Peer-To-Peer Blamed For Revenue Loss From Software Companies

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"The victory by Kazaa creates an
important precedent for the legality of
peer-to-peer software

"The victory by Kazaa creates an
important precedent for the legality of
peer-to-peer software 12/20/2003 06:24 AM
Dutch courts say Kazaa not responsible for what user's do on it's network .. has ruled

news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=575&u=/nm/20031219/wr_nm/m edia_kazaa_dc_6&printer=1
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Microsoft Solutions for Small and Medium
Business: Peer-to-Peer Networking with
Windows XP

Microsoft Solutions for Small and Medium
Business: Peer-to-Peer Networking with
Windows XP 07/19/2004 11:14 AM

Peer-To-Peer Group Unveils
Anti-Pedophile Measure (Reuters)

Peer-To-Peer Group Unveils
Anti-Pedophile Measure (Reuters) 05/06/2004 04:05 PM
Reuters - Internet file-trading networks on Thursday unveiled a new approach to fighting child pornography as they came under a new round of criticism from the U.S. Congress.

US federal court exempts peer-to-peer
clients from copyright liability

US federal court exempts peer-to-peer
clients from copyright liability 08/21/2004 11:25 AM

After months of hearings and consideration , the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that makers of peer-to-peer computer software (" P2P ") are not liabile for damages concerning copyright infrigement.

The decision hewed to the 1984 Sony v. Betamax ruling , which exempted videocassette recorder makers from copyright infringement, arguing that a tool isn't necessarily dangerous if some of its uses are actionable. Instead the court recommended that intellectual property owners pursue individual infringers. Additionally, defenders of the p2p software argued that the decision preserves privacy rights for users.

Ubersite - Exploiting Peer-to-Peer
Networking: I have lost all faith in
humanity.

Ubersite - Exploiting Peer-to-Peer
Networking: I have lost all faith in
humanity. 04/11/2004 02:38 PM
Ubersite - Exploiting Peer-to-Peer Networking: I have lost all faith in humanity

ubersite.com/m/29438
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Internet Security Systems: Risk exposure
- instant messaging and peer-to-peer
networks v2.0

Internet Security Systems: Risk exposure
- instant messaging and peer-to-peer
networks v2.0 11/04/2003 03:05 AM
Computer Weekly Nov 3 2003 9:46PM ET

Prodigem Inc. Kicks Off New Peer-To-Peer
Content Marketplace with Movie Shot in
High Definition

Prodigem Inc. Kicks Off New Peer-To-Peer
Content Marketplace with Movie Shot in
High Definition 04/14/2005 02:12 AM
Prodigem, a leader in providing legal bit torrent downloads, today announced the availability for purchase of the docudrama "On Our Way Up" shot in stunning high definition. [PRWEB Apr 14, 2005]

Modeling and Performance Analysis of
BitTorrent-Like Peer-to-Peer Networks.

Modeling and Performance Analysis of
BitTorrent-Like Peer-to-Peer Networks. 09/09/2004 10:06 PM
Dongyu Qiu, R. Srikant: Modeling and Performance Analysis of BitTorrent-Like Peer-to-Peer Networks.

International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer
Knowledge Management (P2PKM)

International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer
Knowledge Management (P2PKM) 06/04/2004 05:53 AM
International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management (P2PKM)
http://www.p2pkm.org/

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing has received significant attention from the side of research labs and academia, largely due to the popularity of commercialized P2P file sharing applications such as Napster, Morpheus and KaZaa. In the P2P model, peers exchange data and/or services in completely decentralized distributed manner. Peers are autonomous, and are free to choose what other peers to interact with, and, in this point-to-point interaction, peers possess equal functional capabilities.

On the other hand, Knowledge Management (KM) is increasingly viewed as a core capacity in order to compete in the modern social and economic environment. Researchers and practitioners agree that those intellectual assets that are embedded in working practices, social relationships, and technological artefacts constitute the only source of value that can sustain long term differentiation, quality of services, innovation, and adaptability. Nonetheless, even due to a debatable success of current KM implementations, still unclear is how such matter should be managed in highly complex, distributed, and heterogeneous settings.

In the last couple of years, P2P and KM have followed different but converging paths. In fact, P2P technologies have left their initial “computational”, “anarchoyd”, and spontaneous fashion to embrace more service level domains and business settings. On the other hand, KM is questioning its centralized assumption based on the implicit belief that knowledge is managed successfully when it can be standardized and controlled. In this sense, it seems that while P2P is looking for value added domains to better exploit its technological potential, KM is looking for a technological paradigm more able to fit an emerging distributed organization of knowledge.

The convergence of P2P and KM creates new challenges for researchers to address: new methodologies to model, design, and deploy distributed KM solutions; theories and algorithms to represent the social and semantic dimensions of a knowledge network; mechanisms to cope with the dynamic autonomous nature of P2P and to provide means to support emergent network self-organization.

This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Tech.gov: Supreme Court Standards for
Peer-to-Peer and Beyond (PC World)

Tech.gov: Supreme Court Standards for
Peer-to-Peer and Beyond (PC World) 04/12/2005 03:22 AM
PC World - The upcoming ruling on copyright infringement in P-to-P networks will have important implications for future technology development.

Scott G (The G-Man) Credits Peer-to-Peer
Filesharing with Launching His Career

Scott G (The G-Man) Credits Peer-to-Peer
Filesharing with Launching His Career 03/22/2005 04:55 PM
In view of the upcoming Supreme Court hearing in the landmark MGM vs. Grokster lawsuit, it is more important than ever to consider the case of Scott G (The G-Man), who began with a self-released album and got signed, got on iTunes, and launched his own music production company, all by initially giving his music away for free via P2P. [PRWEB Mar 21, 2005]

Piercing the peer–to–peer
myths: An examination of the Canadian
experience

Piercing the peer–to–peer
myths: An examination of the Canadian
experience 04/11/2005 05:58 AM
Piercing the peer-to-peer myths: An examination of the Canadian experience

firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_4/geist
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Weed Music - 96Decibels.com Launches
"Send a Song" a Peer to Peer Email
Marketing Channel for Musicians and
Labels

Weed Music - 96Decibels.com Launches
"Send a Song" a Peer to Peer Email
Marketing Channel for Musicians and
Labels 04/01/2005 03:44 AM
While the media watches Streamcast (Grokster, Morpheus) defend itself in court from the legal wranglings of the major entertainment industry players, a new breed of file sharer is emerging. This file sharer actually owns the right to redistribute the artists music and in so doing is rewarded for the effort � completely legal and even encouraged by the artists and their labels. [PRWEB Apr 1, 2005]

FreeScience: Peer-to-Peer Scientific
Digital Libra...

FreeScience: Peer-to-Peer Scientific
Digital Libra... 03/23/2005 07:28 AM

FreeScience: Peer-to-Peer Scientific Digital Library

The Second Workshop on Semantics in
Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing

The Second Workshop on Semantics in
Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing 01/07/2004 03:02 PM
The Second Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing
http://www.isi.edu/~hon gsuda/SemPGRID04

2nd Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing at the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference 17-18 May 2004, New York, USA in cooperation with the GGF Semantic Grid Research Group (SEM-GRD)

The Semantic Web is widely accepted as a means to enhance the Web with machine processable content. However, mostly the Semantic Web is aiming at techniques and technologies for static information, in contrast to dynamic services or distributed computing. Several interest groups and efforts are working on infrastructure for enabling distributed computing. The organization of these efforts are in part top down organized efforts, involving multiple formal organizations and dedicated projects, and bottom-up efforts, sometimes started by single organizations or individuals in a grassroots effort.

The Grid is aiming at technologies which allow the flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources, enabling virtual organizations. Problems encountered include authentication, authorization, resource access, resource discovery, and interoperation of active services. The same problems are eminent in the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) area, where projects are typically organized in a bottom-up fashion. Reusable infrastructures like SUN's JXTA are emerging, attracting numerous applications. However, each application uses its own data format, and it is hard to see how applications interoperate.

A related area is Web Services: driven by industry efforts numerous specifications are developed, which are of interest for the Grid projects as well as for the Peer-to-Peer efforts. Although there is an agreement that Web Services would benefit from more semantics, little systematic research has been done on the problem of how to combine the notions of Web Services with the results of the Semantic Web, Peer-to-Peer and Grid computing.

The workshop will be organized in part around talks presenting research results in the intersection of the Semantic Web, P2P and Grid computing. Another important part of the workshop will be break-out groups, focusing on the amalgamation of Semantic Web and distributed computing. We hope the break-out groups will evolve into independent working groups and generate follow-up activities, which contribute to the technology areas. The proceedings will be published on the Web and a workshop report will summarize the outcome of the break out groups.

Berklee Encourages Peer to Peer Music
Trading

Berklee Encourages Peer to Peer Music
Trading 11/12/2003 06:53 PM

Query for Peer to Peer (P2P) File
Sharing Utilities

Query for Peer to Peer (P2P) File
Sharing Utilities 06/14/2004 11:20 AM

FreeScience - Peer to Peer Scientific
Digital Library

FreeScience - Peer to Peer Scientific
Digital Library 03/23/2005 07:28 AM
FreeScience - Peer to Peer Scientific Digital Library
http://www.b daweb.net/freescience_learnmore_it.php

Allows any researcher to share his scientific papers (as well as notes, data and designs draws, ecc...) into a P2P OAI-PMH compliant network, by mean of which your works will be instantly available to hundred of thousands researchers worldwide. You can also browse the huge OAI archive (about 1 million of documents from the best research institutes) and download the full text for free. Furthermore, the FREESCIENCE software is completely free, as is access to documents in the BdA network. FREESCIENCE offers three domains of action: 1) Search and download of full-text scientific one million plus documents, 2) Sharing of your own documents in the OAI network with over one hundred thousand researchers, and 3) Direct communication and science community with instant messaging or text conferencing. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This will be added to Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources white paper annotated link compilation.

Preserving peer-to-peer networks is
essential

Preserving peer-to-peer networks is
essential 02/10/2004 02:46 AM
SiliconValley.com Feb 4 2004 12:00PM GMT

Indie Artists Support Peer To Peer

Indie Artists Support Peer To Peer 03/25/2005 05:12 PM

"Howard Dean = Peer-to-peer Networking"

"Howard Dean = Peer-to-peer Networking" 12/21/2003 09:28 PM

Peer-to-peer actually increasing record
sales?

Peer-to-peer actually increasing record
sales? 07/22/2004 04:45 AM
A new study suggests that Peer-to-peer music sharing has zero impact in record sales, and in some cases it may even be positive, says T he Guardian. Not completely unsurprisingly, the music industry is now really pissed off at even the mere suggestion.

To me it makes sense: I have bought several CDs just simply because a friend recommended something to me, and then sent me the MP3. Then I just rip the CD to Ogg Vorbis and dump it in iTunes... I actually never listen to the physical CD these days anymore; most of the CDs are used just once to get the data onto a hard drive. But I still keep the CDs as backups.

My digital music collection is my music collection. My CDs are my backups. I don't even have to burn them.

(And BTW: My CD player refuses to play about 10% of all the CDs I've tried on it lately. But my PC can rip 100% of them. So it's easier for me to actually rip the music than it's to play them on my ancient DVD player. So much for "copy" protection.)

(Via #joiito)

Study: Fewer Using Peer-To-Peer Systems

Study: Fewer Using Peer-To-Peer Systems 03/23/2005 11:01 PM
AP via Newsday Mar 24 2005 3:25AM GMT

Mac version of peer-to-peer telephony
app planned

Mac version of peer-to-peer telephony
app planned 05/26/2004 10:18 AM
Popular Telephony, a telecommunications middleware company, has announced Peerio444 -- a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) consumer application...

Interesting concept: peer-to-peer DVD
rentals

Interesting concept: peer-to-peer DVD
rentals 07/02/2004 01:21 AM
I haven’t had a chance to really look into this, but I stumbled across an original concept at http://www.peerflix.com. It’s difficult to tell how much it will be successful, given the inevitable reluctance that people are going to have to share their precious DVDs with others. Still, you have ...

States Threaten Peer-to-Peer Sites

States Threaten Peer-to-Peer Sites 08/06/2004 09:50 AM
Several states are cracking down on peer-to-peer sites as hotbeds of illegal file-trading. Attorneys general from 47 U.S. states and territories have sent a letter out to P-to-P software vendors, saying they must re-engineer their software to prevent illegal file-trading do a better job of warning users of the dangers of trading illegal files. This action follows on news earlier this year that the states might get involved in the P-to-P fight.

The letter, signed by the attorneys general of California, Texas, Florida, and many others, calls for P-to-P vendors to also warn users about the amount of pornography traded through P-to-P software, including child pornography. "P2P users need to be made aware that they are exposing themselves, and their children, to widespread availability of pornographic material when they download and install P2P file-sharing programs on their computers," the letter says.

News source: PCWorld.com

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2get - Peer to peer file sharing

2get - Peer to peer file sharing 11/03/2003 07:46 AM
2get 1.7.5 Released

HiChat Peer-to-Peer Chat Client

HiChat Peer-to-Peer Chat Client 05/27/2004 06:17 PM
HiChat Development Started

Small Company Has Big Peer-To-Peer
Dreams (AP)

Small Company Has Big Peer-To-Peer
Dreams (AP) 12/19/2004 02:58 PM
AP - Record labels typically view peer-to-peer networks like pirate ships — plundering their profits through illegal song swaps. They have sued the networks. They have sued file-sharers. Now this ironic twist: Record companies are hopping aboard a new generation of paid peer-to-peer networks.

Howard Dean = Peer-to-peer Networking

Howard Dean = Peer-to-peer Networking 12/21/2003 08:35 AM
Napster Runs for President in 2004 .. New York Times .. gets it

nytimes.com/2003/12/21/arts/21RICH.html
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Groove should do wonders for
peer-to-peer computing

Groove should do wonders for
peer-to-peer computing 06/11/2004 11:17 AM
Groove is hard to pigeonhole, because it has so many useful attributes. It's a collaboration tool for small groups of people who work at the edge of large enterprises -- the people who do the real work -- and across organizations. It's a tool for families and friends who want to communicate more easily and efficiently. It's instant-messaging on steroids. And that's just for starters. -- Dan Gillmor

Interview with Jack Ozzie.

Study: Fewer Using Peer-To-Peer Systems
(AP)

Study: Fewer Using Peer-To-Peer Systems
(AP) 03/24/2005 12:18 AM
AP - Use of peer-to-peer systems like Kazaa for sharing music and other files online has dropped as more Americans who use the Internet turn to such alternative methods as downloading files from a friend's iPod, a new study finds.

Viruses turn to peer-to-peer nets

Viruses turn to peer-to-peer nets 01/22/2004 03:12 AM
Custom created peer-to-peer networks are finding favour with some computer virus writers.

DARPA looks to peer-to-peer networking
as the future

DARPA looks to peer-to-peer networking
as the future 04/29/2004 01:28 PM
While WiFi is all the rage these days, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking elsewhere for the wave of the future: peer-to-peer networks.

WideSource - Peer to Peer Search Engine

WideSource - Peer to Peer Search Engine 08/28/2004 06:18 AM
WideSource - Peer to Peer Search Engine
http://www.widesource.com/

Widesource peer to peer sharing program features a powerful search engine to find web pages on the Internet. The search engine includes multiple criteria to enhance search quality, such as page size, opinion, date, language, keywords, connection speed, and other specifications. Other features of Widesource include bookmarks management, fast search on internet or in your own bookmarks, usefull macros, browsing other users bookmarks,password-protection and access restriction (on IP mask or name), a friends list, new version notification, wordwide chat, connected people list, user-friendly graphical interface, future availability of skins, and more. The program runs as a convenient icon in the System Tray area of the Windows taskbar. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and the search engine section of all the Internet MiniGuides 2004-05.

EFF "Intellectual Property -
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) - MGM, Leiber, NMPA,
et al. v. Grokster, MusicCity &
Kazaa" Archive

EFF "Intellectual Property -
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) - MGM, Leiber, NMPA,
et al. v. Grokster, MusicCity &
Kazaa" Archive 04/09/2005 08:00 AM
Grokster and Streamcast against the law suit brought by MGM .. Electronic Frontier Foundation .. MGM v. Grokster et al .. EFF document library .. the EFF's page .. EFF case archive .. crisis

eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster
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Reaping Profit From Peer-to-Peer

Reaping Profit From Peer-to-Peer 12/12/2003 06:48 AM
A consortium of music and software companies hopes to find ways to make money from Internet file sharing. The Content Reference Forum formed in March to develop a universal way to distribute digital content.

2.5 years ago: peer-to-peer journalism

2.5 years ago: peer-to-peer journalism 09/20/2004 03:13 PM
i haven't seen a whole lot of new thinking since this thread

Peer To Peer VoIP In The Enterprise?

Peer To Peer VoIP In The Enterprise? 05/20/2004 09:47 PM
There are plenty of software based VoIP offerings out there, but Skype really seemed to catch on quickly, in part due to its founder's pedigree as the creator of Kazaa. It also works pretty well and is easy to set up and use. While Skype received a lot of press coverage this week for announcing that they'll officially allow their system to call out to the regular phone system at some point in the future, this seemed like non-news. They'd said from the very beginning they were planning on doing this, so when it actually happens, it will be news. In the meantime, it looks like there's some more competition coming for them. One aspect of Skype that doesn't get very much coverage is the fact that it leverages P2P technology - sending your voice packets through other users' machines. Another company, Popular Telephony, is getting ready to launch their own, similar solution that also relies on P2P technology for voice calls. They're going to offer a free consumer version that will have all sorts of extras like voice mail, call waiting, call hold, and call transfer. They also promise to remain spyware and adware free (which we recently noted seems to be a new marketi ng "feature"). Their plan to make money, however, is where it gets more interesting. They will use that free version to build buzz for their enterprise middleware - which uses the same basic technology, but can be built into different kinds of terminal devices (IP telephones, PDAs, etc.). The focus for this technology is on the enterprise market, with the pitch being that a corporation can set up a phone network without needing central telephony servers. Of course, this is also likely to scare the heck out of most IT professionals when they realize this is because all their voice traffic is traveling through many other computers just "out there on the internet" using P2P technology. While, like Skype, I'm sure they have a good encryption story, it's still likely to be a difficult sell into many companies. There is also the quality of service issue, which has held back VoIP in the past in corporate settings. While setting up your own VoIP system gives you some level of control, relying on random connections and random machines may (rightfully) scare many companies.
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