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Government
by jeff goldman on January 31, 2009
In an interview with the Times of London this week, UK Intellectual Property Minister David Lammy likened file sharing to stealing a bar of soap from a hotel room, saying, "We can't have a sy...
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Business
by jeff goldman on January 24, 2009
The Register's Andrew Orlowski broke the news this week that Virgin Media had dropped its plans to offers a legal P2P file sharing service.
"The radical initiative, tentatively branded as Vir...
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Products
by jeff goldman on January 17, 2009
At CES last week, NETGEAR introduced the $199 Internet TV Player (ITV2000), a set-top box that can stream both Internet video and video downloaded from BitTorrent.
"[It] delivers Internet content...
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Software
by jeff goldman on January 10, 2009
At CES this week, LimeWire announced the beta release of LimeWire 5.0, adding social networking functionality to the P2P service.
"The idea, said LimeWire CEO George SEARLE, is to add trusted con...
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RIAA, MPAA
by jeff goldman on January 1, 2009
Following the RIAA's recent announcement that it's going to stop suing individuals for pirating music and will instead ask ISPs to crack down on file sharers, Jerry Scroggin, who runs the smal...
