What does TCPA / Palladium do, in ordinary English? It provides a computing platform on which you can’t tamper with the applications, and where these applications can communicate securely with the vendor. The obvious application is digital rights management (DRM): Disney will be able to sell you DVDs that will decrypt and run on a [...]

SHAREAZA ON LINUX (BETATEST) 1 Hi – you ever wanted to test linux ? Download these magnets: This is a cd, which boots the whole operation system from cd-rom only (no installation of linux on hard disk) and contains some linux applications like shareaza. Just test it: LINUX ON CD GERMAN (KNOPPIX WHOLE OPERATING SYSTEM [...]

I was listening to a radio station today when I heard a radio comercial telling me to respect the music. When I went off to http://www.clearchannel.com on their main page they have this article posted… its the first ive heard of it. November 21, 2002 San Antonio, TX. Clear Channel Radio today announced it is [...]

Yaga Share is one of the smallest P2P file-sharing clients available today – only 198K! With Yaga Share you can search for, download and share videos, games, software, and more. Yaga also allows you to share all of your favorite files – even if you are behind a firewall. Downloading content using Yaga is fast [...]

People thinking of buying a DVD recorder this Christmas are being urged to take care over which one they choose. The ongoing battle between DVD formats has not been decided yet. Experts are warning that what may seem like a dream Christmas gift may become obsolete in double-quick time….This Christmas consumers have to decide between [...]

From Techtv Remember the good old days of the dot-com era, when a little file swapping engine named Napster made it easy, free, and fun to steal copyright music off the Net? That hip cat in headphones used to be the face and logo of a revolutionary company led by a 19-year-old visionary named Shawn [...]

Found this on NETSCAPE homepage, taken from fortune magazine.. It makes you warm and fuzzy inside knowing we are not alone in knowing how the studios will fumble. Hollywood’s Latest Flop In the time it took to download Braveheart, we could have made 20 roundtrips to Blockbuster. Original article at FORTUNE Monday, December 2, 2002 [...]

This is a seriously poor story of the RIAA and the Secret Service teaming up to nab some music/dvd pirates. Literal pirates who were selling material. It then goes on to lump us all in with them as fellow pirates. You have to wonder how strong the push on the media is to darken the [...]

Phex is a free multiplatform Gnutella client containing No Spyware or adware. This is a unstable beta release of Phex 0.8 build 28. It comes with: Ultrapeer Connections GWebCache support Download and Upload Queuing Partial File Sharing Browse Host Chat with Phex, Limewire and Shareaza Users Changes in this release include: Search and download files [...]

It looks like Xolox got tired of low user ratings for 1.40 at download.com and they have ponied up the cash to clear off all the old (negative) posts everywhere with another ultra fantastic release (yawn) Presenting the new version: 1.41 (ta-duh!) This Version Includes: Increased stability: • EAccessViolation during download fixed. • EosErrors/timer errors [...]

Mike posted this on the Shareaza forums today. It’s available at Shareaza.com or via the Magnet URI below. Shareaza 1.7.0.16 is out now, with some cool new features: magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:4RFXBPGQXHHS3SKWMB7WESO2I7XOVS6T&dn=Shareaza170G.exe There are a whole lot of changes, and I can’t remember them all because I’m too lazy to write a change log, but I remember these: [...]

See how they like the shoe being on the other foot… Source French authorities on Thursday searched the headquarters of Vivendi and the home of its former chairman, Jean-Marie Messier, as part of an investigation into alleged financial irregularities, officials said. The company confirmed that authorities had searched a number of offices. Messier’s home also [...]

Article by Slyck Tom Originally published at Slyck. Earlier this year, Ares introduced a client that provided a satisfactory gateway to the Gnutella network. Realizing that Gnutella would take this client only so far, they have instead opted to design their own decentralized peer networking protocol. Much like WinMX and FileNavigator, much of Ares core [...]

Filetopia is a communications software that includes instant messaging, chat, e-mail, a powerful file sharing system with a search engine, online friends list, and message boards. What is unique to this software is the level of security and privacy that it provides. It uses a choice of strong ciphers and public key techniques for all [...]

ProjectFastTrack.com has not done much of anything in the past 5 days. Our main developer has been in the hospital due to a major Panic Attack and was put on a combination of Ativan, Valium, and BetaBlockers. Today she said that she was feeling clear enough that she would be able to get back to [...]

File-swappers and Internet service providers may soon be able to bury the hatchet says a few day old but still interesting article on how ISPs can better manage P2P activity to everyone’s benefit. It’s nice to see people working on solving bandwidth congestion, since this is one of the strong arguments being used by those [...]

The Exploit Systems BBS is reporting that Altnet have appointed a new Chief Scientist, who brings with him a hashing technology called TrueNames. In exchange for his new job, Ron Lachman is granting an exclusive license to the “TrueNames” hash technology to Altnet. All of which begs the question: What are they going to do [...]

In two point counterpoint editorials in today’s USA Today, the paper’s editors square off against Hilary Rosen herself. In her editorial, the Commander of the RIAA Death Star says, “The notion that pursuing peer-to-peer network piracy violates personal privacy is just plain wrong. First, no one enjoys the right to commit a federal crime anonymously, [...]

Direct Connect 1.0 for Mac OS X was finally released yesterday. Download it from Neo-Modus!

In today’s WSJ, an interesting article was written about the newest file sharing shelter, the Netherlands. If you havn’t already heard the Netherlands has become the worlds first file sharing shelter to lawsuit prone P2P companies. A recent Dutch court ruled KaZaA was not responsible for the trading of online work, rather the users of [...]