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Beyond piracy: the new face of Internet
file-sharing

Beyond piracy: the new face of Internet
file-sharing 02/12/2004 12:35 PM
IHT Feb 12 2004 4:37PM GMT

Congress: File-sharing and piracy linked
to terrorism?

Congress: File-sharing and piracy linked
to terrorism? 03/15/2003 10:48 AM
What do "warez" groups, counterfeit designer bags, organized crime, and P2P file-sharing have to do with terrorism? On Thursday a Congressional subcommittee invited the US Department of Justice, Microsoft, and the MPAA to come help answer exactly that question.

kuro5hin.org || Congress: File-sharing
and piracy linked to terrorism?

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and piracy linked to terrorism? 03/16/2003 06:03 AM
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Software Piracy Is in Resurgence, With
New Safeguards Eroded by File Sharing

Software Piracy Is in Resurgence, With
New Safeguards Eroded by File Sharing 01/19/2004 01:41 AM
The software industry has developed techniques to safeguard programs and thwart pirates, and global software piracy rates have declined somewhat.

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]

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 File-Sharing Debates

The File-Sharing Debates 12/07/2003 02:35 AM
New York Times Dec 7 2003 1:15AM ET

Skypecasting - P2P File Sharing

Skypecasting - P2P File Sharing 04/10/2005 12:50 PM

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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Call to tax file-sharing

Call to tax file-sharing 09/22/2004 04:22 AM
BBC Sep 22 2004 8:22AM GMT

File-sharing app eDonkey comes to Mac OS
X

File-sharing app eDonkey comes to Mac OS
X 06/29/2004 01:58 PM
eDonkey 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 Primer

File-Sharing Primer 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

The File Sharing Database

The File Sharing Database 07/31/2004 05:25 PM

The File Sharing Report

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

The File Sharing Experiment

The File Sharing Experiment 08/05/2004 12:38 PM

The 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.

NYT Promotes File Sharing

NYT Promotes File Sharing 09/10/2004 12:37 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.

'F' Is for File Sharing
(washingtonpost.com)

'F' Is for File Sharing
(washingtonpost.com) 09/09/2004 12:21 PM
washingtonpost.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 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 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]

MUTE File Sharing 0.2.1

MUTE File Sharing 0.2.1 01/22/2004 06:22 PM
Simple, private file sharing.

File Sharing Sentinel

File Sharing Sentinel 01/22/2004 09:15 AM

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

File Sharing Against Censorship

File Sharing Against Censorship 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
In 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 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.

Faux File-Sharing

Faux File-Sharing 01/05/2005 11:29 AM

What 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]

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.

MUTE File Sharing 0.2

MUTE File Sharing 0.2 01/10/2004 05:42 PM
Simple, private file sharing.

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

FBI probes firms for file sharing

FBI probes firms for file sharing 03/28/2005 11:34 PM
ZDNet Australia Mar 29 2005 3:41AM GMT

EarthLink Releases File Sharing App

EarthLink Releases File Sharing App 09/16/2004 11:37 AM
The 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.

Pew Internet's File-Sharing and P2P
Study

Pew Internet's File-Sharing and P2P
Study 03/26/2005 04:13 PM
Slyck Mar 26 2005 6:52PM GMT

First Swede Prosecuted For File Sharing

First Swede Prosecuted For File Sharing 03/25/2005 11:53 AM

File and Printer Sharing Insecure in XP
SP2

File and Printer Sharing Insecure in XP
SP2 09/18/2004 07:16 PM

Legalise file-sharing with taxes?

Legalise file-sharing with taxes? 09/23/2004 09:10 AM
Andrew Orlowski, technology journalist and author, said, in a keynote speech at the Interactive In The City conference being held in Manchester, Pop piracy should be decriminalised and the music industry should realise that efforts to stop illegal downloading are doomed, and istead they should embrace file-sharers. Ok, so this is something most of us have been saying for a while. Stopping illegal illegal file-sharing, is going to be hard. Mr. Orlowski made a suggestion that maybe record companies should find other ways to generate the cash for artists. A radical idea proposed was the introduction of a smal surcharge to net subsciption fees, which would then be distributed amongst those whose music is being shared.

Although he said that the current form of peer-to-peer networks let the music industry track down the most prolific file swappers, the next generation of technologies will render such efforts futile. These next generation networks and technologies could make it easier to swap, and harder to stop.

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The BitTorrent P2P file-sharing system.

The BitTorrent P2P file-sharing system. 12/19/2004 03:32 PM
The Register: The BitTorrent P2P file-sharing system. Now this is interesting; The Register is publishing scientific papers next to regular articles. Maybe there is some hope.

The BitTorrent P2P file-sharing system

The BitTorrent P2P file-sharing system 12/19/2004 03:20 PM
Analysis Detailed measurement study

New Worm for IRC, File-Sharing Networks

New Worm for IRC, File-Sharing Networks 11/11/2003 05:40 PM
Techfocus Nov 11 2003 4:07PM ET
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Lively Debate as Justices Address File
Sharing

Lively Debate as Justices Address File
Sharing 03/30/2005 01:44 AM
The Supreme Court showdown in the Grokster case between old-fashioned entertainment and new-fangled technology found the justices responsive to the software maker.

Sharing a file in California? Be sure to
share your e-mail address, too

Sharing a file in California? Be sure to
share your e-mail address, too 09/23/2004 03:38 PM
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signs legislation that would make it a misdemeanor to share copyrighted material without providing your e-mail address.

CNN.com - File-sharing sites allow
trading of porn - Mar. 14, 2003

CNN.com - File-sharing sites allow
trading of porn - Mar. 14, 2003 03/15/2003 12:06 PM
P2P networks being used to trade porn?! Nuh-uh! Pull the other one! .. CNN.com - File-sharing sites allow trading of porn - Mar. 14, 2003

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Feds announce 65 arrests, 1,000 cases in
Internet child porn file-sharing probe

Feds announce 65 arrests, 1,000 cases in
Internet child porn file-sharing probe 05/14/2004 04:51 PM
WHO-TV May 14 2004 8:31PM GMT

File sharing pits copyright against free
speech

File sharing pits copyright against free
speech 11/04/2003 06:26 AM
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