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Napster files for bankruptcy
News Instead, the Big Five record companies have tried to launch their own services, such as MusicNet and Pressplay, which to date have not gained a significant following among consumers who are used to swapping music files for free.
[June 5, 2002, 9:07]
Morpheus tracks user surfing habits
News StreamCast has tried to distinguish itself from other file-swapping services by saying it is wholly free of "spyware," third-party software applications that track people's movements online. StreamCast responded by rushing out a "Preview Edition...
[March 20, 2002, 9:52]
Canadian music industry readies lawsuits
News The Canadian record label group had previously warned that it was likely to follow its US counterpart's legal example, but decisions by copyright authorities had clouded the file-swapping picture in Canada.
[February 16, 2004, 9:25]
Napster rivals winning popularity contest
News In October, the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America sued the file-trading networks in a move to prevent people from swapping copies of music and films over the Web.
[November 6, 2001, 9:38]
Critics fight RIAA file-trader action
News Now, however, the RIAA is revising its strategy and appears ready to sue individuals swapping songs over the Internet. See the MP3/P2P News Section for the latest on everything from MP3 players to Napster and the other file-swapping services.
[September 2, 2002, 15:01]
Is the heyday of the MP3 coming to a close?
News A separate study, by Net-monitoring company CacheLogic, early this month showed that MP3 still dominates song trading on file-swapping networks. The slow shift in MP3's role is part of an ongoing change in the digital-music industry, with the focus...
[October 18, 2004, 11:00]
Napster sells out, but fans singing a different tune
News While analysts say they will, some fans are already choosing alternative file-swapping tools. Delauney said he and his Napster-using friends plan to explore other file-swapping tools, like Gnutella. Most say it will.
[November 2, 2000, 11:28]
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]
Pressplay slips onto MP3.com
News Although subscription services are working to quickly attract new users, analysts expect limited interest in the paid offerings as long as free file-swapping services, such as LimeWire and BearShare, are available.
[January 23, 2002, 12:02]
Madonna site hacked in file-trading controversy
News Several other artists and groups that have complained about file swapping and have seen similar attacks. Madonna's release of fake files into file-swapping networks is an increasingly common way of combating Net piracy, even if her own twist on the...
[April 23, 2003, 8:07]
Pressplay to offer unlimited downloads
News And it shouldn't have -- faced with the choice between unlimited content for free (through file-swapping services) or limited content that people couldn't do much with, it was a no-brainer. See the MP3 News Section for the latest on everything...
[August 1, 2002, 7:41]
Grokster launches premium version
News The companies had been the target of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which said the file-swapping services were violating copyright laws by allowing people to trade major label music without paying.
[July 16, 2003, 10:50]
Gnutella creator may quit AOL
News Key products developed by Frankel's group include the Winamp MP3 player, ShoutCast personal Webcasting software, and the Gnutella peer-to-peer file-swapping software. In 2000, Frankel gained notoriety when he released Gnutella, which later became...
[June 4, 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]
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]
Hollywood homes in on student swappers
News Hollywood and the music industry say that such violations have cost them billions of dollars and thus have targeted universities to help to curb file swapping. College campuses are ground zero for illegal file swapping via peer-to-peer networks...
[April 19, 2004, 14:45]
Is there room on the Net for P2P?
News Perhaps," said David Copans, vice president of business development and chief financial officer for Applied Metacomputing, which makes technology for creating file-swapping tools. Walking a more dangerous line are file-swapping services bent on...
[February 14, 2001, 8:21]
MP3 for sale online in industry first
News Industry groups have blamed free music swapping via the Internet for much of the lost sales. See the MP3 News Section for the latest on everything from MP3 players to Napster and the other music swapping services.
[May 24, 2002, 11:10]
Kazaa exec defends sleeper software
News Its advertising software was distributed last year along with Kazaa, while the file-swapping software was still owned by the group of Dutch programmers who had created its original peer-to-peer technology.
[April 4, 2002, 10:00]
Napster deal comes with a price tag
News As a result of the deal, Bertelsmann will own a piece of Napster and will loan money to the company to enact the changes to the file-swapping service, Bertelsmann officials said. But now those same arguments could be used against Napster by other...
[November 1, 2000, 7:45]
