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Peer To Peer File Sharing Service News

Russian start-up to kill peer-to-peer downloads - Stuff

2012-05-13
MediaDefender has since rebranded itself as Peer Media, and continue to offer anti-piracy services. Peer-to-peer file sharing however continues to flourish. At the end of the day, even if the Pirate Pay approach to combating file sharing is effective ...

Supreme Court Lets Stand $675,000 File-Sharing Verdict - Wired News

2012-05-21
U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner of Boston reduced the verdict to $67,500, or $2,250 for each of the 30 tracks defendant Tenenbaum unlawfully downloaded and shared on Kazaa, a once popular popular file-sharing, peer-to-peer service. The 1st Circuit ...

Berlin’s Pipe to Offer Facebook File Sharing - Wall Street Journal

2012-05-18
For people who are not Internet power users sharing large files ... my computer and your computer.” File transfers work using Adobe’s Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP), which allows direct peer-to-peer connections between two web ...

Pipe: file sharing in the Facebook age is about to get real - The Verge

2012-05-17
Hossell himself spent the last several years as Sales Director of Gracenote (the music metadata service ... your computer." File transfers work using Adobe's Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP), which allows direct peer-to-peer connections ...

Kazaa code rises from ashes to help ISPs block pirated copies for profit - Ars Technica

2012-05-23
... accused of being complicit in copyright infringement through peer-to-peer file sharing are now selling software that blocks pirated content—and gives Internet service providers a way to make cash in the process. And soon, a version of ...

Facebook Adds “Good Enough” File Sharing To All Groups. Dropbox Should Worry About Growth - TechCrunch

2012-05-09
The addition of file sharing has been a long time coming, as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had previously worked on a peer-to-peer service called WireHog, which was shut down due to concerns about copyright infringement. It also comes after ...

Pirate Pay torrent 'blocker' backed by Microsoft - BBC News

2012-05-14
Swamping Bit torrent blog Torrent Freak reported that Pirate Pay began life as traffic management software for internet service providers. From here they discovered it could be used to swamp peer-to-peer networks - which are used to share the files - with ...

Skype investigates tool that reveals users' IP addresses - Infoworld

2012-05-01
Skype, which is owned by Microsoft, said in an email statement that "this is an ongoing, industry-wide issue faced by all peer-to-peer software ... be accurately linked to sharing content using the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol.

Revenue stream music to industry’s ears - Australian Financial Review

2012-05-24
“We think streaming services co-opt what was great about peer-to-peer [file-sharing], apart from the fact that it was illegal, by giving people the ability to access any song they want on any device and share it with friends,” he said. “Piracy is a ...

Internet censorship - deccanchronicle.com

2012-05-20
These popular sites and services, which include many peer-to-peer sharing ... one mustn’t forget that they are also used for equally legitimate peer-to-peer file sharing, the copyrights of which belong to the respective companies, and ideally, should ...