SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ — 365 Main Inc., developer and operator of the world’s finest data centers, today announced that BitTorrent, provider of the world’s leading peer-assisted digital content distribution platform, has expanded its data center presence with 365 Main by a factor of 10.

BitTorrent first became a customer of 365 Main’s San Francisco data center in February 2005, occupying a single rack. After growing to three racks earlier this year, this recent expansion brings the company to a 600-square- foot server cage, roughly 28 racks.

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The advent of BitTorrent was a cause for celebration for people who wished to share large files very quickly, but Internet Service Providers did not see the technology in quite the same positive light. ISPs soon found that the majority of their bandwidth was taken up with BitTorrent traffic, and some, like Canadian provider Shaw, started throttling the service in response. BitTorrent clients such as Azureus added a feature that encrypted torrent traffic to try and get around these ISP roadblocks.

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Several record companies have sued a Richland woman for allegedly violating federal copyrights by downloading or uploading music via the Internet.

The suit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Richland by the Recording Industry Association of America on behalf of Warner Bros. Records Inc., Sony BMG Music, Virgin Records and several other major recording labels against Merri Board.

Board, who has not seen the lawsuit, was blindsided by the news.

“It’s been over two years since I heard anything about this,” she said.

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A Laramie man was sentenced Tuesday in Albany County District Court to three to 10 years in the Wyoming State Penitentiary on each of two counts of child pornography. The sentences are to run concurrently.

Tucker James Perry, 26, of 800 S. Ninth, was placed on 10 years of supervised probation for possessing child pornography, and his prison sentences were suspended. At the time of his arrest, Perry was a student at the University of Wyoming. Perry admitted to searching for and possessing child pornography on or around Dec. 15, 2005. He was charged with three counts of manufacturing, generating, creating, receiving, distributing, reproducing or delivering child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography. He was sentenced on the third and fourth counts.

On Dec. 22, 2005, the Division of Criminal Investigations obtained a warrant to search Perry’s home due to probable cause that a computer at the residence was involved in the distribution of child pornography. At the time, Perry lived with one roommate, who had been out of town for several days. Perry admitted to the DCI agents that he had used Limewire software to download pornography, and he admitted to using search terms that are known to return results containing child pornography. Perry also admitted to being interested in pornography depicting persons under the age of 18.

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A Fletcher woman is one of 42 people in seven states sued last week by the Recording Industry Association of America for alleged copyright infringement.A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Asheville accuses Tiffany Redmond of 134 Upper Brush Creek Road of illegally distributing copyrighted music on the Internet using peer-to-peer services such as LimeWire.

The association, which represents the nation’s major record companies, has sued more than 18,000 people since 2003 in an effort to deter illegal sharing and downloading of music and to increase public awareness of the issue.

A survey by the association found that before the lawsuits, 37 percent of those polled believed it was illegal to make music available for free from a computer, a figure that has since risen to 73 percent, spokeswoman Jenni Engebretsen said

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iMesh on Thursday said it was set to launch a beta of a new version of BearShare, the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network that’s run afoul of the recording industry in the past. BearShare, which iMesh acquired in May, is the latest P2P service to go legit.The new service, dubbed BearShare 6.0 “will offer consumers a compelling service inclusive of the traditional benefits common to the P2P file-sharing experience, while assuring compensation to registered rightsholders,” iMesh said in a statement Thursday.

Last year, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sent cease-and-desist demands to a number of P2P services, including BearShare, Kazaa, Limewire, and eDonkey. In May 2006, iMesh/BearShare paid the RIAA $30 million to avoid piracy lawsuits. In 2004, iMesh had forked over $4.1 million in a settlement with the RIAA. (Last month, Kazaa settled with the association to the tune of $115 million.)

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AllPeers released a beta Thursday of what it called the most ambitious Firefox extension to date, a peer-to-peer application that would allow friends and family to share files and content between one another in a private setting.

Unlike the major P2P networks, AllPeers allows the sharing of files securely and privately.

The application has been released on Firefox’s extensions Web site, and is compatible with Windows, Mac OS and Linux. The AllPeers backend uses BitTorrent in combination with what is calls a “darknet,” where the computer user will remain anonymous while transferring files.

Its decentralized nature, however, will likely give the RIAA and MPAA fits, as the two groups have spent much of the last several years focusing on shutting down P2P networks. Without a centralized server on which to target, it could be near impossible to track what is being traded via AllPeers unless the groups infiltrate the small networks of individuals.

From Prague, home of legal absinthe and giant praying mantises, comes the next great best thing ever: a P2P network for sharing mp3’s that the RIAA can’t spy on. That’s the claim being made by AllPeers.com, anyway.

According to Wired, AllPeers is launching a P2P that’s only open to trusted users

Software developer POGO has launched P2P file sharing for Java and WAP-enabled GPRS and 3G mobile phones. The software can be used to share ringtones, music, games, videos and themes. There is no mention of the architecture or any limits or filtering of content for the P2P service.

Nokia announced mobile P2P technology in 2004 but never launched a product.

POGO charges 30 South Africa Rand or about $4.19 US Dollars for the initial P2P software download. There are no additional charges, except for normal mobile phone airtime and Internet access. Additional features allow the user to send SMS messages and access classifieds, a body weight calculator, and car performance facilities. POGO is based in South Africa.

The increasing strain on broadband networks created by P2P networking traffic is driving a demand for products that can identify and weed out bandwidth-hogs through the use of deep packet inspection (DPI) technology.

According to a recent report from Light Reading Insider, network operators worldwide spent US$96.8m on DPI in 2005, but the sector is poised to grow by more than 75 per cent this year, to about US$170m, and top US$586m in 2010.

James Crawshaw, research analyst at Light Reading Insider, and author of the report, said: “DPI has emerged as a key tool to combat bandwidth hogs and enable quality of service in broadband networks.

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