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This new version of MyDoom, called MyDoom.m, propagates through e-mail and file-sharing services. It was reinvented and clever enough to create Denial of Service issues to some of the most popular search engines for a short time. MyDoom.m clones itself by sending e-mails to addresses from address books and files. Then it generates large amounts of TCP traffic destined for some of the most popular search engines. This represents a blended threat -- in this case, a Zero Day DoS attack.
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Whether you're a frequent user of large file-sharing sites like RapidShare or frequently get emails with messed-up formatting, you've likely had to spend time copying, pasting and trimming URLs to actually work. Linkrr, a free web utility, has a single purpose and fix for the problem. Type or paste in one or more URLs, and the site creates a page of click-able links, along with a button that can launch them all (assuming it can play nice with your pop-up blocker). Might be worth a bookmark for the next time Aunt Gertie sends along all those links to AOL photo galleries.
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The Canadian Record Industry Association (CRIA) claims revenue losses of approximately $100 million annually due to file-sharing. Since 1998, retail sales of CD and cassette recordings in Canada have decreased by almost 30%. In the US, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) blames file-sharing for a decrease in CD sales from $13.2 billion in 2000 to $11.2 billion in 2003.
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[T]he most widely cited paper concludes that file sharing has no negative effect on CD sales. This paper by Olberholzer-Gee and Strumpf,[1] was published in the February 2007 issue of the Journal of Political Economy, and is the only paper which analyzes actual downloads on file sharing networks. As staff writer John Borland of CNET News.com reports, “even high levels of file-swapping seemed to translate into an effect on album sales that was ‘statistically indistinguishable from zero,’ they [the researchers] wrote.”[2] From data gathered from the many weeks of tracking downloading on OpenNap servers they found that most users logged on very rarely and when they did log on they only downloaded a little more than one CD’s worth of songs. To show how these downloads affected album sales they tracked sales and downloads of 500 random albums of varying genres and after doing so found that illegal downloads would only be a small force in the decrease in album sales, possibly even slightly improving album sales of the top albums in stores at the time.[3]
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Manolito is a file-sharing network that uses a peer-to-peer network similar to Gnutella, with a new private protocol that works without a central server. Search and download MP3 files from the entire network of users.
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The entertainment companies petitioned the Supreme Court to take the case after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in August that file-sharing companies are not liable for their users' copyright infringement. The decision upheld a lower-court ruling from April 2003.
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