The file-sharing company - once called "a feature, not a product" by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs - has taken the initial steps to go public and start selling company stock in the next few months.
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The notorious internet mogul, Kim Dotcom, known for his file sharing companies, said that a new service will launch soon. He also hinted that the new service will come in January 2017.
eMule is one of the world's largest and most trusted P2P file-sharing clients, allowing you to quickly find any type of file (audio, video, text, etc.), including some extremely rare content.
The Pirate Bay is back online with a few changes; the site's logo is changed as well as the staff. The site is not fully functional yet but will probably be restored to its original form soon.
Megaupload is coming back, and sooner than you think. Founder Kim Dotcom says that the new, decentralized and 'unstoppable' service is 90% coded, and servers are already being deployed.
The Internet Archive just got into the torrent seeding business - they're now offering almost a petabyte of their collection on BitTorrent, including everything from concerts to books.
Pirate hunter sounds like something from the movies, but it's the job description of about 35 student employees of proMedia, who spend their days tracking down copyright violators and making them pay.
A new study says that people who spend more time sharing files are more likely to be depressed, and that we could need surveillance to keep the internet from frying our brains. Or something like that.
Serbia's SHARE file sharing conference saw the wedding of the world's first Kopimistic couple, members of the officially recognized file sharing religion, complete with a Guy Fawkes mask-clad priest.
It appears that popular file-sharing website Fileserve has closed their rewards program and are terminating any accounts that may have used it following the recent shock closure of MegaUpload
After the takedown of MegaUpload earlier this week, popular file-sharing website Filesonic has disabled their sharing functionality and now only allows you to retrieve your own uploaded files
According to the Swiss government, piracy might not be making as big a dent in content owners' pockets as they would have us believe. In fact, piracy hasn't changed their bottom line much at all.
After last month's injunction forcing Britain's largest ISP to block access to some file-sharing sites, the MPA is trying to make other ISPs comply, but some are threatening to stand up against them.
A US District Court of Columbia judge has stated that those not in the courts' jurisdiction cannot be sued for their file sharing, leaving 99% out of The Expenables' studio NU Image's lawsuit
Online lobbying efforts have increased over government plans to rush through a controversial bill, which could see UK file-sharers disconnected from the Internet and the government given the power to block websites containing copyrighted material,...
ACS:Law said it will be sending thousands of letters to alleged file-sharers of copyright infringement. The lawsuits will go out in the New Year to thousands of suspected file-sharers, asking them for a compromise...
In her second, but almost certainly not final, trial, Jammie Thomas-Rasset (née Thomas) has now been ordered by a federal jury to pay $1.92 million to the RIAA for the 24 songs she is charged...
According to WPXI, a Pennsylvania company has uncovered a security breach involving the President's Marine One helicopters, a P2P file-sharing program, and an IP address in Tehran, the capital of Iran. Although President Obama and...
Microsoft confirmed it has fixed a bug in its online file storage and sharing service Windows Live FolderShare after users reported problems that the service was deleting files without user authorization. Microsoft sent an e-mail...
When Industry Canada came out with a study last week that found file-sharing doesn't lead to reduced CD sales -- and in fact may even lead to an increase in sales among those who download...
A woman ordered to pay $222,000 for downloading and sharing music files has decided to appeal the case. A happy Jammie Thomas said on her Myspace.com blog that the appeal was announced by her lawyer,...
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has announced that seven servers part of the eDonkey file-sharing network were shut down this week in Germany after a court granted injunctions. The servers in Germany were...
Mobile phone maker Nokia is to use Microsoft's copy protection software to boost the use of file sharing between phones in a new move to generate revenue. The world's largest cellphone supplier will build Microsoft's...
n a case of a malware purveyor attacking pirate file-sharers, security vendor Sophos has warned of a bizarre Trojan horse which has been distributed on Japanese peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. The Troj/Pirlames-A Trojan horse has been...
Hundreds of episodes of BBC programmes will be made available on a file-sharing network for the first time, the corporation has announced. The move follows a deal between the commercial arm of the...
Another file-sharing software maker has been found guilty of causing copyright infringement. A US judge has said the Morpheus software produced by StreamCast breaks the law. The ruling is another victory for the entertainment industry,...
The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday from representatives of major film studios and the recording industry who are seeking to shut down peer-to-peer services they say are costing them billions of dollars. One of the...
A big thanks goes out to Neowin's very own BOOGSoftball™ for spotting this bit of news. Most musicians and artists say the Internet has helped them make more money from their work...
Andrew Orlowski, technology journalist and author, said, in a keynote speech at the Interactive In The City conference being held in Manchester, Pop piracy should be decriminalised and the music industry should realise that efforts...
A federal appeals court has ruled that file-sharing software is in fact legal. The panel noted that file-sharing companies simply provide the software for individual users to share information. Therefore, they cannot be...
A group of state attorney generals are preparing a letter warning file-sharing companies that they could be targets of legal action if they don't take stronger action on privacy and intellectual property violations. ...
Since the Recording Industry Association of America began its campaign against file-sharing services and unauthorized song swapping online in 1999, it has offered one chief justification for its actions: downloading songs is stealing money from...
Use of several Internet file-sharing services declined the week after the music industry threatened to sue online music swappers, an Internet tracking firm said Monday. Kazaa and Morpheus -- two popular file-swapping...
A day after developers at America Online's Nullsoft unit quietly released file-sharing software, AOL pulled the link to the product from the subsidiary's Web site. The software, called Waste, lets groups set up private,...
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