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by Jonathan G. Cohen on January 22, 2006
A clause included in the proposed U.S. legislative bill Digital Content Protection Act of 2006 would replace consumer fair use of copyrighted music with a requirement that all future "proposed...
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by Jonathan G. Cohen on November 27, 2005
A recently published research paper on the economic effects of P2P file sharing espouses the theory that its ramifications are not evenly distributed among all artists; specifically that more popular...
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by Jonathan G. Cohen on November 08, 2005
Grokster Networks has ceded to a unanimous Supreme Court decision made four months ago that using its software to make copies of copyrighted files is illegal and has halted all downloads of its P2P...
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by Jonathan G. Cohen on October 25, 2005
Avvenu is a free software application and file transfer service that aims to redefine P2P. A computer running Avvenu's software becomes instantly accessible as as a root directory on a password...
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by Jonathan G. Cohen on October 25, 2005
iMesh, a popular P2P application, is relaunching itself as a paid subscription media content delivery service with the approval of the RIAA. Their new interface will look and act a lot like the old...
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After the unanimous Supreme Court ruling against Grokster on June 27, seven other popular file-sharing services received cease and desist orders from the RIAA. eDonkey, which reportedly has 3,000,000...
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From Philoneist's recent and humble origins on Blogger.com, click continue for a chronologically ordered record of posts from before October 13th.......
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