Artists such as The Offspring, Elton John, No Doubt, Ozzy Osbourne and The Eagles are coming together to form a fund-raising coalition to fight the big record labels. Many artists feel that the industry is taking too much money and control from the artists producing the music that makes the industry exist to begin with. [...]

I just received via e-mail the “Morpheus Minute”, letting all members know of the upcomming release of morpheus version 2.0. There is a quite interesting remark that morpheus will now also provide links (are they referring to connecting?) to the gnutella network! If So, I smell trouble for other gnutella applications. Here is part of [...]

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Gnucleus, the popular open-source Gnutella client is back with a new version 1.6 Beta.This time it incorporates true multi-source downloading (downloading the same file from multiple people simultaneously) Xolox was the first to do this on Gnutella,yet the developers have stopped working on the project,Limewire was the next,yet it’s array of bundled ‘extras’ put many [...]

Are you tired of seeing the RIAA’s gestapo style tactics? If so, be prepared for some good news. There IS something you can do about it. If you cut the cash flow to RIAA supporting record labels you can make a large impression on these vultures. www.boycott-riaa.com is likely the most complete source of information [...]

The Amsterdam district court ruled two weeks ago that the KaZaa P2P program is acting unlawfully by making software available that allows users to download music files and must shut down. The court gave the company 14 days to do this or face $40,000 US a day in fines. KaZaa has chosen to ignore the [...]

For those of you who don’t know, Andromeda turns collections of MP3s and other media files (mpg, avi, and many more) into easy-to-use, streaming web sites. It’s not exactly a file sharing program; it’s really about what you do with your files once you’ve got them. It’s great as a personal jukebox, over local networks, [...]

Adding the resourcefulness of OpenNAp to WinMX has never been easier with the release of NapiMX 2.0. Although NapiMX 1.0 was extreamly helpful adding OpenNap servers to WinMX, many less-computers savvy individuals disliked the difficulty of installation. However, with a new GUI, adding servers is a click away. With NapiMX, you can combine the renewed [...]

Everyone reading this right now would think, “probably NOT”. but what happens when the big $corporations$ finally figure out a way to dig their claws in and stamp filesharing out? Sure, there will always be FTP sites and elite decentralized networks and hackers. But you’ll find many P2P users are constantly changing their clients/networks, because [...]

Im sure this subject has been covered… and if it hasnt, it needs to be. I frequently use file sharing programs, morpheus, edonkey2000, xolox while it lasted etc.. One common farce ive seen on these programs are bogus filenames. Morpheus has a filter to block these bogus files, but it doesnt work properly. Especially when [...]

ComBack Central introduces the first Agent-based application founded on public peer-to-peer networks. The first goal of an Agent is to assist the user and minimize the work required to complete a specific task. The first Agent of the series, the Music Agent, lets a user initiate the building of a musical album or a complete [...]

The 1GB Microdrive offers plenty of capacity with the size and weight advantages of a flash memory card. It offers the best of both worlds for digital music portables as it serves that balance between capacity and size. It does it so well that it has a great competitive advantage over other storage media, one [...]

Well, if you’re using a p2p program to download movies with, Tom Cruise thinks you’re a thief. Penelope Cruz apparently agrees, so what he says in this Wired article must be true. Shame on us all!

Limewire LLC has recently released Limewire Version 2.0 Beta. Along with a few bug fixes, this version also includes a fix for those who use Ad-Aware to remove any ad/spyware from their windows system. Actually, 2.0 Beta just renames the cydoor DLL which is now called CBanner2.dll and will replace it each time Limewire is [...]

Starting Tuesday, Universal will begin only releasing copy protected products. Read Here

Controversial music subscription service PressPlay officially launches Wednesday. Will anyone subscribe? Will anyone care? Will it be an overwhelming success? Or an underwhelming tradgedy? You tell us. Some news articles: News.com Yahoo – pricing info here

Superstar writer Brad King writes in this Wired news report: “In a move that undoubtedly will confound people who want to play by the rules, music consumers will be paying twice if they want to listen to their music on their stereo and on their computer.” He is referring to “copy-protected” cds that record labels [...]

The same fine folks who brought you Passport, dot.NyET, WPA, and the silly DRM stuff discussed in that Wired article are now working to bring you- the Microsoft Digital Rights Management Operating System!!! Yup, Digital Rights Management coded right into the Operating System! You wanted Innovation? You got Innovation -or something. (I think I’ll wait [...]

A reuters report introduces their “Advanced Digital Audio Center”, starting at $1500. Here’s a press release with more info on the overpriced 40gig hard drive. “Through the system, available only via Sonicblue’s Web site, music from a CD can be recorded to its hard drive, played back over receivers within the house, downloaded to an [...]

News.com article says “Yahoo on Monday debuted its music destination, Launch.com, which represents a departure in the portal’s previous branding strategy. The new subscription-based property is the result of Yahoo’s acquisition of Launch Media in June. It’s also a step forward in the company’s fight with AOL Time Warner and Microsoft to become a hot [...]