File Sharing

A U.S. federal court has issued an injunction to stop the LimeWire file-sharing service, which allowed users to share songs and other files over the Internet. The Lime Group was found liable of copyright infringement in May.

Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz probably just wanted to do something different for their wedding. Rather than adopt the traditional processional "Here Comes the Bride," the dance-happy couple from St. Paul, Minn. scripted an outrageous entrance by the members of their party set to the thumping dance...

The Universal Music Group and other music labels won a $1.92 million judgment against a Minnesota woman who illegally shared 80 songs with other users over Kazaa, the popular online file-sharing service.That's right: The federal jury decided that the piracy was worth $80,000 per song. The...

Having worked with computers most of my life, I've witnessed first-hand the many changes that it has brought about to our lives. I thought it would interesting to pick the 15 computer-related innovations that have most changed my life. 1. Databases -- I once had a job summer filing inventory cards...

update 4/21/09: PCPro reported today that BT Mobile and other U.K. wireless broadband service providers have begun blocking access to Pirate Bay via their networks. I posted recently about the trial in Sweden of the operators of the peer to peer file sharing site, Pirate Bay. After persistent...

A foreign court decision and a bit of legislation floating around Washington could soon reshape the music and video entertainment industry. Time will tell how this will affect your pocketbooks. The issue in both instances is the digital rights to music, movies, and television shows. For years, the...

A major battle in the digital rights war started Monday as the industry's lawsuit against the largest file-sharing site on the internet, Swedish-based Pirate Bay, began in Stockholm. The $14 million in damages requested from music and film companies is only a drop in the bucket compared to the...

There has been an ongoing battle between the music industry and the creators and distributors of technology that makes digital music a reality for millions of customers. The music industry's complaint has long been that they're not getting enough revenue this way (even though it's a fact that Apple...

The entertainment industry seems ready to admit defeat in its attempt to bludgeon the music and video-consuming public into giving up their file sharing habits. Despite thousands of lawsuits against students who download "free" content via sites such as Pirate Bay, the industry is still carping...