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Madonna Site Hacked In File-trading Controversy
News The hacker's attack appeared to be in response to Madonna's most recent, typically colourful broadside against file-swappers seeking free copies of her music. Several other artists and groups that have complained about file swapping and have seen...
[April 23, 2003, 8:07]
Covert P2P Network Fails To Hide Users
News There are around a quarter of a million users of the supposedly anonymous file-trading network, called Winny, which rides on the more well-known Freenet network. Such networks differ from other file trading software, such as Kazaa, in that they...
[December 3, 2003, 14:25]
P2P Group To Pay Girl's RIAA Bill
News P2P United, a peer-to-peer industry trade group that includes Grokster, StreamCast Networks, Limewire and other file-trading software companies, said Wednesday it had offered to reimburse Brianna Lahara and her mother's payment to the Recording...
[September 11, 2003, 10:30]
ISP Caching Tool Muddies Copyright Waters
News But holding copies of copyrighted material could make ISPs accomplices in illegal file trading, at least according to an early survey by one recording-industry trade association. IFPI's US counterpart, the Recording Industry Association of America...
[July 21, 2003, 13:16]
Privacy Group Fights P2P Crackdown
News Colleges also are having to deal with the strains that massive file trading places on their networks. Although the letter did not overtly threaten legal action, it did ask the schools to make a "substantial effort" to stop such trading.
[November 8, 2002, 7:48]
RIAA: Madster Flouting Court Order
News That struggle ultimately led Napster to shut down its file-trading service altogether. Deep has made no effort to comply with a court order issued last month that required the company to block trading of music belonging to the major record labels...
[November 22, 2002, 8:10]
RIAA Files 750 More Lawsuits
News The lawsuits have dramatically raised awareness of the legal problems with trading copyrighted files online, and some reports have found steep decreases in the number of people trading music. The Recording Industry Association of America filed on...
[October 29, 2004, 9:19]
CopySense Appliance Case Study
White Papers Peer-to-peer (P2P) file trading was causing two concerns at Bentley College. Applying their own best practices as a business school, Bentley executed a file sharing behaviors study. Bentley is a business university with an enrollment of over 4000...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
US Moots Parental Consent For P2P
News Our legislation gives parents the tools they need to protect their children from pornography and threats to privacy posed by peer-to-peer file-trading networks," Pitts said in a statement. It is regrettable that people engaging in criminal conduct...
[July 28, 2003, 9:34]
RIAA Site Defaced Again
News The trade association, along with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has won many critics in its quest to shut down popular file-trading networks such as Napster. It asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C.for an order compelling...
[September 4, 2002, 7:50]
P2P Seeks Refuge On West Bank
News One of the brashest of a new generation of file-trading networks, it is serving as a new test case for the ability of high-tech security measures and international borders to preserve privacy on the Net.
[August 14, 2003, 17:05]
File-swapping Network Told To Unplug Computers
News In papers recently filed with the court, he said that Madster's encryption made it impossible to figure out what files individual people were trading and that filtering specific copyrighted songs was therefore impractical.
[December 4, 2002, 13:10]
Bill Lets Hollywood Hack Your PC
News Congress is about to consider an entertainment industry proposal that would authorise copyright holders to disable PCs used for illicit file trading. Copyright owners are in essence asking Congress to say that peer-to-peer file trading is such a...
[July 25, 2002, 8:12]
File-sharing Networks Go Into Battle
News The companies believe that by giving people an incentive to host and trade paid files it could create a powerful medium for distributing authorised content and could diminish file-trading networks' role as hubs of online piracy.
[June 6, 2003, 8:31]
File Swappers Rush To Form Lobby Groups
News In that ruling, a judge not only said the companies were not responsible for file trading that took place using their software but also that if any changes are to be made to copyright laws affecting the peer-to-peer market, then Congress should...
[July 8, 2003, 8:24]
RIAA Site Comes Under Second Attack
News Earlier in the day, it had been modified to contain pro-file trading messages, and even direct links to downloadable music and to file-swapping service Kazaa. The music group, along with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has won...
[August 29, 2002, 7:31]
Is Your Company Habouring File-swappers?
News Copyright holders have steadily increased their pressure on corporations to crack down on their employees' file-trading behaviour, sending letters to the Fortune 500 companies warning of legal risks, and even settling out of court for $1m (£0.62m...
[July 16, 2003, 11:45]
New Kazaa Likely To Raise Labels' Ire
News The new software shows clear ambitions on the part of Kazaa parent company Sharman Networks to spread beyond its file-swapping origins, while expanding the utility of basic file-trading functions. But it is the new features of the software focused...
[September 23, 2002, 7:51]
Napster To Go Legit As Part Of Roxio
News In the mean time, free file-trading services have continued to flourish, with Morpheus and Kazaa duplicating Napster's success. Roxio's $5m cash deal, which is subject to approval by the bankruptcy court, could see a Napster-branded file...
[November 15, 2002, 12:33]
Grokster Launches Premium Version
News Nielsen/NetRatings said the use of the top file-trading applications has declined by about 15 percent since late June, when the RIAA issued its warning, although StreamCast said it hasn't seen a drop and Kazaa has said its numbers have increased.
[July 16, 2003, 10:50]
