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File-sharing takes off in West Bank refugee camp
Comment Deep in the tense Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian West Bank, a new file-swapping service is daring record labels and movie studios to turn their piracy-hunting into an international incident. Dubbed Earthstation 5, the new file-swapping... [14 Aug 2003]
Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'
Comment Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers File-sharers: To ban, or not to ban? Perhaps it's time the music industry started to embrace music file distribution instead of fighting it. The latest in the debate over music downloaders and sharers also... [17 Apr 2008]
Leader: File-sharing suits out of tune with music market
Leader File-sharing is illegal. Musicians know that, record labels know that and file-sharers are more than well aware of that. So the news today that industry body The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is suing 28 file-sharers comes as no surprise. [07 Oct 2004]
File sharing crackdown: Justice for the lazy?
Comment He positively 'harrumphed' out of the high court yesterday after his chain of EasyInternetCafés was found guilty of aiding and abetting illegal file sharing. The whole file sharing debacle gets messier by the day - and for every twist and turn it... [30 Jan 2003]
Leader: Is file-sharing sacking too heavy-handed?
Leader The sacking of an IT consultant after he appeared on BBC 2's Newsnight TV programme, to comment on the US Supreme Court file-sharing ruling against Grokster last week, raises some interesting issues. He was invited because he had been served legal... [04 Jul 2005]
Leader: Corporate America divided over file-sharing
Leader But the messages it sends out may confuse many, as it makes heroes of convicted file-sharers. And then there is the issue of file-sharing and the messages which Pepsi's campaign sends out. Today sneak previews of Pepsi's latest advertising campaign... [30 Jan 2004]
Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?
Comment To avoid branding all file-sharers as criminals, blocking techniques will need to become more sophisticated and closely regulated. Not all aspects of file-sharing are illegal and distinguishing the legitimate from the malicious will not be easy. [22 Feb 2008]
Leader: Corporate file-sharing time bomb is ticking
Leader It's nothing that hasn't been said before but yet another survey today highlights the alarming lack of controls inside organisations for stopping the use of peer-to-peer file-sharing applications by employees. [16 Mar 2004]
US hotspots outwit file-sharing purge
Comment Townsend and others' similar experiences, no matter how limited today, point to a slowly widening hole in the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) recently announced drive to identify and ultimately sue what could be thousands of... [16 Jul 2003]
Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…
Comment Illegal file-sharing: Gov't says enough is enough ¦ The Naked CIO: Identity crisis ¦ Revealed: The full cost of a corporate data breach ¦ Open source gains business credibility ¦ Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing? [28 Feb 2008]
Will's Web Watch: Leave the file sharers alone
Comment Now, I'm not saying I am involved in file-sharing of copyrighted material - because that's the kind of crazy talk which would likely land me in trouble with the record labels, but let's pretend I do. The Recording Industry Association of America... [08 Sep 2003]
Entrepreneurs 2000-2002: The 'Where are they now?' file (II)
Comment file? This is the second part of our catching up on entrepreneurs we interviewed as part of our project European Entrepreneur 2000 (http://www.silicon.com/ee2000 ). Have these start-uppers gone on to bigger and better things? [18 Apr 2002]
Entrepreneurs 2000-2002: The 'Where are they now?' file (III)
Comment Javier Perez-Tenessa Co-founder and CEO eDreams Co-founder and CEO eDreams Start-up base: Spain Javier Perez-Tenessa was 18 months into his travel start-up when silicon.com last spoke to him in September 2000. [25 Apr 2002]
Entrepreneurs 2000-2002: The 'where are they now?' file
Comment Here we follow up some of the characters we spoke to back then. Did they succeed? What are they up to now? First in a series of three. Charlie Muirhead Founder iGabriel Founder and CEO Nexagent Start-ups' base: UK [12 Apr 2002]
Inside SAS: Fact file
Comment Read Will Sturgeon's inside look at SAS in our vendor dossier. Key financials (annual revenue): bn bn bn bn bn Key claim: consecutive years of profit and revenue growth The executives: Dr Jim Goodnight, CEO, co-founder and president [02 Nov 2004]
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