Neowin News Feed for: File-sharing

Dropbox files for IPO; company most recently valued at $10 billion

John Keefer — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:16:01 +0000

The file-sharing company - once called "a feature, not a product" by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs - has taken the initial steps to go public and start selling company stock in the next few months. Read more...

Kim Dotcom: 'Megaupload is coming back'

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 09:48:01 +0000

The notorious internet mogul, Kim Dotcom, known for his file sharing companies, said that a new service will launch soon. He also hinted that the new service will come in January 2017. Read more...

eMule 0.50b Beta 1

Razvan Serea — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:50:01 +0000

eMule is one of the world's largest and most trusted P2P file-sharing clients, allowing you to quickly find any type of file (audio, video, text, etc.), including some extremely rare content. Read more...

The Pirate Bay rises from its digital ashes -again

Usama Jawad — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:09:31 +0000

The Pirate Bay is back online with a few changes; the site's logo is changed as well as the staff. The site is not fully functional yet but will probably be restored to its original form soon. Read more...

New Megaupload 90% finished, launching soon

Tyler Holman — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:02:06 +0000

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 16:32:52 +0000

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 18:50:39 +0000

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 10:12:42 +0000

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 22:04:09 +0000

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 13:12:07 +0000

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...

RIAA awarded $80,000 for each file-shared song

James Hall — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:34:10 +0000

In her second, but almost certainly not final, trial, Jammie Thomas-Rasset (nÃ©e Thomas) has now been ordered by a federal jury to pay $1.92 million to the RIAA for the 24 songs she is charged... Read more...

Unsafe file-sharing, Iran gets Marine One plans

James Hall — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:38:38 +0000

According to WPXI, a Pennsylvania company has uncovered a security breach involving the President's Marine One helicopters, a P2P file-sharing program, and an IP address in Tehran, the capital of Iran. Although President Obama and... Read more...

Microsoft Fixes Bug in Windows Live File-Sharing Service

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

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

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

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 09:18:21 +0000

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

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:38:53 +0000

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 18:25:24 +0000

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

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

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 15:51:29 +0000

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...

Grokster File-Sharing Case Hits The Supreme Court

Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:25:39 +0000

The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday from representatives of major film studios and the recording industry who are seeking to shut down peer-to-peer services they say are costing them billions of dollars. One of the... Read more...

Net file-sharing doesn't hurt most artists

Mon, 06 Dec 2004 21:56:39 +0000

A big thanks goes out to Neowin's very own BOOGSoftball™ for spotting this bit of news. Most musicians and artists say the Internet has helped them make more money from their work... Read more...

Legalise file-sharing with taxes?

Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:22:39 +0000

Andrew Orlowski, technology journalist and author, said, in a keynote speech at the Interactive In The City conference being held in Manchester, Pop piracy should be decriminalised and the music industry should realise that efforts... Read more...

Judges rule file-sharing software legal

Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:42:50 +0000

A federal appeals court has ruled that file-sharing software is in fact legal. The panel noted that file-sharing companies simply provide the software for individual users to share information. Therefore, they cannot be... Read more...

State AGs to warn file-sharing companies

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:04:45 +0000

A group of state attorney generals are preparing a letter warning file-sharing companies that they could be targets of legal action if they don't take stronger action on privacy and intellectual property violations. ... Read more...

File-Sharing Battle Leaves Musicians Caught in Middle

Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:48:41 +0000

Since the Recording Industry Association of America began its campaign against file-sharing services and unauthorized song swapping online in 1999, it has offered one chief justification for its actions: downloading songs is stealing money from... Read more...

File-Sharing Services Dip in Traffic After RIAA Threat

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:54:08 +0000

Use of several Internet file-sharing services declined the week after the music industry threatened to sue online music swappers, an Internet tracking firm said Monday. Kazaa and Morpheus -- two popular file-swapping... Read more...

AOL pulls Nullsoft file-sharing software

Sun, 01 Jun 2003 10:21:57 +0000

A day after developers at America Online's Nullsoft unit quietly released file-sharing software, AOL pulled the link to the product from the subsidiary's Web site. The software, called Waste, lets groups set up private,... Read more...