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Peer-to-peer service provider fights back against record companies allegedly seeking to shut it down.

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  • With settlement, Kazaa casts off its pirate garb

    A multimillion-dollar settlement is putting Kazaa on the straight and narrow, but it might not be enough to put the file-sharing service on the road to recovery.

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    File-swapping company Grokster has agreed to stop distributing its peer-to-peer software, following a US$50 million legal settlement announced Monday with Hollywood studios and record labels.

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    The MP3 format is officially 10 years old. Even though most people still don't know what it stands for, its influence has been far reaching indeed, altering more than simply the ways people get their music.

  • Hacking Napster with Winamp

    Bright sparks have figured out how to record songs from Napster's portable subscription service by saving them as unprotected WAV files. So what's to be done about online music security now?

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