Quick - you’ve got a music file that someone (a collaborator, a client, a friend) needs to hear. How do you send it to them? It seems countless Web entrepreneurs have new ways for sharing media - there are online Flash-based music editing applications, social networks, elaborate MySpace and Fa...

The French attempt to pass the world's toughest "graduated response" law against P2P file-sharers has been en retard for months. But the negotiations are finally over, the "Création et Internet" bill has been drafted, and today it finally came up before the National Assembly for debate. Despite fur...

A Pennsylvania company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks discovered a potentially serious security breach involving President Obama’s helicopter, Marine One, NBC affiliate WPXI in Pittsburgh reported. Sensitive information about Marine One was reportedly found by Tiversa employe...

Over two years ago, Simon Chester noted, 75 percent of all traffic on the Internet is due to file sharing, with 59 percent of that file sharing attributed to people swapping video files. Music tracks account for 33 percent of the file-sharing traffic. E-mail, it turns out, accounts for just 9 percen...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) , which seems totally incapable of understanding that the Internet has completely and irretrievably remade their business, has ended their campaign of suing impoverished college students for downloading mp3s. Since 2003 the RIAA has sued approxima...

The second week of Pirate Bay vs Sweden is upon us, and what will it bring? Pirate ship. Photograph: mikebaird/Flickr/Some rights reserved Firstly, some great lists. TorrentFreak , which has been excelling itself with comprehensive coverage of the trial, follows up on  comments by co-defendant ...

Having 160GB hard drive nowadays is insufficient. It can be filled up with thousands of photos in a month or two. And if you ‘torrent’ lover, that could be much faster. Furthermore, yu never know when your hard drive will take you down out of sudden and you lost everything inside. But un...

We have showed you tricks on how to MakeUseOf your Rapidshare accounts over here. Now using a simple website we can also search for our Rapidshare downloads! Yup, you can now search for what you want and download it. I have used Google to find Rapidshare downloads before but this site called RapidSt...

From the Local - Sweden HÃ¥kan Roswall, the prosecutor in the trial of the men behind the popular file sharing site The Pirate Bay surprised a Stockholm court by amending the charges as the trial entered its second day on Tuesday. Roswall has removed all mention of "complicity in the production of c...

Says it allows them to "grow a market for future titles." Much has been made about software piracy over the years, especially by copyright holder groups like the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represents a number of the world's largest software developers. However, none have ever ...