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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 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]
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]
File-swapping Booms Again
News The RIAA has launched more than 300 lawsuits since it started its campaign against file swapping. This upturn comes after six straight months of declines in digital file sharing. Usage dropped dramatically starting in April 2003, when the Recording...
[January 19, 2004, 8:50]
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]
Kazaa Finds Friends In File-swapping Fight
News Powerful computer and telecommunications companies are allying with upstart file-swapping service Kazaa in a bid to overhaul the way record labels are paid for music and other content distributed on the Net.
[May 16, 2002, 13:12]
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]
Supreme Court Hears File-swapping Case
News Hollywood studios and record companies on Friday asked the United States Supreme Court to overturn a controversial series of recent court decisions that have kept file-swapping software legal. In their legal briefs, the entertainment industry...
[October 11, 2004, 9:30]
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]
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]
Superstars Blast File Swapping
News On Thursday, a coalition of artists and labels will start running print, radio and TV ads featuring dozens of major recording stars who compare file swapping with stealing. Recording industry executives said they're trying to educate music fans and...
[September 26, 2002, 7:36]
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]
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]
Record Labels Win Round Against File-swapping Students
News Sydney University can't hide behind claims that file-swapping data sought by record labels was deleted from its system, an Australian federal judge has ruled. In the United States, for example, rules about data retention by Internet service...
[July 31, 2003, 9:40]
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]
Court Cracks Down On File-swapping Company
News A Dutch court on Thursday ordered file-swapping software maker Kazaa to prevent people using its product from engaging in copyright infringement or face thousands of dollars in fines. Thursday's decision ordered Buma/Stemra to resume licensing...
[November 30, 2001, 10:37]
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]
Apple Silences ITunes File-swapping Software
News Apple made the move amid an environment of increasing hostility between the entertainment industry and music-swapping applications such as Kazaa and the now-defunct Napster. Apple has been building file-sharing functions into iTunes and its other...
[January 17, 2003, 13:18]
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]
File-swapping Lawsuits Put On Hold
News A California judge has slowed Hollywood's pursuit of file-swappers, saying the movie studios have improperly bundled too many separate cases together. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) last week launched a legal attack that borrowed...
[November 25, 2004, 13:05]
