BitTorrent Expands Into Japan
BitTorrent has announced BitTorrent Japan, a wholly owned subsidiary headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. BitTorrent founded BitTorrent Japan to address the growing demand for peer-assisted content delivery technology among Japanese content publishers and consumer electronics (CE) manufacturers. Japan, with some of the fattest broadband pipes has serious hunger for large downloadable content. BitTorrent has responded with a new technology...
German Authorities Pull The Plug On eDonkey Servers
After court injunctions in Germany, seven of eDonkey’s mega servers were shut down last week. The shutdown follow similar eDonkey server closures in the Netherlands and France. “In the last few weeks the number of eDonkey users worldwide has been reduced by more than a million, knocking an estimated third of users off the network,” the IFPI, who spearheaded the legal action, reported. “Fresh actions will...






