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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.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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