Windows update hits file-sharing networks
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Windows update hits file sharing
networks
Windows update hits file sharing
networks
08/10/2004 02:34 PMCNET News.com Aug 10 2004 7:22PM GMT
New Worm for IRC, File-Sharing Networks
New Worm for IRC, File-Sharing Networks
11/11/2003 05:40 PMTechfocus Nov 11 2003 4:07PM ET
File sharing networks win in court
File sharing networks win in court
08/19/2004 08:36 PMUSA Today Aug 20 2004 0:31AM GMT
More Legitimate Uses Of File Sharing
Networks: Course Materials
More Legitimate Uses Of File Sharing
Networks: Course Materials
11/12/2003 01:33 PMAnd, now, we have yet another example of how file sharing networks can
be used for perfectly legitimate reasons. The famous Berklee College
of Music is now offering
80
different lessons as audio or video files on file sharing
networks. They're encouraging anyone to download them, under a
Creative Commons license. They point out that this was the most
efficient way to get that information out there. While some people
still insist that offering stuff for free undermines the content
owners' ability to make money, Berklee realizes that this actually
enhances their reputation while getting more information out there -
both of which are strong positives. The article includes a quote from
the RIAA which misses the point, saying that they don't mind if people
share their own content on file sharing networks. That may be true,
but that's not the message they're bringing to politicians or the
courts, where they're actively trying to shut down file sharing
networks and insisting that their cannot be substantial non-infringing
uses of such networks.
File-sharing networks warned of US
prosecution
File-sharing networks warned of US
prosecution
08/06/2004 03:26 PMComputer Shopper Aug 6 2004 6:19PM GMT
BBC Really Is Looking At File Sharing
Networks To Distribute Programs
BBC Really Is Looking At File Sharing
Networks To Distribute Programs
02/17/2004 01:15 PMThe BBC made a ton of news back in August for saying they were going
to
open
their archive of TV programs for free, and then made even more
news by suggesting they might
use file
sharing networks to distribute that content. However, there had
been some skepticism since then whether or not they would really do
it, and some management shuffles (and questions about the BBC's very
existence) had put the whole thing into question. However, folks at
the BBC say they're still actively
exploring
P2P file sharing as a method for distribution and want to create
an online PVR of sorts that would let people download or stream any
content they wanted. Realizing that the bandwidth costs would be
immense, they (unlike so many others) have realized the power that P2P
distribution allows them: distributing a massive amount of content
without having to deal with the bandwidth costs by using everyone
else's excess bandwidth. Assuming this ever really does get going, it
will be exhibit number one of a "legitimate use" in the next lawsuit
trying to make file sharing networks illegal.
States Warn File-Sharing Networks
(washingtonpost.com)
States Warn File-Sharing Networks
(washingtonpost.com)
08/04/2004 09:54 PMwashingtonpost.com - More than 40 state attorneys general are set to
warn major peer-to-peer file-sharing networks that they may face
enforcement actions if they do not take steps to stem illegal activity
on the networks, such as the trading of child pornography and stolen
movies and music.
Flooding File Sharing Networks With
Bogus Files: Patented
Flooding File Sharing Networks With
Bogus Files: Patented
05/05/2004 05:10 PMWell, here's a nice convergence story covering two topics we discuss
on a regular basis: file sharing and ridiculous patents. A computer
science professor has now
received a patent on the process of flooding a file sharing
network with bogus files to annoy people trying to download files.
How is this not obvious? It didn't take a professor and a doctoral
student to come up with this idea. Plenty of folks in the industry
just went ahead and did it themselves. The professor also makes the
same tired old mistake of saying that file sharing is the same thing
as stealing a CD out of a store - something that even the Supreme
Court has
said is
not true. Copyright infringement is definitely illegal, but it's
not the same thing as stealing a physical object. Of course, some may
say that this will make it more expensive for others to flood such P2P
networks with fake files (and therefore a good thing), but relying on
a bad patent isn't the way to go. I wonder if this patent covers
flooding the patent office with bogus patents as well?
Grokster File-Sharing Case Hits The
Supreme Court
Grokster File-Sharing Case Hits The
Supreme Court
03/31/2005 12:35 PMThe Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday from representatives of
major film studios and the recording industry who are seeking to shut
down peer-to-peer services they say are costing them billions of
dollars. One of the questions the court kept coming back to was this:
What's more important — preventing potential copyright violations or
allowing the market to come up with innovative new products?
The case began when MGM and several record labels filed suit against
StreamCast Networks and file-sharing network Grokster, arguing that
they were intentionally created to allow people to illegally trade
copyrighted material. That case was thrown out by a circuit court in
August, paving the way for it to be argued in front of the Supreme
Court. "The scale of the whole thing is mind-boggling,"
argued recording industry lawyer Donald Verrilli. "They
intentionally built a network of infringing users."
News source:
mtv.comRead full story...Windows SP2 hits P2P networks
Windows SP2 hits P2P networks
08/10/2004 03:49 PMFans of file sharing put Microsoft's long-awaited Windows XP update on
peer network, even as the business world gets cautious.
Use FTP for faster file sharing with
Windows
Use FTP for faster file sharing with
Windows
02/10/2004 02:37 AMI've been a good little Mac head and did the 'obvious' thing to share
files between my PC (running XP home) and my G4 PowerBook (10.3.2): I
started "Windows Sharing" on the Mac side. It's a bit touchy and
things don't always ...
File and Printer Sharing with Microsoft
Windows
File and Printer Sharing with Microsoft
Windows
05/01/2004 03:35 AMFile and printer sharing in Microsoft Windows allows you to share the
contents of selected folders and locally attached printers with other
computers. Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Millennium
Edition (Me), and Windows NT® 4.0 support file and printer sharing.
For each of these operating systems, this article describes the
features, components, connection process, how to share a folder and
connect to a shared folder, how to share a printer and connect to a
shared printer, and how to manage file sharing in a small office/home
office environment.
Demonstrating A Legitimate Use Of File
Sharing For Microsoft's Update?
Demonstrating A Legitimate Use Of File
Sharing For Microsoft's Update?
08/10/2004 03:43 PMThe BBC is reporting on Downhill Battle's move to
offer the new
Microsoft Windows XP update via BitTorrent as a way of showing how
distributed file sharing applications can be used for legitimate,
non-infringing purposes (though, the article hints that Microsoft
isn't particularly thrilled about this). Of course, anyone who
understands how BitTorrent works knows that there are already plenty
of examples of non-infringing uses of BitTorrent. At this point,
unfortunately, this demo may only serve to show how immature
BitTorrent actually is. While the concept is great, the
implementation still needs quite a bit of work.
Vulnerabilities: Microsoft Windows Samba
File Sharing Resource Exhaustion
Vulnerability
Vulnerabilities: Microsoft Windows Samba
File Sharing Resource Exhaustion
Vulnerability
01/24/2004 05:00 PMSecurityFocus Jan 24 2004 9:12PM GMT
Windows update hits a new delay
Windows update hits a new delay
07/13/2004 05:12 AMA major update to the Windows XP operating system will be available
from August, later than expected.
ALL MULTIPLE P2P NETWORK FILE SHARING
SOFTWARE ARE NOT THE SAME: TrustyFiles
2.2 update adds Bit Torrent access and
delivers the fastest and most results
and download sources with 100% native
code.
ALL MULTIPLE P2P NETWORK FILE SHARING
SOFTWARE ARE NOT THE SAME: TrustyFiles
2.2 update adds Bit Torrent access and
delivers the fastest and most results
and download sources with 100% native
code.
06/07/2004 02:37 AMRazorPop, Inc. announced the release of TrustyFiles 2.2 Personal File
Sharing software at http://www.TrustyFiles.com. The performance-driven
update cements TrustyFile’s position as the leader in Multi-P2P
network software. TrustyFiles 2.2 features 100% native code and adds
Bit Torrent network support. TrustyFiles continues to be FREE with
NO spyware and NO additional bundled software. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2004]
Sharing Ideas Just Got Easier: Blogging,
Keyword Tagging, File Sharing, Social
Networking … And That’s Just For
Starters!
Sharing Ideas Just Got Easier: Blogging,
Keyword Tagging, File Sharing, Social
Networking … And That’s Just For
Starters!
03/23/2005 04:46 AMLaunched this month, Apcala is a web system that allows you to share
photographs, audio, video, documents and personalised profiles with
friends, family, other Apcala users and the Internet at large. It’s
advertising free and free to use. [PRWEB Mar 23, 2005]
File-sharers offer Windows update
File-sharers offer Windows update
08/10/2004 06:56 AMFile-sharing activists are using Microsoft's SP2 update to highlight
the benefits of peer-to-peer technology.
Removing Windows Update entries from the
HOSTS file
Removing Windows Update entries from the
HOSTS file
05/09/2004 12:56 PMCritical Update for Windows Media Player
(All Versions) for Windows 2000, Windows
XP, and Windows Server 2003 (KB828026)
Critical Update for Windows Media Player
(All Versions) for Windows 2000, Windows
XP, and Windows Server 2003 (KB828026)
02/11/2004 01:19 AMWhen a content owner creates an audio or video stream, they can add
script commands (such as URL script commands and custom script
commands) to be encoded in the stream. When the stream is played back,
the script commands can trigger events in an embedded player program,
or they can open your browser and then navigate to a Web page. This
behavior is by design
Is The War On File Sharing Over?
Is The War On File Sharing Over?
01/16/2004 11:04 AMThe music biz is declaring success, citing lawsuits and Apple's
iTunes. But to music fans who recall the glory days of Napster, the
fight goes on. By Farhad Manjoo (Salon via MyAppleMenu)
Is the war on file sharing over?
Is the war on file sharing over?
01/16/2004 11:26 AMThe music biz is declaring success, citing lawsuits and Apple's
iTunes. But to music fans who recall the glory days of Napster, the
fight goes on.
Faux File-Sharing
Faux File-Sharing
01/05/2005 11:29 AMWhat consumers want—an out-of-box way to share and transmit
files between different storage media and computers (and
users)—is exactly what manufacturers don't want to give them,
but they'll tease us a little. So, if you're really rich, DigitalDeck
Entertainment Network is busting out an in-home network PC to gear to
DVD sharing system that costs $4000 - $5000. It probably consists of a
bunch of cables and a universal remote that your geeked-out younger
brother could hack together himself.
Techno-enhanced televisions take big step into
spotlight [USA Today]
The File-Sharing Debates
The File-Sharing Debates
12/07/2003 02:35 AMNew York Times Dec 7 2003 1:15AM ET
The File Sharing Database
The File Sharing Database
07/31/2004 05:25 PMFile Sharing Undented
File Sharing Undented
05/27/2004 12:28 PMSeems file sharing in the US has dropped a little while their are
increases in Europe. I am sure that third world traffic numbers have
increased as the majority of the third world cannot afford software
prices. [Smart
Mobs]
File-sharing Goes Social
File-sharing Goes Social
01/07/2004 02:52 PM
The RIAA has taken us on a tour of networking strategies in the last
few years, by constantly changing the environment file-sharing systems
operate in. In hostile environments, organisms often adapt to become
less energetic but harder to kill, and so it is now. With the RIAA's
waves of legal attacks driving experimentation with decentralized
file-sharing tools, file-sharing networks have progressively traded
efficiency for resistance to legal attack.
The RIAA has slowly altered the environment so that relatively
efficient systems like Napster were killed, opening up a niche for
more decentralized systems like Gnutella and Kazaa. With their current
campaign against Kazaa in full swing, we are about to see another
shift in network design, one that will have file sharers adopting
tools originally designed for secure collaboration in a corporate
setting. - More at
http://www.shirky.com/writings/file-sharing_social.html
The File Sharing Report
The File Sharing Report
09/18/2004 04:46 PMFile Sharing Going Strong
File Sharing Going Strong
07/12/2004 11:07 AM
Online file swapping endures: What, exactly, is eDonkey?
Despite entertainment industry attempts to curb online song and
movie swapping with lawsuits and education campaigns, more people than
ever are using peer-to-peer services.
BigChampagne, which tracks Internet file sharing, says 8.3 million
people were online at any one time in June using unauthorized services
like Kazaa and eDonkey — up 19% from 6.8 million in June
2003.
The majority of files being traded were music, BigChampagne says.
Porn videos and images were the second-biggest category.
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The Ups And Downs Of File Sharing
The Ups And Downs Of File Sharing
04/26/2004 11:53 AMThe latest Pew study says that
14% of American
internet users claim they've stopped downloading music, but that
the number of people downloading has been steadily growing again over
the last few months. The study has a few problems, however. First,
it's all based on asking people about their activities, and
considering the publicity campaign, it's easy to imagine a heavy file
sharer saying they don't download any music because they don't want to
risk opening themselves up to a lawsuit. Furthermore, the study does
not appear to distinguish between what kind of music is being
"downloaded." They seem to lump together downloading unauthorized
files, using paid download stores like iTunes, or even legitimate
downloads directly from a musician's own website.
MUTE File Sharing 0.2
MUTE File Sharing 0.2
01/10/2004 05:42 PMSimple, private file sharing.
Call to tax file-sharing
Call to tax file-sharing
09/22/2004 04:22 AMBBC Sep 22 2004 8:22AM GMT
The File Sharing Experiment
The File Sharing Experiment
08/05/2004 12:38 PMThe File
Sharing Experiment is a project with the goal of demonstrating how
file sharing actually helps the music, movie, and software industry.
Folks are encouraged to post purchases they've made and a short
explanation of how they learned about the band/movie/game and why they
ended up buying something for it. All the evidence is anectdotal, but
when taken together, it's already over a quarter million dollars in
reported sales and the site has been up for one week.
Personally, this was the point I tried to make in the heyday of
Napster. You could find anything on Napster, but rarely could you find
complete albums, so the service had the effect of promoting CD sales.
I would often surf others' music lists whenever I noticed things I
liked, download the things I hadn't ever heard of, then I'd end up
buying CDs from Amazon.
'F' Is for File Sharing
(washingtonpost.com)
'F' Is for File Sharing
(washingtonpost.com)
09/09/2004 12:21 PMwashingtonpost.com - It's move-in day for freshmen at the University
of Maryland's College Park campus and the narrow lawn outside Denton
Hall is strewn with piles of suitcases, bedding and Dell computer
boxes. If recent history is any guide, the smiling teens wandering
amid the makeshift encampments are primed to join the next generation
of hard-core music pirates who'll raid Internet file-swapping networks
for hundreds of thousands of illegally copied songs over the next four
years.
File Sharing Sentinel
File Sharing Sentinel
01/22/2004 09:15 AMNYT Promotes File Sharing
NYT Promotes File Sharing
09/10/2004 12:37 PMfile sharing = piracy? Not really.
file sharing = piracy? Not really.
01/16/2004 11:27 AMAn interesting Salon article: Is the war on file sharing
over?:
If one is willing to believe the happy talk
from music business executives, the tide has finally turned against
file sharing, thanks to the get-tough tactics employed by the
Recording Industry Association of America.
Last fall, the RIAA began filing lawsuits against individual users
of peer-to-peer trading sites, and the strategy, the RIAA says now,
has paid off. The group is careful not to declare a final victory over
file trading, but things are finally beginning to look up for a
business long in decline, say industry representatives. After years of
scoffing at copyright laws, Americans are finally beginning to
understand the gravity of file trading's offense against copyright.
The article is interesting. But what I find most
interesting is this automatic alignment that is made in the media
discourse between file sharing and piracy. There are many, many uses
other than those the RIAA defines as illegitimate for file sharing
(note, I am not saying
anonymous file sharing, although there
worthy uses for that too). Sure, the media loves a good fight and
that's why the focus on this comparison. But the uses of sharing
should, can, and
will move beyond those in dispute. And not
just for files, either.
Why am I saying this? Well, can't you guess?
Stay tuned. :-)
MUTE File Sharing 0.2.1
MUTE File Sharing 0.2.1
01/22/2004 06:22 PMSimple, private file sharing.
File-sharing app eDonkey comes to Mac OS
X
File-sharing app eDonkey comes to Mac OS
X
06/29/2004 01:58 PMeDonkey announced on Tuesday
that its peer-to-peer file-sharing software is coming to Mac OS X.
Previously, Mac support was available only through a text-based
command line interface in the software. eDonkey links every client on
the network with each other, allowing them to search within both the
entire network and a subset of it. Users can also download files from
multiple users simultaneously and automatically continue interrupted
downloads during their next session, in addition to the ability to
send private messages to other users. The eDonkey application is not
finalized for Mac OS X yet, but you can download a Beta of either the
free or paid version from the developer's Web site. Both require Mac
OS X v10.2 or higher and 64MB RAM; the free version has limited
features and displays ads when you use it.
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