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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]
Those Aren't Just Files You're Swapping - The Dangers of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
White Papers Swapped files from P2P networks may contain viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware. Employees are using company resources to access peer-to-peer (P2P) applications on company time and exposing organizations to serious and potentially...
[September 23, 2005, 3:00]
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. Like peer-to-peer networks such as Gnutella, the system draws solely on individual computers...
[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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
