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2 unusual facts about File sharing


File sharing

A study by economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf in 2004 concluded that music file sharing's effect on sales was "statistically indistinguishable from zero".

Such services have become popular via consumer products such as Dropbox (service) and Google Drive.


Distributed workforce

Using a shared software approach called SaaS, or software as a service, workers and teams can share files securely as well as access the company’s databases, file sharing, telecommunications/unified communications, Customer relationship management (CRM), video teleconferencing, human resources, IT service management, accounting, IT security, web analytics, web content management, e-mail, calendars and much more.

Georgia Wonder

In January 2009, Georgia Wonder released their EP, Hello Stranger, onto file sharing sites and quickly entered the top twenty "most shared" songs on The Pirate Bay.

How Do I Breathe

The other version obtained via a Peer-to-peer file sharing network also features a shout out to former NFL running back Shaun Alexander by an untold DJ near the end of the track.

NeoModus Direct Connect

NeoModus Direct Connect was a file-sharing client for Windows and Mac users that provided file-sharing capabilities for any type of file within a hub-centric, peer-to-peer network and contained adware.

Spamigation

--Coined when?--> by Brad Templeton of the Electronic Frontier Foundation to explain the tactics of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which files large numbers of lawsuits against individuals for file sharing, and DirecTV, which once filed large numbers of lawsuits against users of smart cards.

Traffic classification

Peer-to-peer file sharing applications are often designed to use any and all available bandwidth which impacts QoS-sensitive applications (like online gaming) that use comparatively small amounts of bandwidth.

Wirehog

In ways, Wirehog was a project comparable to Alex Pankratov's Hamachi VPN, the open-source OneSwarm private network, or the darknet RetroShare software.


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40 oz. Slushie

Slushie are mistaken for their repeats in Stepping on the Crowtche owf Your Americain Presidaint in numerous file sharing websites.

AMP v Persons Unknown

The decision in the case was published on 10 January 2012, and involved a woman who had experienced blackmail and harassment after sexually explicit pictures of her taken on a mobile phone camera were uploaded to BitTorrent file-sharing websites.

Bitzi

Bitzi originated several popular standards in the peer-to-peer file sharing sphere, including the Magnet URI scheme and Tiger tree hashes.

Brad Garlinghouse

Bradley Kent "Brad" Garlinghouse (born February 6, 1971 in Topeka, Kansas) is currently CEO of Hightail (formerly YouSendIt), the file sharing site.

Charles Nesson

Nesson continued to defend Joel Tenenbaum, who is accused of downloading and sharing 31 songs on Kazaa file-sharing network, after the jury came to a $675,000 verdict against Tenenbaum.

Choruss

But file-sharing advocate and technology policy blogger Mike Masnick called this a "tax" on students that, when rolled out to ISPs instead of just universities, would usher in de facto compulsory licensing (e.g., every ISP customer subsidizing the file-sharing of a few).

Data Stream Interface

When Apple introduced TCP with MacTCP and Open Transport in System 7 in the 1990s, they needed their file sharing protocol (AFP) to run on both TCP and AppleTalk.

Extemporaneous speaking

Usually teams have common Extemporaneous files using a file-sharing service like Dropbox, Copy, or Google Drive.

Happiness Is the Road

On 19 September (what year???), Marillion made the album available for free on peer-to-peer file sharing networks as 128 kbit/s WMA files.

John Doe

File sharing websites were blocked in India on July 21, 2011 on some ISPs including Bharti Airtel, BSNL, and Reliance Communications, because Reliance BIG Pictures got a “John Doe” order from Delhi High Court allowing them to serve cease and desist notices on movie pirates pirating the film Singham.

John Fanning

John Fanning (born December 21, 1963) is an Internet and technology investor and entrepreneur who was a co-founder in 1999 of Napster, an Internet file-sharing service focused on music files that was invented by his nephew Shawn Fanning, along with Sean Parker and Jordan Ritter.

Lendink

Lendink became notable for an incident in August 2012 where it was assumed to be an illegal file-sharing website, despite its legitimacy, leading to its temporary shutdown after the site's owner and host received hundreds of cease and desist and takedown notices.

Living Syndication

After putting together 2 demo tracks, Pervez Taufiq released to tracks via the then underground file sharing program, Napster.

Logfile

Internet Relay Chat (IRC), instant messaging (IM) programs, peer-to-peer file sharing clients with chat functions, and multiplayer games (especially MMORPGs) commonly have the ability to automatically log (i.e. save) textual communication, both public (IRC channel/IM conference/MMO public/party chat messages) and private chat messages between users.

Media Access Project

One of the bigger cases that lead to current net neutrality rules was in 2007 when internet service provider Comcast was caught directly manipulating or blocking their subscriber’s access to the popular file sharing service BitTorrent.

Metallica v. Napster, Inc.

Napster was a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service, founded by Shawn Fanning, that emphasized sharing digitally encoded music as MP3 audio files.

MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.

Fearing lawsuits similar to MGM v. Grokster, Mark Gorton, the chief executive officer of the firm that produces LimeWire, has said that he plans to stop distributing his file sharing program.

Nasty Old People

It premiered on 10 October 2009 at Kontrapunkt in Malmö, and on file sharing site The Pirate Bay.

Nigel Robertson

In April 2008, eSeekers launched the social networking and file sharing brand ShareNow (formerly izimi).

Now Get Busy

The song is licensed under the Creative Commons Noncommercial Sampling Plus license, allowing noncommercial file-sharing and noncommercial sampling.

Orange Rhyming Dictionary

The final track from Orange Rhyming Dictionary, "Sweet Avenue" is often mistakenly attributed to the singer Damien Rice due to regular misattribution on peer-to-peer file sharing networks.

ProtoWall

It is capable of filtering all NDIS protocols including IPV6 and, most importantly, TCP/IP and UDP – two protocols which are essential for the operation of file-sharing software.

Push Eject

In the early 2000s a version recorded from radio was available on many mp3 file sharing systems such as Napster identified as "Digital" by Nine Inch Nails from the forthcoming album The Fragile.

Remittitur

An example of the latter is the high-profile file-sharing court case Capitol v. Thomas.

Robert Sayre

He wrote "Atom: The Standard in Syndication," an article published in the July/August 2005 issue of the journal IEEE Internet Computing, and is a former developer of a Mac client for the Soulseek file-sharing service.

Robin Pecknold

In 2009, he stated that he discovered virtually all of the music he listened to by using online file-sharing program Napster.

Sarah Deutsch

Deutsch gained media attention for representing Verizon in the copyright case RIAA v. Verizon, in which the Recording Industry Association of America obtained a subpoena demanding Verizon to disclose the identity of several subscribers who were allegedly engaged in illegal P2P file-sharing.

Suw Charman-Anderson

Her work online has led her to explore the issues surrounding rights and responsibilities online, which she has frequently written about—for example, her article for The Guardian in 2004 exploring the truth behind file sharing and the music industry.

T-Bones Records

The title track was soon posted on file-sharing service Napster and made it to The Howard Stern Show.