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File Sharing
Blog Recently, I have read a number of items about file sharing, both here and elsewhere. When I became aware of file sharing of copyright material, before even the wide spread adoption of broadband, I could not understand why this could not be stopped.
[June 26, 2008, 9:30]
Civil liberties groups attack file-sharing bill
Blog Illegal file-sharing, appropriate sanctions and internet access raise several human rights issues including the right to receive and impart information (protected by Article 10 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA); the right to fair trial (protected...
[December 3, 2009, 17:13]
Reports: Mandelson to create file-sharing offence
Blog The news of the proposed statutory amendment to the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act — a technique that would allow the change to be pushed through without debate — came ahead of Friday's publication of the Digital Economy Bill, which is...
[November 19, 2009, 16:01]
AT&T may filter illegal file-sharing
Blog As this article from OUT-LAW.com points out, previously some ISPs have steadfastly refused to block content flowing over their networks. In part this has been to avoid legal responsibility for the delivery of undesirable or malicious code.
[January 17, 2008, 12:33]
Wednesday: Christian Rock
Blog File sharing is wrong, right? We're not going to say, 'You're ungodly and you're going to hell because you're file sharing'. Wednesday 2/7/2003 As the RIAA is fond of telling us, it's not only against the law, it's rampantly immoral.
[July 4, 2003, 17:33]
File-sharer crackdown could be expedited
Blog Peter Mandelson, the secretary of state for business, innovation and skills, is planning a major crackdown on illegal file-sharing, according to reports over the weekend. At the end of that year, if fewer than 70 percent of the recipients stopped...
[August 17, 2009, 15:46]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Peer-to-peer file sharing is going through changes, and people are moving ever more quickly from the big public areas to the private online clubs of the darknet. Meanwhile, and despite ever more frantic takedown action by the movie and music people...
[January 21, 2005, 15:45]
The First iPhone Mobile Torrent
Blog For those not yet familiar with mobile torrent technology, the concept of file sharing from one system to others is borrowed from computer-based file sharing applications into the mobile setting. Where computers are dominated by the Window’s OS...
[March 17, 2008, 16:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog According to the NY Times, Mitch Bainwol, chief executive for the Recording Industry Association of America, believes ''CD burning is a problem that is really undermining sales,'' with 'Burned' CDs accounting for 29 percent of all recorded music...
[August 19, 2005, 18:45]
Filesharing and bilesharing: a 'three-strikes' rant
Blog Mr Woodward said: "The growing threat of illegal P2P (peer to peer) file-sharing threatens [the creative industries], as films go unmade, DVD sales deteriorate and jobs are lost in production and distribution of content.
[May 12, 2009, 12:43]
The great space race
Blog This whole hullabaloo comes at a time when Microsoft is offering a variety of ‘spaces’ for file sharing, photos and suchlike as part of its Windows LIVE portal. Not to forget Google Documents and Flickr for file sharing of course.
[September 26, 2007, 17:30]
Could copyright crackdown kill superfast broadband demand?
Blog Once it went to Q&A, it struck me that one word had gone entirely unuttered: "file-sharing". If the government is so keen to crack down on unlawful file-sharing, won't that kill the demand for next-gen broadband, and thereby kill the economic case...
[November 26, 2009, 13:18]
Apple iTunes: A blojan
Blog Bonjour.msi - a file sharing service iTunes.msi - the big-daddy UI for managing your music and videos What we have here is not your standard application bloatware (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bloat) This is something more meaningful...
[October 30, 2009, 8:34]
Snow Leopard Server: a first take
Blog Apple claims that Snow Leopard is 'up to 2x faster' than its predecessor for operations such as file sharing, mail and web hosting. New features in Snow Leopard Server include iCal Server 2 for sharing calendars, scheduling meetings and co...
[August 25, 2009, 11:38]
Another fantastic response from Skype CS to a customers problem
Blog Quit any file sharing applications or high-bandwidth usage applications. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Network And Sharing Center. Locate the shared.xml file found in C:/Users/%Current User%/Appdata/Roaming/Skype/shared.xml (You can also press...
[September 27, 2008, 10:03]
Seeking your techno guru
Blog a) The Windows File and Printer sharing wizard has been run.b) A Firewall rule in the router is sending traffic to that machine.c) The address has been to set to match that PCs Netmask settings.d) The address was randomly chosen by The Windows IP...
[November 30, 2008, 17:03]
How Not To Let Your Bandwidth Slip Away All Day Long
Blog If you close the program, it will leave the file sharing part of the program running and you will see the icon in the task bar. Really, I can't imagine why the record companies are so frightened of using the words; torrent, file sharing, and peer...
[March 26, 2009, 11:03]
We Need Some Perspective
Blog OK.I want to sound off about this file sharing business. Firstly I would like to say, that it's not something that I have ever chosen or wanted to do. I'm happy buying CDs of the specialist types of music that I'm into, and want the artists to be...
[August 19, 2008, 9:56]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Peer-to-peer file sharing software Kazaa announces that it's including peer-to-peer voice-over-IP software Skype with its next release. Tuesday 23/11/2004 It's not the only one: Siemens is selling a USB dongle that links its handsets to the service...
[November 26, 2004, 17:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So, Kazaa and Morpheus are both caught out, Kazaa for including a secret distributed processing system on their peer-to-peer file sharing system, and Morpheus for secretly redirecting punters' shopping requests via their own sites.
[April 5, 2002, 16:57]
