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[Fresh Freeware | Download Free Software] Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, this uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users - not to share files this time, but to talk for free with your friends.

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http://blog.tmcnet.com [Blog.tmcnet.com] VoIP Blog - Tehrani.com: Kazaa Pays $100 Million Kazaa will be paying record companies $100 million dollars in damages. "Kazaa was an international engine of copyright theft which damaged the whole music sector and hampered our industry's efforts to grow a legitimate digital business,"

http://search.lycos.com [Search.lycos.com] Lycos Search Results: web results for KaZaA: Kazaa, once one of the titans of the illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) file-swapping business, reached an out-of-court settlement Thursday with the music industry. Under the terms of the settlement, the .

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com [Googleresearch.blogspot.com] Official Google Research Blog: An experimental study of P2P VoIP: For example, we found that Skype users typically keep their client software open during the workday, as opposed to users of file-sharing P2P systems (such as KaZaa) where users typically join and leave the network with much greater frequency. In further contrast to P2P file-sharing applications, which typically tend to be bandwidth hogs, Skype clients and supernodes use relatively little bandwidth and CPU even when they relay VoIP calls.

http://ipadventures.com [Digital Common Sense] Skype - Security and Detection: A super node is an ordinary host’s end-point on the Skype network, meaning that any ordinary host must first connect to a super node and authenticate itself with the Skype login server. Any node with a public IP address having sufficient CPU, memory, and network bandwidth is a candidate to become a super node - including machines that reside on enterprise networks.

http://www.newsviablogs.com/broadbandphone [Broadband Phone and VOIP Service] VOIP Service - Bain’s pain: Vonage stock down t... : BusinessWeek - Verizon crippling freatures on its phones that would let users send photos or games to and from their computers without paying Verizon, or AT&T's yearlong foot-dragging in giving Internet phone competitor Vonage ( VG ) access to its 911 switches. But

http://instabloke.blogspot.com [a blog about blogging by InstaBLOKE: a bloggers natural resource - blog tips, tools and news] Kazaa goes legit and pays for it dearly: Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (the brains behind Kazaa as well as VoIP upstart Skype that was recently sold to eBay for $2.6 billion) are pursuing a new venture that is focused on internet-based video and TV distribution.

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