President Bush’s pick to succeed Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was part of the three-judge panel that threw out a section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that would have given entertainment companies an expedited way to identify alleged copyright pirates on the Internet. In a December 2003 ruling, Judge John Roberts joined two other appellate [...]

Thirty-six years to the day since Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon, Google Inc. extended its mapping service to cover the lunar surface. Google Moon won’t give you driving directions or the nearest restaurants, the types of information available with Google Maps and Google Earth. But [...]

Wurld Media today announced its legal peer-to-peer (P2P) network, Peer Impact(TM), will now offer MP3s from leading independent music labels in addition to DRM protected content. Peer Impact, which offers protected content from all four major music labels, now becomes the first legal P2P and the first music service to offer digital content in a [...]

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Apple Computer recently held discussions with major recording companies, seeking to license music videos to sell through the company’s iTunes Music Store, according to a report in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. The talks are a possible prelude to a version of Apple’s hit iPod music player that plays video — a version [...]

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Music downloads from Apple Computer’s iTunes Music Store topped 500 million, the company said Monday. Amy Greer of Lafayette, Ind., purchased Faith Hill’s “Mississippi Girl” as the 500 millionth song sold from the online music store. The milestone download has won her 10 iPods, a gift card for 10,000 songs and an all-paid trip for [...]

The ripples of anxiety from last month’s landmark Supreme Court ruling on peer-to-peer software haven’t quite made it to Jonathan Nilson’s home in Tallahassee, Fla. Nilson, a programmer who has been working on peer-to-peer software called Shareaza for several years, says the loose band of developers who share responsibility for the open-source project haven’t been [...]

Statistics released by online media measurement company BigChampagne indicate that the average number of simultaneous, individual connections to file sharing networks has increased to around 9 million by June, 2005. This contrasts dramatically with an August, 2003 figure of just under 4 million users. The eDonkey network is a good example of file-sharing platform that [...]

Google is at once a powerful search engine and a growing e-mail provider. It runs a blogging service, makes software to speed Web traffic and has ambitions to become a digital library. And it is developing a payments service. Although many Internet users eagerly await each new technology from Google Inc., its rapid expansion is [...]

Software maker Opera’s decision to support BitTorrent has added to some security experts’ worries that applications which require open connections through firewalls are becoming increasingly popular. Last week, the Norwegian company revealed that its latest technical preview adds support for downloading BitTorrent files, or torrents. BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer protocol that speeds files sharing by allowing [...]

Two-thirds of U.S. college students see nothing unethical about downloading copyrighted music without paying, according a survey conducted by the Business Software Alliance. The national survey also indicated that illegal downloading practices extend beyond the college campus and into the workplace. The survey suggests that music-sharing is a gateway practice into downloading software and other [...]

For intellectual-property attorneys, the lead-up to the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the MGM vs. Grokster case was like being in a crowded sports bar before the Super Bowl. Bets were placed on the outcome of the ultimate showdown between two formidable teams. Everyone had an opinion on the players and we all followed [...]

Azureus is a Java based BitTorrent client that offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. What’s New in This Release? DHT torrent lookup now based on sha1(hash) and torrent xfer encrypted using hash-derived key? More aggressive banning of [...]

It took almost two years but major record labels in Australia have finally won a legal battle against a Queensland man and his Internet Service Provider for alleged music piracy. Stephen Cooper, operator of the mp3s4free Web site, was found guilty of copyright infringement by Federal Court Justice Brian Tamberlin. Although Cooper didn’t host pirated [...]

An international political spat is brewing over whether the United Nations will seize control of the heart of the Internet. U.N. bureaucrats and telecommunications ministers from many less-developed nations claim the U.S. government has undue influence over how things run online. Now they want to be the ones in charge. While the formal proposal from [...]

Could it be possible that Canada will make Google or any other Internet search and archiving engines illegal? Bill C-60, which amends the Copyright Act and received its first reading in the House of Commons on June 20, suggests it could be illegal for anyone to provide copyrighted information through “information-location tools,” which includes search [...]

Recently Swedish ISP’s won a victory over the local music industry, and where able to protect their customers private information. However Irish ISPs did not fair so well in there battle against the IRMA (Irish Recorded Music Association). The High Court in Dublin has ruled that the identity of 17 suspected music swappers must be [...]

Last month the BBC got some attention for releasing, for free, downloads (just for a period of time) of all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies. It was a nice gesture, and probably introduced plenty of people to elements of classical music that they had not experienced before. All of that, you would think, should be applauded [...]

A Dutch judge ruled on Tuesday that Internet service providers would not have to hand over names or addresses of customers who may be illegally swapping films, music and other copyright-protected files. Brein, a Dutch organization representing 52 media and entertainment companies, had acquired unique computer identification numbers, so-called IP addresses, of file swappers and [...]