p2p
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Blocking Pirate Bay On A National Level Doesn’t Affect P2P Traffic
Two months ago, the Netherlands and UK governments ordered ISPs to block The Pirate Bay. Now, figures from a number of ISPs confirm exactly what we knew, although the governments didn’t: it doesn’t make any difference whatsoever to P2P traffic.
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Is uTorrent Coming To Android?
There are plenty of things iOS can do that Android can’t — Siri and Facetime, for example. However, Andorid may soon be getting its own exclusive feature: P2P file sharing courtesy of uTorrent, the most-used torrent client in the Western world.
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How To Be Anonymous In A Porno Torrent Lawsuit
A porno house called Hard Drive Productions (obviously) has dutifully collected a swath of IP addresses associated with illegal downloads of its content. Now, as part of a mass lawsuit, the smut peddlers are petitioning for access to the names associated with those IP addresses.
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BitTorrent’s New P2P Protocol Could Fix Internet’s Shoddy Streaming Video Quality
Streaming video over the internet is one of the most important telecommunication developments in the last decade. Problem is, doing so needs a massive system architecture to support it and the feed is often riddled with lag. A new protocol from BitTorret’s founder is aiming to change all that.