Pirate Bay hits mainstream
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| But The Pirate Bay still has a way to go to catch the most popular Bit
| Torrent site on the web, Mininova, which currently ranks 52 on Alexa.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/19/piratebay-top100
Cable ISPs block P2P traffic at all hours
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| The BitTorrent traffic was blocked, not managed. In its report, the Max
| Planck Institute clearly noted, "ISPs may throttle (rate-limit) BitTorrent
| traffic without blocking it. The results we present here are limited to hosts
| whose BitTorrent transfers to our servers are blocked, i.e., interrupted by
| RST [Reset] packets generated by some ISP along the path."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/16/cable-isps-block-p2p-traffic
They mustn't filter based on ports and protocols. That's a sin. If someone
clogs it up with infringement, then they need to handle it separately. What's
next? FTP throttling? HTTP blockin? Those two can have files shared. /Any/
files. That's what the Web does. It moves files, never mind the protocol or
method.
Recent:
Microsoft Misleads on Copyright Reform
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| The Hill Times this week includes an astonishingly misleading and factually
| incorrect article on Canadian copyright written by Microsoft.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2670/125/
RIAA, MPAA urge pro-copyright vows from presidential candidates
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| One question, for instance, asks: "How would you promote the progress of
| science and creativity, as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, by upholding
| and strengthening copyright law and preventing its diminishment?"
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9821141-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
TorrentSpy ordered to pay the MPAA $110 million
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| For Dan Glickman, Chairman and CEO of the MPAA, “The demise of Torrentspy is
| a clear victory for the studios and demonstrates that such pirate sites will
| not be allowed to continue to operate without facing relentless litigation by
| copyright holders.”
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/08/mpaa-awarded-110-million
Beleaguered BitTorrent search engine shuts down
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| TorrentSpy has spent the past two years and hundreds of thousands of
| dollars "defending the rights of our users and ourselves" in a legal climate
| that was "hostile" to torrent files, according to the note, which is
| attributed to the TorrentSpy team.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1205693246&rid=-50
Related:
Comcast Isn’t Net Neutral; Are They Liars, Too?
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| Following reports that Comcast isn’t net neutral, Consumerist blog has
| acquired several leaks from Comcast insiders, claiming that they do indeed
| use Sandvine for packet shaping, and that customer service representatives
| are being told nothing about how the network technology works,
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http://mashable.com/2007/10/26/comcast-isnt-net-neutral-are-they-liars-too/
Comcast, Microsoft team up to serve smaller firms
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| Microsoft's move to offer the online software suite appears designed to
| compete with a similar offering from rival Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote,
| Profile, Research) known as Google Apps.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKN1361814420071114?rpc=44
BitTorrent Admin Monitored by US Government, Forced to Dump Linux
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| Sk0t, an ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker is to have
| his internet connection forcibly monitored by the US Government. If that
| wasn’t bad enough, the monitoring software is Windows based - which means he
| is being forced to ditch Linux - or face being barred from the internet.
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http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-admin-monitored-by-us-government-forced-to-dump-linux/
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