“Twebster302″ needed $1,200 for a root canal. “JulesWWC” wanted $13,000 to open a fair-trade chocolate shop.

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This story was written by Patrick Smith. Swedish publicly listed software company Global Gaming Factory X says it wants to buy The Pirate Bay SEK60 million and will begin compensating copyright owners for material its users find and download.

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NEW NEW Abstract This paper presents the design and evaluation of Pastry, a scalable, distributed object location and routing scheme for wide-area peer-to-peer applications.

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Geoff Taylor, head of UK major label trade group BPI, wrote an op-ed piece for the BBC today in which he called Napster the “Rosetta Stone of digital music,” said it was “simple to understand and use,” and said that the music industry should have “embraced Napster rather than fighting it.” While this might sound radical, it’s not actually a …

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“The court would be remiss if it did not take this opportunity to implore Congress to amend the Copyright Act to address liability and damages in peer-to-peer network cases such as the one currently before this court.

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IEEE Explore NEW NEW Abstract A core area of P2P systems research is the topology of the overlay network.

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Money transmission company CashEdge is now offering a person-to-person payments solution to banks called POPmoney.

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P2P:- A ‘warez release group’ has been severely disrupted after the UK police began arresting members of this group last month, said TorrentFreak yesterday.

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A woman has been ordered to pay $1.92 million for downloading 24 tracks from the Kazaa file sharing site - $80,000 per song.

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A file-sharing fine against a Minnesota woman that mushroomed from $220,000 to nearly $2 million last week is just the latest evidence that illegally trading music and videos online is still with us in a big way.

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The IPKat, concerned at the rise of the political Pirate Movement within Europe, asked his friend and fellow blogger Axel Horns of IP:JUR fame if he could explain to the Kat’s readers about the position in Germany, where there seems to be an increasing degree of pro-pirate sentiment.

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P2P:- Yesterday, we ran a post in which Ray Beckerman , a New York lawyer whose Recording Industry vs The People is the Net’s only repository of documents and information centring on RIAA lawsuits, outlined how the Jammie Thomas-Rasset fiasco might have unfolded in a world where justice, and not the Big 4 corporate music industry, held sway.

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An Ocean Shores man will spend five years in prison for receipt of child pornography.

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P2P Cash Launches “Send Cash to Any Cellphone With P2P Cash” Using “Cayman Online” Transaction Platform Software-As-A-Service Offering Telepin Cayman Transaction Platform OTTAWA, OTTAWA and BARCELONA, SPAIN– - AND 2009 GSMA MOBILE MONEY SUMMIT - Editors Note: A photo for this article is available on Marketwire’s website.

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The US record industry has no plans to resume suing individuals who use online file-trading services to share digital music files, despite an unprecedented $1.9 million verdict returned by a civil jury last week.

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