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“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 begun [...]

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 weren’t for the [...]

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. One [...]

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 at nonprofit [...]

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 offer mp3 [...]

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 a [...]

     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 recent [...]

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 [...]