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- Get a Beta Invite to Dropbox and Sync, Share, and Back Up Your Files
- Not to be confused with file-sharing service Drop.io, similarly named Dropbox lets you back up, sync, and share files. It's an invitation-only beta for the moment, but Business Hacks has scored 250 invitations so you can get started without waiting in line! A...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Verizon Gets it on File-sharing
- Blender magazine recently named the killing of Napster by the major labels the Biggest Record Company Screw-Up of All Time. While that's hardly news, it is interesting that the title was bestowed in a time when there is evidence that, seven years after Napster was squashed, big corporations are finally...
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Verizon Gets it on File-sharing
- Verizon Gets it on File-sharingWhy should I pay for file sharing?In the UK the Govt. introduced a tax on blank tapes and CD's to pay musicians in reality the record companies for illegally copied music. The result, people stopped buying blanks and started downloading from Napster and a host of...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- TechRepublic Pro Podcast: IE7, File Sharing, and RFID Hacking
- In this installment of the TechRepublic Pro Podcast, Commentator Michael Jackman covers incompatibilities in Microsoft's upcoming Internet Explorer 7, news from DefCon, and a major problem unearthed with Windows 2000.
- Download resources 2005-08-05
- Germany New Front in the Fight Over Copyright
- Last Friday Germany passed a copyright law which bans consumers from copying DVDs and music, even for personal use, thereby criminalizing a huge swath of the computer literate population. We'll see how enforcement goes. In the meantime, Britain's Guardian Unlimited ran a thought provoking column arguing against just these sorts...
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- Protecting Copyright and Internet Values: A Balanced Path Forward
- This paper seeks to outline a general framework for addressing the problem of copyright infringement on the Internet in a balanced fashion. In CDT's view, a combination of robust enforcement of copyright law to make infringement unattractive and technical protections for online content offers the best possibility of fostering vibrant...
- White papers 2005-06-07
- Understanding the Market for Digital Music
- By 2008, digital music sales either as a-la-carte downloads or subscriptions are expected to reach $1.8 billion, up from $187 million in 2004ła ten-fold increase. Despite illegal file sharing activity, these figures indicate that the market for online music is rapidly growing. This paper begins by combining a discussion of...
- White papers 2005-05-23
- The Music Industry's Failed Attempt to Influence File Sharing Norms
- Digitization and related technologies such as file-sharing software and wireless communications are revolutionizing how intellectual content is distributed and consumed. At the same time, the ways in which consumers have chosen to use this technology are challenging how characteristics of intellectual property ownership are defined. Some of the important rights...
- White papers 2005-04-13
- Strategies for Digital Music Markets: Pricing and the Effectiveness of Measures Against Pirate Copies - Results of an Empirical Study
- The recording industry is still facing a global decline in revenues and record sales. Paid music services have failed to deliver on their promise of a full-catalog shopping experience so far, and file sharing platforms are still widely used for obtaining online music. The paper conducts an empirical study via...
- White papers 2004-12-15
- Global TV Shakes Up Industry
- What Napster and Kazaa did for music and movies, Cybersky hopes to do for live television programming. The online sharing software, developed by a feisty German company, aims to globalize television. This article examines whether this software is legal or not. However, the legal departments of German broadcasters say that...
- White papers 2004-12-14
- 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
- Cultures of Music Piracy: An Ethnographic Comparison of the US and Japan
- The battle over online music in the US turned ugly in the summer of 2003 when the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA initiated lawsuits against its own consumers. The RIAA hopes the dragnet, and ensuing publicity, will change the 'culture' of file-sharing online by convincing computer owners that using...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Peer-to-Peer Networks: Creative Destruction or Just Plain Destruction?
- The sales of music CDs have fallen dramatically in the last few years. A leading candidate among possible causes of this decline is the recent rise in file-sharing. The recording industry has tried to stem this decline by suing or threatening to sue individuals heavily engage in file sharing. These...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis
- A longstanding economic question is the appropriate level of protection for intellectual property. The Internet has drastically lowered the cost of copying information goods and provides a natural crucible to assess the implications of reduced protection. We consider the specific case of file sharing and its effect on the legal...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Mobile P2P - Creating A Mobile File-Sharing Environment
- In the last few years Peep To Peer (P2P) have evolved rapidly in fixed networks. Especially file-sharing between users is extremely popular. File-sharing applications have not yet been adopted in mobile networks though the development of hardware would allow it. In this paper the current mobile file-sharing possibilities in a...
- White papers 2004-02-12
- A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing
- The current battles surrounding peer-to-peer file sharing are a losing proposition for everyone. The record labels continue to face lackluster sales, while the tens of millions of American file sharers?American music fans?are made to feel like criminals. Every day the collateral damage mounts?privacy at risk, innovation stymied, economic growth suppressed,...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Amnesty for Music File Sharing Is a Sham
- The paper discusses about the copyright issues in music industry. The RIAA has proposed as its "solution" to file sharing: an "amnesty" for file-sharers. Just delete the MP3s you've downloaded, shared those CD-R copies, confess your guilt and, in return, the most change-resistant companies in the nation will give you...
- White papers 2003-09-26
- File Sharing Must Be Made Legal
- The Recording Industry Association of America RIAA has finally launched its campaign of lawsuits against the 60 million Americans who file-share. And already, we've seen the first casualties, a 12-year-old girl and her mother in New York must pay $2,000 they don't have in a hastened settlement; a 71-year-old grandfather...
- White papers 2003-09-12
- iTunes Invasion: Apple Offers a Legal Option for Downloading, Copying Songs
- The turmoil and legal challenges that have been brought to the record industry by digital distribution have been well documented. The widespread popularity of Napster was followed first by the defeat of the service in the courts and then by the tussle over the remaining assets in the bankruptcy proceeding....
- White papers 2003-08-19
- "Fair Use" as Policy Instrument
- Debate over the design of copyright is typically framed as a choice between providing more access to the public to created works and giving profits to those that created the works. To this observer of copyright policy discussions, granting any weight to the latter side of this tradeoff often seems...
- White papers 2003-06-19
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