Anyone using file-sharing service BitTorrent to download the latest film or music release is likely to be monitored, UK-based researchers suggest.

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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.

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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks.

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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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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.

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According to music industry analysts, hundreds of thousands of Web users who frequent copyright-infringing file-sharing sites, including The Pirate Bay and TorrentSpy, have chosen to download In Rainbows illegally, distributing their contraband around the Internet just as they might with any other pirated album.

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Site visitors are herded to download uTorrent, a front-end client for managing file-sharing.

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Crucially Napster has pioneered a file sharing system that allows anyone to locate an MP3 file on another users hard drive and download it onto their computer.

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