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Morpheus looks to Gnutella for help
News Since Napster first burst onto the scene, file swapping has emerged as one of the Net's "killer apps", vigorously embraced by millions of consumers in search of free music, video and software. Napster: The original file-swapping heavyweight.
[February 28, 2002, 9:34]
Napster blasts court's technical meddling
News But Napster is also contending that federal court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel gave far too much power to her appointed technical adviser, who over the course of a few months grew from a court adviser into a de facto chief technical officer for the...
[August 9, 2001, 16:22]
Star Wars film clones attack the Net
News The paper said that at least two versions have already popped up, distributed over Internet Relay Chat (IRC), a system often used for both communications and file-swapping. But since that film's release, easily accessible file-swapping networks...
[May 10, 2002, 16:41]
Companies struggling to stop song swappers
News The RIAA for months has been pressing companies to crack down on the use of file-swapping networks. With early generations of file-swapping software, it was a relatively simple task for network administrators to simply block the network "ports", or...
[March 19, 2003, 14:40]
AOL pulls file-sharing software
News The features of Waste are similar to those of file-swapping services such as Kazaa and the defunct Napster, but the difference is that only small networks of people (up to 50, according to the Web site) can use it.
[June 2, 2003, 9:52]
Noose tightens on Napster clones
News Since 17 June, a file-swapping client promising improved privacy known as Blubster 2.5 has seen more than 3.3 million downloads, according to CNET Download.com, a division of CNET Networks. Calling the tactic a form of "wilful blindness," the...
[July 1, 2003, 9:06]
RIAA: We'll smother song swappers
News The new strategy would take advantage of file-swapping networks' own weaknesses, amplifying them to the point where download services appear even more clogged and slow to function than they are today.
[October 17, 2001, 9:37]
ISP caching tool muddies copyright waters
News Last week, Stockholm-based Joltid said three major service providers in Europe licensed its PeerCache technology -- software designed to reduce costs of network traffic by caching frequently traded digital files within file-swapping systems.
[July 21, 2003, 13:16]
Another 80 song swappers hit by suits
News That first wave of suits helped dramatically raise awareness of the legal risks of file swapping, but also drew considerable criticism from lawmakers and consumer groups who said the RIAA risked violating individuals' rights or had sued the wrong...
[October 31, 2003, 9:25]
Napster comes to the office
News The at-work traffic numbers more than doubled the number of Napster users since May, when there were 417,000 PCs in the workplace using the file-swapping application. Napster could end up being a liability for corporate America, Greenberg argues...
[September 12, 2000, 8:26]
RIAA site comes under second attack
News Earlier in the day, it had been modified to contain pro-file trading messages, and even direct links to downloadable music and to file-swapping service Kazaa. See the MP3/P2P News Section for the latest on everything from MP3 players to file...
[August 29, 2002, 7:31]
Napster appoints new CEO
News Napster's file-swapping service has been largely out of commission since the beginning of this month, as the company has been working to streamline the latest version of its file-filtering system. Hilbers, who will lead the embattled music-swapping...
[July 24, 2001, 15:08]
RIAA scales up legal attack
News Under a legal ruling handed down last year, the RIAA must file suits in court before it can approach Internet service providers (ISPs) for information that links alleged file-swapping evidence to the subscriber names on a given ISP account.
[February 18, 2004, 9:35]
US agency wants more cash to fight file sharing
News In an extensive report released Tuesday, senior department officials endorsed a pair of controversial copyright bills strongly favoured by the entertainment industry that would criminalise "passive sharing" on file-swapping networks and permit...
[October 13, 2004, 9:30]
Listen.com flirts with Napster links
News The company has added a function that triggers the Napster application, booting up the file-swapping service to help find music reviewed or recommended by Listen.com. It flirted briefly with file-swapping services once before, bidding on the assets...
[April 17, 2001, 9:16]
Virus hoax targets Napster users
News A message has been posted on several newsgroups saying that "music fans around the planet will receive a shocking surprise on their computers on American Independence Day, 4 July, but only if they have downloaded unauthorised songs from Napster...
[July 2, 2001, 12:13]
Another BitTorrent hub bites the dust
News The agency said it was the first criminal enforcement action aimed at copyright infringers who use the now-popular BitTorrent file-swapping technology. Shutting down illegal file swapping networks like Elite Torrents is an essential part of our...
[May 26, 2005, 16:40]
Anti-piracy team checks P2P sites
News The Web crawler used by BSA comes from BayTSP, a Los Gatos, Calif.company that also monitors file-swapping networks for movie studios and record labels. See the MP3/P2P News Section for the latest on everything from MP3 players to file-swapping...
[June 5, 2003, 10:18]
Lawsuit targets biggest post-Napster network
News Each company maintains Web pages, advertising streams and bulletin boards that show up through the software, but all of these bits of information are irrelevant to the process of searching and file swapping.
[October 3, 2001, 9:42]
File-trading pressure mounts on ISPs
News In the file-swapping world, the law has become murkier. High-speed Internet provider, Adelphia, a cable company based in Pennsylvania, is one of the latest to join the list of ISPs cracking down on file swapping in the post-Napster world.
[July 26, 2001, 11:19]
