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61 relations: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Adware, Ares Galaxy, Australia, Australian Recording Industry Association, BearShare, Binary file, Buma/Stemra, Capitol Records, Capitol Records, Inc. v. Thomas-Rasset, Copyright, Cydoor, Deposition (law), Direct Revenue, Don't Download This Song, Estonia, FastTrack, Gnutella, Hard disk drive, Hari Balakrishnan, IMesh, Interscope Records, Jaan Tallinn, Janus Friis, Joost, Kazaa, Kazaa Lite, Kevin Bermeister, LimeWire, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., Microsoft Windows, Morpheus (software), MP3, Napster, Netherlands, New.net, Nikki Hemming, Niklas Zennström, Peer-to-peer, Peer-to-peer file sharing, Proprietary software, Rdio, Recording Industry Association of America, Sharman Networks, Skype, Song, Sony BMG, StopBadware, ..., StreamCast Networks, Streamwaves, Supreme Court of the United States, Sweden, The Boston Globe, The Pirate Bay, Top-level domain, Vanuatu, Warner Bros. Records, Wikisource, WinMX. Expand index (11 more) »
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (born October 23, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter, film/record producer, satirist, and author.
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Adware
Adware, or advertising-supported software, is software that generates revenue for its developer by automatically generating online advertisements in the user interface of the software or on a screen presented to the user during the installation process.
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Ares Galaxy
Ares Galaxy is an open source peer-to-peer file sharing application that uses its own decentralized supernode/leaf network.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Australian Recording Industry Association
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956.
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BearShare
BearShare was a peer-to-peer file sharing application originally created by Free Peers, Inc.
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Binary file
A binary file is a computer file that is not a text file.
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Buma/Stemra
BUMA/STEMRA are two private organizations in the Netherlands, the Buma Association (Dutch: Vereniging Buma) and the Stemra Foundation (Dutch: Stichting Stemra) that operate as one single company that acts as the Dutch collecting society for composers and music publishers.
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Capitol Records
Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.
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Capitol Records, Inc. v. Thomas-Rasset
Capitol Records, Inc.
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Copyright
Copyright is a legal right, existing globally in many countries, that basically grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to determine and decide whether, and under what conditions, this original work may be used by others.
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Cydoor
Cydoor Desktop Media is an Israeli adware company.
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Deposition (law)
A deposition in the law of the United States, or examination for discovery in the law of Canada, involves the taking of sworn, out-of-court oral testimony of a witness that may be reduced to a written transcript for later use in court or for discovery purposes.
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Direct Revenue
Direct Revenue was a New York City company which distributed software (a downloadable adware client) that displays pop-up advertising on web browsers.
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Don't Download This Song
"Don't Download This Song" is the first single from "Weird Al" Yankovic's 12th studio album Straight Outta Lynwood.
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Estonia
Estonia (Eesti), officially the Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariik), is a sovereign state in Northern Europe.
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FastTrack
FastTrack is a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol that was used by the Kazaa, Grokster, iMesh, and Morpheus file sharing programs.
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Gnutella
Gnutella (possibly by analogy with the GNU Project) is a large peer-to-peer network.
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Hard disk drive
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive or fixed disk is an electromechanical data storage device that uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve digital information using one or more rigid rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material.
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Hari Balakrishnan
Hari Balakrishnan is the Fujitsu Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
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IMesh
iMesh was a media and file sharing client that was available in nine languages.
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Interscope Records
Interscope Records is an American major record label.
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Jaan Tallinn
Jaan Tallinn (born 14 February 1972 in Tallinn) is an Estonian programmer, investor, and physicist who participated in the development of Skype in 2002 and FastTrack/Kazaa, a file-sharing application, in 2000.
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Janus Friis
Janus Friis (born 26 June 1976 in Copenhagen) is a Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application Kazaa, and the peer-to-peer telephony application Skype.
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Joost
Joost was an Internet TV service, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa).
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Kazaa
Kazaa Media Desktop (once stylized as "KaZaA", but later usually written "Kazaa") started as a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol licensed by Joltid Ltd. and operated as Kazaa by Sharman Networks.
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Kazaa Lite
Kazaa Lite can refer to one of many third-party modifications of Kazaa, a peer-to-peer file-sharing computer program.
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Kevin Bermeister
Kevin Bermeister has developed several businesses in the computer, multimedia and Internet industries.
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LimeWire
LimeWire is a discontinued free peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) client for Windows, macOS, Linux and Solaris.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.
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MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.
MGM Studios, Inc.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.
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Morpheus (software)
Morpheus was a file sharing and searching peer-to-peer client for Microsoft Windows, developed and distributed by the company StreamCast, that originally used the Opennap protocol, but later supported many different peer-to-peer protocols.
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MP3
MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is an audio coding format for digital audio.
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Napster
Napster is the name given to three music-focused online services.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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New.net
New.net was an alternative DNS root system which is enabled via NewDotNet, a DNS hijacker application, which is usually bundled with legitimate software.
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Nikki Hemming
Nikki Hemming (born 1967) is the CEO and part owner of Sharman Networks and President of LEF Interactive, an agency based in Sydney, Australia, responsible for promoting and developing Kazaa, a peer-to-peer file sharing network, since 2002.
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Niklas Zennström
Niklas Zennström (born 16 February 1966) is a Swedish billionaire entrepreneur best known for founding several high-profile online ventures with Janus Friis including Skype and Kazaa.
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Peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers.
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Peer-to-peer file sharing
Peer-to-peer file sharing is the distribution and sharing of digital media using peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technology.
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Proprietary software
Proprietary software is non-free computer software for which the software's publisher or another person retains intellectual property rights—usually copyright of the source code, but sometimes patent rights.
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Rdio
Rdio was an online music streaming service that offered ad-supported free streaming and ad-free subscription streaming services in 85 countries. It was available as a website and via app for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Windows Phone mobile devices, which could stream music from Rdio's servers or download music for offline playback; there were also clients for the Roku and Sonos systems. The web-based service also offered a native desktop client application for OS X and Windows, as well as a Windows Store application. Rdio's library had content from the four major record labels, as well as the Merlin Network and the aggregators BFM Digital, Catapult, CD Baby, Finetunes, INgrooves, and The Orchard. Rdio also offered social networking features, such as the ability to share songs, albums, and playlists with others on Rdio and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. On November 16, 2015, Rdio filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in which they had to pay $200 million and announced the sale of certain intellectual property to Pandora Radio. The purchase price is $75 million in cash.
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Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.
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Sharman Networks
Sharman Networks is a company headquartered in Australia and incorporated in Vanuatu.
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Skype
Skype is a telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console, and smartwatches via the Internet and to regular telephones.
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Song
A song, most broadly, is a single (and often standalone) work of music that is typically intended to be sung by the human voice with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections.
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Sony BMG
Sony BMG Music Entertainment was a multinational record label, which was a 50–50 joint venture between the Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann Music Group.
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StopBadware
StopBadware is an anti-malware nonprofit organization focused on making the Web safer through the prevention, mitigation, and remediation of badware websites.
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StreamCast Networks
StreamCast Networks, Inc., was an American corporation, specializing in peer-to-peer software.
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Streamwaves
Streamwaves was an online music service founded by Jeff Tribble in 1999.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.
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The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay (sometimes abbreviated to TPB) is an online index of digital content of entertainment media and software.
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Top-level domain
A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet.
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Vanuatu
Vanuatu (or; Bislama, French), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (République de Vanuatu, Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is a Pacific island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean.
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Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros.
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Wikisource
Wikisource is an online digital library of free content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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WinMX
WinMX (Windows Music Exchange) is a freeware peer-to-peer file sharing program authored by Frontcode Technologies that runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems, created in 2000.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazaa
