In fact, pre-OK Cupid, Yagan was involved in launching a peer-to-peer file sharing service of his own, called eDonkey.
It was in 2008 that Egnyte launched its cloud-based file sharing service, with a focus on small and medium-size businesses.
In his keynote speech Tuesday, Barrett identified peer-to-peer networking -- popularized by Napster's music file sharing service -- as an important growth opportunity.
Dropbox has been increasingly expanding beyond its original file sharing service.
Rather than streaming music from an anonymous server in the cloud, Audiogalaxy piped music (including playlists and album art) to your smartphone from your own home PC -- all this after returning from the ashes of its previous iteration as the best music file sharing service ever.
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Even though Anontune's creators say the service isn't a rebuttal to the shuttering of the file-sharing service, its timely unveiling could serve as a model for a different way for Anonymous to respond to incidents (as opposed to, say, directing Low Orbit Ion Cannons at the website of the Recording Industry Association of America).
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Anyone using file-sharing service BitTorrent to download the latest film or music release is likely to be monitored, UK-based researchers suggest.
File-sharing service Dropbox has been accused of misleading customers on security.
Though the failed pilot never received a network pickup, it leaked onto file-sharing service BitTorrent and, thousands of downloads later, it proved there clearly was an audience for it.
So when an outfit called Earth Station 5 announced itself this year as a new peer-to-peer file-sharing service headquartered in the camp, internet downloaders and journalists paid attention.
In 2001 Skype's founders had set up Kazaa, an online file-sharing service that enabled people to download music from each other's computers to the great irritation of copyright holders.
YouSendIt is a file-sharing service focused on business-oriented uses such as: lawyers sharing files with lawyers or companies sharing files with their manufacturing partners overseas, or physicians sharing medical images.
Similarly, Microsoft is planning to put a sandbox around media playback in Windows Vista amidst a host of technology initiatives by itself and partner-against-crime Intel to ensure that content stays far from the screens of P2P file-sharing service users.
Muxlim's streaming video sister site, Muslim.tv, and its social network, Muslimspace.com, are growing quickly, but the majority of the portal's visitors are drawn by its file-sharing service, which El-Fatatry says is largely used for sharing videos like documentaries, faith-centric lectures and ceremonies.
Canonical's personal cloud service, Ubuntu One, provides storage and media services, file sharing and a secure transaction service which enables partners to integrate their own service offerings easily.
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In the UK, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) took action to the courts, obtaining a court order to force internet service providers to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.
Much of this early success was down to the founders' involvement with peer-to-peer file sharing site KaZaA, an at-times controversial but popular service which picked up the pieces when Napster crumbled under music industry pressure.
Pennsylvania State University is using the program to allow its students to access music download service Napster to give them a legal alternative to file sharing.
The UK's major internet service providers have been asked to block three more file-sharing websites, the BBC can reveal.
His current plans include a new file-sharing site that encrypts all its files, and a streaming music service called Megabox.
The new cyberlocker service is a simplified, super-encrypted successor to Megaupload, the file-sharing site that once reputedly accounted for 4% of all internet traffic, and which US prosecutors had taken offline moments before the helicopters descended in New Zealand a year ago.
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