File sharing
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Mobile industry excludes self from filesharing regulation...the increased cost. As it stands, though, a mobile connection would seem the ideal way to conduct illicit business online, be it illegal file sharing or hacking major governments - no one's watching you when you're inside the operator's... In this article: IP Address, Vodafone, File sharing, and UK |
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Ft. Worth Star-Telegram | 22 hours ago
Grapevine man held in child porn case
...in the distribution of child pornography and sexual exploitation. The officer searched on the Gnutell network using Limewire P2P file sharing, the affidavit states. On Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents executed...
In this article: Fort Worth, Plano Police Department, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and FBI
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Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide | 1 day ago
Gifts For Lazy People Who Could Use a Smarter Home [Gift Guide]
...different backup scheme, for PCs and Macs. • Automated copy jobs, which can automatically and incrementally copy (either with Windows file sharing or rsync) files off of network shares and dump it onto its own storage, or the other way...
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CNET News.com | 1 day ago
Judging the top 10 Internet moments of the decade
...files in seconds, watch each other on webcams, and stream high-res videos. The allure of torrents: Whether used for legal or illegal file sharing, technologies like BitTorrent let us share and download all types of content across the Web...
In this article: Twitter, Webby Awards, Firefox, Salesforce, Iphone, Craigslist, Google Chrome, E mail, and Cloud computing
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PC World: Latest Technology News | 2 days ago
European Parliament Adopts Telecom Laws After Bitter Debate
...achieved after the Parliament reached a compromise with national governments earlier this month on the controversial issue of illegal file sharing over the Internet. The laws are designed to give European citizens cheaper telecom services,...
In this article: European Union
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Guardian Unlimited | 2 days ago
When piracy isn't theft
The argument over file sharing is redundant: creative businesses must change, and the social value of free must be recognised guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 24 November 2009 08.00 GMT Stewart Brand, during the first Hackers' Conference in...
In this article: Rupert Murdoch, RIAA, Revenue, Hershey's Kisses, Peer-to-peer, Lily Allen, Appropriation, and Communisim
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Centre Daily Times | 2 days ago
SGA Testifies before NYC Council against Support for Net Neutrality Rules
...rules promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that would restrain Internet service providers from fighting illegal file sharing on their networks. The three writers defined for the Committee the damage that has ravaged...
In this article: SGA, Federal Communications Commission, and NEW YORK
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Stuff | 3 days ago
Lily Allen doesn't mind burnt music
...drummer Dave Rowntree and Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien. She wrote: "I'm going to be writing to British artists, saying just this: File sharing's not OK for British music. We need to find new ways to help consumers access and buy music...
In this article: Lily Allen, Radiohead, Susan Boyle, Amazon, MySpace, Fran Healy, and Ed O'Brien
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washingtonpost.com | 7 days ago
Small cable, online video companies warn of anticompetition in Comcast, NBC merger
...your laptop, you will be able to watch some of those episodes for free as long as you are a Comcast cable subscriber. Vuze, an online file sharing site, has warned that the merger could derail similar startups, which could essentially be...
In this article: Comcast, Charlie Ergen, NBC Universal, Vertical integration, Federal Communications Commission, Columbia University School of Law, Cable Act, Dish Network, and Western Union
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Reuters | 7 days ago
UPDATE 2-Salesforce offers Chatter to companies
...is seeking to translate its expertise in customer relationship management to collaboration management. "In the past, the file sharing metaphor has dominated collaboration, but now this is a new opportunity to take the Facebook metaphor...
In this article: Salesforce, Facebook, Microsoft Corp, IBM, San Francisco, Ning, Lotus Notes, Twitter, and New York Stock Exchange
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AP Online | November 18, 2009
House lawmakers push ban on peer-to-peer software
...introduced in the House, would bar government employees and contractors from downloading, installing or using so-called peer-to-peer file sharing software such as Limewire without official approval. The bill also would require the White...
In this article: Peer-to-peer, Edolphus Towns, LimeWire, Recording Industry Association of America, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, White House, and Washington
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File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multi-media (audio, video), documents, or electronic books. It may be implemented in a variety of storage, transmission, and distribution models. Common methods are manual sharing using removable media (CD, DVD, floppy diskette, magnetic tapes, flash memory), centralized computer file server installations on computer networks, World Wide Web-based hyperlinked documents, and the use of distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) networking.
The increasing popularity of the mp3 music format in the late 1990s led to the release and growth of Napster and other software designed to aid in the sharing of electronic files. Other popular networks include Gnutella, eDonkey2000, the now-defunct Kazaa network, and BitTorrent.
Many file sharing programs and services have been shut down due to litigation by groups such as the RIAA and MPAA. During the early 2000s, the fight against copyright infringement expanded into lawsuits against individual users of file sharing software.
The economic impact on media industries is disputed; although publishers and copyright holders claim economic damage, some studies have suggested that file sharing is not the primary cause of declines in sales. File sharing remains widespread, with mixed public opinion about the morality of the practice for commercial material.
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