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Site sharing alone won't save 3G
News UK mobile operators who are teaming up to build third-generation (3G) networks have already been warned that site sharing alone won't be enough to guarantee that 3G is a success in this country. Site sharing will certainly bring down the amount of...
[July 3, 2001, 14:42]
Microsoft site to enable code sharing
News The launch of the code-sharing site is one of several moves Microsoft is making to adjust to the growing popularity of open-source software and development practices. Microsoft on Tuesday is expected to officially launch a community-building Web...
[June 27, 2006, 10:00]
Microsoft site to enable code sharing
Talkback Source code? Take it AWAY! I fully intend to go to my GRAVE without ever having seen any of Microsoft's source code! That way, I don't expose any real Open Source projects to the risk of being sued by MS for copyright infringement.
[June 27, 2006, 13:47]
Swedish company to buy Pirate Bay
News The Pirate Bay file-sharing site, which is at the centre of a music piracy court case, is to be bought by a Swedish software company. Peerialism has developed a new data-distribution technology which now can be introduced on the best known file...
[June 30, 2009, 13:15]
Half the charges dropped in Pirate Bay trial
News On the first day of the long-awaited criminal trial involving The Pirate Bay file-sharing site, Swedish prosecutors unexpectedly dropped half of the charges against the site's operators. The four men behind the file-sharing site face up to two...
[February 19, 2009, 8:07]
Netsky attacks: Four sites down, one to go
News File-sharing network eDonkey's main Web site has been knocked offline following an attack from Netsky, but Kazaa has survived -- so far Earlier this week, file-sharing Web sites Kazaa and eDonkey and three other Web sites were bracing themselves...
[April 8, 2004, 14:35]
Appeals court to Napster: Rock on!
News In a significant victory for Napster, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeal on Friday granted the company's request to delay an order that would have shut down the popular song-sharing site at the stroke of midnight (Pacific Time).
[July 31, 2000, 8:36]
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. There is no easy way to stop this other than to...
[January 23, 2001, 9:34]
SourceLabs launches collaboration site
News Called Swik, the site combines a search engine, a wiki for posting documentation and reviews, and information-sharing tools that use RSS. Although Swik is geared at developers and end users, Bosworth said the information-sharing tools the software...
[July 7, 2005, 9:55]
Streaming Napster style app hits the Web
News Music site WiredPlanet is beta testing a Napster like MP3 file sharing community that uses streaming technology to avoid legal pitfalls. The massive popularity of the MP3 file sharing community Napster has seen the spawning of a host of imitators...
[April 4, 2000, 15:18]
UK man threatened with BitTorrent lawsuit
News A UK man who runs a Web site that once supported the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing application is facing the threat of being sued by four major US movie studios. Mr Reid deplores copyright infringement and when made aware of unlawful sharing...
[March 18, 2005, 16:35]
AOL pulls file-sharing software
News A day after developers at America Online's Nullsoft unit quietly released file-sharing software, AOL pulled the link to the product from the subsidiary's Web site. The software, called Waste, lets groups set up private, secure file-sharing networks.
[June 2, 2003, 9:52]
Scour song-swapping site to close
News Music file-sharing service Scour announced Tuesday it is to close down its exchange site in the next two days. The announcement came in the wake of the US court's decision to grant the Los Angeles-based company's motion to disable its file-sharing...
[November 15, 2000, 15:41]
Peer-to-peer networks carry surprising cargo
News Peer-to-peer advocacy group Downhill Battle has made a copy of Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 available at a site called SP2torrent.com through the BitTorrent file-sharing system. Advocates of file sharing are distributing the latest Windows...
[August 11, 2004, 9:00]
Google, Viacom clash over employee records
News As part of Viacom's $1bn copyright suit against Google's YouTube, a US federal judge ordered the video-sharing site two weeks ago to disclose records, such as IP addresses and usernames. YouTube maintains that the video-sharing site is an internet...
[July 14, 2008, 9:06]
Apple settles with Tiger leaker
News Last month Apple settled with Doug Steigerwald, a recent college graduate who admitted leaking a developer copy of Tiger onto a file-sharing site. An Apple representative confirmed Tuesday that it has settled with Vivek Sambhara, one of three men...
[April 20, 2005, 9:55]
Napster alternatives booming
News Ham said he even thinks newer sites will pop up, now that they can use the judge's ruling as a "road map" for how to create a legal music-sharing site. The 21 million-plus Napster users expecting to find themselves homeless on Friday have already...
[July 28, 2000, 8:19]
Half online youth share music - report
News Finance is the key factor, as it's the cheapest way to do things for students with no disposable income," said Paul Myers who plans to launch a subscription based song-sharing site called Wippit. The world's online youth is apparently ignoring the...
[December 14, 2000, 14:53]
Makers of MP3 players distance themselves from Napster
News Instead of touting the Walkman-like MP3 player as the easiest way to transport digital music files downloaded from Napster and other popular file-sharing destinations on the Web, manufacturers are now extolling their machines' ability to take...
[February 13, 2001, 11:00]
Plucky start-up adds tools to IE
News Pluck's self-titled package of browser add-ons promises to affix a range of extensions to IE, including expanded Web searching capabilities, live content folder sharing and a so-called rich site summary (RSS) reader.
[May 25, 2004, 14:50]
