News

• NAC saves University of North Carolina money, keeps illegal file sharing in check

  By Tim Greene | 30 September, 2011 01:31

  Network access control (NAC) is saving the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $40,000 per year by keeping students from illegally using peer-to-peer file-sharing applications.

• P2P-based alternative to DNS hopes to challenge ICANN

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 December, 2010 01:46

  A group led by former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde is forming to develop a peer-to-peer-based alternative to today's ICANN-controlled DNS system, according to a blog posted on Tuesday.

• Court orders LimeWire to cease file-sharing business

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 27 October, 2010 10:15

  In a major victory for the music industry, a New York federal judge has ordered embattled P2P software maker LimeWire to immediately and permanently stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing software.

• On verge of closing, P2P vendor LimeWire hopes for a settlement

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 10 June, 2010 02:06

  Beleaguered file-sharing software maker LimeWire LLC said it still hopes to settle a dispute with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) even as a federal court in New York appears set to shutter the company for enabling copyright infringement.

• US lawmakers target The Pirate Bay, other sites

  By Grant Gross | 20 May, 2010 05:12

  The Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus, a group of U.S. lawmakers concerned with copyright infringement, has listed The Pirate Bay and five other Web sites as "notorious" file-sharing sites.

• Court says Lime Wire liable for infringement

  By Nancy Gohring | 13 May, 2010 09:47

  Lime Wire and its former CEO are liable for the copyright infringement executed by its users, a New York federal judge said on Tuesday.

• Bill would restrict P2P use on US government networks

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 19 November, 2009 07:17

  House lawmakers introduced a bill that would restrict the use of peer-to-peer technology on government networks in response to several embarrassing data leaks.

• McAfee: P2P sites on the rise

  By Carrie-Ann Skinner | 04 November, 2009 03:26

  The number of peer-to-peer (p2p) websites that allow users to share copyrighted materials has increased, says McAfee.

• Pirate Bay appeals postponed until next year

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 20 October, 2009 07:05

  The appeals of those convicted in April in the high-profile Pirate Bay copyright violations trial won't be heard until next year, the court said on Monday.

• Opera delivers Unite beta, touts in-browser P2P

  By Gregg Keizer | 15 October, 2009 05:33

  Opera Software today released the beta of Opera Unite, a platform for authoring peer-to-peer (P2P) and Web server-based applications that it's promised will reinvent the Web.

• What's replacing P2P, BitTorrent as pirate hangouts?

  By Eric Lai | 10 October, 2009 10:44

  Driven by increased crackdowns on BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, software pirates are fast-moving their warez to file-hosting Web sites.

• Prospective buyer of The Pirate Bay finds new exchange

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 17 September, 2009 05:03

  The stock of prospective Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) will from Wednesday be traded on Mangoldlistan, a Swedish exchange run by a securities brokerage company. But GGF's new home, on an exchange that lists only seven companies, hasn't answered any of the questions about its proposed acquisition of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.

• ISP appeals verdict that temporarily closed Pirate Bay

  By Linus Larsson | 15 September, 2009 06:19

  Swedish ISP Black Internet has decided to appeal in the Stockholm district court the verdict that led to it closing file-sharing site The Pirate Bay's data connection.

• Battle against file sharing starts in Norway

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 18 June, 2009 04:56

  Movie and record companies want Norwegian operator Telenor to block access to The Pirate Bay file-sharing site and have filed documents in a Norwegian district court seeking a temporary injunction.

• Researchers turn Conficker's own P2P protocol against itself

  By Gregg Keizer | 23 April, 2009 14:51

  Security researchers have updated a free tool that sniffs out the notorious Conficker worm on infected PCs by using the same peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol the malware relies on to communicate with its hacker masters.