Distributed Computing & P2P

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

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Home Theater July 8, 2009	New Pirate Bay to Pay File Sharers Pirate Bay will continue to facilitate file sharing, but will do so legally, presumably with compensation to content owners.
InternetNews June 30, 2009 Christopher Saunders	Pirate Bay Gets New Owner, May Go Legit Its original operators may be facing fines and jail time, but notorious file-sharing site The Pirate Bay may have a future in legally distributed content.
Home Theater June 10, 2009	EU Parliament Gets First Pirate Member File-sharing enthusiasts are rejoicing with the news that Sweden's Pirate Party has captured a seat in the European Union's Parliament.
InternetNews April 17, 2009 Alex Goldman	Pirate Bay Found Guilty in File-Sharing Trial A court found that the site's operators violated copyright on illegal downloads - but the BitTorrent site vows to keep fighting.
Home Theater April 16, 2009	Beeb Meets BitTorrent BitTorrenting is often regarded as a scruffy and perhaps slightly criminal medium. But it will soon gain new respectability when the venerable British Broadcasting Corporation allows a new show to be torrented.
InternetNews December 22, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	The RIAA's About-Face on Lawsuits Music industry association abandons sweeping litigation program in favor of partnering with ISPs to combat piracy. Watchdog groups are wary.
InternetNews September 24, 2008 Christopher Saunders	Media, Political Names Step Into Piracy Thicket NBC, Viacom, AT&T, Cisco and Microsoft are just a few of the names that want to tackle illegal downloading and network management.
Home Theater August 4, 2008	British Gov't and ISPs Attack P2P Internet service providers in Great Britain have agreed to send letters accusing customers of stealing music. And the government has set a goal of reducing illegal file sharing by up to 80 percent within three years.
Wired June 23, 2008 Patrick Di Justo	Sorting the World: Google Invents New Way to Manage Data Google's solution for working with colossal data sets is an elegant approach called MapReduce.
InternetNews February 29, 2008	Chinese Music Industry Files Suit Against Baidu In China, Baidu.com faces copyright charges as pirated songs dominate distribution.
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