, not streaming, and the advent of new look-ahead streaming capabilities in Silverlight ... |
Goodbye, BitTorrent. Hello, Streaming. TechCrunch, CA - But BitTorrent and other such traffic is all about downloading, not streaming, and the advent of new look-ahead streaming capabilities in Silverlight ... |
Kaminsky DNS Bug Claimed Fixed By 1-Character Patch Slashdot - Besides hijacking web browsers, hackers might attack email services and spam filters, FTP, Rsync, BitTorrent, Telnet, SSH, as well as SSL services. ... |
ABC News | Comcast Sets Monthly Bandwidth Cap For Residential Customers CRN, NY - ... FCC criticized and banned Comcast's practice of throttling back BitTorrent peer-to-peer traffic in an effort to manage and reduce network congestion. ... Comcast Sets Monthly Bandwidth Limit for Customers Comcast Sets Threshold for `Excessive' Internet Use (Update1) Comcast Puts Cap On Monthly Broadband Use |
Multichannel News | Comcast Sets Monthly Bandwidth Limit for Customers PC World - Earlier this month, the US Federal Communications Commission struck down Comcast's past network management practice of slowing BitTorrent peer-to-peer ... Comcast Sets Threshold for `Excessive' Internet Use (Update1) Comcast to Cap Data Transfers at 250 GB in Oct. Comcast to Cap Internet Usage for Customers |
250GB download cap coming to Comcast October 1st? Geek.com - The company does, in fact, have a shady history of throttling BitTorrent users; so there’s reason to believe that they also have an un-official cap on the ... Comcast 250GB Cap Goes Live October 1 Official word should drop ... Aspire X1200 HDMI hotpix |
TorrentFreak | Gazelle Rejuvenates the BitTorrent Tracker Community TorrentFreak - It was an attempt to build a new and improved BitTorrent tracker script. The ultimate goal is to produce a new framework for private torrent sites, ... |
Comcast to implement 250GB cap in October? Electronista, CA - The company has been moving towards more neutral bandwidth-limiting techniques, following an FCC ruling that sabotaging BitTorrent traffic violates net ... Comcast adds 250GB cap to internet service |
TorrentFreak | LimeWire Music Store Adds 1.2 Million Tracks TorrentFreak - Their popularity is declining worldwide - mostly due to the BitTorrent boom - but roughly 18% of all PCs worldwide still has the application installed. ... |
CNET News | Limewire Doubles Down on DRM-Free Music Store Conde Nast Portfolio, NY - While bit torrent clients and online music services generally offer a wider range of music than gnutella, New York-based Limewire still appears to have a ... Lime Wire Signs Distribution Deal With The Orchard |
Latvia’s Largest BitTorrent Tracker Shutdown, Admins Arrested TorrentFreak - Much to the disappointment of more than 100000 users, Latvia’s largest BitTorrent tracker has been shut down by the authorities. Following a joint operation ... |
There are many serious problems related for bittorrent protocol ... PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 2008-08-27 14:50:35 - One of main problems is intervention into users' private life because all actions of bittorrent users may be visible for third-side ... |
BitTorrent: Making Money Remains a Mystery Oddly, a crappy content ... Dslreports - At some point, BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen grew tired of geek adoration for his ingenious networking creation, and decided he actually wanted to make ... |
BitTorrent hires first CFO Bizjournals.com, NC - Internet file delivery company BitTorrent Inc. hired Mitchell Edwards as its first chief financial officer. The San Francisco company also made Edwards, ... BitTorrent Announces Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel |
BitTorrent Announces Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel Business Wire (press release), CA - In his dual role, Edwards is responsible for managing BitTorrent’s finances, operations, corporate strategy, and providing legal counsel on all business and ... BitTorrent hires first CFO |
After-School Online Safety from InternetSafety.com: 10 'Home Alone ... MarketWatch - Block computer programs by name -- It can be useful to prevent access to certain games as well as peer-to-peer file sharing programs like BitTorrent that ... |
10 Most Pirated TV-Shows on BitTorrent (wk34) TorrentFreak - 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 ... |
Houston Chronicle | Caps put brakes on Web users Houston Chronicle, United States - By PETER SVENSSON AP David Duprey AP • What happened: Phone company Frontier Communications Corp. has said it plans to start charging extra for Internet use ... |
Washington Post | FCC Gives Comcast 30 Days to Comply with Penalties for Throttling ... Zeropaid, CA - It's good news for BitTorrent users since it ensures that an ISP can't single out a particular service or application simply because it's capable if using ... FCC finalizes Comcast penalties in BitTorrent filtering case Comcast vs. BitTorrent, What’s Next? Comcast has 30 days to address discriminatory online practices |
5 Questions About Comcast’s New Bandwidth Throttling Plan GigaOm, CA - How much is too much bandwidth? With Comcast telling me that the average user only downloads 2GB per month (presumably not in one intensive downloading ... |
Comcast has 30 days to detail Internet plans Broadcast Engineering, KS - The commission said Comcast had an “anticompetitive motive” because it delayed and blocked peer-to-peer files through applications such as BitTorrent. ... |
Usniff - 'Torrent Search Made Easy' Zeropaid, CA - BitTorrent has forever changed the way people share files online. The only downside about searching for torrents is the fact that there are so many places ... |
P4P — the darker side of P2P? p2pnet.net, Canada - p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “Ever since Bram Cohen invented BitTorrent, Web traffic has never been the same,” say Hannah Hickey and Suzanne Muzzin at ... |
Comcast tests new internet bandwidth management Current IT news from heise online, UK - The FCC sees the slowing down of the BitTorrent file sharing protocol as a violation of network neutrality. The authority published its nearly 70 page ... |
AFACT - Downloading Movies More Lucrative Than Heroin Zeropaid, CA - The report goes as far as calling BitTorrent "piracy technologies" Perhaps someone missed the memo about BitTorrent Inc. making deals with the MPAA (Motion ... |
The Pirate Bay appeals Italian block Afterdawn.com - Swedish BitTorrent tracker site, The Pirate Bay, is appealing against the decision of an Italian judge which ordered all ISPs in the country to block the ... |
"FIOS TV service isn't available yet" BroadbandReports.com, NY - I run Bittorrent, Skype, video streams from two AppleTVs and a PS3, and the connection doesn't miss a beat. The only big time complaint I have about Verizon ... |
Usniff Is Yet Another BitTorrent Aggregator Lifehacker Australia, Australia - Web site Usniff is BitTorrent search aggregator that scours popular BitTorrent search engines like The Pirate Bay, Mininova, and IsoHunt, and aggregates the ... |
And your point would be? ZDNet Blogs - Hmm. Actually, an awful lot of people have already given up on CDs and now steal their music using BitTorrent. Rats. Doesn’t look like we have much leverage ... |
File sharing and the law The South African Star, South Africa - In others, notably BitTorrent, the organiser is not in fact distributing any copyright material. Rather, they act like a cataloguer or co-ordinator, ... |
Comcast Testing New Network Management EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet, CT - 1 ruling determining that Comcast improperly blocked traffic from peer-to-peer sites such as BitTorrent, and failed to notify its subscribers about what it ... |
P4P Will Make 4 a Speedier Net, Profs Say Marketing Vox News - On the P2P side, Limewire, Joost, and BitTorrent are working with Pando, but BitTorrent's CTO Erik Klinker notes that it is just a small step. ... |
eFluxMedia | Comcast Undecided About New Management System eFluxMedia - The FCC voted 3-2 to forbid broadband providers from doing what Comcast did - obstruct peer-to-peer applications (Bittorrent, Acquisition). ... |
An industry at risk MyADSL, South Africa - According to Declan McCullagh, a US technology journalist, Mygazines is hosted by the same Stockholm-based company that owns the BitTorrent tracker site ... |
e-linux.it | Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 2 e-linux.it, Italy - The DVD images are available for download via BitTorrent: openSUSE-11.1-Alpha2-DVD-i386.iso (4190MB), openSUSE-11.1-Alpha2-DVD-x86_64.iso (4300MB). |
Comcast vs. BitTorrent, What’s Next? TorrentFreak - Yesterday, the FCC ruled that Comcast’s network management practices that specifically targeted BitTorrent users, were unfair. The ruling is a small victory ... |
Twenty Minute Delays for Comcast Bandwidth Hogs PC Magazine - Comcast admitted to delaying P2P sites like BitTorrent during high-traffic, but denied ever blocking Web sites. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ... |
Comcast Says No New Traffic Management Plan Yet New York Times, United States - The broadband provider originally denied it was degrading BitTorrent streams. "We have to be skeptical and vigilant," Scott said. "The FCC has required them ... |
FCC To Comcast: Stop Blocking Peer-To-Peer Content InformationWeek, NY - Comcast customers had complained of problems using peer-to-peer applications like BitTorrent. The public interest groups Free Press and Public Knowledge ... |
Comcast gets 30 days on P2P traffic throttling p2pnet.net, Canada - Before we address the specific facts in this case, we explain what BitTorrent does and how Comcast’s practice affects Internet users. 3. ... |
Comcast to Slow Internet Service at Times to Its Heaviest Users New York Times, United States - 1 that Comcast had improperly blocked peer-to-peer programs like BitTorrent that are used to share video and other files. In an order posted on its Web site ... |
Order Against Comcast Issued, FCC Credits EFF EFF, CA - The FCC has finally published its order (adopted on August 1) directing Comcast to stop blocking BitTorrent traffic. The 34-page ruling makes for ... |
Olympic Torrents Most Pirated TV Show of the Week andPOP, Canada - The International Olympic Committee, however, is not happy to see the broadcasts on BitTorrent sites, according to the article. Earlier this week, the IOC ... |
Comcast's New Management Technique to Target Individual Bandwidth Hogs DailyTech, IL - Rather than targeting a specific protocol like BitTorrent – a policy that riled up technologists and the FCC, despite its “surgical” precision in managing ... |
Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade PC World - If you discover or strongly suspect that your ISP is slowing your BitTorrent traffic, you can try several countermeasures, none of them a sure bet. ... |
The Money Times | Comcast Plans To Throttle Web Speeds For Up To 20 Minutes The Money Times, India - Earlier, on August 1, the Federal Communications Commission ruled that Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent traffic last year was unlawful. ... |
The Internet Radio Death Watch PC Magazine - And that destination is more likely to be BitTorrent than a record store. The record industry may think it is killing off Internet radio, but it's merely ... |
Sydney Morning Herald | Help stop illegal downloads: IOC The Age, Australia - ... Lindberg and legal affairs director Howard Strupp, has been posted on a blog written by Peter Sunde, one of a triumvirate operating the BitTorrent site. ... Olympic Torrents More Popular Than Ever Pirate Bay taunts International Olympic Committee The Pirate Bay has a new enemy - International Olympic Committee ... |
Mashable | 15+ Ways to Make Your Linux Box Hip to Web 2.0 Mashable, CA - And if you want to take a bit more ordinary approach to the give and take of the BitTorrent realm whilst keeping an honest eye toward legal bounds - and ... |
CNET News | Comcast to throttle some customers' Web speeds CNET News, CA - The move follows Federal Communications Commission's ruling on August 1 that Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent traffic last year was unlawful--the first ... |
Comcast has 30 days to address discriminatory online practices Bizjournals.com, NC - It claimed that Comcast was placing roadblocks to restrict users from using peer-to-peer applications, such as BitTorrent. Comcast, according to the FCC, ... |
FCC issues ‘radical’ order re: Comcast ZDNet - The FCC has released its formal decision (PDF) against Comcast, ordering it to stop throttling BitTorrent traffic. As Wired’s David Kravets views it, ... |
The FCC and Regulatory Capture EFF, CA - Earlier this month, Internet users welcomed the FCC's ruling against Comcast for interfering with BitTorrent uploads, celebrating the action as a victory ... |
Comcast's Diet For Bandwidth Hogs: A 20-Minute Timeout (CMCSA) Silicon Alley Insider, NY - ... Internet network management practices -- secretly messing up subscribers' BitTorrent peer-to-peer transfers -- and how it plans to change them. ... |
Comcast to throttle users instead of apps Good Morning Silicon Valley, CA - While the cable giant was getting a stern scolding from the FCC for surreptitiously interfering with large BitTorrent file transfers (see “FCC to Comcast: ... |
Slyck | FCC to Comcast: You have 30 Days Slyck, NY - In fact, the order is so berating to Comcast that one would think it was written by the very BitTorrent uploaders the ISP sought to throttle. ... FCC Boss Cares About Consumers. Really. |
Washington Post | FCC finalizes Comcast penalties in BitTorrent filtering case CNET News, CA - The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday finally released the text of its 3-2 ruling saying Comcast violated the law when throttling BitTorrent ... FCC Gives Comcast 30 Days to Comply with Penalties for Throttling ... Comcast vs. BitTorrent, What’s Next? Comcast has 30 days to address discriminatory online practices |
All Things D Blogs | Comcast Vows to Throttle Customers, Not BitTorrent All Things D Blogs, CA - The Federal Communications Commission today released its official order sanctioning Comcast for interfering with its Internet customers’ right to access. ... |
Local Sharing Saves Bandwidth on BitTorrent/P4P Tests Slyck, NY - If you believe the ISPs and network bandwidth management companies, you'll also believe that file-sharing protocols such as BitTorrent, Gnutella, ... |
Opera 9.52 launched TechWhack (press release), India - It comes loaded with a fantastic email client in addition to newsgroup and rss reader. It also support Bittorrent downloads in addition to IRC channels. |
FCC Puts Comcast on the Clock Broadcasting & Cable, NY - Comcast already pledged to adopt a "protocol-agnostic" approach to network management by year's end, and has said it is working with BitTorrent on better ... Comcast Will Slow Heavy Web Users' Traffic for Up to 20 Minutes Comcast must stop discriminatory broadband management |
The Inquisitr | 105 Million Reasons Why Mark Cuban is Wrong The Inquisitr, Australia - That NBC’s online coverage is verging on epic fail may be open to argument, but the BitTorrent numbers don’t lie. According to TorrentFreak, the Olympic ... NBA to offer live internet streaming |
Sydney Morning Herald | IOC calls for help to stop illegal downloads The Age, Australia - ... Lindberg and legal affairs director Howard Strupp, has been posted on a blog written by Peter Sunde, one of a triumvirate operating the BitTorrent site. ... Olympic Torrents More Popular Than Ever Pirate Bay taunts International Olympic Committee The Pirate Bay has a new enemy - International Olympic Committee ... |
'Rampant piracy' of Olympics footage must be stopped, says IOC New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - By Louise Nordstrom The International Olympic Committee says there has been a million illegal downloads of opening ceremony footage. ... |
Pirate Bay taunts International Olympic Committee Afterdawn.com - The IOC had asked the Swedish government for direct intervention aimed at the notorious public BitTorrent tracker. The Committee claims that over 1 million ... |
FM Tech | An industry at risk FM Tech, South Africa - According to Declan McCullagh, a US technology journalist, Mygazines is hosted by the same Stockholm-based company that owns the BitTorrent tracker site ... |
Sydney Morning Herald | Olympic Torrents More Popular Than Ever TorrentFreak - Compared to 2004, the availability of Olympic events on BitTorrent has grown significantly, both in quantity and quality. Interestingly, the demand for ... Pirate Bay taunts International Olympic Committee The Pirate Bay has a new enemy - International Olympic Committee ... 'Rampant piracy' of Olympics footage must be stopped, says IOC |
Where’s the Song of Summer? Charleston City Paper, SC - No, in the age of iTunes, Rhapsody, and BitTorrent, the long hot summer is no longer overshadowed by that one, catchy, sunny pop song. ... |
IOC Wants Opening Ceremony Off File-Sharing AHN - Stockholm, Sweden (AHN) - The International Olympics Committee is asking the Swedish government to torpedo a file-sharing site its says is distributing ... |
IOC wants opening ceremonies off file sharing site The Associated Press - STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — The International Olympic Committee is trying to stop downloads of video of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony that are being ... |
Can sites violate net neutrality? ZDNet - In this case Comcast, which we have been hammering on here for throttling BitTorrent, is the innocent victim. Rather, you might argue its subscribers are. ... |
The Pirate Bay has a new enemy - International Olympic Committee ... Tech Digest, UK - It is so defiant. We will bring you news that statistics show a sudden increase in the number of people downloading Olympic clips off Bittorrent tomorrow. |
Killer Startups | USniff.com - Sniff Out Torrents Killer Startups, FL - Bittorrent has changed the way people share files online. The downside about searching for torrents, is the fact that sometimes it’s really hard to come by ... |
Salon | Hulu is already very good, so why isn't it awesome? Salon - For years, we've pirated our shows via BitTorrent, and for a while I had hard drives full of a year's worth of "The Daily Show" stored away -- then she ... |
Pirate Bay Renamed Beijing Bay Over Olympics Tracking Wired News - By David Kravets August 18, 2008 | 8:20:34 PM The world's most notorious torrent tracking site has temporary renamed itself The Beijing Bay after the ... |
Pirate Bay Refutes Mygazine Affiliation Slyck, NY - Two weeks ago, BitTorrent, Inc. spent a good amount of time refuting ValleyWag's claim that the company had laid off its sales department due to a failed ... |
Showgate sets piracy showdown Variety, CA - ... to those suspected of downloading "Devil May Cry," "Great Guardians" and other Showgate toons through BitTorrent, violating Singapore's copyright laws. ... |
TorrentFreak | Shareaza Team Fights Back With Project Panthera TorrentFreak - Undeterred they are fighting back and today proudly announce the development of a brand new filesharing client with BitTorrent support - Project Panthera. ... |
GQ | Hot Popcorn (hold the butter) GQ - ... anything stored on USB-equipped gadgets, the Internet), supports an array of streaming video formats, and even acts as a BitTorrent downloader. ... |
Italians block Pirate Bay Web site Video Business (subscription), CA - ... have issued injunctions and posted official "access denied" seals on Italy's ISPs to block the Sweden-based site, which uses BitTorrent technology. ... |
Police officer investigating Pirate Bay was on Warner Bros. payroll Tech Digest, UK - If for some reason you don't know about the Pirate Bay, it's a BitTorrent site where you can get hold of all sorts of music, movies, games, software, ... |
The Pirate Bay enters internet top 100 Tech Digest, UK - ... it's not the biggest - the slightly more user-friendly stuff-stealing portal Mininova.org is the world's largest Bittorrent site, currently sitting at ... Italian Pirate Bay traffic goes up, staff drink bottle of rum to ... |
Current State of the Content Delivery Market Seeking Alpha, NY - ... GridNetworks, Highwinds Network Group, Velocix, ITIVA, Move Networks, Pando Networks, Conviva (formerly Rinera), BitTorrent, ChinaCache, RawFlow, ... |
Spare Some Bandwidth? MIT Technology Review, MA - So Saif's team at LUMS is developing DonateBandwidth, a system inspired by the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol that is popular for trading large music, ... |
"Actiontec Router Using MoCa (75 ohm cable wired in house)" BroadbandReports.com, NY - Don't plan on gaming online and running Bittorrent at the same time, unless you can deal with a lot of game lag. This is a common complaint with this router ... |
Problem affects the peer-to-peer program uTorrent as well as ... Reseller News, New Zealand - Both programs use the BitTorrent protocol, which has become the most popular method of file sharing worldwide, according to iPoque, a company based in ... |
Usniff, Torrent Search Made Easy TorrentFreak - BitTorrent’s popularity is increasing with new sites seemingly launched every day. Usniff is one such site, offering a fast real-time torrent search engine ... |
TECH.BLORGE.com | Magazine-sharing website accused of copyright infringement- big ... TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - For those who aren’t aware, the Stockholm-based PRQ is owned by the founders of BitTorrent tracker site Pirate Bay and is known for hosting other dubious ... |
Slyck | Pirate Bay/IFPI eDonkey Show Continues… Slyck, NY - The Pirate Bay responded by changing their IP address, which helped approximately half of those resume their BitTorrent deeds. As for the other half, ... Italian Pirate Bay Ban Results In....More Traffic To Pirate Bay |
IFPI Hijacks Pirate Bay Traffic TorrentFreak - For now, potential Italian Pirate Bay users are denied access to the BitTorrent tracker, and Italian authorities are investigating whether the site should ... |
McCain: 'No Net-Neutrality, Need Piracy Crackdown' Zeropaid, CA - Is the network harmed if there's a large amount of BitTorrent traffic during the day? What about at night? So long as ISPs are allowed to define the "harm" ... |
Italian Pirate Bay Ban Results In....More Traffic To Pirate Bay BroadbandReports.com, NY - Last week, Italy's government demanded that ISPs block access to popular BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay, a move that would clearly stop that nation's P2P ... |
Peer-to-peer Client UTorrent Fixes Serious Vulnerability PC World - The problem affects the P-to-P (peer-to-peer) program uTorrent as well as BitTorrent Mainline, another program based on the uTorrent code. ... uTorrent and BitTorrent clients have 'highly critical' security hole |
BitTorrent Clients Suffer Overflow Flaw Security Pronews, KY - Software clients from BitTorrent and uTorrent contain critical vulnerabilities that could permit remote code execution. The BitTorrent protocol permit fast ... |
How the FCC's ruling against Comcast could affect corporate networks NetworkWorld.com, MA - And while these applications might or might not use P2P technology (like BitTorrent), it raises the whole question again of trying to distinguish business ... The fallout from the FCC's order against Comcast |
µTorrent silently fixes long-standing zero-day vuln Register, UK - By John Leyden → More by this author Popular BitTorrent client µTorrent has quietly patched a vulnerability that created a means for hackers to load ... |
How The Wire found its peers New Statesman, UK - That is, they accessed episodes illicitly, via peer-to-peer (p2p) networks that use protocols such as BitTorrent. Sure, seasons one, two and three are now ... |
‘Net Neutrality – Just the Facts Please NetworkWorld.com, MA - The Comcast/BitTorrent saga got us thinking that the current chapter of the ‘net neutrality debate is playing out in the absence of the one thing that will ... |
uTorrent and BitTorrent clients have 'highly critical' security hole Afterdawn.com - Secunia has issued two new ‘highly critical’ security alerts, one for uTorrent, version 1.7.7, build 8179 and the second for the official BitTorrent client, ... |
EA uses BitTorrent to distribute Warhammer beta CrunchGear, NY - By Nicholas Deleon Further legitimization of the BitTorrent protocol, with news that EA will use (well, is using) it to distribute the Warhammer Online: The ... |
Who owns the Internet? ZDNet - It started with the throttling of BitTorrent, a service many open source projects depend on for distribution, to protect their video monopolies. ... |
TorrentFreak | EA Choose BitTorrent for Warhammer Online Distribution TorrentFreak - Electronic Arts, the publisher of the upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, has chosen BitTorrent for ... Warhammer Online: Account Registration Begins |
TITLE: BitTorrent "created by" Buffer Overflow Vulnerability SecuObs, France - DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been discovered in BitTorrent, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. ... |
TITLE: uTorrent "created by" Buffer Overflow Vulnerability SecuObs, France - DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been discovered in uTorrent, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. ... |
Russia and Georgia Engaged In a Cyberwar Slashdot - Italy is taking a stand against BitTorrent sites, so it seems. Two weeks ago, the largest Italian torrent site, Columbo-BT, was shut down by the same ... |
µTorrent Vulnerability Discovered Slyck, NY - µTorrent, the once independent client now owned by BitTorrent, Inc., was discovered to have a rather serious security vulnerability in versions prior to 1.8 ... |
Report: Playlouder, UK ISP to Launch Unlimited Music Service Digital Media Wire, CA - Playlouder's service can recognize any download on an ISP's network, whether it be from BitTorrent or between individual users, and uses this data to ... |
uTorrent Vulnerability Discovered Slyck, NY - uTorrent, the once independent client now owned by BitTorrent, Inc., was discovered to have a rather serious security vulnerability in versions prior to 1.8 ... |
UK ISP's New Music Service Will Pay Labels For 'Illegal' Downloads Washington Post, United States - Playlouder's service lets userslegitimatelydownload from channels like Gnutella, BitTorrent and more - the list goes on - because the "deep packet ... |
Russia and Georgia Engaged In a Cyberwar Slashdot - Italy is taking a stand against BitTorrent sites, so it seems. Two weeks ago, the largest Italian torrent site, Columbo-BT, was shut down by the same ... |
TorrentFreak | Download Torrents Anonymously with TorrentPrivacy TorrentFreak - Privacy has always been a major concern for BitTorrent users and there are only a few ways to remain anonymous. By using a secure connection, ... |
Critical Vulnerability Discovered in uTorrent TorrentFreak - A vulnerability described as ‘critical’ has been discovered in versions of uTorrent and the official BitTorrent client. The ‘buffer overflow’ vulnerability ... |
Maryland ranks 8th for fast internet connectionos Baltimore Sun, United States - In Alaska, on the other hand, I don't think they're downloading too many pirated copies of Dark Knight on BitTorrent. Median download speed up there was 814 ... |
TorrentFreak | Millions Download Olympics Opening Ceremony via BitTorrent TorrentFreak - Not everyone had the chance to watch it live, but that’s where BitTorrent comes in. The broadcast of the Olympics opening ceremony has been downloaded more ... |
BitTorrent "created by" Field Handling Buffer Overflow FrSIRT, France - A vulnerability has been identified in BitTorrent, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an ... Title : Amarok "MagnatuneBrowser" Insecure Temporary File ... |
TorrentFreak | TorrentPrivacy secures your BitTorrent traffic Afterdawn.com - TorrentPrivacy is a new product from the guys at Torrentreactor.net designed to keep your BitTorrent downloads and shares private. ... Download Torrents Anonymously with TorrentPrivacy |
BitTorrent Hits a InternetNews.com - By Andy Patrizio: More stories by this author: Tough times are hitting BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file-sharing network that is struggling to go legitimate ... |
New Grabit Release, Encryption Added Slyck, NY - Indexing services - Any fan of eDonkey2000 or BitTorrent is familiar with indexing services. Indexers have greatly enhanced the ability to locate files by ... |
BitTorrent Hits a Non-Comcast Bump InternetNews.com - By Andy Patrizio: More stories by this author: Tough times are hitting BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file-sharing network that is struggling to go legitimate ... |
Italian Govt Orders ISPs to Block The Pirate Bay Zeropaid, CA - Swedish BitTorrent Tracker site responds by setting up mirror site called "Labaia," which means "The Bay" in Italian, and showing how futile efforts to ... P2P Hub The Pirate Bay Blocked by Italian ISPs |
The Future Technology : The world's best P2P Softwares ITvoir, India - BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer program developed by Bram Cohen and BitTorrent Inc. used for uploading and downloading files via the BitTorrent Protocol. ... |
The Pirate Bay Blocked In Italy Slashdot - Italy is taking a stand against BitTorrent sites, so it seems. Two weeks ago, the largest Italian torrent site, Columbo-BT, was shut down by the same ... |
Free the Web — From the FCC! Stop the ACLU, PA - “Last year, Comcast tweaked its network-management system to delay slightly the uploading of data through BitTorrent, one of the peer-to-peer services ... Shed No Tiers for Broadband Pricing US FCC orders Comcast to modify network management Controlling crowded Web challenges Comcast |
The Pirate Bay Blocked In Italy Slashdot - Italy is taking a stand against BitTorrent sites, so it seems. Two weeks ago, the largest Italian torrent site, Columbo-BT, was shut down by the same ... The Pirate Bay blocked in Italy |
The Pirate Bay Fights Blocking by Italian ISPs BroadbandReports.com, NY - A joint effort by Italian police and IFPI recently shut down Colombo BT, the country’s largest BitTorrent tracker. They’ve now moved on to targeting The ... ISPs block The Pirate Bay in Italy |
uTorrent 1.8 Released, Mac Version Coming Soon TorrentFreak - After months of hard work and more than six months since their previous stable release, the uTorrent team has released version 1.8 of their BitTorrent ... |
BitTorrent site TrafficLoader.com lures users into deadly web TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - By Matt Jansen Downloading files listed on BitTorrent sites is always a risky proposition because it requires trust in the original poster, who may or may ... |
TrafficLoader.com to Infect BitTorrent Users with Malware TorrentFreak - A new BitTorrent site has appeared which will allow scammers and spammers to infect its users with spyware, malware and viruses. ... |
Shed No Tiers for Broadband Pricing eWeek, NY - Not so fast says FreePress, which the led the fight in bringing Comcast's decision to block P2P applications like BitTorrent to the FCC. ... US FCC orders Comcast to modify network management Controlling crowded Web challenges Comcast Report: Metered Broadband Bad For Consumers, Businesses |
Getting your Olympics fix online Globe and Mail, Canada - BitTorrent could be a semi-legal answer for watching after the fact, and you have to have BitTorrent software installed, and then search sites such as ... |
Update: BitTorrent responds to news of layoffs Afterdawn.com - "BitTorrent is seeing healthy demand for its Delivery Network Accelerator (DNA) service and its Software Development Kit (SDK), which brings rich Internet ... |
TorrentFreak | 080808, BitTorrent Meets Art Once Again TorrentFreak - 080808 is not only the day the Olympics start, it is also the name of a new experimental art project that’s being released on BitTorrent trackers near you, ... |
Examiner.com | Speckly proves pointing to a bittorrent file is not as rude as ... Examiner.com - We have reached the Dark Ages of the bittorrent share, when the noble citizen is malnourished of her or his free lunch music-diet. ... |
BitTorrent calls reports of staff layoff 'inaccurate' BetaNews - By Ed Oswald, BetaNews 7:18 pm EDT August 7, 2008 - In a statement this afternoon which Valleywag ran in its entirety, a representative of BitTorrent called ... Report: BitTorrent cuts staff by 20 percent |
BitTorrent Lays Off Marketing Staff Can't afford to market ... Dslreports - BitTorrent, the company that has developed the p2p content delivery technology based on the protocol of the same name, has announced that the entire sales ... |
One Day Later: BitTorrent Confirms Layoffs NewTeeVee, CA - BitTorrent today confirmed a report that it laid off part of its staff, though it disputed the number of people let go and the nature of the layoffs. ... |
Report: BitTorrent cuts staff by 20 percent BetaNews - BitTorrent did not answer requests for confirmation of the job cuts, which Valleywag claimed had to do with its failure to sell its online media store to ... |
DNS Flaw Hits More Than Just the Web Slashdot - Virtually all bittorrent clients support a distributed hash table, and inter-client peer exchange protocol, which means that as long as you have the ... Kaminsky Warns Critical DNS Flaw Could Bring Internet Down DNS flaw is much worse than first thought |
Hires, Fires: NebuAd, Bit Torrent, TurnHere ADOTAS, NY - BitTorrent, the file-sharing startup, is laying off 12 of its 55 employees, Valleywag first reported. The cuts are happening in its sales and marketing ... |
p2pnet.net | BitTorrent dumps sales staff p2pnet.net, Canada - p2pnet news view | Products:- Bram Cohen’s BitTorrent, the file-sharing protocol which, like P2P file sharing application Kazaa, is most named in the ... |
Transmission BitTorrent Client Now Bundled With Clutch TorrentFreak - The popular cross-platform BitTorrent client, Transmission, just released a new version. Along with other enhancements it now comes bundled with Clutch, ... |
Is BitTorrent Realizing That Its Advantage Is In Distribution ... Techdirt - We were among those who were quite confused last year when BitTorrent (the company, not the underlying technology) decided that its business model would be ... |
Open Thread: How to Fix BitTorrent, the Startup? GigaOm, CA - There are rumors that pink slips have been handed to some of the employees of San Francisco-based BitTorrent. The problems stem from their ill-fated ... |
Please ignore the net neautrality sideshow haunting Comcast's ... Register, UK - But in the epic tale of Comcast and its BitTorrent choke hold, net neutrality is a red herring. Whether you believe in a neutral net or not, ... |
Truths, Rumors and Lies: BitTorrent and Rocketboom NewTeeVee, CA - BitTorrent will lay off its sales and marketing department, a total of 12 employees, Valleywag reported this morning, based on a tip from an alleged company ... |
BitTorrent Fires 20% of Its Employees TorrentFreak - BitTorrent Inc., founded by Bram Cohen, the inventor of the BitTorrent protocol, is firing 12 of its 55 employees. The company, which also develops the ... |
Report: BitTorrent laying off 22 percent of staff CNET News, CA - According to a report on Valleywag Wednesday, BitTorrent is laying off its entire sales and marketing department, 12 people out of the company's entire ... |
Giz Explains: How Broadband Usage Caps Will Kill Internet Video Gizmodo.com - Comcast was caught slowing down BitTorrent traffic last year by the Associated Press. It (re)sparked cries for government-mandated net neutrality—treating ... |
FCC right to tell Comcast: Hands off NetworkWorld.com, MA - What I'm unequivocal about is what Comcast has been doing to some of its users: blocking BitTorrent peer-to-peer traffic on the grounds that users were ... |
Report: BitTorrent Firing 20% Of Workforce Silicon Alley Insider, NY - BitTorrent, the company that's trying to make a business out of the popular file-sharing technology, is firing 12 of its 55 employees, Valleywag reports. ... |
More downloaded Radiohead via P2P then free legal alternative Afterdawn.com - The report says the real reason is instead that users have become so accustomed to P2P and BitTorrent that it appeals to them even more then a legal ... Industry Study Says Recording Industry Should Embrace Piracy... Sorta |
Catching Comcast Salon - ... by the Federal Communications Commission to stop secretly using "discriminatory" techniques to interfere with file-sharing applications like BitTorrent. ... |
Unhappy the FCC supported net neutrality NetworkWorld.com, MA - 1, FCC commissioners voted 3 to 2 to find that Comcast had violated the FCC's Internet Policy Statement by targeting customer BitTorrent traffic and ordered ... |
Is Your ISP Fouling Your 'Net Connection? Find Out Extreme Tech - He's the guy who originally figured out Comcast was 'playing' with BitTorrent streams. Though scores of people were affected, it took a real propeller head ... |
Is Your ISP Fouling Your 'Net Connection? Find Out PC Magazine - He's the guy who originally figured out Comcast was 'playing' with BitTorrent streams. Though scores of people were affected, it took a real propeller head ... |
Debate on the evolution of Web access InfoWorld, CA - The government agency determined that Comcast was discriminating against BitTorrent, though the counterargument is that Comcast was only trying to manage ... |
TorrentFreak | uTorrent Developer Shares BitTorrent Speed Tips TorrentFreak - Configuring your BitTorrent client is essential if you want to enjoy optimal download speeds. In our quest to help users get the most out of BitTorrent, ... |
New York Times | Net access in the wake of FCC vs. Comcast InfoWorld, CA - In particular, the broadband provider was discriminating against BitTorrent, a Web-based file-sharing application that allows users to share video and music ... FCC formally rules Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent was illegal BitTorrent throttling and cable bandwidth lawsuits FCC May Vote On Complaint That Comcast Wrongly Blocking BitTorrent |
TorrentFreak | Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent (wk31) TorrentFreak - 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 ... |
'Net neutrality' victory in Comcast case may be temporary Middle East North Africa Financial Network, Jordan - On Friday, the FCC ruled that Comcast CMCSA must halt its practice of interfering with customers who use popular peer-to-peer services such as BitTorrent. ... |
Switzerland app tests ISP data neutrality Electronista, CA - Comcast is accused of blocking peer-to-peer networking software, such as BitTorrent, without citing the practice in its license agreement or making any ... |
Protecting your .Net app from would-be plagiarizers Computerworld, MA - By Eric Lai August 4, 2008 (Computerworld) Keeping software from being broken and distributed via BitTorrent isn't the only kind of piracy about which ... Xenocode Releases Postbuild 2008 for Instant, Secure, .NET Deployments Deploy .NET 3.5 Apps With No Framework Update |
FCC's Spanking of Comcast Raises Jurisdiction Concerns NewsFactor Network, CA - On Friday, the FCC ruled that Comcast had been monitoring and blocking subscribers' use of peer-to-peer file sharing, specifically with BitTorrent P2P ... |
New York Times | Dissenting FCC Commissioners Rip Comcast Decision CRN, NY - By Michele Masterson, ChannelWeb After the FCC's ruling Friday that found Comcast guilty of violating Net neutrality rules by hindering peer-to-peer filing ... Google backs ISP-guaranteed minimum data rates |
G4 TV | FCC: Comcast Can't Block BitTorrent G4 TV, CA - According to the Federal Communications Commission, Comcast is not allowed to keep its subscribers from using file-sharing applications like BitTorrent. ... |
TorrentFreak | BitTorrent Mac Fans Try To Save the Coratee TorrentFreak - ... maybe more) of users who love both Apple Computers and BitTorrent sites: “I never want the site to be big or to loose personality” he told us. ... |
FCC REBUKES COMCAST FOR BLOCKING BITTORRENT SITES Contactmusic.com, UK - ... the nation's largest cable TV provider, for preventing some customers from using BitTorrent file-sharing technology on its Internet service. ... |
FEW WATCH REALITY SHOWS ONLINE Contactmusic.com, UK - The two shows have continued to top the Big Champagne list defying the notion that users of the BitTorrent sites are primarily interested in seeing episodic ... |
ChattahBox | FCC Rules Against Comcast, But Did Not Issue Any Fines ChattahBox, MA - In many cases, consumers reported being completely blocked out of applications such as BitTorrent. Comcast hash defended themselves, stating it was to make ... |
Radiohead Suffer Illegal Download Spree KHBZ - Figures released by the Performing Rights Society show more than 400000 'pirate' copies of In Rainbows were downloaded on the day of its release last year. ... |
Radiohead BitTorrent Experiment Successful Slyck, NY - Remember back in October when Radiohead distributed their new “In Rainbow” album with BitTorrent technology? It wasn't exactly free, although the end user ... Study says music industry needs to embrace BitTorrent sites |
Contactmusic.com | 2.3 Million People Still Pirating Radiohead Strange Glue Music, UK - Despite the fact that Radiohead made their latest album "In Rainbows" free-of-charge to those who did not wish to pay for it, nearly two-and-a-half million ... Radiohead Fans Really Dig Piracy Radiohead's In Rainbows has 2.3 m torrent downloads RADIOHEAD - RADIOHEAD SUFFER ILLEGAL DOWNLOAD SPREE |
BitTorrent throttling and cable bandwidth lawsuits Overlawyered, NY - Class action lawyers have sued Comcast for throttling users of the bandwidth-intensive P2P application BitTorrent, and the Federal Communications Commission ... |
FCC rules against Comcast’s broadband BitTorrent block The Tech Herald, IN - ... of violating the open-Internet policy laid down by the FCC to prevent the improper hindrance of P2P traffic to distribution services such as BitTorrent. ... |
Study says music industry needs to embrace BitTorrent sites CrunchGear, NY - It’s that the entire BitTorrent experience—I’ma What.cd fan—, from A to Z, is so unrivaled in its quality, why would I even bother with an iTunes or ... |
dBTechno | Comcast Will Not Take Fault Following FCC Ruling dBTechno, MA - They did so by interfering with customers and their ability to use peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks such as BitTorrent. Comcast has yet to come out ... |
Contactmusic.com | Radiohead beaten by BitTorrent MusicRadar.com - The place for music makers, UK - According to research published by P2P monitor Big Champagne and the MCPS-PRS, around 2.3 million fans got hold of the album via BitTorrent sources during ... Radiohead sales show fans' loyalty to illegal sites 2.3 Million People Still Pirating Radiohead Radiohead Fans Really Dig Piracy |
FCC Rules Against Comcast for BitTorrent Blocking EFF, CA - On Friday, the FCC voted, 3-2, to punish Comcast for its surreptitious interference with BitTorrent uploads (a practice that EFF helped uncover and document ... |
Contactmusic.com | RADIOHEAD - RADIOHEAD SUFFER ILLEGAL DOWNLOAD SPREE Contactmusic.com, UK - British rockers RADIOHEAD have seen sales of their new album IN RAINBOWS slump as fans turn to illegal sites to download the LP. The band caused controversy ... |
MSN India | Back Off the Internet: FCC to Comcast MSN India, India - Comcast, the largest Cable Company in the US, had claimed that BitTorrent traffic consumed a disproportionate amount of its network's bandwidth, ... |
Radiohead sales show fans' loyalty to illegal sites Independent, UK - The rise of "peer-to-peer" networks such as BitTorrent and Gnutella, which allow people to download files from other users' computers without charge, ... |
EFF releases tool that hunts BitTorrent throttling ISPs Afterdawn.com - The US' largest ISP, Comcast was at the center of the debate when it was found to be throttling/limiting BitTorrent traffic. Despite the recent decision ... |
Ars Technica | IETF: find more peer-to-peer bandwidth, but use it sparingly Ars Technica, MA - BitTorrent typically sets up several dozen connections to BitTorrent users elsewhere. It then tries to download over each connection, but it only uploads ... |
P2P, BitTorrent and Net Neutrality Slyck, NY - It wasn’t all good news for the BitTorrent community, as on Monday the IFPI announced that Colombo-BT.org was shut down. Called “The Pirate Bay” of Italy, ... |
EFF releases Switzerland Inquirer, UK - The client should detect packets affected by anti-P2P tools from Sandvine (widely believed to be used by Comcast to interfere with Bittorrent uploads) and ... EFF release Switzerland; net neutrality testing tool |
Comcast told to stop blocking Web tool United Press International - The commission voted Friday to order Comcast to stop blocking its Internet customers from using BitTorrent, an online software application that enables ... |
FCC Comcast/BitTorrent Ruling Applauded, Condemned Slyck, NY - Rather, the debate shifted gears and impacted the Internet population in a manner many can relate to; a widely used P2P protocol called BitTorrent. ... |
Senate Passes Bill Targeting College Piracy Slashdot - If I implement traffic shaping or limit bandwidth, that one CS student who uses bittorrent to distribute his project will be screwed out of an education, ... |
Porn Industry Learns from RIAA Tactics, Targets Web Sites Instead DailyTech, IL - This, combined with the numerous porn-only BitTorrent trackers and the copious amounts of porn available on Usenet and other P2P networks, prompted Tucker ... |
Techtree.com | Back Off the Internet -- FCC to Comcast Techtree.com, India - Comcast, the largest cable company in the US, had claimed that BitTorrent traffic consumed a disproportionate amount of its network's bandwidth, ... |
News for nerds, stuff that matters Slashdot - A Cow writes "When the hard rock band "BuckCherry" found out their latest single had leaked on BitTorrent, they didn't try to cover it up or take the file ... Navajo Nation Losing Internet Access |
Band Leaks Own Album, Blames Pirates Slashdot - A Cow writes "When the hard rock band "BuckCherry" found out their latest single had leaked on BitTorrent, they didn't try to cover it up or take the file ... |
Top Tips for Optimizing BitTorrent Download Speeds Zeropaid, CA - Six simple tips straight form the lips of Olivier Chalouhi, co-founder and CTO of the Vuze BitTorrent client. Everybody in the BitTorrent community is ... |
FCC Vote Sets Precedent on Unfettered Web Usage New York Times, United States - The legal complaint against Comcast, which is based in Philadelphia, relates to BitTorrent, software that is commonly used by people downloading movies, ... |
ReadWriteWeb | EFF Tool Hunts BitTorrent Throttling ISPs TorrentFreak - Comcast must feel it’s being attacked by all sides. It’s been hit by lawsuits, investigated by the FCC, and roundly criticised everywhere else. ... EFF Releases Tool For Testing ISP Interference Hand-to-Hand Combat on the Electronic Frontier EFF Offers New Tool To Test ISP Interference New open source ... |
Band Leaks Tracks To BitTorrent, Feigns Outrage Silicon Alley Insider, NY - Here's the story: Last week, after a single track from Black Butterfly showed up on BitTorrent, the band issued an outraged press release through their ... Band Leaks Own Track, Blames Evil Pirates |
FCC: Traffic Throttling Not ... InternetNews.com - That complaint came in response to the discovery that Comcast had been slowing traffic from the peer-to-peer site BitTorrent. For Comcast, the decision ... |
How not to promote your band: fake BitTorrent leaks CNET News, CA - A couple weeks ago, LA rock band BuckCherry issued a press release (since removed) complaining that their latest single had been leaked on BitTorrent. ... |
Comcast Ruling Means Web Usage Fees TheStreet.com - BitTorrent is a client used to download and share large files, often illegally pirated movies and music, and one that also eats up an enormous amount of ... |
Ruling says cable giant cannot target peer-to-peer services like ... MarketWatch - Services such as BitTorrent are controversial because they are sometimes used to download movies and TV shows for free. Also, service providers such as ... Net access in the wake of FCC vs. Comcast FCC Comcast/BitTorrent Ruling Applauded, Condemned FCC Vote Sets Precedent on Unfettered Web Usage |
Radiohead Album Shifted More By Torrent Than Official Website Washington Post, United States - Some 2.3 million people skanked Radiohead's latest album from BitTorrent sources during the two months it waslegallyavailable forfree. ... |
New York Times | FCC formally rules Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent was illegal CNET News, CA - Federal regulators voted 3-2 on Friday to declare that Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent traffic last year was unlawful, marking the first time that any US ... FCC Comcast vote looks close Lawmaker Crying Foul Ahead of FCC Net Neutrality Decision Network interference |
Video filesharing is as much a fact of life as its musical cousin ... guardian.co.uk, UK - People who'd never known how to download a file via bittorrent but who knew that they did like Pushing Daisies joined the filesharing underground. Oh, dear. ... |
Band Leaks Own Track, Blames Evil Pirates BroadbandReports.com, NY - Last week, a track from the band BuckCherry leaked on to BitTorrent well ahead of the album's full released. Almost immediately, the band's label, ... |