an email from Verizon… We have received a complaint concerning the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material by your account. This is a violation of Section 9, Subscriber’s Responsibility, of your Internet Access Agreement that you accepted when you opened your account. In addition, the distribution, duplication or transmission of this type of material is strictly [...]

BusinessWeek.com’s Stephen Baker writes, “Don’t put absurd limits on how I use the CDs I buy. Instead, check Europe’s cell-phone industry for creative use of digital technology…” Click here for the full story.

Like any freeware you download off the net, you should beware of spyware, or even worse, scumware. [Click here for more details.] Most P2P users are already aware of spyware, which some software sites admit to installing right up front. Spyware is installed with another program, like Kazaa, and allows you to be tracked on [...]

From the author- I, Dr. damn, have updated the iMesh Hack program to work with the new version of iMesh. It works the same as the old hack, so try it out. Find it at: CleanClients.tk Even if you never liked iMesh in the past, give this version a shot. It sports some really nifty [...]

One of the most popular gnuella clients has released a new Beta today. Limewire, is one of the few gnutella clients featuring Ultrapeers, swarming, and multi-platform acessablility. This program clearly is raising the bar for gnutella growth. Grab the Beta here.

Though we have been told many times by the CEO of Streamcast Inc. that his program will always respect our privacy and remain adware “spyware” free, recent news suggests otherwise. The Morpheus Preview Edition does in fact to have a new form of adware accompany it, according to this Article. The adware installed called Wurld [...]

“They could pay full price for the new book, or they could pay less for an equally shiny new volume. While it sounds like a boon for the buyer, it’s a potential disaster for authors.” Is it possible that new CD, DVD and book sales have declined because the Internet has helped fuel the used [...]

“In a ruling that further clarifies whether Internet service providers are responsible for material on their networks, a federal judge ruled that America Online is not liable for the unauthorized posting of some e-books on its Newsgroup servers.” Click here for the full story at ZDnet.com.

What’s New: – Fixes to bugs (including the disappearing search window ) – Improved GNutella – Minor Upgrades to Radio panel and Transfer Window If you have 0.9.6 or lower, get this upgrade now to solve the problems of the past. Screen-Shot: http://www.getqube.com/images/screenshot.jpg Download and Feedback: http://www.zeropaid.com/theqube/

The following posting turned up on CDFreaks (great site, everyone should visit), referring to an announcement about the giFT network, or an open source project to replace the Fast Track network with the same functionality. Basically, there is now a beta available for testing/monkeying around with. I would caution that this IS a very early [...]

Whether you love it or hate it, iMesh continues to develop their popular software. This release fixes some stability and connectivity problems. Get the upgrade here

Click here to read a story at ZDNet.com about some movie pirates selling at eBay.com.In a related story, read this about how as soon as one P2P community is shut down, one more is ready to take its place.

So you don’t open e-mail attachments anymore, but are you still downloading from Blubster like there’s no tomorrow? If so, you may want to be just as cautious. Not only is it bad enough that many home broadband subscribers haven’t spent the mere $45 or so to purchase and install a firewall/anti-virus suite, but those [...]

The NY Times’ Kevin Kelly, author of “New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World,” has this interesting article, “Where Music Will Be Coming From“, up at NYTimes.com. You’ll need a free registration to read it, but any news junkie should have a NYTimes reg. by now!

The Tom Brokaw/MSNBC hosted Silicon Summit III was your usual big names and heavy opinions, but there was also a sense this year that the panel CEOs need to start listening to customers and not run to the government for solutions to their woes. Or was that all really just a PR stunt to make [...]

We are facing a revolution in P2P. Morpheus version 1.3.3. is capable of building its own FastTrack network. Completely decentralized and separated from the network built by KaZaA and Grokster. The only thing you have to do is edit your registry and/or add a new list of supernodes and anyone can connect to the independent [...]

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Another step forward in gnutella development as a more stable version of The Qube was released this evening. From the author- The Qube Beta 9.6 was released this evening. It includes fixes to many bugs and several great new features! Plus, don’t forget, it looks GREAT and has GNutella support, for lots of great files [...]

The good people at Freepeers have finally released the long anticipated Bearshare version 2.50. This version includes major improvements such as… Swarming! Faster Connection to the Network Auto detect Firewall settings Auto detect IP address. Grab 2.5 right Here Also you may check out bearshare labs to become aware of any bugs, or post some [...]

Here is the latest News from Morpheus: 1) Streamcast has launched their new web site at MusicCity.com. It’s aimed at small artists without BMI/ASCAP contracts to encourage them to distribute music using their client. 2) Streamcast Morpheus has announced on their IRC servers that they will be shutting down the chat service on April 1, [...]