Posts Tagged with ‘protocol’

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 [...]