The music industry has filed suit against popular peer-to-peer software company LimeWire. The coalition of record companies taking legal action includes Sony BMG, Virgin Records and Warner Bros. Records.

PC Magazine - French nationalists and free market advocates, whose sniping over cross-border takeovers has grabbed headlines, may now have something they can agree on: protecting freedom of choice on song and video downloads from the Internet.

PC Magazine - More companies are bringing consumer applications of GPS to market, from Bluetooth-enabled handheld products to P2P networking.

NewsFactor - The lower house of the French parliament voted to legalize peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing of movies and music via the Internet. It is a vote that is certain to reverberate around the globe and drawn severe criticism from the nation's film and music industries as well as from actors and recording artists.