File-Sharing Primer

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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 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 11:04 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)

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.

NYT Promotes File Sharing

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

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

'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 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.

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.

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 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]

Skypecasting - P2P File Sharing

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

MUTE File Sharing 0.2.1

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

The File Sharing Report

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

File Sharing Sentinel

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

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 = 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 Database

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

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.

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.

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.

MUTE File Sharing 0.2

MUTE File Sharing 0.2 01/10/2004 05:42 PM
Simple, 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 AM
USA Today Apr 6 2005 5:32AM GMT

Call to tax file-sharing

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

First Swede Prosecuted For File Sharing

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

The Guardian - Suw on the effect on file
sharing

The Guardian - Suw on the effect on file
sharing 07/22/2004 04:17 AM

Suw Charman @ The Guardian

L isten to the flip side

New research suggesting that file sharing has no impact upon sales of CDs has, not surprisingly, angered the music industry. [our very own] Suw Charman reports

Suw has a good article in the Guardian about the paper (PDF) by Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee of Harvard Business School in Boston and Professor Koleman Strumpf of the University of North Carolina where they assert that "Downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero, despite rather precise estimates." It's an important first paper in the battle against the rampant idea that file sharing is destroying the music business and Suw does a good job introducing it and additional ideas to public in a more popular medium. Yay!

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A warning about SMB sharing and file
security

A warning about SMB sharing and file
security 01/19/2004 11:43 AM
I 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...

File Sharing Has Supreme Moment

File Sharing Has Supreme Moment 03/30/2005 06:49 AM
The 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.

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

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

"Lionshare - educational P2P file
sharing"

"Lionshare - educational P2P file
sharing" 11/18/2003 03:32 AM

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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Australian ISP sued over file sharing

Australian ISP sued over file sharing 12/02/2003 01:49 AM
The music industry is suing a small Australian ISP for allowing the trafficing of copyrighted materials on its network

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

File and Printer Sharing Insecure in XP
SP2

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

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

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.
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Magic Winmail Server v3.5

Magic Winmail Server v3.5 11/11/2003 10:31 AM
An easy to use, professional grade, Internet mail server. Magic Winmail provides support for SMTP, POP3, WebMail, anti-virus, multiple domains, SMTP authentication, remote administrative control, spam filtering, mailbox quotas, mail groups, mail routing and mailbox monitor and spy features. [Shareware $129.00 30 Days 5.73 MB]

Download of the week: Speed Download 2

Download of the week: Speed Download 2 12/07/2003 04:05 PM
After reading a forum post yesterday inquiring about DSL vs. cable download speeds (specifically Cox Cable), I though I’d write about one of OS X’s more underappreciated applications. Let’s face it. If you’re using OS X, you’re using the Internet; and if you’re using the Internet, you’re looking for one thing: speed. For most people, dial-up just doesn’t cut it anymore, and for some, cable speeds still aren’t enough. While Safari and Camino have taken care of many gripes about page...

Download.com.sg, a Full Fledged Software
Download Site Hits 100,000 Visits a Day,
Increasing User Base Steadily and
Keeping Software Developers and Sponsors
Happy

Download.com.sg, a Full Fledged Software
Download Site Hits 100,000 Visits a Day,
Increasing User Base Steadily and
Keeping Software Developers and Sponsors
Happy 06/22/2005 01:51 AM
Within a short period of time, download.com.sg has made a mark for itself as the premier software repository. Download.com.sg has added 10,000 memebers over just a few months and is averaging 100,000 visits daily. Its sponsors, mainly software developers who sell their software are kept happy with low advertising rate and high returns. [PRWEB Jun 21, 2005]

MSN 6.2 Download

MSN 6.2 Download 04/22/2004 02:55 PM

10.3.2 available for download

10.3.2 available for download 12/18/2003 08:08 AM
Apple has released Mac OS X v10.3.2, an update to its "Panther" operating system, available for download through the Software Update System Preferences pane. Apple also notes that a standalone installer should be available, though it didn't appear to be available yet as MacCentral posted this article. The new update is recommended for all users, according to Apple.

Download me, please

Download me, please 05/21/2004 03:52 AM
USA Today May 21 2004 7:05AM GMT

SMB Download 0.5

SMB Download 0.5 10/30/2003 04:56 PM
An SMB download utility similar to wget.

"is available for download"

"is available for download" 01/18/2004 03:52 PM

Must-download TV

Must-download TV 08/10/2004 11:11 PM
Salon Aug 11 2004 4:01AM GMT

"Download"

"Download" 11/16/2003 05:08 PM

SMB Download 0.6

SMB Download 0.6 11/16/2003 01:49 PM
An SMB download utility similar to wget.

What's The Download

What's The Download 02/10/2004 02:50 AM
evils of sharing and downloading unauthorized music .. what's the download .. fascist propaganda .. downlaods

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Must download TV

Must download TV 08/11/2004 11:30 AM

Farhad Manjoo has written an excellent report on IPTV.

Aug. 11, 2004 | Hollywood's nightmare scenario is that high-definition TV will become "Napsterized," with shows available online to anyone, anytime, for free -- which may sound, to some TV fans, less like a nightmare than a heavenly dream.

And, indeed, despite Hollywood's efforts, it's a dream that in many ways is coming true. While the government and Hollywood fret over ways to keep high-definition television off the Internet, copies of standard-definition TV shows are now heavily traded online. Once an underground activity plagued by hard-to-use tools and less-than-stellar picture quality, the systems for finding and downloading TV are steadily becoming easier to use, and the current watchability of the shows is nothing to scoff at.

In recent months, a host of developers and TV enthusiasts have been working on ways to improve the TV trade online -- they're building sophisticated trading networks to record and encode and distribute shows, and they're improving peer-to-peer transfer systems to make downloading easier. The hottest new improvement is made possible by the merging of two of the Internet's newest innovations, the p2p protocol BitTorrent and RSS, the popular Web syndication standard. Together, these systems allow a computer to automatically find and download a user's favorite shows -- something like having a TV station designed just for you.

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download

download 09/03/2002 11:37 AM
This class allows to download files with the appropriate headers. Client web browsers recognize the headers, file and mime type and save to disk or offer to open the file using a local application. Files bigger than a given limit are automatically compressed defore downloading to the client.

Click here to download the PDF

Click here to download the PDF 09/03/2004 04:42 PM
DDJ Sep 3 2004 8:30PM GMT

Download Express v1.5

Download Express v1.5 11/13/2003 02:01 AM
Download Express lets you download individual files from the web and FTP sites at the maximum possible speed. Multiple downloading channels technology significantly decreases time necessary to download files. [Freeware 409 KB]

NCT Xpress Download v2.0

NCT Xpress Download v2.0 11/13/2003 12:22 PM
With NCT Xpress Download, you can now increase your download speed until 400%. Add files to be downloaded in its list, pause and resume the interrupted downloads. Even after a system crash, the program can resume a download. Its graphs and progress bars show you in real time precise statistics of your download. It becomes integrated easily into Internet Explorer to offer you more comfort and efficiency. [Shareware $12.50 2.28 MB]

Download-To-Own Movies: Get Less For
More!

Download-To-Own Movies: Get Less For
More! 01/16/2004 01:03 PM
You may recall CinemaNow - the major studio backed online movie downloading company - from the review in the NY Times last year which included such great quotes as: "How CinemaNow stays in business is a marvel. The site is so marred by typos and poor programming, it could have been a high school sophomore's first Web design project." and "CinemaNow stand[s] out primarily for [its] puny selection, poor video quality and overly rigid copy protection." A ringing endorsement. Well, now it looks like they're trying to adjust their business model, and instead of just allowing people to watch movies for a limited time, they're starting up a "download-to-own" feature complete with annoying copy protection (of course). As with the download movie rentals, you get less for more. Now, instead of actually owning a DVD that you can play anywhere on any machine (and which comes with extras and perhaps a booklet with more info), you get a digital copy of the movie that is completely clamped down on the machine you downloaded it on. Also, the prices are more expensive than buying a DVD. A quick look at their featured choice for "download-to-own" shows that you can get the same movie, brand new, on DVD at Amazon for $3.75 less. They're also claiming that you can now start watching a movie 30 seconds after it begins downloading. If it really works well, that's great, but if it includes typical video buffer loading pauses, I imagine it's not going to make many movie renters happy.

Windows XP SP2 RC2 Out for Download

Windows XP SP2 RC2 Out for Download 06/16/2004 11:57 AM
To aid IT professionals in planning and testing for the deployment of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Microsoft is making available this preview, based on Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of SP2. Additionally, we have established 11 newsgroups for sharing information.

Surviving to Download Another Day

Surviving to Download Another Day 08/20/2004 11:28 PM
Business Week Aug 21 2004 3:13AM GMT

Download of the Day: AbiWord

Download of the Day: AbiWord 08/28/2004 10:00 PM
G4 Tech TV Aug 29 2004 2:05AM GMT

XP SP2 Ready for Download

XP SP2 Ready for Download 06/16/2004 11:52 AM
Any XP Home or Professional user (with a legal copy of the product) who wants to beta test the near-final release of Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 can now download the bits.

Download In The Store

Download In The Store 06/25/2004 12:11 PM
Jeremiah writes "On the heels of iTunes announcement that it has sold 800,000 tracks in its first week of operation in Europe, BestBuy announces it will partner with Napster and promote it as its "leading digital music service." It's my personal belief this signals the beginning-of-the-end of the "shiny, plastic-disc" era of digital music... but I digress. The "scoop", however, is not the above stories (which you can read anywhere); they're just for context. Word on the street is a major bookseller (B&N or Borders) is planning to install WiFi in its stores *AND* provide access to libraries of digital music for download onto your device of choice. One marketing idea is to sell mp3 players in-store with a $10 gift-cert for digital downloads, or players with audio-books preloaded. To access their in-store WiFi, customers will lease a wireless NIC on an hourly basis, that's been "keyed" to only work on their network (removing the motivation to steal the nics). The hourly cost is "...somewhere around what you'd pay for a large coffee." Word is a beta will be in some west-coast stores around August-Sept." There have been similar rumors of services at certain music stores in the past, but it sounds like such talk is heating up. Of course, this does make you wonder what the purpose of the "store" is? If you can download from anywhere, why would you need to go to a store to download?

Download Registry First Aid v3.3

Download Registry First Aid v3.3 06/19/2004 06:14 PM
The latest version of Registry First Aid is even easier to use and safely fixes more Registry errors than ever before. Helps eliminate system crashes, software lockups, and slow loading programs caused by incorrect Registry entries left over from software installations and uninstallations that went awry. Registry First Aid fixes these problems by removing these references that are no longer needed. Hundreds of these files bog down the registry, slow down your computer, and cause software to lock up. Fix Windows now!

Download.Ject: What You Should Know

Download.Ject: What You Should Know 06/25/2004 03:14 PM
Microsoft teams are investigating a report of a security issue affecting customers using Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0 (IIS) and Microsoft Internet Explorer, components of Windows.

Soundtrack 1.2 available for download

Soundtrack 1.2 available for download 01/16/2004 11:33 AM
Apple has released Soundtrack 1.2, an updated version of its royalty-free music production tool...

or download for free :D

or download for free :D 07/11/2004 11:47 AM
TechTree Jul 11 2004 2:39PM GMT

Sarah's Download of the Day: Hello

Sarah's Download of the Day: Hello 07/18/2004 12:49 AM
G4 Tech TV Jul 18 2004 5:10AM GMT

Download Catalyst

Download Catalyst 07/03/2004 03:46 AM
Download Catalyst version 0.1 released

Documents for download

Documents for download 07/21/2004 09:25 AM

File-Sharing Primer

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