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2. Music piracy - Wikipedia

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   In comparison to the illegal software used by older music piracy networks such as Napster or Limewire, current music streaming services such as Spotify and Rdio offer cheap yet legal access to copyrighted music by paying the rights holders through money made off of payments made by premium users and through advertisements.

3. Napster - Wikipedia

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   Napster was a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing application primarily associated with digital audio file distribution. Founded by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, the platform originally launched on June 1, 1999. [1] Audio shared on the service was typically encoded in the MP3 format. As the software became popular, the company encountered legal ...

4. Lantern (software) - Wikipedia

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   Lantern (software) Lantern is a free [a] internet censorship circumvention tool that operates in some of the most extreme censorship environments, such as China, Iran, and Russia. [5] It uses wide variety of protocols and techniques that obfuscate network traffic and/or co-mingle traffic with protocols censors are reluctant to block.

5. MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. - Wikipedia

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   Lime Group LLC (2010), also led to a ruling in favor of the entertainment industry and an injunction against use of the software. Following that ruling, the download page for the free LimeWire client included a footnote stating: "The download, however, is not a license to upload or download copyrighted material.

6. Gnutella - Wikipedia

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   This allowed the network to grow in popularity. In late 2001, the Gnutella client LimeWire Basic became free and open source. In February 2002, Morpheus, a commercial file sharing group, abandoned its FastTrack-based peer-to-peer software and released a new client based on the free and open source Gnutella client Gnucleus .

7. Copyright infringement - Wikipedia

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   These intermediaries may include the author, publishers, and marketers of peer-to-peer networking software, and the websites that allow users to download such software. In the case of the BitTorrent protocol, intermediaries may include the torrent tracker and any websites or search engines which facilitate access to torrent files.