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Apple online music service aims for impulse buyers
News The releases come in the wake of a court ruling last week that -- for the first time in the United States -- handed a defeat to the record labels and movie studios in their attempts to stamp out online file-swapping services.
[April 29, 2003, 7:42]
Legal Napster opens for business
News The fact that paid music services are even on the battlefield is a radical change from a year ago, when they ran a very distant second to file-swapping networks like Kazaa, Morpheus or the defunct original Napster.
[October 30, 2003, 8:00]
P2P firms face new legal threat
News Lockyer spokesman Tom Dresslar did not directly confirm or deny the authorship of the document, which was apparently leaked to file-swapping companies last week. File-swapping companies have come under increasing pressure from federal lawmakers to...
[March 16, 2004, 14:05]
New features planned for file swappers
News In the midst of a potentially crippling lawsuit levelled by the recording and movie industries, peer-to-peer company MusicCity is planning a new, more powerful version of its popular file-swapping software.
[December 27, 2001, 11:23]
Gnutella swapping cookies, too
News One of several file-swapping networks riding the coattails of Napster's success, Gnutella allows people to open the contents of their computers to create a virtual swap meet for MP3s, software, video and text files.
[February 9, 2001, 8:42]
Copyright battle seeks early resolution
News Because the system is so open-ended, and the companies have no immediate control over the networks, the case may help uphold the rights of companies to distribute file-swapping software if they aren't directly involved in the trading, peer-to-peer...
[September 10, 2002, 11:04]
Hard for file swappers to hide identity
News For example, Blubster does not conceal the telltale IP addresses used to connect to the file-swapping service, meaning copyright investigators can, in practice, unmask anyone on its system. The RIAA has already filed suit against four university...
[July 14, 2003, 7:58]
Skype and Kazaa named in StreamCast lawsuit
News Also named as defendants are Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who are also the developers behind the Kazaa file-swapping software. Internet-calling provider Skype's software. StreamCast and Kazaa have argued in the past over...
[March 28, 2006, 9:30]
Ruling means dark days for P2P users?
News Although the ruling is being hailed as a victory by file-swapping supporters, record labels are unlikely to step back from their attempts to stomp out free file-trading, which they view as a threat to their survival.
[April 28, 2003, 9:44]
Labels reel Kazaa owner into lawsuit
News But in February, Kazaa BV sold the Kazaa file-swapping software to Sharman, a company later revealed to be based for tax reasons in Vanuatu, a small island in the South Pacific. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion...
[July 10, 2002, 7:40]
How to uninstall Brilliant's software
News Brilliant Digital Entertainment quietly installs its own software with every copy of the Kazaa file-swapping software. In this folder will be a file called "bdeclean.exe". The Brilliant Digital software, which is being progressively distributed...
[April 4, 2002, 10:51]
Kazaa's owner breaks silence
News Sharman Networks came from nowhere in early March to purchase the popular file swapping technology Kazaa from its Dutch creators, then immediately disappeared into an tide of speculation, as Hemming went to ground to organise a full launch of the...
[April 24, 2002, 10:17]
New.net downloads reignite Kazaa controversy
News Kazaa's file-swapping software downloads are again in the spotlight following complaints regarding New.net software, which comes bundled with the popular P2P download. However, at the centre of the latest controversy is the distribution of New.net...
[April 10, 2002, 9:58]
Morpheus gets tune-up, delays 2.0
News StreamCast Networks is tuning up the current version of its Morpheus software amid delays in launching the next generation of its file-swapping service. Meanwhile, StreamCast has been waging a legal fight against the big record labels over its file...
[June 11, 2002, 9:03]
RIAA still going after Napster
News Apparently, Napster's Shawn Fanning, whose code-writing weekend created the file swapping in the first place, was writing new code for such a program, according to Napster executives. But just a few months ago, Boies was in court arguing that such...
[November 1, 2000, 9:03]
Morpheus seeks new role in music biz
News StreamCast, along with two other file-swapping companies, is being sued by the big record labels and Hollywood movie studios in a federal court in Los Angeles. Morpheus has been in the spotlight in recent weeks after its file-swapping network, once...
[March 14, 2002, 9:54]
Morpheus shuts out users
News In a statement, StreamCast blamed Kazaa, another file-swapping company that had provided the basic software that served as the foundation of the Morpheus program. StreamCast Networks' Morpheus -- a file-swapping service that many have said would be...
[February 27, 2002, 12:09]
Napster puts music on pause
News At the beginning of May, Napster said that more than 1.3 million people a day were visiting its file-swapping service -- even though filters were eating into the number of files available. The company's effort to make its file-swapping service...
[July 3, 2001, 9:24]
Kazaa exec defends sleeper software
News Brilliant Digital's plans, first outlined in a document filed on Monday with US securities regulators, are the most reaching yet of a long list of companies trying to make money off the millions of people who download and use file-swapping software.
[April 4, 2002, 10:00]
File-sharing programs carry Trojan horse
News Advertising software called "Clicktilluwin" that comes bundled with the file-swapping programs carries a program called "W32.DIDer," which Symantec has classified as a Trojan horse -- a piece of code that takes over parts of a person's computer...
[January 3, 2002, 9:37]
