File-sharing networks haven't just given computer users a new way to find music and movies.
"This will be a very different experience from traditional file-sharing networks, " said Gilles BianRosa, CEO of Azureus.
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It may explain how health data have found their way onto file-sharing networks.
That, the company argues, will prevent the ripped DVD files from ending up on Bittorrent or other peer-to-peer file-sharing networks.
According to market research firm Big Champagne, there were on average 8.7 million simultaneous users on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks in May of this year.
Internet security firm Internet Security Solutions (nasdaq: ISSX - news - people ) has just completed an investigation into the existence of several large file-sharing networks used to trade pirated software and movies.
Anyway, we'll be talking more about the high-tech license plates on "Marketplace" later today, and we'll also be looking at another development in the business world: how the music industry is creating a new business model using file-sharing networks.
Media companies and software vendors spend millions every year trying to stop people from trading their wares over the Internet, and the Recording Industry Association of America has even gone so far as to sue individual users of file-sharing networks.
Since source code for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 was found online on 13 February, the 200MB files have proved popular with many users of file-sharing and chat networks.
But programs like Dropbox for file-sharing are also growing as social media networks.
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The growth of peer-to-peer file sharing - both legal and illegal - has also placed a significant burden on their networks.
Similarly, P2Pnet.net, another online news site in British Columbia, is facing a lawsuit ironically filed by Sharman Networks, the company behind the Kazaa file-sharing system, that itself has been dragged through the courts in Australia.
QNAP's new TS-x12 models are easy to attach to existing networks and provides easy file sharing within the network, centralized backup of all networked computers, website hosting, printer sharing, even recording of surveillance video from IP cameras.
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In a test with around 600, 000 users, Krishnamurthy says, data sent using P4P had to travel between an average of just two networks to reach its destination, as opposed to around seven with normal file-sharing, vastly cutting the cost of moving the data.
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