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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, anonymous [...]

“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 [...]

“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 become [...]