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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 [...]

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 up with American companies.

Download here

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 CNET.com, [...]

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 on [...]

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 [...]