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6 hrs ago | BonitaNews.com - Bonita Springs, Florida

Bonita Springs man with child porn receives five years in prison

A 70-year-old Bonita Springs man who admitted downloading child pornography off the Internet for up to three years was sentenced Wednesday to five years in a federal prison.

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Related Topix: Bonita Springs, FL, Federal Prisons, Prison, Science / Technology

12 hrs ago | Canada.com

Filmmakers speak out against management of web traffic

Canada's largest Internet providers are having a chilling effect on independent filmmakers by slowing down certain Internet technologies that enable producers to distribute movies and other programming online, federal regulators heard Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet Service Providers

Wed Jul 08, 2009

The Washington Post

House Panel Moves to Criminalize Spyware, Net Piracy

People who illegally share copyrighted music and movies over the Internet could be jailed for up to five years under a bill approved by a powerful congressional panel today.

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Related Topix: Spyware, Science / Technology, US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Lamar Smith, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Computers

P2pnet.net

a Canadian surfers dona t know physicsa

'Canadian surfers don't know physics' p2pnet news view Freedom I'ma regular visitor and poster on p2pnet and its users/readers have taught me something new in the last few days: Users are unaware of the impact their online activities have on the networks.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet Service Providers, VoIP

In-Stat

Video Industry Needs to Migrate Digital Rights Management Towards Content Monetization

Copy protection, watermarks, digital fingerprinting, and conditional access are all Digital Rights Management technologies used to enforce copyright protection of video content, reports In-Stat http://www.in-stat.com . Yet, efforts to stop the 12 billion illegal peer-to-peer downloads occurring annually in the US have come up short.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Digital Rights Management

WMAR

A new way to borrow money; no bank needed

By SARAH FRIER Sacramento Bee "Twebster302" needed $1,200 for a root canal. "JulesWWC" wanted $13,000 to open a fair-trade chocolate shop.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Tue Jul 07, 2009

The Victoria Star

ISPs should prove they need to control Internet traffic

The federal regular has an obligation to Canadians to ensure efforts by Internet providers don't unjustly discriminate against certain classes of users when they manage their networks, consumer groups said Monday.

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers, Science / Technology

The Washington Post

Downloading: The Next Generation: As Digital-Music Market Grows,...

Kelly is the type of person who gives music industry executives hives. She arrived at college in 2001 having never downloaded music -- illegally or otherwise -- in her life.

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Related Topix: Online Music, iPod, Media Players, Science / Technology

P2pnet.net

OneSwarm P2P 0.6.2 online

Designed to give users, "explicit control over their privacy," it's a file sharing app through which Data can be shared everywhere for everyone, only among friends, or only with specific friends.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Mon Jul 06, 2009

Globe and Mail

ISPs should prove need to control Web traffic, CRTC hears

Julian Beltrame Gatineau, Que. - Last updated on Monday, Jul. 06, 2009 05:34PM EDT T he federal regular has an obligation to Canadians to ensure efforts by Internet providers don't unjustly discriminate against certain classes of users when they manage their networks, consumer groups said Monday.

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers, Canada, Science / Technology

IEEE Security & Privacy

PrePrint: Streamline: An Optimal Distribution Algorithm for Peer-to-Peer Real-time Streaming

G. Bianchi, N Blefari Melazzi, L. Bracciale, F. Lo Piccolo, S. Salsano, "Streamline: An Optimal Distribution Algorithm for Peer-to-Peer Real-time Streaming," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems , vol.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science, Los Alamitos, CA, Italy, World News,

CBC News

The debate over internet traffic management

The federal Liberal party and the federal NDP both publicly supported the principle of net neutrality in June.

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers, Canada, Science / Technology

Sun Jul 05, 2009

680News

CRTC to look at how Internet traffic is managed to avoid congestion

How Internet service providers deal with thousands of customers using their networks will come under scrutiny by the CRTC starting this week with public hearings on their policies to manage or shape the flow of user traffic.

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers, Cable & Satellite, Rogers Communication, Telecom, Canada, Science / Technology

P2pnet.net

Apple, Pepsi and the RIAA SuperBowl scandal

P2P:- I thought the reappearance of Psystar on the Apple front was pretty funny.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Apple, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Computers, iPod, Online Music

Sat Jul 04, 2009

P2pnet.net

a No such thing as net neutralitya : II

Tom's an Australia economist and regular contributor who at one point in his life was an Internet Service Provider - an ISP.

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers, Science / Technology

Fri Jul 03, 2009

TMCnet

Man sentenced for child porn

A 30-year-old Burlington man was sentenced in federal court last week to serve several years in prison on child pornography offenses.

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Related Topix: Burlington, IA, Science / Technology

NME

Pirate Bay's new owners reveal novel business plan

The new owners of Pirate Bay have revealed an ambitious plan to run the torrent site legitimately.

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers, Science / Technology

EContent

Curtailing Unintended File Sharing May Take an Act of Congress

Gone are those innocent days at the turn of the century when the worst accusations being leveled at peer-to-peer file-sharing networks were that they facilitated the unauthorized swapping of Metallica songs among tech-savvy teenage boys.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Mary Bono, Representative Mary Bono Mack, Computers, Democrat, Bobby Rush

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Ars Technica

Judge throws book at Usenet.com in RIAA lawsuit

A federal judge yesterday found Usenet.com liable for just about every copyright infringement claim on the books: direct infringement, inducement of infringement, contributory infringement, and vicarious infringement.

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Related Topix: Usenet, DMCA News, Science / Technology

P2pnet.net

'There's no such thing as net neutrality'

I used to get a buzz out of sitting in front of the monitors and watching the MRTG graphs never peaking.

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers

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