Not one, not two, but three articles from Cnet.com today. * On Tuesday, the RIAA asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., for an order compelling Verizon Communications to reveal the name of a customer accused of illegally trading hundreds of songs. Citing privacy concerns and potential legal liability, Verizon has refused to comply with [...]

The DOJ (Department of Justice) is going to make it a criminal offense for U.S. citizens to swap copyrighted material over the internet. I ask you this, is this the end of P2P or the birth of new technology that will shield users identity along with files swapped? What are they thinking technology will always [...]

Changes from version 2.1.0 – search and browse disabled until user meets min_share and min_share_size – channels created by console now +registered and -moderated – staff can now muzzle lower level staff – blocked resuming transfers by leeches – changed whois handler. made it compatible with teknap scripts – fixed bug where accounts were reset [...]

Just when you thought KaZaA Lite couldn’t get any cleaner or better, it did! I have made a KaZaA Lite patch (just replaces your Kazaa.exe with an updated one) and it makes numerous great updates. List of changes: – changed “My KaZaA” button to “My KaZaA Lite” – change title bar from “KaZaA” to “KaZaA [...]

“With this new release we hope to address most, if not all, of the comments, requests and remarks we received after the release of version 6.02. Details of all changes are available on the news page. Discussions about the changes and features in this new version are very welcome on the message boards. Have fun [...]

Information Wave Technologies has announced it will actively deny the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) from accessing the contents of its network. Earlier this year, the RIAA announced its new plan to access computers without owner’s consent for the sake of protecting its assets. Information Wave believes this policy puts its customers at risk [...]

ACUM, the Israeli equivalent to the RIAA, which is representing in Israel all artists, Israeli or international, decided to claim a fee from webcasting stations. Cureently internet-only stations pay a constant rate fee to ACUM, which doesn’t depend on their member’s usage of the station, but on the number of different “channels”, or playlists, provided [...]

Minitasking, a visual Gnutella client, tries to show the network structure and the dynamics of the protocol itself. At Prix Ars Electronica the German group schoenerwissen has been awarded a Distinction in the category ‘Net Excellence’ for it strangely engaging use of common internet technology. After connecting to the network, Minitasking represents other Gnutella servers [...]

I have been working on a way to collect network data and create node maps of the gnutella p2p network (entire network, not just 7 hops), and it is almost finished, so i thought i would post and see what everyone thought. The link is http://home.attbi.com/~gregory.bray/ Has been working great so far, and I just [...]

WinMx is testing a new beta release, release 3.29. They refer to lots of UI improvements, as well as dramatic a CPU performance enhancement. They’ve also added official OGG Vorbis support (yes!) and auto-queueing and auto-find-sources. Overall looks like a tight release is approaching. Check out the details on their beta page

Driven out in a crackdown earlier this year, traders selling pirated music, software and X-rated movies have returned to Pantip Plaza, a chaotic, packed shopping center in downtown Bangkok. “We are far from being able economically to buy copyright products since the prices are ridiculously expensive,” a pirate CD hawker in Pantip Plaza told Reuters. [...]

Yea baby i got what you want.This is a list of host that spam gnuntella. Normally gnucleus has these is you updated it from 1.8.2.0 to 1.8.4.0. but this is for shareaza. Here is what you must do. Spamming host 1.download this file called spamming host that i made into a .txt 2 open shareaza,go [...]

File Spree 1.2.6 BETA has been released! It has many fixes/additions and is a mandatory update. Here is the changelog: + 0 Byte Files are No Longer Listed + Port 0 No Longer Allowed + Removed IP Protocol Detection (Useless for Most, and is Automatically Corrected by Other Users) + Rebuilt Setup, Old Setup Gave [...]

“…U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper granted permission to combine a copyright lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of the device owners and one filed by consumer electronics manufacturer Sonicblue, maker of ReplayTV. With its ruling, the judge denied a motion by the entertainment industry to dismiss the EFF lawsuit. Sonicblue [...]

The finally released morpheus 2.0: now lets hope its any good. Download it from morpheus.com Updated: by wiggum At the time of writing there is little or no information on Streamcast’s websites regarding Morpheus 2.0 nor have there been any major reviews but here is what is now known about it: Morpheus 2.0 is based [...]

Forrester Research has surveyed a thousand music customers and concludes that MP3 downloads are good for the music business. It says the decline in music sales is caused more competition from games, from DVDs and the limited playlists rotated by commercial US radio stations and the economic decline. They say, it is not been caused [...]

The RIAA has filed a lawsuit against heavy hitting U.S. ISPs, because they allow access to a site called Listen4ever.com. If the RIAA wins this case, the effects of how we use on the internet here in the U.S. will start to take the shape of a Communist country! Read the story…click_here

Too much work. Too little time. Too much depression. I threw in the towel and I’m not going back. Finally I’m happy. It took over my life. My new website: www.smashsworld.com Where you can find The Qube information and the discussion board in the future (once the domain name is up): www.theqube.cc

A new access point for eDonkey2000 has become available to Linux fans. The new Program called MLDonkey can do “swarming” downloads and connect to Multiple Servers. The Gui can be replaced and is not very pretty. The client can be controlled via the web but is also difficult. If you love Sharereactor’s large files this [...]

A web-searching tool called OpenCola is out. From the OpenCola website: “Opencola is a unified search application that enables knowledge seekers to search, acquire, manage and collaborate on information from distributed sources including the Internet, news feeds, peers and selected databases.” So in other terms, it searches 10 different search engines, various news sources, and [...]