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- "Don't Shoot The Messenger: Copyright Infringement In The Digital Age".
- Music Industry Lawyer and Senior Lecturer in Law, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK From the humble VHS machine to Internet file swapping, the issue of hardware and software - which has both infringing and non-infringing uses - has long troubled the courts on a...
- Research articles 2003-11-24
- Federal Appeals Court Upholds Shutdown of Aimster File-Swapping Service.
- By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 1--A federal appeals court in Chicago yesterday upheld an injunction that shut down the file-sharing service Aimster to stop its users from illegally swapping copyrighted music recordings. The...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- Music industry must rethink digital formats. (Leader).
- IN MANY WAYS THESE ARE DARK days for those who love to consume their music online. An era seems to be coming to an end right before our eyes. Just two weeks ago it was confirmed by current parent Bertelsmann that Napster would almost certainly never reincarnate in a paid-for...
- Research articles 2002-09-19
- Web Pirates Already Looting Top Films
- Hollywood studios worry that Internet video on demand will lead to piracy, but the digital copyright enforcement firm MediaForce says the barn door is already wide open. Movies are being heavily pirated, costing studios an estimated $2.5 billion a year, says the company. Top titles now available on the Web...
- Research articles 2001-07-16
- Hearing Will Set Jurisdiction in Cohoes, N.Y., Music File-Sharing Service Case.
- By Jean DerGurahian, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 30--Attorneys for the recording industry are expected to converge on Albany today for a hearing about the much-publicized Aimster, a Cohoes-based file-sharing service that sued the Recording Industry Association of America...
- Research articles 2001-05-30
- Legal Battle Over Sharing Music on Web Wages in Albany, N.Y.-Area Court.
- By Jean DerGurahian, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 31--A major legal battle that could help shape the way music and movies are distributed on the Internet is shaping up in a local courtroom as an emerging software developer...
- Research articles 2001-05-31
- Albany, N.Y., Music Industry Group Threatens to Sue.
- By Danielle T. Furfaro, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 4--The makers of Aimster.com, which allows users to transfer music files among computers, is no different than the postal service and cannot be held responsible if people send copyrighted...
- Research articles 2001-05-04
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- Troy, N.Y.-Based File-Swapping Service Aimster Changes Name.
- By Danielle T. Furfaro, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 24--As part of a settlement agreement with America Online, the Troy-based file-swapping service Aimster.com has changed its name to Madster.com. An arbitration panel ruled in May that the...
- Research articles 2002-01-24
- Developer of Music File-Sharing Program Aimster Files for Bankruptcy.
- By Danielle T. Furfaro, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 12--Johnny Deep, whose file-sharing program Aimster.com came to symbolize the renegade spirit of the Internet, filed for personal bankruptcy, after spending months fighting the music industry in court. ...
- Research articles 2002-03-12
- Studios shoot at swapper.(Brief Article)
- Seven sue Aimster in bid to thwart movie downloads The seven major studios have filed a lawsuit against Aimster, saying the Internet file-trading service poses a "Napster-like" threat to the movie industry. In the suit filed...
- Research articles 2001-07-09
- Online File-Swapping Service Wants Copyright Hearing Held in Albany, N.Y.
- By Danielle T. Furfaro, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 3--The embattled online file-swapping service Aimster has two court hearings on opposite sides of the country this week, which may help determine what kind of resources the company will need to...
- Research articles 2001-10-03
- IAAL: What Peer-to-Peer Developers Need to Know About Copyright Law
- The future of peer-to-peer file-sharing is entwined, for better or worse, with copyright law. Copyright owners have already targeted not only the makers of file-sharing clients like Napster, Scour, Audiogalaxy, Aimster and Kazaa, and Morpheus, but also companies that provide products that rely on or add value to public P2P...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- File-Sharing and Business Models
- File-sharing can entail at least four topologies. In the first generation, Napster, Scour, Aimster/Madster, Audiogalaxy, and iMesh routed file requests through central directories that located and accessed donors with hard drive tracks that could be copied. In a second generation, KaZaa and Grokster now use a network configuration that routes...
- White papers 2003-06-09
- Online File-Sharing Entrepreneur's Liabilities Top $700,000.
- By Danielle T. Furfaro, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 13--Madster.com founder and president Johnny Deep racked up more than $700,000 in debt in trying to get his controversial file-sharing service up and running, including tens of thousands of...
- Research articles 2002-03-13
- File sharers hold vigil for Pirate Bay
- The Pirate Bay--the BitTorrent tracker revered by file sharers across the globe and reviled by some of the world's biggest entertainment companies--is under siege like never before.Many Pirate Bay fans believed that the site had met its end.(Credit: Twitter)Black Internet, the largest Internet service provider supplying bandwidth to the site,...
- News items 2009-08-25
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