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"The Supreme Court has helped to power the digital future for legitimate online businesses - including legal file sharing networks - by holding accountable those who promote and profit from theft. This decision lays the groundwork for the dawn of a new day - an opportunity that will bring the entertainment and technology communities even closer together, with music fans reaping the rewards," stated Bainwol.
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Swedish file sharing site Pirate Bay has added widgets from music recommendation site Last.fm to its system to give extra information about music shared on the site. Last.fm told The Register that while it does not endorse the Pirate Bay, it won't forbid them from using Last.fm widgets either. That wouldn't be "in the spirit" of its API -- the specifications by which Last.fm allows other websites to incorporate its tools into their pages. more
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Morpheus, available from MusicCity Networks, Inc. is a distributed file-sharing network based on the KaZaA code base. (Morpheus and the KaZaA Media Desktop client provide uniquely-branded interfaces to different breeds of what amounts to the same underlying network.) Like Napster, Morpheus is a closed system that requires the use of a centralized user registration and logon system. However, Morpheus differs from Napster in that it does not maintain a central content index or subject its network to content filtering. The Windows-based Morpheus client is available for download and contains an embedded version of Microsoft's Windows Media Player.
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LOS ANGELES, July 11 /PRNewswire/ -- In a burst of file sharing, the Board Bangers, a teenage skateboarding and urban rap music group, were anointed today with a history-making accolade. They are the fastest new artist or group to go "platinum" in the growing peer to peer world of file sharing. In only the first 10 days, 1 million people down.....
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More than 900 internet file-sharers were threatened with legal action on Tuesday as the global music industry stepped up its anti-piracy war. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) announced it was launching 963 new actions in 11 countries in Europe and Asia. It brings the number of cases against internet users accused of illegally uploading music to 11,552 worldwide. Currently 90 internet users have faced or are facing legal action in the UK. From BBC
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The surprise ruling could start a legal assault on the creators of file-sharing networks such as Grokster and Morpheus. The case was brought by 28 movie and music makers who claimed that rampant piracy was denting profits.
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