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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]
File-swapping Booms Again
News The RIAA has launched more than 300 lawsuits since it started its campaign against file swapping. MusicWatch Digital is a tool that continuously examines PCs of roughly 40,000 participating individuals, recording which sites they have gone to and...
[January 19, 2004, 8:50]
Internet2 Used For File-swapping
News But some also see it as a way around limitations that many universities have begun to impose on widely used file-swapping applications such as Kazaa. Universities have been at the heart of the file-swapping, controversies since the launch of...
[April 30, 2004, 8:55]
Bertelsmann Dabbled In File-swapping Pre-Napster
News Until just a few weeks ago, a low-profile Bertelsmann subsidiary was testing a file-swapping search engine that could have expanded the media giant's profile well beyond controversial partner Napster.
[February 27, 2001, 10:08]
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]
New P2P System Crippled By Success
News A new technology, anointed by many tech-savvy computer users as an answer to file swapping's network traffic jams, is running into legal and practical problems as it breaks into the mainstream. More efficient than older file-swapping programs such...
[July 23, 2003, 11:31]
Napster Clones Toe Music Industry Line
News The record industry's attempts to stop online song trading are gaining traction beyond Napster, as other leading music-swapping sites have begun blocking downloads of copyrighted tunes on their services.
[April 9, 2001, 7:50]
File-swappers Put Off By Lawsuits
News NPD defined music acquisition as obtaining songs through paid sites, ripping CDs, and file-swapping sites. The recording industry's legal efforts may be putting a dent in file swapping, according to a new report from The NPD Group.
[August 22, 2003, 9:35]
Swap A File, Go To Jail?
News In the face of crackdowns on file-swapping services such as Napster and cease-and-desist letters to companies that allow employees to swap files, some free music junkies have become more determined than ever, turning to smaller and more obscure...
[July 16, 2002, 8:00]
Anti-piracy Team Checks P2P Sites
News So far, software-swapping Web sites have been found in Singapore, Korea Taiwan, Australia, Taiwan, Japan and China, he said. The Web crawler used by BSA comes from BayTSP, a Los Gatos, Calif.company that also monitors file-swapping networks for...
[June 5, 2003, 10:18]
Illegal 'Matrix' Sequel Available On P2P
News Underground Internet file-swapping circles were buzzing on Wednesday with rumours that a copy of "The Matrix Reloaded" had been released online, a day before its theatrical opening date. The MPAA, in tandem with the Recording Industry Association...
[May 15, 2003, 10:22]
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]
Superstars Blast File Swapping
News The record industry, reeling from the effects of Napster and other file-swapping sites -- which allow millions of people to trade music for free -- has been fighting furiously to regain control of its songs.
[September 26, 2002, 7:36]
Morpheus Tracks User Surfing Habits
News StreamCast has tried to distinguish itself from other file-swapping services by saying it is wholly free of "spyware," third-party software applications that track people's movements online. StreamCast responded by rushing out a "Preview Edition...
[March 20, 2002, 9:52]
Listen.com Flirts With Napster Links
News Nevertheless, the convergence of file-swapping sites and music directory services has already begun, as executives on both sides of the business have realised that consumers use the two types of services in conjunction with each other.
[April 17, 2001, 9:16]
Employers Crack Down On MP3s
News Although the company doesn't have an internal network and prohibits use of major file-swapping sites, the employee said AOL Time Warner has yet to block some smaller, more obscure sites where he can find music.
[June 27, 2002, 14:23]
Net Laughs At Itself On April Fool's
News File-swapping company Napster has purchased Microsoft for more than $328bn and is planning to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against itself. GigaLaw.com's Sidd Finch, who wrote the spoof on Napster's financial and legal woes, joked that...
[April 2, 2002, 14:58]
BitTorrent Is Dead. Long Live BitTorrent?
News Among modern file-swapping services, BitTorrent has been uniquely vulnerable to legal attacks by copyright owners, because it has required that links to files be posted on Web sites. Dubbed Exeem, the software has already been distributed in a...
[January 5, 2005, 15:15]
What's Hidden In Your Hard Drive?
News The stakes are high: six of the top file-swapping software programs have collectively been downloaded more than 144 million times, according to the companies' sites and statistics kept by popular software-aggregation sites.
[April 18, 2002, 15:48]
File-trading Pressure Mounts On ISPs
News These independent companies operate automated systems that can troll file-swapping networks looking for their clients' work. High-speed Internet provider, Adelphia, a cable company based in Pennsylvania, is one of the latest to join the list of...
[July 26, 2001, 11:19]
