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Cell-Tracking Bills Require Info Dump for Missing Persons
Mobile phone companies would have to immediately turn over location data to emergency responders to help them quickly track missing persons, if any one of the four bills floating in the House get traction. The law already allows, but does not automatically require, phone companies to turn over ping data from cell towers in emergency situations absent court warrants. The proposals would require telcos to promptly hand over the information if authorities tell them that harm or death are imminent.
Continue reading »TorrentFreak TV Season 2 Kicks Off
TorrentFreak TV covers some of the best, most interesting or remarkable stories from the wonderful world of file-sharing. An HD version of this episode is available on Mininova . As always, we’re looking forward to your commentary.
Continue reading »GoalBit: P2P Streaming Goes Open Source
Bandwidth-conscious broadcasters have a new way to distribute their live video streams. A group of Uruguay-based P2P researchers recently released the first English-language version of their open-source P2P streaming application, GoalBit. The application, which is based on a BitTorrent-like architecture, aims to compete with P2P streaming services like PPLive and PPStream by giving anyone looking to distribute their own live video programming a way to do so.
Continue reading »Start-up problems
Hi all: I’m having a bit of difficulty getting rolling, today. Out-of-the-blue hardware problems. Proper sites have people to take care f these things.
Continue reading »Comment posts temporarily on hold
Hi all: Because of a technical problem I can’t fix by myself, I’m having to temporarily suspend comment posts. However, they’re being queued and when the problem is fixed, they’ll show up under the appropriate stories. Reader’s Writes are an integral part of p2pnet and I’m sorry about this.
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