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9 hrs ago | P2pnet.net

ACS:Law: a Ita s Christmas. Time to suea

ACS:Law: 'It's Christmas. Time to sue' 2pnet news view Freedom P2P: Blackmail tactics first popularised by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music's RIAA are creating a cottage industry for unscrupulous lawyers and the people who hire them.

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Yesterday | P2pnet.net

Virgin to use DPI file share 'monitor' system

P2P:- With entertainment cartel plans to use world governments as copyright enforcers in the background, Britain's Virgin Media says it plans to try a DPI system called CView.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet Service Providers

Sun Nov 29, 2009

CiteULike

Kelips: Building an Efficient and Stable P2P DHT through Increased Memory and Background Overhead

SpringerLink msaeida p2p Abstract A peer-to-peer distributed hash table system allows hosts to join and fail silently , as well as to insert and retrieve files .

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Sat Nov 28, 2009

Vnunet

Thousands of BT customers accused of piracy

Up to 13,000 BT customers accused of illegally downloading content are likely to receive legal letters in the new year.

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Related Topix: Piracy News, Internet Service Providers, Science / Technology

Fri Nov 27, 2009

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Connecticut Man Arrested on Child Pornography Charge

Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that RAUL A. RESTO, 51, of 100 Jefferson Square, Waterbury, was arrested yesterday by members of the Connecticut Computer Crimes Task Force on a federal criminal complaint charging RESTO with possession of child pornography.

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Related Topix: Connecticut, Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law, New Haven Metro, Science / Technology

CiteULike

The Bittorrent P2P File-Sharing System: Measurements and Analysis

Springer Images Abstract Of the many P2P file-sharing prototypes in existence, BitTorrent is one of the few that has managed to attract millions of users.

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Thu Nov 26, 2009

CiteULike

Measurement, Modeling and Analysis of Peer-to-Peer VoD System

Many previous works on this area directly regard peer's information transmitting log such as buffer message as peer's watching behavior log.

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Wed Nov 25, 2009

CiteULike

BitTube: Case Study of a Web-Based Peer-Assisted Video-on-Demand System

Abstract Recent theoretical and simulation-based studies have confirmed the tremendous benefit of peer-to-peer communication at reducing the cost of running a VoD service.To date, very limited effort has been paid to validate the concept of peer-assisted VoD service, especially in terms of system implementation and service deployment.

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Tue Nov 24, 2009

Federal Bureau of Investigation

New Castle Man Sentenced to 30 Years of Incarceration for Production...

New Castle Man Sentenced to 30 Years of Incarceration for Production and Possession of Child Pornography William A. Phillips, age 42, of New Castle, Delaware, was sentenced today to 30 years of incarceration for production and possession of child pornography, in violation of federal law.

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Related Topix: Prison, New Castle, DE, Criminal Defense Law, Law, New Castle County, DE, Science / Technology

MyFox St. Louis

Video startup Joost gets bought by online ad company Adconion Media Group for undisclosed sum

The struggling online video startup Joost, begun with much fanfare by the creators of Skype and Kazaa, has been sold to an online advertising company.

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Related Topix: Cable & Satellite, Comcast, Science / Technology

PC World

Mobile Groups Protest Proposed Net Neutrality Rules

A month ago, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission began a proceeding to create formal net neutrality rules for broadband providers, and the proposals have generated serious debate in the telecom community.

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Related Topix: Business News, Federal Communications Commission, Wireless, Emerging Technology, Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science

Slam Sports

Canada a base for child porn

It's nauseatingly easy for pedophiles to get their hands on child porn. All they need is access to the Internet and a credit card.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet Service Providers, Winter Sports, Curling

Mon Nov 23, 2009

P2pnet.net

p2pnet: for sale

I spent most of last night thinking about my options, and decided to try keep going with a drastically reduced income, praying for the best, would be unwise.

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Sun Nov 22, 2009

The Huffington Post

Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D.: Whack-A-Mole Security: Bad Policy, Bad Legislation

The recent disclosure of a confidential Congressional document has at least one congressman calling for a ban on peer-to-peer file sharing software, but a closer look at the problem reveals that this effort would merely be treating the symptoms, not the disease.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, US News, Computers, PC, US Politics, Edolphus Towns, US House of Representatives, Democrat

Sat Nov 21, 2009

IEEE Security & Privacy

PrePrint: An Efficient Hybrid Peer-to-Peer System for Distributed Data Sharing

Min Yang, Yuanyuan Yang, "An Efficient Hybrid Peer-to-Peer System for Distributed Data Sharing," IEEE Transactions on Computers , vol.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Los Alamitos, CA

Fri Nov 20, 2009

MySanAntonio.com

Former music teacher sentenced for child porn

A former music teacher who at one time had what the FBI said was the largest collection of child pornography in San Antonio was sentenced Thursday to eight years and four months in prison.

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Related Topix: San Antonio Metro, Education Etc., Science / Technology

WSFA-TV Montgomery

Auburn man gets 17 years for child porn

An Auburn man will spend the next 17 years in prison on child pornography convictions.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

CiteULike

Creating social networks to improve peer-to-peer networking

In KDD '05: Proceedings of the eleventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery in data mining , pp.

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

The Victoria Star

Analysts say it's a matter of years before TV watching is done mostly online

Canadians already are going online in significant numbers to watch TV shows and some say it's just a matter of time before the Internet permanently weans viewers from their cable or satellite connections.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Science / Technology

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Seattle's WB

Lawmakers want to restrict use of 'peer-to-peer' after disclosure of ethics committee report

Stung by an embarrassing electronic leak last month revealing ethics investigations into dozens of lawmakers, Congress moved Tuesday to prohibit federal employees from using the same type of Internet file-sharing software blamed for the disclosure.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, US News, Computers, US Politics, Edolphus Towns, US House of Representatives, Democrat

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