Sunday, 19 August 2007

Screw the RIAA/MPAA -- Confessions of a Very Prolific Software Pirate

Over 200,000 mp3s, 700 movies, and every software title in the last two years, as well as cracks for ALL THINGS--and that's just at his house (wait till you see what he's got at work)--this guy is the most prolific pirate to confess his methods yet! Surprisingly, he gets NOTHING from any P2P service!

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Cisco: Video, P2P may double IP traffic every 2 years

Video will drive a 21 percent compound annual growth rate in business IP traffic across WANs from 2006 to 2011, according to a forecast on global IP traffic released this week by Cisco.

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PeerGuardian 2.0 Beta 6c

PeerGuardian is a powerful yet small firewall program that was especially designed for P2P users who want to protect their computers from unauthorized searches instigated by private agencies and corporations.

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P2P TOOLBOX: 30+ Peer to Peer Services

Skype’s downtime this week has everyone speaking about P2P again. Here’s our take on more than 30 of the leading peer to peer services.

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Skype puts P2P resiliency theories to the test

Here is another post from MrBlog explaining why P2P does NOT guarantee that "there is no central server" as commonly suggested. For example, it is well documented that Skype quite clearly has a central server model for certain aspects of its protocol. read this. It's short and interesting.

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How to: Encrypt Bit Torrent Traffic

A guide explaining how to encrypt Bittorrent traffic as more and more ISPs are trying to limit Bittorrent traffic on their network.

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Police Target ‘Pirate Cinema’ Fuelled by Downloaded Movies

The latest blockbuster movies downloaded via BitTorrent are fuelling a ‘Pirate Cinema’ with free entry for all. However, as usual, an anti-piracy outfit has other ideas and with help from three police cars filled with officers, managed to detain the organizers and confiscate equipment.

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Comcast is killing BitTorrent and our freedom

How Comcast is slowly killing your online freedom. One day at a time.

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qBittorrent - a QT-based bittorrent client for Ubuntu

qBittorrent is a QT-based alternative to using the default GNOME client supporting multiple downloads, integrated searching, and RSS support. It's quite a bit faster than Azureus, and provides most of the features expected in a good BitTorrent client, including advanced features such as encrpytion, DHT (trackerless) support, and uTorrent Peer eXcha

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P2PViNE New Submission Tools and New Look

Recently we have been concentrating on the main P2PViNE web site making some major improvments that we are sure you will love. The first thing you will notice is our great new design that much improves the site’s overall aesthetic appeal and ease of use.

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