Seeing how there are a lot of complaints about popups on this site, I thought I would post this. I personally have no problem with banner ads but despise the use of popups or popunders. For those who aren’t afraid to break away from the monopoly that is Microsoft, there is an excellent open source [...]

This Cnet.com article is a interview with Peter Jacobs the CEO of SunnComm, a company that makes the copy-protected cds. My favorite part is the first sentence of the reponse to the question that protection schemes dont work. “The technology that we sell is a padlock to music. If you have a lock cutter, a [...]

A recent news story was posted on their website: “NOTE: Voodo Vision will be unavailable until October 15, 2001. Due to a recent merger, we have temporarily disabled the application while we finish up the next version, a revolutionary new way to share your files online. Check back in October for the exciting release of [...]

Zeropaid: An interesting question, thought I’d open it up for debate: I was wondering if someone could define CD-Quality in terms of bitrate. I heard 128 KBps was just under that, but is still good. I heard that 160 and 192 are better, but anything higher is getting larger in terms of size on the [...]

It seems to be a myth that P2P,especially Gnutella developers,exist only to provide us users with the latest ways for us to get our files. Whenever there is mention of developers trying to make money there is usually uproar from the filesharing puritans. I have a sneaky suspiscion that Gnutella developers are humans too,and being [...]

It would be really spiffy if someone posted decent info on finding servers, since lately the usual suspects seem flakey. I use Gnufrog.com, sometimes, but copying the IPs to the Bearshare “Hosts” dialog gives me little to be happy about. Any better tips might help the not-so-fanatical file sharers to share. I share 6G when [...]

Limewire‘s Sparky is an prototype that will reduce traffic and improve the network. The more people who help out by testing the easier it will be to find any problems before it ships. If this is successful then all gnutella programs would use the techniques in this prototype. For those interested pick up “sparky” and [...]

On the Songspy website (which is almost NEVER upadated) got an update! This is the complete message that was posted: “September 28th, 2001 SongSpy is now alive a kicking like a crack-addict… (ehem). Well, tell your friends and be sure to get yourself a peace of the action! Some things, like user stats and lost [...]

Now that Vivendi Universal has officially taken over the reigns of MP3.com this week, their first order of duty was to strip down the payouts to artists on the site’s Payback for Playback service. With all the record industry’s talk of how P2P software rips off the artist, this is another example proving no one [...]

In this Wired.com news article it talks about MusicNet, one of the new subscription based programs coming out. MusicNet gave its technology platform to its distribution partners on Thursday, moving a step closer to offering the first music industry-endorsed alternative to Napster. Analysts believe that new commercial services like MusicNet face several hurdles, not the [...]

News.com is reporting that Napster has been a bad monkey of late, spending much of parent company BMG’s not-so-hard earned millions. “That money, sources close to both companies say, is coming from Bertelsmann’s pockets. Add to that the near-$60 million original loan the media company gave Napster last year, as well as a second loan [...]

geek.com is reporting that file swapping has hit a new all-time high, 3.05 Billion files traded in Augest. Napster during its peak in feburary only had 2.79 Billion files trading. They are also reporting that there is increased traffic in porn, pirated movies, and they expect use of these services to continue growing as college [...]

A Reuters report on how “Universal Music Group plans to start issuing CDs in October with software that prevents music from being digitally copied into computer files.” These guys will never learn. Someone, somewhere, doesn’t care about money, and doesn’t particulary like large corporations that are all about money. Someone, somewhere, will crack this not [...]

In a statement that really comes as a shock to no one, Cosmiverse.com reports that a BBC study of the online music world showed that 62% of people download music for free and show no signs of stopping. According to one statement in the article, “Free MP3s will never go away.”

Following on from This story I thought I’d have a quick look to see if the song in question was up there in filesharing land,sure enough,within 3 minutes it was sitting on my hard drive(courtesy of Morpheus)It’s just a shame I can’t stand Michael Jackson….

HIVE 1.0 ® is Alberg software’s Enterprise P2P Application for collaborative work spaces based on the JXTA platform. Recently released Hive 1.0 BETA has made much buzz in P2P space. The latest release of HIVE 1.0® Standard Personal Edition comes with many enhancements and additions 1. Enhanced User Interface 2. 75 % reduction in Size [...]

Reported by News.com: “Music-swapping company Napster announced a major deal with music publishers Monday, settling part of its outstanding lawsuit and helping clear the way for its planned subscription service.” IMHO, this is bull$h1t. Just another excuse to charge us $9.95/mo. As a great comedian once said, “Homey don’t play that”

Rumor has it that Hotline Communications has thrown in the towel and laid off all of its staff. Will people continue to use the existing software, or is it destined to fade into extinction? If that’s the case, I’m sure gonna miss it…

Wired.com reports that “Hackers say it’s easy to take over AIM accounts and pose as the user whose account has been commandeered, using several hacking programs that are in wide circulation on the Internet. Hackers who are familiar with the program said that hundreds of AIM accounts have been ‘stolen,’ and claim that America Online [...]

We reported on this a while ago, but it is getting more attention now, namely from the EFF: “Widespread public outcry has resulted from the circulation of draft legislation titled ‘Security Systems Standards and Certification Act’ (SSSCA) that would require that all future digital technologies include federally-mandated ‘digital rights management’ (DRM) technologies that will enable [...]