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Aug 25 2001

New Version of edonkey2000

A new version of edonkey2000 has been released, fixing a number of bugs and adding several new features. A minor memory leak has been fixed insuring improved performance. A new chat feature has also been added to the features list, allowing edonkey2000 users to chat over IRC anywhere in the world. edonkey2000 also offers a [...]

Aug 24 2001

When Human Rights Equal Free Music

This story at shift talks about shift, Freenet, Espra and a bunch of other things that are going to keep the RIAA and the MPAA out of everyone’s hair. According to the article, it all boils down to human rights and the fact that according to the United Nations it is a basic human right [...]

Aug 24 2001

XP Invasion Is Imminent

Microsoft announced on Friday that that the “final code” for Windows XP — the new version of the operating system that everyone loves to hate — is complete, and will be sent to computer manufacturers immediately. Yes it is really as evil as people say and this story explains some of it including the Xp [...]

Aug 23 2001

Global Napster clones find they aren’t outside the law

News.com has an interesting article on file sharing progrmas that are owned by companies outside the United States. International file sharing companies are “already meeting their own legal resistance–led in many areas by the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI), an organization that is slowly gaining new prominence in the industry’s global fight to quash [...]

Aug 23 2001

File Sharing Format

Hello Zeropaid.com users! As author of one of the newest file sharing networks and the founder of the company QubeNetworks, I am pleased to announce that I have completed betas of my upcoming music format, QNA. You can convert and encode ordinary MP3 and WMA files to the QNA format without loosing quality, but encoding [...]

Aug 23 2001

Excite@Home snoops on user downloads

ZNet UK is reporting that “The company is scanning its customers’ Internet activity and says it will terminate the accounts of those users who are downloading pirated material.” Also related to this article on Salon about a user whose account was suspended by Time Warner Cable for allegedly posting a movie to usenet. Whatever happened [...]

Aug 23 2001

InnoVal’s Responsible Internet Filtering Initiative

Seems there is a new filtering program thatll be out in September which will not only filter you from seeing porn and anything else you type in but it has a option to prevent others on networks like gnutella from searching for porn or anything else. BTW to the fasttrack programs users out there iv’ed [...]

Aug 23 2001

Securing the Broadband Revolution

Jack Valenti the legendary 79-year-old lobbyist, a veteran of the Johnson White House and head of the Motion Picture Association of America, said Tuesday that before films will be available for anyone with fast connections to download online, strong copy-protection technology will be necessary. This is pretty funny to watch this old guy show that [...]

Aug 21 2001

URLBlaze 1.5 is OUT

Hey Guys,
a new version of URLBlaze is out. This one features faster connection to the Internet, auto launch/connect at startup and even better memory usage. The number of URLBlaze users is growing fast but still need much more to fulfill its goal as the safest and fastest way to share files. Currently URLBlaze doesn’t share [...]

Aug 21 2001

EU drops CD price-fixing probe

The European Commission said last Friday that it is ending an investigation into whether the world’s five biggest music companies were colluding with retailers over the price of CDs sold in the European Union. I think they should have continued since the record companies have been price fixing since audio cds are costing as much [...]



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