Sentences with phrase «peer file sharing service»

When Napster first emerged just before the new millennium, the music industry crushed the peer - to - peer file sharing service under the full force of the law.

Napster was a peer - to - peer file sharing service that let users exchange MP3 files.

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The Scour team reformed as Red Swoosh, a peer - to - peer file - sharing service Akamai Technologies later bought for $ 19 million before founding Uber, ride - for - hire sharing service, with Garrett Camp, co-founder of StumbleUpon, and himself a graduate school dropout.

However, rather than rely on a central monetary authority to monitor, verify and approve transactions, and manage the money supply, Bitcoin is underwritten by a peer - to - peer network akin to file - sharing services like BitTorrent.

Instead, it is underpinned by a peer - to - peer computer network made up of its users» machines, akin to the networks that underpin BitTorrent, a file - sharing system, and Skype, audio, video and chat service.

Skype is built on the same sort of peer - to - peer networking technology that powered many notorious — and, depending on whom you talk to, illegal — file - sharing services, starting with Napster.

Downloaded, Alex Winter's chronicle of the rise and fall of the peer - to - peer file - sharing music service Napster, falls on the more conventional end of the documentary spectrum.

Unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material, including unauthorized peer - to - peer file sharing (e.g., using BitTorrent to obtain / distribute music or movies) may subject students to civil and criminal liability, sanctions arising from a violation of Cooper Union's Code of Conduct, and loss of internet services provided by the Cooper Union IT Department.

Tiversa disseminated the data on a peer - to - peer file sharing network and then offered LabMD its remediation services, the suit says.

Rightscorp, a Los Angeles - based provider of copyright monetization and data services, monitors the global Peer ‐ to ‐ Peer (P2P) file sharing networks to seek out and find illegally downloaded digital media on ISP networks.

Lilin said he has long been interested in applying peer - to - peer technologies to finance, beginning with his use of eDonkey Network, a file sharing service created by Ripple and Stellar founder Jed McCaleb.

Though the Ripple CEO says that comparisons between his cryptocurrency and Bitcoin are ultimately compliments, he also took the chance to compare the dominant cryptocurrency to peer - to - peer file - sharing internet service Napster — which was revolutionary for its time but failed to maintain any sort of lasting relevance.