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Student Joel Tenenbaum Fined $675,000 For Illegal KaZaA Downloads
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...
created by Annina Bergman | 18 wks ago | updated 18 wks ago
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Jammie Thomas-Rasset to Appeal $2 MIllion RIAA Verdict
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... Jammie Thomas-Rasset: Fined $2-Million in RIAA Kazaa Appeal
You may or may not remember Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the woman who lost a lawsuit for sharing 24 copyrighted songs on the peer to peer network Kazaa in 2007. In the original lawsuit the RIAA was awarded damages...
created by Tina Kells | 24 wks ago | updated 24 wks ago
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1784 views | 10 recommendations | 14 comments
Pirate Party Lands in the USA
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...
created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Ohio University Bans File Sharing
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...Why P2P Networks Cannot Compete with Legit Media Files and MP3s
Full-featured article, including where to get free legit music: http://www.indierockcafe.com/2007/02/p2p-networks-still-cant-beat-legit.html
created by indierockcafe | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Online TV Gets a Jolt from Joost
"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...Creators of Kazaa unveil Web TV service - Posted by Michael Fomkin
"The duo behind the blockbuster Internet applications Skype and Kazaa think they have the secret to online video: Make it more like TV. Joost (pronounced "juiced") seeks to merge the best features of Internet file-sharing technology — such as its ability to deliver...Above The Law: What If You Could Buy A Country?
"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...C4 and Skype duo confer over online TV plans
"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...Peer-to-peer gets personal
"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...Kazaa site becomes legal service
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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