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P2P responsible for 19 percent of global mobile data traffic
P2P is responsible for 19 percent of the traffic on global mobile data networks, according to a new report from network management vendor Allot Communications that my colleague Stacey Higginbotham is covering in depth over at Gigaom.com . Just for comparison’s sake: YouTube is causing 10 percent of the traffic on those networks, and actually 32 percent of all HTTP-based streaming traffic. Does that mean that the blame game for congested 3G networks will finally shift from P2P to, well, everyone else?
Continue reading »The Pirate Bay Will Not Appeal Order to Remove Torrents
In an attempt to ensure that Dutch citizens can’t access The Pirate Bay, anti-piracy outfit BREIN took three of the tracker’s founders to court this summer. BREIN won the case and Fredrik, Gottfrid and Peter were ordered to block Dutch users, a decision they decided to appeal. In the verdict of the initial appeal, the Court ruled that The Pirate Bay has to remove a list of torrents linking to copyrighted works.
Continue reading »‘Stopping the ACTA juggernaut’
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “The ACTA juggernaut continues to roll ahead, despite public indignation about an agreement supposedly about counterfeiting that has turned into a regime for global Internet regulation,” writes EFF international affairs director Eddan Katz in Deep Links . “The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has already announced that the next round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations will take place in January — with the aim of concluding the deal ‘as soon as possible in 2010′,” h says, continuing »»» For the rest of us, with access to only leaks and whispers of what ACTA is about , there are many troubling questions. How can such a radical proposal legally be kept so secret from the millions of Net users and companies whose rights and freedoms stand to be affected ?
Continue reading »LimeWire Rethinking Marketing Strategy
According to a LimeWire press release , the company has made some changes in their team hiring two new important names – John Pavley as Vice President of Engineering and Shoshana Winter as Vice President of Marketing. Pavley surely has an impressive professional background – Before joining Limewire, he worked for Conductor, Inc., as Chief Technology Officer, an before that he was Chief Technology Officer of ContextWeb, a company that offers real-time contextual advertising solutions to capitalize on online advertising results. For a period of time Pavley also tried his skills at Yahoo! Search Marketing as VP Business Systems Engineering.
Continue reading »Linewire hires contextual ad veteran, doubles down on ad strategy
Limewire announced two new hires today : John Pavley is joining the company as VP of egineering and Shoshana Winter as VP of marketing. Winter is one of the co-founders of the pioneering social networking site Six Degrees, which in itself is pretty interesting, but the hire of Pavley should be a real eye opener. Here’s a quick bio from the company’s press release: “Pavley comes to Lime Wire from Conductor, Inc., where as Chief Technology Officer, he led R&D, Development, Technical Operations, and IT for the company.
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