Lets call this portable the second smallest MP3 player on the market. Digital Global Network’s new MPIO-DMK Keychain portable is bested by Panasonic’s SV-SD80 by a few sixteenths of an inch and weighs 29 ounces versus the SV-SD80′s 26.1 ounces. Despite just missing the title of World’s Smallest, the MPIO-DMK does better the Panasonic in [...]

Wired produced a couple of months ago, an excellent article about the state of DRM – or Digital Rights Management. This is a fairly long article, but it really gives a pretty deep understanding of what all the media companies are trying to move toward – total control of all content, via embedding control in [...]

One of biggest casualties that strict enforcement of the DCMA would cause, is the demise of the independent webcast. This article covers the fact that college radio stations would have to shut down, because they can’t come up with five figure fees that would be charged for the webcast. Click here to read.

Due to recent busts by the FBI in the scene there will be very few new releases. some info (regarding divx) found on the net : ViTe has shutdown forever COLLiSiON, a US DivX group, cease operations until after New Year’s ZEN, a US DivX group, cease operations until after New Year’s EPiC, a DivX [...]

Yesterday BearShare released an early beta of Bearshare 2.4.0. Major new features are multi-sourced downloads and enhanced search capabilities (HUGE protocol). Support for superpeers aka ultrapeers is not in place (yet?). The latter is very important for the scalability of the network and its usability for modem users. Unless this is implemented in all major [...]

The fellows at LimeWire have another weekend release for our consumption. Seems to be pretty similar to last week’s release, though it has been prettied up a little. LimeWire 1.9b

I predict that movies and music now found to the hills on net will gradually disappear or either become “Elite” stuff because it will become unviable to offer them freely due to the risks and number of control methods/restrictions that will come. Hardware devices and software will continue to deploy new means to restrict, track [...]

When I originally posted my thoughts on “Napsters Hopeless Survival Efforts” a couple days ago, I had no intention of trying to persuade anyone to join. There is no doubt in my mind that Napster will not succeed in breaking anywhere close to even and probably shut down in less than one year. I simply [...]

A company called MediaDefender claims that it can stop filesharing on the Gnutella network, effectively shutting it down. It plans to flood the network with bogus files, and block the downloading of authentic ones. This rumour has been in circulation for a substantial amount of time now, and Limewire works fine for me at the [...]

The father of all file sharing programs has released the complete info on all the new services features and how it works. When it launches in early 2002 I for one will sign up just as a show of courtesy to what Napster started. Music was meant to be free and there is no one [...]

Apparently there were some police raids this week which brought down a prominent warez group known as DrinkOrDie. Read about it here.Zeropaid note: Here’s another article

http://go.to/napimx Napimx is a program made to add Napigator servers into Winmx to have many searches in different servers at once. It has the following advantages: It processes ips instead of server names so you don’t have to wait for “resolving host names” It consumes much less RAM than napigator application It’s free of ads.

SongSpy, an older file sharing program, is getting some cheer this holiday season. Last year the number of users on SongSpy was about 3,000. Not bad considering Napster was still alive and there was no need for a new program. It had revolutionary ideas such as the Karma System, an awesome GUI, and a few [...]

After witnessing MusicNet’s crucifiction in reviews, PressPlay is already planning to ease some of the restrictions to it’s upcoming service. The first is ending the prevention of its files from being burned on CD. That’s a step in the right direction, but both services are still far from the convenience of a good P2P program [...]

PeerGenius is not a new file sharing application…but it should be looked at. It has multisource and a few other features. This is what it says on the website: “Today, media swapping occurs almost entirely at the expense of copyright holders and content owners. In the case of music, stakeholders (musicians, songwriters, publishers, producers and [...]

Zeropaid Note: This is unverified. Anyone care to confirm this?Watch out all… the copyright mob are onto all using XoloX and are tracking your IP addresses on certain downloads! Harry Potter is one of the monitored movies and the company tracking IP addresses is MediaForce Inc (212) 925-9997 Tracking details include… Infringment Detail: Infringing Work: [...]

I was surfing around and it seems LimeWire has released a beta version of their new client. Apparently, it incorporates supernode technology (they call them Ultrapeers) and swarmed downloads. I’ve yet to see the supernode stuff kick in, but swarmed downloads are great – I downloaded a song at the clip of 120KB/s!! “Swarm Downloads,” [...]

A USA Today story says “A treaty that brings world copyright law into the digital age by protecting authors on the Internet will take effect March 6, the United Nations said Thursday.” The article goes on to name some of the countries that ratified the treaty, and the ones who didn’t. Interesting read.

There is new filesharing proggie just for mp3 called FilePortal. It seems to be build on Napster model however I think RIAA will have more trouble closing it down since it located in Russia, and I think there is more things illegal than legal over there. Go and check it out. Be ware it has [...]

I just downloaded Ziga. It access gnutella and opennap simultaneously, it also has multi threaded d/l’s. It’s java though so some people may be a bit turned off.