news reporting, research and scholarship. Copyright laws are territorial- they do not extend beyond the territory of a specific state unless that state is a party to an international agreement. Most countries today are parties to at least one such agreement. In the area of privacy, recent court rulings seem to indicate that there can be no expectation of privacy in data exposed over peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. In a 39-page ruling released November 8, 2013, US District Court Judge Christina Reiss denied the motion to suppress evidence gathered by authorities without a search warrant through an automated peer-to-peer search tool. See also Anonymous P2P Comparison of file-sharing applications Disk sharing File sharing in Canada File sharing in Japan File sharing timeline (peer to peer and not) Friend-to-friend or F2F List of P2P protocols Open Music Model Privacy in file sharing networks Private P2P Public domain Torrent poisoning Trade group efforts against file sharing Warez References Internet terminology Intellectual property law de:Filesharing