News.com reports Napster trading temporarily paused. The hiatus comes shortly after Napster disabled old versions of its software. It pushed its members to a new version that rendered the service all but unusable, blocking even the most obscure, uncopyrighted works from being traded. Does anyone still use Napster? Full Story

For all of you KaZaA | Morpheus lovers, there is a new program just released for creating a file hotlist from users that are currently transferring files to or from you using Morpheus or Kazaa. How it works: If you are downloading a file from a user or a user is downloading from you, the [...]

News.com is reporting that CenterSpan which operates Scour, recently closed the last round of financing bringing the grand total to $6.4 million. Why would you invest your money with this company? I have a feeling CenterSpan will appear here soon.

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A document dated June 27 and posted to several Internet newsgroups warns of an “imbedded hybrid computer code” named MusicPanel that has been secretly buried in the MP3 files of 500 popular songs distributed over the past eight months among users of popular music file-trading networks Napster and Gnutella. The warning says that this virus [...]

Yahoo is running an interesting story on the governments electronic surveillance system. Echelon, if you don’t already know, is the National Security Agency’s (NSA) electronic surveillance system, designed to monitor telephone calls, faxes, and e-mails worldwide. The system looks for words or phrases that could be used by terrorist organizations to plot their next attack. [...]

A German court has ordered computer giant Hewlett-Packard Corp. to pay fees on all compact disc burners sold in the country over the last three years, upholding a new law meant to take a bite out of music piracy. As reported by AP

News.com reports that Napster has released a new version, screwing over the Napster clone industry. Says Kelly Truelove of clip2, “Napster with its new client has not only blocked access to Napster from its cloned client, it’s also made it impossible to utilize the Napster client to connect to the clone server” Oops.

check it out: the uk’s telegraph is reporting: “Friends complained that in the hot and sticky Central American climate, a CD had stopped working and had developed an odd discoloration that left parts of it virtually transparent.” Sounds like fungus to me