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Are fears over Virgin spyware unfounded?

Posted in 367, Software, filesharing on December 3rd, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Is Britain’s Virgin beginning to look like a —- well, you know? Or are suspicions about its reported use of spyware unfounded? As p2pnet reported earlier today, it “says it plans to try a DPI (deep packet inspection) system called CView,” the “first commercially available solution to provide a metric highlighting the volume and nature of Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing activity on an ISP network,” claims its owner, Detica

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TorrentSpy bans US visitors

ACS:Law: ‘It’s Christmas. Time to sue’

Posted in 367, filesharing on November 27th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

2pnet news view Freedom | P2P: Blackmail tactics first popularised by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA are creating a cottage industry for unscrupulous lawyers and the people who hire them. The RIAA is a past master at firing off subpoenas and following them up with  threatening ‘pay up or else’ letters. Yesterday, “The Video Protection Alliance (VPA) bills itself as a ‘fast, secure and convenient way to settle your copyright violations online’,” said p2pnet , going on: “It generously helps ‘you, the fan, identify copyright violations, pay a nominal settlement fee, and clear your recordâ€?’.

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Limewire still fighting

500,000 9/11 pager messages online

Posted in 367, filesharing on November 26th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

p2pnet news view P2P:- Wikileaks has done something extraordinary. “A few minutes after the first hijacked airplane slammed into the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, text pager services in New York and Washington DC lit up with thousands of messages from people trying to contact loved ones,” says ninemsn . “While internet servers and cell phone networks crashed across New York City, text pagers continued to function.” Yesterday, “An archive containing the contents of more than half a million pager messages sent on 11 September 2001 was published yesterday by the internet site Wikileaks,” says The Independent .

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Swedish Wikipedia celebrity smears

p2pnet World Headlines: Nov 24, 2009: #1

Posted in 367, Software, filesharing on November 24th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

IE bug leaks private details from 50m PDF files The Register A bug in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser is causing more than 50 million files stored online to leak potentially sensitive information that could compromise user privacy, a security researcher said. The documents stored in Adobe’s PDF format display the internal disk location where the file is stored, an oversight that can inadvertently expose real-world names and login IDs of users, the operating system being used and other information that is better kept private. The data can then be retrieved using simple web searches

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Wal-Mart is offering DRM-free music

p2pnet World Headlines: Nov 20, 2009, #1

Posted in 367, Software, filesharing on November 20th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

Howdy, everyone: As I posted yesterday, I have a lot of stuff happening in the background (as well as being hit by this bug that’s going around) so from today until next week,  sometime,  I’ll mainly be posting headline roundups, although they’ll be interspersed with stories, if and when I can manage it. But normal service WILL be resumed, and as soon as possible. If  you want to help out in the meanwhile, please send submissions (anonymous or named) to p2pnet @ shaw dot ca .

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What is Ares?

p2pnet World Headlines: Nov 19, 2009, #1

Posted in 367, filesharing on November 19th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

Hi all: I have a lot of stuff happening in the background (as well as being hit by this bug that’s going around) so from today until next week,  sometime,  I’ll mainly be posting headline roundups, although they’ll be interspersed with stories, if and when I can manage it. But normal service WILL be resumed, and as soon as possible

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FAQ

Connections: Pete Seeger

Posted in 367, Software, filesharing on November 13th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- This Tuesday, I met Pete Seeger.

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California tax scheme

Posted in 367, filesharing on November 12th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- This is really off-topic, but … “Starting Sunday, cash-strapped California will dig deeper into the pocketbooks of wage earners — holding back 10% more than it already does in state income taxes just as the biggest shopping season of the year kicks into gear,” says the Los Angeles Times , going on »»» Technically, it’s not a tax increase, even though it may feel like one when your next paycheck arrives.

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Zennstrom and Friis: Skype, the sequel

Posted in 367, filesharing on November 4th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

p2pnet news view | Products:- It seems the fight for Skype is almost over. “Not that long ago, Michelangelo ‘Mike’ Volpi, 42, was one of the most important people in Silicon Valley,” says the Mercury News

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p2pnet World Headlines: Nov 2, 2009

Posted in 367, filesharing on November 2nd, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

Silicon Valley golden boy Mike Volpi caught in eBay Skype legal battle Mercury News Not that long ago, Michelangelo “Mike” Volpi, 42, was one of the most important people in Silicon Valley. At Cisco Systems, he was the golden boy who was instrumental in the company’s acquisition strategy and rumored to be in line to eventually succeed John Chambers as CEO

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Websites team up for free music downloads and movie downloads


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