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U.S. Ethics Committee staffer file-shares sensitive document

Perhaps file sharing should be banned.A A The Washington Post reports that a ex-employee of the U.S. House Ethics Committee put a sensitiveA report detailing 30+ current investigationsA on to a public accessible computer.

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Related Topix: Computers, PC, Science / Technology

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Ars Technica

Did Congress really give the FCC power to protect the 'Net?

With the release of the Federal Communications Commission's new Internet nondiscrimination proposals , one vexing question continues to vex.

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Related Topix: Business News, Federal Communications Commission, Cable & Satellite, Comcast, Internet Service Providers, Science / Technology, District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, US News

Sat Nov 07, 2009

ComputerWorld

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

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.

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Related Topix: Internet, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Macworld

Skype's legal storm clears up

The legal war over Skype has ended. Skype's cofounders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, have agreed to transfer ownership of the remaining Skype technology that eBay didn't own, paving the way for eBay to complete its sale of a majority stake in Skype to an investor consortium.

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Related Topix: eBay, Startups, Science / Technology

CiteULike

Understanding the flash crowd in P2P live video streaming systems

It is evident from our experiences with real-world systems that, it is not uncommon to have hundreds of thousands of users trying to join a program in the first few minutes of a live broadcast.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Thu Nov 05, 2009

CiteULike

Experiences with a large-scale deployment of Stanford Peer-to-Peer Multicast

However, maintaining media servers is not only costly but also usually requires over-provisioning due to the difficulty of predicting the peak size of an audience.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

News of Doom

Who watches the watchmen?: MA cop busted on child porn charges

Veteran Adams Police Officer Alan C. Vigiard, 45, was arrested last week and charged with possession of child pornography.

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Related Topix: Berkshire, MA, Berkshire County, MA, Science / Technology

Wed Nov 04, 2009

NetworkWorld

Orange bans Spotify, Facebook on iPhone

The rumble of discontent over new iPhone carrier Orange's rather limited "unlimited" data download restrictions.

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Related Topix: iPhone, Social Software, Science / Technology

Wired News

Open Source - Napster' Resurrected After 8-Year Dormancy

A small group of programmers plans to breathe new life into the Napster-spawned OpenNap protocol that was designed to help dejected music fans share files using similar technology after the official Napster servers blinked off.

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Related Topix: Online Music, Science, Computer Science, Science / Technology, DMCA News

Tue Nov 03, 2009

CiteULike

Ant colony optimization inspired resource discovery inA P2P Grid systems

Springer Images grid Abstract Abstract It is a challenge for the traditional centralized or hierarchical Grid architecture to manage the large-scale and dynamic resources, while providing scalability.

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CiteULike

PeerDB: a P2P-based system for distributed data sharing

IEEE Explore no-tag Abstract We present the design and evaluation of PeerDB, a peer-to-peer distributed data sharing system.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

BroadcastNewsroom

NCTA, NBCU: FCC BitTorrent Order 'Shackles' ISPs

The FCC's BitTorrent order "shackles" Internet service providers in their attemps to thwart online piracy, leaves network operators guessing about what reasonable network management is, undercuts the agency's own network neutrality proposal and should be vacated by the courts.

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers, Cable & Satellite, Comcast, Science / Technology

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Good Morning Silicon Valley

New BitTorrent protocol exercises self-control

The widely used BitTorrent protocol for peer-to-peer sharing of large files has been a bandwidth bugaboo for Internet service providers for several years now - estimated to account for a quarter to a half of all Net traffic , depending on location, and held up as justification for the kind of heavy handed traffic management that got Comcast in ...

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Related Topix: BitTorrent, Startups, Internet Service Providers

CiteULike

Diagnosing Network-Wide P2P Live Streaming Inefficiencies

Abstract Large-scale live peer-to-peer streaming applications have been successfully deployed in today's Internet.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Associated Content

How to Outwit Traffic Shaping ISPs Encrypting BitTorrent Transfers

Nowadays, BitTorrent transfers have been worrying several internet service providers .

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers, Science / Technology

Sun Nov 01, 2009

CiteULike

LayerP2P: A New Data Scheduling Approach for Layered Streaming in Heterogeneous Networks

Abstract Although layered streaming in heterogeneous peer-to-peer networks has drawn great interest in recent years, there's still a lack of systematical studies on its data scheduling issue.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

CiteULike

Impacts of Peer Characteristics on P2PTV Networks Scalability

Abstract A P2PTV system allows users to watch live video streams redistributed by other users via a peer-to-peer network.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Charleston Daily Mail

Ethics report leaked, discloses internal probes

Internal investigations into the conduct of several House members have been exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach of security involving the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Zoe Lofgren, Democrat, Representative Laura Richardson, Maxine Waters, Science / Technology, John Murtha

Sat Oct 31, 2009

NetworkWorld

AFACT v iiNet case could tarnish music industry image

As the battle between the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft and iiNet recommences on Monday, a law professor has told Computerworld the corporate music industry's attack on technology is giving it image problems.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Metal, Metallica, Startups, Napster, Software

CiteULike

A survey of peer-to-peer content distribution technologies

Search all the public and authenticated articles in CiteULike. Enter a search phrase.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Computers, CPU

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