The site is back online but it got hacked again, check it out http://www.riaa.org/storymain.htm the news is back the mp3 links r back, theres heavy bw currently, it myth go down soon

The RIAA have been involved in long running litigation against Mp3board.com. It is a gnutella based MP3 search engine. The case has now moved a step closer to trial with U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein of the Southern District of New York rejected summary judgment bids from the major music labels and MP3Board. The [...]

I stumbled upon this company page today, and thought you all should check it out. A software makers comments on P2P file sharing and IM services, and their software to prevent these “Rogue Protocols”. ““Rogue Protocols”, like those used by instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing services, represent a serious, widespread and rapidly-growing [...]

After the submission of a recent article on Soulseek in the program releases section, it got me thinking, I noticed all the replies, and the strong opinions that people had about Soulseek . Soulseek is NOT for fans of mainstream stuff like Britney, Christina, Shakira, Ricky Martin, etc. Soulseek is a different kind of P2P [...]

Music industry to consumers: Bend over The Compact Disc is too easy to rip, so the music industry wants us to switch to a new, smaller format that is encrypted. You won’t be able to make MP3′s from it. Oh, and it will cost even more than the overpriced CD’s that you are used to. [...]

“…A dozen consumer and privacy groups filed an amicus brief in federal court here arguing that the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) request for information about a Verizon Communications subscriber should be denied. Verizon has opposed the request on procedural grounds. “The 30-page brief says the RIAA is relying on a portion of the [...]

“It’s hard to say which side in the baseball labor dispute is doing a better job mucking it up for the rest of us–when it comes to pigheadedness and unvarnished greed, the owners and the players are giving each other a pretty good run for the money. Watching professional baseball’s slow-motion self-destruction, I can’t help [...]

NapTracK is a simple program that allows you to get live stats of all slavanap and opennap servers reporting to Napigatr, Displays the stats in table form. You can then export the servers to a file, or into WinMX directly. The program is free to use and does not contain ads and spyware. Has a [...]

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has a page explaining their current work on intellectual property and copyright law, especially Digital Rights Management. They are also asking for comments. In their own words, they are “eager to make this page a space for constructive contributions to the ongoing debate about copyright issues and technology policy, [...]

Some excerpts from the Denver Post article: Downloading that new Britney Spears hit from the Net may come at a cost that includes divulging personal bank account information, credit card numbers and even company secrets. Millions of people, following the trend first set by Napster, use file-sharing websites not only to copy and download free [...]

Some excerpts from the Computercops.biz article: The EU has said the UK must apply new rules for digital copyright – but a bad law is made worse in the process. The Directive says that devices that circumvent copy protection will be illegal to sell and own. Recording studios rely on such devices to make, manipulate [...]

Interesting feature about filesharing in ‘The Mirror’ – a UK mass-market tabloid newspaper. Basically: Pre-recorded CDs are in decline, but record stores aren’t worried by filesharing – people will still buy nicely-packaged original music/films by choice (not by RI/MPAA threats). ———————————– CD R.I.P. Why your shiny new album collection is being made obsolete by the [...]

If you live in the 26th Congressional District of California, Rep. Howard Berman is hosting a Town Hall meeting here: Thursday, August 8th, 6pm Sepulveda Middle School Auditorium Corner of Plummer and Sepulveda, North Hills, CA Find out if your in Berman’s district by clicking here! I’m sure we can’t change his mind, but at [...]

I fixed a bug and made it so that if Windows Explorer crashes, the program will automatically re-add its icon to your system tray. Download

Consumer electronics maker JVC and games developer Hudson Soft have developed a new copy-protection technology that they claim will prevent CD-ROM discs from being copied, the companies said on Wednesday. The technology, called “Root”, marks the latest effort by the computer industry to control software piracy through technical means Full story at Zdnet.com

“Statement from Thomson Multimedia, mp3 Licensing In a posting appearing Tuesday August 27, 2002 on the Web site ‘slashdot.org’, an individual cited a change in the mp3 license fee structure of Thomson and Fraunhofer. The writer of the post apparently misread the mp3 licensing conditions, as Thomson’s mp3 licensing policy has not experienced any change. [...]

Today in the Chicago Sun-Times eBIZ Section… Downloads_blamed_for_CD_dip Instead of Making Billions they are only making Hundreds of Millions. Thats a Shame…

According to recent stories in the French news media, a new fake-file spoofing and interdiction startup called RetSpan (that’s “Napster” spelled backwards) is now in discussions with the major media companies. Panicked by the recent outing of Overpeer and P2P Overflow (stories that first broke right here on Zeropaid) the RetSpan founders have come out [...]

Winamp has released an update to version 2, which is great especailly with how many problem people (including myself) have been getting with winamp3. Version 2.81 contains bug fixes, including a fix in the version update notification checking, and a variety of miscellaneous performance enhancements.

“WASHINGTON — Apple Computer has invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to prevent its customers from burning DVDs on external drives. Earlier this month, the company’s lawyers sent a stiff warning to an Apple dealer, warning that a patch to Apple’s iDVD burning software ran afoul of the controversial 1998 copyright law. ‘They alleged it [...]