BitTorrent and Net Neutrality: Google in your Corner
Net Neutrality is an issue that expands well beyond the BitTorrent and P2P world. Internet entities such as Google, who also use significant amounts of Internet bandwidth, have a vested interest in the fight for net neutrality as well. It's no secret that ISPs would love to see Google pay for that access. But in the fight for net neutrality, the old saying that 'politics makes strange bedfellows' takes on a more modern approach as Google has found a new ally: BitTorrent.

Cox Communications Managment Might 'Delay' the Newsgroups
Whenever we read about an ISP throttling P2P or BitTorrent, there's nothing new there. ISPs have been managing P2P networks for years. Of course the highest profile case of this was with Comcast, who was caught 'delaying' BitTorrent uploads. Comcast has since been forced to adopt a 'protocol agnostic' approach to network management by the FCC. Cox Communications, however, seems to be taking P2P networking, and in a strange twist, usenet newsgroups, straight on in their new bandwidth policy.

File-Sharing with a Flick of the Wrist
Worried about the local copyright traffic cops slowing your internet connection down? Concerned that your latest BitTorrent upload will get you busted? The latest device from Leyio has introduced their Personal Sharing Device (PSD) that lets you trade files with literally a flick of the wrist.

MiniNova's Content Distribution is no Joke
During the early days of P2P, many companies such as Morpheus attempted to promote up and coming artists as a way of deflecting criticism. This was fine and all, but in the end who and what got promoted was generally up StreamCast. But the arrival of BitTorrent has changed much of this in favor of the aspiring artist.

Good News, Mediocre News for The Pirate Bay
The Danish ISP TDC, which is the largest in Denmark, has blocked The Pirate Bay from its customers. This move follows the Danish ISP Tele2, who was taken to court by the IFPI and was subsequently forced to block The Pirate Bay. TDC made the move to block TPB based on this prior decision, and likely won't remove the block until Tele2's appeal.

MiniNova Celebrates 4 Years Online
MiniNova, arguable the best public BitTorrent search engine and perhaps the largest BitTorrent site, celebrates its 4th birthday today. It's been a rather smooth ride for MiniNova, who refrains from drama and keeps a rather low key appearance in the P2P world - especially compared to The Pirate Bay. But recently a few bumps have appeared on the road as potential legal problems with BREIN, the local Dutch copyright traffic cop, threaten to derail the success.

No Consensus Reached in UK P2P 'Problem'
Last year in October, UK's BERR, or Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, published a consultation dealing with the P2P issue in the UK. The primary focus of the consultation had hoped that the warring parties, primarily the ISPs and copyrights holders, would come together and voluntary devise a solution and avoid government involvement. Today, it was announced that no voluntary agreement was reached.

isoHunt Recovers From DDoS Attack
If you have an RSS feed of isoHunt and wonder why it went dead today, the reason is threefold. First, isoHunt suffered a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack from what Gary Fung, administrator of the site, calls "russian user agents". The site actually suffered 2 intentional attacks, and one incidental.

Heavy Traffic Forces Windows 7 Beta Delay, BitTorrent Chugs Forward
At CES 2009, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft said, "I believe Windows will remain at the center of people's technological solar system." Steve Ballmer focused his keynote speech on Windows 7, and announced that a beta release would be distributed worldwide today. While Windows may be at the technological center, its distribution platform clearly is not. Because of overwhelming traffic, Microsoft has made Windows 7 Beta unavailable and delayed its launch.

The March toward Higher Usenet Retention
One of the more compelling reasons people may choose the newsgroups over BitTorrent is because of its non-exclusionary nature. Sure, The Pirate Bay might be the largest BitTorrent tracker and the largest P2P network, but there are many smaller, privately held trackers that have content that TPB does not. That's fine and all, but unlike BitTorrent, the newsgroups generally don't operate in this fashion. Providing you're on a good news server, what's available to one individual is available to all.






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