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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 online by 2010, saving the government an... [13 May 2002]
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 and professional associations... [09 Nov 2004]
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 identify more than 1,000 computer... [22 Aug 2003]
File-swappers happy to ignore legal threats
News File-swappers are ignoring the recording industry's attempts to enforce copyright online, according to a survey. The Pew Internet and American Life Project study, released on Thursday, found that 67 per cent of US internet file-swappers are... [04 Aug 2003]
File-sharing down after music industry crackdown
News The record industry's crackdown on individuals who trade songs online has caused a drop in the use of file-swapping applications, according to an internet ratings service. Nielsen/Netratings, which monitors web traffic and desktop application use... [15 Jul 2003]
Official: file-sharing legal
News Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday, handing the record industry a sharp setback in its international fight against file-swappers. [01 Apr 2004]
File-sharing has no impact on CD sales, says research
News A study of file-sharing's effects on music sales says online music trading appears to have had little part in the recent slide in CD sales. For the study researchers at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina tracked music downloads... [30 Mar 2004]
File-swapping ruling heads to Supreme Court
News Hollywood studios and record companies have asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a controversial series of recent court decisions that have kept file-swapping software legal. In their legal briefs, the entertainment industry attorneys said the... [11 Oct 2004]
File-swapping sites created "candy stores of infringement"
News Attorneys for the record labels, movie studios and music publishers trade groups filed papers in the US on Monday asking a federal judge for summary judgment, or a ruling against the file-swapping companies before going to a full trial. [10 Sep 2002]
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 courts in the United States have said... [20 Aug 2004]
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 confined to P2P companies... [08 Jul 2003]
File-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 file-sharing software in the US... [02 Jul 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 hidden file-upload dialogue... [09 Jun 2006]
Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers
News People should not be criminalised for the file-sharing of copyrighted material if they are not profiting from doing so, the European Parliament has recommended. In this conflict, the ISPs are claiming they should not have to disconnect those users... [14 Apr 2008]
Netherlands set to become haven for illegal file-sharing
News In the latest threat to the entertainment and recording industry one Dutch company has said it plans make the Netherlands "to file sharing what the Swiss are to banking". But The Honest Thief, whose website went live on Friday, plans to take... [24 Feb 2003]
