In an effort to stamp out online movie piracy, the Motion Picture Association of America uses a special search engine to scour the Internet for people who swap digital copyright movies online. “We are not blocking the use of any applications or access to any Web sites,” said Mark Harrad, a spokesman for Time Warner [...]

Slyck.com reports: “Have you ever wanted to make your own P2P client? Well now it will be easier than ever with a group of COM interfaces to the GnucDNA.core. Essentially this means that developers using many different languages can use the core components that have already been developed by Gnucleus for using the Gnutella protocol. [...]

We just would like to let your users know that we have released a beta of FileNavigator 4.0. It can be downloaded from http://www.filenavigator.com Thanks, Joel

- 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. [...]

When the Nomad Jukebox first apeared a couple of years ago It quickly became one of the best selling MP3 portables ever. The original Nomad Jukebox is still an excellent player as is its successor the Nomad 3, but despite their advantages both units have an achilles heel that may have hurt sales of late [...]

Many movies are pirated when shown on cinema screens. Movie pirates who steal films by taping them while they are being screened in cinemas could be thwarted by new technology. US company Cinea is working on a system that will manipulate the light levels of digitally screened movies. The shifting light levels will go unnoticed [...]

MP3newswire.net has a review of the Archos Jukebox Multimedia, an MP3 player that also displays MPEG-4 video. Here’s a snippet from the review: “Right now my wife and I are watching an old episode of a TV show no longer broadcast in our area or available tape. How are we watching it? We are playing [...]

Sent to us by DogWard, posted anonymously. Hi everybody ! Good news ! First of all, the long-awaited screenshots (keep in mind it’s RoadRunner version 0.1a) you can access them from here . Well… as it is for RapidRoad. we have made some major improvements (Yep, we “work” on week-end too, hehe) The speed has [...]

Whoops! I accidently made a KaZaA Participation Hack! Oh well! I guess I better put it on my website and post an article on Zeropaid about it! I quote from the description I “accidently” wrote on my site: “In KaZaA 2.0, there’s a new feature that monitors how much you download and upload. This is [...]

Filetopia 3.03 was released on October 2nd, but is now required since the earlier versions are obsolete. Filetopia is available in an English, Spanish, and Italian version. “It uses a choice of strong ciphers and public key techniques for all communications and sophisticated techniques to protect your IP and thus make you truly anonymous and [...]

http://www.musicunited.org/ Is a site setup by the music industry to try and ‘educate’ people of the ‘destructive nature’ of ‘online music piracy’ on the ‘artists & songwriters’ and how it is ‘stealing’ from them. Well well well. So much FUD on this site I do not know where to begin really. No proof. No figures. [...]

A interesting article from Fortune points out that the media companies are almost exclusively viewing new technology in an oppressive light. Media companies seem content with turing large portions of their customer base against them as long as they perceive themselves to be protecting their assets. Because media companies see intellectual property as their only [...]

New in this version: * External relaying – You can now make peercast relay any shout/ice stream simply by giving it a URL of a playlist (pls/m3u) or mp3/ogg file. Info such as genre/description etc. is read automatically if its available from the source. * Cookie/HTTP (basic) authentication support – This makes things safer because [...]

X-COM is a secure P2P program, all communications are encrypted using the Blowfish algorithm. Due to the USA export law, the key is limited only to 56 bit, but this can ensure a minimun of privacy is used is a lan (your boss is always spying you!!). Here’s the link: http://www.mypersonalsoftware.com/X-COM

Sent to us by DogWard, posted anonymously. Hello everybody ! We were hoping we could release the links to some screenshots of RapidRoad’s client, RoadRunner in this issue. But we had some major problems since people out there already want to shut us down (when we haven’t even released anything yet!) so we had not [...]

Joel Flatow is a senior vice-president of artist and industry relations for the RIAA. The RIAA have been pretty active on campuses recently as part of their piracy education programme and Joel Flatow was holding another anti P2P rant with Yale Students last October 10. The start of the get together didn’t really go to [...]

After the two responsible for spreading beta2 publicly apologized and removed the link off the site, the DK final 2.0 should be out this week. Apparently there will be no more betas until 2.0, meaning this coming week the final version of 2.0 will be available to all. Previously there was going to be a [...]

Here’s a humorous but correct top-ten list of the doomed RIAA business model. enjoy…. Doomed Business Model

CD Freaks.com reports that BestBuy was with the companies that lost the ruling for the CD pricing conspiracy that was recently in the news. A subsidary of the company, Musicland was one of the companies that had to pay big time in the recent settlement, now BestBuy has raised the prices of all CDs and [...]

Chip, made a clear cut statement that if any person distributed beta 2, the beta3 would be delayed for an extensive amount of time. This could have been avoided, and beta3 would have been out to everyone, regardless of being beta tester or not, in only a few days. But of course, there are your [...]