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Stop Downloading Fakes and Junk From BitTorrent

Jordan — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:16:10 +0000

Many experienced file-sharers can’t understand why relative novices manage to download so much junk from BitTorrent. Fake downloads that never finish, video files which refuse to play, movies that require special players and unwatchable video are easily avoided. But how do they do it?

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RIAA tells Universities to stop P2P downloads or “lose all federal funding”

Jordan — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:33:40 +0000

The new Higher Education Bill (HEA §494) requires that the Universities stop all P2P downloads that RIAA doesn’t like AND buy Napster or Rhapsody subscriptions for every student on the campus or lose all federal financial aid.

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The Pirate Bay Sees a Future Without BitTorrent

Jordan — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:22:07 +0000

The guys from The Pirate Bay are always working on interesting side-projects, but there is one in particular that’s so significant, it might be the future of filesharing. For a while now, they have been working on a brand new protocol – which may come to replace BitTorrent in the near future.

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Comcast Blocking extends past Torrents.

Jordan — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:14:39 +0000

In the wake of several reports showing that Comcast is targeting BitTorrent traffic with forged TCP reset packets, new evidence demonstrates that Comcast is targeting Gnutella and Lotus Notes, too. Wait… Lotus Notes?

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Do P2P Blocklists Keep you Safe?

Jordan — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:46:25 +0000

Recent findings by researchers from the University of California, Riverside, show that 15% of the IPs people connect to on the Gnutella P2P network are blocked by blocklist applications such as PeerGuardian. Statistics like this do not prove anything about the effectiveness of these lists, however, according to an insider…

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University of Nebraska Will Bill RIAA $11 For Each Threatening Letter

Jordan — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:16:26 +0000

Basically the RIAA wants all of the colleges to do their dirty work, saving them money and giving them more time to just find the ‘general area’ where these music pirates may be. Nebraska realizes the follies in this attempt and tries to get the RIAA to at least reimburse them, as the search was conducted with tax payers dollars…..

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U of Nebraska to RIAA: here’s a bill for the time you’re wasting

Jordan — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:41:53 +0000

The University of Nebraska is so pissed off with the RIAA’s outrageous requests to help rat out students who file-share that it has sent the RIAA a bill for the time the University has wasted dealing with the RIAA’s demands.

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79% of Americans would rather download movies illegally

Jordan — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:55:21 +0000

US consumers are still downloading movies illegally despite the growing availability of subscription based movie download services according to a study conducted by Advanis Inc. “The industry can respond to this stubborn core of piracy in one of two ways: “It can spend its time and resources pursuing pirates, and…”

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Record Labels Don’t Want To Answer Questions About Their Own Use Of p2p

Jordan — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:41:40 +0000

“Lawyer Ray Beckerman (famous for defending plenty of people accused of file sharing) got the court to ask the record labels in the case to explain how employees at the labels actually used peer-to-peer file sharing apps in sending songs to radio stations.”

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ISPs fight against encrypted BitTorrent downloads

Jordan — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:16:15 +0000

BitTorrent clients such as Azureus added a feature that encrypted torrent traffic to try and get around ISP roadblocks. Now, a company called Allot Communications is claiming that their new hardware product, the NetEnforcer, is the first device that will seek out and throttle encrypted BitTorrent traffic.

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New Firefox P2P extension

Trevor — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:27:46 +0000

A new extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser allows you to use the power of Bittorrent with the security of an FTP server where you can determine ahead of time what and with whom files are shared. Instead of maxing out your upload, this system supposedly has no limit depending on how many people you are sharing with. The extension called Allpeers has an easy-to-use “drag and share” feature that makes it useful for sharing files from person to person. Also instead of needing a tracker for individual files you can track whole directories that you share.
Anonymity is key nowadays when it comes to sharing files, Allpeers avoids public swarms like ones from Torrentspy (accused of spying on users and devering the data to the MPAA) making it alot harder to get caught by the authorities. You can even create a private communithy of friends with whom you can choose to share for files with.

Allpeers is still in it’s beta but the final release will be coming soon so keep your eyes peeled if you are big on bittorrent.

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