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Happy Birthday: BitTorrent turns 10 today
- Programmer Bram Cohen began designing the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent protocol in April 2001. On July 2, 2001, he posted the following Yahoo Groups message: "My new app, BitTorrent, is now in working order, check it out here -http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/." Today, the…
Neowin: Interview with PS3 hacker KaKaRoTo
- As you may have read on our previous report, a hacker and homebrew developer known as KaKaRoTo is petitioning Sony by releasing a bunch of homebrew titles for the PS3 (as well as other platforms) for free. He calls this…
LimeWire settles court case with RIAA for $105 million
- Ending a five-year battle over music piracy, LimeWire founder Mark Gorton and his file-sharing company have agreed to compensate the four largest U.S. record labels for damages in an out-of-court settlement of $105 million.
Just 9% of US Internet users were P2P music pirates in Q4 2010
- In late October 2010, LimeWire closed down its file sharing services, months after a federal judge sided with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and found the P2P service liable for copyright infringement. The NPD Group believes this is…
BitTorrent creator shows off live P2P streaming
- BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen is now focused on developing a new P2P live streaming protocol that would be superior to all other streaming solutions currently on the market. Cohen demonstrated the unfinished technology this week, but he has yet to…
New BitTorrent client offers truly decentralized P2P
- While BitTorrent is the most popular P2P protocol, it still relies on several centralized points for users to find the files they are looking. There have been several attempts at making BitTorrent more decentralized, and the latest Tribler 5.3 client…
LimeWire shuts down P2P service, looks to future
- After being found liable for copyright infringement last May, LimeWire has finally been ordered to take down the key features of its service. Citing the program as committing and facilitating copyright infringement, the popular file-sharing client will be required to…
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