peer-to-peer in pictures

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  So you think you know Skype?

• San Francisco website TaskRabbit expands in the US, London in its sights

  By Kerry Davis | 29 May, 2012 21:12

  Cynthia De Acha didn't know that she could buy fresh New England lobsters in Silicon Valley, but thanks to a recent delivery to a Google executive, she's becoming aware of all kinds of previously hidden corners of the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Judge throws out mass John Doe porn copyright lawsuits

  By Grant Gross | 05 May, 2012 02:17

  A judge in New York has shot down the attempt of three pornography studios to sue nearly 80 people for allegedly downloading movies on BitTorrent, with the judge slamming the studio's efforts to file lawsuits against multiple anonymous defendants.

• FTC: P-to-P software shared personal info from smartphones

  By Grant Gross | 12 October, 2011 01:35

  Peer-to-peer software developer Frostwire has agreed to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that its software would likely cause users to unknowingly share sensitive personal files, including pictures, from their Android devices, the FTC said Tuesday.

• CBS sued for distributing LimeWire software

  By Ed Oswald | 05 May, 2011 07:15

  An entrepreneur and over a dozen hip-hop artists are suing CBS over its part in contributing to piracy. The suit, filed by FilmOn founder Alki David in federal court on Wednesday, accuses CBS's CNET arm of exacerbating piracy problem by distributing LimeWire software on its website.

• Google Instant bans 'BitTorrent' word

  By Jared Newman | 28 January, 2011 03:10

  What do curse words, porn terms and the word BitTorrent have in common? They're all blacklisted from Google Instant.

• MIT pioneers ad hoc network-bottleneck breaker

  By Joab Jackson | 13 January, 2011 10:59

  Two researchers may have found a way to greatly reduce traffic bottlenecks that could take place in ad hoc networks. Such work may be essential for the future development of sensor networks, they say.

• 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.

• LimeWire is quietly resurrected: It's baaack!

  By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 10 November, 2010 01:35

  Less than a month after its "permanent shut down," LimeWire has been resurrected by an anonymous dev team -- and it's better and more powerful than before. Or, well, something like that.

• So you think you know Skype?

  By Tim Greene | 24 November, 2009 08:49

  With Skype's legal troubles now cleared up, it's a good time to learn more about the company than just what features it offers. Here 10 questions designed to give you a better understanding of the peer-to-peer VoIP vendor.