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New BitTorrent feature to nullify Comcasts traffic shaping

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2008-02-19 20:30:52 by Nicholas Deleon in CrunchGear
BitTorrent users were never likely to take Comcasts measures lying down Developers of various BitTorrent applications are working on a mechanism that will defeat (or hopes to defeat) Comcasts packet interruptions. When Comcast users begin to seed, Comcast injects an RST flag that kill the upload. So Comcast users can download (from non-Comcast...
 
Tags: bittorrent, bittorrent clients, bittorrent applications, comcast users, non-comcast users, bittorrent users, comcasts measures, bittorrent company, comcasts packet interruptions
 
 
 
 
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Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks [Comcast]

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2008-03-27 19:45:35 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
...BitTorrent are finally making nice after being all Crips and Bloods, even rousing the FCC out of its slumber at one point, which Comcast fought with every trick in the book. It sounds awesome on paper: Your torrents are safe! More bandwidth! Torrents will work even better ! Comcast is all for net neutrality! Not quite. You might actually even...
 
Tags: comcast, bittorrent, comcast fought, net neutrality rules, net neutrality, bittorrent execs, time warner, time, traffic management technique
 
 
 
 
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Test: BBC iPlayer vs BitTorrent

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2008-04-25 07:53:53 by Charlie Sorrel in Gadget Lab
...BitTorrent. Specifically, isohunt.com and the quite excellent software client Transmission I downloaded a recent episode. The BitTorrent file took around half an hour, but it was the first in the current series and therefore a few weeks old. The latest episode has many more seeds, and if I had a faster connection (I'm on neighbor-fi, but I...
 
Tags: bbc iplayer, iplayer, bittorrent, tv, tv quality, bittorrent file, quality, bbc, pronounce bittorrent
 
 
 
 
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German study finds Comcast blocking BitTorrent traffic all day long, every day

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2008-05-15 17:31:25 by Nicholas Deleon in CrunchGear
...BitTorrent blocking really only occurs in two countries, here in the U.S. and in Singapore. Moreover, only cable ISPs bother to block BitTorrent traffic. The ISPs? Why, none other than Comcast and Cox, the two darlings of American Internet access The study, conducted by the Max Planck Institute, examined worldwide BitTorrent behavior and...
 
Tags: bittorrent, interrupts bittorrent traffic, traffic, worldwide bittorrent behavior, block bittorrent traffic, isps, cable isps bother, day, study
 
 
 
 
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Comcast Pulls an About Face, Teams Up with BitTorrent for Net Neutrality [Whaaaa]

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2008-03-27 13:54:16 by posted by Pantha in
...BitTorrent for the sake of net neutrality. But of course, dear readers, there's a catch. There's always a catch First, the good news: Comcast and BitTorrent are joining forces to "run BitTorrent's technology more smoothly on Comcast's broadband network, and allow Comcast to transport video files more effectively over its own network in the...
 
Tags: comcast, bittorrent, bittorrent comcast, heavy, force heavy downloaders, net neutrality, slow traffic, network, broadband network
 
 
 
 
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Comcast Pulls an About Face, Teams Up with BitTorrent for Net Neutrality [Whaaaa]

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2008-03-27 09:54:16 by Adam Frucci in Gizmodo
...BitTorrent for the sake of net neutrality. But of course, dear readers, there's a catch. There's always a catch First, the good news: Comcast and BitTorrent are joining forces to "run BitTorrent's technology more smoothly on Comcast's broadband network, and allow Comcast to transport video files more effectively over its own network in the...
 
Tags: comcast, bittorrent, bittorrent comcast, heavy, force heavy downloaders, net neutrality, slow traffic, network, broadband network
 
 
 
 
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Comcast, BitTorrent Promise to Play Nice

2008-03-27 09:13:59 by Rob Beschizza in Gadget Lab
 
...BitTorrent file sharing system from working properly on its network and lied about it, will now "work together" with BT as part of Comcast's reinvention, reports the Wall Street Journal The companies are in talks to collaborate on ways to run BitTorrent's technology more smoothly on Comcast's broadband network, and allow Comcast to transport...
 
Tags: comcast, bittorrent, traffic, network traffic wsj, network, comcast ultimately, broadband network, network neutrality nerds, wimax bittorrent
 
 
 
 
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Myka the BitTorrent Aduio/Video TV Player

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2008-04-07 11:27:56 by Anton in Blog of Wishes
...BitTorrent client for direct downloading of the multimedia files on the device. Video and audio files are downloaded from the internet on to Mykas internal hard drive and after that these files can be played back directly to a television. Myka is controlled by a handy remote control or can be programmed remotely trough the web. This cool...
 
Tags: video, myka, high-definition video content, definition, bittorrent, video downloads, video playback, pre-order myka, formats
 
 
 
 
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EU ponies up $22M for BitTorrent development, sees it as future of content distribution

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2008-02-20 21:30:39 by Nicholas Deleon in CrunchGear
BitTorrent is getting more legitimate with each passing day. Theres word today that the European Union will put up $22 million, or 15 million, for the development of an open source BitTorrent clientP2P-Netthat supports live streaming. (Wow that sounds like a lot of money to spend for what amount to some kids summertime Google Code entry.) Of...
 
Tags: bittorrent, development, source bittorrent, embrace p2p technology, million, in-development service, european union, supports live, lot