Oops! Italy inadvertently allows sharing of some P2P music

January 30, 2008 by · Comments Off
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A misinterpretation of one term leads to legalization of some P2P music.  According to AfterDawn.com Italian parliament has accidentally granted green light to some music sharing over P2P networks.

The recent copyright law, approved by both houses of the parliament consents to Italians sharing music online provided that it is “noncommercial” and “degraded” with reference to quality.

The Italian newspaper la Republica which addressed the matter quotes Italian copyright legal representative Andrea Monti who declared that “whoever authored the law failed to take into account that the word ‘degraded’ has a ‘very precise meaning’.” At present, music which is being sold on all major legal alternatives is degraded, usually to 192kbps MP3 or 128kbps AAC. What the new law establishes is the right of any Italian to swap music files using P2P networks on condition that it is not lossless.

Although this law intends such sharing to have an “educational or scientific” purpose, Monti considers (rightfully I’d say) that it will end up helping P2P users to evade prosecution.

However, if Italian legislators make their mind up about this new law not being such a brilliant idea after all, the only solution they are left with is to repeat the whole process of developing a new improved law. It seems the legislation in progress cannot be amended “needing only publication in the Official Journal before becoming law.”

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Top of the Most Popular Mobile Games Published by Game Mobile

January 28, 2008 by · Comments Off
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Game Mobile (http://www.gamemobile.co.uk) which has been in the business of selling mobile games since 2003, and is currently one of the major mobile games portals on the Internet, offers us a fresh top 20 chart every week where we can find what are the games most preferred by gamers worldwide.

The chart which is published every Friday at 2pm comes to meet the need for such a top based on global downloads, following any shift, revealing high positions, altogether, offering an overall picture of the most downloaded and appreciated mobile games.

According to recent studies the mobile games market will grow into US $10 billion business by 2009, having, even at this moment, downloads exceed in sales ring tones in many Western European countries.

The timing could not be better Game Mobile given that mobile gaming is creating quite a thrill and trend on the mass-market; this chart is an immediate hit as it accurately and promptly records mobile gaming activity. It has an RSS standard form making it easy for other sites to also publish the data weekly.

Richard Hawley, director of Game Mobile, seems very confident about what future lies ahead for mobile gaming market. He sees the potential of over 400 million mobile phones worldwide surely to create an incredible boost of games for mobile phones. Referring to Game Mobile’s chart Hawley labeled it as “a truly global marker of the most popular games as the mobile gaming market goes mainstream.”

Game Mobile started as one of the first online portals for mobile games, offering applications, software, ring tones and wallpaper. All the games available for download as well as any other content are fully tested, and, as way of attracting new gamers there is also free content which can be downloaded from the site.

An effective market strategy allows customers to obtain loyalty credits with each download and every item they buy, having the possibility to trade them afterwards for games, ring tones or wallpaper. What sets Game Mobile apart from other competitors is the policy of the company – subscribing and registering is free; moreover, every customer gets a personalized account page which had their individual mobile phone as the inspirational starting point. At present over 1.5 million users visit monthly Game Mobile across its Web and Wap sites.

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P2P Likely to Reach Massive Demand Due to Its Possible Enterprise Applications

January 28, 2008 by · Comments Off
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As a result of an increasing exposure and advertisement of economical features and rapid ROI of peer-to-peer (P2P) collaboration platforms, this market is likely to boost up its revenue more rapidly than many other IT markets. A great advantage of enterprise class P2P networking is that it enables professionals in various vertical markets worldwide to attend the same project, thus making the productivity grow and, at the same time, reducing travel expenses. Frost & Sullivan research explores the U.S. markets for P2P networking. It offers both important investigation of market drivers and estimation of potential fruitful areas. This study deals with enterprise association, knowledge management, content caching and electronic content delivery networks, institutional securities trading, cutting-edge search engines, inventory control, and supply chain management, as well as content delivery beyond the firewall. Content Acceleration Costs Reduced through P2P architecture What raises the steak in today’s Internet business is lowering the operating costs which concern the content delivery making certain at the same that productivity and content download times are not affected. This is where P2P content acceleration software comes into play being of great help for businesses by saving them considerable financial resources. A proper market education directed to the money-saving prospective using this technology can make the difference. P2P architecture offers the convenience of vacant desktop hard drive space in offices, along with a sparing of the costly outlays linked to hardware caching appliances, without losing the benefit of content acceleration technology which decreases bandwidth consumption and expenses. Next-generation Search Engines employing P2P Architectures Prove a Considerable Increase Potential of Revenue Next-generation search engines using P2P technology so that they can be taught to search for precise information – market verticals, partners, competitors, merchandise, services, and other – are seen more and more with a commercial eye. Employing such P2P-based search engine tool will also spare companies of some supplementary costs of the on outside consultants. Experts predict the positive ROI for most companies to have a beneficial outcome in the form of a vigorous revenue growth in the next-generation search engine market.

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The Pirate Bay Rules the Game: It Currently Tracks 1 Million Torrents and 10 Million Peers

January 27, 2008 by · Comments Off
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Yesterday, The Pirate Bay just gave the file-sharing phenomenon a new meaning, as they managed to surpass the 1 million torrents and 10 million peers limit. It seems that world’s largest BitTorrent tracker has no intention of slowing down, on the contrary, its appetite for exceeding boundaries is increasing.

A month ago, Torrent Freak reported that in 2007 The Pirate Bay had reached double amount of torrents and peers on their tracker. The same source informs us that Brokep, one of the co-founders of the mighty BitTorrent tracker predicted back then the conquering of 10 million peers boundary during the following major holiday.

As statistics tell us, that holiday was not even necessary since it only took them a little over a month to make it happen – the number of peers jumped from 8 million to 10 million. This means that currently, The Pirate Bay tracks more than one million torrents and 10 million peers at whatever time.

 

Brokep also stated that although the data available on the frontpage is possible to suffer minor fluctuation owing to one of the trackers being too loaded to report its share, he guaranteed that the largest BitTorrent tracker definitely tracks more than 10 million peers, and over a million torrents.

Due to the incessant growth, The Pirate Bay has been busy upgrading hardware over the past few months. Furthermore, to achieve the best possible results they went from Anakata’s Hypercube to the open source Opentracker software.

There’s no doubt The Pirate Bay crew are riding the wave at the moment. However, next week, prosecutor Håkan Roswall will sue 5 people who apparently are somehow connected with The Pirate Bay, using as evidence the 4000 pages which have been gathered by authorities. Fortunately, The Pirate Bay crew does not seem intimidated but certain of their nothing-wrongness, and declared that – regardless of the results – the site will continue as presently. P2PON will keep you informed of any outcome or changes of the event.

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P2P Lawsuit Victim Triumphs over RIAA

January 20, 2008 by · Comments Off
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anti-riaa sign.jpg Judges rule that RIAA Pays Attorneys’Fees RIAA is counter suited by the defendant Tanya Andersen on file sharing issue afte federal judge on Wednesday cleared the way for file swapping defendant Tanya Andersen to seek attorney’s fees and file a counter claim against the RIAA over a botched copyright infringement suit.

The process initiated by RIAA against Andersen who was charged with copyright violation has been going on for more than two years, a period during which Andersen has allegedly tallied hundreds of thousands of dollars in this law suit. The charges claimed that she had been distributing music illegally using the Kazaa file sharing network under the name "gotenkito." In the end, since no evidence of such an illegal sharing was found on Andersen’s computer the RIAA’s case was dropped.

For those unfamiliar with the term "with prejudice", this means that each party involved in the law suit may end up paying the other’s fees for attorneys. RIAA has been already verdicted by magistrate judge Donald C. Ashmanska to pay some or all of Anderson’s fees, considering all the threats and pressure RIAA launched against her.

According to Wired.com that decision was confirmed on Thursday by District Judge James A. Redden, which leaves the RIAA with no choice but to pay some of the fees to Anderson, according to Recording Industry vs. the People. Yet, we can’t help wonder how much they will reach into their pockets for this. Upset by the whole ordeal, Andersen declared that besides the fees she will carry on pursuing her counterclaims against the RIAA.

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