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Team Member - Patrick S.
In a landmark case, BC Supreme Court judge Stephen Kelleher has ruled merely linking to an article does not amount to publication. "This is a very important precedent for internet law in Canada, confirming that website operators are not responsible for defamatory content on other websites to which they have merely linked," says Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) director Philippa Lawson.
"It's also big win for free speech and for the internet as we know it."
See the full article HERE.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Private P2P sharing?
Team Member - Joshua Gorman
(Via Google News) GigaTribe, a Web 2.0 file-sharing service, announced Monday that it has launched its product to the U.S. market. The company's software will allow users to share photos, videos, music, and documents with other users over a private peer-to-peer network.
At its core, GigaTribe is much like other file-sharing sites on the Web that are being monitored by the RIAA and MPAA, but it creates a private network to keep them out. The service allows users to share any file for free and create a group that can send files back and forth.
Due to the inherent security risk that goes along with its business model, GigaTribe's executives pointed out that the company does its best to keep files secure. To do that, it allows users to assign friends into groups and allow them access to certain files. The company also encrypts all files to add an extra layer of security.
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This brings P2P sharing to a whole new level in my opinion as to giving more power to the users. No longer would the RIAA or MPAA be able to search your computer for shared files, the only people that will be able to see the files you are sharing is the people you invite to your friends lists. This is a massive step forward in user privacy for P2P networks...
Friday, November 21, 2008
Music Industry takes soulseek to court
Here's an interesting article on the legal end to filesharing. Basically if your in France don't be downloading pirated material.
Team Member Michael Graulich
Music Industry Takes Soulseek to Court
Written by Ernesto on November 20, 2008
Soulseek is one the greatest music sharing communities that most of the world has never heard of. Covering all genres, Soulseek is an active network specializing in electronic music, where many of the members are musicians themselves. The music industry, however, sees the filesharing application as a threat, and will go after Soulseek in court.
soulseekLast week we reported that French record labels were going after four file-sharing applications, including Limewire and the BitTorrent client Vuze. Now, just days later, two other French organizations are to continue this crackdown and sue Soulseek.
SACEM, the French association for music producers and SCPP, which represents record labels including Universal, EMI, BMG, Warner have filed a complaint against the filesharing application.
The industry bodies argue that Soulseek, an application created by former Napster programmer Nir Arbel, is designed to permit unauthorized access to copyrighted works. According to a French law adopted in 2006, distributing such software is an offense that can lead to a 3 year jail sentence, as well as a fine up to 300,000 euros.
While Soulseek can be used to share any type of file, it is almost exclusively used to share music. Soulseek has a multitude of sub-communities, each dedicated to their chosen musical genres. The members can be incredibly passionate and many of them are experts in their field. Although mainstream music is available, the majority of the files shared on the network are underground independent music.
On the Soulseek website, it is clearly stated that the intention of their application is not to infringe copyright. Instead, it aims “to help unsigned and/or independent artists find a place in the ever-growing music industry, in a place where discussion and the creation of music can take place.”
Similar to other music sharing communities such as the BitTorrent sites What.cd and Waffles.fm, many members are artists themselves, who share their music freely. True to this spirit, members of the Soulseek community founded Soulseek Records (or SLSK Records), a non-profit netlabel where artists publish their music for free, under a Creative Commons license.
Instead of supporting this creative platform, the French music industry continues its witch-hunt, effectively killing their own business. If they are successful, this case, or the lawsuits against the other four p2p clients, will undoubtedly impact other filesharing applications.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Duke University - A BitTorrent Friendly Campus?
Posted by Bill Frost
Duke University, located in Durham, North Carolina, has long been regarded as one of the premier institutes of higher learning. Located in the "Research Triangle" area of Raleigh-Durham, Duke University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill can be considered, if not the South's then at least, the state of North Carolina's version of "Ivy League" universities. History and tradition would lead one to believe that a college, such as Duke, would not buck the system or go against the norm; however, they have just done that.
Duke University's Office of Student Affairs has announced that they will require the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and other holding groups of copyrighted material to submit evidence before they will investigate or prosecute alleged violations of the anti-copyright laws. Whereas many universities may have written policies for students regarding this sort of activity or notices are sent directly to students "no questions asked" if they are accused, Duke has decided to put their student's first.
This "behavior" by the university should be both applaued and adopted by other schools. This is not necessarily condoning the action; however, it does give the students a feeling that they are supported by their institution.
Limitations and security vulnerabilities
Kevin Jung
Limitations and Security Vulnerabilities:
Lack of Anonymity
BitTorrent does not offer its users anonymity. It is possible to obtain the IP addresses of all current, and possibly previous, participants in a swarm from the tracker. This may expose users with insecure systems to attacks.[5]
Dialup versus Broadband
BitTorrent is best suited to continuously connected broadband environments. Dial-up users find it less efficient due to frequent disconnects and slow download rates.
The Leech Problem
BitTorrent file sharers, compared to users of client/server technology, often have little incentive to become seeders after they finish downloading. The result of this is that torrent swarms gradually die out, meaning a lower possibility of obtaining older torrents. Some BitTorrent websites have attempted to address this by recording each user's download and upload ratio for all or just the user to see, as well as the provision of access to newer torrent files to people with better ratios. Users who have low upload ratios may see slower download speeds until they upload more. This prevents (statistical) leeching, since after a while they become unable to download much faster than 1-10 kB/s on a high-speed connection. Some trackers exempt dial-up users from this policy, because they cannot upload faster than 1-3 kB/s.
The Leech Compensation Problem
To combat this leeching problem, some seeders deliberately withhold one final piece from the seed, thus leaving a large number of potential seeders once they receive the withheld piece of data. With clients each awaiting that one final piece, the seeder ensures that there will be many more seeds once the final piece is released.
It is considered good etiquette to utilize the "Share Ratio" data, and equal (1.000 Ratio) or double (2.000 Ratio) one's leeching. This provides an opportunity for one to compensate for one's own leeching, and support the torrent, and nature of the protocol. While this is usually most easily accomplished with a DSL or ADSL connection, those using Dial-up will not be able to conform easily to this rule of etiquette. Also, it should be noted that many internet providers still have restrictions as to the amount of traffic generated over a certain period of time. As such it is likely for users with such internet connections to minimalise their share ratio.
The Cheater Problem
There are "cheating" clients like BitThief which claim to be able to download without uploading. Such exploitation negatively affects the cooperative nature of the BitTorrent protocol, although it might prove useful for people in countries where uploading pirated material is illegal, but downloading is not.
Limitations and Security Vulnerabilities:
Lack of Anonymity
BitTorrent does not offer its users anonymity. It is possible to obtain the IP addresses of all current, and possibly previous, participants in a swarm from the tracker. This may expose users with insecure systems to attacks.[5]
Dialup versus Broadband
BitTorrent is best suited to continuously connected broadband environments. Dial-up users find it less efficient due to frequent disconnects and slow download rates.
The Leech Problem
BitTorrent file sharers, compared to users of client/server technology, often have little incentive to become seeders after they finish downloading. The result of this is that torrent swarms gradually die out, meaning a lower possibility of obtaining older torrents. Some BitTorrent websites have attempted to address this by recording each user's download and upload ratio for all or just the user to see, as well as the provision of access to newer torrent files to people with better ratios. Users who have low upload ratios may see slower download speeds until they upload more. This prevents (statistical) leeching, since after a while they become unable to download much faster than 1-10 kB/s on a high-speed connection. Some trackers exempt dial-up users from this policy, because they cannot upload faster than 1-3 kB/s.
The Leech Compensation Problem
To combat this leeching problem, some seeders deliberately withhold one final piece from the seed, thus leaving a large number of potential seeders once they receive the withheld piece of data. With clients each awaiting that one final piece, the seeder ensures that there will be many more seeds once the final piece is released.
It is considered good etiquette to utilize the "Share Ratio" data, and equal (1.000 Ratio) or double (2.000 Ratio) one's leeching. This provides an opportunity for one to compensate for one's own leeching, and support the torrent, and nature of the protocol. While this is usually most easily accomplished with a DSL or ADSL connection, those using Dial-up will not be able to conform easily to this rule of etiquette. Also, it should be noted that many internet providers still have restrictions as to the amount of traffic generated over a certain period of time. As such it is likely for users with such internet connections to minimalise their share ratio.
The Cheater Problem
There are "cheating" clients like BitThief which claim to be able to download without uploading. Such exploitation negatively affects the cooperative nature of the BitTorrent protocol, although it might prove useful for people in countries where uploading pirated material is illegal, but downloading is not.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Technology
Kevin Jung
Technology:
Peer Accelerated Content Delivery
BitTorrent DNATM is the next step in the evolution of digital content delivery; it combines the extreme efficiency and organic scalability of peer networking with the control and reliability of a traditional content delivery network (CDN). BitTorrent DNA uses one or more existing origin servers or CDNs to seed a managed peer network.
Use of the peer network is tightly controlled by a specialized tracker operated by BitTorrent, Inc. and accessible to BitTorrent DNA customers through a web-based dashboard that provides control and reporting tools.
Assured Delivery
BitTorrent DNA is designed to complement existing delivery mechanisms, making the best use of both peer and infrastructure resources. Customers using BitTorrent DNA for downloads may associate with each object a quality of service (QoS) parameter that defines a required minimum bit rate. When BitTorrent DNA is used for streaming media, QoS is set automatically to ensure smooth playback with no buffering interruptions, while still making the most use of the peer network. Throughout the download process, BitTorrent DNA carefully balances its use of peer and CDN or server resources, downloading from all, in parallel, to meet per-object or streaming media QoS requirements.
Organic Scalability
By unobtrusively harnessing end-users’ unused network capacity, BitTorrent DNA scales organically with demand, providing capacity exactly where and when you need it. Need delivery capacity in some particular corner of the world? BitTorrent DNA will give you capacity there. Do you occasionally experience unexpected spikes in demand that strain your delivery infrastructure? BitTorrent DNA automatically scales its delivery capacity with demand to ensure a consistently high-quality user experience.
Advanced Bandwidth Management
BitTorrent DNA runs quietly in the background with minimal impact to the end-user experience. Our proprietary transport technology leverages the full available network capacity of all paths without disrupting other applications. By detecting the presence of other applications, computers, and devices sharing the consumer’s broadband connection, BitTorrent DNA automatically moderates its use of the network to ensure that web browsing, voice over IP (VoIP), Internet gaming, and other applications are not disrupted.
Friendly to Service Provider Networks
BitTorrent DNA contains a number of enhancements to mitigate the impact of peer networking on service provider networks. These enhancements include: BitTorrent’s sophisticated congestion-avoiding transport technology; an intelligent peer selection algorithm that prefers peers on the same LAN, network, or AS; and work with vendors of BitTorrent caching products to support local cache discovery. By keeping traffic local and non-congestive, BitTorrent DNA reduces long-haul and peering traffic for service providers, while improving the end-user experience.
Multi-CDN Acceleration
BitTorrent DNA is designed to complement existing delivery mechanisms, including content delivery networks (CDNs) and traditional web servers. To provide maximum flexibility and robustness, BitTorrent DNA can seed its managed peer network from multiple CDNs in parallel.
Multi-CDN Analytics
BitTorrent DNA’s client-side telemetry and web-based dashboard provide performance visibility across all deployed content delivery solutions, including third-party CDNs. With BitTorrent DNA, you see accurate reports of the actual performance experienced by your end users.
Technology:
Peer Accelerated Content Delivery
BitTorrent DNATM is the next step in the evolution of digital content delivery; it combines the extreme efficiency and organic scalability of peer networking with the control and reliability of a traditional content delivery network (CDN). BitTorrent DNA uses one or more existing origin servers or CDNs to seed a managed peer network.
Use of the peer network is tightly controlled by a specialized tracker operated by BitTorrent, Inc. and accessible to BitTorrent DNA customers through a web-based dashboard that provides control and reporting tools.
Assured Delivery
BitTorrent DNA is designed to complement existing delivery mechanisms, making the best use of both peer and infrastructure resources. Customers using BitTorrent DNA for downloads may associate with each object a quality of service (QoS) parameter that defines a required minimum bit rate. When BitTorrent DNA is used for streaming media, QoS is set automatically to ensure smooth playback with no buffering interruptions, while still making the most use of the peer network. Throughout the download process, BitTorrent DNA carefully balances its use of peer and CDN or server resources, downloading from all, in parallel, to meet per-object or streaming media QoS requirements.
Organic Scalability
By unobtrusively harnessing end-users’ unused network capacity, BitTorrent DNA scales organically with demand, providing capacity exactly where and when you need it. Need delivery capacity in some particular corner of the world? BitTorrent DNA will give you capacity there. Do you occasionally experience unexpected spikes in demand that strain your delivery infrastructure? BitTorrent DNA automatically scales its delivery capacity with demand to ensure a consistently high-quality user experience.
Advanced Bandwidth Management
BitTorrent DNA runs quietly in the background with minimal impact to the end-user experience. Our proprietary transport technology leverages the full available network capacity of all paths without disrupting other applications. By detecting the presence of other applications, computers, and devices sharing the consumer’s broadband connection, BitTorrent DNA automatically moderates its use of the network to ensure that web browsing, voice over IP (VoIP), Internet gaming, and other applications are not disrupted.
Friendly to Service Provider Networks
BitTorrent DNA contains a number of enhancements to mitigate the impact of peer networking on service provider networks. These enhancements include: BitTorrent’s sophisticated congestion-avoiding transport technology; an intelligent peer selection algorithm that prefers peers on the same LAN, network, or AS; and work with vendors of BitTorrent caching products to support local cache discovery. By keeping traffic local and non-congestive, BitTorrent DNA reduces long-haul and peering traffic for service providers, while improving the end-user experience.
Multi-CDN Acceleration
BitTorrent DNA is designed to complement existing delivery mechanisms, including content delivery networks (CDNs) and traditional web servers. To provide maximum flexibility and robustness, BitTorrent DNA can seed its managed peer network from multiple CDNs in parallel.
Multi-CDN Analytics
BitTorrent DNA’s client-side telemetry and web-based dashboard provide performance visibility across all deployed content delivery solutions, including third-party CDNs. With BitTorrent DNA, you see accurate reports of the actual performance experienced by your end users.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Comcast Tests New P2P Protocol, Nearly Doubles Download Speeds
Team Member - J. Gorman - Comcast is apparently testing a new P2P protocol known as P4P, and they are reporting that the download speeds are increased significantly. However there is a catch. Currently when a user downloads a torrent they are leeching from seeders located all over the world, P4P would prioritize seeders on your own ISP over others making the download speeds obviously faster. The catch is that the system relies on ITrackers being installed on the ISP's network, which would allow ISPs to see what files are being seeded, and from where they are being seeded. In theory it's explained as being good for efficiency of the network so downloads are prioritized, but I think personally it's a little too invasive.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Torrent Pharma IT Enables Environment With SAP
Kevin Jung
Torrent Pharma IT Enables Environment With SAP
By Julia Fernandes
Mumbai, Oct 19, 2004
Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd., the flagship of the Ahmedabad-based, Rs 3,000-crore Torrent group, has successfully deployed SAP R/3 4.7 across its entire gamut of business locations globally and integrated it with its Sales Force Automation solution.
Speaking to CXOtoday, Jyoti Bandopadhyay, vice president-information technology, Torrent Pharmaceuticals, said, "We have managed to successfully create an IT-enabled business environment through the deployment of SAP R/3 and interlinking it with our homegrown Sales Force Automation solution."
Elucidating further he continued, "The sales force solution caters to a 2000 strong field force with the underlying principle of anywhere computing."
Sharing his observations on the inherent impact of the ERP on the companyÂ’s business, Bandopadhyay said, "We expect an increase of 10% topline growth and 4 to 6%bottomline growth over a period of three years."
The ERP sits on Oracle 9i, with the OS at the server level being IBMÂ’s AIX and Windows XP and 2000 running at the desktop level. Deployed across more than 300 users, it has been implemented at more than 40 locations in India comprising of 15 contract manufacturers, two factories and 25 Clearing and Forwarding (C&F) agents.
Revealing the recipe of the success of SAP deployment, Bandopadhyay stated that strong leadership coupled with robust team building and inculcation of user ownership are the vital ingredients.
Expressing his views on the process of implementation, Bandopadhyay observed, “At the core of an ERP deployment is change management -- the process of controlling changes to the infrastructure in a controlled manner, with minimum disruption.
The ERP deployment, which commenced in November 2003 was completed and rolled out by July 2004. The project was completed within the budgeted cost and time, with SAP and IBM providing the technical support. More than 400 people have been trained on the use of the ERP.
The Rs 513 crore Torrent Pharmaceuticals commands a strong presence in the cardiovascular (CV) and central nervous system (CNS) segment. The healthcare company has also carved a space in the gastro-intestinal, diabetology, anti-infective and pain management segment.
The Pirate Bay Tops 20 Million Peers
The Pirate Bay has reached yet another milestone. Today, they track more than 20 million unique peers for the first time since the site was launched. It is estimated that the Pirate Bay tracks more than half of all BitTorrent users at any given point in time.
By November 2007, The Pirate Bay was tracking around 6 million peers, up from ‘just’ 3 million the year before. The growth has been amazing, and it doesn’t seem that it is going to slow down anytime soon.
One of the reasons it was possible for the site to handle this record number of peers are the constant improvements on the software and hardware side. New servers are added regularly, budget permitting, and UDP trackers were added to all the torrents on the site, which are less resource consuming than TCP trackers.
Pirate Bay co founder Peter Sunde, who just returned from his trip to Malaysia, told TorrentFreak that they previously had a limit on the amount of peers they could track, but that this has increased with all the recent changes. “I wish we had lots and lots of money so we could just buy like 10 servers and another gigabit,” he mused.
At the current growth rate, The Pirate Bay may be tracking over 25 million peers by the end of the year. Peter himself is aiming for 24 million peers by Christmas eve. The Pirate Bay is not the only BitTorrent site that has been growing, other torrent sites isoHunt and Mininova are breaking visitor records every week.
The only downside to this news is, that The Pirate Bay is one of the few sites that operates a (public) tracker. With 50% of all BitTorrent users relying on a single tracker, things can get quite ugly when it goes down. The Pirate Bay encourages others to start their own tracker, using Opentracker for example. The more heads the Hydra has, the better.
Pirate Bay tracker statistics November 1, 2008.
Team Member: Mike Graulich
By November 2007, The Pirate Bay was tracking around 6 million peers, up from ‘just’ 3 million the year before. The growth has been amazing, and it doesn’t seem that it is going to slow down anytime soon.
One of the reasons it was possible for the site to handle this record number of peers are the constant improvements on the software and hardware side. New servers are added regularly, budget permitting, and UDP trackers were added to all the torrents on the site, which are less resource consuming than TCP trackers.
Pirate Bay co founder Peter Sunde, who just returned from his trip to Malaysia, told TorrentFreak that they previously had a limit on the amount of peers they could track, but that this has increased with all the recent changes. “I wish we had lots and lots of money so we could just buy like 10 servers and another gigabit,” he mused.
At the current growth rate, The Pirate Bay may be tracking over 25 million peers by the end of the year. Peter himself is aiming for 24 million peers by Christmas eve. The Pirate Bay is not the only BitTorrent site that has been growing, other torrent sites isoHunt and Mininova are breaking visitor records every week.
The only downside to this news is, that The Pirate Bay is one of the few sites that operates a (public) tracker. With 50% of all BitTorrent users relying on a single tracker, things can get quite ugly when it goes down. The Pirate Bay encourages others to start their own tracker, using Opentracker for example. The more heads the Hydra has, the better.
Pirate Bay tracker statistics November 1, 2008.
Team Member: Mike Graulich
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
What makes bittorrents execellent?
What makes BitTorrent so excellent, and what is it's purpose?
bittorrent is the ultimate tool for 0-7 day hot software like Linux ISO images, movies, tv-series, music and anything else which can be stored digitally for that matter.
Each .torrent file has a hard-coded tracker address all the clients connects to upon starting the transfer. Each client constantly reports back to the tracker all the chunks it has received and therefore can send others. A torrent becomes unusable if the tracker stops responding, and they usually do. A torrent also turns to wasted space when there are no users with 100% of the file (called seeders) left.
Bittorrent clients will only give you a good download speed if the other people who are downloading it give you a good upload speed. This can make some torrents slow, so please keep your bittorrent client running with the torrent open for 24 hours or as long as possible after you have finished downloading yourself.
It is very easy to find torrents for tv-series, movies and other fun on the Internet using search engines. You can search Google by searching for keyword filetype:torrent. USENet is a good place to get torrents for misc things. epguides is a good place to find tv-shows release dates.
bittorrent is the ultimate tool for 0-7 day hot software like Linux ISO images, movies, tv-series, music and anything else which can be stored digitally for that matter.
Each .torrent file has a hard-coded tracker address all the clients connects to upon starting the transfer. Each client constantly reports back to the tracker all the chunks it has received and therefore can send others. A torrent becomes unusable if the tracker stops responding, and they usually do. A torrent also turns to wasted space when there are no users with 100% of the file (called seeders) left.
Bittorrent clients will only give you a good download speed if the other people who are downloading it give you a good upload speed. This can make some torrents slow, so please keep your bittorrent client running with the torrent open for 24 hours or as long as possible after you have finished downloading yourself.
It is very easy to find torrents for tv-series, movies and other fun on the Internet using search engines. You can search Google by searching for keyword filetype:torrent. USENet is a good place to get torrents for misc things. epguides is a good place to find tv-shows release dates.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
P2P Traffic to Grow Almost 400% over the Next 5 Years, as Legitimate P2P Applications Become a Meaningful Segment
Team Member - J. Gorman - According to a story via Google news P2P network is expected to as stated in the title, grow 400%. Primarily right now P2P networking is largely used to share music, but the article states there has been a huge increase in video content being shared. Additionally, the use of legal P2P content will increase as content providers see the potential to share their content in a more cost-effective way. With legitimate P2P networking expected to grow 10x faster than illegal P2P sharing, would you pay for this type of service if it were available?
Personally, I think if I'm going to be uploading content continuously, Comcast and other ISPs will need to increase their upload caps for households. Right now, depending on the amount of content you would share legally or illegally you as a user could reach your cap very quickly. Additionally, in the basic sense of P2P networking you're basically paying your ISP so that your household can act as a mini-server for sharing content.
In current configurations for ISPs their service is based on a bandwidth cap, which means you're basically allotted a specific amount of bandwidth. However, if you're continually downloading movies you're going to have an increased load on your bandwidth and basically eating up all of it so that your neighbors will have a slower connection. If everyone started using P2P model for downloading and sharing content, which more than likely would be a continuous download/upload scheme, all users would see a significant decrease in speed. In my opinion, ISPs will need to increase bandwidth in order to support the P2P model, otherwise our 8 meg Comcast connection will start running like a 56k connection from the late 90s.
Link to original article
Personally, I think if I'm going to be uploading content continuously, Comcast and other ISPs will need to increase their upload caps for households. Right now, depending on the amount of content you would share legally or illegally you as a user could reach your cap very quickly. Additionally, in the basic sense of P2P networking you're basically paying your ISP so that your household can act as a mini-server for sharing content.
In current configurations for ISPs their service is based on a bandwidth cap, which means you're basically allotted a specific amount of bandwidth. However, if you're continually downloading movies you're going to have an increased load on your bandwidth and basically eating up all of it so that your neighbors will have a slower connection. If everyone started using P2P model for downloading and sharing content, which more than likely would be a continuous download/upload scheme, all users would see a significant decrease in speed. In my opinion, ISPs will need to increase bandwidth in order to support the P2P model, otherwise our 8 meg Comcast connection will start running like a 56k connection from the late 90s.
Link to original article
Monday, October 20, 2008
Downloading torrents and sharing files
Team Member - Kevin Jung
Users browse the web to find a torrent of interest, download it, and open it with a BitTorrent client. The client connects to the tracker(s) specified in the torrent file, from which it receives a list of peers currently transferring pieces of the file(s) specified in the torrent. The client connects to those peers to obtain the various pieces. Such a group of peers connected to each other to share a torrent is called a swarm. If the swarm contains only the initial seeder, the client connects directly to it and begins to request pieces. As peers enter the swarm, they begin to trade pieces with one another, instead of downloading directly from the seeder.
Clients incorporate mechanisms to optimize their download and upload rates; for example they download pieces in a random order to increase the opportunity to exchange data, which is only possible if two peers have different pieces of the file.
The effectiveness of this data exchange depends largely on the policies that clients use to determine to whom to send data. Clients may prefer to send data to peers who send data back to them (a tit for tat scheme), which encourages fair trading. But strict policies often result in suboptimal situations, such as when newly joined peers are unable to receive any data because they don't have any pieces yet to trade themselves or when two peers with a good connection between them do not exchange data simply because neither of them wants to take the initiative. To counter these effects, the official BitTorrent client program uses a mechanism called “optimistic unchoking,” where the client reserves a portion of its available bandwidth for sending pieces to random peers (not necessarily known-good partners, so called preferred peers), in hopes of discovering even better partners and to ensure that newcomers get a chance to join the swarm.
Users browse the web to find a torrent of interest, download it, and open it with a BitTorrent client. The client connects to the tracker(s) specified in the torrent file, from which it receives a list of peers currently transferring pieces of the file(s) specified in the torrent. The client connects to those peers to obtain the various pieces. Such a group of peers connected to each other to share a torrent is called a swarm. If the swarm contains only the initial seeder, the client connects directly to it and begins to request pieces. As peers enter the swarm, they begin to trade pieces with one another, instead of downloading directly from the seeder.
Clients incorporate mechanisms to optimize their download and upload rates; for example they download pieces in a random order to increase the opportunity to exchange data, which is only possible if two peers have different pieces of the file.
The effectiveness of this data exchange depends largely on the policies that clients use to determine to whom to send data. Clients may prefer to send data to peers who send data back to them (a tit for tat scheme), which encourages fair trading. But strict policies often result in suboptimal situations, such as when newly joined peers are unable to receive any data because they don't have any pieces yet to trade themselves or when two peers with a good connection between them do not exchange data simply because neither of them wants to take the initiative. To counter these effects, the official BitTorrent client program uses a mechanism called “optimistic unchoking,” where the client reserves a portion of its available bandwidth for sending pieces to random peers (not necessarily known-good partners, so called preferred peers), in hopes of discovering even better partners and to ensure that newcomers get a chance to join the swarm.
Were you waiting for the release of the new AC/DC album? Why?
Team Member - Bill Frost
Over the weekend, I saw a commerical for the forthcoming AC/DC album "Black Ice". The new album was released in Wal-Mart stores today. Whereas I don't claim to be a huge AC/DC fan, there are definitely songs that I enjoy listening to. "Thunderstruck" is by far my favorite. There are however thousands, probably millions, of fans that anxiously waited for October 20th to arrive. Too bad there were already over 400,000 AC/DC fans listening to a digitized version of "Black Ice".
Reportedly on October 7th, the album was leaked to the popular website BitTorrent and the downloading began. There had been a rumor that Sony had sent false information and fake downloads out to popular BitTorrent sites in an effort to frustrate pirates. There has been no conclusive evidence to this story and it appears the record label is the one frustrated by the "success" of the number of downloads.
Statistics from Mininova, a popular download site, showed four of the top five downloads to be by AC/DC. Although the band as refused to release their music through the Internet, others have been doing so and the results speak for themselves. While the sale of most recording artists music has been declining for the past five years, AC/DC has had remarkable success. Without the release of a new album, AC/DC's physical record sales reached 1.3 million in 2007 in the US alone. Now consider that nearly a third of those total sales were accounted for in just twelve days with the downloading of "Black Ice."
Read the story in it's entirity here.
Over the weekend, I saw a commerical for the forthcoming AC/DC album "Black Ice". The new album was released in Wal-Mart stores today. Whereas I don't claim to be a huge AC/DC fan, there are definitely songs that I enjoy listening to. "Thunderstruck" is by far my favorite. There are however thousands, probably millions, of fans that anxiously waited for October 20th to arrive. Too bad there were already over 400,000 AC/DC fans listening to a digitized version of "Black Ice".
Reportedly on October 7th, the album was leaked to the popular website BitTorrent and the downloading began. There had been a rumor that Sony had sent false information and fake downloads out to popular BitTorrent sites in an effort to frustrate pirates. There has been no conclusive evidence to this story and it appears the record label is the one frustrated by the "success" of the number of downloads.
Statistics from Mininova, a popular download site, showed four of the top five downloads to be by AC/DC. Although the band as refused to release their music through the Internet, others have been doing so and the results speak for themselves. While the sale of most recording artists music has been declining for the past five years, AC/DC has had remarkable success. Without the release of a new album, AC/DC's physical record sales reached 1.3 million in 2007 in the US alone. Now consider that nearly a third of those total sales were accounted for in just twelve days with the downloading of "Black Ice."
Read the story in it's entirity here.
New Find
Team Member - Mitchell Holloway
Came across this site today. It is basically a site that you can use to find any files. All you do is type in what you are looking for, just like Google, and away you go. A link list generates telling you what sites your inquiry is on. Just wanted to share with the torrent world!
Stanford University bit torrent's
Team Member - Michael Graulich
I read an article on how Stanford University is basically putting a bunch of their online courses up as torrents for downloads so people can learn more about technology that is out there. They have up online currently the 10 most popular computer science and electrical engineering courses.
Here's the url on this story
http://torrentfreak.com/stanford-university-embraces-bittorrent-081018/
I read an article on how Stanford University is basically putting a bunch of their online courses up as torrents for downloads so people can learn more about technology that is out there. They have up online currently the 10 most popular computer science and electrical engineering courses.
Here's the url on this story
http://torrentfreak.com/stanford-university-embraces-bittorrent-081018/
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Torrents go legal!
Team Member - Kevin Jung
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UICHfudGWYg&feature=related
Here is a little three minute video of making torrents actually legal for users. Some of the positives and negatives of making it legal in the U.S. Hope you enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UICHfudGWYg&feature=related
Here is a little three minute video of making torrents actually legal for users. Some of the positives and negatives of making it legal in the U.S. Hope you enjoy.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Big Win for the MPAA & RIAA?
Team member - B. Frost
With the Presidental election right around the corner, voters are preparing to cast their ballots for a new Commander in Chief. Whereas most, if not all, attention is turned to Senators John McCain and Barrack Obama, the outgoing leader of the free world has put his "John Hancock" on a new law which favors the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). After a unamious vote by Congress, President George Bush has signed off on the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008 (PRO IP Act).
Nice title, but what does it mean?
A major point of the PRO IP Act which would have given authority to the Department of Justice to pursue civil copyright cases was removed from the bill before it was passed. The creation of a "Copyright Czar" position remained part of the bill as it came to vote. Also included in the new law is a provision which would allow for the seizure and holding of materials or items if it is thought that these items could be used for committing a crime. This "extension of forfeiture" is almost exclusively found in drug-related cases. In such matters, a user's computer(s), external hard drives, MP3 player or IPod, even network modems, routers, and switches are fair game for seizure. If the accused chooses to fight the claims in order to retrieve their seized property, the typical time and cost associated with such a case is three (3) years and $ 10,000.
For those that have enjoyed their freedom to download music, movies, and more, it may be a wise idea to research which congressional members supported this bill and show your disapproval come Election Day.
With the Presidental election right around the corner, voters are preparing to cast their ballots for a new Commander in Chief. Whereas most, if not all, attention is turned to Senators John McCain and Barrack Obama, the outgoing leader of the free world has put his "John Hancock" on a new law which favors the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). After a unamious vote by Congress, President George Bush has signed off on the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008 (PRO IP Act).
Nice title, but what does it mean?
A major point of the PRO IP Act which would have given authority to the Department of Justice to pursue civil copyright cases was removed from the bill before it was passed. The creation of a "Copyright Czar" position remained part of the bill as it came to vote. Also included in the new law is a provision which would allow for the seizure and holding of materials or items if it is thought that these items could be used for committing a crime. This "extension of forfeiture" is almost exclusively found in drug-related cases. In such matters, a user's computer(s), external hard drives, MP3 player or IPod, even network modems, routers, and switches are fair game for seizure. If the accused chooses to fight the claims in order to retrieve their seized property, the typical time and cost associated with such a case is three (3) years and $ 10,000.
For those that have enjoyed their freedom to download music, movies, and more, it may be a wise idea to research which congressional members supported this bill and show your disapproval come Election Day.
Torrent troubles around the world
Team Member - Michael Graulich
I read an article about how torrent spy is starting to block us users on certain sites causing slower downloads because of fewer seeders and more peers.
here's the link to the article
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/09/26/torrent_troubles_around_the_world/1
I read an article about how torrent spy is starting to block us users on certain sites causing slower downloads because of fewer seeders and more peers.
here's the link to the article
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/09/26/torrent_troubles_around_the_world/1
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
72% Of P2P Pirates Would Stop With ISP Warning
Team Member - J. Gorman
According to a news story I found via Google News search - Following a study by the Entertainment Research Group, 72% of P2P pirates would stop pirating content if their ISP's (internet service provider's) sent them cease and desist letters.
In addition to the cease and desist letters, apparently AT&T will be employing filters soon to block illegal content from being shared, however as the author of the article stated, this filtering can be extremely costly and usually can be worked around by people who know what they are doing.
In my opinion if ISP's begin to block content on P2P networks people will find other ways, whether they resort back to IRC chat to share music, movies, etc. or other avenues. The sharing of music, movies, etc. has been going on since the internet came online, it's just that P2P networks have made it easier for people to share with others.
This brings me to ask the question of whether I would stop using P2P networks if I received a cease and desist letter from my ISP. I can honestly say I'd probably fall into that 70% that would, because most items shared on P2P networks illegally you can find other places.
Would you stop using P2P networks if your ISP sent you a C&D letter? Please leave your comments.
Click here for original story
According to a news story I found via Google News search - Following a study by the Entertainment Research Group, 72% of P2P pirates would stop pirating content if their ISP's (internet service provider's) sent them cease and desist letters.
In addition to the cease and desist letters, apparently AT&T will be employing filters soon to block illegal content from being shared, however as the author of the article stated, this filtering can be extremely costly and usually can be worked around by people who know what they are doing.
In my opinion if ISP's begin to block content on P2P networks people will find other ways, whether they resort back to IRC chat to share music, movies, etc. or other avenues. The sharing of music, movies, etc. has been going on since the internet came online, it's just that P2P networks have made it easier for people to share with others.
This brings me to ask the question of whether I would stop using P2P networks if I received a cease and desist letter from my ISP. I can honestly say I'd probably fall into that 70% that would, because most items shared on P2P networks illegally you can find other places.
Would you stop using P2P networks if your ISP sent you a C&D letter? Please leave your comments.
Click here for original story
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent
Team Member Mitchell Holloway -
TV shows are by far the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading?
The top two shows in this weeks list, Heroes and Prison break, were both downloaded over a million times in a week. Since both shows are ‘released’ on Tuesday, BitTorrent sites see a significant traffic increase on that day. The rest of the shows in this weeks list are less popular, but still got somewhere between 700.000 and 300.000 downloads.
The data presented here is collected by TorrentFreak from a representative sample of BitTorrent sites and is for informational and educational reference only.
Ranking/--(last week)-- TV-show
1 - (1) - Heroes
2 - (2) - Prison Break
3 - (4) - House
4 - (6) - Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
5 - (new) - Desperate Housewives
6 - (7) - Entourage
7 - (8) - Gossip Girl
8 - (back) - Supernatural
9 - (new) -How I met Your Mother
10 - (10) - Fringe
TV shows are by far the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading?
The top two shows in this weeks list, Heroes and Prison break, were both downloaded over a million times in a week. Since both shows are ‘released’ on Tuesday, BitTorrent sites see a significant traffic increase on that day. The rest of the shows in this weeks list are less popular, but still got somewhere between 700.000 and 300.000 downloads.
The data presented here is collected by TorrentFreak from a representative sample of BitTorrent sites and is for informational and educational reference only.
Ranking/--(last week)-- TV-show
1 - (1) - Heroes
2 - (2) - Prison Break
3 - (4) - House
4 - (6) - Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
5 - (new) - Desperate Housewives
6 - (7) - Entourage
7 - (8) - Gossip Girl
8 - (back) - Supernatural
9 - (new) -How I met Your Mother
10 - (10) - Fringe
Court Deems Pirate Bay Block to be Illegal
Team Member Mitchell Holloway -
This August The Pirate Bay was “censored” in Italy following a decree from a public prosecutor. The Pirate Bay appealed the block and eventually won the court case. Earlier this week the Court of Bergamo detailed its decision, and ruled that no foreign website can be censored for alleged copyright infringement.
Two months ago, following an order from an Italian prosecutor, ISPs started to prevent their customers from accessing the Pirate Bay. The administrators of the popular BitTorrent tracker were accused of making copyrighted material available on the Internet for commercial purposes.
Of course, the Pirate Bay team didn’t agree, and responded in true Pirate Bay style. “We’re quite used to fascist countries not allowing freedom of speech. A lot of smaller nations that have dictators decide to block our site since we can help spread information that could be harmful to the dictators,” Sunde wrote in a blog entry.
The BitTorrent tracker was not going down without a fight, and later announced that it would appeal the decision in court, which they won. The block was lifted and ISPs could again grant their users access to the most frequently used BitTorrent tracker on the Internet.
The Court of Bergamo decided that this block was unlawful, and earlier this week they explained why. According to the court statement (Italian), no criminal court is allowed to issue an order to ISPs to block traffic to a foreign website, based on alleged copyright infringement. Italian law implements an European Directive, 2000/31 CE, which this means that this ruling should be valid in other European countries as well.
“Under Italian law, this is possible only for child porn and for unauthorized gambling, but there is no such provision for copyright infringement,” Pirate Bay’s lawyers Giovanni Battista Gallus and Francesco Micozzi explained to TorrentFreak.
“We have to make sure that no legislative bill promoting such filtering provisions will be passed in the future. At the European level, many authorities pointed out the need to find a balance between the enforcement of alleged copyright infringements, users’ rights, and privacy issues.”
In hindsight, the block only helped the Pirate Bay to grow even further. The case generated a lot of free promotion, and the number of visitors from Italy increased by 5 percent. Not exactly the outcome IFPI had hoped for.
This August The Pirate Bay was “censored” in Italy following a decree from a public prosecutor. The Pirate Bay appealed the block and eventually won the court case. Earlier this week the Court of Bergamo detailed its decision, and ruled that no foreign website can be censored for alleged copyright infringement.
Two months ago, following an order from an Italian prosecutor, ISPs started to prevent their customers from accessing the Pirate Bay. The administrators of the popular BitTorrent tracker were accused of making copyrighted material available on the Internet for commercial purposes.
Of course, the Pirate Bay team didn’t agree, and responded in true Pirate Bay style. “We’re quite used to fascist countries not allowing freedom of speech. A lot of smaller nations that have dictators decide to block our site since we can help spread information that could be harmful to the dictators,” Sunde wrote in a blog entry.
The BitTorrent tracker was not going down without a fight, and later announced that it would appeal the decision in court, which they won. The block was lifted and ISPs could again grant their users access to the most frequently used BitTorrent tracker on the Internet.
The Court of Bergamo decided that this block was unlawful, and earlier this week they explained why. According to the court statement (Italian), no criminal court is allowed to issue an order to ISPs to block traffic to a foreign website, based on alleged copyright infringement. Italian law implements an European Directive, 2000/31 CE, which this means that this ruling should be valid in other European countries as well.
“Under Italian law, this is possible only for child porn and for unauthorized gambling, but there is no such provision for copyright infringement,” Pirate Bay’s lawyers Giovanni Battista Gallus and Francesco Micozzi explained to TorrentFreak.
“We have to make sure that no legislative bill promoting such filtering provisions will be passed in the future. At the European level, many authorities pointed out the need to find a balance between the enforcement of alleged copyright infringements, users’ rights, and privacy issues.”
In hindsight, the block only helped the Pirate Bay to grow even further. The case generated a lot of free promotion, and the number of visitors from Italy increased by 5 percent. Not exactly the outcome IFPI had hoped for.
Monday, October 6, 2008
ISP’s versus BitTorrents – The Battle Continues
Team member – B. Frost
In an article published in November 2007 on PCWorld.com, Comcast was accused of blocking or limiting the bandwidth resources available to users trying to use BitTorrent networks. Whereas there is no denying that most of the traffic through bitTorrent networks is for the illegal acquisition of music, movies, and games, BitTorrent, Inc., the developer of the technology, argues that “bitTorrent can be and is used for the legal sharing of files that aren't copyrighted and even offers the protocol/software as a legitimate service for businesses.” An example of BitTorrent’s business use is game manufacturer Blizzard’s use of the technology to distribute both patches and updates to their World of Warcraft game. Comcast denied the claim as to necessarily targeting the BitTorrent users; but stated that they will monitor traffic on their network and try to make a concerted effort to restrict users who consume too much bandwidth. This is done in an effort to provide adequate services to all users on their network.
Fast forward to February of this year.
In a research study conducted by The Max Planck Institute in Germany, both Comcast and Cox Communications were found to be throttling back Web traffic on their networks associated with BitTorrent; and not just during peak times of Internet usage. According to the study for the Cox subscribers, 54% of the tests indicated blocking. The image above plots geographic locations where the BitTorrent tests were run. The red dots are test locations where the BitTorrent transfers were blocked. How do you know if your ISP is allowing you full access to bitTorrent site? The Max Planck Institute has posted a link which allows users to test if their ISP is limiting their BitTorrent connections.
Information gathered from – PCWorld.com
Operation of a bit torrent
Team Member - Kevin Jung
Operation:
A BitTorrent client is any program that implements the BitTorrent protocol. Each client is capable of preparing, requesting, and transmitting any type of computer file over a network, using the protocol.
To share a file or group of files, a peer first creates a small file called a "torrent." This file contains metadata about the files to be shared and about the tracker, the computer that coordinates the file distribution. Peers that want to download the file must first obtain a torrent file for it, and connect to the specified tracker, which tells them from which other peers to download the pieces of the file.
Though both ultimately transfer files over a network, a BitTorrent download differs from a classic full-file HTTP request in several fundamental ways:
BitTorrent makes many small data requests over different TCP sockets, while web-browsers typically make a single HTTP GET request over a single TCP socket.
BitTorrent downloads in a random or in a "rarest-first" approach that ensures high availability, while HTTP downloads in a sequential manner.
Taken together, these differences allow BitTorrent to achieve much lower cost, much higher redundancy, and much greater resistance to abuse or to "flash crowds" than a regular HTTP server. However, this protection comes at a cost: downloads can take time to rise to full speed because it may take time for enough peer connections to be established, and it takes time for a node to receive sufficient data to become an effective uploader. As such, a typical BitTorrent download will gradually rise to very high speeds, and then slowly fall back down toward the end of the download. This contrasts with an HTTP server that, while more vulnerable to overload and abuse, rises to full speed very quickly and maintains this speed throughout.
In general, BitTorrent's non-contiguous download methods have prevented it from supporting "progressive downloads" or "streaming playback".
Operation:
A BitTorrent client is any program that implements the BitTorrent protocol. Each client is capable of preparing, requesting, and transmitting any type of computer file over a network, using the protocol.
To share a file or group of files, a peer first creates a small file called a "torrent." This file contains metadata about the files to be shared and about the tracker, the computer that coordinates the file distribution. Peers that want to download the file must first obtain a torrent file for it, and connect to the specified tracker, which tells them from which other peers to download the pieces of the file.
Though both ultimately transfer files over a network, a BitTorrent download differs from a classic full-file HTTP request in several fundamental ways:
BitTorrent makes many small data requests over different TCP sockets, while web-browsers typically make a single HTTP GET request over a single TCP socket.
BitTorrent downloads in a random or in a "rarest-first" approach that ensures high availability, while HTTP downloads in a sequential manner.
Taken together, these differences allow BitTorrent to achieve much lower cost, much higher redundancy, and much greater resistance to abuse or to "flash crowds" than a regular HTTP server. However, this protection comes at a cost: downloads can take time to rise to full speed because it may take time for enough peer connections to be established, and it takes time for a node to receive sufficient data to become an effective uploader. As such, a typical BitTorrent download will gradually rise to very high speeds, and then slowly fall back down toward the end of the download. This contrasts with an HTTP server that, while more vulnerable to overload and abuse, rises to full speed very quickly and maintains this speed throughout.
In general, BitTorrent's non-contiguous download methods have prevented it from supporting "progressive downloads" or "streaming playback".
Study shows: p2p effect on legal music sales "not distinguishable from zero"
Team Member: P. Sloan
This is an excerpt from the article listed below.
For the full article please go here.
This is an excerpt from the article listed below.
A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the recording industry.
Entitled "The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis," the study matched an extensive sample of music downloads to American music sales data in order to search for causality between illicit downloading and album sales.
The study reports that 803 million CDs were sold in 2002, which was a decrease of about 80 million from the previous year. The RIAA has blamed the majority of the decrease on piracy, and has maintained that argument in recent years as music sales have faltered. Yet according to the study, the impact from file sharing could not have been more than 6 million albums total in 2002, leaving 74 million unsold CDs without an excuse for sitting on shelves.
For the full article please go here.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Coming October 1, 2008 - The Pirate City
Team member - B. Frost
And you thought Pirate Bay was HUGE. See what happens when the raiders get their own city - The Pirate City
And you thought Pirate Bay was HUGE. See what happens when the raiders get their own city - The Pirate City
Move over Pirate Bay
Team Member - Bill Frost
Pirate Bay is knocked from it’s pedestal as the largest torrent tracker in the world. According to Google, Mininova has surpassed Pirate Bay with an estimated 2 million unique visitors a day. Pirate Bay still garners a respectable 1.5 million. In third and fourth place are isoHunt and Torrentz, respectively. Torrentz, which is not as well known in the United States, is actually a site which searches other torrent tracker download sites. Torrentz is extremely popular in India. Pirate Bay is most popular in the U.S. and it’s native Sweden. isoHunt is largely used in Japan.
Even with the names and players being so widely known and recognized if any of these four sites were to disappear, the amount of illegal file sharing would continue to grow. New BitTorrent sites are being created faster than the court system is able to order them taken offline. In fact, in the span of a year Pirate Bay doubled its traffic.
Information gathered at http://www.webtvwire.com/
Pirate Bay is knocked from it’s pedestal as the largest torrent tracker in the world. According to Google, Mininova has surpassed Pirate Bay with an estimated 2 million unique visitors a day. Pirate Bay still garners a respectable 1.5 million. In third and fourth place are isoHunt and Torrentz, respectively. Torrentz, which is not as well known in the United States, is actually a site which searches other torrent tracker download sites. Torrentz is extremely popular in India. Pirate Bay is most popular in the U.S. and it’s native Sweden. isoHunt is largely used in Japan.
Even with the names and players being so widely known and recognized if any of these four sites were to disappear, the amount of illegal file sharing would continue to grow. New BitTorrent sites are being created faster than the court system is able to order them taken offline. In fact, in the span of a year Pirate Bay doubled its traffic.
Information gathered at http://www.webtvwire.com/
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
RIAA filesharing mistrial
Team Member - J. Gorman - I came across this interesting story today via Engadget where apparently the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has lost an appeal against an alleged file-sharer who used Kazaa. Originally the file-sharer lost the trial and was fined $222,000 for having music files available to be shared on her computer. The interesting thing about the original trial was that the RIAA never had to prove that the user ever had Kazaa installed on her computer that she herself was sharing the files on the computer, or even what files she was sharing. In addition, a guilty verdict based on simply making song downloads "available" to be downloaded via P2P networks like Kazaa is apparently no longer a viable reason to award money to the RIAA. To win a ruling now the RIAA must prove each and every song that was downloaded by every user in order to collect damages on them. (Via Engadget article by Nilay Patel)
Friday, September 12, 2008
What is Peer-to-Peer Networking?
For more information about P2P networks click here for the Wikipedia article.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Colleges required to provide P2P network alternatives
Team Member - J. Gorman - I came across this news story via a Google news search. Basically the U.S. House of Representatives passed a law that would require college campuses to provide their students legal alternatives to p2p networks. According to the story most campuses now block all p2p network traffic including Morpheus and Limewire in an effort to battle illegal sharing of files between students.
Via The Daily Evergreen
Via The Daily Evergreen
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