Government shakedown for music-sharing service LimeWire?
Congress is winding up to give LimeWire hell again. The peer-to-peer file-sharing service apparently still poses a risk to users who store personal information on their computers, according to the House Committee on Government Reform.
As a free service that allows users to share locally stored files over the internet, LimeWire has been a lightning rod for controversy. Over the years, the service has been scorned as a method for trading copyrighted content like music and movies,… Continue Reading
SkyRider gets $12M more for aggressive P2P search engine
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SkyRider, the Mountain View start-up developing an aggressive search engine for peer-to-peer traffic, has raised another $12 million in venture capital.
The round, led by ComVentures, comes just two months after it raised $8 million (see our earlier story here)
The company also showed its hand on strategy for the first time (it had been mum on specifics). It will essentially hijack the user software accessing the peer-to-peer networks, and force its own ads very high… Continue Reading