File-swapping company StreamCast Networks has released a long-awaited new version of its Morpheus software, in a bid to recapture its once-unrivalled online popularity.
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Sharman Networks, parent company of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software Kazaa, are rejoicing at the US court ruling that found two similar P2P programs, Grokster and Morpheus, do not violate US copyright law. However, the company concedes that the ruling is unlikely to have any effect on the music copyright infringement case currently underway in Australia.
A newly launched peer-to-peer trade association has offered to sit down and negotiate with music industry lawyers, while it simultaneously denounced its adversaries as obsolete and "tyrannosaurical."
M-Terra CTO Darrell Smith says that arguments in the peer-to-peer file-sharing space are still based on days gone by.
Kazaa's chief lobbyist, Philip Corwin, says Hollywood is sparing no expense to squash P2P.
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File-swapping company StreamCast Networks has released a long-awaited new version of its Morpheus software, in a bid to recapture its once-unrivalled online popularity.
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