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1. P2P pirate ruling constitutional

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 17 August 2009

   The US Justice Department said it is perfectly constitutional to wallop people who fileshare with fines that are out of proportion to the value of the content they steal.The US Justice Department said ...

2. Claim: P2P "jeopardizes" national security

   (Security/Security Features)

   Wednesday, 29 July 2009

   The US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has claimed that P2P network sharing is responsible for "jeopardizing" national security. According to Chairman Edolphus Towns, most people who ...

3. RIAA demands $7000 from NY family

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Wednesday, 29 April 2009

   ... by Childnet International, warns that "unauthorized copying and distribution of copyrighted music is breaking the law, and that includes file-swapping of any copyrighted music on certain P2P networks such ...

4. Congress going after LimeWire

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 23 April 2009

   The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is showing new concern regarding applications that promote and peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, following reports that Internet users are able ...

5. UPDATED: Conficker.e surfaces and reveals purpose: Wants $49.95

   (Security/Security Features)

   Friday, 10 April 2009

   Late Wednesday, TrendMicro observed a new version of the Downad.KK/Conficker.c worm, dubbed Conficker.e. The previous version utilized its built-in P2P functionality to download the update, which then ...

6. UPDATED: Amazon and Wal-Mart follow Apple, also raise MP3 prices

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 08 April 2009

   ... in P2P music pirating. UPDATED:  April 8, 2009 - 3:02pm CDTJeremy Eglen, COO and General Counsel at Digonex Technologies, Inc., contacted TG Daily today to provide a better explanation of the Digonex ...

7. Sweden: Copyright law sparks 40% decrease in Internet traffic

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 03 April 2009

   ... sharers who swap copyrighted material using P2P clients. Stockholm (Sweden) - Over the past two days, Internet traffic has declined in Sweden by more than 40% following an online copyright violation law ...

8. Hollywood panics! X-Men Origins: Wolverine pirated, hits web a month before official release

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 02 April 2009

   ... sharing networks that are P2P-based. As a result, both the studio and analysts alike are shocked and afraid of the potential damage to movie revenue. The film maker is also concerned about unfavorable ...

9. Australian government agency blacklists a dentist office website?

   (Security/Security Features)

   Monday, 23 March 2009

   ... censorship against the government. In addition, activists point out that such illegal materials could be sent over P2P networks which completely bypass the filter. Wikileaks has accused Australia of ...

10. iPhone OS 3.0: A thousand new APIs for developers

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 17 March 2009

    ... the new in-application purchases -- meaning, if you download it for free, you're guaranteed to never pay for something directly from within the app. Read on the next page:  P2P gaming, Bluetooth and dock ...

11. Obama questions the constitutionality of copyright fines

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 20 February 2009

    ... by March 25. Over the past few years, the RIAA has sued more than 30,000 individuals for making copyrighted music available for download from their computers and P2P networks. Most of the cases have ...

12. Judge says no to RIAA on P2P fines, but opens door on file sharers

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 19 January 2009

      A federal judge has ordered that the nation’s first peer-to-peer (P2P) administration, Elite Torrents, which was convicted by a jury trial on criminal copyright infringement, will not be forced ...

13. Hustler hires Media Protector to chase online porn pirates

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Sunday, 04 January 2009

    ... to find alleged infringers on P2P networks and send them threats to pay up - or else. Read the complete story here.  ...

14. Has the RIAA stopped suing for copyright infringements?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 24 December 2008

    ... P2P networks. Most of the cases have been settled for a few thousand dollars prior to reaching the courtroom. But the the RIAA has a new strategy that would entail Internet Service providers notifying ...

15. Joost kills desktop app

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 18 December 2008

    ... video site. Joost is expected to follow down the path of sites such as YouTube, Hulu and Veoh. The proprietary Joost client, which was based on P2P technology, appeared to be more and more outdated in ...

16. The Pirate Bay at 22 million users, applies for Guinness Book of World Records

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 07 November 2008

      About a year ago, The Pirate Bay, one of the most popular BitTorrent tracking services in the world, reported about 8 million users. On Thursday, the service reported that it now has a global ...

17. Legitimate P2P traffic to drive overall Internet traffic growth

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 23 October 2008

      P2P Internet traffic is expected to grow almost 400% over the next 5 years, according to a study conducted by MultiMedia Intelligence. Traffic is expected to increase from an average level of ...

18. Court calls $222,000 RIAA sentence a “farce”, vacates verdict

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 25 September 2008

      Jammie Thomas, who was ordered to pay a $222,000 penalty for sharing 24 songs through the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing network, is off the hook, for now. The United District Court for the District ...

19. FCC slaps Comcast, but lays foundation for future bandwidth restrictions

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 21 August 2008

    ... again and sate that its “current P2P management is triggered . . . regardless of the level of overall network congestion at th[e] time, and regardless of the time of day.” The Commission notes that “the ...

20. Neighborhood P2P could alleviate Internet traffic concerns

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 19 August 2008

    ... than others. It is generally believed that file-sharing across peer-to-peer (P2P) networks can account for 50 – 80% of web traffic at any given time. No matter how you look at it, that massive growth of ...

21. Young adults willing to pay for music - survey

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 16 June 2008

    ... have not been paid for.    P2P and friends are now the primary source of music Widespread broadband internet access and the convenience of digital downloads have contributed to an enormous ...

22. iTunes Store turns 5: Can anyone break its dominance?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 29 April 2008

    ... indication that times would change soon was the accelerating battle of the music industry against people who were sharing their music files through P2P services. Apple launched the iTS in the U.S. on ...

23. People cynical about Comcast's P2P "bill of rights"

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 17 April 2008

    Comcast this week sent out a press release talking about a "bill of rights and responsibilities" for peer-to-peer applications over the Internet.  In part, Comcast says "P2P users should have the ...

24. Comcast touts new P2P initiative

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 16 April 2008

    Pando Networks joins BitTorrent as the latest P2P firm to work with the cable giant.  If nothing else, Comcast's announcement of its latest new best P2P friend earned the nation's largest cable ...

25. Comcast to put an end to file-sharing block

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 27 March 2008

    Telecommunications company Comcast announced today that it will no longer restrict Internet subscribers from accessing file-sharing programs and websites.  In the last few months, reports began to ...

26. Comcast says it only blocks excessive use of file sharing

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Wednesday, 13 February 2008

    Comcast told a federal regulator that its decision to block users from popular network sharing software was due to a small number of customers hogging too much bandwidth on its broadband network. The ...

27. Qtrax to offer 25 million songs for free

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Sunday, 27 January 2008

    ... songs. The service works by centralizing music from P2P sites and then reoffering the songs with some extra DRM attached.  Songs are downloaded to the listener’s computer, but they can only ...

28. Canada's RIAA rejects $5/month fee per Internet user for unlimited access to all copyrighted music

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Tuesday, 08 January 2008

    ... and everyone involved in the music pipeline.  The Internet users could download and exchange music freely with other fee-paying users, thereby getting around the P2P block seen today. The plan ...

29. ooma Review: P2P VoIP with a risky twist

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Monday, 05 November 2007

    How much would you pay for 3 years of free VoIP calls? Start up ooma is hoping the answer is $400 - $600. It seems like barely a day passes where I don’t receive a solicitation from someone who wants ...

30. Comcast systematically blocks some online traffic

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Friday, 19 October 2007

    New York (NY) - Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of ...

31. Can 24 songs be worth $222,000?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 05 October 2007

    Opinion - By now you have probably heard it: The RIAA scored a big win in the first tried music file-sharing case: The music industry was awarded a stunning $222,000 or $9250 for each song covered by ...

32. First music download trial-by-jury underway

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 03 October 2007

    ... P2P application.  The RIAA will argue she was just trying to cover her tracks. Thousands of other people have faced the same legal pressure from the RIAA in the past, but they all have settled out ...

33. Skype outage raises P2P fears

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Friday, 24 August 2007

    The two-day outage of one of the world's largest peer-to-peer (P2P) internet services has raised concerns about the technology's robustness. P2P networks are touted as the future of internet distribution ...

34. Politicians – P2P a threat to national security

    (Security/Security Features)

    Wednesday, 25 July 2007

    ... because several (if not all) government agencies ban their employees from installing peer to peer programs on their work computers.  And let’s be honest here, any employee that installs a P2P ...

35. Ohio University bans P2P

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 26 April 2007

    ... networking.  The university says that P2P programs suck up bandwidth and cause legal headaches for its lawyers.  Students and employees that break the ban can have their Internet access taken ...

36. Carnegie Mellon speeds up P2P transfer

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 10 April 2007

    ... identical files like traditional P2P programs – could garner a five-fold increase in transfer rates. David Andersen, assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon and Michael Kaminsky ...

37. Spam to exceed person-to-person e-mails: study

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 10 April 2007

    For the first time, annual spam e-mails are expected to be greater than ordinary person-to-person (P2P) e-mails in 2007, according to a new study from IDC. Framingham (MA) - For the first time, annual ...

38. Opinion: Who needs DRM?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Tuesday, 20 February 2007

    ... from Napster Oh yes, Napster. Remember the Napster that became the first successful P2P service in terms of market reach, that attracted millions of music downloaders in the late 1990s and early 2000s, ...

39. Teenager battles record companies over piracy suit

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 31 January 2007

    ... have participated in antitrust violations and that they colluded in the piracy debacle by not warning of the illegality of peer-to-peer (P2P) programs, and in fact he alleges that some record companies ...

40. Windows Vista Ultimate for $3.50

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 04 December 2006

    ... version via various P2P networks. If you've missed that chance or if you don't trust such a download, you can also pick up a RTM copy during your vacation in Thailand for a price that is just slightly ...

41. IFPI files 8000 music piracy lawsuits

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 18 October 2006

    ... of the severity of illegal music uploading and downloading. They also hope that, with increase in broadband penetration and more computer security dangers with P2P software that more users will turn to ...

42. RIAA gives allegedly phony rap to innocent man

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 16 October 2006

    ... that no peer-to-peer clients existed on his computer, according to a story on p2pnet. Despite all the claimed victories the RIAA has seen in the past year, the issue with peer-to-peer music downloading ...

43. U.S. court rules against Morpheus

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 28 September 2006

    In yet another legal victory for the RIAA against P2P networks, a national court case was closed yesterday as U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson ruled that Morpheus's parent company, StreamCast Networks, ...

44. Napster may be acquired - again

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 18 September 2006

    The name of the P2P file sharing pioneer may be changing hands once again as the company today announced that it has received "third party interest in establishing strategic partnerships or potentially ...

45. Five million users to participate in Windows Vista RC1 test

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 05 September 2006

    ... which is comparable to today's Windows XP Professional, lacks multimedia features of Premium, but integrates features such as the IIS web server, a remote desktop, P2P capability and support for up to ...

46. MySpace puts Napster founder back into business

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 05 September 2006

    ... than 25 million users to his peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing service Napster. After a series of lawsuits filed by artists such as Metallica and Dr. Dre as well as the Recording Industry Association of ...

47. Windows Vista's eye-candy will cost you at least $160

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 29 August 2006

    ... Premium, but integrates features such as the IIS web server, a remote desktop, P2P capability and support for up to 128 GB of memory. This version apparently will carry a suggested retail price of $200 ...

48. Culver City starts filtering Wi-Fi access

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Friday, 25 August 2006

    ... the purpose" of such a hotspot. The city is using the Audible Magic CopySense Network Appliance to filter the content. Audible officials say the appliance will not block any legitimate P2P traffic.  ...