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.

Findlaw.com has an interesting commentary on how Napster may be able to force the RIAA to license its material.

From the Zeropaid Mailbox comes this announcement from John Marshall, one of the Gnucleus developers. “Stability and user satisfaction describe this release. When a search is performed the most popular files are dynamically sorted to the top by default. This gives the user the shortest path to download. Also instead of attempting downloads one after [...]

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 [...]

Mystery links New Web advertising tool gets results, draws criticism Benny Evangelista, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, July 30, 2001 ——————————————————————————– After Douglas Hoppe downloaded the hot new online file-sharing program called KaZaa two weeks ago, random yellow hyperlinks began appearing on his fledgling music site. Hoppe became hopping mad when he realized words such as [...]

I was searching for Some MP3 news and then i caught up this this site. It’s call Soundlab. They are simular to Zeropaid but they only offer the top rate Downloading programs. You can check it out to see if this web page can help you. http://soundlab.8m.net

A very handy tool hit the WinMX streets this past week, its called TrippyMX. With the TrippyMX server list, you can connect to more servers then ever before quickly and easily. The process is simple. Download the TippyMX server list, replace and rename a file, update user information and your good to go! After using [...]

The truth is, we all love Zeropaid, but those damn popunders are sooo annoying. Here’s the solution: We have consolidated all popunder or otherwise offensive advertising, and only serve it to people who aren’t logged in. To be logged in, just sign in using the form above. If you do not have an account, create [...]

Wired.com just ran a little story on songwriters and how they won’t get compensated with the new Napster and other useless pay services. All I can say is here comes the next lawsuit wave from songwriters. Song writers side of the story

Metallica is now saying that they support sharing and always had. HAHAHA LOL but then i read “The fact is that Metallica has redefined the word ‘share’ to mean ‘you pay us money, we give you something in return’.”

A new study suggests that “33% of young males make their own compact discs.” All this means is we need to get more ladies on here! Where the ladies at? The article also offers this tidbit of knowledge: “Individuals are no longer accepting pre-packaged albums being sold by record companies and are turning to compilations [...]

Scary report from News.com, where somehow record companies and movie studios have become as powerful as the law: “Like many other ISPs, it has started suspending accounts of people who have been identified by record companies or movie studios as file swappers.” Of all people though, Verizon has got it right: “Some ISPs, such as [...]

Vivendi Executive Vice President Edgar Bronfman Jr announced at Jupiter Communication’s Plug-in conference yesterday that the joint Vivendi Universal/Sony music service PressPlay will launch in the first half of September. When that happens will anyone find compelling reason to pay for it?

Now that the file sharing scene has separated itself from “Napster and the others…” quote, it seems these days all you hear about is the alternatives to what once was the greatest file sharing program for its time. So many choices, such different programs, how can a newbie survive without Napster and still get all [...]

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 [...]

From InfoWorld: “While this is bad news for Napster, it could be even worse news for the record labels. This fragmentation of users across different song-swapping applications will only make record labels’ attempts to litigate copyright infringements more difficult.” Ya Damn Right.

Users seem to be moving on, rejecting the notion of a Pay Napster and grabbing the free alternatives out there. Six out of CNet’s top 10 downloads this week were Napster clones drawing a total of 3,876,580 downloads. Morpheus took the number one spot with 1.107,161 downloads and Audiogalaxy Satellite was number two with 977,868 [...]

I downloaded swapoo (150k) I did not think such a little app could preform so well. It is a stripped down Napster look-alike but focuses on the mission at hand “to take over where napster failed” There is a clean interface and easy to use search. It will also share any file type. The only [...]

From the Bitzi welcome page: “Bitzi provides an essential utility for the world of effortless and decentralized digital distribution: a cooperative community catalog for all kinds of digital files – music, software, books, images, videos – anything and everything. “ Bitzi relies on its community of users to build the catalog, and gives back the [...]

URLBlaze is a decentralized, peer-to-peer search system that is mainly used to find files. Rather then giving access to your hard-drive and share files, URLBlaze shares the URLs of files you have downloaded using your browser. This new technology is called URL Sharing. Use URLBlaze to search for any kind of file. Instead of downloading [...]