Thursday, September 08, 2005
Taiwan court fines P-to-P operator, orders CEO to jail Just a few months after clearing one company of charges related to its peer-to-peer (P-to-P) file-sharing software, a Taiwanese court on Friday ordered executives at another one to pay fines and serve up to three years in jail. The case is the latest in a string of courtroom victories over P-to-P file-sharing sites, and suggests a steady march toward increased control over their activities.
Wednesday, April 03, 2002
Grid-computing software hitchhikes on Kazaa Software that will set up a network built from users' hard drives and bandwidth has been quietly bundled into the Kazaa file-sharing program owned by Australian holding company Sharman Networks Ltd.
Thursday, October 04, 2001
Recording industry suing popular Napster progeny Having successfully forced file-sharing rogue Napster Inc. into compliance with copyright laws, the Recording Industry Association of America Inc. (RIAA), along with the major Hollywood studios, is now launching attacks against popular file-swapping services MusicCity, KaZaA, Morpheus and Grokster, an RIAA representative confirmed Wednesday.