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Cloud services in retreat after MegaUpload strike

The FBI and the American media industry bodies must be feeling good about their attack on the MegaUpload file-sharing... Read more

24 January, 2012
Ad Muncher 4.92

Ad Muncher 4.92

...all browsers and advert-displaying programs like Pando, SopCast, ICQ, Morpheus, Kazaa, Grokster, Opera, PalTalk, iMesh, Bearshare, LimeWire, TVAnts.Ad Muncher can be configured to... Read more

11 June, 2011
PopupDummy 3.293

PopupDummy 3.293

...a cookie manager. PopupDummy also supports blocking pop-ups from Kazaa, Morpheus, Grokster, Limewire, Bearshare, Gator, and Netzero Read more

3 May, 2012
RemoveAds 1.3

RemoveAds 1.3

...any program you want like ICQ, ICQ Lite, MSN Messenger, Kazaa, Morpheus, Grokster, PalTalk, iMesh, Bearshare, LimeWire, MetaCafe and so on. Work faster. The advertisings... Read more

23 February, 2012

Rosso swaps Grokster for Blubster

Wayne Rosso, head of file-swapping company Grokster, has resigned to take the helm of younger Spanish peer-to-peer... Read more

15 October, 2003 by John Borland

Grokster launches premium version

Grokster on Tuesday released Grokster Pro, the first version of its software that... Read more

16 July, 2003 by Lisa M Bowman

Supreme Court rules against file swapping

...file-swapping, ruling on Monday that peer-to-peer companies such as Grokster could be held responsible for the copyright piracy on their networks. In... Read more

27 June, 2005 by John Borland

Billionaire backs defendant in landmark P2P case

Billionaire Mark Cuban has announced that he will finance Grokster's defence against MGM's peer-to-peer lawsuit, which is expected... Read more

29 March, 2005 by Steven Musil

Judge puts file swappers in hot seat

...troubles with the entertainment industry. Attorneys for defendants Kazaa, StreamCast Networks and Grokster had hoped to convince the judge that their products demonstrated sufficient legitimate... Read more

5 March, 2002 by Lisa M Bowman

The de-Napsterisation of online video

...federal law," Supan said. In its landmark June 2005 decision in the Grokster lawsuit, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a company can be... Read more

14 March, 2006 by Elinor Mills, Greg Sandoval and Jim Kerstetter

Defending against a Google asault

...to take advantage of our material without actually copying it themselves. Remember, Grokster was a secondary liability case and there was a huge battle over... Read more

6 March, 2006 by Dawn Kawamoto

File swappers rush to form lobby groups

...bandwagon this summer, hoping to counteract entertainment industry efforts to stifle them. Grokster president Wayne Rosso said Monday that he's planning to help launch... Read more

8 July, 2003 by Lisa M Bowman

Ruling means dark days for P2P users?

Friday's ruling that the makers of Grokster and Morpheus aren't liable for copyright infringement occurring as a result... Read more

28 April, 2003 by Lisa M Bowman

File-trading future in hands of court

...the movie studios sparred with lawyers for file-swapping services Morpheus and Grokster in US federal court on Monday, as each side sought a quick... Read more

3 December, 2002 by John Borland

Morpheus looks to Gnutella for help

...aimed at shutting them down. StreamCast (formerly known as MusicCity), Kazaa and Grokster -- all of which originally licensed software known as FastTrack -- have argued that... Read more

28 February, 2002 by John Borland

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