by By Sephiroth The best place to start is the beginning of online music. Soon after porno files first crept online, music soon followed. The forms of online illegal music has taken many forms from midi files, wav files, streaming files , and the infamous lil mp3. All of these file types throughout the years [...]

by Raj Singh, Submitted exclusively for Zeropaid.com P2P filesharing is dead. That’s right, filesharing has been ruled as illegal and will be ended as soon as the DOJ finishes the paper work. So what now, well I guess the music downloading is getting old so how about some P2P games, or maybe some P2P entertainment, [...]

by Wes Royer Napster, Napster, Napster! The Morning Show and Good Morning America, Dateline and 60 Minutes, newsstands like TIME and Newsweek, dailies like the Washington Post and USA Today, small-town or college newspapers, the evening eyewitness news … every media outlet is now keeping you up to date with the Napster vs. RIAA battle. [...]

by Wes Royer This week, independent musicians were dissed once more by the music industry, but this time by a one of their biggest allies: MP3.com. While many saw MP3.com as either a sellout or simply a collection of independent music junk or leftovers, the rest of us realized how easy it was for the [...]

by Sickbitch As the 21st century opens, a new and exciting means of transferring information is blossoming. It is now possible to make, distribute and publicise high quality music at very little cost. Many of the services provided by the music business are no longer needed. More and more musicians have discovered a way to [...]

by Jeffery Commaroto In the early American Republic, there were two distinct visions of how best to govern the country. On one hand you had the Federalists, consisting of the first two presidents, George Washington and John Adams as well as figures like Alexander Hamilton. They were the party of business, of the national banking [...]

by Jeffery Commaroto It’s been an odd few months. It seems like one headline after another since the latest round of court decisions regarding Napster have all made bold statements about the end of file sharing and Napster itself, it has yet to happen. I believe there is a reason why this is so that [...]

by Wes Royer The Federal Trade Commission recently issued a report criticizing the music industry for supposedly continuing to market violent music to children, and the official Democratic Party censor, Lieberman, jumped on the bandwagon and announced plans to introduce legislation punishing record labels for marketing violence to children. Well, I completely disagree with the [...]

The diaspora of fileshare services is the feature article on Salon. They pointed to Zeropaid as a resource in the post-Napster world. “We work for the freedom of information, without a voice we stand silent. Without you, we have no voice.” – Jorge Read Here

Wired.com just a ran a little piece on where Napster stands at the moment after the new court ruling. Looks like Napster may be dead now, now there is something we haven’t heard before…. Read The Story

Here’s how the scenario will play out : Macrovision has been testing their “protection” (ha-ha) only on a few disks sold in California. This means that they’ve only been testing market acceptance, not whether or not the technology works. They’ve kept the titles a secret, so that people can’t test the quality or try to [...]

Java is essential to the software ecosystem – and reports that Microsoft won’t include Java Virtual Machine code with Windows XP are a blow to developers and users who rely on Java. Clay Shirky and O’Reilly call on PC manufacturers to install the most recent version of the JVM on their Windows machines. Read why, [...]

The agreement is not surprising, given public statements of this intention since Vivendi Universal agreed to acquire MP3.com for about $350 million in May. Vivendi Universal painted the MP3.com acquisition as a technology buy, saying the online music company’s technology could facilitate the digital distribution of various forms of content.

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.

Salon.com is featuring a interesting article on how Britain elementary-schools prepare to preach reverence for intellectual property and to denounce the evils of file-sharing. Does copyright fit in the classroom?

Napster is going to ditch the MP3 format altogether and run instead with a proprietaryformat, .nap, that will include a digital rights aspect and keep music companies off its back. Story from The Register. Yay!

Newscientist.com just ran an article featuring a CD with piracy protection that doesn’t allow you to rip or copy the CD. I say to hell with this idea. LET THE MUSIC BE FREE FOR ALL. Lets not pay 18 bucks for something and then be told what we can’t do with it.

Twistedhumor.com is spamming their list members (and I’m not even on their damn list) with an ad for this place. So I checked it out. They’re asking for $4 a month to use their “exclusive” software. Exclusive software that sounds a lot like a gnutella client. Check out the site yourself…they have something at the [...]

ModernHumorist.com is at it again with new artwork to spark up your cubicle or bring life to your placid corner desk. This time Pat Broderick, creator of the MP3/Communism poster has done it again with “Napster: The Motion Picture”. Starz Encore is rumored to have started producing the movie.