Neowin News Feed for: File-sharing

New Megaupload 90% finished, launching soon

Tyler Holman — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:02:06 +0100

Megaupload is coming back, and sooner than you think. Founder Kim Dotcom says that the new, decentralized and 'unstoppable' service is 90% coded, and servers are already being deployed. Read more...

Internet Archive starts seeding torrents

Tyler Holman — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:32:52 +0100

The Internet Archive just got into the torrent seeding business - they're now offering almost a petabyte of their collection on BitTorrent, including everything from concerts to books. Read more...

proMedia hires students to hunt down pirates

Tyler Holman — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:50:39 +0100

Pirate hunter sounds like something from the movies, but it's the job description of about 35 student employees of proMedia, who spend their days tracking down copyright violators and making them pay. Read more...

File sharing makes people sad

Tyler Holman — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:12:42 +0100

A new study says that people who spend more time sharing files are more likely to be depressed, and that we could need surveillance to keep the internet from frying our brains. Or something like that. Read more...

File sharing religion weds first couple

Tyler Holman — Mon, 07 May 2012 23:04:09 +0100

Serbia's SHARE file sharing conference saw the wedding of the world's first Kopimistic couple, members of the officially recognized file sharing religion, complete with a Guy Fawkes mask-clad priest. Read more...

Fileserve closes reward program, terminates accounts, prevents file-sharing [Update]

Tim Schiesser — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:58:27 +0000

It appears that popular file-sharing website Fileserve has closed their rewards program and are terminating any accounts that may have used it following the recent shock closure of MegaUpload Read more...

Filesonic gets scared, closes file-sharing service

Tim Schiesser — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:24:50 +0000

After the takedown of MegaUpload earlier this week, popular file-sharing website Filesonic has disabled their sharing functionality and now only allows you to retrieve your own uploaded files Read more...

Piracy is just fine, Swiss government says

Tyler Holman — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:15:21 +0000

According to the Swiss government, piracy might not be making as big a dent in content owners' pockets as they would have us believe. In fact, piracy hasn't changed their bottom line much at all. Read more...

MPA asks British ISPs to block file-sharing

Tyler Holman — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:37:37 +0000

After last month's injunction forcing Britain's largest ISP to block access to some file-sharing sites, the MPA is trying to make other ISPs comply, but some are threatening to stand up against them. Read more...

23,238 'The Expendables' pirates ineligible for lawsuit

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:12:07 +0100

A US District Court of Columbia judge has stated that those not in the courts' jurisdiction cannot be sued for their file sharing, leaving 99% out of The Expenables' studio NU Image's lawsuit Read more...

Online lobbying effort increases against digital economy bill

Matthew Hopson — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:35:51 +0000

Online lobbying efforts have increased over government plans to rush through a controversial bill, which could see UK file-sharers disconnected from the Internet and the government given the power to block websites containing copyrighted material,... Read more...

Lawyers target thousands of illegal file-sharers

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:38:24 +0000

ACS:Law said it will be sending thousands of letters to alleged file-sharers of copyright infringement. The lawsuits will go out in the New Year to thousands of suspected file-sharers, asking them for a compromise... Read more...

Microsoft Fixes Bug in Windows Live File-Sharing Service

Steven Parker — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:05:53 +0000

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Microsoft confirmed it has fixed a bug in its online file storage and sharing service Windows Live FolderShare after users reported problems that the service was deleting files without user authorization. Microsoft sent an e-mail... Read more...

Questions over government file-sharing study

mlauzon76 — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:36:22 +0000

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When Industry Canada came out with a study last week that found file-sharing doesn't lead to reduced CD sales -- and in fact may even lead to an increase in sales among those who download... Read more...

Woman ordered to pay for file-sharing will appeal

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:18:21 +0100

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A woman ordered to pay $222,000 for downloading and sharing music files has decided to appeal the case. A happy Jammie Thomas said on her Myspace.com blog that the appeal was announced by her lawyer,... Read more...

File-sharing servers on eDonkey network shutdown

Slimy — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:38:53 +0100

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The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has announced that seven servers part of the eDonkey file-sharing network were shut down this week in Germany after a court granted injunctions. The servers in Germany were... Read more...

Nokia and Microsoft agree deal to boost file-sharing

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:25:24 +0100

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Mobile phone maker Nokia is to use Microsoft's copy protection software to boost the use of file sharing between phones in a new move to generate revenue. The world's largest cellphone supplier will build Microsoft's... Read more...

Japanese Trojan attacks P2P file-sharing pirates

Steven Parker — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:38:53 +0000

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n a case of a malware purveyor attacking pirate file-sharers, security vendor Sophos has warned of a bizarre Trojan horse which has been distributed on Japanese peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. The Troj/Pirlames-A Trojan horse has been... Read more...

BBC moves to file-sharing sites

Tom Warren — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:35:43 +0000

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Hundreds of episodes of BBC programmes will be made available on a file-sharing network for the first time, the corporation has announced. The move follows a deal between the commercial arm of the... Read more...

File-sharing software firm loses US case

Steven Parker — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:51:29 +0100

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Another file-sharing software maker has been found guilty of causing copyright infringement. A US judge has said the Morpheus software produced by StreamCast breaks the law. The ruling is another victory for the entertainment industry,... Read more...