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File-swapping Legal Fight Gathers Steam
News A hotly contested wrangle in the US Congress over how to outlaw file-swapping networks just took a new twist. A 19 August decision from a federal appeals court that said the Grokster and Morpheus file-swapping networks were legal to operate has...
[September 3, 2004, 9:35]
Supreme Court Rules Against File Swapping
News The US Supreme Court handed movie studios and record labels a sweeping victory against file-swapping, ruling on Monday that peer-to-peer companies such as Grokster could be held responsible for the copyright piracy on their networks.
[June 27, 2005, 20:20]
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]
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]
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]
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]
File-swapping Network Told To Unplug Computers
News A Chicago federal judge has ordered file-swapping service Madster, formerly known as Aimster, to unplug its computers from the Internet in a last-ditch effort to prevent music piracy on its network. The fight over Madster's service has had little...
[December 4, 2002, 13:10]
Hackers Enable ITunes Swapping
News Still, the software is likely to ring an alarm at Apple and among record company executives, who have waged war against file swapping since Napster's heyday. A group of anonymous programmers has released new software that allows music to be swapped...
[August 20, 2004, 8:40]
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]
Anarchist Coders Prime Unfettered File Swapping Service
News Chief among these is Freenet, an open-source project viewed by many as the ultimate inheritor to Napster's original promise of free online file swapping. The fate of the free Net may rest in the hands of a university student in Sweden making less...
[June 19, 2001, 14:46]
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]
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]
File-swapping Booms Again
News The RIAA has launched more than 300 lawsuits since it started its campaign against file swapping. Illegal music downloading could be making a comeback, according to market researchers who note a surge in the use of peer-to-peer services.
[January 19, 2004, 8:50]
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]
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]
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]
Hot Swapping With Paralan SCSI Converters And SCSI RegeneratoR™s
White Papers Hot Swapping with Paralan SCSI Converters and SCSI RegeneratoR™s - When a system cannot afford to be shut down to add or remove a device or devices on the SCSI bus, then you need to Hot Swap. Paralan's SCSI Converters and SCSI RegeneratoR™s are...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
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]
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]
