Consumers Likely to See Little Fallout from Decision
While surfing the net tonight I found a good story that will help explain this weeks news, check it out…
“The Supreme Court’s decision Monday in the Grokster case might mean a lot to the movie, music and software industries, but how will it affect consumers? After all, it’s consumers who videotape their favorite shows [...]
Raids in 11 nations target internet piracy
Authorities in 11 countries, including Canada, carried out raids Wednesday that were aimed at stopping the illegal distribution of first-run movies and other copyrighted material over the internet.
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as investigators around the world, took part in 90 searches that resulted in the arrests of four people.
The U.S. [...]
Open Source Skype Alternative: Meet Gizmo
We all love Skype, right? Well in the spirit of democracy, free markets, and competition comes the first viable alternative, meet Gizmo. Gizmo is an open source internet phone for your desktop, just like Skype. You can call other Gizmo users for free, or use the CallOut service to call any phone anywhere for 1.8 [...]
RIAA sues new group of 784 swappers
The Recording Industry Association of America said Wednesday in the US it had filed a new round of lawsuits against 784 alleged file-swappers.
The suits come just a few days after the group won a landmark Supreme Court victory, which will allow it to restart copyright infringement suits against peer-to-peer software companies, as well as individual [...]
Court Rulings Concern Tech Entrepreneurs
AN JOSE, Calif. – A pair of Supreme Court rulings this week is stoking fears that the Internet is becoming an ever-more centralized platform for entrenched corporate interests — the antithesis of the digital commons envisioned by technophiles and civil libertarians. But others predict that innovation will actually be encouraged by the rulings, since they [...]
The BBC Interviews Alexander Hanff
Some of our readers may remember the torrent site DVDR-Core. When groups like the MPAA started cracking down on torrent sites Alexander decided that it wasn’t worth it and stopped tracking torrents. The site remained as a hang out for old members and DVD lovers in general.
All was well until one day in early march. [...]
Official Morpheus Press Release Regarding the Supreme Court Decision
For Immediate Release
June 27, 2005
MORPHEUS STILL STANDING AFTER SUPREME COURT RULING
StreamCast Networks Vows to Continue its Fight for Freedom to Innovate
LOS ANGELES, CA – June 27th, 2005 – “We will continue our David vs. Goliath fight to prove that we operate 100% on the right side of the law. Once all [...]
Congress applauds file-sharing ruling
The U.S. Congress appears reluctant to step into the long-simmering debate over file-swapping that received new fuel from a landmark court ruling on Monday.
Key politicians from both major political parties said they were inclined to let the lawsuit, MGM v. Grokster, proceed through the court system before deciding whether to alter copyright law. On Monday, [...]
Micheal Weiss Reacts to Ruling on P2P Revolution Radio
As many of our devoted users know the supreme court ruled in the grokster et al MGM case. I just got off the phone with Mike Weiss the CEO of Streamcast and recorded his comments for this weeks episode of the P2P Revolution Radio. I decided to release the interview and comments early because of [...]
Azureus 2.3.0.4
A new revision to the popular bittorrent client Azureus has just been released.
Changelog | Download | Homepage
