Is the war on file sharing over?
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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]
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)
MUTE File Sharing 0.2.1
MUTE File Sharing 0.2.1
01/22/2004 06:22 PMSimple, private file sharing.
The File Sharing Database
The File Sharing Database
07/31/2004 05:25 PMFile Sharing Against Censorship
File Sharing Against Censorship
04/09/2004 04:04 PMIn the early days of the web, there was lots of talk about how it
would help usher in democracy and bring down dictatorships, because
information could not be contained. Turned out that wasn't exactly
true, as places like China do a pretty good job (though, certainly not
perfect) containing information online. So now, more people are
starting to
look at ways
to use file sharing as a news delivery system that is much more
difficult to block than typical file sharing. This isn't all that
new, but making such programs easier to use would go a long way
towards getting this to work. In fact, why not combine the concept
with a news aggregator of some kind, so that the news you're reading
is automatically available to everyone else using the software.
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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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.
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
Skypecasting - P2P File Sharing
Skypecasting - P2P File Sharing
04/10/2005 12:50 PMMUTE File Sharing 0.2
MUTE File Sharing 0.2
01/10/2004 05:42 PMSimple, private file sharing.
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 AMUSA Today Apr 6 2005 5:32AM 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.
file 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. :-)
NYT Promotes File Sharing
NYT Promotes File Sharing
09/10/2004 12:37 PM'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 Goes Mobile
File Sharing Goes Mobile
09/08/2004 02:29 PMWith 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.
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.
File Sharing Sentinel
File Sharing Sentinel
01/22/2004 09:15 AMFired up over file sharing
Fired up over file sharing
08/20/2004 12:11 PMAs hackers find a way to trade with iTunes, a court rules that
software makers are not liable for file swappers' actions.
Call to tax file-sharing
Call to tax file-sharing
09/22/2004 04:22 AMBBC Sep 22 2004 8:22AM GMT
File-Sharing Primer
File-Sharing Primer
05/23/2002 10:39 PMFaux 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
File 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]
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
PaSaMuF: Document File Sharing
PaSaMuF: Document File Sharing
09/21/2002 04:43 PMPaSaMuF is a new system to keep an eye on. A project of the German
Hasso-Plattner-Institute for Software Systems Engineering, PaSaMuF is
a filesharing system which indexes and shares common document types
(Microsoft Word, Excel, PDF, HTML, XML, plain text, etc). PaSaMuF
extracts information from the documents along with basic file metadata
to ease searching. From the project page: The project goal is
to implement a tool for sharing documents over the internet. Unlike
Gnutella or Morpheus, the tool is meant to be used by small
communities to have a simple and reliable document sharing/management
solution that works cross-plattform. PaSaMuF is still in the
planning stages. I checked out their forums and they seem to be making
some good progress using existing tools to extract information from
Microsoft Office and PDF documents. I wish this project luck,
because the current state of document sharing in most work places is
terribly primitive. Some are lucky enough to have a collaborative
document writing tool like a wiki, but most are stuck emailing
Microsoft Word documents around or storing them on a central Windows
share. Any knowledge incorporated into these documents is difficult to
get at, because they are impossible to search for. PaSaMuF could
fill an important niche, by decentralizing storage and expanding the
searchability of documents, providing immense benefit to its users,
without having to pay for something expensive like the Google Search
Appliance or a bloated, centralized content management system with a
crappy web interface. [Link credit to Matt Croydon of Postneo.]
Mac AIM 4.7 adds Friendly Name, new file
sharing
Mac AIM 4.7 adds Friendly Name, new file
sharing
02/19/2004 04:00 AMAmerica Online announced on Wednesday that the Mac version of
AOL Instant
Messenger (AIM) 4.7, the company's popular online chat
application, is now available for download. It adds Friendly Name
support as well as a new file sharing implementation.
Australian ISP sued over file sharing
Australian ISP sued over file sharing
12/02/2003 01:49 AMThe music industry is suing a small Australian ISP for allowing the
trafficing of copyrighted materials on its network
First Swede Prosecuted For File Sharing
First Swede Prosecuted For File Sharing
03/25/2005 11:53 AMFile and Printer Sharing Insecure in XP
SP2
File and Printer Sharing Insecure in XP
SP2
09/18/2004 07:16 PMHigh Court Looks At File Sharing
High Court Looks At File Sharing
03/28/2005 11:33 PMCBS Now Mar 29 2005 4:22AM GMT
EarthLink Releases File Sharing App
EarthLink Releases File Sharing App
09/16/2004 11:37 AMThe Research and Development division of leading ISP EarthLink has
released a peer-to-peer file sharing application that utilizes SIP
technology. Dubbed SIPshare, the software was designed to demonstrate
how SIP, or Session Initiation Protocol, can be used beyond its common
voice and video implementations to share content.
File sharing goes to the Supreme Court
File sharing goes to the Supreme Court
03/29/2005 06:49 AMPersonal Computer World Mar 29 2005 10:51AM GMT
A warning about SMB sharing and file
security
A warning about SMB sharing and file
security
01/19/2004 11:43 AMI have a Mac which is file sharing over the Internet, and it has
various
users set up on it. When a Mac user connects via AFP, they use their
username
and password to log in, and then they can access only their own user
folde...
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 ...
Japanese Men Accused of File-Sharing
Japanese Men Accused of File-Sharing
12/05/2003 07:47 PMAP via Newsday Dec 5 2003 6:18PM ET
File Sharing Has Supreme Moment
File Sharing Has Supreme Moment
03/30/2005 06:49 AMThe debate over file sharing reaches the Supreme Court, where the
justices worry about finding a test to measure the infringement
potential of new tech and ponder the effects on future inventions.
Katie Dean reports from Washington.
The making of a File Sharing IP Mask
The making of a File Sharing IP Mask
02/12/2004 04:23 AMA programmer got so pissed at the RIAA for their antics that he has
developed a program that mask users...
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