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  • Broadband fans busted over Gnutella

    The movie industry is training its legal guns on the Gnutella file-sharing system in its latest efforts to combat piracy. Excite@Home is threatening to cut services for those who share movies.

  • Copyright-cops for Gnutella, others

    An ambiguity in a 1998 copyright law, has placed Internet service providers at loggerheads with copyright owners over the extent to which they must police their subscribers' peer-to-peer file-sharing activities.

  • Who will serve as Napster police?

    Tension is starting to build between copyright holders and Internet service providers over who should police other file-swapping networks poised to step in as Napster's replacement.

  • Post-Napster policing reopens ISP wounds

    Facing the prospect of a post-Napster world, tension is starting to build between copyright holders and ISPs over who should police other file-swapping networks that are poised to step in as replacements.

  • Watching Aimster's "private" network

    An anti-piracy company has begun shining a light on people trading music files through the Aimster file-swapping network, a Napster-like service that promises privacy features that theoretically place it beyond the reach of copyright police.

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