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Check out this blurb from Slashdot where our friend Hillary gets creamed at a college debate…

To quote the blurb …. “Oxford University Students’ Union had a debate last Thursday, titled This House believes that ‘the free music mentality is a threat to the future of music.’. Ordinarily, not too exciting, but since it is the [...]

New extra tool for WinMX client with SpeedUp option for free! More info: Sharepoint

For those of us that are users of decentralised networks such as FastTrack and Gnutella the words ‘latest US movies’ and ‘DivX’ go hand in hand. Sites such as FastTrack Movies and ShareReactor provide comprehensive catalogues of films that are available through software such a KaZaA with Sig2Dat.

For the more adventurous who [...]

It seems that Sharman Networks have released a new version of KaZaA media desktop which is not mentioned anywhere on the KaZaA website. Until now there is no knowledge of what’s new, however claims have been made that this version now blocks Participation Level Hacking. Get it if you wish from the KaZaA website or [...]

Download the latest Bearshare Beta here. The verison history is also avaible. This verison has numerous improvements from a new Library for file management, also improvements to file transfers and a new chat system.

The betas are free with no bundled products, if you find any bugs please post any details especially how to reproduce [...]

Rosen and the RIAA respond to Janis Ian’s commentary on file sharing, recently published in USA Today.

“Janis Ian’s USA TODAY column (Oct 23rd, “Music industry spins falsehood”) so blatantly mischaracterizes both the RIAA position as well as that of most record company executives that I know on several different issues that a response is merited.”

eMule is an opensourced eDonkey network cilent.

And here are the major changes in this version:
Unk: Sorting the server list now supports dynamic ips. Sorting by description works better. All sorts are no longer case sensitive.
Unk: Added some network statistics.
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“I don’t think there’s a single movie that can survive on box office gross alone; it just doesn’t exist anymore,” says McCallum. “A theatrical gross can’t hack it anymore, and the business is barely surviving right now. This is the biggest potential growth area that we have. Studios need it, or they’re gone. They’re on [...]

Today on the Lycos 50 here, there is a short article by Aaron Schatz regarding the top P2p file-searches through the search engine Lycos.

The story is obviously written by a man that knows very little about P2P progams, but it is interesting in the fact that it has a list of the current top P2P [...]

In recent years, intellectual property holders have expanded their efforts to deep linking and metatags. Now they’re pursuing search services, pay-for-play sites and Web libraries. Last month, the Church of Scientology sent a letter to the Internet Archive, persuading the site to pull down archived pages that were critical of the church’s beliefs.

Copyright holders [...]