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by jeff goldman on February 14, 2010
Security researchers Larry Pesce and Mick Douglas have warned that personal data can easily be intercepted over P2P networks.
"At the 2010 ShmooCon security conference... the duo showed off the ...
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by Jordan Grodecki on August 15, 2008
As reported, The Pirate Bay was blocked in Italy recently...and when something is blocked, you'd expect a very low number of people to be able to get around the block. In fact, the complete oppo...
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by Jordan Grodecki on August 12, 2008
The pirate bay, the world's most notorious torrent tracker has been blocked by a set of ISPs in Italy. Unsuprisingly, TPB have come back with a quick responce of changing the IPs of the servers, a...
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by Jordan Grodecki on May 30, 2008
MediaDefender, a company set up to attack those sharing files on the net, has never been seen in a very good light. Rather than sending cease and desists, they put up fake files, tricking users into...
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by Jordan Grodecki on May 16, 2008
Sorry for the influx of RIAA stories recently; not much is occuring in the p2p world, other than Qtrax, which you can read about over at the digital music blog I now run; I don't want to do the ...
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by Jordan Grodecki on April 24, 2008
Topsites are mystical things the majority of people involved in peer2peer have no knowledge about, but they are very important. They are were all the pirated material released by "scene groups&qu...
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by Jordan Grodecki on November 21, 2007
...of course, it didn't cost the people $1,000,000 to get the leaked files...it cost MediaDefender that much in legal and other damages related to the leak.
Apparently they had to refund their 4 ...
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by Marc on July 13, 2006
This post is a bit far from P2P. But absurdity knows few bounds. I ran across this silliness at eMoms At Home of all places - Friendster Patents Social Networking. As if Friendster was the first socia...
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by Marc on December 30, 2005
... for illegally infecting your PC with spyware. At the moment it appears likely to walk away without even a slap on the wrist.
Ed Foster is Unsettled by the Sony Settlement.
He writes "I sup...
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by Marc on August 21, 2005
entertainment companies aren't the only ones having fun. Tech firm Intervideo sued Dell with patent infringement over the innovative and never-before-envisioned Autoplay feature for DVD players. C...
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by Marc on June 6, 2005
The Dallas Morning News published an article on Child porn and P2P. The piece does a nice job of covering a variety of valuable perspectives from law enforcement to industry associations to P2P d...
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by Marc on May 26, 2005
Another Bit Torrent web site was shut down (LA Times - Silicon Valley). What's new is the federal government now publicly spearheads such investigations.
As we've stated before in this colu...
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by Marc on May 21, 2005
Lecturer Jorge Cotrell lost his job at Polytechnic University of Valencia UPV in Spain due to pressure by the Spanish Recording Industry Association "Promusicae" and the MPAA. And it was...
