Posted on 20 May 2008 by mike.
Ben Camm-Jones, news editor of Web-User magazine, was quoted this week as saying that to clear up all the confusion surrounding what is and is not legal when it comes to filesharing and free music downloads, there needs to be some serious clarification on copyright laws.
Could this be the case, or is it more [...]
Posted on 19 May 2008 by mike.
One of the beauties of P2P filesharing is that there is always something now going on. From a new Ares download release to a new free music sharing website, to some advancement in the area of P2P filesharing, to some development in the Internet age’s very own David and Goliath battle (the RIAA is Goliath. [...]
Posted on 17 May 2008 by mike.
Despite not being the most popular filesharing service on the Internet, Soulseek has made the bold move that others have yet to do by bringing filesharing to the iPhone. Soulseek was created by former Napster programmer Nir Arbel, but the service has never been able to make a dent on popular services such as [...]
Posted on 15 May 2008 by mike.
We don’t know how they managed it, but filesharing service Qtrax now has the full support of the big four record labels. Filesharing visionary QTrax first launched in January, claiming to have the support of the big four. The legal filesharing website actually had no such thing.
It’s taken until now for QTrax to finally achieve [...]
Posted on 13 May 2008 by mike.
It was recently announced that Pownce had introduced filesharing to its list of features. This was interesting news. Even more interesting is a new web browser that promises to not only incorporate Pownce’s filesharing facilities, but also a whole bunch of other services, including everything from Twitter to Facebook.
Flock is, supposedly, a social web browser. [...]
Posted on 11 May 2008 by mike.
Dutch filesharing website TorrentSpy took an almighty beating this week. Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures and several other studios have been awarded more than $110 million by a US judge after pirated films were distributed through TorrentSpy.
TorrentSpy owner Valence Media Ltd has been found guilty of 3,699 copyright violations of movie and television downloads. Not surprisingly, [...]
Posted on 8 May 2008 by mike.
One of the most interesting places to find news about filesharing in the US is on the websites of universities. With the onslaught of pre-litigation letters being sent to students for filesharing on campus, uni websites often contain responses to the actions of the RIAA.
The website of Middlebury College contains a story this week about [...]
Posted on 7 May 2008 by mike.
Nokia’s move last year to offer music downloads to its customers was a brave move and one which won it plaudits within the free music community: not only were the unlimited music downloads free, they were also devoid of the fun-wrecking DRM. Hurrah for Nokia.
Hurrah indeed, as the mobile giant announced recently that its “Comes [...]
Posted on 6 May 2008 by Iownmymusic.
There’s been a load of news coverage lately about the world of free music downloads and, being one of those old folk that is fairly new to the wonders of dem Internet Tubes I thought I’d go and look to try and find out what all the fuss is about. First stop was Google. I [...]
Posted on 5 May 2008 by mike.
More filesharing news from Sweden this week. A 31-year-old man was found guilty of filesharing copyrighted material, but he escaped jail, instead receiving a heavy fine.
The man was initially accused of uploading 23,000 tracks to filesharing network Direct Connect, but the charges were eventually reduced to just 4,500 tracks.
The man was also accused of uploading [...]
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