2007 January

By CHRISTOPHER S. YOO - Vanderbilt University - School of Law
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One of the most enduring tenets of U.S. television policy has been the commitment to localism. I suggest that the FCC’s localism policy can be disaggregated into four, more specific commitments: (1) the preference for locally oriented over nationally oriented programming, […]

Krishnan, Ramayya, Smith, Michael D. and Telang, Rahul, “The Economics of Peer-to-Peer Networks” (September 2003).
“Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have emerged as a significant social phenomenon for the distribution of information goods and may become an important alternative to traditional client-server network architectures for knowledge sharing within enterprises. This paper reviews and synthesizes the […]

Kazaa Lite is a modern version of napster and is a file-sharing program based on the code of Kazaa, a P2P application that runs on the FastTrack network. The name refers to the fact that adware/spyware in Kazaa had been removed, while many other features, such as a “preview with” submenu, more efficient traffic controls, […]

Cybersky is a new (and potentially controversial) peer-to-peer application, which will enable users to stream live television broadcasts, or access them, from anywhere in the world via their Internet connection.
Cybersky’s name is a pun on the name of its inventor, Guido Ciburski, a television software engineer in Koblenz, Germany. The idea originated when Ciburski attempted […]

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Kazaa Lite is a file-sharing program based on the code of Kazaa, a P2P application that runs on the FastTrack network. The name refers to the fact that adware/spyware in Kazaa had been removed, while many other features, such as a “preview with” submenu, more efficient traffic controls, and searching options, were added.

BitTorrent is the protocol and the name of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution tool written by programmer Bram Cohen and written in Python and is released under the BitTorrent Open Source License (a modified version of the Jabber Open Source License), as of version 4.0. The name “BitTorrent” refers to the distribution protocol, the original […]

Broadcatching refers to the use of RSS feeds and BitTorrent peer to peer file sharing as an alternative to distributing multimedia content on the Internet. It is a play on words, in reference to broadcasting.
Broadcatch is a word coined by Fen Labalme in 1983. “Broadcatch connotes a many to one gathering of information, using a […]

The Future of Copyright
LAWRENCE B. SOLUM
University of Illinois College of Law
Texas Law Review, Vol. 83, p. 1137, 2005
Abstract
“Sometimes technological change is so profound that it rocks the foundations of an entire body of law. Peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing systems - Napster, Gnutella, KaZaA, Grokster, and Freenet3 - are mere symptoms of a set of […]

A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on computing power at the edges (ends) of a connection rather than in the network itself.
A pure peer-to-peer file transfer network does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer nodes that simultaneously function as both “clients” and “servers” to […]