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Streaming Napster style app hits the Web
News Music site WiredPlanet is beta testing a Napster like MP3 file sharing community that uses streaming technology to avoid legal pitfalls. The massive popularity of the MP3 file sharing community Napster has seen the spawning of a host of imitators...
[April 4, 2000, 15:18]
Pirate Bay closure sparks rise in P2P sites
News The closure of the Pirate Bay this summer led to a temporary 300 percent increase in the number of file-sharing websites, as users created sites to replace the Swedish BitTorrent tracker, according to security company McAfee.
[November 3, 2009, 14:35]
Radioactive assumptions in the Digital Economy Bill
Leader There are two major false assumptions behind the anti-file-sharing components of the Digital Economy Bill that are like two barely sub-critical lumps of uranium. One is that file-sharing is an economic disaster that deserves to be prevented by the...
[November 24, 2009, 15:30]
Half online youth share music - report
News The world's online youth is apparently ignoring the controversy surrounding file-sharing services like Napster, with nearly half of young Internet users having downloaded music from the Internet, according to an international study released last...
[December 14, 2000, 14:53]
Half the charges dropped in Pirate Bay trial
News On the first day of the long-awaited criminal trial involving The Pirate Bay file-sharing site, Swedish prosecutors unexpectedly dropped half of the charges against the site's operators. The four men behind the file-sharing site face up to two...
[February 19, 2009, 8:07]
Torrent Search
Downloads BitTorrent is the fastest and the newest growing file sharing client for the Windows operating system. With BitTorrent you can find those allusive files (i.e.full albums, movies, television shows, games and applications) that you wouldn’t...
[May 31, 2006, 8:00]
Spector Professional Edition
Downloads Version 5.0 records PC Program Activity and Peer to Peer File Sharing. Peer to Peer File Sharing recording (NEW! NEW! Additional new features include: Internet Access Blocking, Search of recorded data and more.
[September 5, 2006, 8:00]
The horse has bolted
Talkback The action that should have been taken, when file sharing was in it's infancy, was to target the suppliers and facilitators of files to be shared, rather than the 'consumer'. There is, and never was, any moral justification for wholesale file sharing.
[October 19, 2009, 19:21]
Kazaa Lite Resurrection
Downloads An abrupt end to the Kazaa Lite K++ free file sharing program project. Sharman Networks, the creators of Kazaa Media Desktop (KMD), the most popular file sharing program, tried to sue everyone that helped Kazaa Lite K++ gain popularity (including...
[February 23, 2007, 7:00]
ExtremeZ-IP
Downloads ExtremeZ-IP File Server software adds Macintosh file sharing (AppleShare) to Windows file servers. ExtremeZ-IP File Server delivers a stable and compatible platform for Mac file sharing making it the only choice in mission critical, production...
[October 9, 2009, 15:22]
Scour song-swapping site to close
News Music file-sharing service Scour announced Tuesday it is to close down its exchange site in the next two days. The announcement came in the wake of the US court's decision to grant the Los Angeles-based company's motion to disable its file-sharing...
[November 15, 2000, 15:41]
Filtering Kazaa 'impossible' - Sharman
News Sharman Networks has rejected claims from the music industry that it can identify the difference between copyright-infringing and legitimate file-sharing on its network, which is a crucial step towards the company gaining the capacity to block...
[February 9, 2004, 7:35]
Innocent surfers can appear guilty of song-swapping
News Security flaws in Internet file-sharing networks could incriminate innocent users, according to a research paper. The Gnutella network is a file-sharing network that forms the backbone of a number of popular file-sharing clients including Morpheus...
[October 3, 2003, 9:25]
Ozzie's peer-to-peer to hit corporate networks
News A product expected to bring Napster-style file-sharing to the world of business has been announced by secretive Ray Ozzie, creator of Lotus Notes. Groove will use elements of instant messaging and will be similar to the file-sharing concept...
[October 24, 2000, 16:03]
Paid version of Kazaa promises faster downloads
News Developers of Kazaa, the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing software, on Thursday launched its updated, paid version, Kazaa Plus. Kazaa is in the thick of a legal offensive that the Recording Industry Association of America has launched against file...
[August 29, 2003, 11:40]
Covert P2P network fails to hide users
News A Japanese peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network which claimed to keep user identities untraceable has failed to work -- two users in Japan have been arrested. This is the first known case of legal action being taken on users on anonymous file...
[December 3, 2003, 14:25]
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]
InterComm
Downloads InterComm delivers next-generation instant messaging features integrated with file sharing. With InterComm, your contacts are organized into groups, complete with a file sharing repository for exchanging important group documents.
[July 14, 2005, 8:00]
Swapping doesn't hurt music sales - study
News A study of file-sharing's effects on music sales says online music trading appears to have had little part in the recent slide in CD sales. We find that file sharing has only had a limited effect on record sales," the study's authors wrote.
[March 30, 2004, 10:45]
This treats the symptoms, not the cause
Talkback Yes file sharing can deprive musicians of revenue (there is a separate issue about how the rich, well known names distribute some of their revenue to encourage new blood). The sooner the record companies stopping ripping off customers and give them...
[July 27, 2008, 20:19]
