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Gnutella bandwidth bandits
The file-trading network's developers are discovering that even their wide-open, free-for-all technology might need a little policing.
By Farhad Manjoo Aug 8, 2002
Revenge of the file-sharing masses!
By smashing Napster, the music industry has pushed its customers to seek alternatives that won't be so easy to shut down.
By Scott Rosenberg Jul 20, 2001
The music revolution will not be digitized
The dust is clearing from the online entertainment wars. Who won? The record labels. Who lost? Consumers.
By Janelle Brown Jun 1, 2001
Who is spying on your downloads?
The recording industry would love to keep tabs on every Napster trader or Gnutella user, but even the sneakiest software won't stop music piracy.
By Janelle Brown Mar 27, 2001
The next Napster?
A new online music service aims to give listeners what they want -- if music-biz moguls are smart enough to let it.
By Janelle Brown Mar 20, 2001
Napster: Hanging by a thread
A federal appeals court rules against the file-trading service on nearly every point of law, but holds off enforcing the injunction against it -- for now.
By Salon Technology & Business staff Feb 12, 2001
Victory or defeat?
Did the record industry's court triumph insure a future full of profits -- or seal its doom? Experts weigh in.
By Salon Technology & Business staff Feb 12, 2001
The Napster parasites
Online marketers are snooping around in your hard drive, taking notes on every MP3 file you download.
By Janelle Brown Feb 9, 2001
Free Photoshop for the people
Berkeley's Experimental Computing Club has produced some of the Net's most cherished software.
By Ed Frauenheim Dec 4, 2000
Whoring for downloads
Desperate for attention, aspiring musicians will stop at nothing to get fans to listen to their online tunes.
By Janelle Brown Nov 30, 2000
Triumph of the free-software will
The passion of open-source hackers may make their success inevitable. Impugn it at your peril.
By Andrew Leonard Oct 31, 2000
Another crack in the SDMI wall
A team of researchers claims to have successfully hacked a digital music watermarking system.
By Janelle Brown Oct 22, 2000
Cracked or not? The SDMI saga continues.
Did hackers successfully break watermarks designed to protect digital music?
By Janelle Brown Oct 19, 2000
SDMI cracked!
Hackers break the recording industry's vaunted music protection system.
By Janelle Brown Oct 12, 2000
The Mojo solution
Forget Napster and Gnutella. Jim McCoy's Mojo Nation is the coolest file-trading service on the Net.
By Damien Cave Oct 9, 2000
The Gnutella paradox
By Janelle Brown
Oct 4, 2000
Is the SDMI boycott backfiring?
Programmers don't want to help the recording industry test its new security "solution." But the technology insiders behind the system say hackers could kill it once and for all by participating.
By Janelle Brown Oct 3, 2000
The Gnutella paradox
As soon as an online music-trading service gets big enough to be useful, it's doomed.
By Janelle Brown Sep 29, 2000
Information just wants to be Freenet
Rob Kramer and Ian Clarke's new venture, Uprizer, wants to be the Red Hat of peer-to-peer networks. What's behind their wall of secrecy?
By Damien Cave Aug 28, 2000
Will AOL take Aimster?
Try as it might to be an upstanding cybercitizen, AOL finds itself supporting a piracy program that piggybacks on AIM.
By Janelle Brown Aug 11, 2000
A hacker crackdown?
As the long arm of the law reaches Napster and its lookalikes, programmers could be held responsible for what others do with their code.
By Damien Cave Aug 7, 2000
RIAA 1, Napster 0
Napster lost its first round in court. But with both sides of the lawsuit depending on the murky Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the war is far from over.
By Eric Boehlert May 9, 2000
Did AOL eat Gnutella for lunch?
Nullsoft's engineers released a Napster clone without America Online's permission. The media got a peek and then the site was gone.
By Janelle Brown Mar 15, 2000
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