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  • US Supreme Court rules against file swapping

    The US Supreme Court has handed movie studios and record labels a sweeping victory against file swapping, ruling that peer-to-peer companies such as Grokster could be held responsible for the copyright piracy on their networks.

  • Writing file sharing's final chapter

    Computer scientist and entrepreneur Gene Kan draws lessons from the history of P2P to warn what often happens when people get overly excited about new technologies.

  • Study: File sharing boosts music sales

    Hundreds of millions of songs may illegally trade hands online every month, but file swapping may actually be causing people to spend more money on music, according to a new research report.

  • MS Australian staff told no Net music swapping

    Microsoft’s 500 Australian employees have received the same company e-mail as their worldwide counterparts, warning them that music or file swapping via company PCs is out of bounds.

  • Innocent surfers can appear guilty of song-swapping

    Flaws in file-sharing can incriminate unwitting users, tricking them into seeming guilty of hosting copyrighted files.

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