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P2P music sharing needs regulation to work
News Government legislation and a reliable royalty system must be implemented for peer-to-peer music file sharing networks to work in Asia, say industry watchers.
Tags: Peer to peer, Digital rights management (DRM), Music, Regulation, BayTSP, P2P, Japan, research director, digital-rights management, network
MSN to close chat rooms around world
News update Microsoft will shut down Internet chat rooms in 28 countries, including several parts of Asia, citing concerns about pedophiles and sex predators.
Sun enlists peer-to-peer in war against Microsoft
News Sun Microsystems unveiled Thursday a project designed to undermine Microsoft's power and make its own software the center of one of the Net's most dynamic new movements.
Developing peer-to-peer applications with Jabber
Techguide Find out how to make use of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol to P2P-enable your applications.
Tags: Java, Software engineering/development, Peer to peer, TCP, Jabber, Connection, F/OSS, P2P, Password, Service Parameter
Pirate Bay says appeal is filed
News In a blog post, Pirate Bay operators say the site will live on. Also, they tell those seeking to raise money to help the defendants pay the fines to stop such efforts.
Tags: Piracy, Peer to peer, Fan, Entertainment Company, BitTorrent, Google Inc., Search Engine, entertainment, Pirate Bay, copyright law
Pirate Bay defendants found guilty
News District court in Sweden rules that all four defendants in the high-profile file-swapping case are guilty of having made copyright-protected files accessible for illegal file sharing.
Tags: Piracy, Copyright, Peer to peer, Defendant, Sierra Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Sunde, 20th Century Fox, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, File-sharing
Pirate Bay closure sparks rise in P2P sites
News Closure of Pirate Bay led to temporary 300 percent increase in the number of file-sharing Web sites, says McAfee.
Tags: Peer to peer, Piracy, Open Source, Site, BitTorrent, P2P, security company, McAfee Inc., File-sharing, Internet Service Provider
P2P bill could regulate Web browsers, FTP clients
News Legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to regulate peer-to-peer networks goes a bit further than its sponsors may have intended.
Tags: Peer to peer, Web browsers, Legal, Web Browser, P2P, computer, software, IM, network, East Coast
Dangerous hole discovered in Morpheus
News MP3 fans using the Morpheus file-swapping service risk having their personal details exposed online, according to security experts.
Skype readies business telephone offering
Insight Free Internet phone service provider Skype believes that its new service will shake up the telephone market segment.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony
Morpheus gets tune-up, delays 2.0
News An incremental update may ease the pain over a delayed version 2.0, slated to come out this month. Painkillers, however, won't help Morpheus' legal headaches.
Peer to peer: As the revolution recedes
News It took a boom and a bust to do it, but peer-to-peer technology is finding its post-Napster place in the world.
McAfee CEO: Adware is killing antivirus blacklisting
News Traditional security products--which employ signature-based blacklisting technology--are no longer effective because of a massive increase in malware, according to McAfee CEO Dave De Walt.
Tags: Antivirus software, Malware, Security, Adware, antivirus, software, Symantec Corp., McAfee Inc., marketing, brand
Data leakage prevention still 'too immature'
News With major changes to the Privacy Act set to occur next year in Australia, many organizations are exploring data leakage prevention (DLP) technologies.
Tags: Digital signatures, Security implementation/standards
Sun enlists peer-to-peer in war against Microsoft
News Sun Microsystems unveiled Thursday a project designed to undermine Microsoft's power and make its own software the center of one of the Net's most dynamic new movements.
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