Mashable!:
Remember Joost? There was a time when the peer-to-peer video sharing site was one of the hottest startups on the planet, with famous founders, tens of millions of dollars in investment, and thousands of people clamoring for (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In the wake of a leak of an international trade agreement on online file-sharing and copyright violation, U.S. House representatives are introducing legislation to curtail the greatest of American freedoms: the illegal downlo (Read More)
Skype Journal:
Skype blog post ("Great news – we’ve closed the deal with the new investors.") and news release. Investor group pays Skype $1.9 billion in cash, $125 million note for 70% of Skype. eBay buys a $50 million note from them. Inve (Read More)
The Daily Swarm - Headlines:
Wall Street Journal:Congress on Tuesday introduced the Secure Federal File Sharing Act, which would restrict the use of peer-to-peer file sharing software like Limewire among federal employees.The new legislation follo (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
The use of peer-to-peer networks for sharing files has come under fire during recent months, including the dismantling of Swedish BitTorrent site Pirate Bay, but it turns out even members of Congress need to be kept in check (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Marisa Taylor, Reporter, The Wall Street JournalThe use of peer-to-peer networks for sharing files has come under fire during recent months, including the dismantling of Swedish BitTorrent site Pirate Bay, but it turns out (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Peer-to-peer filesharing applications have been wildly popular, especially among those interested in accessing pirated software, music, and media. But not everyone who operates a (Read More)
eWeek - RSS Feeds:
After an October peer-to-peer security incident that inadvertently exposed the list of ongoing investigations by the House Ethics Committee, Rep. Ed Towns introduces legislation to restrict the use of P2P software by governme (Read More)
Washington Post:
The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee introduced legislation on Tuesday to prohibit the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software across all federal government computers and networks. The " (Read More)
Ars Technica:
The Pirate Bay's BitTorrent tracker is down for good—but that's by design.The Pirate Bay has been intermittently unavailable for last few months as copyright holders have pressure (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Michael Fricklas is Viacom's general counsel, the company's top lawyer. I can't tell if he actually felt bad when he said the above at a recent meeting with Yale Law students. I kind of feel an evil, dark smile inside. Even (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Prosper.com, a peer-to-peer lending and loan marketplace, has raised $1 million worth of a $2 million round of funding, per an SEC filing. QED Investors led the funding; managin (Read More)
Techmeme Firehose:
Ina Fried / CNET News:Office 2010 beta leaks early — Those who can't wait until next week for the beta of Office 2010 can apparently find the code already on torrent Web sites. — According to Neowin, the beta code has po (Read More)
GigaOM:
Several Internet service providers in the U.S. and around the world (including a large Chinese ISP) are currently implementing P4P technologies on their networks to help alleviate congestion caused by peer-to-peer files, a (Read More)
Submitted by englishpack
from Twitter:
Prosper.com, a popular peer-to-peer lending marketplace in the U.S., has received a $1 millio.. http://bit.ly/3LnToj [Web News] #Media. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Prosper.com, a popular peer-to-peer lending marketplace in the U.S., has received a $1 million infusion from Nigel Morris, co-founder of Capital One, via his venture capital firm QED Investors. This brings the company’s total (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We've been lucky enough to get our hands on leaked screenshots from one version of Rdio, the forthcoming music app from Skype, KaZaA and Joost creators Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Zennstrom and Friis were the original (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Hunch cofounder Chris Dixon, Gerson Lehrman Group founder Mark Gerson, Vimeo cofounder Zach Klein and others are launching a new venture firm called Founder Collective.Besides Chris, Mark and Zach, partners include Eric Pale (Read More)
The Daily Swarm - Headlines:
The Michigan Daily:Walking into Encore Records is like stumbling into a corn maze, a disheveled college bedroom and a natural history museum all at once — just 20 times more overwhelming than any of those places. The w (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Earlier this morning, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis settled their lawsuits with eBay and a syndicate of investors in return for a 14 percent stake in the company they founded. The lawsuits were complicating the spin-off o (Read More)