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  • Trade a song, go to jail?

    Free music junkies met news of the record industry's legal crackdown on file-swapping individuals with a big yawn--but it looks like the labels are serious. So is it you they're after?

  • File swappers sing the jail-bird jingle

    If you've ever used a peer-to-peer network and swapped copyrighted files, chances are pretty good you're guilty of a federal felony under US law

  • Dr. Damn cleans up file-swapping

    An anonymous college student is one of a handful of programmers who have been releasing versions of popular file-swapping programs with the 'adware' and 'spyware' stripped out.

  • Record execs risk arrest for MP3 hacks

    Will US music and movie executives risk jail time if they start hacking into file-swapping systems, as a proposed bill would allow? Maybe if they travel to Australia.

  • In refugee camp, a P2P outpost

    Deep in the tense Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian West Bank, a new file-swapping service is daring record labels and movie studios to turn their piracy-hunting into an international incident.

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