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BitTorrent Sold To Blockchain Start-Up For $140m
BitTorrent Sold To Blockchain Start-Up For $140m When it comes to peer-to-peer applications, BitTorrent is probably one of the most popular available. Ok, with the possible exception of uTorrent. Allowing users to download data from various sharing sources, such programs are widely popular for sharing of files. Particularly those of…
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Google Hangout is Going Peer-to-Peer
Google hangout is used for work and personal use, often fighting against Skype for dominant market use. With tweaks and improvements over the horizon, the next change is going to be fundamental to how Hangouts will communicate with each other. Hangouts suffers from the fundamental flaw that most video and audio…
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BitTorrent Wants to Offer More P2P Freedom on Mobile Devices With New App
BitTorrent just announced a new mobile app named Shoot that is based around P2P connectivity between individuals. While this sounds good to some people, others may think that this is a new means to start a piracy war on mobile devices. I mean, come on? Secure Peer-to-Peer connectivity on mobile…
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Hola CEO Responds to Botnet Controversy
Hola, the peer-to-peer (P2P) VPN provider, was recently accused of allowing its customers’ network to be used to form botnets to launch malicious cyber-attacks. A group of researchers, under the banner Adios, discovered that up to 47 million people could have been inadvertently providing hackers with enough bandwidth to launch…
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Facebook Messenger is Now Available on Web Browsers
It looks like Facebook has brought its Messenger counterpart to web browsers. Though users can chat with their Facebook friends inside Facebook.com as they did up until now, the Messenger.com looks to work and look like a mobile version of Facebook’s Messenger, but for the Web. A Facebook representative told…
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Popcorn Time Attempts a new P2P Approach to Slip Past Legal Action
‘Free’ movie sharing service, Popcorn Time, has gone through a number of lawsuits in the past for its attempt to provide its users with pirated movies. However, the service is attempting another comeback and by adopting peer-to-peer based services. Popcorn Time believes that hosting data directly with its users and no…
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Microsoft to Use P2P to Deliver Windows 10 Updates
The latest leaked build of in-development operating system Windows 10 shows that Microsoft is moving towards using peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol to deliver system updates. A new option in the Windows 10 build allows users to enable “updates from more than one place,” applicable to both OS updates and apps, in…
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The Pirate Bay Plans To Beat Censorship For Good This Year
The Pirate Bay had a lot of battles to do last year, having their domains taken down by court-orders and resurfacing around the world with new domains. This did not discourage Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde or Fredrik Neij, the founders of TPD, and furthermore, they plan on beating the censorship…
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BitTorrent’s Peer-To-Peer Chat Will Help Protect Your Identity
Privacy concerns easily made the biggest headlines this year, with NSA spying and well… every other government also spying on everyone else pretty much all the time, security breaches at major companies that effected millions of users and hacking being a bigger problem than ever, it’s easy to see why…
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Server-Free Internet Could Become A Reality In The Future
Researchers at Cambridge University have developed a proof-of-concept for a new server-free Internet architecture. The prototype was developed as part of the €5.2 million project PURSUIT that comprises representatives from European research institutes, universities and telecommunication companies. The revolutionary new Internet architecture is designed to meet the ever-growing traffic requirements…
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