Is Your ISP Throttling You?
That’s the question that more and more people are asking after Comcast and then others have been caught interfering with customers net connections by sending false reset packets to both sides of a bittorrent transfer.
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NC Judge Taking Fresh Look At RIAA Subpoenas
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Looks like the RIAA is going to take another loss because of it’s tactics. Recently some students at North Carolina State brought to the attention of the court the illegal nature of the investigations the RIAA has been conducting through unlicensed investigators (can you say mediasentry scandal?)
Now, the judge who [...]
Arguments For P2P Throttling Falling Apart
Bell was recently required to release some of it’s data that was supposed to prove how torrents and P2P in general was causing so much network congestion that it was necessary to throttle P2P connections to keep it under control
RIAA Gets Greedier
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Ars Technica has a report about the latest RIAA strategy to get people to pay up instead of fighting the lawsuits. Now, students who feel (I dare say rightly so in most cases) that they’re being bullied by the RIAA in one of their many copyright infringement suits, had better [...]
RIAA Stopped By Judge Refusing Ex Parte Discovery Order
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That case where University of Maine students are going up against the RIAA is getting interesting. The RIAA submitted another of the ex parte (”ex parte” is legalese for “without notice”) discovery orders that they’re famous for. This time however the judge refused to go along with it saying:
I [...]
Cubit, A P2P Search Tool
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Cornell University has come up with an Azureus Plugin called “Cubit” that I think is one of the first such that will give the ability for it to handle “decentralized approximate keyword search capabilities”.
This means that Azureus users would be able to search torrents currently available on the network. This [...]
NBC And The Broadcast Flag
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I’m behind on my Slashdot reading again. I just now came across the article about NBC turing on the broadcast flag on certain programs. By doing this, then programs like Windows Media Player and other software (and hardware!) that honor this flag which means it is no longer [...]
Is Your ISP Blocking BitTorrent
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There’s an article on PC World that’s worth reading if you think that your ISP might be interfering with your ability to use BitTorrent applications.
They refer to a couple of tools, one called Glasnost and another from EFF called pcapdiff that they developed to allow people to identify potentially forged, dropped, [...]
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Declare Piracy ‘Detrimental to the Public Health, Safety’
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That’s right. The Los Angeles county board of supervisors has taken anti-piracy efforts and jacked them up on bodybuilding supplements, creating a monstrosity of a legal situation.
This is going to allow them to close down a property for up to one year for violations of this anti-infringement ordinance and the [...]
MediaSentry Violates Cease And Desist Order
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Back on January 8, the Massachusetts State Police ordered the RIAA’s investigator, MediaSentry, to stop conducting investigations in their state without a license. Now it turns out that they’re in violation of that order.
To say the very least, this kind of thing is going to punch some major gaping holes [...]
