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GM Teams Up With RelayRides To Make Peer-To-Peer Carsharing Easier

Want to rent out your car when you're not using it? It just got a lot easier for GM car owners.READ»

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BitTorrent Raid Aftermath: The Seas of Piracy Are Calm Again

Three days after a huge international BitTorrent raid, we take a look around, and find that the pirate system is still (mostly) standing.READ»

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Massive International BitTorrent Raid: Where Will We Download Mad Men Now?

The Pirate Bay. BTJunkie. Mediafire. All these sites are down or struggling today, after a 14-nation police force raided a Swedish hosting center and a Czech university. It's one of the biggest crackdowns ever, but that doesn't mean pirates are out of options.READ»

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P2P Lawsuits "Felt Like Terrorism," Says Viacom Lawyer

Viacom's general counsel says that suing people for file-sharing is "expensive, and it's painful, and it feels like bullying." Speaking to a group of Yale law students, Michael Fricklas admitted that "it felt like terrorism" when ...READ»

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Billy Bragg's Copyright Reform Push Gains New Web Site

Singer/songwriter/activist Billy Bragg's just launched a new effort to try to push for a reform of copyright laws: a Web site that acts as a forum for conversations between artists and fans. It's being dubbed the Net's first and only ...READ»

Pirate Bay Not Dead After All

Just two days ago it seemed as if former torrent network the Pirate Bay was going to be scuttled forever, as deals for its acquisition fell apart and its users held a hacking vigil in remembrance. But now it appears that that the ...READ»

Why Spotify's Legal Music Service Could Beat the Revamped Pirate Bay

Legal music-sharing service Spotify just revealed that it's apparently five to six times more used than its nearest rivals. That's a pretty astonishing measure of success, and the site has big plans. In fact, it's likely to beat a ...READ»

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Opera 10 Is Going to Piss Off Some Very Important People

On the spectrum of menacing devices, the lowly server falls somewhere between a toaster and... an evil toaster. Which is to say that most people don't think the "clouds" that store so much of their email and files as being ...READ»

Europe Loosens Digital Downloading Rules While U.S. Suffers Audible Magic's Wire-Sniffing

Yesterday Europe moved to smarten-up its legal music downloading rules to dissuade piracy, but today we learn that P2P illegal content-sniffer Audible Magic is being adopted by more U.S. universities--the punitive flip-side of the ...READ»

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Napster Returns as Best Buy's Streaming Music Muscle [Updated]

Napster, the original file-sharing site that set the digital music world into a tailspin, is making yet another phoenix-like return to life from the ashes of its former self. This time it's as a music streaming site, and it's got Best ...READ»

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RIAA Still Suing Individuals, While E.U. Lightens Three Strikes Rule

Piracy and copyright issues are still troubling the world, and recent news about the RIAA, and the European Union's copyright laws highlight this fact. The RIAA is reportedly still suing people when it said it wouldn't, and in ...READ»