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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.

  • Online music services--anti-competitive?

    Record industry execs and critics trade jabs at an industry conference, with a legislator saying that Pressplay and MusicNet may amount to a 'duopoly.

  • The Napster legacy could be a problem

    Napster may have been defanged, but other rogue peer-to-peer music services still exist. Even if the music industry were to crush these services too, millions of music fans won't forget the Napster experience.

  • 2001: the year that was...

    ZDNet Australia reviews 2001's hottest IT stories. 2001 was the year of the virus, the year of Linux, and the year the music industry began to seriously lose control of its intellectual property, as audio file swapping proliferated across the Net.

  • Napster 'stops' the music

    Struggling to make new song-blocking software work, Napster temporarily stopped all file trading on its once-popular service.

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  • Time for a P2P file-sharing policy

    Whether you give your employees free rein when it comes to peer-to-peer applications or prohibit their use, it's important for you to take a position on the issue. Here's a policy that can give you some guidance.

  • Peer to peer: Revolution recedes

    It took a boom and a bust to do it, but peer-to-peer technology is finding its post-Napster place in the world.

Reviews (4)

  • KaZaa Media Desktop

    KaZaa borrows best-of-breed features from Napster and Gnutella, but it serves up ads if you're not careful. Does this all add up to heavenly downloads? We'll tell you.

  • Peer pressure: 10 P2P utilities tested

    Despite the RIAA's efforts to shut down file-swapping services, these 10 apps carry Napster's torch.

  • Shock! Viruses in Digital Music

    You know not to open e-mail attachments from suspicious recipients. But what about playing a song from someone you don't know? Turns out that's another way to infect your computer with a virus.

  • Apple left out of the spotlight

    New online movie service won't work with Mac. Will Apple get left out of the digital revolution?

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