P2P

Verizon Set To Speedup P2P File Sharing

March 14, 2008

Hot on the heels of Piracy Surcharge on ISPs proposed by Music Industry Verizon Communications Inc. has broken ranks with the industry and is set to announce Friday that it plans to help its users share files faster – at least those who do it legally. With researchers at Yale University and a group of [...]

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Piracy Surcharge on ISPs proposed by Music Industry

March 14, 2008

The industry’s anti piracy efforts appear to be futile, failure to stop piracy by suing Internet users, digital rights management all but abandoned. But wait, now the music industry is considering a file sharing surcharge, per user per month, that Internet Service Providers collect from users. This would be used to compensate songwriters, performers, publishers [...]

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MySpace/Quicktime Worm/Zango

December 4, 2006

From the spywareguide.com blog. A while ago on the Spywareguide Blog, I covered a technique being used in Peer to Peer land involving URLs being embedded in Quicktime movies, which would then pop open a website. This has now been taken to the next level, with an intensive and seemingly never ending Phish attack, the [...]

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3,500 charged with illegal music sharing

May 24, 2006

Germany nabs 3,500 in file-sharer sweep Investigators charge eDonkey network users with illegal music sharing Info World By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service May 23, 2006 German investigators charged 3,500 people with illegal music sharing, in the biggest single sweep of its kind, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said Tuesday. German authorities [...]

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Trojan Erazer-A Spreading across P2P networks

May 17, 2006

The Register Vigilante malware By John Leyden Published Wednesday 17th May 2006 11:57 GMT Virus writers have created a Trojan that deletes illicit files from compromised Windows PCs in addition to harvesting data from infected machines. Erazer-A is spreading (albeit modestly) across P2P networks, where it poses as useful program files, or through chat programs. [...]

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ISPs ordered to hand over file-sharer details

January 31, 2006

Published: Tuesday 31 January 2006 By Andy McCue The High Court has ordered 10 ISPs to hand over the customer details of 150 individuals accused of illegally sharing and downloading desktop software on the web. The illegal file-sharers were identified after a 12-month covert investigation by the Federation Against Software Theft (Fast), called Operation Tracker. [...]

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File Sharing (P2P)

January 30, 2006

Revision. Many users we see in the forums, requesting assistance for malware removal, have a P2P (file sharing) program installed. If you insist on using a P2P Client please configure and use it in a safe manner and make sure your security programs are up to date. The P2P program itself is often the cause [...]

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