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File sharing’s mysteries again stump Uncle Sam

The accidental disclosure of a House ethics investigation has kicked up quite a fuss on Capitol Hill as it turns out that more than 30 congressman and aides are under investigation.

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Leaked House Ethics document spreads via P2P

A document containing the names of more than two dozen members of the U.S. House of Representatives who are being scrutinized for conduct violations is starting to get widely distributed over the Internet after being leaked on a peer-to-peer network earlier this week.

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More Members of Congress Pay the Price of Peer-to-Peer Piracy

Well, another inadvertent file-sharing debacle has been documented. Another needless disclosure of highly confidential data has occurred.

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Distributed Throughput Maximization in P2P VoD Applications

In this paper, we present a systematic study on the throughput maximization problem in P2P VoD applications.

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Ethics panel starts probes of 2 Calif. lawmakers, has to explain when private memo gets online

The House ethics committee announced Thursday it is investigating two California Democratic lawmakers, but its embarrassed leaders then had to explain that other members - named in a confidential memo that a hacker posted online - may have committed no wrongdoing.

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CD/DVD/Bittorrent Download Links for Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu 9.10

This is the list of CD/DVD images download links for Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu 9.10 For Ubuntu Users CD Images http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10 http://noncdn.releases.ubuntu.com//karmic/ DVD downloads Don’t be confused, even though DVDs can hold far more data than the typical Ubuntu CD, the main benefit of the DVD downloads is to get access to …

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On-line music to be supplied by Google

Google has entered the online music market to allow US consumers to search using song titles, artists or snippets of lyrics.

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Comcast Asks Court To Vacate Sanctions For P2P Blocking

The Federal Communications Commission’s decision to sanction Comcast for blocking peer-to-peer traffic should be vacated because the order “enforced mere policy — not any provision of federal law,” Comcast argues in its latest court papers.

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St. Joseph Man Pleads Guilty to Distributing Child Porn Over the Internet

Joseph, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court to distributing child pornography over the Internet.

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UK threatens Web access block in piracy fight

Britain is to push ahead with a law to clamp down on illegal file sharing, that would start with a series of warning letters and could result in repeat offenders losing their Internet connection.

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Judge rejects plea deal in Rochester woman’s child porn case

A Rochester woman was scheduled to plead guilty to possession of child pornography Tuesday before a Strafford County Superior Court judge declined to accept her plea because she said she did not know files she downloaded contained child porn.

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Real-time video surpasses P2P, creating new broadband ‘prime-time’

Report shows move away from P2P bandwidth hogs to more broad-based use of broadband during key time slots - with major implications for service providers Broadband is going prime-time. That’s the message from a new report today from deep packet inspection vendor Sandvine , which analyzed traffic from 20 networks and more than 24 million subscribers …

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Canada: ISP traffic shaping should only be “last resort”

The Canadian telecoms regulator has spoken at last: traffic shaping is a “last resort” measure to deal with Internet congestion, network investment is the “primary solution,” but no “bright line” network neutrality rules will be forthcoming.

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FCC approves net neutrality rules

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved draft rules designed to ensure Internet providers don’t block or slow traffic on their networks, over the fierce objections of the telecommunications industry.

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