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Dec 31 2002

project fasttrack asking for more beta testers

Were you hoping to be a beta tester for project fasttrack? Then you might have another chance!
Stated in the News section of their site is as follows: “Bad news, we are not on track for the Jan 1st beta test, we are working hard to finish off what we feel as important issues before we [...]

Dec 31 2002

Shareaza 1.7.0.18 Released

Message from Mike on the Shareaza forums:
The old beta versions are expiring on the new year (GMT), so to continue using
and testing Shareaza 1.7 you will need to upgrade to the latest beta (1.7.0.18).
This does not affect older v1.6 release (non-beta) versions. Sorry for the
inconvenience, but with betas its good to make sure everyone is [...]

Dec 31 2002

High Court Grants Hollywood’s Christmas Wish

Story from DC Internet.

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor granted a Christmas wish to Hollywood last week when she issued a stay temporarily halting a California Supreme Court decision that limited the jurisdiction of a lawsuit filed against a Texas programmer who posted to the Web computer code designed to bypass copyright protections of DVDs. [...]

Dec 30 2002

Successor to Freenet?

Two weeks ago, Ian Clarke, creator of Freenet, quietly released an early-prototype of a new file-sharing application which appears to be quite a departure from his previous work.

The new application is called “Locutus” and is built on Microsoft’s .Net framework, which is currently only available on Windows and FreeBSD, but should soon be available on [...]

Dec 30 2002

RIAA website hacked (yet again)

“According to an official statement issued by the Recording Industry Association of America today, ‘I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Weiner … do you eat cheese?’”

Hackers modified the site to accept “comments” which turned out to be rather interesing.

See entire article and screenshot at The Register

Dec 30 2002

Copyright Concerns this Year

From the Washington Post, a story looking back at the entire year in review.

In 2002, the important developments in the computing business had little to do with hardware or software; instead, they revolved around a comparably bug-ridden realm, that of politics — specifically, copyright politics.

How creators and distributors of art should be paid for their [...]

Dec 30 2002

Are you willing to die for your mp3s ?

Take a moment to consider that next CD or DVD-ROM drive upgrade. If you thought it could damage your PC – or even your person – would you go slow?

Consumers like to buy the latest, swiftest devices, but research from Sweden and the experiences of Australian PC users show that speed can inconvenience and [...]

Dec 29 2002

lavasoft ad-aware 6.0 for february

Ok, everything has a silver lining, sometimes you just need to look a little harder. Here is a little backround …and some REALLY GOOD NEWS regarding Ad-Aware (posted by the adaware admin on Lavasoft Support:
To all,
It has become apparent that many people are concerned with the lack of updates for Ad-aware 5.83. We [...]

Dec 28 2002

RapidRoad p2p Project Likely A Hoax

This was taken from the RapidRoad forum, you can also view it at the official site HERE.

It has recently come to my attention that this Peer-to-Peer project might not be real. I am, in essence, sorry for all of the trouble this has put people through. I AM NOT responsible for this, as I was [...]

Dec 28 2002

iMesh beta v.3.2.0.2 released.

At last,iMesh version 3.2 is released, in beta stage. iMesh uses both it’s centralized network and the decentralized FastTrack network. It has adware and spyware, so try to use a clean version such as Dr. Damn has supplied in the past. The new version 3.2 promises a new boost of performance with it’s new [...]

Giganews Newsgroups

  • Mike Colins: Malcom hume, you're a total idiot.To defend your shitty work that no one would buy anyway (who in the hell are you ...
  • Stan: Malcolm, I don’t think anyone has the right to steal from other people, neither do I think a corporation has the r...
  • World Anarchy: 'Why do you think the public, whoever that is, has a 'right' to access stuff that people create?' Here are two answer...
  • Arsegrabber: You fags were also noobs once too! ...
  • mountain_rage: So explain to me how its unreliable, what proof do you have that this data is unreliable. Have you maybe considered that...
  • malcolm hume: Let me ask you one question before we get into the nitty gritty of the document. Why do you think the public, whoever th...
  • malcolm hume: You should do some research about how little the digital market is compared to the whole pie. ...
  • DrewWilson: There's one critical difference here between current copyright regimes around the world and the one being put forth...
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