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Events in File Sharing

Links to news articles about P2P, IP, etc.

This page is a supplement to my file sharing debate page. If you look through the news stories linked here, you'll notice an ongoing battle between file sharers and copyright holders.

• [2006-07-27] Kazaa pays $100 mln to settle lawsuits [boston.com]
  by Adam Pasick, Reuters
     "The music and movie industries have reached a legal settlement with their longtime antagonist Kazaa"
• [2006-06-03] The Pirate Bay Back Online [slyck.com]
  by Thomas Mennecke
     "True to its defiant nature, The Pirate Bay is again indexing many of the same .torrent files that made it wildly popular."
• [2005-12-19] P2P Population Nears Record High [slyck.com]
  by Thomas Mennecke
     "During the middle part of 2005, the P2P population experienced a slight plateau as it hovered around 9 million total connected users."
• [2005-12-01] First RIAA Lawsuit to Head to Trial [slashdot.org]
  (arstechnica.com story by Nate Anderson)
     "Out of 14,800 lawsuits the RIAA has filed in the past two years, none have gone to court - until now. Patricia Santangelo, a divorced mother of five living in Wappingers Falls, New York, found herself the target of an RIAA lawsuit and vows to contest it."
• [2005-12-01] Grateful Dead to Allow Free Web Downloads [news.yahoo.com]
  - By Dan Goodin, Associated Press Writer
     "What a short, strange trip it was. After the Grateful Dead angered some of its biggest fans by asking a nonprofit Web site to halt the free downloading of its concert recordings, the psychedelic jam band changed its mind Wednesday."
• [2005-11-14] Supercharged college P2P network closes [news.com.com]
  - By John Borland
     "A file-swapping network [i2Hub] that let college students download movies and music at blazing speeds on the Internet2 research network has closed its doors"
• [2005-11-07] Grokster Downloading Service to Shut Down [abcnews.go.com]
  - By TED BRIDIS Associated Press Writer
     Grokster Agrees to Shut Down, Pay $50M to Settle Piracy Complaints by Hollywood, Music Industry
• [2005-11-02] Grandpa Is Sued Over Grandson's Downloads [biz.yahoo.com]
  - AP
     "A 67-year-old man who says he doesn't even like watching movies has been sued by the film industry for copyright infringement after a grandson of his downloaded four movies on their home computer."
• [2005-10-17*] Selling Songs for a Song [msnbc.msn.com]
  - by Johnnie L. Roberts, Newsweek
     Record labels want a bigger cut of digital music profits
     * 2005-10-17 is the print date. Published online approximately 2005-10-09
• [2005-10-06] Finland bans DRM fiddling in all its forms [theregister.co.uk] - by Lucy Sherriff
• [2005-09-05] Court orders file-swapping program owners to block pirated content [usatoday.com] - AP
• [2005-06-27] Hollywood wins Internet piracy battle [money.cnn.com] - by Krysten Crawford
     MGM v. Grokster
     "The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that software companies can be held liable for copyright infringement when individuals use their technology to download songs and movies illegally."
• [2005-05-12] MPAA targets TV download sites [news.zdnet.com] - by John Borland, CNET News.com
• [2005-04-27] Dutch plans for iPod tax could kill MP3 industry [theregister.co.uk] - Faultline
     "If this legislation comes into play, the surcharge will be as much as €3.28 ($4.3) per gigabyte. This might put €180 ($235) to the price of a top end iPod."
• [2005-04-27] New law cracks down on P2P pirates [news.com.com] - by Declan McCullagh
     The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act
     "File-swappers who distribute a single copy of a prerelease movie on the Internet can be imprisoned for up to three years, according to a bill that President Bush signed into law on Wednesday."
• [2005-04-12] Music Biz Sues High-Speed Traders [wired.com] - by Katie Dean
     405 lawsuits against students who use Internet2
• [2004-12-14] Finnish police raid BitTorrent site [theregister.co.uk] - by Drew Cullen
• [2004-12-14] MPAA to serve lawsuits on BitTorrent servers [theregister.co.uk] - by Tony Smith
• [2004-12-10] High court agrees to hear file-sharing dispute [msnbc.msn.com] - AP
     "Justices will hear a challenge to a lower court ruling in favor of Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc.<"
• [2004-11-24] P2P start-up gets record label deals [news.com.com] - by John Borland
• [2004-11-22] A Kinder, Gentler Copyright Bill? [wired.com] - by Katie Dean
     Explains how S.3021 includes H.R.2391, but not S.2237 or H.R.4077
• [2004-11-16] Movie Studios Sue File Traders [wired.com] - by Katie Dean
• [2004-11-15] Row brewing over peer-to-peer ads [news.bbc.co.uk] - BBC
• [2004-10-12] Supremes Quietly Change Piracy Debate [washingtonpost.com] - by Cynthia L. Webb
     "The Supreme Court handed Internet services providers and privacy advocates a crucial victory yesterday when it decided to pass on an important Internet piracy case." (This is different from the file sharing network rulings)
• [2004-10-08] Hollywood takes P2P case to Supreme Court [news.com.com] - by John Borland
     RIAA/MPAA appeal lower court decisions about file sharing networks such as Grokster and StreamCast
• [2004-10-08] Record industry sues fans for illegally downloading music from internet [guardian.co.uk] - by Patrick Barkham
     The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is sending letters to 28 suspected "uploaders" in Britain
• [2004-10-07] Senate Shelves Induce Review [wired.com] - by Katie Dean
     "The Senate Judiciary Committee has postponed a final review of the Induce Act"
• [2004-09-30] RIAA Fires New Round of Volleys [wired.com] - Reuters (by Andy Sullivan)
     762 new lawsuits against file sharers
• [2004-09-28] House votes to target P2P pirates [news.zdnet.com] - by Declan McCullagh
     Piracy Deterrence and Education Act passes vote in U.S. House of Representatives
• [2004-09-28] Law Sends Sharers to Slammer [wired.com] - by Katie Dean
     California law "requiring file swappers to provide a legitimate e-mail address when they share music or movies online"
• [2004-09-14] Big Anti-Induce Campaign Planned [wired.com] - by Katie Dean
• [2004-09-09] P-to-P partner charges RIAA with patent infringement [infoworld.com] - by Stacy Cowley, IDG News Service
• [2004-09-08] Court Rules That All Musical Samples Must Be Paid For [mtv.com] - by Alyssa Rashbaum
• [2004-08-25] RIAA sues 744 more over file-sharing [msnbc.msn.com] - Reuters
• [2004-08-19] P2P Services in the Clear [wired.com] - by Katie Dean
     "Peer-to-peer file-sharing services Morpheus and Grokster are legal, a federal appeals court ruled..."
• [2004-07-20] Downloading for Democracy [wired.com] - by Kim Zetter
     "...one website is turning the peer-to-peer technology back on Washington..."
• [2004-06-24] File-Trading Bill Stokes Fury [wired.com] - by Joanna Glasner
     "The Induce Act is the latest in a series of bills favorable to the music and motion picture industries"
• [2004-06-23] RIAA Sues 482 Alleged File-Traders [ecommercetimes.com] - by Jay Lyman
• [2004-04-30] File-Sharing Is, Like, Totally Uncool [wired.com] - by Jeff Howe
• [2004-04-27] US music swappers change their tune [theregister.co.uk] - by electricnews.net
     "Some US music swappers have heeded industry warnings"
• [2004-03-31] Judge: File sharing legal in Canada [news.com.com] - by John Borland
• [2004-02-29] A License to Download? [techtv.com] - by Lindsay Martell
• [2004-02-17] New Flurry of RIAA Lawsuits [wired.com] - by Katie Dean
• [2004-01-23] Pepsi ads wink at music downloading [usatoday.com] - by Theresa Howard
• [2004-01-05] Study: RIAA lawsuits curb music downloads [itworld.com] - by Scarlet Pruitt
• [2003-12-19] Song Swappers Win a Big One [wired.com] - AP
• [2003-12-03] 'Tis the Season for RIAA Lawsuits [wired.com] - by Katie Dean
• [2003-09-18] Why file swapping tide is turning [news.com.com] - by John Borland
• [2003-09-08] RIAA sues 261 file swappers [news.com.com] - by John Borland
• [2003-09-05] RIAA turns down some heat on file sharers [news.com.com] - by Matt Hines
• [2003-07-31] ISP sues record industry over subpoenas [news.com.com] - by Matthew Broersma
• [2003-07-08] P2P's little secret [news.com.com] - by Declan McCullagh
• [2003-04-25] Judge: File-swapping tools are legal [news.com.com] - by John Borland
• [2003-04-03] RIAA sues campus file-swappers [news.com.com] - by John Borland
• [2003-02-26] Congress targets P2P piracy on campus [news.com.com] - by Declan McCullagh
• [2003-02-21] 'Honest Thief' confronts music industry [news.com.com] - by Sandeep Junnarkar
• [2003-01-21] RIAA wins battle to ID Kazaa user [news.com.com] - by Declan McCullagh
• [2002-10-23] Labels look to put digital files on CDs [news.com.com] - by John Borland