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Jul 31 2001

BMG to Test Copy-Protected CDs

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.

Jul 31 2001

Napster may trump RIAA

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

Jul 31 2001

Gnucleus 1.3.5 Released

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 the other, [...]

Jul 30 2001

RIAA wants to settle with Napster

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 [...]

Jul 30 2001

KaZaa hijacks you computer with bundled software

Mystery links
New Web advertising tool gets results, draws criticism

Benny Evangelista, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, July 30, 2001

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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 “jazz” [...]

Jul 29 2001

A Zeropaid Clone?

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

Jul 29 2001

TrippyMX and WinMX

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 [...]

Jul 27 2001

No More Popunders on Zeropaid – the HOWTO

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 [...]

Jul 27 2001

The Next Lawsuit Will Come From

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

Jul 26 2001

Metallica to “share” music

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’.”

Giganews Newsgroups

  • john o: would appreciate an invite to iptorrents as demonoid is still down. if i am lucky then Thank U. ...
  • Lethal: 1337x.org is owned by a two faced, retarded, 55 year old child molester named "Mustangx". He will promise you ...
  • malcolm hume: The times are getting shorter though, used to be forever before a video release and now it's a couple of months. So...
  • malcolm hume: The whole release schedule thing is annoying, but it helps them pay for the movies and minimize the risk. Most of the m...
  • malcolm hume: They're not trying to stop piracy altogether. They know there's a few people who will go to the trouble to do ...
  • malcolm hume: The other thing is, the basic system we have is Capitalist. Trying to change that by making artists conform to a seperat...
  • malcolm hume: Well, the first one is mob rule and I think if we go down that road we'll have a lot more probelms than not being a...
  • malcolm hume: Ummm, no? ...
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