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Napster Lifts Some Song-swapping Limits
News Napster's song-swapping filters, installed at the insistence of the courts and the record industry after several court battles, had dramatically reduced the number of songs available. Napster has released a new version of its software that allows...
[June 25, 2001, 15:42]
Innocent Surfers Can Appear Guilty Of Song-swapping
Talkback To the author of the missive about books being traded. When did you wake up Rip? Everything that can be traded is and has been traded for some time. And there is nothing you can do about so drop your angst-ridden comments.
[October 4, 2003, 0:13]
Innocent Surfers Can Appear Guilty Of Song-swapping
Talkback I am sorry to inform you but the P2P wave has hit almost every aspect it can. The economic effects are far savere than a lot of people can imagine. And the problem is no body does take a second to think of the ramifications of their actions...
[October 3, 2003, 12:19]
Digital Radio 'could Feed Song Swapping'
Talkback Why can't the RIAA just f off.
[June 14, 2004, 22:58]
Scour Song-swapping Site To Close
News The music-sharing service was sued in July by three entertainment industry associations, which alleged that the new file-swapping service violated copyrights by allowing users to share files for free.
[November 15, 2000, 15:41]
Innocent Surfers Can Appear Guilty Of Song-swapping
News Recently, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) withdrew a file-swapping lawsuit after a possible case of mistaken identity. The RIAA represents the largest US music companies, and has already sued 261 file-sharers who were accused...
[October 3, 2003, 9:25]
Aussie ISP In Court Over Song-swapping
News It is legal when the song's copyright holder has granted permission to download and play the song. It's still legal if you encode the MP3 for personal use, however it is illegal to distribute or trade MP3s without permission from the song's...
[October 21, 2003, 15:25]
Napster Hit By Defecting Users
News The latest figures show that Napster has been haemorrhaging users over the last four months while rival song-swapping sites are booming. Since Napster began trying to block unauthorised file swapping, in return for not being closed down, users have...
[July 12, 2001, 15:47]
Anti-P2P Software 'spies' On User Data
News An ambitious software project for blocking copyrighted song-swapping over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is nearly ready, though technical problems have forced its developers to limit their plans. If it finds a match to a copyrighted song, it will...
[September 11, 2003, 10:45]
Napster Gets Temporary Reprieve
News A federal appeals court on Wednesday issued a short reprieve for Napster, saying the company can temporarily restart its song-swapping service online. The ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco stays a week-old decision...
[July 19, 2001, 10:58]
RIAA: We'll Smother Song Swappers
News The recording industry is experimenting with new technology it hopes can smother online song swapping by targeting music traders' computers directly. Once the software has found a computer offering a certain song, it attempts to block other...
[October 17, 2001, 9:37]
Piracy Blamed For Drop In Music Sales
News CD copying and song-swapping services such as Napster and Gnutella have been blamed for a significant drop in worldwide music sales. Berman also blamed the popularity of Internet-based song-swapping services, which the IFPI believes have...
[April 16, 2002, 16:27]
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]
Legal Peer-to-peer Services: Gimmick Or Genius?
News Any new service using Snocap's technology will have to compete not only with Apple Computer's iTunes and other song stores, but also with rivals such as eDonkey, Kazaa and other file-swapping services where music can still be found for free.
[December 7, 2004, 13:45]
Judge Slams Door On Napster
News RIAA general counsel Cary Sherman applauded the order, saying that it laid the groundwork for legal music downloads and that it could send a message to other song-swapping firms. Saying the recording industry is likely to prevail in its copyright...
[July 27, 2000, 8:56]
News Roundup: Napster Facing The Music
News Mon, 05 Mar Their beloved song-swapping service dragged into court and facing a possible shutdown, Napster fans are already plotting other ways to continue trading free music online Mon, 05 Mar Service will filter out thousands of song names, but...
[March 6, 2001, 15:02]
Napster Marches Back To Court
News The RIAA sued Napster in December, claiming that its song-swapping service promotes copyright violations because it allows people to trade music for free. Wednesday's hearing comes just a week after Jupiter Communications, a major Internet research...
[July 25, 2000, 13:39]
Judges Put End To Napster Appeal
News In addition, Napster has said it will shut down its free song-swapping service this summer when it launches a paid subscription service. In February of this year, a panel of three appellate judges ruled that Patel's order had been "overbroad" but...
[June 26, 2001, 7:21]
Napster Founder Unveils New P2P Venture
News Fanning said Snocap's seeds were planted in the last days of Napster, when that song-swapping service was struggling under court order to block trades of copyrighted content through its network. Labels then provide Snocap with a set of rules to be...
[December 3, 2004, 8:25]
Virus Hoax Targets Napster Users
News Over the past eight months, unsuspecting "song thieves" using the free peer-to-peer file-swapping services Napster and Gnutella, will have downloaded this embedded virus onto their own PC. The hoax claims that song-swappers "will find their illicit...
[July 2, 2001, 12:13]
