1. Legal UK P2P service Wippit shuts down
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...something to do with the failure as well. Wippit originally marketed itself as a legal alternative to file sharing networks like Napster, but always had a far to little catalog to compete. It tried...

2. New German anti-piracy plan: Three strikes and you're ... slow?
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...ers' Internet access. Instead, German users will just see their Internet speed drop if they get caught sharing files. The German anti-piracy organization GVU is adapting a proposal from French an...

3. German TORRENT site raided by police
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German police raided the Düsseldorf apartment of the operator of a Tor exit node sometime after midnight on a Sunday morning in July, says Heise Online. Why all the attention? He’s said to

4. Demonoid IS NOT DEAD!
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Demonoid down reported yesterday, going on:   The CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America), Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA clown (sorry, clone), i

5. Music publishers say Kazaa deal reached
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...GELES (AP) — The music publishing industry reached a tentative deal with operators of the Kazaa file-sharing network over claims of copyright infringement, an industry group said. Publishers pu...

6. LimeWire Goes Legit
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Lime Wire LLC, maker of the controversial LimeWire file-sharing software, plans to go legit with a new music download service. Founded in 2000, LimeWire is better known as a peer-to-peer (P2P) networ

7. Aussie busted for "Simpsons Movie" piracy
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SYDNEY (Hollywood Reporter) - D'oh! Australia has the dubious distinction of being the first country in the world where "The Simpsons Movie" was pirated, with an illegal Internet cop

8. Spain outlaws P2P Networks
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A new law in Spain 86'es P2P networks, bans ISPs from "facillitating filesharing" and imposes a blanket tax on blank media. "The tax will go into a fund which will be shared among

9. Version of BitComet 0.89 is out
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 BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet

10. How to do File Sharing Without Fear?
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by Preston Gralla, author of Windows XP Hacks   These days, the simple act of sharing music files with like-minded others can make you feel like a hunted criminal, never sure when the

11. University ignores RIAA blackmail
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...onsin went against the national trends Friday by warning students about its policy regarding illegal file sharing but refusing to forward settlement letters to violators from the Recording Industry...

12. P2P: Open your Eyes! Here comes a new law.
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The Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC) is calling for widespread support for H.R. 1201, the Fair Use Act introduced today by Rick Boucher (right) and John Doolittle. "Fair use pro

13. Companies using piracy techniques against Filesharers
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...g you and invading your privacy. So who are the enemies of P2P and what are they doing to ruin your file-sharing experience? If you share files, it's time to meet your nemesis. The idea...

14. RIAA Threatens Open Wi-Fi
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Debbie Foster, an american citizen, was sued by RIAA member company Capitol Records for allegedly sharing copyrighted material on a P2P file sharing network.  However, the alleged infringement was

15. Are Compulsory Licenses a Solution to the P2P Debate?
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...ss the Internet for royalty distribution. The company BigChampagne tracks user downloads across major file-sharing systems for marketing analysis, and until recently sat quietly in the background, adv...

16. Next-Generation File Sharing with Social Networks
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by Robert Kaye  Open file sharing systems like Kazaa welcome everyone on the net and enjoy a broad selection of content. The selection is so vast that Cory Doctorow calls it "The largest lib

17. Google accused of aiding movie pirates
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...DownloadPlace.com. The sites allegedly sold software to help people search for movies on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks and download them to their hard drive. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Dist...

18. P2P Has No Effect on Legal Music Sales
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The Journal of Political Economy is running the results of a study into P2P file-sharing, reports Ars Technica. The study has found that, contrary to the claims of the recording industry, there is alm

19. Beat the Viacom Dragnet
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"As an RIAA spokesperson famously put it when asked about the spectacle of file-sharing lawsuits against innocent grandparents, 'when you go fishing with a driftnet, sometimes you catch a do