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BitTorrent News

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Thursday Jul 10 | RedOrbit

Comcast and Vonage in Internet-Traffic Pact

Comcast Corp. today announced an agreement with Vonage Holdings Corp., the big Internet phone service provider, to develop ways to manage Internet traffic without damaging each other's businesses.

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Related Topix: Telecom, Business News, Federal Communications Commission, Startups

Fri Jun 27, 2008

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BitTorrent, P2P Criticized by Internet Founder

Bloggers from Structure 08, a technology industry trade show hosted in San Francisco, reported on another intriguing assessment of P2P technology' impact on the internet.

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Related Topix: Startups, Science / Technology, P2P

Wed Jun 25, 2008

Cheese Shop recent updates

HunnyB 0.1.0

HunnyB implements the bencode encoding/decoding originally created by Petru Paler for use in the guts of BitTorrent , brainchild of Bram Cohen .

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Related Topix: Startups

Mon Jun 23, 2008

Lockergnome Nexus

AT&T and Verizon Change Their Tune

An interesting article over at DailyTech speaks to the idea that strange bedfellows are made in the most unusual places in this life.

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Related Topix: Startups

Sat Jun 21, 2008

All About Jazz

WEB/TECH: Comcast Begins Testing Net Neutrality

Comcast will begin testing what the cable concern has described as a "protocol agnostic" approach to managing bandwidth traffic during high-peak periods Selected customers in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and ...

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Related Topix: Startups, Business News, Federal Communications Commission, P2P, Science / Technology

Wed Jun 18, 2008

Slyck.com File-Sharing News And Infor...

Vuze (Azureus) Readies new Version

Vuze, the P2P program formally known as Azureus, has announced the arrival of their new version.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, P2P, Startups

Mon Jun 16, 2008

Mashable

MediaDefender Looking To Push Free Tracks With Ads Via P2P?

MediaDefender, the ARTISTdirect-owned entity that's been as friendly with big-name copyright owners as it has been a nuisance to the peer-to-peer world, has done many things that seem to many Web users to be ...

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Related Topix: Startups, P2P, Science / Technology, Marketing

Sat Jun 14, 2008

Sramana Mitra on Strategy

Deal Radar 2008: BitTorrent

'founded by Bram Cohen and Ashwin Navin in September 2004 - 'is one of the players in the peer-to-peer content delivery industry.

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Related Topix: Video Games, P2P, Science / Technology, Startups

Thu Jun 12, 2008

SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq: Secunia Research: uTorrent / BitTorrent Web Ui HTTP 'Range' Header DoS

Secunia Research ====================================================================== Secunia Research 11/06/2008 - uTorrent / BitTorrent Web UI HTTP "Range" Header DoS - ...

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Tue Jun 10, 2008

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Computex 2008: QNAP launches a BitTorrent Certified High-speed, Energy-saving NAS Family of Products

QNAP Systems, Inc. today announced its cooperation with BitTorrent, Inc. to enable a new powerful peer-to-peer download engine embedded its All-in-One Turbo Network Attached Storage series, the TS-109 II, ...

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Related Topix: Computer Security, Science / Technology, P2P, Startups, CPU

Mon Jun 09, 2008

NewsFactor Network

Download Squad: CloudFire Invites Part Deux

So in our last post about the P2P media sharing site CloudFire , y'all jumped in and answered our question about BitTorrent's Bram Cohen.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, P2P, Startups

Sat Jun 07, 2008

Geekzone

D-Link DNS-323 merges storage and Torrent

News : Consumer Electronics , posted 5-JUN-2008 08:17 D-Link has announced a free upgrade for its network attached storage device to enable BitTorrent file downloads and uploads independent of a PC.

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Related Topix: Startups

Thu Jun 05, 2008

Privacy Digest

Comcast Beginning 'Net Neutrality' Testing

Comcast will begin testing what the cable concern has described as a "protocol agnostic" approach to managing bandwidth traffic during high-peak periods, Comcast said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Startups, Business News, Federal Communications Commission, P2P, Science / Technology

Tue Jun 03, 2008

Mashable

Revision3 CEO: No Suit Against MediaDefender In The Works

Last week, Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback laid bare a detailed assessment of the makings, the happenings, and the aftereffects of a DDoS attack leveraged against the San Francisco-based Web video company by ...

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Related Topix: Startups, Revision3

Sun Jun 01, 2008

PC World

Revision3's Servers Knocked Offline by Copyright Cop

Copyright cop MediaDefender got itself into hot water over the Memorial Day weekend for admittedly carrying out a denial-of-service attack that shut down Revision3 servers.

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Related Topix: Startups, Revision3

Fri May 30, 2008

VentureBeat

BitTorrent's plan: Ride the video wave to the bank

For almost a year, a private war of sorts has been waged on the tubes of the Internet: A handful of large Internet service providers, challenged by the traffic loads caused by peer-to-peer file sharing protocol ...

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers, Science / Technology, P2P, Startups, Emerging Technology

Thu May 29, 2008

Los Angeles Times

Anti-piracy efforts blamed for crash of popular Internet TV network

One of the most popular Internet-based television networks was shut down all weekend, a casualty in the entertainment industry's fight against pirated material.

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Related Topix: Media, Startups, Revision3

Fri May 23, 2008

The Register

Bittorrent tosses Orb into Apple's walled garden

Bittorrent Inc. announced a deal with Orb yesterday to bundle the streaming media centre software with its own P2P client, and both parties used the opportunities to goad Apple over its "walled garden" approach ...

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Related Topix: P2P, Science / Technology, Startups, Computers, Apple Computer, Apple, iPhone, Steve Jobs

Thu May 22, 2008

Mad.co.uk

Legitimate goal

Ashwin Navin was brought on board BitTorrent to turn the file-sharing technology into a legal money-spinning business.

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Related Topix: Startups, Science / Technology, P2P, Marketing

Fri May 09, 2008

Slyck.com File-Sharing News And Infor...

MPAA Defeats TorrentSpy

“This substantial money judgment sends a strong message about the illegality of these sites”

A Los Angeles Federal court has rendered a $110 million judgment against Valence Media, the company which operates the now defunct TorrentSpy. via Slyck.com File-Sharing News And Infor...

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Related Topix: Startups, Science / Technology, P2P

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