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File-swap software will foil enforcers
News See the MP3/P2P News Section for the latest on everything from MP3 players to file-swapping services. Hence, when someone searches for a song and finds it on the users' computer, they cannot then create a list of all files available to be shared.
[July 22, 2003, 9:10]
Microsoft preps content locks for devices
News See the MP3 News Section for the latest on everything from MP3 players to Napster and the other music swapping services. The absence of those features makes it difficult to instruct a song to expire after a given date, or set a number of times...
[April 5, 2002, 9:28]
Microsoft offers a 'tune-up' for XP
News Those swapping files will find MP3 is the more widely used of the two formats. Microsoft's DRM technology prevents copying to CDs and stops the song from playing after a set period of time, usually 30 days.
[December 13, 2001, 15:57]
RIAA wants to chat with song swappers
News A Los Angeles federal court last week ruled for the first time that file-swapping tools such as Grokster and Morpheus were legal, handing copyright holders a serious setback in their efforts to pull the plug on such services.
[April 30, 2003, 7:26]
Police raid Napster users
News ZDNet Belgium reported Thursday that the Belgian arm of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) claimed to be giving police the names of thousands of suspected users of song-swapping site Napster.
[February 16, 2001, 10:10]
Music body spies on Napster users
News Although Napster lost a crucial court case Monday, the song-swapping site hasn't closed down yet and is hoping that it may be able to continue in existance. The Belgian branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is...
[February 16, 2001, 6:14]
Musicians lobby EU over copyright vote
News The vote will take place only a day after song-swapping site Napster failed to overturn an injunction in the US courts. The IFPI is made up of over 30 organisations that represent recording artists, record labels, song writers and film makers.
[February 13, 2001, 16:35]
Hit list dwindles in new Napster software
News Napster plans to shut off old versions of its file-swapping software late Wednesday night to push a version that includes a new filter for blocking copyrighted music. Despite the Napster crackdown, however, file swapping is alive and well on...
[June 28, 2001, 14:26]
US Justice Department ready to prosecute file-swappers
News Swapping files in violation of the law has always been a civil offense, and the RIAA and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have the option of suing individual infringers and seeking damages.
[August 21, 2002, 7:51]
Royalty dispute confuses CD copy-protection
News Copy-protected discs offer a big chance to do so, since the lion's share of unauthorised files traded on file-swapping networks comes from unprotected CDs. But that probe ended late last year, showing no evidence of illegal collusion, and most...
[January 13, 2004, 11:40]
ISP strikes back over file-trader suits
News That decision, which forced Verizon Communications to turn over the name of a broadband subscriber accused of swapping copyrighted works on Kazaa, vastly simplified the RIAA's investigations and effectively opened the subpoena floodgates.
[July 31, 2003, 12:25]
2001: Peer-to-peer technology grows up
News It's now over two years since a few underground song-swapping services put peer-to-peer technology firmly at the forefront of the IT agenda. With users already realising how useful IM can be for file swapping, its popularity looks it set to boom in...
[December 28, 2001, 6:31]
News Burst: Napster injunction partly upheld
News According to early reports from America, a US court has partly upheld an injunction against song-swapping site Napster. Judges at the Court of Appeals in San Francisco will issue its ruling Monday on the recording industry's request that Napster be...
[February 12, 2001, 17:33]
Another file-swapping site to fall silent
News An Illinois federal judge said Wednesday that he would order the Madster file-trading system, formerly known as Aimster, to halt song-swapping in the next few days. As with Napster's final loss Tuesday, the immediate result of the Madster-Aimster...
[September 5, 2002, 7:56]
Napster appeal: don't shut us down
News Saying jobs and the company's future are at stake, Napster filed an emergency motion Thursday seeking to delay a federal order that could bring its song-swapping service to a grinding halt Friday at midnight Pacific Time.
[July 28, 2000, 9:24]
The UK is no place for Napster
News Napster -- the song swapping software which allows music enthusiasts to download MP3 files of their favourite tunes for free -- has outraged the music industry in the US, leading the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and artists...
[May 3, 2000, 11:31]
Rage: Sorry about the Napster ban
News Many fans of the band found themselves barred from Napster last week after the band's management and record label gave the song-swapping service a list of people suspected of trading unauthorised songs.
[December 18, 2000, 8:44]
'Pimpshiz' speaks - with pride
News A court-ordered shutdown of the popular song-swapping service is on appeal. The law appears to have caught up with "Pimpshiz", the hacker allegedly responsible for defacing some 200 Web sites last year with pro-Napster graffiti.
[January 15, 2001, 8:44]
Linux out-Googles Microsoft
News The fall of Nostradamus was followed by bankrupt song-swapping service Napster, the assets of which were finally bought in November by Roxio, a company best known for creating CD-burning technology. Spider-Man was the fastest climber among search...
[December 16, 2002, 11:59]
Napster unveils payment cards
News Roxio, the new owner of the formerly free file-swapping service, has adopted the per-song and subscription model. Online music retailer Napster unveiled prepaid cards on Monday, so people -- particularly teens -- can download songs without credit...
[October 27, 2003, 15:00]
