New Encryption Methods
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 [...]
New Limewire v.1.8.c Bug-Fix Release
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.
The Mac installers [...]
New Music Devices Not DRM Friendly
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 [...]
Search Engines Doing Too Good a Job
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 [...]
2 Gig Flash Cards Coming for MP3 Portables
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.
Portable Hardware Movie & Music player
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 [...]
Zeropaid Rumor: BearShare 3.0 Beta Released
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 [...]
Whats Going on Over @ gnutella.com
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 [...]
OpenNap Servers Nuked By RIAA
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. [...]
Gnucleus 1.5 Released
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!
You can download it [...]
