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[Blogcritics.org] Blogcritics.org: Filesharers Spend More on Legal Downloads, Survey ...: A survey of more than 600 computer-savvy music fans by the British music research firm The Leading Question shows that those who regularly download or share copyrighted music without permission also spend an average of £5.52 a month on legal downloads, while those who don't illegally fileshare spent just £1.27 a month on digital tracks - a difference of almost 450%.

[Freedom-to-tinker.com] Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » A Grand Unified Theory of ...: On his Freedom to Tinker blog, Princeton computer science professor Edward .There has been no way of circumventing this until file sharing and later .

 [En.wikipedia.org] BitTorrent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Following the success of the BitTorrent protocol, Bram Cohen, its creator, was hired in 2004 by Valve Software to develop a means of distributing patches and other content for online video games, proving that there are some less controversial reasons for the development of this technology. While many legal files, including Linux distributions, are available on other networks such as eDonkey2000 and Gnutella these are placed there by users and not generally part of the official distribution mechanism.

[Blogs.siliconvalley.com] Good Morning Silicon Valley: NBC bolsters fall lineup with "Peer ...: wrote Justice David Souter in the majority opinion. "The record is replete with evidence that from the moment Grokster and StreamCast began to distribute their free software, each one clearly voiced the objective that recipients use it to download copyrighted works, and each took active steps to encourage infringement." The unanimous decision reverses two lower-courts rulings and sends the case back for trial to the same lower court that had originally ruled in favor of Grokster and StreamCast Networks on the basis of a precedent set in the "Betamax case."

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