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So what can be said about the year 2008 in file-sharing? Its been a long year for the P2P community. While there were no earth shattering events on the scale of 2006s raid on The Pirate Bay, there were enough developments that kept things intere
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When people discuss quality newsgroup servers, Giganews and Astraweb are usually the focus of conversation. Giganews is well known for its high level of retention and rock solid service. Retention is the measure of time that an article stays on a
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Giganews, the largest gateway to Usenet, or the newsgroups, has reported "unprecedented growth" in the last year. The newsgroups are one of the oldest mediums of the Internet, with an existence dating back to the late 1970s. Over time, the newsgro
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Imagine you just got done reading about BitTorrent and all the wonderful things that it can provide. Hey, maybe you even want to just use the Vuze content store. Or perhaps there are a few creative commons movies that struck your interest. Wouldn
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Let's say someone told you that Shareaza was being sued by the music industry. No big surprise, right? Now let's say you just read that Vuze was being sued. Not terribly surprising either; unfortunately this is the technologically oppressive envi
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There are quite a few interesting developments happening over at BitTorrent. We already discussed the departure of President and co-founder Ashwin Navin, who provided amongst other things, an identity to the company. As BitTorrent seeks a new iden
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Since the RIAA began pursuing file-sharers in mid-2003, several remarkable transformations have occurred in the P2P world. Over the course of the last five years, an untold number of individuals have received monetary demands from the RIAA. Like P
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It's the new LimeWire - that's right, the Gnutella application that has managed to survive and prosper since the beginning of this decade. LimeWire launched in 2000, not too long after the launch of Napster. Eight years later, LimeWire is still he
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BREIN has apparently taken down no fewer than 75 Dutch based BitTorrent sites, as reported in their press release today. The 72 sites were part of an elaborate hierarchy and made money from preferential treatment related to donations. With BREIN o
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It seems that BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy organization, is on a roll as it has announced the take down of Sparta. In November of this year, BREIN announced the shut down of a large Top Site named TV Land. BREIN accused TV Land of providing 45 ter
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