This week, Zeropaid announced that the U.S. Librarian of Congress decided on the rates that will kill independant web radio. While they decidely cut the CARP rates by 50%, it still charges .07 per preformance, as opposed to a percentage of income. Congradulations RIAA, your lobbying efforts were well spent. Read SomaFM’s homepage for a [...]

Zeropaidians, one more file-sharing utility is out. According to the author its in the early stages and “Its underlying design, however, has already laid the way to a new kind of Internet service and infrastructure – the PEER WEB.” It use KADEMLIA that is routing algorithm for peer-to-peer networks based on the XOR metric. Check [...]

The Washington Post reports that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has set sniffing software loose on the World Wide Web in a bid to prevent pirates truffling movies worldwide. Full story.

Ever since the rise of Napster more than three years ago, Internet users have expected peer-to-peer file-swapping services to be free of charge. During its heyday, you could download the Napster client for free. After a March 2001 federal court ruling that the popular service was in violation of copyright laws, myriad services that sprung [...]

“IBM and media company Spero Communications plan to offer a free, copy-protected CD featuring music from rock band Oasis. IBM said the CD will be distributed to 1.7 million readers of The Sunday Times (U.K.) this weekend. Recipients will be able to play tracks from Oasis’ new album, ‘Heathen Chemistry,’ on their computer up to [...]

“With congressional investigations and billion-dollar lawsuits, modern copyright policing isn’t exactly child’s play. But a group of privacy advocates hopes it can teach consumers about intellectual property and privacy issues with a new online game. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Privacy Activism recently introduced “Carabella,” a game designed around Macromedia’s Flash animation software. Players assume [...]

Another interesting article on CNET about how ISP’s are being dragged into the anti-piracy debacle: “Software piracy monitors at Business Software Alliance asked Finnish Internet service provider Jippii Group last November to remove a customer’s Web site that allegedly helped others to scam bootlegged software. Jippii repeatedly denied BSA requests to take down the site, [...]

“Federal copyright regulators on Thursday set new royalty rates for online radio companies, halving previously proposed fees that had drawn bitter criticism from Net companies. Under the new rates, Web companies would pay 0.07 cent, or about a fourteenth of a cent, every time they played a song online for a single listener. Radio stations [...]

A new version of Ad-aware has been released. Version 5.83 update features several compatibility fixes (Scrolling wheel glitch, Default language files reseted if multiple installed) and improvements (Overall scanning speed increased, additional file details in logfiles and more). Read more on the update or download it from Lavasoftusa

The Madster (formally known as Aimster) suit is back on following a lifting of a stay on the case. A stay was put in place when the owner of Madster/AbovePeer filled for bankruptcy. This means that a Judge can now reach a preliminary injunction in the case. The RIAA welcomed the ruling saying ‘We look [...]

It was announced on the FileSpree forums that the next BETA version of FileSpree will have hashing and URL support similar to eDonkey. The BETA should be released shortly. For more information of FileSpree go to the official FileSpree website.

Want to get better sound from your MP3-loaded PC? On Tuesday, Tech Report posted a very informative sound card round-up, complete with a “PC sound 101″ introduction and covering six cards: Hercules Gamesurround Muse XL, Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo II, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, Philips Acoustic Edge, Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!, and Creative Labs Sound [...]

In response Salon’s article a couple weeks ago about Eminem’s label flooding P2P networkds with bogus files, a Slashdot reader and University of Washington student has updated his Decemeber 2001 paper about systemic collapsing of P2P networks. Here is the abstract: Peer to peer networks have generated significant attention in the recent past, especially file [...]

“Consumer-electronics giant Philips is demonstrating a prototype miniature disc drive that uses a coin-size disc capable of storing nearly twice as much data as a standard-sized CD. The drive uses 3cm discs that can store up to 1GB of data. Typical CDs, measuring 12cm in diameter, can hold up to 650MB of data. The prototype [...]

“As news swept across the Internet regarding Audiogalaxy, the file-trading company forced to shut [down] its network on Monday, music fans came face-to-face with a sense of dread and déjà vu. But just as the demise of Napster’s service nearly a year ago created some inconvenience for music downloaders, Audiogalaxy’s shutdown should have little lasting [...]

Widesource p2p sharing program features a powerful search engine to find data on the Internet. The search engine includes multiple criteria to enhance search quality, such as page size, opinion, date, language, keywords, connection speed, and other specifications. Other features of Widesource include bookmarks management, fast search on internet or in your own bookmarks, usefull [...]

After 2 years of work in the darkness, the GNU/nsProject is ready to release the first file-sharing generic engine. The GNU/nsProject works with diferent protocols: centralized server style (like napster) or serverless (like GNUtella). The first advantatge of GNU/nsProject is the posibility to add plugin’s with new transmision protocols. The second one, is that you [...]

Audiogalaxy’s nullification of its internally indexed music search was pretty much expected. Most AG users planned on using FTP search in case of this situation. Apparently our plans where foiled, as an attempted FTP search returns FTP Search is offline, please go back to www.audiogalaxy.com. It is not known whether Audiogalaxy took their FTP search [...]

KDX is a “BBS”-style (Bulletin Board System) encrypted internet communications system that provides file transfer, chat, messaging, news, trackers etc. It uses strong encryption to protect your communications for security and privacy. Check out the homepage or download it.

BearShare Pro is now $19.95. Unfortunatly it is no longer $9.95. from BearShare‘s homepage… BearShare Pro Help support BearShare development. For only $19.95 you’ll receive: The most advanced file sharing program available today No Pop-ups or Banners – Ad-Free No Bundled Software 6 Month Subscription including Updates Works on All Windows platforms Email Support Plus [...]