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Hollywood wins piracy battle
The U.S. Supreme Court rules against Grokster in a closely watched piracy case.
June 27, 2005: 10:38 AM EDT
The U.S. Supreme Court handed the entertainment industry a crucial victory Monday in their titanic battle to curb Internet piracy.
In MGM v. Grokster, the high court overturned a ruling that barred Hollywood and the music [...]

The Australian federal court has ruled two systems administrators from Internet service provider (ISP) Swiftel can be sued for alleged music piracy, overriding an earlier decision they were just carrying out their jobs.

Swiftel has been accused of copyright infringement by major record labels — which claim the ISP’s employees and customers created a BitTorrent file-sharing [...]

This Week on the Revolution!
Come join un on this installment on the revolution.
This week P2P Revolution feaures an interview with Sam Yagan President of MetaMachine.
Also this week Rick talks to Fokissed who has been featured on previous episodes as a musical guest and don’t forget this weeks P2P stats.
Stop by the [...]

Campaigns to persuade people to stop downloading pirated games or software from the internet are not working, a report suggests.
Two UK university researchers found that people did not see downloading copyrighted material as theft.
The findings are unwelcome news for the games industry, which says it loses more than £2bn annually from piracy.
The results of the [...]

Brad over @ The Digital Music Weblog has done a nice little writeup on MashBoxx and Peer Impact, here are some choice excerpts:
“Peer Impact targets a middle ground between a traditional download store like iTMS and a P2P environment; the half-million-track catalog is licensed and wrapped in the same sort of copy-protection that governs use [...]

With the impending Supreme Court decision in MGM v Grokster expected tomorrow morning or Monday morning, we caught up with Michael Weiss, CEO StreamCast Networks, Inc., developers and distributors of Morpheus. We also interviewed Michael a few months back, he was kind enough to bring us up to speed on the court case and the [...]

A new service called Gnutelligence aims to do to the gnutella network what Google’s Adsense did for website publishers. Except in this case, Gnutelligence would be the only publisher.

Basically they claim that they will return “relevant sponsored search results” based on a gnutella query. So you could be using LimeWire, BearShare, or any gnutella client [...]

Now almost anyone can “speak iPodder”: iPodder 2.1 now supports 15 languages. iPodder’s accessibility has been extended with the addition of more than 15 languages and enhanced meta data for the visually impaired.
Additionally, the foundation for one-click capabililty has been implemented, and support for feedmanagers like Podnova have been installed. This update also improves [...]

VideoLAN, commonly called VLC has emerged as one of the file sharing communities favorite media players. It allows users to play just about any format of video they might run across in the massive file sharing ocean. However they now have this grave message added to their website.
The end draws near… VideoLAN is seriously threatened [...]

Niklas Zennström, the internet entrepreneur behind both Kazaa and Skype, spoke to BBC Click Online about how his two inventions came about, and how broadband and wireless devices are shaping his vision for the future.
There are few people in the world who can claim to have invented something that captured the imagination of hundreds [...]