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Taiwan stops music swapping

17. September 2006, 18:42 Uhradmin

Taiwan online music file-sharing network Kuro has agreed to shut down its file swapping service and pay undisclosed damages to settle a recording industry lawsuit, the industry group behind the conflict said.

The settlement comes a year after a separate case produced a landmark criminal conviction against executives at Kuro’s operators, Fashionow, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which filed the civil action, said in a statement released late on Thursday.

Under settlement of the civil case, Fashionow would stop distributing its peer-to-peer (P2P) swapping software immediately and will ensure closure of the copyright-infringing service by Oct. 15, the federation said.

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A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing) containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients" and "servers" to the other nodes on the network. This model of network arrangement differs from the client-server model where communication is usually to and from a central server. A typical example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is an FTP server where the client and server programs are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the download.