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Among the entities that use BitTorrent are NASA, Red Hat Fedora, NetBSD and ironically Time-Warner
Judge Slams RIAA, $675k Fine Ruled Unconstitutional
July 09, 2010 Another break happened today in the RIAA’s case against Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum, as the $675k fine was reduced by 90%. The judge in the case criticised the RIAA and held that the jury’s damages were unconstitutional. Even the reduced fine is described as “severe, even harsh” by the District Judge. Reducing the jury’s $675,000 award, however, also sends another no less important message: The Due Process Clause does not merely protect large corporations, like BMW and State Farm, from grossly excessive punitive awards. It also protects ordinary people like Joel Tenenbaum.
ISPs Don’t Have To Block The Pirate Bay, Court Rules
July 10, 2010 Two ISPs have won their court battle against an anti-piracy group which had demanded that they block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay. Yesterday a judge at the Antwerp Commercial Court rejected the blocking demands and labeled them “disproportionate”. The Belgian Anti-Piracy Federation has reacted angrily, accusing the ISPs of siding with The Pirate Bay.
Pirate Bay and MegaUpload Escape Domain Seizure by US
July 07, 2010
As part of an initiative to crack down on Internet piracy and counterfeiting, the US Government recently took action against sites making available movies and TV shows. Arrests did not feature in the action, but controversially the authorities seized site domain names instead. TorrentFreak has learned that both The Pirate Bay and MegaUpload domains were also on the target list.
May 2010 BitTorrent has decided to open source its new uTorrent protocol, which has now entered a public beta. The software is available at GitHub and the license can be viewed here. Reportedly this is the MIT License. BitTorrent has decided to open source its new uTorrent protocol, which has now entered a public beta. The new software supports streaming as files are downloading, by downloading portions of a file in order. The software also has features ISPs might like. It’s more aware of congestion [1], and will automatically rein itself in. This dynamic throttling capability may make some downloads slower, but Ars Technica notes [2] uTorrent will also grab 100% of available bandwidth when that’s available, so some might be faster.
Should ISPs (including the university in its role as an ISP for faculty, staff, and students) have the responsbility for proactively blocking illegal traffic? If so, how can they distinguish between, say, a stolen Time-Warner movie and the legitimate copy that's being redistributed via BitTorrent at Time-Warner's explicit request?
Do we give up one of the fundamental tenets of the Internet architeture, the notion that endpoints determine what traffic flows, rather than the center? In this regard, it is worth remembering that the three most radical Internet innovations -- the Web, Napster, and Skype -- came not from ISPs, "official" standards bodies (i.e., the IETF or the ITU), or major research labs or universities, but from the edges of the Net. (Yes, I know that CERN is a major research lab, but for physics!)" ~ Steve Bellovin
At PCPS we use both WinGuardian and Fortress to prevent students from installing or deleting software on our public access systems.
- First, I install Windows 95 Custom to insure that I pick the componants I desire. If you are purchasing Dell's Windows will come pre-installed. Go to the Control Panel Add/Remove Programs and check the installation componants, adding the ones you want and deleting the ones you don't.
- Second, I use TweakUI, to set up the desktop and other options the way I want.
- Third, I install all of the application software and set-up the defaults the way I want them.
- Fourth, I use PolEdit from the MicroSoft PowerToys to set various policies for my users.
- Fifth, I use regedit to make an export copy of the Current_User/Software and Local_Machine /Software keys. This creates two files with a *.reg name. When a student changes the software setting double-click on the two *.reg files and back to default.
Please note that unless you disable Password caching every user & set the Password profile to every user uses the same profile, they will get a copy of the desktop, start menu & registry in their profile directory.
- Sixth, I install either WinGuardian or Fortress, (different departments wanted different protection schemes) and set the protection policies needed.
- Seventh, I use Ghost to copy the hard drive of the standard system to all of the others. I keep the one standard system for testing purposes and reuse Ghost whenever, a new machine comes in or I wish to upgrade or change an application.
Roy G. Schriftman, MS, MBA
Instructor Computer Science, Manager Computer Laboratory
[e] r.schrif at usip dot edu
FYI
Textbook Torrents, promises more than 5,000 textbooks for download in PDF format, complete with the original textbook layout and full-color illustrations. Users must simply set up a free account and download a free software program that uses a popular peer-to-peer system called BitTorrent.
MediaSentry, is the service that scours peer-to-peer networks for the Internet-protocol numbers of copyright infringers used by Steven Marks, general counsel for the Recording Industry Association of America who goes after college students.NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Is Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG 'investigator' MediaSentry operating illegally in your state?. The Massachusetts State police has already banned the company, and it's been accused of operating without a license in Oregon, Florida, Texas, and New York. Similar charges have now been leveled the organization in Michigan. Michigan's Department of Labor and Economic Growth, in response to a complaint, has confirmed that MediaSentry is not licensed in Michigan, and referred the complainant to the local prosecutor."
Jimmy Lovine will no longer be employed by Universal Music. He will run LimeWire, the P2P service based on the Gnutella protocol. All the music you can eat for about $10.00 a month. About Gnutella, P2P GNU, Bit Torrent, Darknet and Waste an encrypted p2p application meant chiefly for secure communication.
FILE SHARING APPLICATIONS AND RESOURCES
1. Educational CyberPlayGround: TRENDS IN COMPUTING F**k Big Media: Rolling Your Own
of a program into the network of P2P clients, and they handle the work themselves. More than this, because of the P2P technology used by the BBC
2. Educational CyberPlayGround: Free Music Downloads, MP3's, Music Piracy, Peer to
Revenue decline due to P2P. P2P - Much of the 'piracy' that ... tracks. More important, P2P networks enable sharing of content
3. Educational CyberPlayGround: Digital Rights Management and FREE MUSIC DOWNLOADS
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing restrictions After all ... network, but not P2P? How about P2P applications reconfigured to share songs ... can recognize P2P transmissions by their unique
4. Educational CyberPlayGround: Copyleft and the Creative Commons License
5. Educational CyberPlayGround: NetHappenings NewsLetter
writes about using p2p networks, specifically bittorrent, to create ... the power of P2P distribution to create a global ... network of P2P clients, and the p2p network peers distribute
6. Educational CyberPlayGround: INTERNET II News Articles
powered, peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing technology for academia has ... peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, many college students have ... Direct Connect, a P2P system designed to exploit Internet2's
7. Educational CyberPlayGround: Security - TOOLS
procedure to tighten up P2P What they will find out about you when you use p2p and are tracked. - See What You Share ... the World YaCy a p2p-based distributed Web Search Engine
8. Educational CyberPlayGround: Internet ll - P2P - California Colleges Building Own
9. Educational CyberPlayGround: Free Music Downloads, MUSIC SITES ONLINE, Burn CD's
Video Game Music Archive Music Commercials Listening Online P2P BITTORRENT, KaZaA , Grokster , Morpheus , Emusic which works with Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms, allows users
10. Educational CyberPlayGround: Music Deals, Music Contract Law, Copyright Law, Free ...
LYRICS FOR EVERY SONG About DeCSS and P2P Ripping and EnCoding CD Audio DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGMENT - DRM ABOUT DeCSS and DVD's K12 Classroom
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