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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said Thursday that it had filed 717 new lawsuits against alleged file-swappers, including 68 unnamed people at universities.
The suits come several days after the record label group filed its arguments with the Supreme Court in a case examining the broader legal liability of file-swapping software companies. Movie studios [...]

Cabos is Gnutella file sharing program based on LimeWire and Acquisition. It is free software, no spyware, no adware. It has simple interface, multi languages support, and iTunes integration.
ChangeLog
Fixed stability while checking corrupt download files.
Fixed upload list lost bug.
Fixed some minor bugs.
Added automatic sorting device for query results.
Improved search results and download swaming.
Changed preferences [...]

ComputersAndJunk.com has stumbled onto a listing on Sedo.com which lists Lokitorrent.com for sale. When users, and even the moderators of their IRC channels, were told of the find, the result was total shock.
Lokitorrent is a BitTorrent tracking website which provides links to BitTorrent downloads. This site has become the biggest player in the [...]

Hollywood studios filed a second round of lawsuits against online movie-swappers on Wednesday, stepping up legal pressure on the file-trading community.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) also made available a new free software tool so parents can scan their computers for file-swapping programs and for movie or music files which may be copyrighted.
The group [...]

An often heard cry by Tech activist against legislation and court rulings in the US and EU: it’s stifling innovations! Since the DMCA, Induce Act, EU Software Patents Directive and Grokster case, this argument has been used with mixed success. Now, the ‘Industry’ is using this same argument too. But, who’s right?

By: Coty Cunningham (Zp Commentator, Independent Journalist)
P2P, the reign of copyrighted and pirated materials, the “dilemma” that haunts the RIAA and agencies alike has stayed strong since the legal battles of Napster.
People once said that file sharing would not last and that it was taking a turn for the worst, two statements that have been [...]

The entertainment industry yesterday unleashed its latest assault on Internet services that let people swap music and videos, enlisting an array of artists, state officials, academics and others to urge the U.S. Supreme Court (news – web sites) to crack down on companies that provide file-sharing tools.
Trade associations representing the major movie and recording studios [...]

The nation’s fledgling copyrighted online music distributors may have reason to be excited after learning that over half of Taiwanese Internet users are willing to pay for legal downloads of online music, according to a survey released by online market research firm InsightXplorer yesterday.

The survey, which polled 1,000 Internet users through its [...]

The entertainment industry urged the U.S. Supreme Court Monday afternoon not to give the companies developing peer-to-peer (P2P) music file swapping software a “perpetual free pass” to engage in “mind-boggling” copyright infringement.

In a 67-page brief filed in advance of the March 29 Supreme Court oral arguments in MGM vs. Grokster, attorneys [...]

The foundation run by Microsoft magnate Bill Gates has announced it is dedicating $750m (£400m) to a worldwide infant vaccination programme.
Mr Gates said the donation would help save millions of children’s lives.

“Supporting children’s immunisation is undoubtedly the best investment we’ve ever made,” he said in a statement.

At the same time, it was [...]