Archive for June, 2009

Peer-to-peer lending on the rise

“Twebster302″ needed $1,200 for a root canal. “JulesWWC” wanted $13,000 to open a fair-trade chocolate shop.

Original post by McClatchy DC and provided by Limewire

paidContent - The Party’s Over: Software Firm Buying Pirate Bay, Will Go Legit

This story was written by Patrick Smith. Swedish publicly listed software company Global Gaming Factory X says it wants to buy The Pirate Bay SEK60 million and will begin compensating copyright owners for material its users find and download.

Original post by CBS News and provided by Limewire

Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems

NEW NEW Abstract This paper presents the design and evaluation of Pastry, a scalable, distributed object location and routing scheme for wide-area peer-to-peer applications.

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British music boss: we should have embraced Napster

Geoff Taylor, head of UK major label trade group BPI, wrote an op-ed piece for the BBC today in which he called Napster the “Rosetta Stone of digital music,” said it was “simple to understand and use,” and said that the music industry should have “embraced Napster rather than fighting it.” While this might sound radical, it’s not actually a …

Original post by Ars Technica and provided by Limewire

Our view: Download verdict screams for reform

“The court would be remiss if it did not take this opportunity to implore Congress to amend the Copyright Act to address liability and damages in peer-to-peer network cases such as the one currently before this court.

Original post by Saint Cloud Times and provided by Limewire

A hybrid topology architecture for P2P systems

IEEE Explore NEW NEW Abstract A core area of P2P systems research is the topology of the overlay network.

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CashEdge Launches Bank-Centric P2P Payments Service

Money transmission company CashEdge is now offering a person-to-person payments solution to banks called POPmoney.

Original post by Bank Systems & Technology and provided by Limewire

DV8 busted. But music isna t warez a

P2P:- A ‘warez release group’ has been severely disrupted after the UK police began arresting members of this group last month, said TorrentFreak yesterday.

Original post by P2pnet.net and provided by Limewire

RIAA awarded $1.92 million in file sharing case

A woman has been ordered to pay $1.92 million for downloading 24 tracks from the Kazaa file sharing site - $80,000 per song.

Original post by TG Daily and provided by Limewire

10 years after Napster, online pirates alive and well

A file-sharing fine against a Minnesota woman that mushroomed from $220,000 to nearly $2 million last week is just the latest evidence that illegally trading music and videos online is still with us in a big way.

Original post by USA Today and provided by Limewire

The German Piratenpartei: a preliminary assessment

The IPKat, concerned at the rise of the political Pirate Movement within Europe, asked his friend and fellow blogger Axel Horns of IP:JUR fame if he could explain to the Kat’s readers about the position in Germany, where there seems to be an increasing degree of pro-pirate sentiment.

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RIAA ‘public relations fiasco’

P2P:- Yesterday, we ran a post in which Ray Beckerman , a New York lawyer whose Recording Industry vs The People is the Net’s only repository of documents and information centring on RIAA lawsuits, outlined how the Jammie Thomas-Rasset fiasco might have unfolded in a world where justice, and not the Big 4 corporate music industry, held sway.

Original post by P2pnet.net and provided by Limewire

Ocean Shores man sentenced for child porn

An Ocean Shores man will spend five years in prison for receipt of child pornography.

Original post by NWCN.com and provided by Limewire

Telepin Software Introduces Cayman Online, Enabling On-Demand Mobile…

P2P Cash Launches “Send Cash to Any Cellphone With P2P Cash” Using “Cayman Online” Transaction Platform Software-As-A-Service Offering Telepin Cayman Transaction Platform OTTAWA, OTTAWA and BARCELONA, SPAIN– - AND 2009 GSMA MOBILE MONEY SUMMIT - Editors Note: A photo for this article is available on Marketwire’s website.

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Record industry does not plan more lawsuits

The US record industry has no plans to resume suing individuals who use online file-trading services to share digital music files, despite an unprecedented $1.9 million verdict returned by a civil jury last week.

Original post by Financial Times and provided by Limewire

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