P2P News

Wait… I have to worry about P2P on my Android too?

Posted by ccorbet on March 17, 2011 at 5:47 pm

That’s right… According to a recent PC Mag article, FrostWire (a popular Peer2Peer application) has taken its talents to Android!  This is a big concern for IT Admins.  The PC world had more certainty.  With free tools like Peer2Peer Terminator, I can watch for P2P applications on my PCs.  But what about Android devices?  How [...]

BPI Study Quantfies the Risk of P2P File Sharing

Posted by ccorbet on December 17, 2010 at 8:56 pm

According to BPI’s Digital Music Nation 2010 Study and Harris Interactive, illegal P2P File Sharing is still growing in the UK… no surprise there.  What was interesting was some of the statistics around the actual risks of illegal file sharing.  According to the study “four in five (79%) had encountered some sort of problem when [...]

Students Using P2P Software Being Reported to Police

Posted by ccorbet on November 12, 2010 at 4:15 pm

The student newspaper at Valdosta State University in Georgia has reported that the university has updated their systems with software that allows them to trace illegal P2P downloading directly to the student responsible.  We reported a while back about the impact of the DMCA of 2008 and this latest example continues to prove that enforcement [...]