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With the release of the Federal Communications Commission's new Internet nondiscrimination proposals , one vexing question continues to vex.

Gary Fung founded BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.com in 2003 when he was a 19-year-old student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

The legal war over Skype has ended. Skype's cofounders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, have agreed to transfer ownership of the remaining Skype technology that eBay didn't own, paving the way for eBay to complete its sale of a majority stake in Skype to an investor consortium.

It is evident from our experiences with real-world systems that, it is not uncommon to have hundreds of thousands of users trying to join a program in the first few minutes of a live broadcast.

However, maintaining media servers is not only costly but also usually requires over-provisioning due to the difficulty of predicting the peak size of an audience.

Veteran Adams Police Officer Alan C. Vigiard, 45, was arrested last week and charged with possession of child pornography.

The rumble of discontent over new iPhone carrier Orange's rather limited "unlimited" data download restrictions.

A small group of programmers plans to breathe new life into the Napster-spawned OpenNap protocol that was designed to help dejected music fans share files using similar technology after the official Napster servers blinked off.

Springer Images grid Abstract Abstract It is a challenge for the traditional centralized or hierarchical Grid architecture to manage the large-scale and dynamic resources, while providing scalability.

IEEE Explore no-tag Abstract We present the design and evaluation of PeerDB, a peer-to-peer distributed data sharing system.

The FCC's BitTorrent order "shackles" Internet service providers in their attemps to thwart online piracy, leaves network operators guessing about what reasonable network management is, undercuts the agency's own network neutrality proposal and should be vacated by the courts.

The widely used BitTorrent protocol for peer-to-peer sharing of large files has been a bandwidth bugaboo for Internet service providers for several years now - estimated to account for a quarter to a half of all Net traffic , depending on location, and held up as justification for the kind of heavy handed traffic management that got Comcast in ...

Abstract Large-scale live peer-to-peer streaming applications have been successfully deployed in today's Internet.

Nowadays, BitTorrent transfers have been worrying several internet service providers .

Abstract Although layered streaming in heterogeneous peer-to-peer networks has drawn great interest in recent years, there's still a lack of systematical studies on its data scheduling issue.

Abstract A P2PTV system allows users to watch live video streams redistributed by other users via a peer-to-peer network.

Internal investigations into the conduct of several House members have been exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach of security involving the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics.

As the battle between the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft and iiNet recommences on Monday, a law professor has told Computerworld the corporate music industry's attack on technology is giving it image problems.

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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.