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RSS fileFile-sharers plead for legitimacy
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched an advertising campaign demanding changes in copyright law to legalise file sharing. The "Let the Music Play" campaign is intended to encourage the 60 million users of... [02 Jul 2003]
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,... [14 Aug 2003]
File-swapping firms to lobby Washington for legitimacy
News Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing companies are to band together and form an industry lobby group this summer in an attempt to fight back against entertainment industry efforts to stifle them. Rosso said his group would be... [08 Jul 2003]
File-swapping case finds friends in court
News A broad list of copyright owners, artists, law professors and state attorneys general on Monday asked the US Supreme Court to hear a controversial case on the legality of file-swapping software. More than 30 copyright... [09 Nov 2004]
File-sharing software 'legal'
News A federal appeals court has upheld a controversial court decision that said file-sharing software programs such as Grokster or Morpheus are legal. It did not say file-trading itself is legal, and lower... [20 Aug 2004]
Legal Eye: File-sharers under fire
Comment Driven by the huge growth in the number of homes with internet access, research shows that up to six million people in the UK participate in illegal file-sharing of films and music each year. Illegal downloading and... [03 Sep 2008]
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... [30 Jan 2003]
File-sharers' internet access could be cut off
News Illegal file-sharers could see their internet connection cut off, under new government proposals outlined today. File-sharers risk seeing their web access cut off Head over to ZDNet UK for more on the... [25 Aug 2009]
File-swapper hits back at RIAA
News An anonymous file-swapper in the US has gone to court to challenge the recording industry's subpoenas, claiming they are unconstitutional and violate her right to privacy. The RIAA has used court orders to try to... [22 Aug 2003]
File-pinching security hole punctures Firefox and IE
News An attacker could use the problem to launch surreptitious file uploads, jeopardising people's personal data, they said. An attacker could craft a malicious website that surreptitiously captures a user's keystrokes into a... [09 Jun 2006]
Symantec Enterprise Vault: File System Archiving
White Paper This paper is designed to give technical staff, project managers, and Microsoft Windows file server experts an overview of Symantec Enterprise Vault File System Archiving (FSA). For more than 25 years,... [18 May 2007]
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... [17 Apr 2008]
File System Auditor Version 2.0.8
White Paper File System Auditor allows administrators to audit file access, generate easy-to-understand compliance reports, and create alerts tied to file system events all from a centralized... [30 Jun 2009]
Solaris ZFS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux ext3: File System Performance
White Paper The Solaris 10 06/06 Operating System (OS) introduces a major new data management technology - the Solaris ZFS file system. Replacing the traditionally separate file system and volume manager... [11 Sep 2007]
File tax returns online or face a fine
News Increasing concern is being voiced by industry at the decision by Chancellor Gordon Brown to force all companies to file their tax returns online or face hefty fines. Every business will have to file... [13 May 2002]
