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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 human [...]

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 [...]

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 password [...]

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 [...]