A prolonged legal fight with the movie industry has forced TorrentSpy, BitTorrent's popular search engine, to shut down.
The ink on the Supreme Court's Grokster ruling was barely dry when Ed Black began lamenting the chill he believed the 9-0 decision would have on innovation.
The parent company of controversial file-sharing service Kazaa could face the music in Sydney by the end of the year after the Federal Court set a tentative trial date and directed discovery and affidavit proceedings be completed by October.
Music heavyweights and three large Australian Universities have begun filing evidence in court today following the breakdown of negotiations concerning access to the universities computer systems.
A Massachusetts court has blocked several recording industry subpoenas that are aimed at college song swappers, saying the universities involved are not immediately required to divulge the alleged file traders' identities.
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The next generation in DVD technology will let consumers carry the equivalent of a hard drive on a disc, but what are they supposed to do with all that capacity? Interact, supporters say.
File-swapping company StreamCast Networks has released a long-awaited new version of its Morpheus software, in a bid to recapture its once-unrivalled online popularity.
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In order to survive, the IT industry has gone through some big changes in the last few years. by contrast, the music industry still doesn't get it.
Microsoft's upcoming Palladium architecture for 'Trusted Computing' may secure PCs, but it also threatens to turn people's computers into spies.
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