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Special/Investigative Report
1.Bit Torrent
A new method of P2P file-sharing has emerged in BitTorrent. The system is community based as you upload parts of the file you are downloading to others who are downloading the same file. Another good thing? It supports resume! One last thing, it's open source!

In refugee camp, a P2P outpost

"Deep in the tense Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian West Bank, a new file-swapping service is daring record labels and movie studios to turn their piracy-hunting into an international incident. Dubbed Earthstation 5, the new file-swapping network is openly flouting international copyright norms at a time when many older peer-to-peer companies are trying to establish themselves as legitimate technology companies."
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Nabster -- The Holy Grail Of Online Piracy Detection

The PAN Network, birthplace of online digital audio, is proud to announce the release of Nabster for detection, deterrence, and compliance monitoring of online piracy.
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RIAA challenged by ISP

The excessive use of force in the RIAA's jihad against music swappers has led to a call for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to be re-examined.
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Colleges look to legal file swapping

"Universities are considering ways to bring legal Internet jukeboxes to dorm rooms, including entering deals with commercial service providers that would see online music charges included alongside tuition fees or picked up by the schools themselves."
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Court tells RIAA to take subpoenas somewhere else

"The race is on between file-traders and the RIAA's lawyers to see who can do more damage to the music labels' bottom line."
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Senator Wants Answers From RIAA

"Sen. Norm Coleman is concerned the recording industry is taking an extreme approach in its attempt to quash online file trading and may hurt innocent people in the process.

On Thursday, Coleman (R-Minn.), chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, asked the Recording Industry Association of America, or RIAA, to provide detailed information about the more than 900 subpoenas it has issued so far."
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RIAA's scare tactics bound to backfire

"COMMENTARY--The Recording Industry Association of America's efforts to scare peer-to-peer users who violate copyright laws began with a promising start exactly one year ago.

Last August, the RIAA asked a federal court in Washington, D.C., to force Verizon Communications to divulge the identity of a Kazaa user, kicking off a legal tussle that ended with the RIAA winning a stunning victory. At about the same time, key members of Congress wrote a letter that asked the U.S. Department of Justice to begin criminal prosecutions of P2P users who "allow mass copying," while an RIAA ally on Capitol Hill simultaneously introduced a bill to allow copyright holders to attack computers on P2P networks used for piratical purposes.

A year later, however, there are some signs that the RIAA's antipiracy campaign is faltering."
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Congress, the new copyright bully

"Congress has become exasperated with its inability to get Americans to stop engaging in copyright infringement.

So Rep. Howard Berman jokes that he "probably" does not favor the death penalty for infringers, Sen. Orrin Hatch half-jokes that he would like to blow up the computers of infringers and Rep. John Carter wants to see infringing college kids thrown in jail for 33 months."
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'Fritz' calls it quits

Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, the senator who united an often-fractious tech community because of his views on copyright law and Net filters, is retiring at the end of his term.

Technology advocates are cheering the impending departure of Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, a longtime adversary of computer companies and unabashed champion of intrusive new copyright laws.
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