In fact, pre-OK Cupid, Yagan was involved in launching a peer-to-peer file sharing service of his own, called eDonkey.
The growth of peer-to-peer file sharing - both legal and illegal - has also placed a significant burden on their networks.
Using the Kazza peer-to-peer file sharing application, we located a few copies of files that purported to be pirated versions of the film.
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.
In addition, lawyers representing the music-trading site argued that judge Patel did not adequately consider past legal precedents applicable to the case and that Patel underestimated the impact of peer-to-peer file sharing in the Internet-marketplace.
Their technique, based on an algorithm they call P4P, could eventually offer a less controversial version of peer-to-peer file sharing, a practice that has flooded the Internet with pirated music and movies and ignited debate over what online content broadband providers should regulate.
Failure to properly log off, unwittingly emailing a confidential document, using a thumb drive to bring work home, peer-to-peer file sharing, and other routine tasks that inadvertently create risks of exposing sensitive data to theft or misappropriation are not usually the results of malice.
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Over the last couple of years, we kinda forgot about the drama that surrounded peer-to-peer file-sharing.
Much pornographic content may simply have shifted from the web to peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, for example.
Since then, Cohen's method of peer-to-peer file-sharing has become a favorite tool for music and video pirates.
It is believed that the attackers injected malware into two peer-to-peer file-sharing websites.
That, the company argues, will prevent the ripped DVD files from ending up on Bittorrent or other peer-to-peer file-sharing networks.
Peer-to-peer file-sharing, online pirates' favorite channel for transferring copyrighted movies and music, now accounts for 40% to 60% of all Internet traffic.
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.
Then there's a case involving Grokster, the peer-to-peer file-sharing company.
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.
And users from those three countries were also the most likely to engage in other risky behavior on work PCs, including reading personal e-mail, downloading music and video and even peer-to-peer file-sharing, a practice that often spreads malicious software or inadvertently gives outsiders access to sensitive documents.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing has traditionally operated on a narrow ledge between perceptions of legality and illegality.
The industry has failed to shut down file-sharing companies whose peer-to-peer software has legitimate applications.
It uses a central server to link computers together to avoid the complexity of other peer-to-peer programs such as Gnutella, a file-sharing program popular among the high-tech community.
In his keynote speech Tuesday, Barrett identified peer-to-peer networking -- popularized by Napster's music file sharing service -- as an important growth opportunity.
Google was also the co-sponsor of a study published last summer that looked at, among other things, how peer-to-peer communities rely on indiscriminate ad placements to fund illegal file sharing and streaming.
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The result, they say, should please both sides of the peer-to-peer debate: Users can download files about 20% faster than conventional file-sharing, while cutting the bandwidth requirements by more than a factor of five.
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