f the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) gets its way, the file-sharing company LimeWire will get blasted out of existence with a billion dollar fine. Meanwhile, British Petroleum, with its oil spill, that’s on its way to the ecology disaster level of a Chernobyl, is liable for up to $75-million under the Oil Pollution [...]
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Socking it to the guilty: Billion dollar fine for LimeWire, $75-million for BP’s oil spill
June 9th, 2010 · Comments Off
Tags: Business · Entertainment · Internet · Legal · Network · Peer to Peer
The RIAA’s Billion Dollar Blunder
February 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
As everyone who gives darn about music and technology knows, Napster offered the music industry a billion bucks over the next five years if they would, pretty please with sugar on top, not sue them out of existence. The music business, represented by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) replied, “Hell no!” Well, actually [...]
Tags: Business · Music · Peer to Peer
Windows for Workgroups: Hauling the Data on the Microsoft Line
January 22nd, 1992 · Comments Off
Once more into the breech! Microsoft, after years of playing second fiddle to Novell in the LAN market, now enters the networking battle field with Windows for Workgroups (WinWork). WinWork adds peer-to-peer networking functionality to Windows 3.1. This bold combination of today’s most popular graphical user interface (GUI) and LAN-capability bids to tilt the network [...]
Tags: Intranet · Microsoft · Network · Peer to Peer · Windows
