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  | By Mark Hachman, PC Magazine Found at 11/4/2008 via 
Jammie Thomas, who was ordered to pay $222,000 to a group of music labels for allegedly pirating songs using the Kazaa peer-to-peer service, has been granted a new trial... More...
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| MTV Bleeps out File-Sharing Sites? Found at 10/31/2008 via www.crunchgear.com
I can't figure this out . This video, from MTV's video site , has been bleeped by MTV in an effort to hide file sharing system names in Weird Al Yankovic "Don't Download This Song." The original lyrics: Once in a while maybe you will feel the urge To break international copyright law By downloading MP3s from file-sharing sites Like Morpheus or Grokster or Limewire or KaZaA Strangley, all ... More...
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| Brilliant Digital aims to make P2P content legal automatically Found at 10/29/2008 via www.geek.com
Kevin Bermeister, formerly associated with Kazaa, and Michael Speck, formerly of the Music Industry Piracy Investigations organization, have joined forces to solve illegal content on file sharing networks. Together they are partners in digital content licensing company Brilliant Digital Entertainment; and believe they have created a solution that will replace illegal content on P2P networks. The ... More...
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| Ex-Kazaaer wants to turn pirates into paying customers Found at 10/28/2008 via arstechnica.com
Former KaZaA heavyweight Kevin Bermeister has allied with his former music-business enemy and plans to launch a new service that would present would-be pirates with legal alternatives when they attempt to download content. The software is ready for trial deployment, but no word yet on whether it can navigate the minefield of Big Content licensing. Read More... More...
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| Rivals combine to combat crime Found at 10/28/2008 via busselton.yourguide.com.au
Two former adversaries who squared off in a bitter legal battle over Kazaa have joined forces to invent new technology that they say will eliminate the illegal sharing of pirated content and child porn over peer-to-peer networks. More...
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| Rivals combine to combat crime Found at 10/28/2008 via smh.com.au
TWO former adversaries who squared off in a bitter legal battle over Kazaa have joined forces to invent technology they say will kill the illegal sharing of pirated content and child porn over peer-to-peer networks. More...
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| Kazaa switches sides to fight pirates and porn Found at 10/28/2008 via www.theinquirer.net
KAZAA has become a P2P poacher turned game keeper and invented new technology with the music industry that it claims will eliminate the illegal sharing of pirated content and child porn over peer-to-peer networks. More...
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| Kazaa foes join up to fight pirates, porn Found at 10/28/2008 via www.smh.com.au
Former legal adversaries join forces to eliminate illegal file sharing. More...
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| Kazaa foes join up to fight pirates and porn Found at 10/28/2008 via smh.com.au
Two former adversaries who squared off in a bitter legal battle over Kazaa join forces to eliminate the illegal file sharing. More...
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| Kazaa rivals join up to fight pirates and porn Found at 10/28/2008 via www.smh.com.au
Former adversaries who squared off in bitter legal battle join forces to eliminate illegal file sharing. More...
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| Judge Rejects 'Making Available' Defense in Teen File Sharing Case Found at 10/24/2008 via blog.wired.com
A federal judge is ordering a 20-year-old Texas woman to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $7,400 to settle copyright infringement violations from when she was a juvenile. The woman demanded a trial, but the judge ruled she was liable because she made the songs available on an open share folder on Kazaa. The outcome underscores that the level of proof necessary to win a file ... More...
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| Former Teen Cheerleader Defies RIAA Over $7,400 File Sharing Tab Found at 10/20/2008 via blog.wired.com
The Recording Industry Association of America is demanding $7,400 from a woman who was a teenager when she infringed the record labels copyrights on the file sharing program Kazaa. Whitney Harper of Texas, now 20, downloaded the songs between the ages of 14 and 16, and didn't realize she was breaking the law. In response, the RIAA says the woman, who is demanding a jury trial, should pay up ... More...
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| Fearing reversal, RIAA opts for the money in Harper case Found at 10/19/2008 via government.zdnet.com
Ars Technica reports that the RIAA has changed course in the copyright infringement case of a teenage girl who downloaded 37 songs over Kazaa. The judge in Maverick v. Harper had held that Whitney Harper, 16 at the time of her offenses, was an "innocent infringer" and awarded a mere $200 per song, far less than the statutory minimum of $750 per song. The RIAA had been fighting this, pressing for ... More...
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| RIAA appeals mistrial in Jammie Thomas case Found at 10/16/2008 via www.betanews.com
Capitol v. Thomas , the infamous copyright infringement case against a Minnesota woman who made copyrighted material available on Kazaa five years ago, ended in a $222,000 victory for the RIAA ...that was thrown out. More...
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| RIAA Appealing Jammie Thomas Mistrial Found at 10/15/2008 via blog.wired.com
The Recording Industry Association of America is appealing the Jammie Thomas file sharing trial, in which a judge last month overturned a $222,000 judgment a federal jury ordered a Minnesota woman to pay for making 24 songs available on her Kazaa file sharing folder. More...
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