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Pirate Pay Blocks BitTorrent Sharing. Is it Illegal DOS?
Skolkovo or Russian's competition to Silicon Valley has a hot company Pirate Pay which just received funding from Microsoft. The idea behind the system is to confuse BitTorrent clients to keep them from downloading specific content. The monetization comes from...
iPhone Bluetooth File Sharing Coming
It seems that those of you who have jailbroken your iPhones will soon have access to bluetooth file sharing. I am left to wonder when Apple will see fit to give the same functionality to legit users....
Canadian ISPs Abhor Net Neutrality
It is amazing to me that virtually all ISPs in Canada admit to filtering traffic. Many of the providers in the great white north argue traffic shaping is essential as it ensures customers get their contracted speeds. Typically the target...
P2P Textbook Sharing
In my University days I often recall having new textbooks issued every few years and if students happened to be entering a class when the new textbook came out, we were all forced to buy the new edition as opposed...
Comcast and BitTorrent Collaborate
In a dramatic turn of events, two companies that seemed to be at each other's throats just a few months back, Comcast and BitTorrent have decided to join forces and work together to advance ways in which rich media can...
BitTorrent Strikes back
Recently we discussed how regulators will be looking carefully at Comcast and the fact that they were throttling the bandwidth from the file sharing program BitTorrent. While the regulators mull over what to do with these practices, the programmers at...
P2P Identity Theft
Boy are those hackers are creative is all I could think when I learned a person used LimeWire to steal personal information such as tax returns from people’s computers. The hacker subsequently used this information to commit identity theft....
Legal p2p File Sharing in France
Is France becoming the most tech savvy country of the west? Perhaps not but France’s lower house has agreed to legalize peer-to-peer file sharing. In a surprise decision, just 2 out of 58 votes decided the outcome.The measure, introduced as...
