This Article examines P2P file sharing and the copyright enforcement problem it has created
through the lens of scalability. Part I traces the evolution of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks from …

ABSTRACT This Article examines P2P file sharing and the copyright enforcement problem it
has created through the lens of scalability. Part I traces the evolution of peer-to-peer (P2P) …

Legislative protection that provides for a fair and balanced market of copyrighted material
becomes much more challenging as new technology including peer-to-peer file sharing …

Abstract This Chapter describes how Napster, a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) filesharing service, burst
on the copyright scene within about two years of the adoption of the Internet Treaties, and …

The P2P lawsuits are piling up: Napster, Scour, Aimster, Morpheus. Although the rhetoric is
about piracy, the litigation is about technology. In every P2P case to date, copyright owners …

The introduction of peer-to-peer technology has posed enormous challenges for traditional
copyright law. Whereas historically copyright holders could preserve their core economic …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology has changed the way people access content online and
(inter) act in the digital environment. By allowing users to exchange information (files) over …

P2P file-sharing dominated the illegal online uses of copyrighted materials since its
appearance in 1999. In 2012, I have concluded my research on this field in a monograph …

This paper commences by discussing the legal history of online piracy via file sharing. The
methods employed to counter online piracy are considered and one of the interesting critical …

As new file transfer technologies rise in the wake of Napster's demise, Congress considers a
bill that would enable copyright owners to use selfhelp measures to impair piracy of their …