Jeff Roberts
Nov 25, 2011 1:28 PM
Two weeks ago, publisher John Wiley made headlines by suing 27 internet users who were allegedly swapping editions of the popular “For Dummies” series online. The campaign appears to be working because John Wiley has now doubled-down on its effort by suing dozens more people. The prime targets this time…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 4, 2011 8:05 AM
A new twist today in the battle of media companies trying to stop their content from being distributed by illegal means online: the UK’s main music trade body, the BPI, has today teamed up others in the creative industries to request BT (NYSE: BT), the UK’s leading broadband provider, to…
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Joe Mullin
Jan 26, 2011 7:15 PM
If you want to use Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to find pirated material online, don’t expect help from Google Instant. The company has altered the feature so that search results related to several popular BitTorrent and cyberlocker-based file-sharing services don’t automatically show up as a user types. The move appears to…
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Tameka Kee
Dec 15, 2008 2:20 PM
How long before P2P file-sharing service BitTorrent crashes and burns? The company raised $17 million in a third round over the summer, but according to TechCrunch, it has returned most of those funds to investors DAG Ventures, DCM and Accel Partners in exchange for a smaller, $7 million round. BitTorrent…
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Rafat Ali
Nov 7, 2008 7:02 PM
Goes to the point that P2P is not a business model in itself, and then, of course, bad management will even make it worse: BitTorrent, the San Francisco-based company that has been trying to develop an online video service and company around the open source P2P delivery technology, has been…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Sep 15, 2008 6:19 PM
BitTorrent, the P2P-based content distributor, has raised a $17 million third round from past backers DCM and Accel Partners, as well as DAG Ventures according to peHUB, citing a regulatory filing. It’s now raised a total of $46.4 million. The company isn’t the same as the popular mode of illegal…
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Rafat Ali
Mar 27, 2008 12:20 AM
Update below: This is one of those vague non-deals that make the execs involved look good in press. Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), which has been in in the middle of controversy about slowing down some P2P apps to supposedly manage its bandwidth capacity, has now done a deal with the commercial…
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