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Aussie ISP in court over song-swapping

The Australian music industry is targeting an Internet service provider as part of a court case against file-swappers Read more

21 October, 2003 by James Pearce

RIAA: We'll smother song swappers

...recording industry is experimenting with new technology it hopes can smother online song swapping by targeting music traders' computers directly. The record, movie and software... Read more

17 October, 2001 by John Borland

Napster gets temporary reprieve

...a short reprieve for Napster, saying the company can temporarily restart its song-swapping service online. The ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals... Read more

19 July, 2001 by John Borland

Napster loses a quarter of its users

A quarter of Napster's 60 million users have abandoned the song-swapping service since it brought in controls to prevent the illegal trading... Read more

27 March, 2001 by Graeme Wearden

News Burst: Napster injunction partly upheld

...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... Read more

12 February, 2001 by Graeme Wearden

RIAA launches more lawsuits against swappers

Another 482 people in the US has been targeted by legal action for swapping music online Read more

23 June, 2004 by John Borland

MyTunes 'source code lost'

The developer of a popular song-sharing program says his software has disappeared from the Internet not because of legal action but because he lost the code in a computer crash Read more

9 March, 2004 by John Borland

RIAA backs song-identification firm

Technology that can listen to and identify songs, blocking peer-to-peer trading, is generating interest among US legislators Read more

3 March, 2004 by John Borland

RIAA presses court for swappers' names

The Recording Industry Association of American wants a federal court to make public the names of 93 customers of an Internet cable provider who swapped songs illegally Read more

15 October, 2003 by Stefanie Olsen

RIAA pulls file-swap suit against pensioner

The RIAA has withdrawn legal action alleging a Boston grandmother shared Busta Rhymes songs online Read more

25 September, 2003 by John Borland

P2P group to pay girl's RIAA bill

An industry group representing Grokster, Limewire and other peer-to-peer companies is offering financial assistance to a child sued over file-sharing Read more

11 September, 2003 by John Borland

Senator suggests destroying song-swappers' PCs

A prominent US lawmaker says in some cases the only way to stop illegal trading of copyrighted materials over the Internet might be to destroy the traders' computers Read more

19 June, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

ISP appeals RIAA song-swapper subpoena

Verizon is appealing an order to reveal the identity of an alleged music pirate, in a case pitting privacy against copyright laws Read more

31 January, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

News Roundup: Music industry cracks down on Napster

The labels are getting tougher in their attempts to stop the illegal copying of music Read more

19 February, 2001 by ZDNet UK

Innocent surfers can appear guilty of song-swapping

Flaws in file-sharing can incriminate unwitting users, tricking them into seeming guilty of hosting copyrighted files Read more

3 October, 2003 by Staff

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