Mark Hofmann is a Daily Courier staff writer and can be reached at 724-626-3539 or via e-mail. Charges were filed at District Judge Dwight Shaner's office Friday against John Joseph Minnick, 64, of 224 Water St.

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An East Greenwich man who pleaded guilty to advertising and offering to share child pornography was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison.

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NORTHBOROUGH, Mass. - A Northborough man was arraigned on child pornography charges today in Westborough District Court after an investigation by State Police Detectives and Northborough Police.

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Rogers Communications Inc. is getting out of the business of deliberately slowing down Internet traffic, the company announced Friday.

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Would you give a known drug user your personal information? Would you open a checking or credit card account for an admitted con artist? Would you put your full name, date of birth, home address, and social security number online for anyone to use as they wished? Hopefully, not knowingly.

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In 2010, Berlin-based media artist Aram Bertholl began another big chapter in file sharing.

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Peer-to-peer file-sharing networks are currently receiving much attention as a means of sharing and distributing information.

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The implications of P2P technology, or file sharing, are nothing short of profound.

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A Prince George man stood trial Wednesday for allegedly downloading child pornography onto a friend's computer while visiting her home.

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Since the Recording Industry Association of America announced in 2008 that it would stop suing individual users for illegally downloading music, the high-profile piracy lawsuit has essentially disappeared.

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Musicmetric is a web analytics platform that recently launched a Pro edition in Beta.

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Prosper.com , a peer-to-peer lending marketplace for personal loans and investments, announced today that it has funded more than $300 million in P2P consumer loans since inception.

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Furious lend-to-save websites have hit back at accusations of luring savers into a money-exchange trap, where they are taking on too much risk to boost the return on their nest egg.

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We tell you how to install and configure the most popular open source proxy server on the web for blocking websites in the first of this multi-part series Freeing up congested networks is one of the most common tasks that network administrators do on a daily basis.

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Ramon Paul Fernandez, 37, of Bridgeport was sentenced Jan. 26 by United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to one year and one day of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release for possessing child pornography.

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Four backers of the eponymous file-sharing website The Pirate Bay were denied an appeal to the Swedish Supreme Court on Wednesday, which upheld a 2010 appeals court guilty verdict of abetting copyright infringement.

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In its initial design, JPPF is a distributed parallel processing framework based on a master/worker architecture.

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For ten years, Kickstarter founder Andy Baio has been compiling his "Pirating the Oscars" reports, which document which Oscar-nominated movies are available as downloads on P2P and other file-sharing services, measuring how effective the studios are at controlling leaks of "screeners" -- DVDs set to members of the Academy for review consideration.

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A 21-year-old Waukesha man is facing multiple felony charges after police discovered child pornography on his computer.

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An old legal aphorism says, "If the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. If the law is on your side, pound on the law.

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Signing a blog post as "Pirate Coelho," bestselling author Paulo Coelho has joined a promotional program at the infamous file sharing site, The Pirate Bay.

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The saga of West Virginia's homegrown P2P porn lawyer appears headed to a strange, sad end after felony charges were filed against him in state court.

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Yancy Craft, 41, faces a minimum sentence of five years and up to 20 years in prison for receipt of child pornography.

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Zhao Nan directs enterprise development for Renrendai, which operates a website that puts together small borrowers and lenders.

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U.S. federal prosecutors say the data hosted on Megaupload servers could be deleted as early as Thursday -- a grim prospect for anyone who's ever used the cyberlocker for legitimate purposes, such as storing work files.

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Los Alamitos, California, Jan 30, 2012 -- Beng Chin Ooi, professor of computer science and dean of the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore, has been named winner of the IEEE Computer Society's 2012 Tsutomu Kanai Award.

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Scientists have created a new algorithm to detect virtual communities, designed to match the needs of real-life social, biological or information networks detection better than with current attempts.

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Vip Torrent is designed to be a P2P file sharing software for movies, software, music, mp3, documents and games downloads.

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Napster , the original peer-to-peer music sharing service, will live on as a streaming service in the UK and Europe as a challenger to Spotify .

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Wi-Fi is one of the world's most widely used wireless technologies. Two common downsides of that popularity are interference and often slow speeds.

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The NYT piece is focused on the intellectual property issues. But what I sense is the coming of age of 3D printing.

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The digital music business saw unprecedented global expansion in 2011, while key steps forward were taken in several markets to help tackle digital piracy.

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The report confirmed Prosper's 10.69% annualized seasoned rate of return, net of fees, for the period of July 1, 2009 through September 30, 2011.

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Venture capital firm investment in peer-to-peer technology continues to build strength, according to a recent VentureTrends report by VentureDeal .

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The Reds addressed their need for starting pitching depth tonight, as John Hayman reports that the Reds have signed starting pitcher Jeff Francis to a... CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman is reporting on Twitter that the Reds have agreed to sign free agent left-hander Jeff Francis to a minor-league deal.

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A Tioga County man has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for possessing and producing child pornography.

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The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission claims to have evidence that Rogers Communications Inc.

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Hoppe was a manager at Discount Trophy in Stroudsburg. Now he is a prisoner in the Monroe County Correctional Institute.

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A A Newton librarian has been arrested on child pornography charges, a week after a Newton teacher was arrested on similar charges.

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As Canadian network neutrality complaints rise sharply after the nation imposed new neutrality laws, Rogers is busily responsible for more than half of them -- as the company continues to use network management platforms that impact legitimate traffic, applications and games .

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Rip Empson is a writer at TechCrunch. He covers startups, because he loves them.

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JADsoftware is about to release a new version of its Internet Evidenc Finder, which it says is used by investigators around the world Many PC users understand that hitting the delete button doesn't necessarily make every document on a hard drive evaporate.

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An East Stroudsburg man is accused of sharing child pornography on his computer via a peer-to-peer file sharing network, according to the Monroe County District Attorney's Office.

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With grants from the National Institute of Justice, ATC-NY is bringing P2P [peer-to-peer] Forensics and Macintosh Forensics Training to U.S. law enforcement at no cost to participants.

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With the Stop Online Piracy Act on hold in the U.S. Congress, one might expect the international music industry to lay low for a bit.

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THIS YEAR MARKS THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY of the implementation of Papua New Guinea's copyright law, known as the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act 2000.

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