Saw this story on Slashdot. According to this RIAA Press Release the Recording Industry of America is suing Audiogalaxy like with Napster for allowing users to download music. This statement in the press release explains more it more in detail. “The complaint specifically accuses Audiogalaxy of “willfully and intentionally” encouraging and facilitating “millions of individual, [...]

“The proposal was delivered to the European Union during a two-day piracy seminar in Madrid. If adopted, it would enable the sources of pirated discs made in the EU to be tracked down, say the industry groups, which include the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA). Along with the unique code, [...]

I’m still getting a lot of hits that are the Benjamin virus on Kazaa(Lite). For those of you feeling the affects of this worm here’s the scoop from Symantec. I wonder who would have a vested interest in making searches on KaZaA less useful?

Slashdot reader Dotnaught writes: “An article that I wrote about a new music promotion service called fightcloud.com and CD pricing in general has just gone up on Salon. And heeding the advice of Dave Winer, I also posted the full transcript of the interview on my Web log, Lot 49, for those curious about what [...]

A new file sharing tool – Soulshare has been released. The tool connects to the OpenNap networks, and sports a KaZaA like interface. Screenshots are also available.

I’m the author of SwapShaker, the first and powerful automated file manager for all the most popular file sharing services. SwapShaker is a free and unique tool which allows users to automatically move or delete shared files to reduce potential copyright liabilities and to lower bandwidth. The tool can also launch programs such as an [...]

“In what may be a first for the recording industry, Maverick Records and Vivendi Universal’s online division are asking listeners to pay just under a dollar for an unprotected MP3 version of a new single.” Click here for the full story at ZDnet.com.

Intresting article on Winamp.com talking about copyright portection. Check it out here.

EMI Group‘s, the world’s third largest music group, recent announcement that global product sales are down and that they are in the “red,” which will lead to about 1,800 job losses, is not the fault of MP3 file–swapping on peer–to–peer (P2P) networks. The fault lies with EMI themselves and they have no problem admitting that. [...]

We’ve all heard about the benefits of using OGG and open source/patent free formats (although some of us choose not to listen), but now even our most respected, renegade, AOL software developers are getting in on the preaching. From the article (CDFreaks.com): These formats are all lossy compression formats and have all a potential to [...]

Found this on slashdot about this Yahoo article about Altnet which is used by programs on the Fasttrack network. One part of Altnet is called TopSearch which is sponsored listing which companies will pay to promote their goods & services which will appear faster than normal search results and at the top of the result [...]

Saw this on /. about this article which says that because of the costs of defending itself in court from copyright infringement lawsuits that KaZaA will fold. However this isn’t expected to hurt the Fasttrack Network because that was sold to Sharman Networks.

“For every frequently asked question (FAQ) there is an answer. And with respect to the question whether FAQs posted on Web sites are deserving of copyright protection, Judge Barbara B. Crabb, of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, in the case Mist-On Systems, Inc. v. Gilley’s European Tan Spa, on May [...]

Worried about an easy way to get around these crippled copy protected CD’s DVD’s (audio only) or adding vinyl or cassettes to your mp3 collection. Look no further. RipFlash Recordable MP3 Player is a first-of-its-kind flash memory based combination MP3 player and MP3 Recorder and voice recording device which actually encodes analog audio using its [...]

Beta version of 1.7.9.0 just evolved into 1.8.0. Gnucleus 1.8 – Entirely new and rewritten supernode (ultrapeer) system – Ultrapeer specs standardized and compatible with LimeWire and BearShare – Shared files searched through on a lookup table, incredibly – Download status indicated in search window – PHP, ASP, and ColdFusion versions of GWebCache now available [...]

The extremely important verdict by a Dutch court recently that p2p file sharing was not illegal looks set to possibly be overturned. Remember this verdict was one of the main reasons that xolox came back. Now, just HOURS after Kazaa BV announced that it was conceding defeat against the USA RIAA case Buma/Stemra (Dutch version [...]

KaZaA BV is believed to be on the verge of bankruptcy. KaZaA BV are former owners of KaZaA and now appear also to be former controllers of the FastTrack protocol. It is believed that a company called Blastoise operating under the name Joltid now controls the protocol. The owners of Blastoise/Joltid are the same as [...]

For those of you who don’t want to wait for KaZaA Lite 1.7, get KaZaA Rebound from here and easily remove all the spyware automatically. Boy that was quick! From home page: Rebound patch for Kazaa 1.7 released within three hours of Sharman’s launch. Remove the spyware from your Kazaa Installation. Compatible with all versions [...]

Whats New: Double your search results with a single click. KMD will repeat your search on a whole new set of peers, providing you with up to twice the results for each search. Media Player enhancements include visualisation in Theatre View, improved codec handling and more file formats supported. This version now makes the b3d [...]

I got this in an e-mail from Kazza lite check it out. I just found this out —————————- On Monday 27th, Sharman Networks (owners of Kazaa Media Desktop) will release an upgrade to version 1.7. We HIGHLY recommend that you do NOT download this update, until we have examined the update. Word has it that [...]