1. Legal UK P2P service Wippit shuts down
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...or end users might have 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...

2. LAW: Edonkey server admin cant be liable for infringement
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...ropean countries don't share the US concept of common law, meaning that this isn't necessarily a legal precedence for other court cases.   ...

3. Music publishers say Kazaa deal reached
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...ther key milestone of the ongoing transformation of the digital music marketplace to one that will allow legal services to thrive," NMPA President and Chief Executive David Israelite said in the ...

4. LimeWire Goes Legit
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...known as a peer-to-peer (P2P) networking service that's been accused of allowing internet users to illegally download movies, TV programs and music. The company is currently involved in a legal wr...

5. Aussie busted for "Simpsons Movie" piracy
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...ion of being the first country in the world where "The Simpsons Movie" was pirated, with an illegal Internet copy of the worldwide hit traced to a man who allegedly used his cell phone to...

6. Hollywood on The Hill
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... and the bracing reality that Hollywood has acknowledged that the U.S. is by far the largest source of illegal camcording worldwide notwithstanding its movie piracy legislation, Bill C-59 is expected ...

7. How to do File Sharing Without Fear?
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... or may not agree with what the law says about sharing copyrighted files -- in essence, that it's illegal to share them with, or download them from, others. And I'm certainly not advocating ...

8. University ignores RIAA blackmail
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...y of Wisconsin 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 ...

9. P2P: Open your Eyes! Here comes a new law.
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...es rather than out of scale 'statutory' rewards, unless the conduct is clearly and obviously illegal. "It codifies the Supreme Court's 'Betamax' holding that finding...

10. ICANN wants to destroy freedom in Internet?
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... of numerous ordinary words like 'herb' and 'john' in a string since they can have an illegal connotation in certain contexts. The February 13 proposal would essentially make...

11. Companies using piracy techniques against Filesharers
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... Gnutella, Limewire and SoulSeek. After carrying out what was claimed to be the largest ever worldwide legal action against filesharers in 2005 - effectively doubling the number of people being sue...

12. RIAA Threatens Open Wi-Fi
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... month, was awarded attorney's fees in excess of $50,000. For the RIAA, which functions as the legal and lobbying arm of the labels it represents, this was very bad news indeed.  If the rul...

13. BitTorrent to Launch Movie, TV Downloads
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...ainment industry's efforts to find and identify movie pirates. In 2005, after the studios won a key legal decision against another pirate software company, Grokster, Cohen agreed to remove links ...

14. Are Compulsory Licenses a Solution to the P2P Debate?
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... a simple solution that might permit users to swap the songs that they enjoy in freedom, without fear of legal action. In effect, the compulsory license would form an effective compromise between the...

15. Next-Generation File Sharing with Social Networks
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...ution for implementing a distributed social network that is resistant to outside attacks -- yet. From a legal attackers perspective, the central server presents no useful information. Should a server...

16. Google accused of aiding movie pirates
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...rict of New York in 2005, alleges that the defendants created the false impression that their sites were legal and promoted them as sponsored links that were displayed when people searched for certain...

17. 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

18. Pirate Bay going to buy Micronation to escape digital persecution
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...rom the claws of the RIAA, MPAA, and other content "owners." Although a principality can't legally (saywha?) be "sold," the family in possession of it recently began accepting ...