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NAC saves University of North Carolina money, keeps illegal file sharing in check

Network access control (NAC) is saving the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $40,000 per year by keeping students from illegally using peer-to-peer file-sharing applications.

By Tim Greene | 30 September, 2011 01:31

Tags: security, P2P, industry verticals, endpoint security, education, bittorrent, Access control and authentication
P2P-based alternative to DNS hopes to challenge ICANN

A group led by former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde is forming to develop a peer-to-peer-based alternative to today's ICANN-controlled DNS system, according to a blog posted on Tuesday.

By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 December, 2010 01:46

Tags: peer-to-peer, P2P, networking, internet, icann, DNS
Court orders LimeWire to cease file-sharing business

In a major victory for the music industry, a New York federal judge has ordered embattled P2P software maker LimeWire to immediately and permanently stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing software.

By Jaikumar Vijayan | 27 October, 2010 10:15

Tags: riaa, peer-to-peer, P2P, LimeWire, file sharing, content piracy
On verge of closing, P2P vendor LimeWire hopes for a settlement

Beleaguered file-sharing software maker LimeWire LLC said it still hopes to settle a dispute with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) even as a federal court in New York appears set to shutter the company for enabling copyright infringement.

By Jaikumar Vijayan | 10 June, 2010 02:06

Tags: P2P, LimeWire
US lawmakers target The Pirate Bay, other sites

The Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus, a group of U.S. lawmakers concerned with copyright infringement, has listed The Pirate Bay and five other Web sites as "notorious" file-sharing sites.

By Grant Gross | 20 May, 2010 05:12

Tags: USA government, the pirate bay, P2P, legal, lawsuits, file sharing, dmca, copyright

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Features about P2P

Q&A: isoHunt founder says P2P can help create post-piracy world

Gary Fung founded BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.com in 2003 when he was a 19-year-old student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

By Eric Lai | 07 November, 2009 11:41

Tags: P2P, isoHunt, bittorrent
LimeWire chairman: P2P concerns overblown

Lime Group Chairman Mark Gorton found himself in the hot seat last week during a hearing on the problem of inadvertent data leaks on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks including his company's, LimeWire. The hearing was held by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

By Jaikumar Vijayan | 05 August, 2009 00:17

Tags: file sharing, LimeWire, P2P
Private P2P networks add trust to file sharing

Stephane Herry says that he founded his private file-sharing network GigaTribe out of frustration at not being able to share files with his friends on Kazaa. Every time he searched for a file that he knew a friend had uploaded, he saw only similar files uploaded by strangers.

By Jackson West | 11 July, 2009 00:32

Tags: file sharing, P2P

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