Posts Tagged with ‘BitTorrent’

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 [...]

Add another Web 2.0 company to the dead pool; AllPeers has announced that their service shut down today, with the splash page now nothing more than a link to the blog as well as a “condolences” email link to the company email.
AllPeers was probably a bit before its time and way underpromoted aside from its initial entry. Designed as a browser plug-in, it allowed you to select folders that contained files that could be shared, specify who could access the [...]

Before I begin detailing the latest travesty in high-speed highway robbery, I need to disclose that I have been a Time Warner high-speed customer since they first did a beta program in my area. I remained loyal even when DSL arrived, for far less money than what I pay for my high-speed cable connection. And I've encouraged countless others to ditch their dial-up to move to Time Warner's services.
Hopefully, my long history as an evangelist of their services will explain [...]

TorrentSpy, once a stalwart participant of BitTorrent communications on the Web, found today that its future was no more. News widely emerged this morning of the website’s defeat amidst the powers of the MPAA in court. The judge presiding over the case involving the link farm “made a default ruling in favor of the MPAA…(saying) the site’s operators had tampered with evidence.”
Long a popular post for links to peer-to-peer file transfers, TorrentSpy first hit a rough patch when news of [...]

We here at Profy have spoken before of Vuze. A video content distribution company built upon the P2P-based platform Azureus, Vuze is akin to the iTunes TV shop in that it provides easy access to professionally-produced material both new and old – albeit with one great distinction: most of the stuff’s free.
Fairly recently, Vuze made a few headlines through the issuance of a petition to the FCC to investigate and halt ISPs’ practices of throttling bandwidth and network access [...]

Let’s face facts. Most peer-to-peer services today, while certainly capable of acting as intermediaries between remote parties on the Web for legal data transfers, do provide linking services for illicit means.
But some entities that rely on P2P technologies like BitTorrent are entirely valid. Vuze, a service built upon the Azureus platform, is one such example.
Yet Vuze, like others of the legal P2P variety, is being forced to contend with ISP-led bit-blocking measures. The reason, simply put, is that [...]

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 [...]

By now you’ve probably gotten a bit familiar already with OiNK, a peer-to-peer venue that recently had itself publicly manhandled and forced offline by both Dutch and English authorities last week. And you’ve likely received word that The Pirate Bay promised to “re-launch” the operation, albeit with a ‘B’ added to its title (so “BOiNK” will be its new name; cheeky, eh?).
Well, today you’re going to get another little factoid to add to your daily dose of nifty news to [...]

If you recall the spread of stories way back when about TorrentSpy and all those seemingly mixed signals being sent from the site to its users about whether or not it was safe to venture there anymore (after rumors abounded about alleged records of visitors IPs being kept and forcefully transferred to the lovely folk over at the MPAA), you?re likely aware of the many still unanswered questions floating about the blogosphere about the torrent-site-vs-Big-Media battle waged oh-so-unscrupulously in weeks [...]