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  • Top 100 songs named in Sharman court battle

    Universal Music Australia has revealed the top 100 songs that it will focus on in proceedings against peer-to-peer software distributor Sharman Networks in one of the biggest music copyright infringement cases the Australian music industry has experienced.

  • Justice Dept. probes for pirates

    The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday that it has launched a federal criminal probe of piracy on a peer-to-peer network.

  • US court re-tests P2P subpoena process

    A US federal appeals court has tested the details of a 1998 copyright law, to see if it permits the wide-scale unmasking of alleged peer-to-peer pirates by the music industry.

  • BitTorrent file-sharing search engine shut down

    A prolonged legal fight with the movie industry has forced TorrentSpy, BitTorrent's popular search engine, to shut down.

  • Europe 'should not criminalise file-sharers'

    People should not be criminalised for the file-sharing of copyrighted material if they are not profiting from doing so, the European Parliament has recommended.

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    Last night I visited Ten's Supernatural site in order to test the service. As a result, I can comfortably list 10 things wrong with it.

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    Big Brother's user generated troubles

    The weekend's Big Brother "sex scandal", during which the official site's live feed and forums were taken offline, highlights an issue that is provoking debate across the globe: to what extent are Web site administrators responsible for the conduct of their users?

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  • Software piracy: Hype versus reality

    Business Software Alliance's Bob Kruger defends new piracy stats which reflect a growing threat to digital copyrights.

  • Software pirates steal jobs in AU: BSAA

    A study has been released that claims reducing Australian software piracy from 27 percent of all software used to 17 percent could create 7,000 more jobs and boost local industry revenues by AU$5 billion over the four years till 2006.

  • RMIT's tech watch

    Steve Turvey of RMIT IT Test Labs provides an indepth view of the latest technologies to hit Australia.

  • How to curb digital piracy

    Former White House staffer Jonathan Greenblatt believes Hollywood can respond to the challenge of new media but that it must first must reconsider its audience. Otherwise, Tinseltown's future is sure to turn ugly.

  • Chizen: Friends, foes and China

    The big, booming nation is much on the mind of Adobe's CEO. Then there are the little matters of Apple and Microsoft.

Reviews (21)

  • Morpheus 1.9: File sharing made stupid

    Morpheus once led the peer-to-peer file-sharing category, but after its split with sister app KaZaa, Morpheus can't find direction.

  • RMIT's tech watch

    Steve Turvey of RMIT IT Test Labs provides an indepth view of the latest technologies to hit Australia.

  • Microsoft to broaden DVD support

    Microsoft is expanding its involvement in the rewritable DVD market, announcing that future versions of Windows will support all major formats.

  • XP product activation: Solution, not conspiracy

    Since Windows XP went 'Gold', the conspiracy theorists and corporate planners have been hard at work. Contrary to the beliefs espoused by the 'Oliver Stone' DOJ advocates, Microsoft did not rush XP to market to beat some artificial government deadline and avoid an injunction.

  • Developer to revive iTunes file-sharing

    The developer of a peer-to-peer file-sharing plug-in for Apple Computer's iTunes music application has decided to give the software a new lease on life, after it was put out of commission by the computer maker's lawyers earlier this month.

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