In a concerning agreement, UK ISP virgin media has teamed up with the BPI with the intention of sending warning letters to those who they suspect of sharing files illegally. While no details will be...
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The TV industry, one of the groups most affected by "illegal" downloading of it's content, has finally begun to embrace p2p technology, although of course, it's DRMed to the hilt....
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The Pirate Bay, legendary torrent site, has updated it's interface for Music torrents to something really rather smart. The new system, shown in the image of amy winehouse's profile below, is...
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by Marc on September 06, 2007
Similar to SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), the search for AI (Artificial Intelligence) has now turned to distributed P2P computing. The Artificial Intelligence System (AIS)...
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A recent controversy over Microsoft Windows Media Center has highlighted the perils of DRM (Digital Rights Management). DRM uses secured formats that can cause incompatibilities with other hardware...
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I admire the folks at project playlist. They've developed a service that carefully navigates copyright infringement, at least how the recording industry plays that game today. I'll ignore...
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Shared Media Licensing's (SML) Weedshare, an early digital music service, has suspended operations. Weedshare was smoked by Microsoft, whose latest version of Windows Media Player was...
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Jimmy Ruska's Awesome Video Blog at jimmyr.com proves there is plenty of unauthorized music sitting on the web, courtesy of Google and your browser. No need to fire up your P2P software. The web...
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With Apple and the major recording labels integrating your name and address into digital music files, it's only a matter of time before the encryption is broken or they or others start tracking...
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The New York Times ask this question in Where's the Other Half of Your Music File? While data storage for drives in computer and portable music players has zoomed over the past decade, the...
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Push technology developer Skinkers turned to Microsoft Research to co-develop its LiveStation P2P Internet broadcast technology. LiveStation integrates Microsoft's new Silverlight platform....
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Open wireless Internet like WiFi represents a huge threat to RIAA. It's virtually impossible to track and identify WiFi users. Wireless users typically share the same IP address. The Internet...
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Research from BigChampange and PC Pitstop shows that Limewire has captured a huge lead as the top P2P software now that former giants like eDonkey and Kazaa have either been put out of business or...
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by Marc on April 13, 2007
Well, not exactly. The full phone number is 1-800-GOOG-411. No longer content with ruling the Internet, Google is bringing its well-known search to the offline world and a phone near you. Google...
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by Marc on March 22, 2007
The intelligent car is getting a P2P upgrade. P2P is a natural fit for environments with a distributed network like cars scattered over the landscape. The German Research Center for Artificial...
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by Marc on March 22, 2007
The Carbon Project has created a P2P application called Gaia 3 for location-based information. The P2P architecture is used to enable survivability in case any or a few P2P nodes go down. gaia 3...
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by Marc on March 15, 2007
A Technology Review article on the top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2007 covers the latest P2P research. Cornell University computer scientist Paul Francis has developed the Chunkyspread P2P network....
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Like Bit Torrent, Joost, formerly called The Venice Project, only uses P2P for authorized distribution, not for open searching and sharing. The publisher-friendly architecture ensures that only...
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by Marc on February 15, 2007
Current Internet bandwidth growth is just a bump in the impending video explosion The current growth has been driven by P2P and web video such as from YouTube. But it's nothing compared to what...
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by Marc on February 06, 2007
The Distributed Computing Industry published a white paper, "Digital Watermarking Technologies - Applications in p2p networks." The paper outlines how digital watermarks can be used in P2P...
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