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- British clampdown on illegal downloads
- LONDON AFP — Britain's biggest Internet providers have signed an agreement with the country's recording industry to clamp down on illegal downloading, in a move announced by the government Thursday. Under the deal to get tough on the estimated 6.5 million Britons who have downloaded music and video illegally,...
- Research articles 2008-07-24
- Sweden could force Internet firms to name file sharers: report
- STOCKHOLM AFP — Sweden should require Internet providers to hand over information identifying people involved in illegal file sharing, two government ministers said in remarks published Friday. The indentity of people who violate copyright laws through Internet file sharing should be revealed to the person whose intellectual property has...
- Research articles 2008-03-14
- ISPs struggle to 'shape' Internet as video takes off
- IN 1995, the first warning was raised: The throngs of people swarming to the Internet would overwhelm the system in 1996. For more than a decade, that fear has proven untrue. Until right about now. The growing popularity of video on the Net has driven a traffic...
- Research articles 2008-02-17
- Web overload
- NEW YORK -- In 1995, the first warning was raised: The throngs of people swarming to the Internet would overwhelm the system in 1996. For more than a decade, that fear has proven untrue -- until right about now. The growing popularity of video on the Net has...
- Research articles 2008-02-12
- Education Bill Puts Future of Student Financial Aid in Peril
- The United States House of Representatives is scheduled today to consider legislation that could cut off federal financial aid for students at universities that fail to monitor student file sharing activities. The peer-to-peer provision, included in the College Opportunity and Affordability Act COAA, is the latest attempt by some...
- Research articles 2008-02-07
- Swedish prosecutor indicts Pirate Bay file sharing site
- STOCKHOLM AFP — A Swedish prosecutor filed charges on Thursday against four people suspected of running one of the world's most popular websites for illegal downloading of films, music and computer games. Hans Fredrik Neij, Per Svartholm Warg, Peter Kolmisoppi and Carl Lundstroem, are suspected of organising and running...
- Research articles 2008-01-31
- Internet outage hits business from Cairo to Colombo
- CAIRO AFP — Damage to undersea Internet cables hit business across the Middle East and South Asia on Thursday, including the vital call centre industry, prompting pleas for people to limit their surfing. Around 70 percent of Internet users in Egypt have been affected since two submarine cables in...
- Research articles 2008-01-31
- Nearly half SKorean Internet users pirate movies: survey
- SEOUL AFP — Nearly half the Internet users in South Korea -- one of the world's most wired nations -- illegally download a full-length movie a week, according to a survey released Tuesday. The poll of 2,358 people, aged from 15 to 49, showed 47.3 percent had downloaded feature...
- Research articles 2007-12-17
- SafeMedia Corp. Spotlights File-Sharing Study: The Untold Dangers
- A new study by the Department of Commerce's United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO reveals that the "distributors of five popular programs repeatedly deployed features that they knew or should have known could cause users to share files inadvertently." "All Internet users should study this report carefully and...
- Research articles 2007-05-02
- Global consumer values on the Internet & the relationship of diffusion characteristics, lifestyle & trustworthiness to P2P file-sharing behavior
- ABSTRACT A study was conducted to generate a greater understanding of the global phenomenon of consumers' unauthorized peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing of music on the Internet. Diffusion of Innovation Theory (Rogers 1983) was used to interpret global consumer perceptions of this widespread online behavior. The sample for this study included...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
- RIAA chief says illegal song-sharing 'contained'
- LOS ANGELES -- Nearly a year after the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling against online music file-sharing services, the CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America says unauthorized song swapping has been "contained." "The problem has not been eliminated," says association CEO Mitch Bainwol. "But we believe...
- Research articles 2006-06-13
- IHEs get new warning on file piracy
- WE'VE WRITTEN A NUMBER OF TIMES about the problem of illegal file sharing on college and university networks. Several years ago when the issue first came onto the public radar, the conventional wisdom was that colleges and universities wouldn't be held liable for the activities of students on their networks....
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- Downloading and File-Sharing Activity of College Graduates Entering The Workforce Can Impact Their Job Prospects, Says New Study
- WASHINGTON -- The results of a recent nationwide survey released by the Business Software Alliance BSA show that illegal downloading and file-sharing impact hiring and firing decisions of managers, which should be of interest to graduating college and university students as they prepare to enter the workforce for the first...
- Research articles 2006-05-09
- Lawyers fighting back against the recording industry
- Nobody likes to take on a losing battle. But for a handful of lawyers across the country, defending consumers sued by the music industry for illegal downloading has become more than just a case - it's a cause. The music companies are engaging in gross and abusive behavior and the...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- Lawyers help consumers fight back against music industry
- This article originally appeared in Lawyers Weekly USA, a sister publication. BOSTON - Nobody likes to take on a losing battle. But for a handful of lawyers across the country, defending consumers sued by the music industry for illegal downloading has become more than just a case -...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- French MPs vote to legalize Internet file-sharing of music, movies
- PARIS AFP — In a rare and possibly shortlived victory for millions of French Internet users who download music and movies, France's lower house of parliament has voted to legalize peer-to-peer file-sharing. The surprise decision -- adopted 30 votes to 28 in a nearly empty chamber late Wednesday --...
- Research articles 2005-12-22
- Swedish music companies join fight against illegal file-sharing
- STOCKHOLM AFP — Record companies in Sweden and in four other countries will take legal action against illegal music file-sharing on the Internet, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI said. "Today the Swedish record industry is for the first time announcing legal actions against large-scale illegal file-sharing,"...
- Research articles 2005-11-15
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