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File-swapping Networks Continue To Thrive
News Although the declines can be attributed to other reasons, Yankee said, unlicensed music swapping is "certainly a significant contributing factor. If Yankee's projections are right, it could be bad news for the recording industry, which has been...
[August 14, 2002, 16:04]
Supreme Court Rules Against File Swapping
Talkback Now p2p networks are going to be hunted down in the same way as bittorrent trackers and as a result will just grow in number. This is stupid. I fail to see exactly what this law is going to accomplish except give the RIAA and MPAA another way to...
[June 27, 2005, 21:46]
Sharman Defends Makers Of File-swapping Software
News The order, by Judge Stephen Wilson found that Grokster and StreamCast, makers of peer-to-peer software, could not be held liable for the file-swapping shenanigans of their users. Wilson had found that file-swapping technology was similar to...
[October 1, 2003, 11:15]
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. As with Napster's final loss Tuesday, the immediate result of the Madster-Aimster...
[September 5, 2002, 7:56]
Anarchist Coders Prime Unfettered File Swapping Service
News Chief among these is Freenet, an open-source project viewed by many as the ultimate inheritor to Napster's original promise of free online file swapping. The drive for absolute privacy online has bubbled up from several different sources in the...
[June 19, 2001, 14:46]
Students Pay For File Swapping 'crimes'
News The lawsuits -- on top of a series of communications that the RIAA and other copyright holders have had with universities over the past year -- have led to a crackdown on campus file swapping and the kind of network search tools created by Peng...
[May 2, 2003, 8:18]
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. A cottage industry of companies has sprung up that...
[September 23, 2002, 7:51]
Gnutella Swapping Cookies, Too
News Web surfers trading free music and other digital goods over one of the Web's most popular file-swapping networks are sharing much more: sensitive data files that could expose them to identity theft. One of several file-swapping networks riding the...
[February 9, 2001, 8:42]
Morpheus Network Goes Open Source
News Days after millions of people found themselves locked out of StreamCast Networks' Morpheus file-swapping network, the company has released a new software tool it hopes will resuscitate its service. Although Sharman Networks and Grokster were...
[March 4, 2002, 8:41]
File-swapping Legal Fight Gathers Steam
News A hotly contested wrangle in the US Congress over how to outlaw file-swapping networks just took a new twist. A 19 August decision from a federal appeals court that said the Grokster and Morpheus file-swapping networks were legal to operate has...
[September 3, 2004, 9:35]
Swappers Log Off Kazaa As Alternatives Emerge
News The owners of the popular Kazaa file-swapping software have withstood assaults from the record industry for years, but now they're facing a new enemy that may be even harder to fight: competition. Not only has Sharman itself been hit with lawsuits...
[July 1, 2004, 11:15]
Music Industry Sues Students Over Piracy
News The recording industry has stepped up its campaign against campus music swapping, filing suit against four university students who operated file-search services on their school's internal networks. University students have been widely viewed as the...
[April 4, 2003, 8:01]
Worm Crawls Into Kazaa Network
News The Kazaa file-swapping network has been hit by a virus, according to security experts. See the MP3 News Section for the latest on everything from MP3 players to Napster and the other music swapping services.
[May 20, 2002, 11:51]
Morpheus Infiltrates Other P2P Networks
News New file-swapping applications are bridging formerly separate networks, promising to improve the efficiency of peer-to-peer searches and sharpen competition among rival software developers. The company's popularity plummeted as it shifted to open...
[January 19, 2004, 9:45]
Judge Rules File-sharing Tools Are Legal
News A federal judge in Los Angeles has handed a stunning court victory to file-swapping services Streamcast Networks and Grokster, dismissing much of the record industry and movie studios' lawsuit against the two companies.
[April 28, 2003, 7:56]
Napster Founder Scales New Peaks
News Far from his anarchic Napster days, file-swapping pioneer Shawn Fanning and several of his old colleagues are quietly working on a new venture called Snocap that is aimed at turning peer-to-peer networks into dollars for record companies.
[January 27, 2004, 10:55]
P2P Firms Claim Filtering 'impossible'
News Responding to sharp criticism from legislators, a group of file-swapping companies told Congress that they have no ability to block copyrighted files or child pornography from their networks. The group's claim, backed up by considerable technical...
[January 29, 2004, 8:00]
Macintosh Users Flocking To Kazaa Network
News Originally released in July, and updated substantially since then, the "Poisoned" file-swapping software allows connections to the hugely popular FastTrack system as well as several smaller networks. Poisoned's quick rise during the past few months...
[November 20, 2003, 9:10]
Kazaa, Morpheus Conceding Defeat
News A legal fight that has pitted file-swapping software companies Kazaa and StreamCast Networks against big record labels and movie studios is collapsing as the small companies run out of funds. Kazaa sold the actual Kazaa file-swapping software to a...
[May 23, 2002, 9:19]
Grokster Decision Muddies P2P Waters
News In its ruling, America's top court found that file-swapping companies Grokster and StreamCast Networks should be held liable for the widespread copyright infringement their technologies enable. In the United States, the average number of people...
[June 28, 2005, 9:25]
