File-swappers will win, says Microsoft
“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 states, the [...]
Dangerous Meeting in Washington
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 common [...]
P2P State of the Union.
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 acrimonious [...]
RIAA tries to Strong-Arm Mexico
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 by [...]
Navy Academy seizes nearly 100 computers
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 Recording Industry Association [...]
AOL Communicator: AOL’s next plan
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 comes [...]
Evolution 1.2 Released
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 version 0.1 released
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!
Gtk-gnutella 0.91.1 for Unix/Linux released
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 background.
New [...]
Efforts to stop music piracy ‘pointless’
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 [...]
