“We have been in discussions with rights holders organisations about how a voluntary scheme could work. We are taking this problem seriously and would favour a sensible voluntary solution.”

UK Internet service provider Virgin Media is reportedly in talks with the British Phonographic Industry to implement a new ‘three strikes’ system against illegal file sharers, which would make the second major … via The WHIR

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Last month, shortly before the FCC held its first hearing in an investigation of Comcast’s interference with BitTorrent and other P2P protocols , we noticed that Comcast was no longer injecting forged TCP RST … via Privacy Digest

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The first thing to notice when you join a private BitTorrent site is the eye-popping quality of the torrents. via Low Carb Freedom

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“For the other 99.5 percent, their performance will be maintained as they expect it”

Comcast, the largest Internet provider in the United States, announced it would switch tactics for dealing with systems-clogging software. via Political Gateway

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As predicted, the CBC’s decision to release the Next Great Prime Minister online so people can download, copy, and share it freely has been seriously marred by Bell Canada’s scheme to throttle P2P … via Bear and Shadows Litterbox in Cyberspace

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Audio Blocking and Stopping Network Intruders By Mark Edward Soper , CIO , 03/25/2008 Data thieves aren’t always the black-clad hackers typing away in a dark room a la The Matrix, either: Data center employees … via Network World on Security

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Canadian Internet service providers say they are facing a predicament as telecommunications provider Bell Canada recently announced it has implemented a new plan to “manage” the Internet traffic passing through … via TheWHIR.com

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“DRM is dead, even if a lot of broadcasters don’t realize it.”

P2P:- Last night, the CBC aired the finale of Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister, a television program that attracted attention not only for its sizable audiences and the participation of several former Prime … via P2pnet.net

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“Al Capone was charged with tax evasion rather than racketeering, and Masato Nakatsuji is being charged with copyright infringement rather than for creating his movie and music-munching malware”

Wakefield, MA - infoZine - Experts at SophosLabs, Sophos’s global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have reminded businesses of the importance of protecting their networks from virus attack, … via Kansas City InfoZine

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Wash those tubes out with love Instead of following its telecom brethren in fighting file-sharing - throttling broadband , launching tiered systems - Verizon hopes to make sending large files faster and more … via MarketingVOX

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“Because these P2P protocols are designed to devour any and all available bandwidth on the network, it is not possible to build one’s way out of the need for reasonable network management”

An electronic packet of data is a packet is a packet. Unless you look inside to see what it contains. via BroadcastNewsroom

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For an identity thief, tax time is prime time. Documents filed electronically to the Internal Revenue Service are a gold mine for hackers, as they contain Social Security numbers, addresses and financial … via Akron Beacon Journal

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“We are also committed to bringing the Flash experience to the iPhone, and we will work with Apple. We’ve evaluated the SDK — we can now start to develop the Flash player ourselves.”

Broadband access equals economic prosperity, says the European Commission, and toward that end, it has set a goal to increase broadband penetration in Europe from the current 20 percent to 30 percent by 2010. via TechNewsWorld

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“Typically, (child pornography) files have very telling names”

When 21-year-old Jennifer Dunham of Concord was arrested in February for allegedly having child pornography on her computer, her attorney professed her innocence and said she had no idea the images were there. via Concord Monitor

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Matching someone’s name to a nine-digit number — a nugget of information people are expected to hand over to strangers from time to time — has somehow become widely accepted as solid proof of identity. via E-Commerce Times

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