I guess all things come to an end. LimeWire 1.8 comes loaded with some of our favorite SPYWARE! Also, don’t try to delete the garbage with Ad-Aware, it just causes LimeWire not to work at all. I suggest sticking with LimeWire 1.7 or get on over to Xolox. Shame on you LimeWire!

SongSpy is new and has a refreshing look with it’s recent version 2.0 beta, it also has a a good amount of users as well as shared files, but with it’s installation comes a dirty little deed it would rather no one talk about or figure out how to disable. It all starts as soon [...]

Hilary Rosen, CEO of the RIAA, recently addressed the P2P community at the O’Reilly P2P Conference. Read her full speech in .pdf format here. She makes some good points, but I was too busy listening to mp3s to really pay attention.

Came across this beta of an MP3 ticker while surfing. MP3, video, and photo files are scrolled across the ticker, offering suggestions for those who need some ideas on what new music to check out. The ticker has component buttons to jump directly to digital music sites or to do a search on sites like [...]

A Cnet News.com report says “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which has represented hackers, cryptographers and computer scientists in its push for digital rights, agreed to defend MusicCity against copyright infringement charges by movie studios and record labels. It’s helping build a high-powered team of lawyers to show that this case is different than Napster.” [...]

A Brad King Wired report says “EMI Recorded Music to offer a limited selection of videos from its Priority Records label through the Gnutella network.” It goes on to say “The catch is that the files come with embedded links to online record outlets and advertisers.” This can be seen as a very good thing, [...]

A class project for a bunch of bright students at Berkeley produced Gnutellavision, a “bright” way to view the gnutella Network. On the site you can download a short .avi that shows Gnutellavision in action. This visualization (Gnutellavision)is an easy way to understand the gnutella network and get a clue on how it works. Get [...]

Another News.com report on the popularity of “Napster Alternatives”. “Consulting firm Webnoize said Monday that the number of digital music files downloaded using Kazaa, MusicCity and Grokster jumped 20 percent, increasing to 1.81 billion in October from 1.51 billion files in September.” The interesting thing is, we’ve had reports from Zeropaid users claiming the numbers [...]

Great news for all you open source LimeWire fans, LimeWire 1.8 beta has been released. New features include a new media player and improved file searching (metadata, XML, ID3 tags, etc). Post your thoughts on LimeWire 1.8 beta in the LimeWire forum or download LimeWire 1.8.

Shift.com just ran a story about how dencentralized servers and decentralized wars are incredibly hard to fight, if you’re the opposition. The internet was designed to withstand a nuclear attack and P2P networking has been unintenionally designed to withstand lawsuits and individual servers being shut down. P2P forever!

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Finally a victory for free speech: a News.com report says that “The appeals court released a decision Thursday overturning an earlier order that barred hundreds of people from publishing the code for a software program called “DeCSS” online. Posting the code is just like publishing other types of controversial speech and is protected by the [...]