File Swapping
385 Stories
Trojan horse targets file-swappers
News Experts have found "spyware" bundled with the downloads from popular file-sharing programs.
Dangerous hole discovered in Morpheus
News MP3 fans using the Morpheus file-swapping service risk having their personal details exposed online, according to security experts.
iMesh almost ready to become paid file-swap network
News Six months after settling with the RIAA in the U.S., venerable P2P is still swapping freely. But filters are on the way.
Tags: Peer to peer
Pirate Bay founder accused of running Reservella
News BREIN, a Dutch trade group representing copyright owners, claims to have uncovered documents revealing that Fredrik Neij is CEO of Thepiratebay.org's listed owner.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Digital rights management (DRM), Web sites, Web 2.0, Reservella, BREIN, BitTorrent, file-swapping, Europe
Music moguls' latest strategy: Zig then zag
News commentary The big four labels said to be discussing a partnership with Hulu. But is this the answer to their tech dilemma? Hardly.
Tags: Music, Web sites, Google Inc., file-swapping, Napster Inc., Video, digital music file-swapping, YouTube Inc., Financial Times, NBC Universal Inc.
US Justice Dept defends massive file-swapping fine
News In move that echoes Bush administration arguments, U.S. President Barack Obama's Justice Department says Jammie Thomas' US$1.92 million fine for infringement of 24 songs is constitutional.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Web sites, RIAA, file-swapping, U.S. Department Of Justice, attorney, P2P, Kazaa, Bush Administration, U.S. Congress
Corporate P2P use is common, study says
News File-swapping applications are deeply entrenched inside corporate networks, according to a survey of computer systems by a Canadian network monitoring company.
Listen.com flirts with Napster links
News The music directory service, partly funded by major record labels, is shedding a little of its clean image with a new song-search service that plugs directly into Napster's software.
Napster fans seen as music browsers, not buyers
News More people may be window-shopping at online music retailer CDNow since they started using software from file-swapping service Napster, but fewer people are buying, according to a new report.
Kazaa loses P2P crown
News eDonkey had more average users than Kazaa last month, network watchers say.
Tags: Peer to peer
P2P companies ask high court for help
News P2P backers ask Supreme Court to scuttle legal proposals from movie and music industries.
Tags: Peer to peer
Morpheus gets update
News Morpheus, once the Net's most popular file-swapping software, is being reborn yet again with new technology.
Morpheus network goes open source
News Days after being shut out from the file-swapping network pool that includes partners Kazaa and Grokster, Morpheus returns with new software--and new friends.
Scour scraps file-swapping service
News Scour shut down its file-swapping service Thursday, saying the move will help resolve a copyright infringement lawsuit and facilitate the sale of its assets in a bankruptcy proceeding.
Outage points to depth of P2P arsenal
News The Morpheus shutdown has file traders stocking up at lesser-known services with a raft of second-tier products together drawing more than 1 million downloads in a week.
