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Apr 29 2002

White House Cool to Hollings’ Act

“The Bush administration is lukewarm on a plan to embed copy-protection technology in software and consumer electronics. James Rogan, the Commerce Department’s undersecretary for intellectual property, has expressed mild skepticism about a bill championed by Senate Commerce chairman Fritz Hollings (D-South Carolina). In a speech last week, Rogan said that ‘negotiations are presently underway among [...]

Apr 29 2002

Gateway really making headlines in music debate

“Gateway hears the music. The Poway, Calif.-based PC manufacturer is examining a number of strategies that could effectively turn the company into a player in the music publishing and distribution business. Gateway already maintains a site, MusicZone, where select singles can be legally downloaded, but in the future the company’s involvement could extend to launching [...]

Apr 29 2002

Online piracy killing Computer Software industry

Thats the warning coming from at a conference, which attracted firms such as Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and Symantec. Details from the BBC website Here. At the end of the article it states “Despite the efforts of the pirates, the software industry in Europe is looking pretty healthy. It is forecast to grow from £35bn in [...]

Apr 29 2002

Zeropaid Interview: Shaun from KaZaAlite.com

KaZaAlite Distributor Speaks
The No.1 P2P application on Zeropaid.com is KaZaAlite. Yuri, the hacker of KaZaA was unavailable for comment, but Zeropaid.com was lucky enough to get an interview with the Scotland distributor Shaun Garriock. He is the webmaster of KaZaALite.com. Yuri has turned down interviews with The Wall Street Journal and other major news services. [...]

Apr 28 2002

Zeropaid Question: Is Audigalaxy accepting new songs?

It’s commonly known that Audiogalaxy is the best for rare mp3’s. This weekend while searching for 3 particular new songs in AG I got “No Results”. Meanwhile I found 2 of the 3 on WinMx. Being a club DJ I am always jumping on the newest stuff (which most of the time in the [...]

Apr 28 2002

Rejoice, XoloX is back!

Hey guys, Team Xolox have released a beta version 1.18! From Xolox Team-
We pledge to work hard to earn your trust and to regain you as a loyal user. We make the following promise to you: XoloX contains NO SPYWARE, NO SNEAKWARE, NO HIJACKWARE. We will never trick [...]

Apr 27 2002

Pay for eDonkey Bot in future?

There’s a rumor, that two eDonkey Bot Versions will be avaible in Future.
eDonkey Bot Lite, Freeware and without network damage functions like Fast Global Search (FGS) and Source Booster.
eDonkey Bot Pro, with all normal functions, it shouldn’t be free.
Links to this topic:
- Thread @ edonkey2000.com Forum
- donkey-news.de (German)
- ratiatum.com (French)

Apr 27 2002

A Law To Protect Spyware

Sen. Fritz Hollings is pushing a bill that supposedly safeguards online privacy — but actually gives intrusive marketers a green light.

Outrage surged through users of the KaZaA file-sharing utility when they learned, early in April, that a new breed of spyware had been installed on their computers. KaZaA, probably the most popular heir to Napster’s [...]

Apr 26 2002

KaZaA v1.6.1

KaZaA v1.6.1 is now out with translations, and several small changes. Get it here!

Apr 25 2002

Zeropaid Commentary: Is the end of KaZaA-Lite near?

I think so. Here’s why:
1. Sharman found out
2. New subscription service (could disable other clients, etc.)
3. CloudLoud (not sure if still exists, or if Sharman knows it exists)
4. I found 10 times as many files on WinMX than on KaZaA, with more variety, too.
5. “Don’t Share File with other KaZaA members” checkbox (everybody I’ve talked [...]



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