File Sharing

Guess What? Stealing Is Still Wrong

Logan Lynn | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Musicians, Music Industry, Recording Artists, Music Piracy, Illegal File Sharing, Downloading Music, Sharing Music, Illegally Downloading Music, File Sharing, Online Piracy, Culture News

I don't actually believe that stealing my intellectual property is your constitutional right. Sorry, everybody. I get that you are used to consuming music like it's chewing gum, but those days are numbered. I'm glad that file sharing companies are getting shut down.

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What Do Directors Think When People Make a Torrent for Their Movie?

Quora | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Bittorrent, Directors, Torrent, Directors Guild of America, Women Directors, Recording Industry Association of America, Peer to Peer Downloading, Heather Ferreira, Pipa, Mpaa, Sopa, File Sharing, Riaa, Motion Picture Association of America, Peer to Peer, Entertainment News

The Motion Picture Association of America has never written me a paycheck for anything. They're not backing my picture. These are not nice guys. They are not in this business to help filmmakers at all.

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How Does Twitter Handle Piracy? An Inside Look

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Magnolia Pictures, Video, Twitter, Piracy, Acta, Web Sheriff, Dallas Mavericks, Pipa, Mark Cuban, Youtube, Takedown Notices, Prodigy, File-Sharing, Dmca, Sopa, Technology News

Last week, in the wake of protests over SOPA and PIPA, the controversial Internet anti-piracy legislation in Congress, Twitter released a database tha...

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How to Get Better Sound on YouTube

Eliot Van Buskirk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Youtube, File Sharing, P2p, Facebook, Music, Sound, Technology News

If YouTube is a big part of how you listen to music these days, this simple little tweak can improve your listening experience considerably.

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BitTorrent Claims 100 Million Active Users Worldwide

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Beet.TV, Bittorrent, File Sharing, P2p, Newteevee, Technology News

Pioneering P2P file sharing platform BitTorrent has 100 million active users, the company announced on Monday. In November at the NewTeeVee Live ev...

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Pirates Hijack, Resurrect Limewire; Company Disavows

The Wall Street Journal | ETHAN SMITH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pirated Limewire, Limewire Hijack, Piracy, Music-File-Downlaods, File Sharing, Limewire, Technology News

LimeWire LLC, potentially liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for copyright infringement, issued a cease-and-desist notice of its ow...

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Attorney Says Client Can't Pay HUGE Fine For Downloading 24 Songs

AP | AMY FORLITI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recording Industry Association of America, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, Kazaa File Sharing, Jammie Thomas-Rasset Kazaa, File Sharing, Riaa, Jammie Thomas-Rasset File Sharing, Capitol v. Thomas, RIAA Thomas-Rasset, Technology News

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota woman ordered to pay a recording industry trade group $1.5 million for illegally sharing music online doesn't plan to ...

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Advice for Jammie Thomas-Rasset

Rick Carnes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Songwriters Guild of America, Free Culture, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, P2p, File Sharing, Riaa, Technology News

The jury in the latest trial of illegal file sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset has awarded the plantiffs, Capitol records et al., an award of 1.5 million do...

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When Copying Is Theft

Bevin Carnes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illegal Downloading, Peer to Peer Downloading, Digital Downloads, Music Downloads, Dirpy, Music Industry, File Sharing, Music, Riaa, Limewire, Technology News

If you have a bicycle, and I copy it, we both have a bicycle. Cool, right? There's a catch.

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Judge: Movie Studios Can Subpoena Internet Users' Names, Data In File-Sharing Cases

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Far Cry Lawsuit, File Sharing Subpoenas, File Sharing Lawsuit, Intellectual Property, File Sharing, File-Sharing, Technology News

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday allowed the holder of a movie copyright to subpoena the names of people accused of illegally downloading ...

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Music in Free Fall

Jeff Pollack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Isle of Wight, File Sharing, Record Labels, Music, Music Downloading, Digital Downloads, Eminem, Music Industry, Arts News

I was watching the Isle of Wight documentary from 1970 when I realized that the emergence of Napster was in fact nothing new, but rather the latest skirmish in the battle for putting a price on music.

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Student's $675,000 Filesharing Fine SLASHED By Federal Judge

Huffington Post | Ariel Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Northeats, Joel Tenenbaum Filesharing Fee, Joel Tenenbaum, Filesharing Regulations, Filesharing, Joel Tenenbaum Boston University, File Sharing, Tenenbaum, College News

All those who download music illegally can rest a bit easier. Last week, a federal judge reduced the fine of Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University grad...

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LimeWire Loses RIAA Case Over Copyright Infringement

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Record Companies, Internet, Napster, Itunes, Songs, Copyright, File Sharing, Music, Riaa, Limewire, Movies, Technology News

LOS ANGELES — File-sharing software company LimeWire has lost a long-running court battle to the major recording companies. A judge with the U....

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Congress Must Act Now to Reform P2P Networks

Rep. Edolphus Towns | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Cyberattacks, Peer to Peer Downloading, President Obama, Office of Management and Budget, Computers, Cybersecurity, Marine One, Breyer, Internet, National Security, New York Times, Software, Washington Post, Technology, File Sharing, P2p, Politics News

We have allowed P2P software developers to voluntarily regulate themselves but they have failed. Congress must act now to implement the proper safeguards to protect the American people.

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Judge Cuts $2 Million Penalty In Woman's Illegal Song-Sharing Case

AP | PATRICK CONDON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet, Napster, Itunes, Song Sharing, Songs, Music Industry, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, File Sharing, Music, Downloading, Bit Torrent, Technology News

MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge on Friday drastically reduced a nearly $2 million verdict against a Minnesota woman found guilty last year of shar...

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Verizon Cutting Off Internet for File Sharing Offenders : MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer January 21, 2010

Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Search, Verizon, Bing, Browser, File Share, Microsoft, Movie, Media, Rental, Mediabytes, Iphone, Internet, Apple, Shelly Palmer, Youtube, Suspended, File Sharing, Sundance, Safari, Media News

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube....

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House Pushes Ban On Peer-To-Peer Software

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House Ban P2p, Limewire, P2p Software Ban, Secure Federal File Sharing Act, House Peer to Peer, Peer to Peer Software, House Bar Peer to Peer, House Bar P2p, File Sharing, House P2p, Peer to Peer, Technology News

WASHINGTON — Stung by an embarrassing electronic leak last month revealing ethics investigations into dozens of lawmakers, Congress moved Tuesday to...

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Review: Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars by William Patry

Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet, File Sharing, Technology, Copyright, LA Times, William Patry, Technology vs. Content, Google, Books News

Patry's book, on the conflict between technology and content, is riddled with invective, unoriginal observations, and numerous typographical errors.

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Google, Microsoft Sued Over Links To File-Sharing Site

theregister.co.uk | Cade Metz in San Francisco • Get More From This Author | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Google File Sharing, Copyright Infringement, Google Microsoft Sued, Google Blue Destiny Records, Microsoft, Rapidshare, Blue Destiny Records, File Sharing, File-Sharing, Technology News

Mini music label Blue Destiny Records has sued both Google and Microsoft for allegedly "facilitating and enabling" the illegal distribution of copyrig...

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Illegal Download Shuts Down Town's Wi-Fi

Coshocton Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Town Internet Shut Down, Internet, Piracy, Illegal Downloading, Illegal Download, File Sharing, Internet Shut Down Download, Technology News

About five years ago, the county made a free wireless Internet connection available in the block surrounding the Coshocton County Courthouse at 318 Ma...

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UN: Illegal Music Sharers Should Not Be Jailed

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Music Piracy, Music Sharing, Piracy, Wipo, World Intellectual Property Organization, United Nations, UN Music Sharing, UN Internet Piracy, Illegal Music Sharing, UN Piracy, File Sharing, UN File Sharing, Un, Illegal Music Downloading, UN Copyright, Technology News

The heavy punishment of illegal file sharers on the web will be counter-productive in the global fight against Internet piracy and copyright infringem...

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Lily Allen: British Pop Singer Rants Music FIle-Sharing, Piracy "Destroying" People

Telegraph | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Music Piracy, Lily Allen, Illegal-Music-Downloading, Lily ALlen Blog, Music, File Sharing, British Pop, Lily Allen File Sharing, Technology News

The singer has set up new site idontwanttochangetheworld.blogspot.com on which she posts messages from prominent supporters of her cause. It follows ...

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The Netherlands Buckles to Post 9-11 Copyright Hysteria

Max Keiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, File Sharing, Copyright, P2p-File-Sharing, Netherlands, Mininova, Media News

The world seems incapable of resisting the onslaught of free speech-and-innovation-suppressing lobbyists and monopolists who try to put every piece of intellectual property ever conceived behind corporate fire walls.

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Number Of Teens Illegally Sharing Music Falls Dramatically

Guardian | Alexandra Topping | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Downloads, Free Music, File Sharing, Music, Music Downloads, Illegal Downloads, Media News

They are the record companies' bogeyman: the 15-year-old in their bedroom ripping off a star's latest album and sharing it with their friends has been...

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Woman Ordered To Pay $1.92M For Downloading Seeks Lesser Fine

AP | AMY FORLITI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jammie Thomas-Rasset, File Sharing, Media News

MINNEAPOLIS — A central Minnesota woman ordered to pay $1.92 million for illegally sharing copyright-protected music is asking a federal judge t...

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