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Swap a file, go to jail?
News In the face of crackdowns on file-swapping services such as Napster and cease-and-desist letters to companies that allow employees to swap files, some free music junkies have become more determined than ever, turning to smaller and more obscure...
[July 16, 2002, 8:00]
File-swap software will foil enforcers
Talkback I think this is ridiculous, I mean sure these people aren't making billions they are making hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars. I can't believe the greed of people would push the country this far.
[March 29, 2004, 8:07]
Entertainment industry appeals file-swap ruling
Talkback they'll never stop file traders
[August 26, 2003, 15:33]
File-swap software will foil enforcers
News Peer-to-peer file-sharing software developers say user privacy-protection concerns are behind the introduction of features designed to foil scanning by organisations representing owners of copyright-protected material.
[July 22, 2003, 9:10]
File-swap ruling heads back to court
News Lawyers representing the entertainment industry and file-swapping companies will meet in California on Tuesday as a federal appeals court hears the first arguments in a case likely to shape the future of online file swapping.
[February 3, 2004, 8:05]
Email is key to file-swap fight
News Hoping for a repeat of Napster's legal flameout, the record and movie trade associations are using file-swapping company executives' own words against them in the attempt to close the Kazaa and Morpheus networks.
[September 13, 2002, 11:02]
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 Recording Industry Association of America...
[May 25, 2001, 10:35]
RIAA pulls file-swap suit against pensioner
News The Recording Industry Association of America has withdrawn a file-swapping lawsuit after a possible case of mistaken identity. The trade association confirmed on Wednesday that it had withdrawn its suit against Boston-area senior citizen Sarah...
[September 25, 2003, 10:25]
RIAA gets legal support for file-swap fight
News Hollywood studios and record labels are getting allies in their quest to overturn a court ruling that said file-swapping software companies aren't responsible for the copyright infringement of their users.
[August 27, 2003, 11:10]
Entertainment industry appeals file-swap ruling
News Record labels and movie studios said on Tuesday that they have appealed an April federal court ruling that held for the first time that some file-swapping software was legal. That ruling, made by a Los Angeles federal court judge, Stephen Wilson...
[August 20, 2003, 12:10]
BCWipe
Downloads BCWipe is an ultimate software product that allows you to delete any unwanted data from your hard drive: files, folders, records, private data, cookies, file slacks, content of the swap file, previously accessed pages on the Internet.
[November 25, 2009, 9:58]
Employers crack down on MP3s
News Stash those headphones and trash that file-swapping software: companies are cracking down on employees who use streaming media and swap MP3s at work. People are more likely to use their work computers than home computers to swap media files or...
[June 27, 2002, 14:23]
File-swappers get their own private club
News New York-based startup GlobeDrive plans to unveil a version of its peer-to-peer network that will let users swap MP3 files in a private, password-protected, invitation-only environment -- far from the prying eyes of record company executives.
[November 29, 2000, 8:02]
File-swappers fight back
News Federal judges have deemed Napster potentially liable for copyright infringement damages largely because it ran a central indexing server that allowed people to swap files, and emails showed that executives knew massive amounts of copyrighted...
[November 7, 2001, 14:22]
Swap Cop
Downloads Swap Cop is a program for for moving the OS X swap file to different volumes; you might want to do this if you have multiple hard drives for a (small) performance gain, or if you are low on space on your main OS X volume.
[May 15, 2002, 7:00]
Ants inspire P2P concealment
Talkback P2P is dead as is warez sites but there's lots of ways to "file swap" it's just that swapers are now more careful about how their doing it and who they tell how it's being done.
[February 27, 2004, 0:08]
Kazaa firm banned from suing record labels
News Sharman does not provide movies and music online but rather distributes software that allows individuals to swap digital files, the judge said. Sharman Networks, the company behind the popular Kazaa file-swapping software, cannot pursue a suit...
[July 8, 2003, 14:56]
System Eye
Downloads The program shows usage of the main parameters of your computer - the processor, operative and virtual memory, and also a swap file. System Eye is a manager of system resources. Therefore you can always watch its productivity, control too exacting...
[July 5, 2006, 8:00]
Clean Disk Security
Downloads This program can also clean the Window's swap file, and can optionally clean unneeded temporary files from your hard disk, such as your Internet browser cache, files in your system's Recycle Bin, and can clear the "recent files" list.
[November 28, 2008, 11:32]
AppleJack
Downloads The script gives you an interactive menu-driven environment for basic disk check/repair, permissions repair, .plist validation, cache cleanup, and swap file removal. AppleJack is a tool to make it easy to troubleshoot your Mac when no other startup...
[August 30, 2008, 23:50]
