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  | New P2P rules protect students from viruses, legal issues Found at 8/30/2010 via flyernews.com
From the first Z1 computer to the recently developed 4G network, time has brought astounding technological leaps and bounds. But to protect these developments and investments, networks must be as smart as the phones and computers on which they are used. More...
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| Limewire Acquitted of Infringement by FTC Found at 8/27/2010 via siliconangle.com
The Federal Trade Commission has relieved Limewire, a p2p file-sharing service from an investigation regarding security and privacy issues Limewire Acquitted of Infringement by FTC is a post from: SiliconANGLE Subcribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter. More...
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| FTC Ends Investigation Into P2P Site LimeWire Found at 8/27/2010 via news.yahoo.com
The Federal Trade Commission has closed its investigation into peer-to-peer site LimeWire, though the agency said it remained concerned about the security implications of users running legacy versions of the company's software. More...
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| US FTC drops P2P file sharing probe of LimeWire Found at 8/26/2010 via www.cio.com.au
In a rare break for LimeWire, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week decided to drop its investigation into the embattled software company's controversial Peer-to-Peer file sharing software. More...
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| FTC drops P2P file sharing probe of LimeWire Found at 8/26/2010 via www.networkworld.com
The Federal Trade Commission announced it has dropped an investigation into the file sharing software distributed by embattled LimeWare. More...
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| US movie tickets get biggest price hike in history Found at 8/26/2010 via arstechnica.com
Don't weep for the movie biz. While still concerned about camcording and P2P piracy, the industry has been hauling in the cash at the box office. 2007 , 2008 , and 2009 all set new historic highs for movie theater revenue in the US and Canada, and 2010 looks poised to do even bigger business. "Theater owners have gotten away with the biggest year-to-year increases in ticket prices ever," says ... More...
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| FTC drops P2P file sharing probe of LimeWire Found at 8/26/2010 via www.computerworld.com
Computerworld - In a rare break for LimeWire, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week decided to drop its investigation into the embattled software company's controversial Peer-to-Peer file sharing software. More...
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| Encrypted and obfuscated? Your P2P protocol can still be IDed Found at 8/25/2010 via arstechnica.com
Typical Web traffic is easy enough to spot: it uses TCP port 80. But plenty of protocols prefer to remain in the shadows and purposely make themselves difficult to identify?including Skype, BitTorrent, and eMule. If easy to identify, such protocols might make a tempting target for ISPs seeking to throttle back certain kinds of traffic. However, even these "obfuscated" protocols have a hard time ... More...
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| Scareware solicitors sent to regulator Found at 8/24/2010 via go.theregister.com
Lawyers to defend P2P porn pensioner pestering Consumer group Which? has welcomed a decision by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to send Andrew Crossley of ACS:Law to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.? More...
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| Supreme Court told P2P users can be "innocent infringers" Found at 8/20/2010 via arstechnica.com
Two prominent lawyers in the fight against RIAA P2P lawsuits have taken their battle to the Supreme Court. Today, Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson and " Recording Industry vs. the People " blogger/lawyer Ray Beckerman joined with a few other law professors to ask the Supreme Court not to gut copyright law's "innocent infringer" defense. The case concerns a woman named Whitney Harper. Several ... More...
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| 'Innocent Infringer' copyright defense for downloaders goes to U.S. Supreme Court Found at 8/20/2010 via www.betanews.com
Nesson's group, calls this the "next generation of P2P lawsuits." In 2004, when Harper was only sixteen years old, copyright monitoring company MediaSentry found that she was sharing 544 copyrighted songs on peer-to-peer network KaZaA. More...
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| Audiogalaxy switches from P2P to U2U audio streaming Found at 8/19/2010 via mog.com
Photo by D-32 on Flickr I forgot my thumbdrive of music when I left for work this morning so I was worried I would be tune-less at work, luckily there's Audiogalaxy to the rescue! I guess the company that once produced a Napster-like P2P program has gone legit and is now offering this ridiculously easy to use personal music streaming service. Once you create an account and install the program on ... More...
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| 53 gay porn pirates face new round of P2P lawsuits Found at 8/11/2010 via arstechnica.com
It's not just the game plan of the RIAA and the new US Copyright Group ?numerous rightsholders have resorted to mass federal lawsuits against P2P users, including those in the gay porn industry. On Monday, Lucas Entertainment filed its first such lawsuit targeting 53 BitTorrent users alleged to have shared its pornographic film Kings of New York . The complaint is brief. Lucas says nothing about ... More...
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| Why US Copyright Group abandoned its first two P2P lawsuits Found at 8/11/2010 via arstechnica.com
The Hollywood Reporter has the story of the US Copyright Group's latest unexpected move?dismissing the first two P2P lawsuits it filed earlier this year. Shocking stuff, unless you've actually been reading the court docket. US Copyright Group, which is controlled by Virginia law firm Dunlap, Grubb, & Weaver, has sued more than 14,000 Americans this year for allegedly downloading various ... More...
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| New federal antipiracy regulations await returning students Found at 8/10/2010 via arstechnica.com
Baylor University doesn't want its students using peer-to-peer networks. A BlueCoat PacketShaper locks down bandwidth to students, and all inbound ports are blocked by the campus firewall to keep "computers from acting as servers or super nodes in peer to peer networks." Illinois State uses a packet shaping device called the Packeteer; it singles out P2P traffic and clamps down hard on its ... More...
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