If you're friendly with the ISPs, why are you writing from the point of view of... Nov 20, 2009
e. peer-to-peer file sharing) to off-hours. Then were back to the original part of this discussion. (Multichannel News)
Auburn man gets 17 years for child porn Nov 20, 2009
Barger was sharing the images via the peer-to-peer file sharing software, Limewire. After being indicted on child porn charges, authorities moved in and arrested Barger in October, 2008. (WSJA.com, AL)
House pushes ban on peer-to-peer software Nov 18, 2009
The Secure Federal File Sharing Act, introduced in the House, would bar government employees and contractors from downloading, installing or using so-called peer-to-peer file sharing software such as Limewire without official approval. The bill also would require the White House to develop rules for employees and contractors working on home or personal computers. (MSNBC -- Crime)
AP: Congressional Ethics Report Leaked, Reveals Names Nov 2, 2009
A committee statement said that its security was breached through "peer to peer file sharing software" by a junior employee who was working from home. The staff member was fired. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
CTAM Summit 2009: VOD Helps Cable, But Needs Help on Ads Oct 28, 2009
He also made a wry comment about putdowns of VOD."For me, VOD is the golden retriever at your feet and over the top peer-to-peer file sharing sites are the wolves at the door. What I can't quite get my head around is why we constantly beat the golden retriever with a newspaper as an industry and don't really go after the real problem, which is the peer to peer file sharing sites trying to break down the door.". More Content. (Multichannel News)
Man Sentenced To 97 Months For Receiving Child Porn Oct 28, 2009
According to Assistant United States Attorneys Sheila K. Oberto and Brian Enos who prosecuted the case, Leigh came to the attention of law enforcement after ICE agents discovered that Leigh had obtained movie files depicting the sexual exploitation of minors for file-sharing via the peer-to-peer file sharing program. Peer-to-peer software programs permit computer users connected to the Internet to link computers around the world for the purpose of sharing files. (KERO 23, CA)
Video-On-Demand Now 27% Of Internet Traffic: Study Oct 26, 2009
Peer-to-peer file sharing represented 20% of all usage on the 2009 survey of 20 Internet service providers worldwide, compared with 32% in 2008. Even though the amount of traffic consumed by P2P applications continues to grow on an absolute basis, video-on-demand applications are growing more quickly, Sandvine CEO Dave Caputo said. (Multichannel News)
FCC approves draft net-neutrality rules Oct 24, 2009
The issue has come to the fore as cases emerged of broadband providers choking off bandwidth for surfers using data-intensive tools like peer-to-peer file sharing, and mobile phone carriers erecting barriers to competing online calling services. Telecom trade associations and free market groups have characterized the rules as an unnecessary government intervention that will discourage investments in the industry and complicate the legitimate need to manage traffic, spam and malware. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Expanding Net of Online Regulations Oct 22, 2009
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Multichannel Newswire Oct 5, 2009
The House Energy & Commerce Committee passed two bills last week aimed at protecting personal information online, including one that would establish new guidelines for some peer-to-peer file sharing. The sambaing begun -- Rio de Janiero will host the 2016 Summer Olympics. (Multichannel News)
House Pushes P2P Bill Oct 4, 2009
Washington The House Energy & Commerce Committee passed two bills last week aimed at protecting personal information online, including one that would establish new guidelines for some peer-to-peer file sharing ... I understand my colleague Ms. Bono Macks concern for preserving the individuals right to consent to sharing information stored on computer disks with others via peer-to-peer file sharing programs, said the panels former chairman, Rep. (Multichannel News)
House Committee Pushing P2P File Sharing Bill Oct 1, 2009
"I understand my colleague, Ms. Bono Mack's concern for preserving the individual's right to consent to sharing information stored on computer disks with others via peer-to-peer file sharing programs...I would dare say it would have some bearing on this committee's consideration of the subject of behavioral advertising," said former Committee chairman John Dingell (D-Mich. . (Multichannel News)
'Open' Net guidelines pushed Sep 22, 2009
The Obama appointee said that instances of carriers obstructing online telephone services, intentionally degrading peer-to-peer file sharing and preventing access to political content threaten to stifle technical advances and compromise the free flow of information. "We have an obligation to ensure that the Internet is an enduring engine for U.S. economic growth, and a foundation for democracy in the 21st century," Genachowski said. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
FBI says man's kids in video Sep 11, 2009
The FBI agent found Seguerre on a "publicly available peer-to-peer file sharing program" on the Internet that was suspected of involvement in child pornography, the affidavit said. The agent was using an undercover identity and posed as a member of the file-sharing group, according to the affidavit. (Honolulu Advertiser)
UK proposes cutting Web access to file sharers Aug 26, 2009
The government said it was publishing new ideas to speed up the process of tackling unlawful peer-to-peer file sharing to prevent damage to the content industries. Proposals include requiring Internet Service Providers to take action against individual repeat infringers, including blocking access to download sites, reducing broadband speeds or by temporarily suspending an individual's Internet account. (MSNBC -- Crime)
Can't stop the (free) music Aug 25, 2009
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Seattle man sentenced in computer scam Aug 12, 2009
Frederick Eugene Wood has been sentenced to 39 months in prison for organizing a scheme that utilized a peer-to-peer file sharing system to steal personal information from individuals computers. The 34-year-old Seattle resident also was sentenced to three years of supervised release for wire fraud, accessing a protected computer without authorization to further fraud, and aggravated identity theft. (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Media Watch- No winners Aug 7, 2009
The illegal kind is called peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P). You sign up with this company, and in exchange for making all of your own digital music library available to everyone else, you get to share theirs. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)
Top-secret Obama safe house leaked on LimeWire Jul 31, 2009
The US is pondering a crackdown on peer-to-peer file sharing programs after details of a Secret Service safe-house location for President Barack Obama and his family were found being traded on LimeWire. A senior US lawmaker has said that it may be time for the Government to regulate companies that provide online file-sharing services after several people managed to access confidential information. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Discover new music online Jul 27, 2009
10 sites to help you navigate the new world of music - CNN.com. 10 sites to help you navigate the new world of music. (CNN)
Soon, e-data that self-destructs Jul 22, 2009
But the researchers said they had struck upon a unique approach that relies on "shattering" an encryption key that is held by neither party in an email exchange but is widely scattered across a peer-to-peer file sharing system. Public key cryptography makes it possible for two parties who have never physically met to share a digital secret and as a result engage in a secure electronic conversation sheltered from potential eavesdroppers. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Kazaa to rise from the dead Jul 21, 2009
The notorious Kazaa peer-to-peer file sharing service is back from the dead three years after it was shut down by the music industry in a $150 million lawsuit. But the software looks entirely different this time around, with users forced to pay for their music instead of trading tracks illegally. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Pirate sites return in legal form Jul 21, 2009
Illegal peer-to-peer file sharing is still rife on the net. Peer-to-peer download sites Kazaa and The Pirate Bay are set to return with a new, legal subscription model. (BBC News -- Technology)
ISP's speeds almost dead as dodo, customers say Jul 14, 2009
But Corke said he did not use peer-to-peer file sharing programs at all and the most he would download at a time would be music from iTunes. Dodo, a small ISP, notched up a staggering 6683 complaints in 2007-08 with the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Music cos. vow to show Minn. woman shared 24 songs Jun 17, 2009
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McAfee selling parents total control Jun 16, 2009
- Program Blocking: Chokes off peer to peer file sharing programs, stopping children from downloading illegal or virus-laden files. - E-mail management: Lets parents pre-approve e-mail addresses of their children's friends and block mail from unknown coming through programs such as Microsoft Outlook. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Internet filter: $44.5m and no goal in sight Jun 4, 2009
He said that, if the objective was to stop the flow of child porn, filtering sites on a blacklist would not achieve this goal because the blacklist would never capture even close to all of the child-porn sites on the web and would be ineffective against peer-to-peer file sharing. "It's like trying to stop the drug trade by blocking one set of traffic lights," Senator Ludlam said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Translation Please: Best of NCTA Tech Papers, 2009 May 25, 2009
First: The Challenges of Stopping Illegal Peer-to-Peer File Sharing, written by three comp-sci professors at the University of Colorado. It reads like a Tom Clancy novel (well, kind of), where the entity under siege is Bandwidth, and interlopers are P2P outfits, steadily bolstering their protocols to illegally trade copyright-protected content. (Multichannel News)
Local Man Sentenced To 17.5 Years For Child Pornography May 13, 2009
According to Assistant United States Attorney David Gappa, who prosecuted the case, the Bakersfield FBI office received information from FBI offices in New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Texas that Hollis was making many images of known and suspected child pornography available through use of Limewire, a peer-to-peer file sharing program on the gnutella network. Agents executed a search warrant at his home on August 15, 2008, and seized a computer that was downloading images of child pornography from... (KERO 23, CA)
'Sleep Talking' PCs Save Energy And Money May 2, 2009
It supports instant messaging applications, VoIP, large background web downloads, peer-to-peer file sharing networks such as BitTorrent, and remote access. The computer scientists say their system is easily extensible to support other applications. (Science Daily)
Google tool aims to traffic flowing Apr 29, 2009
ISPs such as US behemoth Comcast have sparked controversy by clandestinely throttling some traffic, such as peer-to-peer file sharing. ISPs argue that such measures are necessary to manage growing congestion on the Internet highway. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
E.U. Telecom Law Set to Enshrine the Right to Information Mar 27, 2009
Technology firms fear that the next step in fighting online piracy will be a requirement for them to include filtering software in their products that would make peer-to-peer file sharing and other illegal-content distribution techniques impossible. "We were hoping the lawmakers would introduce language into the telecoms package that would prevent member states from introducing such moves, and we are disappointed they didn't. That threat still remains," said Francisco Mingorance, an E.U. affairs... (Yahoo News -- Technology)
More Internet predators are challenging agents Mar 22, 2009
New peer-to-peer file sharing software enabled porn purveyors to send photographs and videos directly to each other's computers in seconds, anywhere in the world. . (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)
Internet predators continue to multiply Mar 21, 2009
New peer-to-peer file sharing software enabled porn purveyors to send photographs and videos directly to each other's computers in seconds, anywhere in the world. The trap is setSzatkowski and Paul2u exchanged messages for an hour. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Computer attacks 'rising steeply' Mar 10, 2009
The report said peer-to-peer file sharing was also becoming another way for malware to enter a computer, as were malicious advertisements and "blog spam", where legitimate weblogs were infected with links to exploit browsers. The report recommended computer users keep software up-to-date, have a good security product, be suspicious of websites visited and have a password to protect online information. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Data on Obama helicopter leaked Mar 4, 2009
The discovery was made by data monitoring firm Tiversa, which monitors peer-to-peer file sharing networks for government agencies and large enterprises. Keith Tagliaferri, director of operations at Tiversa, said the employee who inadvertently disclosed the information was a high-level executive - and the breach had taken place outside the company's offices. (BBC News -- Americas)
Source in Iran sees plans for president's chopper Mar 3, 2009
Tiversa, based in Pennsylvania, monitors peer-to-peer file sharing networks for government agencies and large enterprises. Most people use such file sharing to enjoy movies and music. (USA Today -- News)
White House helicopter data found on Iranian computer Mar 3, 2009
The defense contractor and the U.S. government are investigating the incident, said Keith Tagliaferri, director of operations at Tiversa, a Pennsylvania-based company that monitors data breaches linked to peer-to-peer file sharing. Tagliaferri declined to name the U.S. contractor or give any information about the identity of the Iranian computer where the file was found on Feb. 25. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Report: Iran Stole Marine One Specs Mar 1, 2009
Peer-to-peer file sharing (often called P2P) is a popular way for people to swap digital files on their hard drives over the Internet. LimeWire and Bear Share are only a few of several services that operate on P2P networks. (CBS News)
More specialty Linuxes to the rescue Feb 24, 2009
The Internet desktop serves up Iceweasel, aMSN (MSN chat), BitTorrent, Konquerer, amule (peer-to-peer file sharing), KDE mail, and more. Finally, the Graphics desktop offers xine, gimp, xaos (fractal calculation and display), the kuickshow image viewer, and others. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
U2 album leaked by label Feb 23, 2009
"Horizon" is now understood to have been widely distributed via peer-to-peer file sharing networks. A Universal Music spokesman declined to comment and the responsible party remains anonymous. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Prosecutor drops a charge in Pirate Bay case Feb 18, 2009
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Cox Kicks Off Throttling Test Feb 13, 2009
When the network is at or near full utilization, time-sensitive Internet traffic like Web pages, voice calls, streaming video and online gaming will have priority over less time-sensitive traffic, such as file uploads and peer-to-peer file sharing. Rolls said the test will probably take four to six weeks to return results. (Multichannel News)
Microgrids: How Electricity Can Follow Tech's Example Feb 7, 2009
From the massive Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program (which uses excess cycles from millions of computers to parse data) to peer-to-peer file sharing (where millions of computers across the world combine to transmit large digital files) distributed computing allows for decentralized assets to conduct operations that would be impossible with a handful of supercomputers. Yet, even with greater individual failure rates, the distributed networks maintain greater reliability and... (Energy Pulse, CO)
