“Midbar, the Israel-based company that makes copy-protection technology for audio CDs, said on Monday that its products are now to be found in more than 30 million CDs worldwide, with 10 million of those in Japan. Separately, the company said it has fixed a glitch that allowed consumers to circumvent its copy protection using a [...]

Slashdot says, “Since Thomson Multimedia [and] the Frauenhofer Institute has decided to press the $0.75-per-decoder charge for MP3 decoders mentioned earlier today, there are probably a lot of people suddenly more interested in other formats. I favor the Xiph Foundation’s Ogg Vorbis; Xiph CEO Emmett Plant has written his thank-you note to Thomson Multimedia.”

Interesting article w/ a different perspective on the issues of the day: Some excerpts: “Who the hell does the RIAA think they are? I can sympathize with the need to protect intellectual property, however the blatant use of hackers to target users computers will lead to a fierce backlash from P2P users. Actually it’s already [...]

In a letter to Thompson and Fraunhofer the makers of Ogg Vorbis sent there thanks. August 27th, 2002 Dear Thomson Multimedia: Thank you for removing the license-fee exemption for the release of free mp3 decoders. Thank you for the unbelievable amount of free publicity we have received in the wake of this announcement. If it [...]

Check out what our friends of CD Freaks.com just found out! Currently the RIAA website shows some amazing links on their site: http://www.riaa.org. It seems that the Recording Industry Association of America have been hacked and the hacker has changed the website in such a manner that it will make the average Zeropaid visitor laugh. [...]

There is an interesting article on CNET about the recent P2P disputes between the ISP’s and RIAA and those f***ers… Here’s a quote: “The copyright wars on Capitol Hill have begun to drift into the political equivalent of trench warfare, with Hollywood and the music industry pitted against hardware makers, electronics manufacturers, and ragtag activists [...]

Looks like the music industry is getting more and more tangled up in their own rules struggling to get a grip on the internet. In Germany there is an interesting discussion going on about the online music service Weblisten.com. Is it legit or not? The German record companies state that Weblisten has no rights to [...]

The BBC are running an article about “A war is being fought between record company bosses and computer users for the future of music.” As compact disc sales slide, previously bland industry events have started to provide pulpits for industry figures to launch increasingly strident attacks on the websites that could soon deprive them of [...]

     I thought this would be cool program, so I built it. Special thanks to Jorge for helping me setup the server-side part of the system.      Basically, this program downloads a list of recent news articles from Zeropaid.com and puts them all into a list on the program’s window. It also notifies you when the most [...]

Zeropaid Exclusive: Last week Streamcast Networks released Morpheus 2.0. As previously stated here, it uses the code of Jtella. However Streamcast Networks used Jtella source code without any authorization from Jtella and broke just about every rule under which you may use the Jtella source code. Stremcast Networks are engaging in massive copyright infringement. Understandably [...]

Overnet 0.30 has been released, now with a handy .net installer.

Aluria Software is proud to announce the 6.0 release of their unique software, the MP3 Master. This software interfaces with over 150 popular file-sharing programs, and it even comes with WinMX bundled. But where this program really shines is in its MP3 management. With MP3 Master, you can grow, organize, play, convert, and burn your [...]

Hello UTC members. I have some great news… Tom and Ray over at Slyck.com have offered to keep UTC alive. They volunteered to host & maintain the site. Everything will remain as is; all admin and master accounts will stay in place however, the owners will now be Slyck.com. Tom and Ray have vowed to [...]

Last year CD sales fell by 5% in the USA. This year they are falling by an average of 7%. In the first six months of the year the volume of shipments was 7% down on what it was in the same period last year says the RIAA. As always the RIAA is blaming p2p [...]

Found an interesting article on News-Record.com concerning Rep. Howard Coble (AKA P2P’s worst nightmare). Some excerpts: Coble’s office says that any problems with the proposed law can be ironed out in hearings next month. That’s the good news. The bad news is that Coble’s initial response to my earlier column on this subject, and to [...]

I’ve been using file swapping software for a very long time, and would like to think that I have used most of the best. However, it’s only in recent times when I’ve been searching for some rarer files on modern networks that I’ve started to get a little bit angry.   I’m on broadband, and [...]

It had to happen, with declining sales and no profits to speak of the “big 3″ jump on the “Sue everybody ask questions later” band wagon.

P2P Aplication soulseek (formerely www.soulseek.org), have moved from their old domain and set up shop at www.slsk.org whilst they atteampt to resolve bugs and server problems in their current version. In the meantime, they have released a temporary client to allow users to connect to the network and continue sharing files. Version 138 functions just [...]

New features include; support for OGG file transmit/receive, system tray icon (PeerCast starts up minimized in the system tray by default and you can call up the usual PeerCast window via the pop-up menu), You can also tune in stations and create/access station presets from the pop-up menu. The HTML interface and GUI haven’t changed [...]

HMV, the British record retailer, reached a deal with digital music service On Demand Distribution (OD2) to sell digital tracks over the Net. With over 100,000 tunes to be made available the deal marks the largest release to date of label sanctioned digital tracks in the UK. Looking at a September launch, the service makes [...]