“The Grokster file-sharing network, which has now based itself on the island of Nevis in the West Indies, recently launched a suite of P2P direct marketing tools for content owners. In partnership with FileFreedom of Charlottesville, Va., Grokster says its software can help independent artists, including musicians, filemakers and writers, market their content directly to [...]

The much anticipated edition of BBC2′s ‘The Money Programme’ which concentrated on P2P networking was screened at 7.30pm 17/07/02. In it many P2P users openly admitted what they do without concealing their identity on camera. Indeed, the creator of Xolox also chose to comment on camera about his programme. The programme said p2p networking has [...]

At the start of the holiday season this year, Microsoft will release a new Windows XP edition called “Media Center.” This operating system is designed to enhance the way home computer users use their PC for normal everyday computing and also entertainment. …each media center PC will come with the following components for enhancing the [...]

The giFT project was originally started in early 2001 as an attempt to give users an open source alternative to the widespread FastTrack client. After been locked out by new FastTrack encryption they started designing their own file sharing protocol, loosely based on what they had learned about FastTrack. Well, infoanarchy have posted this review [...]

The release of Media Metrix U.S. Top 50 Internet properties statistics for June shows just how popular KaZaA has become. The statistics for June put KaZaA as the 5th fastest growing property on the internet . It is also the first time since Napster that a file sharing application has appeared in the top 50 [...]

All right all you artists out there. Judging from this, we suck at designing clothes. So please, help us out. Please send EPS or PSD files, 300 dpi to [email protected] The only rule is they have to say Zeropaid.com somewhere. They can be big, small, text, images, but they must be original. Don’t steal someone [...]

CloneCD version 4.0.1.10 is out now. What’s new: Added RAW-SAO support for Plextor DVD-Combo drive PX-320A Modified online help to reflect structural “Supported Writers” changes Added Persian language Updated Swedish language Revamped Copy-Kernel: CloneCD 4 copies more! New User Interface: Even easier to use! New technical features: i.e. Automatic Fast Error Skip.

Limewire 2.5.3 has been released with the following changes: New browse host feature–even works through firewalls. Faster downloads: connects in parallel to several hosts. Download mesh support. Find alternate locations while downloading. Downloader checks for corrupt files by looking at overlapping regions. Increased download swarming by using “alternate location” data. Loads shared files much faster [...]

“…Los Gatos, Calif.-based El Gato Software plans to launch the EyeTV in an effort to level the playing field between Macs and PCs. Hauppauge and Pinnacle Systems are among a handful of companies making either internal or external personal video recorders (PVRs) for PCs. But to date, there are few such products for the Mac. [...]

From UrbanFlex.com: Music bosses have unveiled a revolutionary new recording format that they hope will help win the war on illegal file sharing which is thought to be costing the industry millions of dollars in lost revenue. Nicknamed the ‘Record’, the new format takes the form of a black, vinyl disc measuring 12 inches in [...]

Slyck.com has its own interesting interview with Pablo, the creator of Blubster. It appears that the creators of Blubster is in more ways than one a 3rd Generation file sharing system. If this is true then is Fastrack Doomed? Slyck Interview Then check out Zeropaid.com’s Interview with Pablo Here: Zeropaid.com Interview Matt’s Note: For all [...]

“…In a motion filed late Monday, a group of radio stations said a federal court in Philadelphia and the U.S. Copyright Office had misinterpreted the law when they said that radio stations had to pay musicians and recording companies when they stream their songs over the Internet. The Copyright Office established a rate of 0.07 [...]

“…Lawyer and former music-television producer David Benjamin will fill the role as UMG‘s new senior vice president of anti-piracy. UMG said Benjamin would work with industry trade groups as well as the company’s artists, songwriters, and publishing divisions to prevent unauthorized copying and distribution of the labels’ music…” Read the full story at CNET’s New.com [...]

The Radiohead fansite MeetingPeopleIsEasy.de was fined 550,42 Euros for offering live concert MP3s of the band on their fan website. The site was supposedly contacted by the agents of EMI (the band’s label) and told to remove the MP3s, but the site did not receive notification. In response to this, EMI sent a letter which [...]

“…By a 385-3 vote, the House approved a computer crime bill that also expands police ability to conduct Internet or telephone eavesdropping without first obtaining a court order. The Bush administration had asked Congress to approve the Cyber Security Enhancement Act (CSEA) as a way of responding to electronic intrusions, denial of service attacks and [...]

“MPEG LA, a group of patent holders governing MPEG-4, on Monday finalized licensing terms for the media delivery standard, bowing to market pressure for manageable royalty rates … Under the new terms, owners of Web site content can license the latest video and audio compression format for 25 cents per subscriber or 2 cents per [...]

“…In a joint missive to studio chiefs, signed by Microsoft‘s Steve Ballmer, Intel‘s Craig Barrett, Dell Computer‘s Michael Dell and others, technology CEOs said they were ready to sit down with movie industry representatives to discuss anti-piracy issues–but only if the studios agree that technology can’t solve all their problems. With several conditions attached, the [...]

Apple has released QuickTime media player version 6 (final) for OS9/X and for Windows 98 or higher. The main update comes with the adoption of the open-standard MPEG-4 playing and autoring. This player comes as Microsoft releases some detalis about Windows Media Player Series 9 which will use codecs that will only work with Microsoft [...]

The open-source alternative to mp3 makes headway with the release of their first full version. Competition between the Ogg Vorbis audio format and MP3 may begin to heat up as the first full release of Ogg Vorbis is set to launch. Ogg Vorbis is an open source, royalty free, audio encoding software. With record companies [...]

The Washington Post has a website to provide free downloads of music, created by managing editor Howard Parnell, who used to work at the Boston Globe, which offers a similar service. The artists who are featured on these websites are thrilled with the exposure they receive via these sites. A quote from the article: We [...]