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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 away [...]

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 [...]

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 has asked a
judge [...]

“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, [...]

“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 software [...]