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So you think you know Skype?

With Skype's legal troubles now cleared up, it's a good time to learn more about the company than just what features it offers. Here 10 questions designed to give you a better understanding of the peer-to-peer VoIP vendor.

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News about peer-to-peer

Article | 14/01/2013 US DOJ did not entrap Megaupload, the agency says
The U.S. Department of Justice did not mislead a court and attempt to entrap file storage site Megaupload on copyright infringement charges, the agenc...
Article | 12/10/2011 FTC: P-to-P software shared personal info from smartphones
Peer-to-peer software developer Frostwire has agreed to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that its software would likely cause users to unk...
Article | 5/05/2011 CBS sued for distributing LimeWire software
An entrepreneur and over a dozen hip-hop artists are suing CBS over its part in contributing to piracy. The suit, filed by FilmOn founder Alki David ...
Article | 28/01/2011 Google Instant bans 'BitTorrent' word
What do curse words, porn terms and the word BitTorrent have in common? They're all blacklisted from Google Instant.
Article | 13/01/2011 MIT pioneers ad hoc network-bottleneck breaker
Two researchers may have found a way to greatly reduce traffic bottlenecks that could take place in ad hoc networks. Such work may be essential for th...

Features about peer-to-peer

Article | 28/10/2010 LimeWire's demise: We revisit six peer-to-peer file sharing services
The demise of the Gnutella client, LimeWire (a study in 2008 showed it was still the number one peer-to-peer client eight years after was first releas...
Article | 24/11/2009 So you think you know Skype?
With Skype's legal troubles now cleared up, it's a good time to learn more about the company than just what features it offers. Here 10 questions desi...