Police Raid BitTorrent Tracker¦and Arrest its Hosting Provider

This week an operation led by a powerful anti-piracy group closed down a 6-year-old BitTorrent tracker.

The site had already been targeted following the verdict in the original Pirate Bay trial, but had quickly announced their intentions to go 100% legal. This week, however, people said to be behind the site were arrested. Most surprisingly, one of them was the owner of the company supplying them bandwidth.

Source:
http://torrentfreak.com/police-raid-bittorrent-tracker-and-arrest-its-hosting-provider-111117/

Internet observatory brings real time p2p traffic statistics

Ipoque, a German based company that specializes in developing bandwidth managing solutions for universities and ISPs has just launched the Internet Observatory.

Source:
http://torrentfreak.com/internet-observatory-brings-real-time-p2p-traffic-statistics-110928/

AT&T to Throttle Big Users of Unlimited Data

AT&T announced service throttling for the heaviest users of its unlimited mobile data plans saying the only way to truly solve its bandwidth.

Source:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/236979/atandt_to_throttle_big_users_of_unlimited_data.html

YouTube responsible for 22% of all mobile bandwidth

Every fourth bit transferred over mobile data networks worldwide is part of a YouTube video: That’s the gist of a new study from network optimization vendor Allot Networks.

The research also shows strong growth for VoIP and IM traffic, albeit on a much smaller level.

Source:
http://gigaom.com/broadband/youtube-global-mobile-bandwidth/

Experimental broadband management app could keep ISPs honest

A browser-based app developed by Georgia Tech researchers is designed to help Internet users make better use of their bandwidth “ and to make sure ISPs are holding up their end of the bandwidth bargain.

Source:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/051111-kermit-isps-gatech-bandwidth.html