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Court-Appointed Expert to Select File-Sharing Copyright Filter

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 29, 2007 - 10:21am.
Morpheus logo Los Angeles - A federal judge last week ordered that a court-appointed expert be put in place to determine the best means for StreamCast Networks, operator of the Morpheus file-sharing service, to block unauthorized downloads on its network.
tags: Law | Lawsuits | P2P | Piracy | Copyright | Morpheus | StreamCast Networks | MGM v. Grokster |

StreamCast Adds Joost to Lawsuit Over Peer-to-Peer Technology

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 23, 2007 - 12:01pm.

San Francisco - Joost, the ad-supported, peer-to-peer streaming TV service created by the founders of Skype and Kazaa, has been added as a defendant to a year-old lawsuit filed by StreamCast Networks over the rights to the service's underlying FastTrack peer-to-peer technology, CNET News.com reported.

tags: Law | Lawsuits | P2P | TV | Music | Skype | Morpheus | Kazaa | StreamCast Networks | Joost | FastTrack |

Judge Grants Hollywood Victory in StreamCast File-Sharing Case

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 28, 2006 - 1:58pm.
Los Angeles - A federal judge has granted summary judgment in favor of the movie studios and record labels who sued file-sharing firm StreamCast Networks, distributors of the Morpheus peer-to-peer application, for copyright infringement. The ruling, which StreamCast may still appeal, is part of the aftermath of the landmark 2005 Supreme Court ruling that found providers of file-sharing software liable for copyright infringement committed by users. The Supreme Court sent that suit back to U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson, whose initial 2003 ruling in favor of StreamCast started the case on its way up the appeals process. Judge Wilson's ruling on Wednesday cited "overwhelming" evidence of StreamCast's "massive infringement." "No single court ruling solves piracy or can make up for several challenging years for the music community, but there's no doubt that that rules of the road for online music are better today than they were yesterday," said RIAA chairman and CEO Mitch Bainwol.
tags: Video | Law | Lawsuits | Tech | P2P | Piracy | Music | RIAA | Copyright | File-Sharing | StreamCast | Morpheus |

StreamCast Sues eBay, Others for $4.1 Billion Over Rights to Skype

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 24, 2006 - 7:48pm.
Los Angeles - StreamCast Networks, distributors of the Morpheus peer-to-peer file-sharing software, has filed a lawsuit against Skype parent company eBay and 21 other defendants, claiming it had first rights to the Internet telephone technology and seeking over $4.1 billion in damages.
tags: Law | Lawsuits | Tech | P2P | eBay | VOIP | Skype | StreamCast | Morpheus |

Grokster, Morpheus File Briefs in RIAA Appeal of Landmark P2P Ruling

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 17, 2003 - 6:44am.
Los Angeles -- Two file-sharing services that won a landmark court ruling placing the burden of copyright infringement with individual users on Wednesday filed briefs in an appeal of that ruling brought by the music and movie industries. The original ruling said that Grokster and Streamcast Networks, which operates Morpheus, were not guilty of copyright infringement -- starkly contrasting the case against Napster, which was found guilty of copyright infringement. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) filed their appeal with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in August; Grokster and Streamcast Networks filed their response on Wednesday. "Instead of asking the court to deputize every technology vendor to enforce their copyrights for them, they should license the technology at a fair price," Grokster president Wayne Rosso told Reuters. "Five bucks a month from each of 60 million filesharers beats the hell out of filing a federal case to get $2,000 from a 12-year-old girl." http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3461990 
tags: P2P | RIAA | Morpheus | Grokster | Landmark |

Morpheus File-Sharing Network CEO Steve Griffin Resigns

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 17, 2003 - 5:08am.
Nashville, Tenn. -- The CEO of StreamCast Networks, operator of the Morpheus peer-to-peer file-sharing network currently being sued by entertainment companies for copyright infringement, announced his resignation from the company late Friday. The company said CEO Steve Griffin left "to pursue other opportunities." Tennessee-based StreamCast, which along with fellow file-sharing providers Grokster and Kazaa was sued by most of the major movie studios and record labels, said it is currently seeking a replacement for Griffin and that its management team will run the company's operations in the meantime.
tags: File-Sharing | Morpheus | CEO | Resigns | Steve Griffin |