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full and free download (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Portable Skype 4.0.0.166 Beta 2 MultiLang |13MB Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users - not to share files this time, but to talk and chat with your friends. The technology is extremely advanced - but super simple to use... You-ll be making free phone calls to your friends in no time!...
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Microweb News (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
The makers of the concerning software, Brilliant Digital Entertainment from Californi, intends the pc's of the users on distance on to set, so that a new network gecreerd becomes. The pc's will uses become baled then round the [...]
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Trends in the Living Networks (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Today’s ABC Media Report featured a special report on peer-to-peer file sharing and its impact on media. The program provided an overview of the history of peer-to-peer content sharing, starting from Napster and its legal travails, moving on to Kazaa,...
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Counterfeit Law Blog (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
Ruling that he had given an incorrect instruction to the jury, U.S. District Judge Michael Davis has granted Jammie Thomas' motion to vacate the $220,00 jury verdict against her in the widely-watched Kazaa file sharing case, Capitol Records Inc. v Thomas. Click here to read Judge Davis' September 24, 2008 decision granting the motion and ordering a new trial. The offending jury instruction instructed...
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Glorious Noise (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Well, the RIAA didn't technically lose the trial, but a federal judge declared a mistrial and threw out the verdict against a Kazaa user who had been ordered to pay the recording industry $222,000 for allegedly sharing music online: U.S....
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Digital Trends - Most Recent News (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Last year, the Recording Industry Association of America won a jaw-dropping legal victory when a federal jury ruled against plaintiff Jammie Thomas and awarded the RIAA $220,000 for making 24 songs (and, allegedly, thousands of others) available via the file-sharing service Kazaa. Now, the RIAA might be singing a different song: U.S. District Judge Michael Davis has declared a mistrial in the case,...
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Minnesota Wednesday ordered a new trial for a woman who had been ordered to pay $222,000 to record companies for illegally posting copyrighted music on the file-sharing network Kazaa. Jammie Thomas had sought the new trial on the grounds that the court erred by instructing the jury that making the music available on the network alone was...
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AfterDawn.com (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
A federal judge has declared a mistrial in the case of Jammie Thomas, the Minnesota woman who was found guilty of sharing 24 songs via P2P app Kazaa saying he made an error that "substantially prejudiced" her rights. Thomas' case was the first file sharing case to ever go to trial and after being found guilty she was ordered to pay $222,000 USD to the Big 4 record labels. Judge Michael J. Davis is...
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Engadget (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets We always thought that the RIAA's first-ever filesharing trial victory against Jammie Thomas was a little suspect since the labels weren't required to prove that Thomas even had Kazaa installed on her machine or was the person using the account in question, and it looks like the court agrees -- it's just declared a mistrial and set aside the $222,000 judgment on the grounds...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Most cases in which the RIAA accuses somebody of illegally sharing files never make it to court. Instead, the RIAA usually offers the defendant a deal. Jammie Thomas, however, who was accused of sharing 1,702 songs on Kazaa in 2007, decided to fight the RIAA, went to court, and was found guilty of illegally sharing 24 copyrighted songs. The jury awarded $220,000 in damages to the RIAA. Now, however,...
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CrunchGear (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Most people who get threatened by the RIAA with a lawsuit opt to settle out of court. Maybe they should go to trial instead. Jammie Thomas of Minnesota did just that. She was found guilty of sharing 24 music files over the Kazaa network and ordered to pay $222,000 – that’s $9,250 per track. The [...]
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Information Week (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
A jury convicted Jammie Thomas of putting 24 songs on Kazaa's file-sharing network and ordered her to pay $9,250 per song.
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The Register (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Judge slams 'oppressive' $220,000 damages award The judge in Jammie Thomas' challenge to her landmark $220,000 fine for sharing music over KaZaa has declared a mistrial, forcing yet another court case.…
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Threat Level (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Jammie Thomas, left, and her attorney, Brian Toder, leave the courthouse last year after a jury dinged her $222,000 for sharing 24 songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network. Photo: Associated Press A federal judge on Wednesday set aside the nation's first and only federal jury...
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eon (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
i am sitting twitting at the legal deposition of a digital native who is having the universe of computers to which he has had access, bared to exploration by the RIAA. did you download pornography on kazaa i am representing a digital native under threat of legal sanction by the law and RIAA
