Wired.com just ran a story about how the MP3 is going to be used in the future with media players and how other formats will try to dominate the market using secure technology like Napster’s new .Nap files. Long live MP3 and P2P!

Hollywood.com has a pretty cool Napster Timeline, starting from “College dropout Shawn Fanning, 19, and some friends start the Napster Inc. file-sharing service, which gains overnight popularity on the Internet,” all the way to “Napster to remain offline until it can show that it is able to effectively block access to copyrighted works.” Okay, so [...]

GotDivX.com has a really cool article on how to rip DVDs onto your computer, either to burn for storage or share on BearShare. Plus it has a really cool way to get your hands on an endless supply of your favorite DVDs to rip – for less than the cost of a single DVD per [...]

MediaForce, an digital copyright enforcement firm specializing in Internet anti-piracy solutions, today announced the top ten pirated movies on the Internet for the month of June. Three of the titles on the Top Ten list — “Tomb Raider,” “Shrek,” and “Pearl Harbor” — are current box-office hits, with a combined cumulative gross of $542 million [...]

Many dismal reports from the annual MP3.com Summit, starting with one from CNet News.com: On a sunny university plaza here, a band played punk rock songs for a dwindling lunchtime crowd of businesspeople, code writers and copyright lawyers. The music fit the event, the fourth–and probably last–annual MP3.com Summit, or what used to be one [...]

The lastest version of BearShare was released which it is worth checking out. Some newly added features is a Family Filter which can be activated in setup, remembers Window position, size, and minimize/maximize state remembered across launches and Server ID is remembered across launches.

I’ve stumbled across this new OpenNap client, and it really impressed me. With VexTV you can connect dinamically to many different OpenNap communities, and enjoy contents aggregation and segmented downloading even across them. Try it, it’s really promising. www.vextv.com

From AP – Napster escaped a legal mess Thursday when it settled a suit filed by heavy metal band Metallica but the embattled song-swapping company still faces a federal judge’s order demanding the service remain off-line until it prevents all unauthorized song trading. “I think we’ve resolved this in a way that works for fans, [...]

Limewire 1.6 is out! It now supports file resuming, download speeds from remote hosts, and file previews! Limewire 1.6 is Available Here

P2PQ is now in beta. Download the client here or here. P2PQ allows you to search peoples brains in the same way that P2P file services allow you to search for songs / warez / pr0n / whatever on other peoples machines. Like all P2P systems; the more people who use the clients, the more [...]

ZDNET REPORTS “A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Napster to remain offline until it can show that it is able to effectively block access to copyrighted works on its file-swapping network, according to both parties involved in the suit.” Read The Story Here

The SF Chronicle has done a story on Morpheus/KaZaa as a possible successor to Napser. This story is included in a weeklong feature comparing different file sharing programs.

Tech TV came out with ratings of the Napster clones even. Top Finishers were BearShare, Kazaa, and WinMX all with a 4 star rating. Others like Morpheus and Limewire got 3 stars.

ZDnet ran a story explaining some of the most pirated movies out there and what the MPAA is doing about it. Not like they are doing anything about it anyway. “Three current box office hits–”Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” “Shrek” and “Pearl Harbor”–are among the most-pirated movies over the Web for the month of June, researchers [...]

Clip2 takes a look at the Morpheus-KaZaA system in an OpenP2P article. It is the dominant unregulated system at present.

News.com is running an article on Napster Alternatives, and who will be the one to succeed Napster. Well, fact is, no one wants to replace Napster. We just want our f***ing free music. Full Article

This is an interesting story about Gnucleus, one of the best Gnutella clients out there. “If the recording industry thought Napster was a headache, it’s going to get a genuine migraine from the latest version of Gnucleus, a free Windows-based open source software program released last month..” Read Here

“No longer the poster child for free online music, Napster’s flagging file-swapping service has turned into a testing ground for ways to control other services that are capturing its one-time popularity.” Read The Story Here

For all of you that didn’t like the old Songspy the new one will sure tickle your toes. This older file-sharing app has 3,000+ users and now an improved interface. One of the main problems with the older songspy was its interface. As beautiful as it was it just took too much Ram to run. [...]

While surfing the web this morning looking for news I found a funny story on MSNBC filled with LOL quotes from ex-Napster users. It’s true now, Napster is DEAD! But then again most of us stopped using Napster several months ago and moved on to reliable programs like WinMX, Bearshare and DC. Its not about [...]