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File-swapping Service Shutters On DoJ Concerns
News Citing Justice Department concerns, a popular Web site has shuttered a file-swapping service created for sharing personal files such as family photos but instead became a haven for software pirates. Napster is embroiled in a famous legal dispute...
[January 23, 2001, 9:34]
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. Harboured in the loose online communities of open-source programmers, it is these projects...
[June 19, 2001, 14:46]
File-swapping Lawsuits Put On Hold
News He allowed the first of the suits to go ahead to a discovery process, in which the identity of the alleged file-swapper will be requested from Internet service provider Pacific Bell, but he put the other 11 cases on hold.
[November 25, 2004, 13:05]
Supreme Court Rules Against File Swapping
Talkback As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982-1986, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet. Hus.K : "The USA did not Invent the Internet perhaps in your warped...
[June 29, 2005, 13:22]
Supreme Court Rules Against File Swapping
Talkback It is possible to use the postal service to send copyrighted material,so then shouldn't we also hold the postal services responsible for "encouraging" breaches of copyright? I think this latest judgement is ridiculous.
[June 30, 2005, 0:53]
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]
Hackers Turn Tables On File-swapping Firms
News The record companies had their Napster, and the stream of file-swapping companies that followed. The file-swapping companies now have their "Dr Damn. For the past several weeks, the pseudonymous programmer, a college student who declines to give...
[April 25, 2002, 13:53]
ISP Sacrifices File-swapping For Cheaper Broadband
News The downside with ADSL Home Surf is that subscribers will not be able to use peer-to-peer file-swapping services. PlusNet's existing consumer broadband package, which does allow file-swapping, costs £23 per month.
[May 17, 2002, 17:27]
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]
Napster Nears The End Of The Road
News The assets of the long-shuttered Napster file-swapping service are expected to wind up in the hands of benefactor Bertelsmann Thursday, as the near-defunct start-up's bankruptcy hearings close. The new management, drawn from Bertelsmann's more...
[August 29, 2002, 10:16]
Security Hole Threatens MP3 Users' Personal Data
News MP3 fans using the Morpheus file-swapping service risk having their personal details exposed online, according to security experts. Morpheus in now the most popular file-swapping service on the Internet.
[February 4, 2002, 12:12]
Napster To Take Fingerprints
News Napster is preparing to use stronger measures to block copyrighted songs from its file-swapping network, a move aimed at mollifying its critics as it lays the groundwork for a planned paid version of the service.
[April 23, 2001, 8:32]
StreamCast Offers IM To Morpheus Users
News StreamCast Networks and software company Paltalk have signed a deal to offer people who use the Morpheus file-swapping service the ability to send instant messages. StreamCast has been waging a legal fight against the big record labels over its...
[May 29, 2002, 14:50]
Morpheus Shuts Out Users
News StreamCast Networks' Morpheus -- a file-swapping service that many have said would be impossible for courts to shut down -- shut out most of its users on Tuesday, citing "technical problems. The outage immediately sparked a huge increase in traffic...
[February 27, 2002, 12:09]
Napster Crackdown Drives Away Fans
News The new face of file-swapping service Napster and the scattering of its visitors are proof of how far the record labels and Hollywood have come in defusing the biggest online threat to their businesses.
[May 9, 2001, 8:02]
File-swapping Network Told To Unplug Computers
News A Chicago federal judge has ordered file-swapping service Madster, formerly known as Aimster, to unplug its computers from the Internet in a last-ditch effort to prevent music piracy on its network. The fight over Madster's service has had little...
[December 4, 2002, 13:10]
CenterSpan Wins Rights To Scour Technology
News CenterSpan Communications won the rights to defunct Scour's file-swapping technology in a bankruptcy auction Tuesday, planting the seeds of a potential competitor to Napster's new music service. CenterSpan has said it plans to create a legal file...
[December 13, 2000, 10:52]
RIAA: Madster Flouting Court Order
News Record labels say file-swapping service Madster is violating the terms of a recent court order and should be shut down or fined until it starts blocking trades of copyrighted music. Although the case remains important for its legal precedent...
[November 22, 2002, 8:10]
Napster Fans: Where's The Loyalty?
News Although they're quick to defend the music file-swapping service that has given them free tunes for months, fans seem to have little loyalty to Napster as it battles the courts. Alternative file-swapping networks were overwhelmed last July when a...
[March 5, 2001, 8:57]
P2P Seeks Refuge On West Bank
News Deep in the tense Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian West Bank, a new file-swapping service is daring record labels and movie studios to turn their piracy-hunting into an international incident. He's now making sweeping claims for the success of...
[August 14, 2003, 17:05]
