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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]
Microsoft bans employees from music swapping
News Microsoft warned its employees on Thursday night that no swapping of music or other files is to occur via its PCs or networks. Last week, tech executives, including Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer, sent a letter to Hollywood studio chiefs...
[July 29, 2002, 9:07]
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]
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]
Legal swapping networks flourish
News After several years in the shadows, Red Swoosh -- a company founded by veterans of Scour, one of the first file-swapping services Hollywood shut down -- emerged on Tuesday with the seeds of a healthy content distribution business.
[March 12, 2004, 7:40]
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]
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]
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. Diddy and Sting, are designed to shame people out of illegally swapping music.
[September 26, 2002, 7:36]
Nswap: A Network Swapping Module for Linux Clusters
White Papers Cluster applications that process large amounts of data, such as parallel scientific or multimedia applications, are likely to cause swapping on individual cluster nodes. These applications will perform better on clusters with network swapping...
[October 1, 2008, 1:01]
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]
Apple stops iTunes swapping
News But file-swapping enthusiasts quickly created other programs, such as MyTunes, to capture the songs and allow them to be saved to the computer's hard drive. Among other additions Apple Computer made to its iTunes software, the Mac maker has plugged...
[April 29, 2004, 9:10]
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]
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 Computer has forced a developer to stop distributing a plug-in that...
[January 17, 2003, 13:18]
Gnutella swapping cookies, too
News Web surfers trading free music and other digital goods over one of the Web's most popular file-swapping networks are sharing much more: sensitive data files that could expose them to identity theft. One of several file-swapping networks riding the...
[February 9, 2001, 8:42]
ISPs off the hook in swapping suit
News See the MP3/P2P News Section for the latest on everything from MP3 players to file-swapping services. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has dropped a contentious lawsuit against major US Internet service and network companies...
[August 22, 2002, 7:28]
Napster lifts some song-swapping limits
News Napster has released a new version of its software that allows customers to find many songs that recently disappeared from its file-swapping service. Napster's song-swapping filters, installed at the insistence of the courts and the record industry...
[June 25, 2001, 15:42]
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]
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]
Vote-swapping site aims to defeat Tories
News A vote-swapping site which encourages people to vote tactically in order to prevent the Conservatives winning the forth-coming general election has been launched this week. Users wishing to vote tactically are registered on the site -- www...
[April 19, 2001, 8:04]
