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File-sharing programs carry Trojan horse
January 3, 2002
Popular file-sharing programs Grokster and LimeWire are privacy time bombs, say computer experts who found "spyware" bundled with the downloads.
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Kazaa finds friends in file-swapping fight
May 16, 2002
Computer and telecommunication giants are pushing a proposal shouldered until now by file-swapping upstarts: Make downloading a song online as legal as listening to the radio.
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Open-source P2P projects keep swapping
July 15, 2005
Supreme Court ruling casts cloud over commercial file-trading companies, but independent projects continue unabated.
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File-swapping leaders nearing D-day
February 1, 2006
With record labels' lawsuit threats pending, time left for eDonkey and its peers to make deals is running short.
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Industries digest Grokster ruling
June 29, 2005
Companies mull how Supreme Court's decision will change the landscape for the file-swapping and entertainment industries.
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New plans for P2P commerce, despite court wait
June 22, 2005
Uncertainty about impending Supreme Court decision isn't stopping new companies' ideas for file-swapping profits.
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Google Inc.
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Altnet seeks patent royalties from P2P
January 12, 2005
File-swapping companies find themselves on same side as the recording industry in patent dispute.
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Kiss your MP3s at work goodbye
June 27, 2002
Employees are stashing headphones and trashing file-swapping software as companies throw up firewalls or issue bans to stop streaming media and MP3 trades.
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Time Warner Inc.
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Last waltz for Grokster
November 7, 2005
File-swap stalwart to pull plug on P2P network, hand $50 million in damages to studios, labels, publishers.
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BitTorrent to crack down on use of name
February 7, 2006
File-swapping company will begin to charge small license fee for use of BitTorrent trademark in others' software.
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Record labels send more letters to P2P services
September 15, 2005
Recording Industry Association of America sends cease-and-desists to seven P2P services it says induce copyright infringement.
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How label-backed P2P was born
August 22, 2005
A look at how top record label and P2P execs worked for a cease-fire--and wound up with a new kind of digital music service.
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MPAA sues newsgroup, P2P search sites
February 24, 2006
Hollywood expands the scope of its antipiracy lawsuits, targeting sites that search the Web and newsgroups for copyright works.
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Google Inc.
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Year in review: P2P retreat, iTunes advance
December 17, 2005
Courts helped tame file swappers, while legal digital music sales soared.
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Sony Corp.
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CD
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TV
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Microsoft Corp.
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Studios, RIAA target student piracy
April 27, 2006
Organizations send letters to 40 universities, urgently asking them to curtail illegal file sharing on their school networks.
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BearShare P2P service sold following settlement
May 5, 2006
Free Peers strikes agreement with four record companies, then sells BearShare to subsidiary of file-sharing service iMesh.
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Does video have a Napster problem?
March 13, 2006
As Hollywood adapts to online realities, video-sharing sites could soon face a day of reckoning.
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StreamCast names Skype, Kazaa in lawsuit
March 27, 2006
The owner of P2P application Morpheus is suing over the technology underlying Skype's Net phone software.
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Playing favorites on the Net?
December 21, 2005
A proposal in Congress could tip the scales toward some services and create a two-tiered Internet.
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Amazon.com Inc.
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BellSouth Corp.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Microsoft Corp.
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Leaked e-mails reveal MediaDefender's antipiracy woes
September 20, 2007
Messages portray a company overwhelmed by file-swapping community and skepticism from entertainment executives.MediaDefender is wake-up call for entertainment sector
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