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Here is an article that addresses the recent trial decisions regarding the the DeCSS case, Dr. Edward Felten’s case, The Dutch court’s order that KaZaa stop file trading in 14 days, and yesterday’s announcement by P2P software Xolox that it will be shutting down its service due to litigation fears.”

This article at The Register states that a Dutch Judge has given Consumer Empowerment (the owners of KaZaA and the FastTrack network) two weeks to cease all copywrite violations on their network. I would assume that it has been proven that the network is only partially decentralized and that Consumer Empowerment has the ability to [...]

The uServ system from IBM is a P2P application supporting easy to use, high availability web hosting and file sharing at an extremely low cost. The uServ project page links to a research report that describes an internal deployment of the system and provides a detailed description of the underlying technology.

According to this Wired.com report, Big Brother can snoop your electronic traffic with the greatest of ease. “Previously, federal law said that ‘a cable operator shall not disclose personally identifiable information concerning any subscriber.’ Section 211 of the USA Patriot Act changes the law to read: ‘A cable operator may disclose such information if the [...]

A News.com Report says “The decision for now upholds a controversial law known as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and prevents Web site 2600 and its publisher, Eric Corley, from posting links to computer code known as DeCSS–a program that allows DVD movies to be decoded and played on personal computers.” This is a [...]

A Newsbytes article says “A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by civil liberties groups who claimed that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was planning to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to keep a Princeton University professor from publishing research on security flaws in music industry anti-piracy software.” This is [...]

The popular mp3 sharing program, SongSpy, hasn’t been working for the past 5 days. i wrote the staff an e-mail asking for information and i haven’t gotten anything back yet. i have tried un-installing and installing the program again, but it still gives me the same error message… “you are disconnected from the songspy network.” [...]

I can’t believe, today when staring up Xolox you’ll read: “Dear XoloX-user, Taking into account the latest law suits against p2p clients based on Fasttrack-technology (such as Kazaa), we have decided to discontinue XoloX. As of the 1st of december, XoloX will be be shut down and removed from the distribution sites [...]“. Eigther the [...]

“Two students were arrested on suspicion of the violation of the Copyright Act (infringement of a public transmitting right) as having exchanged business software with file exchange software ‘WinMX‘ (or it having changed into the exchangeable state).”Raw news (in japanese) | English (just push cancel on the language packs and give it a while to [...]

Apparently, there are four songs on Creed’s new album that beep when ripped to a hard drive (4, 5, 7, & 10). Does anyone know how to successfully edit these songs? Is software available to do a proper conversion or take the corrupted bytes out? If I have a legitimate album, does this mean I [...]

Limewire has released another bug-fix release. Bug fixes include: The Windows version will properly install all of the necessary components when a restart is required at the end of the install. A bug with previous versions where users would always appear as chattable regardless of whether or not they had disabled chatability has been fixed. [...]

In this cnet.com article explains how two new music devices the Apple iPod and the Compaq iPaq won’t be able to play music from the uncoming PressPlay and Music.net subscription services. The article said “Consumer electronics companies that once paid some lip service to helping fight digital music piracy are now releasing products that will [...]

In this ZDNet article is explains how popular search engines like Google and Altavista are being used to find illegal things like passwords, credit card numbers, and even warez. Although this is nothing new as in its been going on for years. Considering P2P programs are very similar to Search engines and none of the [...]

In a joint announcement today Sand Disk and Toshiba introduced a 1Gbit NAND flash memory chip that will significantly increase the present capacity of flash media used in MP3 portables and digital cameras. Two chips can be fit inside a single memory card to produce up to a two gig card.

Check out the sneak launch of a www.bokks.net. The site is obviously under construction (not all links worked) but the pre-order worked, so now I am the first to get a Bokks in February=). I mailed them about DivX compatibility and they said a converter will be available for the product. P2P and a Bokks [...]

After eons of waiting and anticipation. Freepeers Inc. has released a limited beta of the upcoming v3.0 to a limited number of members. This comes at a time with fasttrack in demise, bearshare is starting to look like the best alternative. It is said that the beta has solved all problems dealing with the Defender [...]

It appears that gnutella.com is finally becoming a gnutella site, or so it appears to be. Previously gnutella.com was owned by Tom Pepper of Nullsoft which left the site dormant for years, but recent changes to the site lead us to think that the site will become a general gnutella site or maybe even a [...]

The RIAA is ruining the rights of the people again. First trying to get their own special law passed with the new anti-terriost bill which would allow them to hack into anyones computer at any given time without legal troubles. The idea was quickly thrown out by congress but they apparently do not really care. [...]

The Windows Gnutella Client Gnucleus is now available in Version 1.5 – LAN version created specifically for internal LANs! – New method for replying to pongs to conserve bandwidth! – Min friends pref no longer used since network stats are unreliable! – Integrated web server (unused but there) – Timer and mem leak problems fixed! [...]