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Music piracy is the copying and distributing of recordings of a piece of music for which the rights owners (composer, recording artist, or copyright -holding record company) did not give consent. In the contemporary legal environment, it is a form of copyright infringement, which may be either a civil wrong or a crime depending on jurisdiction.
LimeWire was a free peer-to-peer file sharing client for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Solaris. [1] Created by Mark Gorton [2] [3] [4] in 2000, it was most prominently a tool used for the download and distribution of pirated materials, particularly pirated music. [5] In 2007, LimeWire was estimated to be installed on over one-third of all ...
v. t. e. Peer-to-peer file sharing is the distribution and sharing of digital media using peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technology. P2P file sharing allows users to access media files such as books, music, movies, and games using a P2P software program that searches for other connected computers on a P2P network to locate the desired content ...
Soulseek. Soulseek is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network and application, used mostly to exchange music. The current Soulseek network is the second to have been in operation, the same management runs both. The older network, used up to version 156 of the client, was shut down after significant user inactivity.
The RIAA has apparently in the past been revealed to and may have admitted to the practice of spoofing, deliberately flooding P2P networks with "junk music". [23] [24] A further reference to such activity was discovered when computer software and source code along with emails were stolen from US Company "Media Defender"; [25] their software was designed to facilitate "interdiction" on all the ...
Jellyfin is a free and open-source media server and suite of multimedia applications designed to organize, manage, and share digital media files to networked devices. Jellyfin consists of a server application installed on a machine running Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux or in a Docker container, [2] and another application running on a client device such as a smartphone, tablet, smart TV ...
Kazaa. Kazaa Media Desktop (/ kəˈzɑː / ka-ZAH). [ 1 ] (once stylized as " KaZaA ", but later usually written " Kazaa ") was a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol licensed by Joltid Ltd. and operated as Kazaa by Sharman Networks.
The defendant, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, was found liable to the plaintiff record company for making 24 songs available to the public for free on the Kazaa file sharing service and ordered to pay $220,000. Before filing suit, Capitol Records offered to settle for $5,000, but Thomas-Rasset declined. The ultimate damage order came after several ...