Posts Tagged with ‘bandwidth’

Since last November, Comcast's efforts to free up valuable bandwidth among its users by banning and preventing access to BitTorrent traffic has proved about as successful as the RIAA reign of terror on the realm of P2P sharing.
BitTorrent is here to stay and, judging from the outcome of the Napster drama from as far back as 1999, fighting the progression of such a popular protocol will only result in wasted dollars and an eventual service allowing legal file sharing for [...]

Every once in a while – and ever more frequently nowadays – there are those who scream of impending doom for the very existence of the Internet. And they’re not all frizzy-haired crackpots. Some are rather sane groups of individuals, who analyze the status of the Web fairly closely.
And, yes, they see current trends of Internet use as spelling doom quite clearly. Some vociferously claim to foresee a time at which the Web will collapse under the stress of excessive [...]

You’ve heard the saying. “There are two sides to every story.”
Such is the case with BitTorrent. A technology used by millions, both for legal and illegal purposes, it has been celebrated by a great many people – and has also been castigated by a great many authorities, from police forces to government bodies. (I’ll leave you to determine the difference between the two.) But are you aware of just how many parties in total there are around the world that [...]

How do you prefer to watch television? As it comes, either over the airwaves or via a cable-based setup? Perhaps you like to record your favorite shows for viewing after they’re broadcast. How about on-demand, by way of a download process, via good ol’ Internet Protocol?
The last scenario is likely to be the least favored by the average individual. Nonetheless, it’s the model put forth as the soon-to-be “next big thing” by Google’s Vint Cerf. (Beware, the linked page [...]

Big business is not a big fan of the BitTorrent protocol and its growth. BitTorrent essentially builds upon the P2P architecture but blurs legal lines even more, which has led to bandwidth limitations by ISPs, and legal action (PDF) from the MPAA.
With that said, it should come as no surprise that TorrentSpy, a popular torrent search directory, has now begun to block all searches originating from within the United States.
The service was named in the February 2006 lawsuit by [...]