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MP3 Newswire is running two articles that contain their top 8 MP3 winners for 2001 as well as those who top the loser category. So who is this year’s #1 winner? The legal industry for all the billable hours they got to roll up thanks to RIAA and MPAA lawsuits. It’s a pretty interesting read [...]

In the age of DRM, Digital Right Manager and PressPlay I thought that this little information might be of interest:
WMA has been cracked. Digital rights management (DRM) version 2.0 which is used in windows media player 7.0 can now be bypassed. An anonymous coder named ‘Beale Screamer’ has created an utility to remove content protection [...]

Looks like the RIAA is feeling the heat, their actually encouraging the slashing of cd’s by as much as 80%. Rumor is cd’s may be all slashed to $9.99. I smell blood.
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In the fast paced digital world new technology is always emerging, such of which are copy protected CD’s. Many people feel this technology is a threat and they much a right to feel so, let me bear witness a personal example. About a week ago I visited a local Crow’s Nest music store. [...]

Shoppers may think they have seen enough bargains this holiday season, but CDs at $9.99 may soon be a standard offer at music stores as retailers slash prices in bid to battle the scourge of online music piracy.
So for studios, artists and retailers alike, 2001 is closing out as a year of few sweet notes [...]

Hey All, I thought you’d like to know that Direct Connect is becoming the greatest of all P2P’s.
I found a few versions: Java and Visual Basic and finally the offical one Here
Hope this helps you all.
GPA

Hey all you file sharing maniacs! Got some good news for everyone, Musiccity released news today about improvments to Morpheus, including being able to access the Gnutella Network and Windows XP support. Check it out at Cnet.

Zeropaid Note: This is unverified
Here is a list of rooms shut down by fbi
#ego = efnet
#rns = efnet
#chr = efnet
#mp3 = DalNet
Report any room that says “invite only” to Quack@tm.net
F&*# The FBI

I would like to let ya’ll on a little hobbit I have. I use several file sharing programs (Morpheus, Xolox, Napster – not) but I found another very amusing use for another file sharing program you may already know – URLBlaze. If you are already familiar with this program then you know it shares the [...]

You know right away when you read the site’s tag line, “Making it Easier to Steal Music than to Buy Music”. Enter PressPlayster, an online parody of the recently released music download services by the major labels.