File Sharing articles

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  Japanese authorities arrest 27 in nationwide file-sharing crackdown

  By Bryan Bishop on March 3, 2013 08:37 pm + 62 comments

  Last year Japan's parliament put a measure into place that made downloading copyright material a Continue reading…

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  Mega and the return of Kim Dotcom

  By Adrianne Jeffries on February 8, 2013 06:21 pm

  Internet celebrity, file-sharing mogul, and top-ranked Modern Warfare 3 player Kim Dotcom is back in Continue reading…

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  Head of BitTorrent piracy group jailed for 40 months, longest file-sharing sentence ever

  By Aaron Souppouris on December 1, 2012 08:42 am + 101 comments

  After pleading guilty to charges earlier this year, Gregory Cherwonik, a member of the BitTorrent Continue reading…

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  Piracy, virtual record collections, and how the MP3 changed music

  By Adi Robertson on August 13, 2012 08:46 am + 35 comments

  The ubiquitous MP3 is far from the only music file format, but it's become a shorthand for the Continue reading…

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  Pipe: file sharing in the Facebook age is about to get real

  By Ellis Hamburger on May 17, 2012 10:18 am + 118 comments

  "We've set up the hottest club in East Berlin, and we're going to start letting people in next Continue reading…

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  Counting Crows says file-sharing is 'the new radio station,' releases BitTorrent promo

  By Adi Robertson on May 14, 2012 06:42 pm + 22 comments

  Content creators have expressed mixed feelings towards peer-to-peer file-sharing, from vehement Continue reading…

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  Ukrainian file-sharing site Ex.ua shut down, possibly at Microsoft and Adobe's request

  By Nathan Ingraham on February 1, 2012 11:34 am + 20 comments

  Megaupload isn't the only file-sharing site finding itself in the crosshairs these days — Continue reading…

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  In wake of Megaupload arrests, FileSonic shutters file-sharing service

  By Jesse Hicks on January 22, 2012 07:20 pm + 77 comments

  In an apparent reaction to the US Department of Justice's seizure of Megaupload's assets, FileSonic Continue reading…

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  When remix culture becomes mainstream culture, is copyright doomed?

  By Adi Robertson on December 9, 2011 07:26 pm + 23 comments

  With a chronologically-ordered edit of Pulp Fiction making the rounds online, writer Andy Baio has Continue reading…