From the Author- I’ve read your bug reports and made efforts to fix the bugs that you have described. I am now giving you the first beta of the bug fixing series, 11.10. Please let me know if your bugs still exist and of any news or old bugs the are there, too, using the [...]

Welcome to Dr. Fileshare’s Question of the Day This is a new service where I add the question of the day from the Dr. Fileshare forum and you can either learn from the question or try to solve it. On 3-25-02 this post was posted in the Dr. Fileshare forum by Phlem Loagie: Home / [...]

File Spree version 1.7 has been released. This version fixes the transfer list, error bugs, and more. New features include a queue, live queue stats, 6 new options, and OPs. This program continues to grow, so check it out. Grab it: here.

Written at the top of the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA): “The Congress finds: (1) The lack of high quality digital content continues to hinder consumer adoption of broadband Internet service and digital television products.” Now you tell me: (1) Does that sound like government intervention on behalf of the people our [...]

Back when Napster’s legal troubles were just beginning, Napster’s president lured Bertelsmann AG (a.k.a, BMG) in as an investor to try and show the recording industry that labels could use Napster as a huge but cheap promotion tool. Today: BMG “has suspended talks to buy the rest of the once high-flying song-swap service pending the [...]

In “Another Punch for Copy Protection,” Wired.com is reporting that Rep. Adam Schiff has jumped on the copy-protection bandwagon started in the Senate. “A Democratic legislator from the home of the Walt Disney and Warner Bros. studios is drafting a bill to reduce online piracy by implanting strict copy controls in digital devices … his [...]

The creator of the Qube has released a new version of his software today. From the author- Solves many crash and speed problems. Get it now to give The Qube the chance you couldn’t before because it wouldn’t startup, etc. Grab it here Zeropaid Note- The author of the Qube has requested that you send [...]

Fixed since v59: *stop multiple connections from the same node *reduce pinging the servers *fixed some buffer smashing problems *insufficient disk space bug possibly fixed *get server list command *links now treat %20 as a space *Able to stop connecting to list of servers. since v1160: * disconnect connect button weirdness * added a new [...]

Straight from News.Com “In a setback for efforts to halt copyright abuse, a Dutch appeals court on Thursday told a technology company it could distribute a software program that is designed to let people share music and films on the Internet.” Cool.

From Slashdot.com: “Roger Ebert has weighed in with a scathing critique of the Universal Music Group and its new copy-protection scheme which renders CDs unplayable in non-Windows operating systems, DVD players, and CD-compatible game consoles. It’s nice to see the mainstream press start to come out against the idiotic copy-protection war the RIAA is declaring [...]

It seems that major media outlets (news websites, weekly news magazines like TIME, newspaper columnists, etc.) are finally starting to voice the public’s opinion (i.e., the consumer’s opinion) on digital media files, P2P, and the Hollings’ Bill now in the Senate. Start looking for more stories like “Howling Mad Over Hollings’ Bill” (Wired.com) and this [...]

A new version of Ad-aware has been released… Adware was placed on your system by file sharing applications looking to make money of their product. Most adware throws alot of advertisements at you, other forms invade your privacy by monitering your surfing habits. Ad-aware 5.7 is a program which scans your hard drives for any [...]

There’s a short anti-piracy blurb on the Side Line web-site that’s rather interesting. It’s a snip from a published letter from the band, Pet Shop Boys It reads: In a message on the official Pet Shop Boys webpage, Neil Tennant says he resents musical piracy on the internet. Neil: “As a recording artist it takes [...]

Entertainment executives are accusing big technology companies of turning a blind eye to rampant online piracy. High-tech executives say that’s ridiculous. But in an effort to prove their good faith, some are now scrambling to show public support for new anti-piracy plans that would have a significant effect on the way consumers watch and share [...]

Beta 11.5 has been released without gIFT support for now as gIFT continues to be upgraded. Hopefully, in the future, auto-updates will download from The Qube upon load to prevent problems from happening. For now, check out The Qube with GNutella support only . Beta 11.5 also includes a few speed tweaks from 11.4 and [...]

Last month Napster claimed that the Record Industry was colluding to launch it’s online music ventures: pressplay and musicnet. This was an effort to reduce any copyright infringement bill from the record industry and to help increase the chances of Napster getting access to a larger range of music for it’s Paid service. Now Napster [...]

“A new ruling involving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is set to wipe out independent online music stations.” This has been a top issue for a couple months now, but click here for an excellent story at Salon.com.

I just finished up skinning LimeWire to use an OSX style of UI. I call it AquaLime, for lack of creativity. It uses the Aqua interface that everyone wishes wasn’t limited to OSX boxes. I created it with the latest LimeWire 2.3 source code. Much as the Clean LimeWire team did, I removed all ads [...]

“More than two years after losing a legal battle with the broadcast industry, defunct ICraveTV is being resurrected with a slightly different name and new management. In a memo sent to media outlets Monday, the iCraveTv.biz founder said the new site will employ technology from EnterVision.com, another company he runs, that prevents viewers from saving [...]

If public libraries are awarded the right to filter pornographic content on their Internet workstations, what are the possible after-effects of such a ruling? Does it set the stage for public libraries to block other types of content, for instance, so-called “copy-protected” material? “The ACLU and the American Library Association have claimed that so-called smut-blocking [...]