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Supreme Court Rules Against File Swapping
News The US Supreme Court handed movie studios and record labels a sweeping victory against file-swapping, ruling on Monday that peer-to-peer companies such as Grokster could be held responsible for the copyright piracy on their networks.
[June 27, 2005, 20:20]
RIAA Scales Up Legal Attack
News Under a legal ruling handed down last year, the RIAA must file suits in court before it can approach Internet service providers (ISPs) for information that links alleged file-swapping evidence to the subscriber names on a given ISP account.
[February 18, 2004, 9:35]
Judge: Napster Efforts 'disgraceful'
News Presented with evidence from record companies and publishers that thousands of works ostensibly included in the file-swapping service's filters were still available, US district judge Marilyn Hall Patel said at a hearing in San Francisco that...
[April 11, 2001, 13:07]
Email Is Key To File-swap Fight
News The groups draw from the file-swapping companies' internal communications, along with Web site text, sales pitches and advertisements, as evidence that the companies created their networks with the intention of facilitating piracy.
[September 13, 2002, 11:02]
Napster Gets Temporary Reprieve
News But the appeals judges stopped short of Patel's order, giving the file-swapping company some wiggle room. A federal appeals court on Wednesday issued a short reprieve for Napster, saying the company can temporarily restart its song-swapping service...
[July 19, 2001, 10:58]
Another 80 Song Swappers Hit By Suits
News There is some evidence that the controversial RIAA lawsuits against ordinary computer users are making a dent in the file-swapping world. That first wave of suits helped dramatically raise awareness of the legal risks of file swapping, but also...
[October 31, 2003, 9:25]
Companies Struggling To Stop Song Swappers
News The RIAA for months has been pressing companies to crack down on the use of file-swapping networks. With early generations of file-swapping software, it was a relatively simple task for network administrators to simply block the network "ports", or...
[March 19, 2003, 14:40]
File-swappers Put Off By Lawsuits
News The recording industry's legal efforts may be putting a dent in file swapping, according to a new report from The NPD Group. The report, released on Thursday, said online file swapping started dropping in May, shortly after the Recording Industry...
[August 22, 2003, 9:35]
File Sharing Legal - Canada
News In part, he said the recording industry had not presented evidence linking the alleged file swapping to the ISP subscribers that was strong enough to warrant breaking through critical privacy protections.
[April 1, 2004, 8:40]
RIAA: We'll Smother Song Swappers
News The new strategy would take advantage of file-swapping networks' own weaknesses, amplifying them to the point where download services appear even more clogged and slow to function than they are today.
[October 17, 2001, 9:37]
Legal Loss Opens University Networks To Music Industry
News See the MP3/P2P News Section for the latest on everything from MP3 players to file-swapping services. The music industry had been seeking access to information on the universities' networks that it claims contains evidence of copyright...
[July 18, 2003, 9:53]
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]
Rights Group Defends P2P In Ad Campaign
News The campaign, launched on 30 June, follows the RIAA's announcement last week that it intends to begin filing lawsuits against a large number of the individuals who use file-swapping services like Kazaa and Morpheus.
[July 1, 2003, 15:26]
Grokster Launches Premium Version
News The companies had been the target of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which said the file-swapping services were violating copyright laws by allowing people to trade major label music without paying.
[July 16, 2003, 10:50]
Judge Slams Door On Napster
News RIAA general counsel Cary Sherman applauded the order, saying that it laid the groundwork for legal music downloads and that it could send a message to other song-swapping firms. She said swapping songs with Napster wasn't protected under the Audio...
[July 27, 2000, 8:56]
RIAA Launches More Lawsuits Against Swappers
News The RIAA announced its legal campaign against file-swapping individuals a year ago this week. The efforts have seen substantial growth in the public perception of file trading as a potentially illegal activity, but the overall effect on music...
[June 23, 2004, 11:20]
Morpheus Shutdown Puts Rival In The Spotlight
News The surprise shutdown of the popular Morpheus file-trading software last week has thrown a spotlight on a little-known Australian company whose service now carries bragging rights as the world's largest file-swapping network.
[March 6, 2002, 9:31]
Movie Industry Targets Gnutella Users
News Gnutella presents a unique challenge to those clamping down on copyright infringement because unlike file-swapping systems such as Napster or Scour, Gnutella does not provide a central point through which people reach each other.
[April 18, 2001, 7:48]
File-swap Software Will Foil Enforcers
News See the MP3/P2P News Section for the latest on everything from MP3 players to file-swapping services. The developers' move intensifies the battle between the P2P community and the RIAA, who last month said it would start to gather evidence against...
[July 22, 2003, 9:10]
Napster Blasts Court's Technical Meddling
News But Napster is also contending that federal court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel gave far too much power to her appointed technical adviser, who over the course of a few months grew from a court adviser into a de facto chief technical officer for the...
[August 9, 2001, 16:22]
