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  • Music industry sues P2P firm LimeWire

    After months of issuing warnings, the music industry finally made good on its threat to file suit against peer-to-peer software company LimeWire.

  • With settlement, Kazaa casts off its pirate garb

    A multimillion-dollar settlement is putting Kazaa on the straight and narrow, but it might not be enough to put the file-sharing service on the road to recovery.

  • Illegal file-sharing three times as popular as iTunes

    Illegal downloads are still beating legal online music, analysts have found.

  • Last waltz for Grokster

    File-swapping company Grokster has agreed to stop distributing its peer-to-peer software, following a US$50 million legal settlement announced Monday in the United States with Hollywood studios and record labels.

  • Sharman to appeal while record labels celebrate

    Sharman Networks has announced it will appeal a Federal Court ruling that several respondents associated with the company had authorised infringement of music industry copyright and that it must introduce filters to the Kazaa file-sharing software.

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  • The war on file sharing hits Australia

    Cover the windows, stay indoors and bunker down the war on file sharing has reached Australian shores. Copyright owners have a fair claim to their content, but is it fair to saddle ISPs with the responsibility of policing their users? And should copyright enforcers be able to steal our privacy?

  • Fighting for the right to swap

    Kazaa's chief lobbyist, Philip Corwin, says Hollywood is sparing no expense to squash P2P.

  • Guard against internal attacks with these strategies

    Firewalls and antivirus packages will fend off intruders and intrusions from the outside world, but how do you protect your company's vitals from an inside job?

  • 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.

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  • Grokster unleashes ad-free software

    The popular P2P software company is letting loose Grokster Pro at a time when the recording industry is turning up the heat on individuals downloading music.

  • Apple unveils music store

    Apple Computer has unveiled its latest line of digital music products, including a long-awaited Internet music store and ultrathin versions of its popular iPod portable MP3 player.

  • Peer pressure: 10 P2P utilities tested

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

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