BitTorrent, Joost put download tech to legal use
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There was a time when the  phrase "peer-to-peer" (P2P) was practically a curse word in the  music industry.
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A file-sharing program called BitTorrent  has become a behemoth, devouring more than a third of the  Internet's bandwidth, and Hollywood's copyright cops are taking  notice.
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Two men have pleaded guilty to copyright-infringement for distributing music, software and movies over the Internet in the first U.S. convictions for piracy over "peer to peer" networks, the Justice Department said.
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Web company BitTorrent Inc, once  scorned in Hollywood, on Sunday joined a number of providers in  the nascent arena for legal downloads of movies and television  shows with content from several key studios.
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The arrival of software that lets you search for and record digital music off the airwaves could raise legal issues that will make the P2P skirmishes look quaint by comparison.
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Two major torrent sites have announced plans to start filtering their search results in an effort to block copyrighted content, and to avoid the need to shut down their services.
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com December 14, 2004, 11:46 AM PT. The Motion Picture Association of America launched a new legal campaign Tuesday targeting the BitTorrent and eDonkey file-swapping networks, two technologies widely used to trade movies online.
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'Poacher' turned gamekeeper BitTorrent Inc, the firm that maintains development of the popular file sharing protocol historically associated with illegal movie downloads, has launched a website designed to sell licensed downloads of films and television shows.â¦
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Streamcast downcast Another file-sharing software maker has been found guilty of causing copyright infringement. A US judge has said that the Morpheus software produced by StreamCast breaks the law.â¦
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In order to thwart the growth of this network, the MPAA will be pursuing BitTorrent indexing servers known as trackers. While trackers function somewhat differently than traditional indexing servers found
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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has dropped the hammer on yet another BitTorrent enabler, catching Dallas-based LokiTorrent in its net. LokiTorrent, which offered pointers to unauthorized movie downloads within the...
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The file swapping network BitTorrent has lost most, if not all, of its Hub connections. The quick change in status is believed to be directly correlated with the MPAA threats of legal action if the network continued to operate.
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Even as the RIAA continues to sue downloaders of illegal music over file-sharing networks, some music companies are finally finding ways to use P2P to their advantage.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 26  /PRNewswire/ -- The Digital Freedom Campaign applauds today's announcement from BitTorrent as a major step in the right direction for the future of digital entertainment technologies.
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House-arrest Ubuntu fan left staring at Windows A BitTorrent admin convicted of uploading movie files is being forced to ditch Linux if he wants to use his PC.â¦
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Kazaa&#39;s lawyer said that even though the peer-to-peer software that underpins Kazaa allows users to breach copyright, the owners of Kazaa don&#39;t authorize piracy and can&#39;t stop it.
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Should creators insist on copy protection and other technologies to block the unauthorized spread of their works?