“Attempts by the record industry to stop file-swapping are a waste of time, according to a study conducted by researchers at Microsoft. The four researchers have issued a paper stating that the steady spread of file-swapping systems, and improvements in their organisation, will eventually make them impossible to shut down.” Just as Newton’s third law [...]

WASHINGTON–Technology and entertainment lobbyists will sit down at the negotiating table Friday to seek a resolution to the long-running political spat over digital copyright. About 20 lobbyists are expected to meet at the Eye Street offices of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), just two blocks from the White House, to try and find [...]

Despite a lot of sound and fury, not to mention a raft of competing and conflicting legislation, the United State’s 107th Congress ultimately passed no laws to resolve the long-running and bitter digital copyright feud between the entertainment industry and peer-to-peer file swapping services. Events outside Capitol Hill, however, are pushing the issue to an [...]

It’s not too hard to find humor in the RIAA’s tactics is it? When the Mexican Supreme Court moved some of its offices last week to a quieter workspace, few federal officials saw it as anything more than a sensible relocation. After all, the court is located smack in the middle of Mexico City, surrounded [...]

From The Capital: Officials at the Naval Academy have seized nearly 100 midshipmen’s computers that allegedly contained illegally downloaded music and movies, sources said. The raid occurred Thursday while students were in class, and a source familiar with the investigation said the computers were being held by the administration. Amanda Collins, a spokesman for the [...]

AOL will soon be releasing what will be known as AOL Communicator. This will be a standalone software for AOL email and Aol instant messenger. AOL does not yet know whether this new software will be sold to companies, be available for only AOL subscribers, or if it will be free like AIM. The software [...]

New AudioGalaxy lookalike: Evolution p2p. Features – short queues, fast transfers, spyware/adware free client, and growing fast. It had more selection at 9:00 am than at 8:00 am today. Check it out!

DICE is a hybrid server that can offer simultaneous connectivity to clients of 2 old-school protocols, IRC and opennap. In DICE, IRC users and opennap users can talk to one another in the same channels. Its platform is Windows 2000/XP. Get it from here!

This is a small bug fix release. If you had problems when downloading or you want to use magnet: links you should definitly update. (To all 0.90 users: Your version corrupts gnutella traffic, please update !!!) # v 0.91.1 2002.11.22 [stable] Highlight of changes (user-visible): Will now verify the SHA1 of downloaded files in the [...]

Recording industry attempts to stop the swapping of pop music on online networks such as Kazaa will never work. So says a research paper prepared by computer scientists working for software giant Microsoft. The four researchers believe that the steady spread of file-swapping systems and improvements in their organisation will eventually make them impossible to [...]

In the ongoing debate over Jurisdiction in the FastTrack suit the judge has ordered a hearing on the issue this monday coming. The hearing is slated for 1:30 p.m. PST Monday at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles. Original debates were set for last monday Meanwhile arguments from [...]

The RIAA has demanded action against Madster over it’s refusal to comply with a court order to filter. Johnny Deep of Madster said it was impractical to block large numbers of copyright songs from being traded through the Madster service. Under the court order if Madster does not filter within 5 days of the RIAA [...]

New Overnet without any dot.net (alphatest) The .NET free version is currently undergoing preliminary Alpha testing. Screen Shot1 shows the home screen with the options menu showing. Screen Shot2 shows the shared view, with the AD banner now showing, as well as the ‘About Us’ box and larger sized message window.

New version includes: – new application core – increased stability – lower resource consumption – faster downloads MediaSeek.pl is very similar to AudioGalaxy.. Web based interface with a client that downloads and shares your songs. Fortunately, it is not in the reach of RIAA since it is situated in Poland, and RIAA can only mess [...]

Sharepoint is a great new website that looks promising. It is a website much like ShareReactor except it is for WinMX. It has a program that you can download that makes WinMX act similar to eDonkey or Sig2Dat for Kazaa. Check it out!

New tool for WinMX client It adds: 1. Hash links support (like eDonkey) 2. SpeedUp option 3. “Offline-downloading” 4. Anti-leecher option!!! (now with new engine!!!) Download from Sharepoint Read manual before use!!!

This program is a utilitiy for saving and fixing partially downloaded files from Kazaa. It helps previewing DIVX and AVI movies. It also saves all data when a file is downloaded from multiple sources. The program is relatively new, being released November 4th. It is a free utility, and is only 223KB big. According to [...]

Computers, furniture and memorabilia from failed music-swapping company Napster will go up for auction next month. Dovebid is hosting the auction, which will be Webcast on Dec. 11. Beyond the standard hardware, which includes routers from Cisco Systems, computers from Apple Computer and Dell Computer, and Hewlett-Packard printers, there are hats, shirts and mousepads featuring [...]

OVER ENTHUSIASTIC folk at musicunited.org, which issues stern warnings on its Web site about the unauthorised reproduction and distribution of copyrighted music, found itself with egg on its face yesterday when it appeared to have accidently published some copyright material belonging to the University of Chicago. The RIAA – noted for its exceedingly fierce stance [...]

A new P2P specific firewall is under development. Currently under the working title of “PeerGuardian” it blocks out Ranger, OverPeer, TCPBay, MediaForce, MediaDefender, RIAA, MPAA, etc. by default. It also allows the adding of new IP blocking ranges and manual closure of connections used by other applications. Still early days for the project but it’s [...]