Northeastern University, birthplace of Shawn Fanning’s Napster, is turning on its grandchildren. This is an notice put out by the IS department:“In addition to a number of network configuration and administration changes, the fundamental change leading to today’s level of service was the blocking of several peer-to-peer applications (KaZaA, Morpheus, and less notably, Gnutella). These [...]

In a follow-up to what I posted yesterday the United States has begun to look into anti-trust violations against the RIAA. The friendly people at Wired were nice enough to bring us the story.

The European Union may block the RIAA from creating download services MusicNet and Pressplay, due to the fact that the world only needs one Microsoft and these two services would definitly create a monopoly and squash any chance indepedent services have. MusicNet and Pressplay are both scheduled to debut as subscription services created by the [...]

Zdnet.com is reporting that the RIAA along with its direct Legal assualts on P2P is going to also use other tatics to destroy or slow down P2P networks and the trading of files. As quoted from the story “One method uses software to masquerade as a file-swapper online. Once the software has found a computer [...]

URLBlaze released a new version (2.41), with some bug fixes and two other significant abilities: 1) Option to search on the META data – that means to get results that the keywords you search for doesn’t necessary exist in the file name or directory but in the data surrounding it. 2) Option to receive only [...]

ZDNet is reporting today that the Justice department “widened its antitrust investigation of the online music business, sending civil subpoenas across the industry that focused on alleged use of copyright rules and licensing practices to control distribution.” In some good news, “The probe encompasses the two new online-music ventures backed by the industry’s five major [...]

“Look out, music pirates: The recording industry wants the right to hack into your computer and delete your stolen MP3s. Lobbyists for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) tried to glue this hacking-authorization amendment onto a mammoth anti-terrorism bill that Congress approved last week. An RIAA-drafted amendment according to a draft obtained by Wired [...]

Everyone who didn’t like The Qube needs to give the new version a shot. I took out everything stupid, and everything that ate memory. Give it a shot! http://www.zeropaid.com/theqube/

Hello Everyone. As most of you know, I enjoy Songspy. But when a website gives this message, “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 recovery are [...]

Hey looks like a new gnutella site may b up soon. Im pretty sure nullsoft owns the gnutella.com .net and .org domains so maybe aol had a change of heart or something. check out Gnutella.com. Usually it would say “its all okay or something like that and have the number of hits it has has. [...]

In a nice twist it seems the tables have turned slightly on the major record labels.Record company attorneys seeking a quick end to their copyright suit against Napster on Wednesday instead found themselves fielding pointed questions from a federal judge over planned music subscription services.Quoting U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel “I’m really confused as [...]

A report from Billboard.com claims that “The trade group(RIAA) assisted in seizing 1.26 million illegal recordable CDs (CD-Rs) in the first six months of 2001, up 133% from the first half of 2000. It also aided in 1,762 arrests and indictments for selling illegal CDs or CD-Rs, an 89% increase.” Looks like they are mostly [...]

Microsoft has invested over $50 million in P2P developer Groove Networks. Microsoft is working with Groove to help further develop their business communications network, .NET. Good to know that moral, legitimate companies like Microsoft are getting in P2P networking Get the full story here.

A News.com report gives some interesting numbers from Media Metrix. The winner is “Morpheus, with 2.3 million unique users in August, up 186 percent from June.”

Yesterday Nullsoft officially moved Winamp from alpha to beta with the released of Winamp 3.0 Beta 1. Built on a new coding platform named “Wasabi”, Winamp 3 offers a module setup allowing any component of Winamp to be removed or replaced. This allows third party developers more freedom to customize the program.

In this Wired.com news story it talks about how the deal made by the RIAA and NMPA that will allow subscrption based services to move foward, although some major bands are left out. The article also talks about Musicnet and pressplay the legal subscription sevices that are being produced by the record companies. “Both MusicNet [...]

Morpheus plagued with problems? Thousands of users reporting connectivity and technical problems with the popular file-swapping network. “Two weeks ago it was working fine,” one user reports, “…but for over a week now I can’t CONNECT.” Some users report network errors and connection problems even after applying the upgrade to a new 1.3.3 version. “I [...]

Many of you are like “Oh The Qube sucks.” Well it actually doesn’t suck as much as it did anymore. I have taken many of your suggestions and have made the program much better. The Qube is on it’s own network, so not very many people are currently sharing on it. If people could come [...]

Remember that file-sharing network called Napster? Well, they’re back to court with their old buddies, the RIAA. In a keen gesture to Naspter and the rest of the civilized world, the RIAA and its “lawyers will be asking U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel to summarily find Napster guilty and go straight to the [...]

A news report at Wired.com said that OpenNap has around 200 server against Napster’s 100 servers, it stated that OpenNap servers are easy to close down, well i disagree OpenNap Will be the future I know it I feel so strongly about OpenNap servers!