A Betanews report points to increased adoption of “Napster-proof” CDs by major labels. “The fight to Napster-proof audio CDs has entered the next round of development. Record industry giant BMG Entertainment is set to begin testing a technology which it hopes will thwart the illegal creation of compact discs.” Burn baby burn.

There is a report saying “RIAA sees that since the court has already ordered Napster to filter out and block all copyrighted music from its service, there is no longer need to pursue their own lawsuit.” Well I guess they’re done kicking the bloodied and battered corpse, maybe we can all stop gawking at the [...]

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Cnet News.com reports that “Napster is expected to name a new chief executive as early as Tuesday, according to sources close to the company, bringing current CEO Hank Barry’s tumultuous term to a close.” Oh come on isn’t that a bit harsh? I mean all he did was completely cave to the RIAA and sell [...]

Reported on Slyway.net:As you may know, KaZaA doesn’t allow mp3′s with a bitrate above 128 to be shared. This limitation has prevented KaZaA from being the top P2P network, however, this limitation can easily be circumvented. 1) Run regedit.(Using start menu> run > ‘regedit’) 2) Press ctrl+F to search, and search for ‘limitbitrate ‘ (takes [...]

News.com reports “A federal appeals court on Wednesday issued a short reprieve for Napster, saying the company can temporarily restart its song-swapping service online.” Yay for nothing.

Hollywood.com has a pretty cool Napster Timeline, starting from “College dropout Shawn Fanning, 19, and some friends start the Napster Inc. file-sharing service, which gains overnight popularity on the Internet,” all the way to “Napster to remain offline until it can show that it is able to effectively block access to copyrighted works.” Okay, so [...]

GotDivX.com has a really cool article on how to rip DVDs onto your computer, either to burn for storage or share on BearShare. Plus it has a really cool way to get your hands on an endless supply of your favorite DVDs to rip – for less than the cost of a single DVD per [...]

MediaForce, an digital copyright enforcement firm specializing in Internet anti-piracy solutions, today announced the top ten pirated movies on the Internet for the month of June. Three of the titles on the Top Ten list — “Tomb Raider,” “Shrek,” and “Pearl Harbor” — are current box-office hits, with a combined cumulative gross of $542 million [...]

Many dismal reports from the annual MP3.com Summit, starting with one from CNet News.com: On a sunny university plaza here, a band played punk rock songs for a dwindling lunchtime crowd of businesspeople, code writers and copyright lawyers. The music fit the event, the fourth–and probably last–annual MP3.com Summit, or what used to be one [...]

From AP – Napster escaped a legal mess Thursday when it settled a suit filed by heavy metal band Metallica but the embattled song-swapping company still faces a federal judge’s order demanding the service remain off-line until it prevents all unauthorized song trading. “I think we’ve resolved this in a way that works for fans, [...]

News.com is running an article on Napster Alternatives, and who will be the one to succeed Napster. Well, fact is, no one wants to replace Napster. We just want our f***ing free music. Full Article

ZDNet Australia is running an article extolling the virtues of Audiogalaxy. My favorite quote: “Gnutella and BearShare weren’t doing it for me. A lot of search issues I had with Napster were suddenly addressed…And most importantly of all, my searches seem to turn up pretty much everything I look for, so I’m back into MP3 [...]

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A German court has ordered computer giant Hewlett-Packard Corp. to pay fees on all compact disc burners sold in the country over the last three years, upholding a new law meant to take a bite out of music piracy. As reported by AP

News.com reports that Napster has released a new version, screwing over the Napster clone industry. Says Kelly Truelove of clip2, “Napster with its new client has not only blocked access to Napster from its cloned client, it’s also made it impossible to utilize the Napster client to connect to the clone server” Oops.