ISP lawyers pull the plug on isoHunt
The longtime search-engine staple of the BitTorrent community gets shut down after it’s ISP’s lawyers call it quits.
Around since the earliest days of BitTorrent tracker sites, isoHunt has been elude the legal might of the RIAA and the MPAA up until yesterday it seems.
The subject of a lawsuit by the MPAA since last February, [...]
Why won’t ISPs increase upload speeds?
It may be that the fears of phone and cable company IPSs that increased internet connectivity will reduce people’s need for their other services is what is holding them back from increasing uploads speeds for a truly symmetric system.
As the internet becomes more and more interactive, i.e. Web 2.0, the need for users to share [...]
Danish court tells ISP to block access to AllofMP3.com
AllofMP3 suffered yet another setback as a Danish court ruled that an ISP must block access to the Russian music site. The ruling only covers one ISP (Tele2) in one country, but the ruling will certainly set the stage for more lawsuits as the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry believes it has developed another [...]
FBI Director Asking ISPs To Track Users
What is this world coming to? Microsoft wants to track us via a new OS and keep tabs on registration activities, virus protection and more…and now, now the FBI is asking our ISP services to keep tabs on our travels along the internet by recording our private moves.
I’m against this. I feel my [...]
Exetel to Cut P2P Traffic by 50%
Exetel, the Australian ISP, has decided to begin a program of “de-prioritizing” P2P traffic and restrict the amount of bandwidth allocated to such users by 50%. Taking an aggregate of all the bandwidth users of file-sharing software could theoretically use from noon to midnight each day, Exetel then intends to restrict this amount and reduce [...]
ISPs fight against encrypted BitTorrent downloads
The advent of BitTorrent was a cause for celebration for people who wished to share large files very quickly, but Internet Service Providers did not see the technology in quite the same positive light. ISPs soon found that the majority of their bandwidth was taken up with BitTorrent traffic, and some, like Canadian provider Shaw, [...]
Cable firm loses court case over file swapping
A Dutch judge told cable operator and Internet broadband provider UPC, a unit of Liberty Global, on Thursday to give the name and address of one its clients to an anti-piracy agency.
The result is a breakthrough for Dutch copyright holders interest group Brein, which has long tried to gain access to names and addresses of [...]
ESPN charging ISPs to carry ESPN360
As broadband becomes commonplace in most homes across America, television networks have boosted their online video offerings and made paid content available for free in many cases. ESPN is taking a different approach to ESPN360, its online video offering, charging Internet service providers (subscription required) for the right to carry the service.
ESPN’s attempt to get [...]
RIAA Will Drop Cases If You Point Out That An IP Address Isn’t A Person
For years, the RIAA has claimed that having the IP address of a computer that has shared unauthorized files is the equivalent of having the evidence of who was actually sharing files. That, of course, is false. The IP address simply can help you know who paid for the internet access, but not who was [...]
India bloggers angry at net ban
India’s burgeoning blogging community is up in arms against a government directive that they say has led to the blocking of their web logs.
The country’s 153 internet service providers (ISP) have blocked 17 websites since last week on federal government orders.
Some of these sites belong to Google’s Blogspot, a leading international web log hosting service.
Indian [...]
