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 [...]

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. Link

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. At the [...]

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 [...]

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 [email protected] 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.

Hot on the heels of so many other problems with P2P programs it would appear that old Audiogalaxy is modifiying their end_user_agreement. Aside from some a few changes to how people can muck up their so called music forums and some thinly veiled warnings to email spammers, their is a good deal about copyright protection. [...]

Well as the saying goes, Napster is Dead blah blah blah. Well SOME of us still like using it in conjunction with napigator to connect to private networks to chat with our buddies and,as irrational as this sounds to alot of some people, some of us still like to use it to download music with [...]

BuddyShare Version 3.0 is available at I have been using buddyshare for quiet some time and i have found that it is the best one i have used. It is easy and simple no complicated search’s. Come on over and share share share over 1 million files being shared over 8,000GB of information.

Some very dear friends of ours, 8 Ball Rack, are winning a Hard Rock/Garageband.com battle of the bands. They have made it past the local stages and are now in competition with 11 other bands. Cool thing is, the competition is via online voting. This is where you come in. Wanna give something to Zeropaid [...]

From ZDnet: “This is bad news for the major music labels. They launched subscription download services MusicNet and Pressplay this month in an effort to combat the rise of music piracy on the Internet, which the labels claim is eating into CD sales. These subscription services have had a lackluster debut as music fans and [...]

A brand new OpenNap server opened as a christmas Gift: BakaNap! It’s dedicated entirely to Cartoons, Animation and Manga. You can join us using WinMX, Rapigator or any OpenNap client – Our adress: bakaserveur.dns2go.com port 8888. – We also have a website (in french) www.bakahub.fr.st – there are very few users at this moment, obviously, [...]

There’s a brand new File Spree version out. It has been completely redone and rebuilt to relieve a lot of the older memory issues. This version, instead of just having the servers host files, the clients do. Instant messaging now works completely, and the entire program has improved. It is less bulky, and also 1/3 [...]

Despite the decision for Xolox (www.xolox.nl) to discontinue their file sharing utility, because of legal action against Fasttrack, hackers have released a crack that brings xolox back to life. The developers of Xolox had essentially stopped people from using their software by disabling the ‘download’ function whilst connected to the Gnutella network. The ‘new’ version [...]

Gnotella’s two directors, Shaun Sidwall and Jonathon Levinson, have both resigned from their positions, making the future of everyone’s favorite Gnutella client (?) very uncertain indeed. They both cited a breakdown in communications between themselves and company President and CEO, Stephane Chouinard, as the immediate reason for their resignations. Development of Gnotella has been suspended [...]

FileNavigator has just released a beta of 3.0. It has the following additions: 1. Support for the Gnutella network. (Now it supports Gnutella, OpenNap, and its own P2P Network!!) 2. A stop search button 3. An improved user interface 4. Many bug fixes Get it here: FileNavigator 3 Beta