I know that many of you use Opera as your primary internet browser. You’ll be happy to know that Opera 7.0 went final today — you can find it at Opera.com

Jan. 28 — A High Court judge on Tuesday found the EasyInternet Cafe chain guilty of copyright infringement for allowing customers to download music from the Internet and copy it onto a CD for five pounds ($8.16)(Reuters) (Read More)

The Open Content Network is a collaborative effort to help deliver open source and Creative Commons-licensed content using peer-to-peer technology. The network is essentially a huge “virtual mirror” that augments existing mirrors with bandwidth from the P2P network – providing users with fast parallel downloads. OCN clients can be deployed via a browser plug-in and [...]

If the “success” of the PressPlay service (or lack there of) was any hint of a business model that you should veer away from, then these retailers wouldn’t be attempting this. Oh well, here we go again. “Best Buy and its joint venture partners are entering a marketplace where success is uncertain. Record labels, Internet [...]

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We have just released version 0.3 of Locutus, the file sharing app for grown-ups. Locutus uses an entirely new decentralized P2P searching algorithm completely unlike anything else in common usage today. It also does detailed analysis of files, using algorithms similar to those used by web search engines. This new version fixes all of the [...]

“COMMENTARY–If you’ve ever used a peer-to-peer network and swapped copyrighted files, chances are pretty good you’re guilty of a federal felony. It doesn’t matter if you’ve forsworn Napster, uninstalled Kazaa and now are eagerly padding the record industry’s bottom line by snapping up $15.99 CDs by the cartload. Be warned–you’re what prosecutors like to think [...]

MetaMachine has released a beta version of eDonkey2000 with Overnet connectivity. This version will allow users to connect to, download from, and upload to both the eDonkey and Overnet networks. It also contains a slew of bug fixes, updates, and long requested features missing in previous eDonkey releases. Keep in mind this software is still [...]

Jon Newton at MP3newswire.net offers his two cents on the results of a recent servey put out by marketing communications firm SutherlandGold. The survey measured consumer opinions toward recent legislation the big media giants want to push to reign in digital technology.

According to a recent interview with Slyck.com, new developments are in under way at Frontcode Technologies that could translate into improved features for WinMX users, including faster searches, faster and more reliable download completions and, most importantly, SHORTER QUEUES!

From >Wired.comThe servers are in Denmark. The software is in Estonia. The domain is registered Down Under, the corporation on a tiny island in the South Pacific. The users – 60 million of them – are everywhere around the world. The next Napster? Think bigger. And pity the poor copyright cops trying to pull the [...]

I personally liked Wherehouse music. They sold cheap used CDs (yet, even the used cds are getting a bit more expensive these days). I doubt internet music trading significantly “resulted” in them to go under. “He said the increase in illegal downloading music and CD burning, coupled with continued pressure from the major discount retailers [...]

Project Fasttrack Status page is up, which will be updated weekly and view information on progress on Project Fasttrack. Taken from the actual Fasttrack Status page (http://www.projectfasttrack.com/projectfasttrack/projectstatus.asp): This page reflects our project status and is updated weekly. 1. Major problems with the Alpha interface in the My Media CFormView Mdi Child window. We are getting [...]

What Bandlink is not telling you is that the technology that they claim to have developed also has the ability to scrape the ISRC (a unique identifier that is embedded in your audio CD’s track 0) or any other embedded identifier from your CD and report it (and all the other info the app gathers) [...]

It was really interesting to visit Midem (Music International Market) in Cannes (France) last week. A few anti-P2P guys were there, including Overpeer’s Morgenstern and RetSpan’s Wang. Of course, it was impossible to have any kind of information from them about their business. But here is what I’ve learned from different well-informed sources. The fact [...]

AquaLime 2.8.6 is now available for download. It is highly recommended that you upgrade; 2.8.5 had a bug that prevented users from becoming ultrapeers. AquaLime is an ad free version of LimeWire (like clean LimeWire), with optional skinning, and the UI tweaked so the layout resembles that of earlier versions (which I preferred), without losing [...]

From WinBeta.org: For at least a month, distributed denial of service (define), or DDOS, attacks have been crippling DALnet, one of the world’s largest Internet Relay Chat (define) networks, bringing it to its knees and raising the possibility that many hosting providers may refuse to host IRC servers at all. Read More…

Bearshare 4.2.0 has been released you can view the new feature list here. Which some of the new features includes magnet links, gwebcache, download mesh and many others. Here you can download the ad verison of Bearshare 4.2.0 For those who dont want any adware they can be a beta tester of the next verison [...]

According to this article from vnunet.com the RIAA may have very little power over UK ISPs, great news for people such as myslef living in the UK . “The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is unlikely to be able to hold UK internet service providers (ISPs) accountable for customers downloading illegal music files, according [...]

From: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=582&e=3&cid=582&u=/nm/20030123/wr_nm/tech_norway_piracy_dc OSLO (Reuters) – A court has fined a Norwegian student over his song-swap Web Site in a ruling hailed by the music industry on Thursday as a victory for giants like EMI and Sony whose revenues have suffered from online music piracy. The case, the first in Norway on downloading of music without [...]