Tag: PEER TO PEER

The masters of all things peer-to-peer, Torrent Freak, is reporting on a great example of BitTorrent being used for the forces of Good: distributing MechWarrior 4. It turns out that the game's central distribution server crashed last weekend when hundreds of thousands of would-be gamers tried to download a copy of the free game. MekTek's solution is simple: create a version of the game that ...

uTorrent has been the world's most popular BitTorrent app for quite some time, and today its developers announced another big milestone: version 2.0 has dropped the beta tag. While many uTorrent users haven't been shy about updating to beta or RC builds, the general public seems to prefer the reassurance of the RTM stamp. If you count yourself among that group, you'll be glad to know that you ...

While you may be familiar with Frostwire - the Gnutella app built on Limewire's open source code - you may not have heard about Frostclick before. It's an effort to give exposure to great free (legal) content like software, music, and videos which you can download, of course, using Frostwire (or your preferred client in most cases). Just over a year ago, Frostclick and Frostwire joined forces ...

Hamachi is a great app. So is VNC. Torrents are great, too. You see where I'm going. These are all great on their own - so when Remobo rolled them all in to one, tasty package, I was pretty excited. Set it up, add your buddies, and you've got an instant, private P2P network. Click the My Shared Files link and create torrents of your folders and files with two clicks. When your buddies view your ...

We've tried plenty of Gnutella clients that just aren't any good, and usually end up back with Frostwire or Limewire by default. Thankfully, Cabos has an excellent alternative for Windows and Mac users. Cabos doesn't support torrents, and it doesn't have a built in media player, but who needs that anyway? Most of us have favorite apps for handling those files anyways, and Limewire probably ...

Disruptions and unstableness aside, and hopefully never returning, Skype has released details as to what caused the massive outage on August 16 that some experienced for two days. The peer to peer network has issued a statement as to what went down. It seems that an abnormally high number of restarts after standard software updates affected resources, this caused the network to suffer and become ...

It seems like everything these days is some sort of threat to national security; Hair gel, shampoo, and now peer to peer networking. That's right, a handful of politicians are up in arms, claiming that peer to peer networks and filesharing apps are invading deep within secure government computers and allowing access to classified information by rouge nations and actors. Government Reform ...

Forget those crazy long search strings you've been using to snag Mp3s via the web using Google; G2P makes it an effortless transaction. Just point, click, type in the name of the band or song you're looking for and, presto, instant results. A few quick tests with the G2P interface show that it does find files containing the artist name, and with an extension of "mp3". The trick uses a default ...

Would you pay an additional tax on your internet connection in exchange for a world where it's illegal to wrap content with Digital Rights Management? What if that same world included the right to file-share to your hearts content with legal indemnification? TorrentFreak reports Dutch politicians are warming to the idea of abolishing DRM, taxing internet connections and distributing the proceeds ...

Part one of a documentary on the Swedish piracy movement has been released and it sheds interesting light on the attitude of the Swedish people and the pressure brought to bear by the US government upon them. For anyone who hasn't been following the raid on The Pirate Bay, or the formation of The Pirate Party (a political party whose platform includes Piracy as its main point), part one of "Steal ...

Lime Group LLC, the company behind peer to peer application LimeWire, sued today in federal court by the RIAA for damages including $150,000 per occurance of copyright infringing files. The complaint seeks damages on the grounds that LimeWire, and thus Lime Group LLC, facillitated the trade of copywritten music between users and profited as a result of LimeWire's failure to "block" copyright ...

There are tons of threatening viruses, spyware, and other yucky things out there in the world wide web. They have the powers to potentially access your computer if it is not locked down with security software, ensuring there are no kinds of intrusions and any malicious hacking going on. Is your computer protected against the many potentially dangerous things floating around the internet? Do you ...

Kazaa doesn't shine as brightly as it once did among the stars of p2p download services, but the venerable name in illegal downloads today announced, through a settlement with the International Federation of the Phonographic Industries (IFPI), that it will immediately become a legitimate download service. The settlement also lays out a one-time $100 million dollar payment to the IFPI for damages ...