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Internet stars come out for RIAA trial

In RIAA lawsuit news, the Tennenbaum case – in which uber-lawyer Charles Nesson now represents the defendant – is taking an Internet star turn. Ray Beckerman reports that in a pretrial memo PDF, Nesson discloses that he intends to call some of the biggest legal names in digital rights. ...

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, P2P, RIAA, Berkman Center, Charles Nesson, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Peer to Peer File Sharing Policy

As an addendum to the company's Acceptable Use Policy—which details the utilization of the company network, the Internet, e-mail, and employees' personal computers—this policy prohibits the use of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file-sharing applications on company equipment. Use this policy as-is or customize it to meet your...

Tags: P2P File Sharing, P2P, Policy, File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet

Download resources 2008-11-19

Managing Internet growth

The Internet is growing by 1 zettabyte a year, fueled by images, videos, gaming, and peer to peer file sharing. Pieter Poll, CTO of Qwest, asks whether this is growth manageable.

Tags: Growth, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Corporate Communications, Marketing, whiteboard, internet, growth, cost, scalability, routers, computers, usage, energy

Whiteboards 2008-11-12

Innocents being sued for game piracy

P2P prosecution abuses don't just happen to music fans. The game industry is cracking down on P2P sharing of games, too, and innocent people are being accused, Which? Computing reports. Atari sued Gill and Ken Murdoch, ages 54 and 66 respectively, for sharing the Race 07...

Tags: P2P, Piracy, Game Industry, Games, Peer To Peer (P2P), Personal Technology, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-30

LinkedIn apps arrive - another platform play

LinkedIn has finally switched on its own OpenSocial-powered apps platform, which, on the surface at least, borrows quite a bit from Facebook. Unlike Facebook, however, apps are being heavily vetted by LinkedIn to ensure that they remain focused on helping members enhance their professional profile, as well as collaborate on...

Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, Steve O\'Hear, App, Peer To Peer (P2P), Professional Development, Internet, Career

Blog posts 2008-10-29

BearShare Pro (exe)

BearShare 6.5.2 is the latest version of our leading file sharing program. Intuitive design, millions of users, safety features and quick setup. BearShare utilizes a completely decentralized peer to peer network, and is the most advanced file sharing application around. Trade any type of file: mp3, video, images, software, games,...

Tags: File-sharing, Free Peers, BearShare 6.5.2, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet

Software downloads 2008-10-28

DeHinter (exe)

DeHinter is a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) recommender system that exploits social filtering techniques in order to implement a fully decentralized resource sharing platform. The system provides to users a way to share, search, and retrieve contents in a scalable, flexible, and efficient way. The spontaneous relationships between users that show similar...

Tags: Informatica, P2P, DeHinter, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet

Software downloads 2008-10-23

mShare (cab)

mShare is a cool program letting you share files between mobile phones, mobile to computer, and computer to mobile. Use mShare to send and receive files to multiple friends. This is a perfect file sharing tool for your mobile device.

Tags: Mobile, File-sharing, Guiang, mShare, Advertising & Promotion, Peer To Peer (P2P), Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2008-10-17

Another setback for university P2P

Last week, a federal judge dismissed the University of Oregon's arguments that the RIAA's attempts to obtain information on student file sharers was unduly burdensome. According to Ars Technica, the judge also ruled that the school did not receive protection under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, since none of...

Tags: P2P, University, RIAA, Litigation, Peer To Peer (P2P), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Business Operations, Internet, Security, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-01

LAN on Internet (exe)

LAN on Internet is a transparent peer to peer connectivity software which makes your network applications like RDP, Net meeting, Network gaming applications, to feel as if they are in the same network over internet. In other words, you can make direct remote desktop connection to your office PC from...

Tags: Network, P2P, CrowSoft, Internet, LANs, Peer To Peer (P2P), Networking

Software downloads 2008-09-30

Thomas case reveals obscene penalties for P2P downloaders

<Update>Further note from Ray Beckerman from Recording Industry v The People on the issue of whether MediaSentry's downloading would suffice for the distribution charge see Investigator Downloading section below: "There still has to be sale or other transfer of ownership, or rental, lease, or lending. And the dissemination has to...

Tags: Distribution, P2P, RIAA, Verdict, Judge, Investigator Downloading, Thomas, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-25

RIAA loses $222K verdict against Jammy Thomas

The $222,000 verdict against Jammy Thomas for copyright infringement by P2P is no more. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Davis dismissed the verdict PDF, saying it was based on the faulty "making available" theory of distribution. Thomas will face a new trial, in which the RIAA will have to prove...

Tags: Distribution, P2P, RIAA, Verdict, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Norwegian BitTorrent tracker under DDoS attack

Norway's largest BitTorrent tracker Norbits (norbits.net) with approximately 10,000 users, is currently under a DDoS attack launched from a group known as MORRADi, which is also speculating that it has managed to compromise the tracker and is threatening to release personal details of its users including IPs, until the tracker...

Tags: BitTorrent, P2P, Distributed Denial Of Service, Peer To Peer (P2P), Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-09-18

F-Cutter (exe)

Windows based file splitting and joining utility. Very easy interface to split huge files into smaller parts to carry them over the disks or upload them onto the file sharing websites. It can join files split by hjsplit. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: File, ManDorG Software & Web Solutions, Microsoft Windows, Peer To Peer (P2P), Web Site Development, Web Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Internet

Software downloads 2008-09-11

New Workflow Technology Helps Global Marketers Work Smarter and Faster

Communications companies such as Grey Group are under intense pressure to launch global campaigns that use talent from multiple regions and organisations within their network. They rely on workflow and file-sharing capabilities so that teams in different time zones can collaborate effectively. Grey Group is taking workflow to the next...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., File-sharing, Workflow, Grey Group, Peer To Peer (P2P), Data Management, Process Improvement, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Databases, Internet, Quality, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Enterprise Software

Case studies 2008-09-01

Joe Biden loves RIAA, DRM; hates encryption, George Bush

Does Joe Biden have more in common with Metallica's Lars Ulrich than Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg? CNET colleague Declan McCullagh has a superb analysis of Dem. vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, who has an interesting (read: depressing) voting history when it comes to tech issues. ...

Tags: George W. Bush, Declan McCullagh, Digital-rights Management, Presidential Candidate, RIAA, Vice, Encryption, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Federal Government, Professional Development, Peer To Peer (P2P), Security, Government, Career, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ring

From SecurityFocus: Federal law enforcement officials arrested seven men on Tuesday on charges related to child pornography, the latest arrests in an investigation of peer-to-peer networks that has led to 52 California residents charged or indicted this year. The investigation, spearheaded by the FBI's...

Tags: Child Pornography, P2P, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-19

SopCastBundle (zip)

SopCast is a simple, free way to broadcast video and audio or watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet. Adopting P2P (Peer-to-Peer) technology, It is very efficient and easy to use. Let anyone become a broadcaster without the costs of a powerful server and vast bandwidth. Using...

Tags: p2p, video, sopcast team, sopcast, peer to peer (P2P), corporate communications, telecommunications, internet, marketing

Software downloads 2008-08-07

Sorry, no-can-do, says Tufts

Tufts University responded last week to a subpoena in yet another file-sharing case by explaining why they could not actually identify the "Does" named in the case. While this is hardly a new argument, the IT department at Tufts did a particularly nice job of refusing politely, with a...

Tags: dhcp, tufts university, riaa, peer to peer (p2p), networking, internet, christopher dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-06

'Making available' argument rapidly dying well-deserved death

I'm passing along Ray Beckerman's post on two recent cases that show the RIAA's attempt to use a "making available" theory to show copyright infringement is clearly on the way out. The Copyright Act clearly requires a showing that the defendant transferred the content to someone else; the RIAA has...

Tags: RIAA, Judge, Statute, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-05