Apple Computer has forced a developer to stop distributing a plug-in that turned its iTunes music player into peer-to-peer music-sharing software. The iTunes (software developer) materials are licensed only for the purpose of enabling the licensee...
Peer-to-peer computing has been popularised by music file-sharing systems like Napster and Kazaa. Large enterprises will take another look at (peer computing) and not assume that it's college kids misusing it for music sharing," said Soto.
The Recording Industry of America (RIAA) has filed close to 1,000 subpoenas in the US District Court in Washington this month requesting information from educational institutions and ISPs on users of Kazaa, the peer-to-peer file-sharing service.
They also can be passed around through emails and peer-to-peer applications such as instant messaging and music file-sharing software. And almost none of those in the survey understood that spyware could be installed through various music and file...
Sharman Networks became a target for the music industry when it purchased the Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing technology from its Dutch creators Kazaa BV in 2002. MIPI obtained an Anton Pilar order - which allows a copyright holder to enter a...
"The Kazaa system is an engine of copyright piracy to a degree of magnitude never before seen," declared the counsel for the music industry, Tony Bannon, during today's commencement of the civil trial against peer-to-peer (P2P) software...