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Peer-to-Peer Behaviour Detection by TCP Flows Analysis
White Paper It concerns applications like Gnutella, Kazaa or eDonkey. The use of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications is growing dramatically. These applications sometimes represent as most as 50% of Internet traffic. [27 Dec 2007]
Warning over IM worm explosion
News In the same month, a total of 14 attacks hit peer-to-peer networks, such as eDonkey and Kazaa, according to Akonix, which sells security software and appliances. The number of worms that targeted instant-messaging... [01 Dec 2005]
Hollywood buddies up with Bram Cohen
News Although he is the creator of a technology that is widely used for illegal distribution of films, software and music, he and his company have not maintained a network to help connect users in the way that eDonkey or... [23 Nov 2005]
Grokster signs out
News Executives at Meta Machine, which distributes eDonkey, the most popular file-sharing program, have said they hope to reach a settlement with the music industry, and change their business into a licensed,... [08 Nov 2005]
P2P file-sharers shun music for software and games
News According to research from CacheLogic, video content now makes up almost 62 per cent of all traffic on the four largest P2P networks - BitTorrent, eDonkey, Gnutella and Fastrack, the network used by Kazaa. [11 Aug 2005]
BitTorrent gets Opera's support
News Unlike eDonkey, Kazaa or other file-swapping networks, it does not allow searching of other people's hard drives in order to find and download files. Norwegian web browser company Opera has released a new test version of... [08 Jul 2005]
Spyware, adware infects BitTorrent downloads
News Unlike peer-to-peer networks such as eDonkey, Kazaa or the original Napster, no central search technology exists for BitTorrent. Adware and spyware makers are using BitTorrent as a new distribution channel. [17 Jun 2005]
Nicked UK music pirates forced to pay thousands
News The network Kazaa runs on, Fast Track, has dropped by 45 per cent between January 2005 and April 2003, the BPI says, while the number of eDonkey servers have dropped by 61 per cent and BitTorrent servers have decreased... [04 Mar 2005]
Check your kids' computers for file-swapping
News The group filed its first set of lawsuits against individual computer users in November, and followed up with a worldwide campaign against the operators of BitTorrent, eDonkey and DirectConnect networks. [31 Jan 2005]
Napster looking to enter movie downloads
News Film industry body the MPAA has filed lawsuits against pirates and is also cracking down on distribution networks such as eDonkey and BitTorrent. Original music download heavyweight Napster is considering remaking... [24 Jan 2005]
Euro sites raided over piracy claims
News Two file-sharing eDonkey sites - ShareConnector and Releases4U - were also raided in the Netherlands, according to Dutch news reports. In the US, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has launched a legal... [15 Dec 2004]
Movie-swappers: Lawsuits on the way
News Literature the MPAA distributed lists Kazaa, eDonkey and Gnutella as examples of networks where "illegal digital copies of our member companies' motion pictures" are being traded. Hollywood studios are about to take the... [05 Nov 2004]
Students in hot water for file sharing
News The music labels' trade association is a little more than a year into its strategy of suing individual file-swappers for copyright infringement, a campaign it hopes will sharply curtail the rate of MP3-swapping on networks such as Kazaa... [29 Oct 2004]
Kazaa no longer king of P2P
News According to BayTSP, a California firm that monitors file-swapping networks on behalf of entertainment companies, Kazaa rival eDonkey was the most widely used peer-to-peer application last month. It was just a matter of... [12 Oct 2004]
File-sharing software 'legal'
News The decision marks a substantial - if not entirely unexpected - setback for the big record labels and movie studios, which have tried hard to win legal rulings that would clamp down on anarchic peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa or... [20 Aug 2004]
