torrentfreak.com - 2/18/2009
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Ipoque, a German based company that specializes in developing bandwidth managing solutions for universities and ISPs has just released its 2008/2009 Internet traffic report . In total, over 1.3 petabytes of Internet traffic from several continents was analyzed.
The report concludes that the ...
torrentfreak.com - 2/13/2009
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torrentfreak.com —
Research by Raynor Vliegendhart of the Tribler P2P
team at Delft University of Technology has shown that
BitTorrent is more vulnerable to a global collapse than anyone has ever predicted. By collecting statistics of a sample of 283,032 torrents with ...
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P2P Researchers Fear BitTorrent Meltdown
thepiratebay.org - 2/16/2009
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thepiratebay.org —
Legal threats against The Pirate Bay Microsoft: email
(we get tons of these) Mono Music: email (swedish)
DreamWorks: email our response EA: email our response Uppsala universitet: emails our response mail exchange back and forth final mail (they also ...
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The world's largest BitTorrent tracker
torrentfreak.com - 2/15/2009
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torrentfreak.com —
Many visitors to the uTorrent website are relatively
new to BitTorrent, and a proportion of these are
clueless as to where they should start looking for .torrent files. For this group the new torrent search box on the uTorrent homepage might come in ...
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uTorrent Adds Google Powered Torrent Search
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GigaOM Network —
... BitTorrent Rules the P2P School; BitTorrent protocol responsible for 45 - 78 percent of all P2P traffic. (TorrentFreak) ...
The Myth of the Darknets
NewTeeVee —
... alike have been using examples like these to argue against file-sharing lawsuits, contending (much like Anderson does in his piece) that increased legal pressure will just drive users underground. However, most users apparently never got that memo. The RIAA sued more than 30,000 file sharers in recent years, but the Pirate Bay and similar sites are as popular as ever. Even countries like Germany that have seen literally hundreds of thousands of file-sharing lawsuits still see significant levels of public P2P traffic. It’s hard to imagine that users will be ...
New BitTorrent protocol exercises self-control
GMSV —
The widely used BitTorrent protocol for peer-to-peer sharing of large files has been a bandwidth bugaboo for Internet service providers for several years now estimated to account for a quarter to a half of all Net traffic , depending on location, and held up as justification for the kind of heavy handed traffic management that got Comcast in trouble last year (see “ ...
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