The RIAA is coming down on companies that let their employees download music. They have set up an 800 number so people can tell the RIAA that they were allowed at work to download illegal music. The RIAA gets most tips from disgruntled ex-employees who call the anonymous hot line . What next? Read the [...]

Napster may not be able to transfer all its technology to Bertelsmann after all. PlayMedia Systems, who had provided key parts of Napster’s proposed pay service, have filled documents in court Tuesday as part of Napster’s Bankruptcy hearing. It believes that it’s technology couldn’t automatically transfer to Bertelsmann. Can PlayMedia derail Napster’s transfer to Bertelsmann? [...]

People always ask me what they should use to replace Napster, AG, KaZaA, etc, etc… Lately I’ve been saying “Ever heard of Shareaza?”. For the past couple days I’ve been getting wierd looks but I’m sure this all will change soon once my secret gets out. Shareaza appears to be replacing Xolox as my top [...]

“A recent Newsbytes interview with Paul Komoszki, creator of the Benjamin worm that targeted Windows-based users of the KaZaA network, said he released the code to frustrate Internet users searching for pirated software and child pornography…” Click here to read this NetworkWorldFusion story (June 12). Are a large percentage of KaZaA users sick of abusers [...]

“While Hollywood studios try to rein in what consumers can do with digital files, some consumer-electronics companies are speeding ahead with products that make it even easier for people to move movies and music around the home and the Web. The latest example is a gadget Toshiba Corp. is unveiling today that’s an electronic library [...]

“Independent Webcasters are bracing for a final ruling on a royalty rate for Net radio, a decision that could determine the fate of hundreds of small online radio stations. The Librarian of Congress is expected to announce a “final determination” on Webcasting fees Thursday, having last month rejected (older story) royalty rates proposed by a [...]

“…Chicago-based FullAudio said the third round of funding brings the company’s total investments to $36 million, which will be used to expand its business development, marketing and digital music subscription services. FullAudio also said it will offer Bertelsmann Music Group’s catalog of songs through its online music subscription service, MusicNow. FullAudio said subscribers will be [...]

Please give a warm welcome to the newest member of the Zeropaid family, Hardware! Here you will find all the gadgets we find interesting, and exactly what we thought of them. Currently, we are adding a user rating system, and adding more hardware daily. If you have any suggestions for hardware, please leave them here. [...]

“…America Online, Warner Music Group’s corporate cousin, last week began offering 99 cent downloads of music from artists such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alanis Morissette, Missy Elliott, Jewel and Brandy. In all, AOL plans to offer 15 songs at that price. The promotion marks the first time Warner Music has teamed with AOL [...]

“The hacks just keep on coming for Microsoft’s Xbox. A second ‘mod chip,’ an add-on chip for the console that lets consumers play pirated discs and other applications on their consoles, is now available. And for more ambitious hackers, instructions have begun to proliferate on the Web for building homemade Xbox modifications. The first Xbox [...]

Gnucleus changes are: Added advanced host blocking that stops gnutella spamming Added option to disable ident server Leaf and Ultrapeer connect settings seperated Search results with hash grouped seperately Exe compacted with latest version of upx Multiple space characters in search results condensed down to one space Updates to GWebCache sends version information Deleting partial [...]

A Slashdot reader posted, “Tom’s Hardware has a story that details information regarding some of the new (and old) copy protection schemes out there, as well as results from several different CDRW drives. There are a lot of sites devoted to this topic, but Tom’s is usually rather thorough.” Read “Mysteries Of The CDRW and [...]

In this picture, “Ramon Pulido of AT&T Broadband in Newhall (Los Angeles County) steamrolls 3,000 confiscated cable TV decoding boxes. The devices were seized throughout Southern California.” SF Gate reports that pay-TV piracy is increasing with the use of computers (dah!) and that companies like DirecTV “has sent about 10,000 legal notices to people around [...]

Pick you poison as far as where you want to read this story from, as about 12 people submitted the headline to Zeropaid and the headline has begun to trickle from media source to media source. After about three years of service, AudioGalaxy has settled with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and agreed [...]

The latest Defender beta has been released. To view the change log and download to test it yourself can be found here. All bug reports and comments about the beta can go on the BearShare Labs forums.

Surely, most everyone at ZP would have voted “No” in Billboard’s poll asking if Napster would make it. But still: 42% of 2,739 participants voted “maybe”; 32% “no”; 10% “yes”; and 16% “don’t care!” To each his own opinion. Click here to read the full Billboard Magazine poll synopsis.

After a slight delay due to the addition of new features it seems that Blubster 2.0 is finally near. According to this Blubster 2.0 will be released on or before June 28th. Here are some of it’s new features – hash based weblink support (like edonkey & ShareReactor) – navigation buttons on home and help [...]

In an attempt to eliminate the need for tall and “ugly” cell phone towers that are often challenged by homeowners and city managers around the country, SRI International (a research firm best known for demonstrating the first computer mouse) is working on technology to replace the need for cell phone towers with peer-to-peer networking via [...]

“Warner Home Video has chosen not to copy-protect the home versions of its blockbuster movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in major markets, including the US and UK. This means people can go out and buy a DVD or VHS, connect the analogue output of their player to a recorder – either analogue or [...]

The free BadBlue version 1.7 is now available. BadBlue is a tiny Win32 web server that comes search-enabled. It can search either locally or the Gnutella network. It’s a good way to share files (since it’s a server, anyone you authorize can search and download files). It can also distribute MS Office files with its [...]