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Google Joins Fight Against BitTorrent Throttling ISPs
torrentfreak.com - 1/29/2009
Google Joins Fight Against BitTorrent Throttling ISPs
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ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years, but only recently has this become a hot topic. In collaboration with New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute and the PlanetLab Consortium , Google is helpng ‘the cause’ by launching Measurement Lab (M-Lab), a ...
boxee gets Lost
blog.boxee.tv - 1/22/2009
boxee gets Lost
— blog.boxee.tv — according to Torrentfreak Lost was the most downloaded TV Show on Bittorrent in 2008.. ABC has two other shows on that Top 10 list (Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy). it is clear ABC is producing great content, and it is no surprise that  ... (more) boxee gets Lost

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TVBLOB Box
— tvblobbox.com — Dual DVB-T tuner: for access to digital television Internet access: with simple URL entry field PVR with internal hard drive: with 160 GB built-in storage BitTorrent support: for efficient content download/distribution Podcasting with automatic ... (more) TVBLOB Box

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broadband.mpi-sws.org - 1/28/2009
Glasnost: Test if your ISP is manipulating BitTorrent traffic
— broadband.mpi-sws.org — Our test runs BitTorrent and TCP downloads as well as uploads on a well-known BitTorrent port and a non-BitTorrent port. There are two test configurations available. The simple one takes approximately 4 minutes and each individual transfer is 10 ... (more) Glasnost: Test if your ISP is manipulating BitTorrent ...

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Download Squad:  Google helps found M-Lab to identify ISPs who throttle torrents

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Google helps found M-Lab to identify ISPs who throttle torrents
Download Squad — ... speed of a normal transfer to see whether or not the peer-to-peer traffic is being throttled. If you're curious about your own ISP, run the Glasnost test and see what it reports. You'll have to be patient, though - the recent news about Google coming onboard has increased traffic on the site greatly and it's having a hard time keeping up. It's good to know that once M-Lab is online they'll have 36 Google servers in 12 locations to help run the tests. [ via Torrentfreak ] Google helps found M-Lab to identify ISPs who throttle torrents ...

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