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“ The ruling refers to a case brought to court by the French music producers association - SPPF (Societe de producteurs de phonogrammes francaises) in June 2007, against open source software hub SourceForge with its hosted project Shareaza and two source...

“French record labels have received the green light to sue four US-based companies that develop P2P applications, including the BitTorrent client Vuze, Limewire and Morpheus. Shareaza is the fourth application, for which the labels are going after the open source source...

“p2pnet news view RIAA News:- “In what has to be one of the most shocking examples of an American politician blatantly aligning himself with hardcore commercial interests, Tennessee governor Phil Bredesen has signed into law a bill aimed at, ‘curbing source...

“Skip graphs are a novel distributed data structure, based on skip lists, that provide the full functionality of a balanced tree in a distributed system where resources are stored in separate nodes that may fail at any time.”

“Sandvine, best known for manufacturing the hardware that slowed down BitTorrent users on Comcast, has released an Internet traffic trends report today. The report shows that, on average, P2P traffic is responsible for more than half of the upstream traffic, source...

“ You probably have not heard of PiCast, which is just coming to market with a new offering for peer-assisted video streaming. But you may have heard of ArtistDirect, its parent group. And if you pay any attention to P2P source...

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These charts show statistics for the performance of all prosper.com loans. Each curve represents the set of loans that were created in one calendar month. The vertical axis is the fraction of those loans that have “gone bad”, in other more...

A team of researchers from Cornell and Microsoft have created a BitTorrent plugin called Cubit that hopes to eliminate the need for big index sites like The Pirate Bay. The future of torrent search may soon be truly decentralized.

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Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI, said "There is a phenomenal amount of piracy out there and we believe that the idea that 95% of content on the net is free is not sustainable. We don't believe that society more...

“ ISPs have long complained about the fantastic amount of traffic consumed by P2P users. The network providers have never been keen on having their bandwidth hit so hard, especially when much of P2P's bandwidth—let's face it—consists of copyright-infringing material. source...

“Google had a bad week in cloud computing, with serious downtime in Gmail, Blogger and Spreadsheet. Back in July it was Amazon that was embarrassed with their S3 outage. If you measure on total downtime, cloud computing still looks good source...