Japan court convicts creator of file-swapping software
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A Japanese court has convicted the inventor of popular file-swapping software for copyright violations but refused to jail the programmer, who has become a cyberspace icon.
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Tokyo drift A Japanese policeman has been fired after he was held responsible for accidentally leaking confidential information via peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software installed on his work PC.â¦
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'Cooperation is indispensable' Japan and the European Union have agreed to create an information exchange scheme to beat intellectual property crime. The countries made the agreement as part of a new trade co-operation deal.â¦
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A Swedish court of appeals on Tuesday  upheld the country&#39;s first conviction for sharing music files  over the Internet without paying in what the recording industry  hailed as a victory.
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Company agrees to settle charges over copy-protection software it included in music CDs.
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A Chinese court uses software to help determine sentences in more than 1,500 cases, covering wrongdoing like robbery, rape, murder and state-security offenses.
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p2pnet.net News:- A man accused of using Japan&#39;s Winny p2p file sharing application to release movies online has received a suspended sentence in Japan.
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update A federal appeals court has upheld a controversial court decision that said file-sharing software programs such as Grokster or Morpheus are legal.
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Lawyers for file-swapping software firm Kazaa have begun their defence in a landmark Australian music piracy case. Kazaa said its software, which allows users to exchange copyrighted music over the internet
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A jury in Siberia found a Russian scientist guilty Friday of illegally passing documents to China, the latest ruling in a lengthy case in which the defendant was first acquitted, then ordered retried.
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InfoWorld - The leader of one of the oldest and most widely recognized Internet software piracy groups was sentenced Friday to 51 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
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Taiwan online music file-sharing network   Kuro has agreed to shut down its file swapping service and pay   undisclosed damages to settle a recording industry lawsuit, the   industry group behind the row said.
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Two men are convicted of swapping films and music over the net and face up to five years in prison.
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The file swapping software Kazaa has legitimate uses claims the defence in the landmark trial in Australia of the controversial peer to peer program.
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(InfoWorld) - In another blow to peer-to-peer file sharing, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Morpheus software program encouraged users to infringe upon copyrighted works. StreamCast Networks, the owner of Morpheus, "cannot seriously argue that it did not know that the popular music and movies traded on its network were copyrighted," wrote U.S. district judge Stephen V. Wilson. The ruling is another win for record and film companies, which sought an injunction against distribution of the file-sharing software in the suit, filed in 2001. StreamCast continued to fight after two other companies named in the suit, Grokster and Sharman Networks, the company behind the Kazaa file-sharing client,Â reach settlementsÂ with the entertainment industry. StreamCast said it could consider appealing, saying the software has legal uses. "We do not believe that StreamCast encouraged users to infringe on copyrighted works, and the company never intended to do so," the company said in a statement. File-sharing software companies have been battered by a string of successful legal suits by the entertainment industry. In June 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court found that both StreamCast andÂ Grokster could be held liableÂ for copyright infringements by users. Earlier this month, MetaMachine, which distributed the eDonkey client software,Â settled a copy infringement caseÂ with the record industry for $30 million. Just weeks prior, Sharman Networks agreed to pay $100 million to end outstanding lawsuits with the entertainment industry. Major record companies and movies studios have used aggressive legal tactics against illegal file sharing, suing both software companies and individual users, in an effort to halt falling revenues attributed to piracy.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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File-sharing applications Morpheus and Grokster were claiming legal victory after a US court said it was not responsible for protecting the copyrights of material swapped on its person-to-person network.
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A US court says the makers of two leading file-sharing programs are not legally liable for the songs, movies and other copyright works swapped online by their users, in a stinging blow to the entertainment industry.