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  | Is Your ISP Throttling BitTorrent? Found at 5/9/2008 via www.overclockersclub.com
Recently, Comcast has been the center of attention in many news stories detailing its alleged throttling of legitimate BitTorrent traffic - Steam users, for example, have complained about interference, Comcast's subsequent "deal" with BitTorrent to prevent throttling, and the FCC's investigation into numerous allegations of P2P-related throttling. As we have learned, Comcast has been less than ... More...
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| TorrentSpy fined $11m for copyright infringement Found at 5/9/2008 via rss.feedsportal.com
Judge sends 'strong message about the illegality of these sites' TorrentSpy.com, the BitTorrent peer-2-peer (P2P) site has been hit with an $11m (£5.5m) fine for copyright infringement. More...
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| McAfee warns of malicious MP3 files surge Found at 5/8/2008 via www.geek.com
McAfee has seen a big rise in the amount of fake MP3 files that are appearing on P2P networks recently. The files carry legitimate names and sizes, but are actually a trojan horse in disguise. The trojan horse being used is called Downloader-UA.h and has already been detected by McAfee VirusScan Online over 360,000 times. If [...] More...
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| Judge delivers fast smackdown to RIAA on P2P counterclaim Found at 5/8/2008 via arstechnica.com
Less than a day after it was filed, a federal judge denied the RIAA's motion to dismiss a P2P defendant's counterclaims. The RIAA is now 0-for-2 with that judge. Read More... More...
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| P2P and P4P: The Tangled Web We Weave Found at 5/7/2008 via www.ecommercetimes.com
It was Monday morning, and Haiyong Xie was running late. His flight to Los Angeles had been delayed, and then he had to face LA's beastly morning traffic. Xie, of Yale University, was on his way to the P2P Media Summit at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel to take part in a panel discussion about the P4P Working Group. More...
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| P2P and P4P: The Tangled Web We Weave Found at 5/7/2008 via www.technewsworld.com
It was Monday morning, and Haiyong Xie was running late. His flight to Los Angeles had been delayed, and then he had to face LA's beastly morning traffic. Xie, of Yale University, was on his way to the P2P Media Summit at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel to take part in a panel discussion about the P4P Working Group. More...
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| Tagged articles Found at 5/7/2008 via www.nmk.co.uk
Music as a consumer product is changing radically in the digital age. Packaging and albums are passé. DAB, P2P, the "long tail" and the iPod shuffle are broadening tastes. Can blogs guide us through the maze, wonders Michael Nutley... More...
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| P2P: if you can't beat it, fix it Found at 5/6/2008 via www.americasnetwork.com
Carriers shift their strategy from blocking P2P to making it run more efficiently More...
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| NY Piracy Protection Act no panacea for P2P problems Found at 5/5/2008 via arstechnica.com
The state of New York backs a new bill that would make camcorder rips of new films a misdemeanor and then a felony. The bill has the support of the MPAA, Tina Fey, and other industry luminaries, but its prospects of putting a meaningful dent in P2P traffic are dismal. Read More... More...
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| New Software Allows ISPs And P2P Users To Get Along Without Getting Too Cozy Found at 5/5/2008 via www.sciencedaily.com
Engineeers have discovered a way for peer-to-peer (P2P) users to efficiently identify nearby P2P clients in order to reduce costly cross-network traffic without sacrificing performance for the user. More...
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| P2P: if you can't beat it, fix it Found at 5/5/2008 via www.telecomasia.net
Peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic is the bane of both ISPs trying to keep control of their bandwidth resources and content companies worried about file sharinwg software that enable video and music "piracy". More...
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| Software doubles P2P file sharing speeds Found at 5/5/2008 via www.itnews.com.au
Researchers have developed file sharing software that doubles peer-to-peer (P2P) transfer speeds by identifying nearby computers. More...
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| Here's how you can get rid of the tiring Internet jam Found at 5/3/2008 via www.newkerala.com
Washington, May 3 : Sick and tired of your slow Internet connection? Well, here's the culprit who's responsible for 70 percent of the jam - Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services, which connect individual users for simultaneous uploads and downloads directly rather than through a central server. More...
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| Multichannel News Topical Taxonomy--Television Industry Found at 5/2/2008 via www.multichannel.com
Eric Klinker, BitTorrent?s chief technology officer, discusses how Comcast?s recent commitment to manage its network on a protocol agnostic basis signals the beginning of a ?revolutionary partnership? between the cable giant and P2P providers delivering video over the Internet. More...
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| Court Ruling Could End P2P Music-Download Lawsuits Found at 4/30/2008 via news.yahoo.com
A federal court has dealt a body blow to the recording industry's efforts to sue people who use peer-to-peer software to download music from the Internet. In fact, says one copyright lawyer, the P2P decision could mean the end of the Recording Industry Association of America's litigation strategy. More...
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