The Court of Online Opinion Has Its Say on File Sharing

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Court mulls file sharing Hollywood and
Silicon Valley square off before Supreme
Court in case that could limit

Court mulls file sharing Hollywood and
Silicon Valley square off before Supreme
Court in case that could limit 03/30/2005 08:56 PM
CBS MarketWatch Mar 31 2005 12:31AM GMT

File sharing goes to the Supreme Court

File sharing goes to the Supreme Court 03/29/2005 06:49 AM
Personal Computer World Mar 29 2005 10:51AM GMT

High Court Looks At File Sharing

High Court Looks At File Sharing 03/28/2005 11:33 PM
CBS Now Mar 29 2005 4:22AM GMT

File sharing networks win in court

File sharing networks win in court 08/19/2004 08:36 PM
USA Today Aug 20 2004 0:31AM GMT

Supreme Court to Weigh in on
File-Sharing (AP)

Supreme Court to Weigh in on
File-Sharing (AP) 03/29/2005 09:22 AM
AP - The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday on file-sharing technology. How the justices rule could redefine how consumers can watch television shows and films and listen to songs that increasingly are delivered in digital formats.

A Supreme Court Showdown for File
Sharing

A Supreme Court Showdown for File
Sharing 03/27/2005 09:28 PM
The Supreme Court will hear a case in which the recording and film industries seek to hold makers of file-sharing software liable for illegal copying.

Supreme Court Weighs in on File-Sharing

Supreme Court Weighs in on File-Sharing 03/30/2005 05:27 PM
Techzonez Mar 30 2005 9:37PM GMT

Supreme Court Weighs in on File-Sharing
(AP)

Supreme Court Weighs in on File-Sharing
(AP) 03/29/2005 02:57 PM
AP - The Supreme Court expressed concerns Tuesday over allowing entertainment companies to sue makers of software that allows Internet users to illegally download music and movies, questioning whether the threat of such legal action might stifle Web innovation.

High Court Eyes Web File Sharing

High Court Eyes Web File Sharing 03/29/2005 11:45 PM
CBS Now Mar 30 2005 3:54AM GMT

File sharing goes to high court
(USATODAY.com)

File sharing goes to high court
(USATODAY.com) 03/30/2005 07:17 AM
USATODAY.com - Supreme Court justices voiced concerns Tuesday that a ruling against file-sharing services that allow millions of Americans to freely download music and movies could impede novel products such as the iPod music player.

Court mulls file-sharing future

Court mulls file-sharing future 03/30/2005 11:24 AM
The dispute between P2P networks and the entertainment industry is being heard in the Supreme Court.

High court weighs Internet file sharing

High court weighs Internet file sharing 03/30/2005 11:39 AM
Seattle Times Mar 30 2005 2:49PM GMT

Supreme Court Hears File-Sharing Case

Supreme Court Hears File-Sharing Case 03/30/2005 03:45 AM
Red Nova Mar 30 2005 8:12AM GMT

Supreme Court Hears File-Sharing Case
(AP)

Supreme Court Hears File-Sharing Case
(AP) 03/29/2005 11:03 PM
AP - The mostly silver-haired Supreme Court debated the file-swapping, instant-messaging world of the justices' grandchildren Tuesday, openly worrying that allowing lawsuits to protect Internet movie and music rights could stunt development of the next iPod or other cool high-tech gadget.

Court Rules Some File-Sharing Companies
Are Not Liable

Court Rules Some File-Sharing Companies
Are Not Liable 08/19/2004 05:02 PM
New York Times Aug 19 2004 9:49PM GMT

Taking Your Case To The Court Of Public
Opinion... Online

Taking Your Case To The Court Of Public
Opinion... Online 12/03/2003 03:01 AM
It does feel like most high-profile trials these days are conducted in the press first, and later in the actual court room. While, historically, the press has had free reign, the latest trend is for people involved in high-profile trials to take their case directly to the public via a website. While they sound pretty carefully crafted, it does give people (often famous ones like Martha Stewart) the chance to respond to what people have been saying and give their side. Of course, this contrasts with the theory that defendants should stay as quiet as possible outside of court - and could open them up to more difficulties later on. However, it seems that many celebrities are realizing that the view in the court of public opinion may be more important in some cases than the actual results in the court of law.

High Court Hear Arguments on
File-Sharing Technology

High Court Hear Arguments on
File-Sharing Technology 03/29/2005 02:03 PM
New York Times Mar 29 2005 6:33PM GMT

Grokster File-Sharing Case Hits The
Supreme Court

Grokster File-Sharing Case Hits The
Supreme Court 03/31/2005 12:35 PM
The 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.com

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Kazaa wins in European file-sharing
court battle

Kazaa wins in European file-sharing
court battle 12/19/2003 05:13 PM
The Dutch Supreme Court found for the makers of Kazaa in a battle over the legality of the file-sharing software.

As File Sharing Nears High Court, Net
Specialists Worry

As File Sharing Nears High Court, Net
Specialists Worry 03/17/2005 03:53 AM
The pro-technology camp is growing increasingly anxious as the bitter debate over computer file sharing heads toward the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court To Hear Internet File
Sharing Case Today

Supreme Court To Hear Internet File
Sharing Case Today 03/29/2005 09:08 AM
Komoradio.com - Tue Mar 29, 10:43 am GMT

Supreme Court Weighs Internet
File-Sharing Case (Reuters)

Supreme Court Weighs Internet
File-Sharing Case (Reuters) 03/29/2005 02:57 PM
Reuters - Supreme Court justices questioned on Tuesday whether the recording industry's attempts to shut down online file-sharing networks would deter inventors from developing new products like Apple's iPod music player.

Music Industry Returns to Court,
Altering Tactics on File Sharing

Music Industry Returns to Court,
Altering Tactics on File Sharing 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
The music industry returned to the courthouse Wednesday to sue 532 people it accuses of large-scale copyright infringement.

Online file sharing to face judicial
test

Online file sharing to face judicial
test 03/28/2005 11:18 AM
Usatoday.com - Mon Mar 28, 09:48 am GMT

Licensed online music services see
upside to limited file-sharing

Licensed online music services see
upside to limited file-sharing 07/27/2004 09:43 PM
SiliconValley.com Jul 27 2004 11:38PM GMT

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 AM
Launched 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]

Court of public opinion

Court of public opinion 12/24/2003 09:21 PM
USA Today Dec 24 2003 8:06PM ET

Court to Deliver Opinion on Israel
Barrier (AP)

Court to Deliver Opinion on Israel
Barrier (AP) 07/09/2004 06:29 AM
AP - The U.N.'s highest judicial authority rules Friday on the legality of the 425-mile-long barrier Israel is building in the West Bank in response to Palestinian suicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israelis.

Flickr (Flicker) photo sharing IM
instant messenger instant message
friendster realtime media sharing real
time online community

Flickr (Flicker) photo sharing IM
instant messenger instant message
friendster realtime media sharing real
time online community 02/11/2004 10:49 AM
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Is the war on file sharing over?

Is the war on file sharing over? 01/16/2004 11:26 AM
The 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.

Is The War On File Sharing Over?

Is The War On File Sharing Over? 01/16/2004 11:04 AM
The 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)

The Ups And Downs Of File Sharing

The Ups And Downs Of File Sharing 04/26/2004 11:53 AM
The 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.

File-sharing war won't go away; it'll
just go abroad

File-sharing war won't go away; it'll
just go abroad 04/06/2005 02:26 AM
USA Today Apr 6 2005 5:32AM GMT

File 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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file sharing = piracy? Not really.

file sharing = piracy? Not really. 01/16/2004 11:27 AM

An 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. :-)

The File Sharing Report

The File Sharing Report 09/18/2004 04:46 PM

Fired up over file sharing

Fired up over file sharing 08/20/2004 12:11 PM
As hackers find a way to trade with iTunes, a court rules that software makers are not liable for file swappers' actions.

File Sharing Goes Mobile

File Sharing Goes Mobile 09/08/2004 02:29 PM
With all these different music download stores and file sharing apps, it was only a matter of time before everything started to go mobile. I recently wrote up an article at TheFeature about all the various music download offerings for mobile phones, but it looks like some are already going beyond that to offer some form of "file sharing" as well. EMI has talked about mobile file sharing in the past, but it seemed pretty watered down. Recently, Wippit, makers of an increasingly popular DRM technology that encourages limited file sharing announced plans to offer mobile file sharing by letting users get around many wireless carriers by sending the file in response to an SMS message. The latest, though, is that SK Telecom is showing off a mobile file sharing system in Korea that will let users swap music files, ringtones, videos and more via their 3G network. They admit that it has no copy protection at all, and even say, "we're not thinking about that type of problem." It's not clear if that's because they never plan to actually launch it, or they just don't care. Given that the recording industry in Korea wanted to sue wireless carriers for offering MP3 playing phones (even after they agreed to forcibly degrade the sound quality), you have to wonder how long such an application would remain on the market. Still, it's been said many times before: it's only a matter of time until a real Napster-style file sharing app is written for mobile phones, whether by the carriers themselves or (more likely) independently. And still, everyone in the wireless and music industry seems to ignore this potential problem and insist that overpriced ringtone revenue will be around forever.

File Sharing Undented

File Sharing Undented 05/27/2004 12:28 PM

Seems 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]

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Tech.gov: Supreme Court Standards for
Peer-to-Peer and Beyond (PC World)

Tech.gov: Supreme Court Standards for
Peer-to-Peer and Beyond (PC World) 04/12/2005 03:22 AM
PC World - The upcoming ruling on copyright infringement in P-to-P networks will have important implications for future technology development.

Enchantrix addon for World of Warcraft

Enchantrix addon for World of Warcraft 06/22/2005 02:02 AM
Auctioneer is no longer a dependancy

Microsoft Solutions for Small and Medium
Business: Peer-to-Peer Networking with
Windows XP

Microsoft Solutions for Small and Medium
Business: Peer-to-Peer Networking with
Windows XP 07/19/2004 11:14 AM

"The victory by Kazaa creates an
important precedent for the legality of
peer-to-peer software

"The victory by Kazaa creates an
important precedent for the legality of
peer-to-peer software 12/20/2003 06:24 AM
Dutch courts say Kazaa not responsible for what user's do on it's network .. has ruled

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US federal court exempts peer-to-peer
clients from copyright liability

US federal court exempts peer-to-peer
clients from copyright liability 08/21/2004 11:25 AM

After months of hearings and consideration , the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that makers of peer-to-peer computer software (" P2P ") are not liabile for damages concerning copyright infrigement.

The decision hewed to the 1984 Sony v. Betamax ruling , which exempted videocassette recorder makers from copyright infringement, arguing that a tool isn't necessarily dangerous if some of its uses are actionable. Instead the court recommended that intellectual property owners pursue individual infringers. Additionally, defenders of the p2p software argued that the decision preserves privacy rights for users.

Peer-To-Peer Group Unveils
Anti-Pedophile Measure (Reuters)

Peer-To-Peer Group Unveils
Anti-Pedophile Measure (Reuters) 05/06/2004 04:05 PM
Reuters - Internet file-trading networks on Thursday unveiled a new approach to fighting child pornography as they came under a new round of criticism from the U.S. Congress.

Ubersite - Exploiting Peer-to-Peer
Networking: I have lost all faith in
humanity.

Ubersite - Exploiting Peer-to-Peer
Networking: I have lost all faith in
humanity. 04/11/2004 02:38 PM
Ubersite - Exploiting Peer-to-Peer Networking: I have lost all faith in humanity

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Prodigem Inc. Kicks Off New Peer-To-Peer
Content Marketplace with Movie Shot in
High Definition

Prodigem Inc. Kicks Off New Peer-To-Peer
Content Marketplace with Movie Shot in
High Definition 04/14/2005 02:12 AM
Prodigem, a leader in providing legal bit torrent downloads, today announced the availability for purchase of the docudrama "On Our Way Up" shot in stunning high definition. [PRWEB Apr 14, 2005]

Internet Security Systems: Risk exposure
- instant messaging and peer-to-peer
networks v2.0

Internet Security Systems: Risk exposure
- instant messaging and peer-to-peer
networks v2.0 11/04/2003 03:05 AM
Computer Weekly Nov 3 2003 9:46PM ET

International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer
Knowledge Management (P2PKM)

International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer
Knowledge Management (P2PKM) 06/04/2004 05:53 AM
International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management (P2PKM)
http://www.p2pkm.org/

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing has received significant attention from the side of research labs and academia, largely due to the popularity of commercialized P2P file sharing applications such as Napster, Morpheus and KaZaa. In the P2P model, peers exchange data and/or services in completely decentralized distributed manner. Peers are autonomous, and are free to choose what other peers to interact with, and, in this point-to-point interaction, peers possess equal functional capabilities.

On the other hand, Knowledge Management (KM) is increasingly viewed as a core capacity in order to compete in the modern social and economic environment. Researchers and practitioners agree that those intellectual assets that are embedded in working practices, social relationships, and technological artefacts constitute the only source of value that can sustain long term differentiation, quality of services, innovation, and adaptability. Nonetheless, even due to a debatable success of current KM implementations, still unclear is how such matter should be managed in highly complex, distributed, and heterogeneous settings.

In the last couple of years, P2P and KM have followed different but converging paths. In fact, P2P technologies have left their initial “computational”, “anarchoyd”, and spontaneous fashion to embrace more service level domains and business settings. On the other hand, KM is questioning its centralized assumption based on the implicit belief that knowledge is managed successfully when it can be standardized and controlled. In this sense, it seems that while P2P is looking for value added domains to better exploit its technological potential, KM is looking for a technological paradigm more able to fit an emerging distributed organization of knowledge.

The convergence of P2P and KM creates new challenges for researchers to address: new methodologies to model, design, and deploy distributed KM solutions; theories and algorithms to represent the social and semantic dimensions of a knowledge network; mechanisms to cope with the dynamic autonomous nature of P2P and to provide means to support emergent network self-organization.

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Scott G (The G-Man) Credits Peer-to-Peer
Filesharing with Launching His Career

Scott G (The G-Man) Credits Peer-to-Peer
Filesharing with Launching His Career 03/22/2005 04:55 PM
In view of the upcoming Supreme Court hearing in the landmark MGM vs. Grokster lawsuit, it is more important than ever to consider the case of Scott G (The G-Man), who began with a self-released album and got signed, got on iTunes, and launched his own music production company, all by initially giving his music away for free via P2P. [PRWEB Mar 21, 2005]

Piercing the peer–to–peer
myths: An examination of the Canadian
experience

Piercing the peer–to–peer
myths: An examination of the Canadian
experience 04/11/2005 05:58 AM
Piercing the peer-to-peer myths: An examination of the Canadian experience

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Modeling and Performance Analysis of
BitTorrent-Like Peer-to-Peer Networks.

Modeling and Performance Analysis of
BitTorrent-Like Peer-to-Peer Networks. 09/09/2004 10:06 PM
Dongyu Qiu, R. Srikant: Modeling and Performance Analysis of BitTorrent-Like Peer-to-Peer Networks.

Peer-To-Peer Blamed For Revenue Loss
From Software Companies

Peer-To-Peer Blamed For Revenue Loss
From Software Companies 07/08/2004 05:39 AM
Software companies charge that P2P networks are responsible for huge financial losses. According to CNET News, about 36 percent of software being installed worldwide has been pirated and is not legitimate. The software companies are crying foul while urging governments to step in and play a more active role in prevention.

Weed Music - 96Decibels.com Launches
"Send a Song" a Peer to Peer Email
Marketing Channel for Musicians and
Labels

Weed Music - 96Decibels.com Launches
"Send a Song" a Peer to Peer Email
Marketing Channel for Musicians and
Labels 04/01/2005 03:44 AM
While the media watches Streamcast (Grokster, Morpheus) defend itself in court from the legal wranglings of the major entertainment industry players, a new breed of file sharer is emerging. This file sharer actually owns the right to redistribute the artists music and in so doing is rewarded for the effort – completely legal and even encouraged by the artists and their labels. [PRWEB Apr 1, 2005]

The Second Workshop on Semantics in
Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing

The Second Workshop on Semantics in
Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing 01/07/2004 03:02 PM
The Second Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing
http://www.isi.edu/~hon gsuda/SemPGRID04

2nd Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing at the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference 17-18 May 2004, New York, USA in cooperation with the GGF Semantic Grid Research Group (SEM-GRD)

The Semantic Web is widely accepted as a means to enhance the Web with machine processable content. However, mostly the Semantic Web is aiming at techniques and technologies for static information, in contrast to dynamic services or distributed computing. Several interest groups and efforts are working on infrastructure for enabling distributed computing. The organization of these efforts are in part top down organized efforts, involving multiple formal organizations and dedicated projects, and bottom-up efforts, sometimes started by single organizations or individuals in a grassroots effort.

The Grid is aiming at technologies which allow the flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources, enabling virtual organizations. Problems encountered include authentication, authorization, resource access, resource discovery, and interoperation of active services. The same problems are eminent in the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) area, where projects are typically organized in a bottom-up fashion. Reusable infrastructures like SUN's JXTA are emerging, attracting numerous applications. However, each application uses its own data format, and it is hard to see how applications interoperate.

A related area is Web Services: driven by industry efforts numerous specifications are developed, which are of interest for the Grid projects as well as for the Peer-to-Peer efforts. Although there is an agreement that Web Services would benefit from more semantics, little systematic research has been done on the problem of how to combine the notions of Web Services with the results of the Semantic Web, Peer-to-Peer and Grid computing.

The workshop will be organized in part around talks presenting research results in the intersection of the Semantic Web, P2P and Grid computing. Another important part of the workshop will be break-out groups, focusing on the amalgamation of Semantic Web and distributed computing. We hope the break-out groups will evolve into independent working groups and generate follow-up activities, which contribute to the technology areas. The proceedings will be published on the Web and a workshop report will summarize the outcome of the break out groups.

Berklee Encourages Peer to Peer Music
Trading

Berklee Encourages Peer to Peer Music
Trading 11/12/2003 06:53 PM

FreeScience: Peer-to-Peer Scientific
Digital Libra...

FreeScience: Peer-to-Peer Scientific
Digital Libra... 03/23/2005 07:28 AM

FreeScience: Peer-to-Peer Scientific Digital Library

Query for Peer to Peer (P2P) File
Sharing Utilities

Query for Peer to Peer (P2P) File
Sharing Utilities 06/14/2004 11:20 AM

FreeScience - Peer to Peer Scientific
Digital Library

FreeScience - Peer to Peer Scientific
Digital Library 03/23/2005 07:28 AM
FreeScience - Peer to Peer Scientific Digital Library
http://www.b daweb.net/freescience_learnmore_it.php

Allows any researcher to share his scientific papers (as well as notes, data and designs draws, ecc...) into a P2P OAI-PMH compliant network, by mean of which your works will be instantly available to hundred of thousands researchers worldwide. You can also browse the huge OAI archive (about 1 million of documents from the best research institutes) and download the full text for free. Furthermore, the FREESCIENCE software is completely free, as is access to documents in the BdA network. FREESCIENCE offers three domains of action: 1) Search and download of full-text scientific one million plus documents, 2) Sharing of your own documents in the OAI network with over one hundred thousand researchers, and 3) Direct communication and science community with instant messaging or text conferencing. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This will be added to Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources white paper annotated link compilation.

Peer-to-peer actually increasing record
sales?

Peer-to-peer actually increasing record
sales? 07/22/2004 04:45 AM
A new study suggests that Peer-to-peer music sharing has zero impact in record sales, and in some cases it may even be positive, says T he Guardian. Not completely unsurprisingly, the music industry is now really pissed off at even the mere suggestion.

To me it makes sense: I have bought several CDs just simply because a friend recommended something to me, and then sent me the MP3. Then I just rip the CD to Ogg Vorbis and dump it in iTunes... I actually never listen to the physical CD these days anymore; most of the CDs are used just once to get the data onto a hard drive. But I still keep the CDs as backups.

My digital music collection is my music collection. My CDs are my backups. I don't even have to burn them.

(And BTW: My CD player refuses to play about 10% of all the CDs I've tried on it lately. But my PC can rip 100% of them. So it's easier for me to actually rip the music than it's to play them on my ancient DVD player. So much for "copy" protection.)

(Via #joiito)

Indie Artists Support Peer To Peer

Indie Artists Support Peer To Peer 03/25/2005 05:12 PM

2get - Peer to peer file sharing

2get - Peer to peer file sharing 11/03/2003 07:46 AM
2get 1.7.5 Released

Interesting concept: peer-to-peer DVD
rentals

Interesting concept: peer-to-peer DVD
rentals 07/02/2004 01:21 AM
I haven’t had a chance to really look into this, but I stumbled across an original concept at http://www.peerflix.com. It’s difficult to tell how much it will be successful, given the inevitable reluctance that people are going to have to share their precious DVDs with others. Still, you have ...

"Howard Dean = Peer-to-peer Networking"

"Howard Dean = Peer-to-peer Networking" 12/21/2003 09:28 PM

Howard Dean = Peer-to-peer Networking

Howard Dean = Peer-to-peer Networking 12/21/2003 08:35 AM
Napster Runs for President in 2004 .. New York Times .. gets it

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Mac version of peer-to-peer telephony
app planned

Mac version of peer-to-peer telephony
app planned 05/26/2004 10:18 AM
Popular Telephony, a telecommunications middleware company, has announced Peerio444 -- a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) consumer application...

States Threaten Peer-to-Peer Sites

States Threaten Peer-to-Peer Sites 08/06/2004 09:50 AM
Several states are cracking down on peer-to-peer sites as hotbeds of illegal file-trading. Attorneys general from 47 U.S. states and territories have sent a letter out to P-to-P software vendors, saying they must re-engineer their software to prevent illegal file-trading do a better job of warning users of the dangers of trading illegal files. This action follows on news earlier this year that the states might get involved in the P-to-P fight.

The letter, signed by the attorneys general of California, Texas, Florida, and many others, calls for P-to-P vendors to also warn users about the amount of pornography traded through P-to-P software, including child pornography. "P2P users need to be made aware that they are exposing themselves, and their children, to widespread availability of pornographic material when they download and install P2P file-sharing programs on their computers," the letter says.

News source: PCWorld.com

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HiChat Peer-to-Peer Chat Client

HiChat Peer-to-Peer Chat Client 05/27/2004 06:17 PM
HiChat Development Started

WideSource - Peer to Peer Search Engine

WideSource - Peer to Peer Search Engine 08/28/2004 06:18 AM
WideSource - Peer to Peer Search Engine
http://www.widesource.com/

Widesource peer to peer sharing program features a powerful search engine to find web pages on the Internet. The search engine includes multiple criteria to enhance search quality, such as page size, opinion, date, language, keywords, connection speed, and other specifications. Other features of Widesource include bookmarks management, fast search on internet or in your own bookmarks, usefull macros, browsing other users bookmarks,password-protection and access restriction (on IP mask or name), a friends list, new version notification, wordwide chat, connected people list, user-friendly graphical interface, future availability of skins, and more. The program runs as a convenient icon in the System Tray area of the Windows taskbar. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and the search engine section of all the Internet MiniGuides 2004-05.

The Court of Online Opinion Has Its Say on File Sharing

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