File - Sharing Mom Fights Back

CBS News, NY

Last week we reported on a Minnesota mom who defended herself against the recording industry and got slapped with $1.92 million in fines for sharing 24 songs over the Internet. Today, Jammie Thomas-Rasset was on CBS' The Early Show to make her case. ...

Will File - Sharing Case Spawn a Copyright Reform Movement? Wired News

riaa's $1.92M Verdict Means Nothing But Absurdity ChannelWeb

Fine for music down downloading gross, does not deter others from ... Examiner.com

SF Weekly  - Music Indistry News Network
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Irish Company Launches Affordable Online File Sharing for Business

PR-USA.net (press release), Bulgaria

ftopia, a supplier of secure online file - sharing workspaces, launches its new offer which has been designed for use by small and medium businesses, professional organizations as well as free lance and home-workers. Accessible 24/7, ftopia offers an ...

UK Govt. Looks to Reduce Illicit File - Sharing by 70-80%

Digital Media Wire, CA

London - The UK government aims to reduce by 70-80% the incidence of unlawful file - sharing , and will instruct its Ofcom communications regulator to work with the industry on commercial solutions, which "remain by far the preferred approach," according ...

Harvard Paper on P2P Flawed But Worth Reading

Billboard Business News, NY

Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf are most well-known in music industry circles for their 2004 paper The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales An Empirical Analysis. In that paper, the two concluded file sharing can explain at most a tiny fraction in ...

Seagate Offers New blackarmor NAS for Small Business

PC World

The drive supports Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory for network authentication, and also supports CIFS, NFS, HTTPS and FTP file sharing protocols. It can also be set up to stream media as an itunes server or a DLNA-compliant media server. ...

UK Be Broadband ISP Users Blocked from BitTorrent File Sharing Sites

ISPReview UK, UK

Customers of Be Broadband ( O2 ) have accused the UK ISP of deliberately blocking access to popular P2P BitTorrent file sharing tracker sites after several of the most popular destinations ( eg The Pirate Bay ) became inaccessible yesterday. ...

UK ISPs Unintentionally Block Torrent Sites TorrentFreak

Be broadband customers suspect BitTorrent ban Broadband Genie

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NETGEAR Launches the Industry's Highest-Density Network Storage ...

PR Newswire (press release), NY

Server virtualization, file sharing , disk-based backup and building first-time iSCSI SANs are natural solutions for the ReadyNAS 3200. "With the ReadyNAS 3200, we've expanded the capacity and performance of rack-mount solutions in the award-winning ...

Netgear to ship 24TB NAS system for SMBs Infostor magazine

Netgear's 24-TB NAS Aimed at SMBs PC Magazine

Network Equipment Supplier Adds Another Storage System bMighty.com

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File - sharing retrial: Lawyer may be more interesting than case

MinnPost.com, MN

By David Brauer | Published Tue, Jun 16 2009 4:25 pm As noted in this morning's Glean, one of the lawyers defending accused song-stealer Jammie Thomas-Rasset, Kiwi Camara, graduated from Harvard Law School at 19. But Camara dubbed a "legal Doogie ...

NSPCC warns paedophiles have moved to file - sharing networks to ...

Mirror.co.uk, UK

By Susie Boniface 14/06/2009 Perverts are swapping sick child porn through the same file - sharing software teenagers use to download music. The NSPCC says paedophiles have moved to "peer to peer" networks where they can effectively evade police. ...

Myths about myths about file sharing

p2pnet.net, Canada

All of that said, it is by no means clear that well conceived litigation against individual file -sharers (in contrast to mere downloaders) backed up with sufficient, reliable, non-hearsay and convincing evidence would necessarily fail in Canada under ...

Technology: File Sharing :

, China

It has been 10 years since the birth of Napster and the global spread of file - sharing sites. Back in 1999, Shawn Fanning, then a 19-year-old student, could never have predicted the extent to which his simple computer program would change the music ...

Links dump

Providence Journal, RI

Now double click the File Sharing link and select the folder whose content you want to share on the web. Any file or folder inside this folder can now be accessed over the internet - you can either use a public URL or specify a password for private ...

Bad Science's Ben Goldacre Rips Apart Bogus Study On File Sharing

Techdirt

Over the years, we've found that every single industry "figure" or "study" on the harm done by unauthorized file sharing wasn't supported by anything factual once you started to dig into the details. So, when we saw yet another report claiming huge ...

Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold: Music Better off Because of Illegal ...

Exclaim!, Canada

Don't let their beards or otherworldly acoustic jams fool you Seattle indie folk giants Fleet Foxes have embraced technology. In a recent interview with BBC News [via TwentyFourBit], Fleet Foxes front-man Robin Pecknold said that music is better ...

Band Praises P2P for Helping Artists Discover Music Zeropaid

Fleet Foxes Favour Illegal Downloads ClashMusic.com

Band Thanks Piracy For Success Pocket-lint.com

BeatCrave.com
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Jammie Thomas-Rasset: file sharing thief

p2pnet.net, Canada

First, they used the mainstream media to have her publicly tried, and found guilty, of the non-existent crime of illegal file sharing . Then, she and her family had to endure another trial, this time before a judge and jury, at the end of which she was ...

Lawyers Plot Class Action Against RIAA Over P2P Lawsuits Digital Media Wire

Camara vs. the RIAA P2P File Sharing

Lawyers plan class-action to reclaim "$100M+" RIAA "stole" Ars Technica

DL-Online
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ISPs End Anti-Piracy Talks With Entertainment Industry

TorrentFreak

Miguel Canalejo said that negotiations with the Coalition of Creators to find some mutually acceptable ground for government legislation on illicit file - sharing , are finished. The coalition, headed by SGAE and Promusicae, took the now-common stance of ...

First Impressions: Microsoft My Phone

Windows & Net Magazine, OH

Online Synchronization and File Sharing : In addition to serving as an online repository for phone files, the My Phone service allows you to add, edit, and delete contacts and calendar appointments online by using the My Phone web tool: Changes made ...

TwitDoc: Drag and Drop File Sharing for Twitter

Mashable, CA

Genius Idea: File sharing on TwitterTwitter reviews is no longer a novelty. Most recently FileTwt made its mark as a niche Twitter service, but TwitDoc brings with it a powerful punch for micro file sharing , and an Adobe AIR desktop client for drag and ...

Eight percent of people watching illegal video

CD Freaks.com, Netherlands

The MPAA and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) also are transitioning away from targeting file sharers so they can focus more on putting pressure on ISPs to stop users from sharing files. How will the companies tackle video file sharing ? ...

Survey shows illegal downloads rife in UK TechRadar UK

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The importance of connectivity

FierceCIO, DC

As such, you can imagine my surprise when I read that Virgin Media is considering temporarily suspending users who are accused of illegal file sharing . Now, I don't dabble in file sharing myself. With Universal Music providing the particulars of ...