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Friendfeed Adds MP3 File Sharing
Friendfeed added yet another feature to its short social messaging service that you won’t find on Twitter: the ability to share MP3s and other files directly within your feed. Sure, there are plenty of...
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Limewire Adds Facebook Support, Bit Torrent Seeding
File sharing veteran Limewire released a new version of its gnutella/bit torrent client Wednesday that lets users share files with their Facebook friends, download files faster via bit torrent, and...
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British Music Industry Split on Whether to Constrain or Terminate File...
During a three hour meeting in London on Thursday night, a group of prominent British recording artists voted overwhelmingly to support a plan to warn music file sharers twice, then restrict their...
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Ten Years After Napster, Music Industry Still Faces the (Free) Music
A full decade after Napster taught the world to share, the music industry’s resistance to new business models continues to obstruct some of the very services that could preserve it, albeit in a...
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Open Source ‘Napster’ Resurrected After 8-Year Dormancy
A small group of programmers plans to breathe new life into the Napster-spawned OpenNap protocol that was designed to help dejected music fans share files using similar technology after the official...
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SXSW: Disposable Social Network LoKast Shrinks World to 300 Feet
AUSTIN, Texas — Like a combination of sneakernet and a file sharing network, NearVerse’s free LoKast iPhone app creates tiny social networks out of 300-foot zones so that users can meet each other,...
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A ‘Legit’ Pirate Bay Makes Sense in Theory, If Not Practice
Would-be Pirate Bay buyer Hans Pandeya says complications could force him to walk away from his long-shot bid to take over the world’s largest file sharing site and turn it legit, barely a week after...
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