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With settlement, Kazaa casts off its pirate garb

A multimillion-dollar settlement is putting Kazaa on the straight and narrow, but it might not be enough to put the file-sharing service on the road to recovery. Read more »

Microsoft working on file-sharing application

Microsoft is working on its own file-sharing application, code-named Avalanche. Read more »

Kazaa appeal likely in 2006

Any appeal by key players associated with the Kazaa file-sharing software will only be heard in February or March next year. Read more »

RIAA wins court case against file-sharer

A US woman must pay US$220,000 to six major music labels after a federal jury found her guilty of illegally sharing copyright music online. Read more »

Browsers add BitTorrent support

Norwegian Web browser company Opera released a new test version of its software Thursday that supports the BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology, one of the most popular tools in the file-swapping world. Read more »

'Zombie' PCs caused Web outage, Akamai says

The attack that blacked out Google, Yahoo and other major Web sites earlier this week involved the use of a "bot net"--a large network of zombified home PCs according to Internet infrastructure provider Akamai Technologies. Read more »

Blackout hits major Web sites

A domain name outage Tuesday morning that left many popular Web sites such as Yahoo, Google, Microsoft.com and Apple.com temporarily inaccessible was the result of an Internet attack, according to Web infrastructure company Akamai. Read more »

New piracy boss talks tough on ISPs

The Australian music industry's newly appointed chief piracy investigator has warned Internet service providers (ISPs) that the current Swiftel case will herald a new regime of responsibility for copyright breaches. Read more »

eXeem opens new file-swapping doors

Underground programmers hoping to capitalise on the BitTorrent file-swapping community on Friday unveiled highly anticipated software that some peer-to-peer advocates believe could blunt recent legal attacks from Hollywood. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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