Archive for Peer-2-Peer

File-Sharing Continues On Campus Despite Legal Music Services - 08/20/05

File-Sharing Continues On Campus Despite Legal Music Services - 08/20/05

Haraz N. Ghanbari / Associated Press

American University Residence Hall Association President Will Mount said he and his student government colleagues ultimately voted to switch to Napster from Ruckus.

By Alex Veiga | AP Business Writer

LOS ANGELES — As a college freshman, Will Mount feasted on the free but mostly illegal music available through online file-sharing software such as Kazaa.

Now a senior, Mount has seen his free music fix become legal, thanks to an initiative by American University in Washington, D.C., to dissuade students from using its computer network to illegally swap music online.

“If you want to get the music in your iPod, you have to go to other places to buy it,” said Mount, 21, an Ohio native. “Or you are going to have to do something illegal to get it.”

20 August, 2005 | No comments

The Seattle Times: Personal Technology: Internet Radio Brings World To Your Ears

The Seattle Times: Personal Technology: Internet Radio Brings World To Your Ears

By Linda Knapp
Special To The Seattle Times

Like her colleague Charles Bermant at the Seattle Times, Linda Knapp has an innate knack for conveying basic information about nascent technologies to readers from all walks of life.

In the case of the following column from the desk of Linda Knapp, the Seattle Times columnist is discussing the advent of Internet radio and streaming media content.

18 August, 2005 | No comments

The Well Put On The Market / Salon Media To Sell Pioneering Online Meeting Place

The Well Put On The Market / Salon Media To Sell Pioneering Online Meeting Place

San Francisco Chronicle staff writer Dan Fost discusses attempts by online media maven Salon.Com to sell The Well, an online community that never grew into a huge Internet business, as Fost writes in today’s article, but remains a hallowed gathering ground for a relative handful of digerati.

In fact, one of the most famous Well denizens is that of Craig Newmark, the founder of CraigsList.Org.

According to Fost, the Salon Media Group reports that the Well maintains a membership roster of approximately 4,000 users and generates approximately $500,000 per annum in revenue.

In my opinion, the inherent value of a virtual community such as The Well is the notion that members are able to freely participate in the spirit of intellectually stimulating discourse in a non-anonymous environment.

Having patronized an eclectic myriad of virtual communities since the early 1990s, I am able to identify with the convenience and ease of logging into a virtual community with my real name and freely participating in discourse without the fear of retribution. However, today’s political and social climate is filled with an invective aura of toxicity to the extent which any disagreement leads to not merely a disagreement, per se, but an outright attempt to completely annihilate one’s opponent.

A classical case study is the impending divisive malaise brewing on Capitol Hill involving the judicial appointment of Justice John Roberts. Justice Roberts is one of the elite thinkers of the contemporary era yet congressional delegates in opposition to the current presidential administration seem to favor partisan politics over selecting the best justice to serve on the United States Supreme Court.

The travesty of our societal norms, in my opinion, is the notion that we tend to quell dissenting voices and more tragically, the voice of the proverbial little people.

http://www.well.com

18 August, 2005 | No comments

Police: Teenager Slain For His iPod Portable Music Player - 07/04/05

Police: Teenager Slain For His iPod Portable Music Player - 07/04/05

NEW YORK — Two teenagers were under arrest Sunday on suspicion of killing another teen for his iPod portable music player, police said.

The boys were facing charges of murder, robbery and weapons possession in the death of 15-year-old Christopher Rose, police said.

4 July, 2005 | No comments

Big Music Labels Have Digital Trust Issues

Big Music Labels Have Digital Trust Issues

Los Angeles Times staff writer Jon Healey offers his insights, as well as the insights of music industry executives, pertaining to a recent Supreme Court ruling governing peer-to-peer file-sharing networks on the Internet.

By Jon Healey, Times Staff Writer

As they fight in court to clamp down on piracy, the major record labels have also tried to coax music fans to switch from free downloading to paid services.

But when music fans go shopping for hit albums online, their money buys them something less than what they get on most CDs.

4 July, 2005 | No comments

The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Wise Decisions Guard Creativity of Internet Era

The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Wise Decisions Guard Creativity of Internet Era

By Mike Langberg
Knight Ridder Newspapers

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Silicon Valley can breathe a huge sigh of relief. The Supreme Court of the United States really does understand how technology is changing the world, and delivered two well-reasoned decisions last week in the closely watched Grokster and Brand X cases.

The Grokster decision holds two file-sharing companies liable for rampant Internet piracy, saying they can’t wrap themselves in the magic cloak of innovation to defend illegal behavior. And contrary to the valley’s worst fears, this ruling won’t discourage new technologies from moving forward.

The Brand X decision says companies that build high-speed Internet services don’t have to open their lines to competitors. While some may view this as a blow to small Internet service providers, the court’s ruling makes it more likely consumers in the long run will get service from additional networks.

Both decisions underline the importance of intellectual property, a fancy way of saying inventors in the Internet era have the right to profit from creative endeavors without pirates stealing their ideas.

4 July, 2005 | No comments

Big Media’s Power Plays - New York Times

Big Media’s Power Plays - New York Times

2 July, 2005 | No comments

Swedes Undeterred By Online Piracy Ban

Swedes Undeterred By Online Piracy Ban

By MATTIAS KAREN, Associated Press Writer

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Unless Swedes have suddenly changed their habits, about one in 10 became a criminal on Friday when a ban on sharing copyrighted music and movies over the Internet took effect at midnight.

Swedes are among the most prolific file-sharers in the world. Industry groups estimate that about 10 percent of Sweden’s 9 million residents freely swap music, games and movies on their computers, making the Scandinavian country one of the world’s biggest copyright violators.

2 July, 2005 | No comments

Get Digital: The Secret Lives Of MP3 Players - Sunday Times - Times Online

Get Digital: The Secret Lives Of MP3 Players - Sunday Times - Times Online

Between them, the Internet and the ubiquitous MP3 player have transformed the way we listen to music any time, anywhere. Whether they favour Beethoven, the Beatles or Britney, more than one in three under-35s in the UK owns an MP3 player. What’s less well known is that these gadgets can jump through many other useful hoops. While Apple’s iPod has become shorthand for a generation of music players, it has scores of rivals, and most are multitasking marvels that can help you surf the net, keep appointments or reschedule your favourite radio shows — as the actor Martin Clunes has learnt.

25 June, 2005 | 1 comment

Placing Ads Site Unseen Part of Risk on Wild Web

Placing Ads Site Unseen Part of Risk on Wild Web

By Joseph Menn, Times Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO — The Web has flourished as a freewheeling medium that gives any interest an audience. But as big business has tried to capitalize on those audiences, advertisers increasingly find their brands popping up in the Internet’s darkest corners.

24 June, 2005 | 2 comments

Seizing On Copyright-Friendly File-Swapping Alternatives - 06/23/05

Seizing On Copyright-Friendly File-Swapping Alternatives - 06/23/05

By Alex Veiga / AP Business Writer

LOS ANGELES — Four years after it shuttered the original Napster with a legal assault, the recording industry is taking a different approach to online file-swapping: If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.

23 June, 2005 | No comments

24/7, Teens Get The Message

24/7, Teens Get The Message

Digital devices keep young people connected — to each other. E-mail is too slow but 10 hours a day on a cellphone isn’t too much.

By Terril Yue Jones, Times Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO — In a not-at-all unusual month, Will Wu spent more than 10,000 minutes on his mobile phone — an average of 5 1/2 hours a day.

Sometimes he talked, sometimes he listened. But most of the time, the 15-year-old just dialed up a friend and left the phone on. Connected only by wireless headsets, Will and his pal spent entire days — together, but apart — shopping, snacking, doing homework and even nodding off to sleep.

23 June, 2005 | No comments

NewsFactor Network - Tech Trends - Microsoft Announces Avalanche P2P

NewsFactor Network - Tech Trends - Microsoft Announces Avalanche P2P

By Elizabeth Millard
June 20, 2005 10:57AM

Microsoft’s Avalanche could provide an alternative that works well with users and copyright holders. The researchers noted that users will be unable to redistribute content without approval by the publisher.

20 June, 2005 | No comments

The Court of Online Opinion Has Its Say on File Sharing - New York Times

The Court of Online Opinion Has Its Say on File Sharing - New York Times

Lonni Sue Johnson

By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Published: June 20, 2005

EVER since the Supreme Court agreed in December to hear the entertainment industry’s case against the file-sharing software companies Grokster and Streamcast, armchair legal experts have been casually wagering on the outcome. The case pits copyright holders against those who fear a stifling of technological innovation. With the court poised to weigh in, perhaps as early as today, all sides have been getting edgy.

20 June, 2005 | No comments

Ericsson and Napster Joint Forces on Mobile Music

Ericsson and Napster Joint Forces on Mobile Music

16 June, 2005 | No comments

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