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Grokster Decision Muddies P2P Waters
News In its ruling, America's top court found that file-swapping companies Grokster and StreamCast Networks should be held liable for the widespread copyright infringement their technologies enable. The decision casts uncertainty on the fate of Grokster...
[June 28, 2005, 9:25]
Grokster, The Supreme Court, And Us
News The defendants were StreamCast Networks, which distributes the Morpheus software, and Grokster. Peer-to-peer companies such as Grokster and Morpheus parent StreamCast Networks can be sued and held legally liable for the copyright infringement of...
[June 28, 2005, 17:20]
Grokster Launches Premium Version
News Grokster on Tuesday released Grokster Pro, the first version of its software that's free of pop-ups and adware. Popular peer-to-peer software services such as Grokster and Kazaa have attracted millions of people through free downloads, which let...
[July 16, 2003, 10:50]
Rosso Swaps Grokster For Blubster
News Wayne Rosso, head of file-swapping company Grokster, has resigned to take the helm of younger Spanish peer-to-peer technology rival Blubster. But in recent months, he's also chafed against the market leadership of Kazaa parent Sharman Networks and...
[October 15, 2003, 9:30]
Why Grokster Isn't The End Of The World
News The Kazaa-like "infringers" either lost in the Supreme Court along with Grokster, or the few remaining have basically gotten the message and are finding ways to go "legit" as we speak. This chilly pursuit's last salvo came with the Grokster...
[August 10, 2005, 19:00]
Ruling Means Dark Days For P2P Users?
News Friday's ruling that the makers of Grokster and Morpheus aren't liable for copyright infringement occurring as a result of people using their peer-to-peer software could spell bad news for the file traders themselves.
[April 28, 2003, 9:44]
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]
Billionaire Backs Defendant In Landmark P2P Case
News Billionaire Mark Cuban has announced that he will finance Grokster's defence against MGM's peer-to-peer lawsuit, which is expected to be argued before the US Supreme Court on Tuesday. Cuban, who's also the owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball...
[March 29, 2005, 12:10]
File-trading Future In Hands Of Court
News Attorneys for the record industry and the movie studios sparred with lawyers for file-swapping services Morpheus and Grokster in US federal court on Monday, as each side sought a quick resolution to a pending copyright suit against the popular...
[December 3, 2002, 13:33]
Copyright Battle Seeks Early Resolution
News Both sides want to end the copyright infringement lawsuit against popular file-swapping services Kazaa, Morpheus and Grokster quickly -- they just disagree on who should win. Kazaa, Grokster and, at one time, Morpheus all were built on the same...
[September 10, 2002, 11:04]
Lawsuit Targets Biggest Post-Napster Network
News Adding a new challenge to their list of legal attacks, the record industry and Hollywood studios have joined forces to sue Music City, Kazaa and Grokster, which together form one of the most popular file-trading networks to spring up in Napster's...
[October 3, 2001, 9:42]
File-sharing Programs Carry Trojan Horse
News Antivirus company Symantec last week reported the presence of "spyware" bundled with Grokster and Limewire, two popular file-swapping downloads. Grokster has gone one step further, apologising and providing its users with a program that will remove...
[January 3, 2002, 9:37]
Court To Decide Kazaa's US Liability
News If a judge says Sharman can be sued in the United States, Kazaa will get sucked into the same legal maelstrom that has grabbed Napster, Aimster, Audio Galaxy, Grokster and Morpheus, closing some of the popular services and threatening the...
[November 25, 2002, 8:29]
RIAA Wants To Chat With Song Swappers
News Tapping into the chat functions built into software programs such as Kazaa and Grokster, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on Tuesday started sending automatic messages to people who are providing copyrighted songs online...
[April 30, 2003, 7:26]
Napster Rivals Winning Popularity Contest
News The study comes as Kazaa, MusicCity and Grokster face legal attacks from the record and film industries. Consulting firm Webnoize said on Monday that the number of digital music files downloaded using Kazaa, MusicCity and Grokster jumped 20 percent...
[November 6, 2001, 9:38]
IT Consultant Fired Over BBC Interview
News A British IT consultant accused by the American movie industry of running a BitTorrent file-sharing hub has been sacked by his employer after appearing on BBC 2's "Newsnight" programme last week to comment on the US Supreme Court ruling on Grokster.
[July 4, 2005, 16:35]
Librarians Issue File-sharing Support
News The five major US library associations are planning to file a legal brief on Friday siding with Streamcast Networks and Grokster in the California suit, brought by the major record labels and Hollywood studios.
[September 26, 2003, 11:10]
RIAA's Next Moves In Washington
News How much of that is because of the Supreme Court's ruling in Grokster and your lawsuits against individual file swappers? Bainwol: Our view of Grokster is that the court struck the right balance. In last year's Grokster case, the US Supreme Court...
[May 26, 2006, 13:25]
Hackers Turn Tables On File-swapping Firms
News His work, now available through the Grokster and iMesh networks themselves, joins that of other programmers who have previously "cleaned" programs such as Kazaa and Audio Galaxy in a campaign against "adware" and "spyware.
[April 25, 2002, 13:53]
New.net Downloads Reignite Kazaa Controversy
News However, at the centre of the latest controversy is the distribution of New.net's software through affiliate partners iMesh, BearShare, Kazaa, and Grokster. While information regarding any extra software bundled with downloads is generally...
[April 10, 2002, 9:58]
