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InternetNews November 4, 2004 Roy Mark	MPAA Targets Movie Downloaders The Motion Picture Association of America plans to begin filing copyright theft lawsuits Nov. 16 against users of peer-to-peer networks who illegally trade movies over the file-swapping networks.
InternetNews November 12, 2004 Roy Mark	Conservatives Aim to Sink Pirate Act American Conservative Union says Hollywood wants to use the DOJ as its private law firm to sue copyright infringers.
InternetNews February 18, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft's Do Not Open Letter The world's largest software company moves to defend its copyright on leaked Windows code.
PC Magazine November 16, 2005 Nicole Price Fasig	Film Fracas The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is getting more serious about Internet trading of copyrighted films.
InternetNews October 17, 2006 Roy Mark	International Recording Industry Hits File Sharers Illegal peer-to-peer file sharers are facing more than 8,000 copyright infringement lawsuits in 17 countries, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
PC Magazine December 28, 2004 Sebastian Rupley	Making Movies, Taking Movies Lawsuits are coming for people trading films online.
PC World October 3, 2001 Scarlet Pruitt	File-Sharing Services Sued RIAA and the MPAA file suit to stop file-sharing services like KaZaA and Morpheus that popped up on the Internet after Napster's demise...
InternetNews December 30, 2004 Jim Wagner	BitTorrent Operator Bites Back at MPAA LokiTorrent, a Web site that tracks and indexes BitTorrent files, says it's setting up a legal defense fund to fight a lawsuit filed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
InternetNews August 25, 2004 Roy Mark	RIAA Steps Up P2P Legal Campaign Undaunted by a landmark legal decision, the Recording Industry Association of America increases pressure on individual file swappers.
Reason May 2008 David Weigel	Downloading Lies The Motion Picture Association of America admits that movie piracy figures presented to Congress in its 2005 report, leading to stricter controls of Ethernet use at American universities, were seriously flawed.
InternetNews December 15, 2005 Roy Mark	Merry Christmas From The RIAA The music industry dropped 751 copyright-infringement lawsuits in the mail today, bringing the total number of legal actions this year against alleged peer-to-peer infringers to more than 7,000.
InternetNews February 3, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Key Online Music Piracy Ruling Reviewed The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals mulls the Recording Industry of America's lawsuits against file-swappers.
InternetNews March 23, 2004 Roy Mark	RIAA Keeps Pressure on P2P Users Record companies file another 500 lawsuits against music file sharers, including those using college servers.
InternetNews June 23, 2005 Roy Mark	P2Ps Still Dominate Downloads While productive uses of P2P are possible, illegal music and movie and music downloads are still the most common uses of P2P applications.
InternetNews September 29, 2005 Tim Gray	College Kids Can't Avoid The Sound of Music Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) file another round of copyright infringement lawsuits against 757 individuals.
InternetNews November 23, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	BitTorrent Cleans Up Illegal content won't be linked anymore from BitTorrent.com, but will it stop BitTorrent from being used for piracy?
InternetNews February 17, 2004 Roy Mark	RIAA Unleashes Another Round of Lawsuits For the second time this year, music industry targets more than 500 Jane and John Doe swappers for copyright infringement actions.
InternetNews January 21, 2004 Roy Mark	RIAA Files 532 New Lawsuits The music industry files its largest batch of copyright infringement actions to date.
InternetNews August 20, 2004 Roy Mark	P2P War Takes Bad Turn for Hollywood Court rules P2P technology is legal even if the software itself is used for illegal purposes.
InternetNews October 8, 2004 Jim Wagner	Entertainment Industry Looks For Supreme Relief The entertainment industry filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to get a definitive ruling whether software companies should be allowed to create software used to facilitate pirating copyrighted material.
InternetNews December 14, 2005 Roy Mark	Grokster Ruling Slows Illegal Downloading Six months after the Supreme Court ruled that P2P developers are legally responsible for the illegal acts of their users, illegal music sharing has dropped 11 percent.
InternetNews March 23, 2005 Roy Mark	P2P Use Losing Popularity? New Pew survey shows 53 percent of Internet users favor holding the P2P companies legally responsible for the illegal file swapping that occurs on their networks.
InternetNews May 3, 2005 Roy Mark	High Court Refuses Digital Copyright Appeal The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Internetmovies.com over an erroneous takedown notice from the Motion Picture Association of America issued under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
CIO April 15, 2003 Sarah D. Scalet	The Pirates Among Us The entertainment industry is battling the illegal distribution of copyrighted music and movie files -- and will stop at nothing to enlist your help.
InternetNews August 25, 2004 Roy Mark	DOJ Raids Private P2P Operation Authorities raided five residences and and an Internet service provider Wednesday morning in the first federal criminal enforcement action against private peer-to-peer networks.
InternetNews August 26, 2004 Roy Mark	FBI Sting Targets P2P Operation DOJ launches first peer-to-peer criminal probe by targeting a network of Direct Connect users.
InternetNews March 4, 2004 Jim Wagner	Lindows Grabs BitTorrent By The Bit Figuring they can save money using peer-to-peer technology (P2P), alternative operating system developers Lindows is giving customers 50 percent discounts if they download using BitTorrent.
InternetNews July 27, 2006 Roy Mark	Kazaa Settles Up Kazaa agreed to pay a reported $100 million to the trade organizations representing the international music industry.
InternetNews May 27, 2005 Roy Mark	No Summer Break From The RIAA The music industry targets lawsuits at students using high-speed, second-generation university networks to swap music files.
InternetNews May 9, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	BitTorrent Pulls Down The Jolly Roger Starting this summer, users will be able to buy Warner Bros. movies and TV shows using the BitTorrent distribution and search platform.
InternetNews October 21, 2005 Roy Mark	P2P Outfit in False Ad Pinch The Federal Trade Commission won a temporary court order earlier this week to rein in the advertising practices of an Internet operation claiming "file-sharing is 100 percent legal."
New Architect March 2003 Bret A. Fausett	Hooray RIAA Media companies try our patience, but they're advancing Internet law.
InternetNews September 13, 2006 Roy Mark	Another Sith Pirate Meets Force of Law Third member of Elite Torrents copyright theft ring pleads guilty to Star Wars movie theft.
InternetNews April 28, 2006 Roy Mark	Hollywood Targets Campus LANs The Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America sent letters Thursday to 40 universities in 25 states alerting the schools of LAN piracy problems on their campuses.
InternetNews November 7, 2005 Roy Mark	Grokster Settles Up, Closes Down P2P pioneer Grokster closes its site as part of settlement following landmark Supreme Court decision.
Reason April 2005 Julian Sanchez	SuitTorrent Hollywood vs. downloaders: Newer programs such as BitTorrent have made it practical for Internet users to swap the much larger files required to store movies and TV shows, pushing Hollywood into the same hot seat as the record labels.
PC Magazine November 22, 2004 Sebastian Rupley	Is P2P File Sharing Fading? Have recording industry lawsuits slowed down P2P file sharing?
InternetNews April 12, 2005 Jim Wagner	The RIAA is After Student Pirates The music organization continues its assault against illegal file-sharing, this time targeting students using Internet2.
The Motley Fool July 9, 2004 Seth Jayson	Piracy Paranoia Results from an eight-country study offer a glimpse of the struggles facing moviemakers such as Time Warner, Lions Gate Entertainment, and Sony in dealing with movie piracy through downloading.
InternetNews September 29, 2004 Roy Mark	House Toughens Penalties on P2Ps Bill calls for criminal penalties of up to five years for willfully distributing copyrighted works.
InternetNews January 25, 2005 Roy Mark	Hollywood: P2P is Not About Technology In a Supreme Court filing, the entertainment industry makes its case to hold Grokster liable for infringement.
PC Magazine August 17, 2005 John R. Quain	Pay to Peer: A New Spin on Music Sharing Wurld Media's Peer Impact sells music online through a P2P system and pays users for referrals.
The Motley Fool January 5, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Not-So-Scary Movie Does piracy threaten the movie studios? Not just yet.
InternetNews May 25, 2006 Clint Boulton	File-Sharing Trickster to Pay For Scam A man who duped customers into believing they could download copyrighted MP3 files without violating the law has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that his claims were false.
InternetNews March 28, 2005 Roy Mark	P2Ps Face Supreme Test High court to hear Hollywood's challenge against file-swapping networks.
The Motley Fool January 7, 2004 Seth Jayson	Why the Decline in Downloading? The Pew Internet Project's report on online file swapping doesn't tell the whole story.
InternetNews February 26, 2004 Roy Mark	P2P, RIAA Go Face-to-Face Prodded by two U.S. Senators, warring music and file-swapping parties will sit down to try and find common ground.
InternetNews September 6, 2005 Roy Mark	Kazaa to Continue Court Fight Down Under The peer to peer file-swapping service Kazaa loses a major round in legality of business model in Australia.
InternetNews March 1, 2005 Roy Mark	P2P Companies Set Stage for Supreme Court Appearance File-sharing software makers claim Hollywood wants to control both content and distribution by overturning Sony Betamax standard.
InternetNews September 7, 2004 Roy Mark	Copyright Office Jumps Into P2P Fray Negotiations continuing over Sen. Orrin Hatch's controversial proposal to allow copyright owners to sue P2P networks.