Peer-to-peer technologies

Peer-to-peer technologies

A community portal about Peer-to-peer technologies with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: A peer-to-peer computer network is a network that relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in... [more]

A community portal about Peer-to-peer technologies with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: A peer-to-peer computer network is a network that relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.

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The Spanish Government, one of the last bastions of legal peer-to-peer file sharing, has approved a law that will obliterate some of the most basic human rights, like freedom of speech and due process. All in the name of money. There's a whole bunch of greedy "artists"—represented by the SGAE, the Spanish version of the RIAA, and some cinema associations—who most of the times are used by the Spanish socialist government to support their...  
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Torrent Search Engines Unlawful, U.S. Judge Says: Via Threat Level. The operator of a popular BitTorrent search site said Monday he will likely challenge last week's landmark decision by a U.S. judge declaring such sites unlawful and no different from conventional peer-to-peer piracy services. "We do think from our preliminary review there are a number of issues for appeal," said Ira Rothken, attorney for popular torrent search engine ISO...  
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Peer-to-peer lending services like Prosper got a new lease on life from the U.S. House of Representatives today, which included an amendment to move regulation of the space from the SEC to a new banking regulatory agency in a major financial reform bill.  
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