file sharing

Muktware: "ownCloud, the open source file-sharing project which enables individuals to create their own local cloud, has evolved into a company."

“Child pornography is great,” the man said enthusiastically. “Politicians do not understand file sharing, but they understand child pornography, and they want to filter that to score points with the public.

Once we get them to filter child pornography, we can get them to extend the block to file sharing.”

The Register: "Dropbox, the San Francisco startup that offers a free service for sharing files over the net, has suppressed a fledgling open source project that lets anyone use the service outside of its control, saying the project exposed Dropbox's proprietary protocol and could be used for piracy."

Music and movie pirates may not be the only ones trolling peer-to-peer networks for booty. The secret-spilling site WikiLeaks may also have used file-sharing networks to obtain some of the documents it has published, according to a computer security firm.

After making waves with a famous P2P paper in 2007, academics Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf are back with a new paper suggesting that we look at the numbers: file-sharing has no negative effect on artists' "incentive to create."

The file-sharing public faces yet another wave of predatory litigation, this time from the so-called US Copyright Group (USCG), which is suing BitTorrent users on behalf of various independent filmmakers.

Online life in China is not bleak and boring. Its 384 million Internet users enjoy everything from gaming and celebrity gossip to teenage chatrooms, academic forums, illegal file-sharing and porn sites.

Microsoft is continuing to investigate holes in its Server Message Block file-sharing protocol used in Windows.