The U.K. government said Friday it wants a new law by April 2009 obligating ISPs to stop illegal file sharing on their networks, marking one of the most aggressive stances yet in Europe to counter Internet … via The Industry Standard

“This cooperation with both the British and German public broadcasters indicates that P2P is here to stay”

While ISPs in the US continue to work against the use of P2P apps and broadcasters continue to experiment with restrictive DRM schemes , Europe is making some major moves in the other direction. via Ars Technica

“I’ll bet most paying customers out there have no idea that Comcast is secretly blocking and slowing down their high-speed Internet service”

An upset Comcast subscriber in Washington, DC, has filed a lawsuit against the company over its traffic management practices. via Ars Technica

The objective of the P2P-Next project is to develop a platform that takes open source development, open standards and future proof iterative integration as key design principles. via EETimes.eu

“It’s like BitTorrent on steroids”

Atlanta-based Asankya has developed a peer-to-peer networking technology that uses multiple network resources, thereby avoiding the congestion-related problems that plague Click for the lowest price on … via Digital Game Developer

“Stupid people, you don’t use a secure password”

News By Jeremy Kirk February 18, 2008 One of Harvard University’s Web sites appeared on Monday to have been hacked, with its contents appearing on the BitTorrent file-sharing network. via CIO

“Because P2P file sharing involves these music files sitting on individual people’s computers, there is very little that MIPI can do to remove those files or stop them being shared”

Kate Ahrens of North Curl Curl tunes into her unit. Photo: James Brickwood AS THE internet threatens to kill the established music industry, the Rudd Government is considering a three-strikes policy against … via The Age

“Congestion issues are not unique to cable-broadband networks — they are a constant issue for networks of every type,” the NCTA filing said. via Digital Producer

The six studios comprising the MPA have sued China’s Xunlei for copyright infringement, claiming the file sharing operator makes hundreds of movies available to users. via Digital Trends

Maxine Park The Arizona Republic Feb. 15, 2008 06:03 PM A federal jury has convicted an Apache Junction man for distributing and possessing more than 24,000 images of child pornography. via Arizona Republic

“These actions demonstrate that copyright holders can and will vigorously defend their property by any legal means”

A Hollywood group said Friday it is suing a popular Chinese Web site over film piracy, expanding a legal battle over use of the Internet by China’s thriving industry in product copying. via The Age

The scientific field of biology has provided many useful metaphors, such as “virus” and “infection,” for the study of malware. via ComputerWorld

Comcast has told the Federal Communications Commission that blocking traffic from file-sharing and P2P applications is a good way to keep its network going. via Digital Trends

“Our overall view is we don’t actually want to take sides in this dispute between IFPI and The Pirate Bay”

One of Denmark’s largest ISPs said on Wednesday it will fight a court injunction mandating that it shut off access to a file-sharing Web site, in what could be a closely-watched battle with the music industry … via The Industry Standard

“Moon also revealed in that interview that he paid about 5000 dollars per month for the bandwidth of the site, which means that the total judgement is worth less than one month of Sharereactor’s operating costs.”

P2P:- Four years after being shut down by Swiss authorities, Christian Riesen , owner of the Edonkey link site Sharereactor.com, has been guilty of copyright infringement and ordered to pay 4700 Swiss francs . via P2pnet.net