Stories about: Gnutella

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Viruses and spam an issue on Gnutella p2p network: LimeWire 12 March, 2010 10:22

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing client LimeWire has admitted that security is an ingoing issue for users of the Gnutella file sharing network.
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AFACT v iiNet: BitTorrent tracking details featured 11 November, 2009 17:20

AFACT’s closing statements have focused on the admission by iiNet (ASX: IIN) executives they considered the information provided in AFACT’s copyright infringement notices as ‘compelling evidence’ rather than ‘mere allegations’. In the final days of the civil case at the Federal Court of Australia, AFACT barrister, Tony Bannon SC, highlighted the manner in which AFACT investigators had tracked copyright infringements.
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What's replacing P2P, BitTorrent as pirate hangouts? 10 October, 2009 10:44

Driven by increased crackdowns on BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, software pirates are fast-moving their warez to file-hosting Web sites.
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Botnets: 4 Reasons It's Getting Harder to Find and Fight Them 16 April, 2009 09:20

The perpetual proliferation of botnets is hardly surprising when one considers just how easy it is for the bad guys to hijack computers without tipping off the users.
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Study: Other network traffic surpassing P-to-P growth 19 February, 2009 01:50

Peer-to-peer file sharing is still growing, but streaming video and other download services are making up an increasing proportion of Internet traffic, according to new research.
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Study: Comcast, Cox blocking BitTorrent throughout US 16 May, 2008 10:28

The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems released a study Thursday showing that Cox Communications and Comcast have been blocking BitTorrent transfers within the United States at both peak and non-peak hours.
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Study: LimeWire still top P2P software; uTorrent #2 18 April, 2008 12:17

LimeWire, a grizzled veteran of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing scene, remains the most popular software for exchanging music, video and software -- much of it pirated -- through the Internet, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Top 10 reasons to be paranoid 01 April, 2008 10:52

The truth is out there ... and so is your data. And just because there are no virtual black helicopters following you doesn't mean somebody somewhere doesn't have a bead on who you are and what you are doing.
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Comcast agrees to stop picking on BitTorrent 28 March, 2008 07:13

Comcast announced this week that it has decided to stop targeting such P2P protocols as BitTorrent when managing network traffic.
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The Web's best free stuff 26 March, 2008 12:11

Free. It's the magic word for an ever-expanding wealth of downloadable software and online services. Free doesn't necessarily mean good, however, and hunting for freebies can mean sifting through a lot of junk.
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Comcast's defense of P2P traffic management practices meets skepticism 21 February, 2008 10:54

Critics of the US ISP Comcast aren't backing down after the company defended its traffic management practices in a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing last week by asserting that its tactics fall well within the bounds of reasonable network management practices.