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02 January
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Increase in P2P Malware Predicted for 2010

Kaspersky Lab's 2010 cyberthreat forecast anticipates that malware writers will increasingly target P2P networks in the coming year.
"Kaspersky Lab said that it expects an increase in mass m…

22 October
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Cisco Agrees: P2P Use Declining

© Per Ola Wiberg (Powi)
A new study by Cisco comes to the same conclusion as Arbor Networks’ study, discussed below– P2P traffic is declining.
"The Cisco research shows that P2P use has…

17 June
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80% of UK teens want Legal P2P

A study has been carried out on UK teens about how they aquire and listen to music, and has come out with the somewhat suprising result that 80% of those who used illegal file sharing services, want a…

27 May
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The Pirate Bay enters Alexa top 100

Alexa, despite being utterly useless at almost everything, does have one redeeming use; you can judge how popular websites are against one another with the site, and it's been suprising to see i…

08 January
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Music Sales down 21% for Christmas

In a statistic that is sure to please the RIAA, music sales over the previous Christmas are down a whopping 21% on last year. In the runup to Christmas, 83.9 million albums were sold this year, whic…

02 January
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Top 10 Shares of 2007

Happy new year everyone! It's 2008, and a couple of people have compiled some statistics for you if you happen to be interested in what was shared last year.

Firstly Big Champagne, a media analy…

25 December
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Merry Christmas

Hi all. Just posting a little update to wish you all a Merry Christmas, or alternatively Happy Holidays if you do not celebrate Christmas. I hope you have all had a good day with your family and tha…

19 December
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Half of Koreans download movies.

That's south Koreans, not those from the North, nobody really knows what they get up to due to their delightful style of government. However, back to relevent news; a study from the Korean Film …

23 August
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P2P to Generate $5 Billion Per Year

According to Insight Research's 51 page market report, "Peer-to-Peer & File-Sharing Services Market 2007-2011", P2P could generate up to $28 billion in revenues for telecom carriers …

17 August
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Internet TV Ads to Hit $10 Billion

According to the report Internet TV 'goldrush' from researcher Understanding & Solutions, Internet and P2PTV will reach $10 billion in worldwide ad revenues by 2011, about 18% of all proje…