Remember Courtney Love? Remember her lawsuit that she was determined to bring to trial? Remember how she was going to break the seven-year law and make life better for all artists? Scratch that. According to MTVNews, Courtney and Universal have reached a settlement, allowing Love to be released from her contract. Furthermore, the contract frees [...]

Searching For The Files You WantThe Search File List WindowTransfersThe Transfers File List WindowBrowsing A User’s FilesMaximising Your Download SpeedAvoiding Fake FilesHow Get More Search Results (The Networks button)Using WinMx with FirewallsUseful Links   WinMX – The second most popular file sharing program after Kazaa is an excellent second source of files. And the best [...]

The RIAA and Madster have been involved in a long running case over copyright infringement on Madster’s network. Since the start of the case Madster have been represented by Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP. The same law firm that unsuccessfully defended Napster. The law firm has been working for free on the case since Johnny [...]

In the waning days of the Congressional season, a bill will be deabted by the House of Representatives which would grant relief to small Webcasters affected by the controversial copyright fees set to take effect October 20. The bill, the Relief for Small-Business Webcasters Bill (H.R. 5469), was introduced September 26th by Rep. James Sensenbrenner [...]

“The five largest music companies and the three largest music retailers will pay $67.4 million in cash to settle a CD price fixing case launched by New York and Florida two years ago, State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said on Monday.” “In August 2000, 43 U.S. states and commonwealths said an industry practice called “minimum [...]

More of those who are in favour and against the P2P Piracy Prevention Act have spoken in congress. The P2P Piracy Prevention Act would give copyright owners certain rights to hack P2P networks where their work has been found. Howard Berman, who proposed the bill, said today “There have been some truly outrageous attacks,. I [...]

In a surprise move, Grokster Ltd has announced that they will soon be bundling Grokster with a pop up Killer program called NoPop!™. Users of KaZaA and Grokster often comment on how annoying the pop up advertisments are so this marks a complete reversal on advertising strategy by Grokster. NoPOP! will kill pop up advertisments [...]

I heard from a very well informed source that the French guys who created RetSpan (a polluting system for P2P networks) are about to announce publicly a major partnership that will enable them to identify and track any P2P user in the world. They have signed agreements with Internet authorities in order to legally access [...]

As the name states the Jukebox FM Recorder 20 has an FM tuner and 20GB of storage capacity. The FM radio is particularly unique in that this is the first digital music player that we are aware of that can record from its own radio, a feature that makes the unit quite flexible if you [...]

The new Nomad Muvo from Creative is a small MP3 player. However, unlike any other MP3 player, this one connects to the USB port and is recognized as a drive. This means that you just drag and drop your MP3 files to the recognized drive and that’s it; no need to have a special software [...]

Verizon’s JetConnect, a new service for airfones, will be developing a new feature for the airfones installed in planes. JetConnect has announced that the new service will allow a flyer’s laptop to connect to phone jack and deliver IM service; specifically AOL IM and Yahoo IM. Other features include writing up to 160 characters of [...]

0.20a is finished and there are many changes. note: If you use Win98/95/NT download the normal version, Win2k/Xp user can download emule0.20a-Win2kXP.zip, which has some nice graphical effects. The 0.20b release will contain only one version again. another note: since there were many changes and this is an A version new bugs were introduced, There [...]

- NeoNapster features the easiest-to-use interface around. A flexible tabbed interface makes it beginner-friendly and powerful. – Connect to the Gnutella network and get access to billions of files from millions of other users around the world. Access MP3s, DixV movies, software, games, and more. – Ultrapeer technology allows for most efficient sharing between users. [...]

Instead of searching for a file and downloading it from an arbitrary source, VXNET enables its users to search for people. Maintaining a “persistent presence or community” in a P2P environment has many benefits, especially when the network is remote or mobile. VXNET aims to capture the small business user market inititally, and has a [...]

I’d just like to let you guys know a new version of FileShare has been released. This version now has advanced security functions, even better connection engine, and a growing community. Feel free to download FileShare, we’ll be there! This is an emergency build that was released within a day of 0.8.57, this build is [...]

“WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Frustrated by the continuing presence of free music on the Internet, the recording industry asked for Congress’ blessing on Thursday to gum up the online networks they blame for slowing their sales.” Read the full article at Reuters.com.

CNET News.com : “Napster, the former high-flying music-trading site, said Friday that it has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to sell its assets, although it declined to name the buyer. Rick Antonoff, an attorney representing Napster’s unsecured creditors committee, said that after negotiating with a select group of qualified bidders in recent days, it [...]

Billboard.com a music industry geared website has asked it’s visitors’ whether the RIAA’s anti-piracy advertising campaign would stop you from downloading music. I mean poor Madonna has to feed her kids, everyone stop the downloading before they end up starving death! Click here to Vote in the anti-piracy advertising campaign poll

http://openwire.sf.net is yet another LimeWire clone. Unlike Freewire or clean LimeWire however, it has got some new and unique features like: jabber instant messaging support http proxy support skin support upload queueing block spam hosts with a single mouse-click I don’t want to pretend that I did this all by myself, – skin support and [...]

hey I just wanted everyone to know that I fixed a problem that I found that could make the application going into an illegel operation. I suggest that you re-download if you have downloaded before yesterday, which was 9/26/2002. In case you don’t have any idea what the KaZaA Lite 2.0 (Advanced Version Patch) is, [...]