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Aimster: The Napster Of Instant Messaging?
News Newcomer Aimster is taking two of the most popular activities on the Internet, file-sharing and instant messaging, and combining their features to provide mainstream users with secure file-sharing software.
[August 11, 2000, 9:42]
Aimster Unable To Appeal
News The US Supreme Court won't hear an appeal of a lower court's order that pulled the plug on Aimster, which is a file-swapping service similar to Napster in design. Claiming copyright violations, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA...
[January 14, 2004, 8:25]
Aimster Hit With File-swap Suit
News The record industry on Thursday filed a lawsuit against file-swapping company Aimster, charging that it is violating copyrights in much the same way as Napster or Scour, targets of previous lawsuits. The lawsuit caps a bad week for the small...
[May 25, 2001, 10:35]
Aimster Sets Sites On MSN And Yahoo!
News Aimster isn't just for America Online anymore. Aimster plans to add Yahoo! to the list "soon", and testing starts Friday for an Aimster that will encompass Microsoft, Deep said. If successful, Deep said Aimster could link up more than 140 million...
[October 20, 2000, 9:05]
AOL Bent On Taking 'AIM'
News On the heels of winning the rights to several Aimster-related domain names, AOL Time Warner has notified the creator of a fledgling instant messaging project that his work is unauthorised and may violate company trademarks.
[June 22, 2001, 11:49]
Napster Clone Seeks Court Protection
News File-swapping and instant messaging company Aimster has opened a new front in the online music wars, asking for court protection against the record industry in a pre-emptive legal strike. Aimster, one of the most high-profile file-trading services...
[May 3, 2001, 8:16]
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. In a detailed and often pointed opinion, Judge Marvin Aspen said that Aimster...
[September 5, 2002, 7:56]
Brace Yourself For IM Spam
News Via Aimster, L90 will peer into the hard drives of people to see what kind of music they're listening to, then send instant message promotions via Aimster's buddy lists, which are compatible to programs including AOL Time Warner's AOL Instant...
[February 19, 2001, 7:44]
Noose Tightens On Napster Clones
News The Aimster case is not the only file-swapping case wending its way through the courts. Madster, previously called Aimster, is one of several peer-to-peer, or P2P, online file-swapping services designed to facilitate the sharing of computer files...
[July 1, 2003, 9:06]
Napster Tells Court Filters Are Working
News Pig Latin versions of song titles, artists and file names, a filter-evasion measure propagated by rival company Aimster and several other sites independently, had also been blocked in many cases. Aimster confirmed late Monday that it was taking its...
[March 13, 2001, 10:23]
Napster Clones Toe Music Industry Line
News Aimster, the company that allows people to trade files only with a group of people listed in their instant messaging "buddy lists", says it hasn't yet been contacted by the RIAA. We can't possibly offer a privacy service and monitor our users at...
[April 9, 2001, 7:50]
File-swapping Network Told To Unplug Computers
News A Chicago federal judge has ordered file-swapping service Madster, formerly known as Aimster, to unplug its computers from the Internet in a last-ditch effort to prevent music piracy on its network. Federal judge Marvin Aspen has already ordered...
[December 4, 2002, 13:10]
Court To Decide Kazaa's US Liability
News If a judge says Sharman can be sued in the United States, Kazaa will get sucked into the same legal maelstrom that has grabbed Napster, Aimster, Audio Galaxy, Grokster and Morpheus, closing some of the popular services and threatening the...
[November 25, 2002, 8:29]
RIAA: Madster Flouting Court Order
News The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) asked a Chicago federal court on Wednesday to hold bankrupt Madster -- formerly known as Aimster -- and its founder Johnny Deep in contempt of court.
[November 22, 2002, 8:10]
Lawsuit Targets Biggest Post-Napster Network
News So far they have been successful, shutting down Scour, stopping trades on Napster and putting smaller outfit Aimster on the financial ropes. Adding a new challenge to their list of legal attacks, the record industry and Hollywood studios have...
[October 3, 2001, 9:42]
'Honest Thief' Waves Pirate Flag
News The recording industry has succeeded in dismantling services like Napster and Aimster by taking legal action in the United States. Editor's note: While the facts reported in this story are correct, including the Dutch legal loophole potentially...
[February 24, 2003, 5:53]
Liquid Audio Going Down The Drain?
News On 4 September, an Illinois federal judge said he would order the Madster file-trading system, formerly known as Aimster, to halt song swapping. The mute button may be pressed this week on yet another Net music pioneer.
[September 25, 2002, 13:54]
Kazaa Fires Back At Hollywood, Labels
News The entertainment industry considers Sharman to be as much an outlaw as Napster and Aimster, two file-sharing services that have been shuttered. Judges have not given the "non-infringing use" argument much sway in previous file-swapping cases, but...
[January 28, 2003, 7:56]
Napster Clones: Who's Ready To Step In?
News Latest version: Aimster 3.229 That's drawn a lawsuit from record labels, but Aimster is so far holding firm against filtering songs. They have already sued Aimster, one of the most vocal foes of the industries' attempts to persuade all file...
[July 6, 2001, 11:31]
Napster Hit By Defecting Users
News The music labels, fresh from their successful campaign against Scour, are already bringing legal action against Aimster -- one of the more famous Napster alternatives. The latest figures show that Napster has been haemorrhaging users over the last...
[July 12, 2001, 15:47]
