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Independent TV P2P Style

BitTorrent and RSS feeds offer great potential to independent television program production. Now, with the help of programmers, the Downhill Battle crew is planning to bring the ingredients together into a simple package, helping to create an independent television network of channels. “Anyone can broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost, using BitTorrent technology. Viewers get intuitive, elegant software to subscribe to channels, watch video, and organize their video library..."

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=752

How China Controls Its Net

Chinese citizens trying to access web sites carrying information on Taiwanese and Tibetan independence, Falun Gong, the Dalai Lama, the Tiananmen Square incident, opposition political parties, and a “variety of anti-Communist movements,” are frequently blocked by the country’s extensive Net filtering system, says a report from the OpenNet Initiative. But, “most major American media sites, such as CNN, MSNBC, and ABC, are generally available in China,” it says. Only the BBC was blocked..."

http://p2pnet.net/story/4547

Unofficial RIAA/MPAA/Lawsuit FAQ

The RIAA has targeted 405 students from 18 different universities for illegally sharing files on i2hub. The MPAA has targeted an unspecified number of students as well at 7 schools. On April 13, 2005, these subpoenas from the RIAA and the MPAA were filed against the students. The RIAA has said that it sent notices of impending subpoenas to universities against their students approximately 2-3 weeks ago. Apparently, universities are not required to notify their students, so not every subpoenaed student received a notice. Check the IP Known List link above to see if you have been subpoenaed...

http://www.gnutella.com/news/16525

Spammers Feeding off P2P Networks

In July of 2004, Slyck reported on proliferation of carelessly shared files. P2P newcomers, or those simply too careless to figure out how to share properly, were discovered sharing their entire root directories. This would leave the individual's personal information; such as account numbers, financial statements, credit card information and emails, potentially exposed to millions. Although for the most part the exposure of otherwise private files is little more than mild entertainment for the curious, they are being exploited for more sinister uses...

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=751

Interview: Michael Weiss, CEO of Morpheus

ZP: Mark Cuban made a large splash in the press by offering to pay for the court costs in the MGM v Grokster case. How realistic is this, have you seen any checks yet? Who has funded the defense so far, do you share expenses with Grokster? MW: The RIAA / MPAA strategy is to outspend their opponents into submission. Their strategy worked with Napster, Scour and countless others that have dared to cross their path. Even today, they pick on individual consumers who do not have the financial or legal resources to fight back. Much to the surprise of the RIAA, StreamCast decided to fight. It has been an expensive battle for us - to the tune of nearly $4 million - and that was just to get to the Supreme Court...

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/04132005e.php

Claim to End 99% of Illegal Trading

A Finnish based company called Viralg is predicting the end of unauthorised file sharing. The company claims their patented “overwrite” technology can mix files on a P2P network, corrupting downloads and rendering them worthless to play. “On the market where our competitors can only offer a mediocre service for blocking illegal file swapping our solution means totally new level of revenue protection. By utilizing Viralg´s technology we can guarantee 99% protection..."

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=750

Vinton Cerf: Hollywood Interested in BitTorrent

Hollywood is anxious to embrace BitTorrent as a method of movie distribution, according to Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet. Cerf, who co-created TCP/IP, told a roundtable on Internet governance in Sydney, Australia, this week that he had recently discussed file-sharing program BitTorrent with at least two interested movie producers...

http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5672216.html

NPR: Whack-a-Mole - Legal Action Unlikely to Deter File-Sharing

From All Things Considered - The Supreme Court is deciding whether the online service Grokster bears responsibility when its users download copyrighted songs and films without permission. But even if the court rules against Grokster, no decision is likely to end the practice...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4599059

Get Ready for Corporate P2P Apps

Most corporate networkers believe P2P, with its ability to hog bandwidth and its myriad security issues, is a consumer phenomenon. This is a misconception that in the future may be the undoing of the corporate network. P2P network applications such as KaZaA or Napster may not have a place in the corporate environment, but the same cannot be said for BitTorrent's File Sharing technology, currently being used for Linux software distribution...

http://www.techworld.com/networking/features/index.cfm?FeatureID=1332

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