According to this article it’s a reality. Special packets sent to Fast Track clients allow a select few to modify your registry settings. I just wonder how long it will be until hackers are able to exploit it. A special script was placed on the authentication server to change your registry settings and block the [...]

Rockin’ out with your MP3 or burning music CD-Rs on your computer will cost a lot more if the federal government has its way. Newly proposed royalty charges will add a whopping $400 to the cost of a $600 MP3 player and at least a $1.23 charge to the cost of each blank CD-R, CD-RW [...]

“Sen. Dianne Feinstein may come from Northern California but she’s siding with Hollywood instead of Silicon Valley. Feinstein suggested on Thursday that Congress might need to intervene in what has become a highly visible tussle between content owners worried about online piracy and tech firms that fear intrusive new regulations. And since the two-term senator [...]

“The record companies and Hollywood are scheming to drastically erode your freedom to use legally purchased CDs and videos, and they are doing it behind your back. The only parties represented in the debate are media and technology companies, lawyers and politicians. Consumers aren’t invited.” Wall Street Journal columnist Walter Mossberg just said it best. [...]

RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen and Senator Fritz Hollings (D-South Carolina) are the two leading players in the drafting of the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act “that would force consumer electronics manufacturers -– the folks who make MP3 and DVD players -– to include security technologies within their operating systems.” Click here for the full [...]

Yesterday, I sent you all to a Slashdot review of the expensive Rio Central. The response here at Zeropaid.com was very mixed, mostly because of the price. Today, Slashdot offered up a review of the more “bare bones” Rio Receiver. For the full review and story, click here. Comments on this product?

Pablo, the developer of Blubster, offers a second Screenshot to the new Blubster version 2.0. How you can see, there is a playlist integrated and an option convert to .wav. Let`s wait for more Information, it could be very interesting for the community. The screenshot is available here

A paper on how Napster could be converted to a gnutella similar P2P model.

On March 3, The Qube Beta 9 was released. The new Beta has gnutella support with it. Most bugs were fixed. The only bug their is right now is that searched might stop your download temporarily. To get The Qube, visit www.getqube.com.

Swapper is a new MS Windows gnutella servant. It supports all the major protocol features (ultrapeer, huge, swarming, GGEP) as well as some new user interface enhancements (drag and drop, rebar, context menus). Oh yeah, NO spyware or adware! To find out more information about Swapper, please visit: Swapper 2.0

The Circle is a new file sharing program. It’s fully decentralized, but unlike gnutella or Fasttrack software, it’s been designed from the ground up to scale, potentially to hundreds of millions of users. As well as file sharing, it features instant messaging, IRC style chat, and a trust based news service. The Circle currently runs [...]

A new website backed by two founders of Excite.com (Joe Kraus Founder, Excite.com & Graham Spencer Founder, Excite.com) is aimed at trying to help fight Hollywood for the consumer. Digitalconsumer.org is a web site dedicated to Fair use and consumers digital rights. You can view your Legal Rights, see press releases and even send a [...]

News is starting to bubble over in discussion groups all over the internet on how IMesh 3.0 connects to the FastTrack Network under the @fileshare.com moniker! With the hundreds of thousands of downloads over the past few weeks, this seems to be making the FastTrack/Kazaa/Grokster network even stronger. This from the zeropaid.com forums: “I have [...]

An excellent news story about Morpheus can be read at Here. Morpheus is called an “insidious virus” by top music officials. Info is also given about StreamCast Networks Inc. who will introduce technology called CintoA that can restrict the use or distribution of an MP3 files.

Stanford EE380 has brought an interesting speech about the Implications of the DCMA for Innovation. Quite interesting Video – worth watching. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it illegal to reverse engineer most technical measures used by copyright owners to protect their works and to make or provide technologies designed to enable such reverse engineering. [...]

Damien Cave over at Salon.com has a four page, indepth article of the state of copy-protection. And it all starts off with how an average MP3 user managed to bypass the copy-protection lock that several record labels are experimenting with on select new audio CDs. Quite interesting! Click here for the full story.

The Rio Central is out. “This is a $1500 box with a 40 gig hard drive that aims to do everything audio, from feeding reciever units, burning CDs, and populating portables, and of course, providing an interface to manage your tunes and play them on your stereo. And it’s built on Linux- a USB keyboard [...]

Have universities and colleges across the nation begun to see the light? Many are giving up attempts to block file-swapping programs and traffic on their network. Some are even billing certain hours of the day as file-swapping happy-hours in order to balance network traffic between academic transfers and fun. For the full story from Cnet’s [...]

StreamCast Network’s well-known Morpheus file-swapping community seems to be simply replaying the soap-opera that turned Napster from a “P2P legend” to “nothing” in a matter of weeks. Will Morpheus survive? I doubt it, but you can (and will) be the judge. [Click here to read the latest news on Morpheus at Cnet's News.com]

File Spree v1.5 was just released. It is similar to the current version, but with vast improvements. It’ll include resume as well, for those that have been requesting it for several months. The resume works perfectly, and the new buttons added to the layout helps to the ease of use. Other features include: + Donate [...]