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A community portal about File sharing with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: File sharing is the practice of making files available for other users to download over the Internet and smaller networks. Usually file... [more]
A community portal about File sharing with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: File sharing is the practice of making files available for other users to download over the Internet and smaller networks. Usually file sharing follows the peer-to-peer model, where the files are stored on and served by personal computers of the users. Most people who engage in file sharing are also downloading files that other users share. Sometimes these two activities are linked together. P2P File sharing is distinct from file trading in that downloading files from a P2P network does not require uploading, although some networks either provide incentives for uploading such as credits or force the sharing of files being currently downloaded.
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The original Napster P2P file sharing service comprised a protocol which let users to move files computer to computer.
Music industry pressure buried it in 2001. But soon after, it was disinterred as a pale facsimile of its former self and is today owned by Best Buy which, after [...]
- Lawmakers Caught Again by P2P File Sharing Software (propeller.com)
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay should be closed, and if it isn't, two of the founders will each have to pay a fine of 500,000 Swedish kronor ($71,500), according to a verdict in the Stockholm District Court on Wednesday. Back in May, the entertainment industry -- represented by companies such as Sony, Universal, Disney, and Paramount -- filed a motion with the court to fine the people behind the Pirate Bay operation as long as the site's...
From infoworld.com
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- Pirate Bay founders threatened with fine if site stays open (aviransplace.com)
In response to a new survey suggesting that P2P file-swapping might not be harming music sales, music's international trade group IFPI today put out a statement. "The net effect of illegal file-sharing in the UK and elsewhere has been to reduce legitimate sales," IFPI asserts. "This is why spending on recorded music has fallen every year since illegal file-sharing began to become widespread...
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From arstechnica.com
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Automatically avoids network congestion
A new version of the Bittorrent protocol is about to launch. Bittorrent is a distribution technique for online content that's used heavily by both legitimate software publishers (like Activision Blizzard) and illicit filesharing sites (like the Pirate Bay).
The update focuses around the problem of connection throttling. When the protocol was developed, broadband wasn't as widespread...
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From pocket-lint.co.uk
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Tribler was developed in Holland as a network for a new generation of p2p file sharing with faster down- and uploading — and live video streaming,” p2pnet posted in Juy.
“Instead of the lone hacker, for the first time, it was written by a team of more than a [...]
From p2pnet.net
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- New version of BitTorrent heralds a new age of uncongested file sharing (downloadsquad.com)
When BitTorrent co-founder Bram Cohen was introduced at NewTeeVee’s Video Rights Roundtable this morning, interviewer Schlomo Rabinowitz asked the crowd, “How many people in the audience hate this man?” — and a few people actually raised their hands.
Despite being largely vilified in the media industry for being the grandfather of P2P file-sharing, Cohen tried to [...]
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From newteevee.com
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The number of new piracy sites on the web has tripled in the third quarter, despite prosecution of the owners of the controversial Pirate Bay file-sharing web site, according to security software maker McAfee.
McAfee said it detected a 300 percent jump in the creation of file-sharing sites in the quarter. Some observers expected piracy to abate after the torrent site The Pirate Bay lost a legal battle in Sweden.
But piracy sites have...
From hackinthebox.org
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- Pirate Bay closure sparks rise in P2P sites (zdnetasia.com)
Norwegian ISP Telenor will not have to block accessNorwegian ISP Telenor doesn't have to block access to filesharing site The Pirate Bay, according to a ruling from the district court for Asker and Bærum.
From computerworlduk.com
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- Norwegian ISP doesn't have to block Pirate Bay, says court (search.msn.com)
- Norwegian ISP doesn’t have to block Pirate Bay, says court (telconews.com)
Pro-copyright activists celebrated while file-sharers cried at rulings on the Pirate Bay's illegality, and the subsequent attempts to sink the site. But some new data suggests piracy sites tripled in the aftermath, which really doesn't sound good.
McAfee, which makes security software for PCs, has done some analysis into the number of file-sharing sites that help P2P file-sharers find the pirated music, videos, and software links they're...
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From fastcompany.com
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Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
The House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the “Informed P2P User Act”, a law that supposedly makes it safer to use peer-to-peer, or P2P file-sharing software, an effort which is like banning mosquitoes from sucking blood. Just ain’t happening. The responsibility is that of the IT administrator who locks down the [...]
From bloggernews.net
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- Congress Breached Via P2P Filesharing...AGAIN! (associatedcontent.com)
Earlier this year, the RIAA dumped its longterm anti-piracy partner MediaSentry and hired DtecNet instead. MediaSentry had lots of problems in terms of credibility, but it appears that DtecNet may be even worse. It recently came out with a report claiming that file sharing decreased massively after The Pirate Bay went down temporarily. Not surprisingly, this report is getting some press attention. The problem? The report appears to be...
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From techdirt.com
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A survey has found that people who download music illegally also spend an average of $50 dollars a year buying it legitimately, BBC News reported.Meanwhile, those who said they do not to use peer-to-peer file-sharing sites such as The Pirate Bay spent a yearly average of just $27.Among people between the ages of 16 and 50, almost one in 10 said they downloaded music illegally.
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From redorbit.com
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In April, Madonna fans tried downloading songs from her then-unreleased album American Life, but unwittingly downloaded a recording of the singer asking: "What the f*** do you think you're doing?" Her record company had flooded popular file-sharing ...
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From search.live.com
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This website provides a list of the top 20 peer-to-peer file sharing programs and applications. Although each entry doesn't have too much information written about it, valuable information is provided for those who wish to research a program the would like to use. Because it is possible to obtain viruses and spyware on your computer when downloading the files, there is a mention of how safe the programs are. There are also user comments at the...
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From del.icio.us
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FrostWire is a high quality and totally FREE LimeWire PRO alternative. A file sharing p2p (peer-to-peer) program for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Absolutely NO spyware, NO adware, NO DRM content filtering or commercial nags. Just pure choice. You can search, download, and share all files, including MP3, OGG, WMA, WAV, MPG, MPEG, MOV, AVI and more. Incredible graphics, high performance and ease of use make FrostWire one of the world's fastest...
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