Distributed Computing & P2P

Magazine articles on distributed computing: peer-to-peer, grid computing, distributed information systems.

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InternetNews December 6, 2007 Sean Gallagher	New Bill Stiffens File-Sharing Penalties The U.S. House of Representatives is edging closer to laying out harsher penalties and stepping up enforcement for the illegal sharing of music and movies.
BusinessWeek December 3, 2007 Peter Burrows	Users to Comcast: Hands Off Comcast's slower Web transmission speeds for some content spark a legal challenge.
InternetNews November 19, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Blocking BitTorrent Is Sue-tastic Who's at greater risk for potential embarrassing exposure, Comcast or the BitTorrent downloaders mad at the company?
InternetNews November 12, 2007	Yahoo Sets Program to Boost Distributed Computing Yahoo will launch an open source program for developing software for distributed computing, with Carnegie Mellon University as its first academic partner in the venture.
InternetNews November 12, 2007	IBM to Buy Cognos For $5 billion IBM said on Monday that it would buy Canadian business intelligence software company Cognos for $5 billion, following a wave of acquisitions in the industry.
InternetNews November 2, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Comcast Again Denies P2P Throttling Consumer groups say hogwash, demand FCC action and hefty fines against Comcast.
Home Theater October 15, 2007	BitTorrent Hankers for Respectability BitTorrent has been doing business with Hollywood for awhile now.
InternetNews October 15, 2007 Susan Kuchinskas	P2P Users, Beware: You Will Be Tracked Jammie Thomas was the first P2P victim, but with the RIAA's decoys trolling the Net, she won't be the last.
InternetNews October 9, 2007 Andy Patrizio	BitTorrent Goes Legit with Content Delivery Service Controversial peer-to-peer file sharing company BitTorrent, Inc., is making new moves toward establishing itself as a legitimate content delivery play, today unveiling a business service designed to quickly and cheaply stream media to users' desktops.
Home Theater October 5, 2007	Copying Is Stealing, Says Sony BMG A single mother of two was successfully sued for using peer-to-peer file sharing to violate numerous copyrights. What may ultimately come to matter more than the verdict were some of the details that emerged along the way.
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