Technology Quarterly: Of 3-D printers and other advances Sep 4, 2009
The Pirate Bay is the latest in a long list of file-sharing services, from Napster to Grokster to KaZaA, to have come under assault from the media giants ... The first involved Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mother from Minnesota who was accused of sharing 24 songs using KaZaA in 2005. (The Economist)
The 10 worst tech blunders Aug 19, 2009
Add to all that the Kazaa, and some 30,000-odd music "pirates." Talk about your broken records. Today, of course, music-subscription businesses and streaming services such as Pandora dominate digital music. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Media Watch- No winners Aug 7, 2009
Napster and Kazaa were two of the biggest businesses to make all of this easy and possible until they were eventually sued and closed down. The problem was (and is) that downloading songs (or increasingly movies) from other people s computers is copyright infringement and denies artists and production companies the right to profit from their work. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)
Technology monitor: This message will self-destruct Aug 6, 2009
Peer-to-peer networks, or P2Ps, originated in the late 1990s with the rise of music-sharing networks such as Napster and KaZaA. Individual users would log on and allow other people to download music from their computers while simultaneously downloading music for themselves. In recent years P2Ps have become vast file-sharing networks for information in all its forms. (The Economist)
US court fines $22,500 per song for illegal download Aug 1, 2009
During the trial, Tenenbaum admitted under oath that he used KaZaA, LimeWire and other peer-to-peer software to download and distribute music to others. The Recording Industry Association of America, which has taken the lead against file sharing systems, welcomed the verdict. (India Times, India)
Four record labels suing BU student Jul 28, 2009
Records Inc., Arista Records LLC, and UMG Recordings Inc. have sued Tenenbaum for using KaZaA, a peer-to-peer network, to infringe copyrights on 30 songs they own. The record companies say he actually downloaded more than 800 songs. (Boston Globe)
Discover new music online Jul 27, 2009
It's hard to tell what's legal when once-defunct sites like KaZaA and Napster --former bastions of illegal downloads -- crawl out of the grave with legit subscription plans. And digital music offerings are expanding. (CNN)
TECH CHRONICLES A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology... Jul 21, 2009
Altnet resurrecting Kazaa to sell music, ring tones. Remember Kazaa, which followed the original Napster as the world's most popular online file sharing program ... On Monday, Altnet Inc., an Australian company long associated with Kazaa, said it is "jolting" the brand back to life as a legal subscription service selling music and ring tones in the United States. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Pirate sites return in legal form Jul 21, 2009
Peer-to-peer download sites Kazaa and The Pirate Bay are set to return with a new, legal subscription model. Kazaa, shut down by a $150m (91m) lawsuit in 2006, will be reincarnated as an unlimited download service with a fixed monthly subscription rate ... Kazaa is expected to launch in the US this week as a monthly subscription service, costing $20 (12) per month for unlimited downloads. (BBC News -- Technology)
Kazaa to rise from the dead Jul 21, 2009
The notorious Kazaa peer-to-peer file sharing service is back from the dead three years after it was shut down by the music industry in a $150 million lawsuit ... Kevin Bermeister, who was behind much of the technology in the original Kazaa, is leading the relaunch of the new service through his company, Brilliant Digital Entertainment ... One of his unlikely offsiders is Michael Speck, who ran the music industry's case against Kazaa as the head of its anti-piracy arm, Music Industry Piracy... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
New Pirate Bay Owners Hatch Plan to Go Legit Jul 18, 2009
Like the owners of The Pirate Bay, the file-swapping service Kazaa was looking to play nice with Hollywood. In the end things didn't work out as well as Kazaa had hoped. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Pirate Bay Site Sold For $7.8M Jul 1, 2009
The ruling was the industry's biggest triumph since successful lawsuits against music-swapping sites Napster Inc., Kazaa and Grokster Ltd.. Global Gaming Factory X also said it agreed to acquire data-distribution technology company Peerialism AB for 100 million kronor in cash and shares. (New York Post -- Business)
Twitter a Boon for Digital Music Sales? Jun 25, 2009
That campaign has produced no shortage of ugly headlines, like the recent , a single mother living in Minnesota, for sharing 24 songs on the peer-to-peer site Kazaa. The against individuals once the pending cases, such as the one against Thomas-Rasset, are resolved. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Music cos. vow to show Minn. woman shared 24 songs Jun 18, 2009
Attorney Tim Reynolds told a jury Monday that the record companies would prove that Jammie Thomas-Rasset, 32, of Brainerd, illegally shared songs on the Kazaa network ... This time, Davis is expected to instruct the jurors the record companies need to prove that someone actually downloaded the music Thomas-Rasset allegedly made available over the Internet on the Kazaa file sharing service ... Thomas, a mother of four and employee of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe tribal government, allegedly used... (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Authors throw the book at pirates Jun 16, 2009
Like the music industry, which has fought and partly won the battle over free music downloads from sites like Kazaa and Limewire, the publishing industry is about to face a similar struggle with piracy as electronic books become a reality. The copies of McCullough's works were the most flagrant breaches of copyright the Herald found on sites set up to allow file sharing. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Publishers look to music lessons on digital content Jun 6, 2009
While the music industry fought free music-sharing sites such as Napster and Kazaa in court, Jared Friedman, co-founder of social publishing website Scribd, said he was optimistic about the transition of the publishing industry. "We seem to be going straight from an Adams model to an iTunes model and skipping the many years of Napster's and Kazaa's that went in between for the music industry," he said. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Music lovers May 30, 2009
While file-sharing site Kazaa agreed to pay $100m (53m) in damages to the record industry following a series of high-profile legal battles. The peer-to-peer network has now become a legal music download service. (BBC News -- Technology)
Future of filesharing May 8, 2009
The likes of Gnutella, eDonkey2000, KaZaA, BearShare, Shareaza, WinMX and Napster quickly dominated the filesharing scene. Intellectual property piracy flourished beyond control but ran into problems just as fast due to legal suits from intellectual property owners. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Technology)
Pirate Bay founders jailed for copyright offences Apr 19, 2009
The ruling is the industry's biggest triumph since successful lawsuits against Napster, Kazaa and Grokster. The International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) estimates 95 percent of all downloaded music is pirated. (Business Report, South Africa)
From Pirate Bay, a torpedo to illegal file sharing Apr 18, 2009
Although the music and movies industries have waged battles and successfully managed to shut down other file-sharing services such as Napster, Kazaa and Grokster, many worry that they are playing a losing game of whack a mole, where each time a site is closed a new one crops up to take its place. Even if the verdict spells the beginning of the end for Pirate Bay, its demise would have little effect on the amount of copyright-infringing media that are available online, said Michael Geist, a... (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
The Pirate Bay Guilty of Breaching Copyrights Apr 18, 2009
"But the vast majority of what's on the service is not infringing. That's an important thing for courts." Like Kazaa, another file-sharing site punished in the courts in recent years, the Pirate Bay works slightly differently ... "Throughout that time, file sharing has grown, and grown and grown." The shutdown of Napster in 2001 didn't prevent Kazaa becoming even larger; and Kazaa's subsequent demise has hardly hindered the Pirate Bay. (Time.com)
Sweden Slams Door On File-Sharing Site Apr 18, 2009
With an estimated 22 million users, The Pirate Bay has become the entertainment industry's enemy No. 1 after successful court actions against file-swapping sites such as Grokster and Kazaa. Lundstrom helped finance the site while the three other defendants administered it. (CBS News)
5 Backdoor Trojan Copies Itself to Windows Folder Apr 10, 2009
Worms Spreading Through Kazaa ... D is an Internet worm that spreads through the use of the file sharing program Kazaa ... E, also spreads through the use of Kazaa. (eSecurityPlanet)
Super-fast trip to a world full of surprises Apr 8, 2009
No one predicted YouTube, or Napster, Kazaa, and BitTorrent, all applications which made broadband a must-have. It isn't until broadband is available to use, that people can explore its potential. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
"Lancing the f***ing boil": how digital killed Big Music Mar 26, 2009
There's also a bit about KaZaA, the Sony BMG rootkit fiasco, and the futility of the RIAA's lawsuit campaign. But much of this is available elsewhere, and not just in article form at the various blogs and news sites that have followed the story. (Ars Technica)
iiNet faces the music in landmark case Mar 25, 2009
However, they pointed to previous judgments in the cases against the Kazaa file sharing service and MP3s4free. net owner Stephen Cooper, which found it was "not necessary to know the identify of each individual user". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
1 Virus Alert: Beware Fake eCard, Error Message Feb 27, 2009
A worm and backdoor Trojan that spreads via file sharing on KaZaA networks and email tries to trick users with a bogus eCard message, according to antivirus software vendor Sophos ... W32/Oror-R is an Internet worm that spreads via network shares, file sharing on KaZaA networks and by emailing itself to addresses found within files on the local hard drive. (eSecurityPlanet)
Opening salvos in landmark piracy case Feb 7, 2009
The iiNet case is similar to the one the music industry brought against the Kazaa file sharing service in 2002, which ended in 2006 with Kazaa's owners handing over $100 million in damages. Additionally, in 2005, Stephen Cooper, the owner of MP3s4free. (Sydney Morning Herald)
