Not much new info in this article, but every middle American in a hotel room today will see or read this story. “When Sonicblue, maker of ReplayTV, designs new products, the team includes some unlikely people: lawyers. That’s because Sonicblue builds products that Hollywood hates and consumers love. It specializes in gadgets that let people [...]

CNET’s News.com has a good article on the ever-growing use and under-hand tactics of “spyware.” “…At first, the signs are subtle: Your computer is slower than usual, something is different about your browser, occasionally you’re redirected to an unfamiliar Web site for no apparent reason. When you finally figure out the problem, you discover that [...]

Fully automated 24/7 unattended downloading, perl interface and all the regular Gnutella client features. NapShare homepage.

“Australia plans to endorse CD-copying kiosks in a controversial world-first plan that legalises music piracy. The Australian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society [AMCOS] will allow an Adelaide-based business to operate CD-pirating kiosks nationwide for a modest royalty payment. The coin-operated kiosks could open in shopping malls, supermarkets or record stores from September and charge $5 for [...]

XoloX 1.20 has been released with major download bug fixed. At the moment, to install xolox 1.2 firstly uninstall 1.19 completely and do a clean install of 1.20. For a Clean install: Run the uninstaller then go to start > run > type in regedit. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > XoloX. Delete the key. [...]

WinMX v3.22 is now available. From the homepage: This new version contains a drastically improved network as well as several minor bug fixes . Download it here.

Moby is blaming P2P fans for lower-than-hoped sales of his latest album, “18.” “I described the ‘Pearl Jam Effect’ as being a phenomenon wherein bands who have very technically savvy fans will see their records do poorly in the charts, whereas bands/artists who have less technically savvy fans will do quite well on the charts,” [...]

This opening paragraph of this Newsweek article speaks volumes when talking about Microsoft and digital security: “In ancient Troy stood the Palladium, a statue of the goddess Athena. Legend has it that the safety of the city depended on that icon’s preservation. Later the term came to mean a more generic safeguard.” Dictionary.com defines palladium [...]

“Under an agreement between On2 and Xiph.org Foundation, a nonprofit that serves as a parent for open-source development efforts, developers will be able to use an early version of On2′s compression codec with the Ogg Vorbis framework. On2′s VP3.2 compresses large video files into smaller ones so they can be sent over the Web, wireless [...]

My clean version of Grokster 1.6 is available now. The only mirror available on the web is at UniteTheCows.com. You will need to register a free account there in order to download it. Alternatively, Grokster160.exe is available on various file sharing networks.

The service provider of Xolox is reporting that they are under a massive denial of service attack. Xolox are reported to have said that the attack was Pretty malicious, but we hope it to be resolved soon. Read more here. Xolox still can be downloaded directly from download.com here. Xolox is not the first file [...]

Another newish p2p program for you to check out called Apple Juice. It has some similar features to edonkey such as the ability to the ability to create a download-upload ratio. You can download Apple Juice here.

Frost, the file-sharing client for freenet, got some nice improvements: Message boards with more traffic are now updated more often, and a new search tab (with file type selector) has been added. Also, a new help function should help Frost beginners to get a clue. You can download Frost here.

The sixth annual webby awards have taken place with Sharman Networks (owners of KaZaA) getting the prize for Net’s best broadband offering: People’s Choice. The general public disagreed with the judges who gave their best broadband offering to Guggenheim.com. Read about the awards here or for a full list of winners go here

The new File Spree beta has been released with a ton of fixes and additions. The element which most people have been waiting for is the file hashing. It also comes packed with URL support for those who wish to start portals using the program. The program takes a little longer to load your shared [...]

As you’ve probably already heard, Audiogalaxy decided to settle out of court with the RIAA for a lot of money and now is blocking All songs. Well, here’s an interesting story (thanx Unitethecows) about the developer of Audiogalaxy and his take on this whole RIAA thing. Read the story here

Shareaza has released an update which includes “Limit searches to certain file types, faster uploads, better QRP compatibility, auto-connect, more intuitive results display”. Check out Shareaza here

EFF Presents The Carabella Game: The Quest for Tunes This interactive video game highlights the ways that consumers’ privacy and fair use rights are being whittled away by digital rights management technologies, online spyware and data profiling services. You will experience and learn about: being tracked and monitored online and how to surf anonymously to [...]

Streamcast Networks (Morpheus) along with Grokster Ltd and KaZaA BV (for now) are being jointly sued by the RIAA. Streamcast Networks ran into trouble last month when their attorney, who had a history of successfully fighting the record industry on technology issues, quit last month after StreamCast said it couldn’t afford his legal bills StreamCast [...]

Download XoloX 1.19 Here Features Browser ControlsEasily navigate the XoloX web pages and explore the web more enjoyably within XoloX with new browser controls. Discover the new Streaming Media: A Direct link to content partner for streaming media Improved StabilityStart up bug of Xolox has been fixed to minimize errors. Various other bug fixes have [...]