BitTorrent

apparent that advocates of net neutrality are gaining momentum and the public is no longer standing idly by. On August 1, 2008, the FCC issued an order to Comcast reprimanding the ISP’s behavior and prohibiting it from throttling the data traffic of BitTorrent (Timeline). This could be seen as a major milestone for the FCC in the fact that it could finally make the principles laid out in the Internet Policy Statement into something meaningful and impactful. On September 18, 2012, in violation of…

Romantic Comedy Argument Throughout a person’s academic career the saying” you will see this again in life” is always said and it is common to push pass the thought because to be honest what are the chances of using a quadratic formula to solve any problem that we face today? Megan Garber of the Atlantic broke down the genre of romantic comedy while giving a refreshers course on core concepts we learned in school. Garber shed light on key issues that affects the genre and explains why there is…

The program was shut down by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act due to a law suit submitted by multiple recording companies. Users of Napster proceeded onto other file sharing programs, some of which are still used today such as LimeWire and BitTorrent. The downloading of software though torrenting has also been an issue for…

In “Piracy is Stealing and Affecting Music Industry”, Beverly Storrs informs about the outcome of pirating music on the music industry. Using the Webster’s Dictionary definition, Storrs defines what piracy is and then puts it into context for music piracy. Then, the essay begins to explain how people think that it is not that big of a deal to illegally download music but Storrs uses statistics from the Recording Industry Association of America to show otherwise. The Recording Industry…

Net neutrality is the principle that all internet traffic should be treated equally [1]. This is an especially appealing idea if you are in the middle of watching the latest episode of your favorite show on Netflix. The neutral state of the internet is what has allowed data heavy streaming services like Netflix to flourish. However, treating all data usage exactly the same cuts into ISP’s profits, since they would have to charge everybody the same, and bandwidth is finite. This would lead to…

Net Neutrality and Data Discrimination “They who can give up their essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin. When you sacrifice your freedoms for security you deserve neither. The same goes for internet freedoms. When you sacrifice the freedom and openness of the internet for any type of law you deserve nothing. The internet started on the basis of the words, free, open and…

IT-500 Project By Rishabh Ganger Table of Contents Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………………..Page 3 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………Page 4 The Program…………………………………………………………………………………….Page 5 Screenshots Source Code Conclusion References Abstract A text-based adventure game compiled and created using simple Python and additional modules from www.Pygame.com it is sort of inspired by early interactive…

While ubiquitous Internet access is extremely convenient and enables marvelous new applications for mobile users, it also creates a major security vulnerability—by placing a passive receiver in the vicinity of the wireless transmitter, that receiver can obtain a copy of every packet that is transmitted! These packets can contain all kinds of sensitive information, including passwords, social security numbers, trade secrets, and private personal messages. A passive receiver that records a copy of…

at night, some people staged a procession in Ramu in protest of the perceived blasphemous image uploaded to a Facebook account. Newspaper reports stated that local Awami League leaders were initially seen mobilising the mob and emphasising the sentimental religious issue to counter the opposition. The Daily Star, a widely circulated national daily, reported that a motley group comprising local leaders of pro-Awami League organisations, BNP men, madrasa students and common people were allegedly…