Mixx: p2p

SEC Outlines Its Reasoning For Shutting Down P2P Lender Prosper

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:44:27 +0000

Last month, peer-to-peer lender Prosper stopped all new lending on its site because of scrutiny by the SEC. Prosper agreed to register under ...

Adwords for P2P, Advertising Opportunity or Spamming Tool?

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:28:23 +0000

This year, several companies launched advertising programs targeted at the millions of users of Limewire and other Gnutella or eD2k based filesharing applications. The boundary between advertisement and plain old spam is completely disappearing, especiall

Verizon takes up the CDN gauntlet

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:26:08 +0000

Responding to similar moves from AT&T and Level 3, Verizon Business has announced plans for its own content delivery networking services.

How Can So Much Spam Come from One Place?

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:20:56 +0000

Security experts worry that botnet creators will learn from the experience and make key changes to improve the security, stealth and resiliency of their herds.

The Pirate Bay Sees Traffic and Peers Surge

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:32:24 +0000

Only a few days before the largest BitTorrent tracker will celebrate its 5th anniversary, the Pirate Bay reached a new milestone. The site now tracks 25 million peers...

China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:52:04 +0000

Several reports came in from China, indicating that popular BitTorrent sites such as Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay had been hijacked. The sites became inaccessible, instead redirecting to the leading Chinese search engine Baidu.

Windows 7 pre-beta hits BitTorrent

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:23:41 +0000

Thousands of enthusiasts around the world are downloading the version from BitTorrent sites like The Pirate Bay and Mininova. And they're not shy about offering their opinions. Read this blog post by Suzanne Tindal on Microsoft.

Piracy

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:22:05 +0000

True.

P2P Downloading Comes to the iPhone with MewSeek - ReadWriteWeb

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:31:01 +0000

The iPhone is one of the few phones that can offer its owners a lot of flexibility and features. With the App Store, iPhone owners have numerous applications at their disposal to get just about any job done.

What are torrents and how to use them

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:28:03 +0000

Torrents send people running for the hills; to most its too complicated, too slow. The truth is, it is complicated, but once you have everything going, its like opening the doors to file sharing heaven.