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File-trading pressure mounts on ISPs
News Record companies have joined the movie industry in trying to root out post-Napster file trading, putting new pressure on ISPs to clamp down on subscribers' actions. ISPs say the last few weeks have seen a sharp upturn in the number of requests they...
[July 26, 2001, 11:19]
File-trading future in hands of court
News If Wilson decides in favour of the record companies and movie studios, he could order StreamCast Networks, the parent company of Grokster and Morpheus, to stop distributing the file-trading software for those services, or he could order the...
[December 3, 2002, 13:33]
Freenet keeps file-trading flame burning
News The popular file-trading services, led by the still-dominant Kazaa, are meanwhile coming under increasing attack from record labels and movie studios desperate to put a halt to unauthorised trades of copyrighted works.
[October 28, 2002, 14:18]
Madonna site hacked in file-trading controversy
News The hacker's attack appeared to be in response to Madonna's most recent, typically colourful broadside against file-swappers seeking free copies of her music. Several other artists and groups that have complained about file swapping and have seen...
[April 23, 2003, 8:07]
Lone file-swapper takes on recording industry
News An anonymous California computer user went to court on Thursday to challenge the recording industry's file-trading subpoenas, charging that they are unconstitutional and violate her right to privacy. The RIAA has used court orders to try to...
[August 22, 2003, 10:25]
Rosso swaps Grokster for Blubster
News Rosso has long been one of the most colourfully outspoken executives in the file-trading world, known for comparing recording industry executives to Josef Stalin and the fight over digital file trading to the Vietnam War protests.
[October 15, 2003, 9:30]
Napster rivals winning popularity contest
News Alternative file-trading services continue to gain momentum and could soon surpass the granddaddy of song swaps, Napster, at the height of its popularity. In October, the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association...
[November 6, 2001, 9:38]
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. The decision marks the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) second...
[September 5, 2002, 7:56]
Napster clone seeks court protection
News Aimster, one of the most high-profile file-trading services to launch in Napster's wake, on Monday asked a New York federal court for a "declaratory judgment" stating that its service doesn't violate US copyright law.
[May 3, 2001, 8:16]
Bill lets Hollywood hack your PC
News Congress is about to consider an entertainment industry proposal that would authorise copyright holders to disable PCs used for illicit file trading. Copyright owners are in essence asking Congress to say that peer-to-peer file trading is such a...
[July 25, 2002, 8:12]
Morpheus looks to Gnutella for help
News A glitch this week that locked millions of people out of the most popular file-trading network since Napster's fall is raising new questions about the future of the Net's free-music bonanza. Beginning early Tuesday, a message on Morpheus -- a file...
[February 28, 2002, 9:34]
Morpheus seeks new role in music biz
News StreamCast Networks, the creator of the popular Morpheus file-trading software, is set to unveil a plan on Thursday that it hopes will help it become a more legitimate means of music distribution. It's calling for independent artists to distribute...
[March 14, 2002, 9:54]
Morpheus' downfall: Bills weren't paid
News The Morpheus file-trading network, which drew more than a million people a day to trade movies, songs or software at its peak, went dark last Tuesday. StreamCast has said that Kazaa BV was able to change settings stored deep inside Morpheus users...
[March 6, 2002, 11:37]
Another 41 file-swappers face suits
News The Recording Industry Association of America said on Wednesday that it had sued another 41 people in its ongoing legal campaign against file swappers who are trading copyrighted music online. The RIAA's legal campaign against individual file...
[December 4, 2003, 8:50]
Companies struggling to stop song swappers
News An attack on corporate use of peer-to-peer software is under way, as companies face increasing pressure from record labels and other copyright holders to stop employees from file trading. Many have outlawed the use of file-trading programs, but in...
[March 19, 2003, 14:40]
Anarchist coders prime unfettered file swapping service
News While the first generation of file-trading technologies fights over Napster's leavings, more radical Net programmers are still committed to building a wholly anonymous, virtually untraceable way of communicating and trading files online.
[June 19, 2001, 14:46]
Kazaa plays on despite threat of fines
News The second round of peer-to-peer litigation potentially poses some tougher legal questions, the technology's advocates argue, since companies such as FastTrack merely make and market software products and play no other role in assisting file...
[December 21, 2001, 10:13]
File-swappers fear prosecution
News Nielsen/Netratings, a company that monitors Web traffic and desktop application use, said that use of top file-trading applications such as Kazaa and Morpheus has fallen by about 15 percent since the end of June.
[July 15, 2003, 9:05]
Covert P2P network fails to hide users
News There are around a quarter of a million users of the supposedly anonymous file-trading network, called Winny, which rides on the more well-known Freenet network. Such networks differ from other file trading software, such as Kazaa, in that they...
[December 3, 2003, 14:25]
Napster crackdown drives away fans
News By putting enough pressure on individual file-trading services, and keeping the threat that individual people might be targeted, no future service will reach Napster's popularity, they hope. I think peer-to-peer (file trading) will be a continuing...
[May 9, 2001, 8:02]
