Posts Tagged with ‘file-sharing’

By now everyone is familiar with the RIAA and their collective belief that everyone online is a thief, stealing music every which way we can. The recording industry has been fighting to prove that even the premise of “making available,” putting music out there to share with no proof it's ever been downloaded, is still a violation of copyright laws, and that all the digital sharing results in nothing but losses for the music industry.
The Web 2.0 music sites beg [...]

Since last November, Comcast's efforts to free up valuable bandwidth among its users by banning and preventing access to BitTorrent traffic has proved about as successful as the RIAA reign of terror on the realm of P2P sharing.
BitTorrent is here to stay and, judging from the outcome of the Napster drama from as far back as 1999, fighting the progression of such a popular protocol will only result in wasted dollars and an eventual service allowing legal file sharing for [...]

There are a number of things the government has no business legislating. Some of these things are because government doesn't belong in a certain type of decision. Some of them, however, are because the government doesn't fully understand the issue. HR 4279 falls into the second category, along with the SAFE Act discussed here yesterday. The matching Senate bill, not yet voted upon, is S 522.
What is the purpose of HR 4279? Good question. Sponsored by Rep John Conyers Jr [...]

In the news this weekend is a landmark move by the French government that allows alliances with the RIAA illegal law suit behemoth.  Users thought to be illegally sharing files will soon be booted form the Internet, with or without proof.  It seems France is condoning a new deal between the RIAA and its Internet access providers without thought to the consequences this could have around the globe.
Here in the US, persecuted 'Davids' around the country have been taking [...]

Wuala, an upcoming online file sharing network, is coming to us from Switzerland. Wuala’s plans are to change the way file sharing works by using both online storage space plus your computer's storage for file sharing. Wuala will use high-grade security for protection, which apparently other services do not offer to the same level, for one reason or another, according to Wuala.
Dominik Grolimund, Wuala Founder/CEO had this to say in an interview with Allen Stern on centernetworks.com:
“I am 27 [...]

The morals involved with file sharing on the Web can most certainly conflict with one another. On the one hand we see consumers fighting for some measure of what majority of the population considers justice. On the other, there exists (in some instances) the significant exploitation of the concept of “free", which certainly does need addressing.
Unfortunately, at a time when the waters are still very, very murky, there are a select few bearing the brunt of digital copyright owners’ [...]

Exactly two months ago we brought you word of the debut of an ultra-simple Web-based utility of the peer-to-peer milieu, called BitLet. Today, we send you notice of its ongoing evolution.
Whereas prior to this moment one could only use the BitTorrent utility to download files from the Web, BitLet now offers the option to upload data to “the cloud” with little or no trouble just the same. One must only click BitLet’s ‘Upload’ button located at the top [...]

The music industry as we know it is dying. The problem is that the industry wants to keep the machines running as long as they can, while new technology is standing by waiting for the organ donations.
All that's necessary to come to this conclusion is to look at how the record companies have handled new technology. They had a virtual goldmine sitting in their laps with Napster, but instead, fear drove them to attempt to dismantle it, assuming P2P file [...]

Big business is not a big fan of the BitTorrent protocol and its growth. BitTorrent essentially builds upon the P2P architecture but blurs legal lines even more, which has led to bandwidth limitations by ISPs, and legal action (PDF) from the MPAA.
With that said, it should come as no surprise that TorrentSpy, a popular torrent search directory, has now begun to block all searches originating from within the United States.
The service was named in the February 2006 lawsuit by [...]