PhD student Joel Tenenbaum was fined $675,000 after admitting to illegally downloading and distributing 30 songs using the file-sharing software KaZaA. Tenenbaum's attorney and Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson stated that the figure was "bankrupting". Tenenbaum...
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Jammie Thomas-Rasset, ordered to pay $1.9 million in fines to the RIAA for copyright infringement, will appeal the ruling, according to her lawyer. This is not surprising, since, once the news of the ruling hit, even those whose songs she downloaded decried the fines as...
The portrayal of pirates in mainstream media (including certain movies starring a certain Mr. Depp) and the RIAA's misuse of the word "pirate" could actually help the Pirate Party gain support, but I don't foresee...
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Ohio U. is pre-empting the pre-lawsuits that are spamming up university inboxes across the nation."While some universities have fought back against RIAA complaints about their students using file sharing for making unauthorized copies of content, it appears that Ohio...
"As if there aren't already enough ways to watch TV, the serial entrepreneurs behind Kazaa and Skype have announced Joost, which proves that there is no shortage of incomprehensible yet catchy five-letter names.
The brainchild of Kazaa and Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and...
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"You probably haven't thought about it, but chances are that you're intimately familiar with one of the most crucial and defining issues of international trade in the 21st Century. If you've ever downloaded a...
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"Channel 4 is in talks with the billionaire entrepreneurs behind Skype and Kazaa to supply content to the pair's internet television venture.
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström made an estimated $2.5 billion (£1.3 billion) from the sale of Skype, the internet telephony...
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"Companies such as AllPeers, Pando, and Zapr aren't waving the pirate flag - but they're using Napster-like technology to help you send photos to Grandma.Business 2.0 MagazineBy Erick Schonfeld, Business 2.0 Magazine editor-at-largeNovember 1 2006: 10:39 AM EST(Business 2.0...
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Following a battle with the record and film industry that has lasted over seven years, the developers of the popular file-sharing program Kazaa have changed their tune.Sharman Networks has agreed to modify its software, effectively turning it into a legal downloading...
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