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According to a new study (PDF) by economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Harvard) and Koleman Strumpf (University of Kansas), file sharing and weaker copyright protections generally benefit societies more than they hurt

Not too long ago, after the demise of Napster, Kazaa became synonymous with P2P file sharing. After a number of costly lawsuits and failed attempts to appease the music industry,

LimeWire - an eight-year old P2P service that manages to survive despite the best efforts of the RIAA - isn't resting on its laurels. In fact, despite the turmoil in

The Google-sleuths at Google Operating System broke the news this afternoon that mobile startup Zingku has been acquired by Google. Zingku provides all kinds of content sharing and alert services

Today, Wuala, one of our Top 10 International Products of 2008, released a major update of its platform. Until today, you had to use Wuala's desktop application to use the

Microsoft's Silverlight may have one heck of a mountain to climb in order to take marketshare from Adobe's near ubiquitous Flash plugin, but Redmond is doing a lot of things

Yahoo just announced that the close beta period for its location platform Fire Eagle has ended and that the service is now open for everybody. We wrote about Fire Eagle

Twango is a new media sharing service, for video, photos and other media. It's similar to eSnips, Multiply and PeopleAggregator, in that it combines media sharing with social networking. Twango

According to the latest data from HitWise, Photobucket, the leading photo sharing site in the United States, saw a rapid decline in its market share over the last twelve months.

According to a report by the Financial Times, some of the larger music labels are looking into creating a single destination site for their artists' video content. The Financial Times