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News about P2P
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Features about P2P
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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
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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
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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
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