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Novell Tries Enterprise File Sharing Without That Pesky Cloud
Sharing is good.Bump Aims to Ease Sharing Files Between Phones and PCs
Best known for helping send files from one phone to another, the company adds a cloud-based service for moving files between phones and PCs.Dropbox Aims for More Enterprise Users With New Admin Features
A key feature for businesses is added.Voices
Kim Dotcom Launches New Version of Megaupload
He’s back!Napster, the Movie
Featuring Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, brought to you by Bill from “Bill & Ted’s.”The Piracy “Problem”
If every TV show was offered at a fair price to everyone in the world, there would definitely be much less copyright infringement. But because of the monopoly power of the cable companies and content creators, they might actually make less money.
– Holmes Wilson, co-director of Fight for the Future
Dear Hollywood
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.
– Kim Dotcom, in an open letter to Hollywood, written from house arrest in New Zealand
A Visit With Box.net’s Aaron Levie at His New Office (Video)
Fast-growing cloud start-up Box.net has a new office in Los Altos (or South Palo Alto, if you like), but a lot of the same attitude.No Piracy King
Where does piracy come from? Piracy comes from, you know, people, let’s say, in Europe who do not have access to movies at the same time that they are released in the US.
– Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom
Public Education Matters
Our legal efforts served as an essential educational tool: Fans know far more now about copyright laws and the legal consequences of stealing music than ever before. Before initiating lawsuits in 2003, only 35 percent of people knew file-sharing on P2P was illegal; afterward, awareness grew to 70 percent.
— Liz Kennedy, communications director for the RIAA, in response to an article in the Tennessean, which stated that the Association’s legal initiatives had failed because “the suits ultimately proved ineffective in ending systematic online piracy”




