Peer-to-Peer

Editorial: Congress’s OMG Over the P2P Leak

New York Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Now that Congress understands the dangers of peer-to-peer software firsthand, it should be open to legislation regulating file-sharing programs.

Vuze 4.2.0.8 Portable

pro-dz (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Vuze 4.2.0.8 Portable | 62.9 Mb Vuze is a multimedia BitTorrent client based on Azureus intended for DVD and HD video. It includes some social-networking features to share videos among friends. It offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. It also features...

Week in review: Tracking down a Modern Warfare pirate, Max Levchin on Slide’s big bet

The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday

Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: How investigators tracked down a Modern Warfare 2 cyber pirate — “While the bust led to the arrest of just one hacker among many, it sheds light on the shadowy underground of the business of illegal piracy. It also offers a peek at how investigators...

• Week in review: Tracking down a Modern Warfare pirate, Max Levchin on Slide’s big bet - VentureBeat

USSD: How to develop USSD application

Techkranti (Free subscription) | yesterday

We got a tremendous response to our last post on USSD. Actually, there is not much information about ' How to develop an USSD app' on the Internet.When we started working on this topic we would only get links to websites of USSD Gateway vendors. Buying Gateway? Crap!! That thought will perish your lifetime earnings. Let us first make it clear to you that USSD applications are'nt like desktop apps which...

Hollywood DRM plan: put a Soc in it

p2pnet (Free subscription) | yesterday

p2pnet news view DRM | P2P | Movies:- The Hollywood studios want the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to allow them to start using selectable output control (Soc) DRM consumer control technology. Soon-to-be-gone MPAA boss Dan Glickman says the anti-piracy effort is “the option” for people “to enjoy movies in a more timely fashion”. “If the FCC [...]

MediaSentry scandal continues

p2pnet (Free subscription) | yesterday

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Private ‘investigator’ MediaSentry, fired by the RIAA, has been disgraced in Canada, the US and Holland, that we know of. Bought by SafeNet for cash and stock worth $20 million in 2005 and then sold to rival MediaDefender at a knock-down, flea-market price of $136,000 in cash and a [...]

PUSH my Fart: Fai scorreggiare gli iPhone degli amici | AppStore [Video]

Iphone CoolStreaming (Free subscription) | yesterday

Produttore: mobfarm | Download Via: AppStore | Prezzo: 0,79€ PUSH my Fart è un’applicazione per fare scherzi su iPhone and iPod touch. Potrai far scoreggiare i telefoni dei tuoi amici ovunque tu sia. Per farlo, ci si servirà delle ultime API rese disponibili da Apple e quindi attraverso una connessione Peer To Peer oppure le notifiche push.

Norway court rejects calls to block Pirate Bay

The Local (Free subscription) | yesterday

Communications company Telenor will not be forced to block customers from accessing Swedish file sharing website The Pirate Bay, a court in Norway decided on Friday. The case arose after entertainment industry bosses demanded the service provider to take action.

Empowering One Student at a Time: Community of Unity

TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | yesterday

There are some non-profit education-based organizations whose mission and programs are so uniquely effective that they become stand-out models for others to emulate. I recently discovered Community of Unity in New York City which is definitely one such program. Founded in 2001 by Eric Komoroff , Community of Unity (CofU) aims to help young people discover and develop their unique potential and purpose...

Q&A: isoHunt founder says P2P can help create post-piracy world

The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday

Gary Fung founded BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.com in 2003 when he was a 19-year-old student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. With the demise of The Pirate Bay , isoHunt is now the second most popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing site today behind Mininova , and ranked in the top 250 Web sites in the world by both Alexa and Quantcast. Fung talked with Computerworld...

VODO Embraces BitTorrent to Distribute Movies, Compensate Filmmakers

P2P Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

UK-based P2P video platform VODO published its second feature film on dozens of file-sharing sites Thursday, hoping that worldwide exposure will bring in donations, subscriptions and traditional distribution deals. David Miller's documentary In Guantanamo, which is the result of a press tour of the controversial detention facility, has been downloaded around 15,000 times within the first 24 hours,...

• VODO Embraces BitTorrent to Distribute Movies, Compensate Filmmakers - NewTeeVee

Comcast Puts a Chokehold On Bandwidth

PlayStation LifeStyle (Free subscription) | yesterday

Comcast, the 2nd largest cable and Internet provider in the US, has released the details of their new “network management” system recently. The company came under fire last year when it was revealed that they were silently blocking some peer-to-peer network traffic, prompting a rebuke from the US Federal Communications Commission. While Comcast is no longer [...]

eBay, Skype Founders Settle Fight

Internet News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

The ownership brawl over the VoIP player's peer-to-peer technology finally draws to an end -- who's left standing?

Eye-Fi Pro

Maximum PC all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Latest version caters with advanced features We’ve long loved Eye-Fi’s series of Wi-Fi-enabled SD cards that allow you to instantly upload pics from your camera to a website, but it has lacked two key features: the ability to select which photos you want to upload and the ability to perform peer-to-peer transfers from the camera to a computer or laptop. This new card addresses those needs....

A Great Look at the Record Store Business, Through the Lens of Ann Arbor...

The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

The Michigan Daily : Walking into Encore Records is like stumbling into a corn maze, a disheveled college bedroom and a natural history museum all at once — just 20 times more overwhelming than any of those places. The walls are practically crawling with musical artifacts from the past century, teeming with an otherworldly sort of life that’s completely missing when you’re browsing...

Open Source tools for the Grid community

gredia | 03/09/2009

The GREDIA research project partly funded by the European Commission has just completed, making available to the Grid community tools that can be used for building and improving Grid applications. Mentioning just a few we have released: - APPEA: A user-friendly Grid application development platform - DRLS: A Distributed Replica Location Service for searching multimedia content, based on P2P overlay...

Exclusive: Global Gaming Factory Pirate Bay Purchase Not Moving Forward

themusicvoid | 30/07/2009

Despite all the fever pitch hype surround the recent Global Gaming Factory buying The Pirate Bay and turning it into a legal service TMV has discovered that it is now highly unlikely the purchase will ever occur. TMV has learned that the Swedish bankers quoted by GGF as investing in the venture, clearly stated they would not be proceeding with any investment. TMV obtained a leaked email sent to many