While Election 2004 is not going to be decided in the nation’s courts, file sharing—another highly contested issue dear to students’ hearts—might be. Last month, the recording and film industries ...

In one of the first cases where file sharing programs such as LimeWire were used to steal identities, a Seattle man plead guilty to one count each of mail fraud, accessing a protected computer without ...

A poll of attitudes on and perceptions about file sharing, released on Monday by the New Jersey Institute of Technology, indicates that most people believe that file sharing is stealing. But a ...

An e-mail sent to all members of the University community earlier this month warned that any violations of copyright laws through file sharing online would be met with the strictest of consequences.

The Recording Industry Association of America will begin sending instant warning messages directly to millions of users of popular file-sharing programs, association officials have announced. The ...

In this, the Daily's final installment on the issue of file-sharing, we weigh the advantages and disadvantages of various legal alternatives and discuss the effects of file-sharing on American ...

PEER-TO-PEER file swapping networks have been growing in popularity ever since Napster emerged, with Morpheus, Gnutella, and Kazaa being the more popular options in use today. In addition to the ...

Calling a FTP server "file-sharing software" is a bit of a misnomer, don't you think? I mean, you could configure one to allow anonymous users to upload and download files freely, but that is not the ...

A Web site owner who deceptively claimed that users of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing programs who joined his Web site would be able to transfer copyrighted materials without violating the law has ...

University sophomore "Tom" may not look like a criminal. In the eyes of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), however, he -- like thousands of other college students -- is a wanted man ...

Gene Kan isn’t a scary guy. He weighs maybe 60 kg soaking wet, has an easy laugh, a Mazda RX-7 fetish and a taste for writing twisted haiku. But the entertainment industry is terrified of him. Why?