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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 collected information for free reuse
elsewhere. In this [...]

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 the [...]