Accellion delivers encrypted collaboration to iOS

  A new version of the Accellion iOS app for secure file sharing supports two-way transfers.  
 

Limewire gives in to industry giants

American filesharing software corporation LimeWire has settled out of court with the major record labels, reportedly for over one hundred million US dollars.
 

Stallman calls for file-sharing to be legalised

The chairman of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, has called for internet file-sharing to  be legalised in order that people could benefit from sharing material that they should rightly be able to.
 

LimeWire and founder found liable

In another significant victory for the record labels against online file sharing, a New York judge has ruled that popular peer-to-peer system LimeWire and its founder are responsible for copyright infringement.
 

Why I didn’t expect AFACT to appeal

OPINION: It came to me the other night, when I was watching an episode of that excellent TV show The Wire, that the particulars of the drug trade it focuses on are very similar to that of the online copyright infringement struggle.
 

Hosted services linked to SME revenue growth

New research suggests revenue growth goes hand-in-hand with the adoption of hosted services by SMEs.
 

AARNet takes large files to the cloud

The not-for profit Australian Academic and Research Network – AARNet - has managed the transfer of files of up to 55 gigabytes in customer trials of its new web-based large file transfer sevice, CloudStor, which was launched on the market today and which allows the secure electronic transfer of virtually any file type regardless of size.
 

Music industry wrong about file sharing teens

If the music industry thinks that file sharing teens are the biggest problem it faces, it had better think again according to a new report into the digital piracy threat.
 

Opera web browser re-invents meaning of word "re-invent"

Opera gained fame for being a featured web browser that consumed a minimum of memory. It fit on a floppy disk, and it ran on mobile devices. Trying to regain a place in the spotlight, Opera announced it would be re-inventing the web. Now that its secret is out I am underwhelmed.
 

UK anti-piracy approach; "three strikes and you're throttled"?

The UK government is taking decisive steps aimed at reducing illegal file sharing copyright material by 70 percent.