Neowin News Feed for: Swapping

Calif. OKs Anti-Spyware, Swapping Laws

Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:43:48 +0000

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed separate legislation designed to combat spyware and the illegal online swapping of copyright material. One bill requires people who share movies, videos and recordings on file-sharing services to provide... Read more...

Oops! They're swapping again

Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:01:09 +0000

Illegal music downloading could be making a comeback, according to market researchers who note a surge in the use of peer-to-peer services. The NPD Group, an independent market research firm, reported on... Read more...

Altnet to pay Kazaa users for swapping

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 15:19:46 +0000

A year after launching its sometimes-controversial alliance with Kazaa, Brilliant Digital Entertainment subsidiary Altnet is kicking off a new, ambitious stage of its peer-to-peer marketing campaign. Later this week, Kazaa parent Sharman Networks and Altnet... Read more...

File swapping shifts up a gear

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 27 May 2003 21:14:46 +0000

A new generation of peer-to-peer tools is finding its groove on the Internet, spelling tougher times ahead for movie studios' attempts to quell online piracy. Going by names like eDonkey and BitTorrent, many of the... Read more...

File swapping news floods in

Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:52:43 +0000

Firstly, an interesting story at CNN about the return of Napster, except in a legalised form - heres a snip : "Once the scourge of the music industry, Napster had at its peak... Read more...

Superstars blast file swapping

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:05:34 +0000

Record labels are launching a multimillion-dollar public interest-style ad campaign to make sure you don't. On Thursday, a coalition of artists and labels will start running print, radio and TV ads featuring dozens of major... Read more...

Microsoft says no to P2P music swapping

Mon, 29 Jul 2002 21:33:07 +0000

In an e-mail sent on Thursday night by Microsoft to the company's 50,000+ employees, three senior Microsoft executives warned that peer-to-peer (P2P) networks used for sharing files raise "significant legal, public policy, and security concerns."... Read more...