According to figures from analyst firm Forrester, 14% of European internet users engage in illegal file-sharing.
Developers of the BitTorrent file-sharing process have opened an experimental data-synchronising tool up to the public.
But programs like Dropbox for file-sharing are also growing as social media networks.
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Dissatisfied customers and a culture of copying created an ideal environment for file-sharing to grow.
BitTorrent.com's experiments hint at an emerging media distribution and discovery future for the file-sharing protocol.
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The industry has failed to shut down file-sharing companies whose peer-to-peer software has legitimate applications.
On Wednesday, a Canadian judge ruled, in effect, that file-sharing was legal under Canadian copyright law.
Before the Supreme Court ruling, the entertainment industry had taken other legal action to stop file-swappers.
"Most file-sharing programs aren't the most upstanding citizens of the computing world, " Pegorraro says.
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Simply downloading the first half of the file--even on our fast Internet connection--took about 18 hours.
He believes that file-sharing is a "fad" and predicts it will fade in popularity.
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Such considerations are unlikely to end the file-sharing fad, but they seem sure to change it.
Their critics say this shows that cyberlockers realise illegal file-sharing will no longer be tolerated.
The spying was carried out just before police raids that shut down file-storing service Megaupload.
So a number of outlets have experimented with creating their own whistleblower-friendly file-sharing systems.
File-sharing networks haven't just given computer users a new way to find music and movies.
Over the last couple of years, we kinda forgot about the drama that surrounded peer-to-peer file-sharing.
If file-sharing prevents people from selling books, CDs, DVDs, and boxed software, then copyright is dead.
Copying them onto a computer file -- also known as 'ripping' a CD -- is simple.
The founder of file-sharing website Megaupload has been denied bail by a New Zealand court.
If media companies hate digitization generally, they particularly loathe Kim Dotcom and his entrepreneurial file-transfer platforms.
At the same time, it earns money trying to disrupt the illegal file-sharing channels.
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"This sends a very strong signal to file-sharers, " said Henrik Ponten, legal council at the group.
Its success is built on austerity: no ads and a tight focus on texting, photo-sharing and file-sharing.
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He cites online file-sharing firms like Dropbox and Box.net, which are popular with companies, as potential competitors.
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Since then, Cohen's method of peer-to-peer file-sharing has become a favorite tool for music and video pirates.
"This will be a very different experience from traditional file-sharing networks, " said Gilles BianRosa, CEO of Azureus.
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At the moment they view such upstarts as a handy way of weaning customers from illegal file-sharing websites.
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