From HITS Daily Double: “The RIAA Chairman/CEO announced today she will leave the organization at the end of 2003.” Here’s what she had to say: “This has been an extremely difficult decision, but I know it is the right one for my family. Nonetheless, this is a critical time and I have much to do [...]

We just released the latest prototype of Locutus, the P2P app for grown-ups. Locutus employs sophisticated search techniques based on some of the ideas behind Freenet, and combines this with web search engine technology, and a strong security model. This isn’t like any P2P app you have seen before. As mentioned, this is a prototype, [...]

This new build addresses previous problems and fixes most bugs. This thing is growing more and more everyday so try this underrated program and share. Download Ares here!

Word is spreading about a rumored WinMX trojan, so I thought I would take some time and clarify what it’s all about. Early reports indicate the file must be downloaded from a host (fellow p2p user), then executed. Once the programs executes succesfully it searches your hard drive for every important text file (.dll, .log, [...]

From News.com: “A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Verizon Communications to disclose the identity of an alleged peer-to-peer pirate in a legal decision that could make it easier for the music industry to crack down on file-swapping networks.”

42.5 was released last week, with only a few bugs, these last few have been (hopefully) squashed to bring a true release to bear. With many network related bug fixes and further optimizations, as well as front end improvements that should keep the skinners happy for at least another week. At this point the development [...]

Philips has released its latest beta test, this time a product they are hyping as the “First Wireless Broadband Internet Micro Hi-Fi System”. As with their other beta tests Philips is looking for 50 users to put the system through its paces.

Robbie Williams has been slammed by a Government minister for saying Internet piracy was “great”. Culture minister Kim Howells accused the singer of supporting drug and prostitution. Mr Howells said he was “appalled” at the chart-topping star’s comments which amounted to “defending theft”. Williams – whose album Escapology was last year’s biggest seller in the [...]

From Aftenposten Norway’s special division for white-collar crimes, Økokrim, has decided to appeal the acquittal of 19-year-old Jon Lech Johansen, accused of copyright violation for helping bypass DVD code protection, web site Nettavisen reports. Johansen was acquitted on all counts of piracy and distribution of the code-breaking program. Johansen has argued that his programming work [...]

The campaign – Digital Download Day Europe – will allow music fans to download five euros’ (£3.40) worth of music for free from sites that pay royalties. The promotion takes place on 21 March and will be available in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the UK and The Netherlands. The scheme, which was piloted in the [...]

You’re not going to believe this: Microsoft wants to stop music piracy by “eliminating” the file. According to the Wired News article, this feature is currently implemented in Windows Me, and will be “bundled” (shurely “integrated”? – Ed) in Windows XP. “The Secure Audio Path (SAP) adds “static” interference to media files that require video [...]

Once upon a time Microsoft discovered the Internet, and the browser wars ensued. More recently it’s become apparent that the company sees music sales as the Next Big Thing, but so far, the extent, intricacy and all-encompassing nature of its plans for Digital Rights Management and secure content distribution haven’t been widely grasped. When they [...]

MS plans ‘Secure PC’ that won’t copy pirated audio files By: John Lettice Microsoft’s research division is busily inventing a mysterious beast called the Secure PC, which is designed to win hearts, minds and wallets in the recording industry by blocking unlicensed copying of digital music. We know that the Secure PC exists at least [...]

(From CNN.com) Legendary hacker to get unleashed and online Sunday, January 19, 2003 Posted: 4:36 PM EST (2136 GMT) SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) — One of the world’s most famous computer hackers gets off probation this week and plans to dive back into the Internet, his former playground where breaking-and-entering landed him in jail for five [...]

Singer Robbie Williams has said he believes music piracy is a “great” idea. He made the comment at a music trade fair in Cannes, predicting it would anger his record company EMI. Williams said he had investigated the issue of music piracy before renegotiating his new recording contract last year. He said: “I think it’s [...]

The Bridge community is a relativly new p2p app with great potential, but one of the networks main problems getting to the 1000+ user base is getting files on the network. Currently there are 472 users on the network, but only 436gb of data. In an attempt to get users to share the developers of [...]

CANNES, France (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. announced on Saturday the introduction of new digital rights software aimed at helping music labels control unauthorized copying of CDs, one of the biggest thorns in the ailing industry’s side. $500 MILLION INVESTMENT The PC layer, laid digitally on the same disc, can be modified by the content provider, [...]

From News.Com CANNES, France–A top music industry representative said Saturday that telecommunications companies and Internet service providers will be asked to pay up for giving their customers access to free song-swapping sites. The music industry is in a tailspin with global sales of CDs expected to fall six percent in 2003, its fourth consecutive annual [...]

Author: Aldo Vargas Program Type: Freeware Kazaa Lite Toolbar is a customizable toolbar and Web address bar integrated to Kazaa Lite interface. It’s useful to open favorite web pages, Web e-mail, shared folder or external tools (like Antivirus, Windows Media Player, AVIPreview, Sig2Dat, etc.) directly from Kazaa Lite. Also works with Kazaa Media Desktop. Changes [...]

eMule v.25b is here! This version fixes some bugs, including the file-completion bug. Here is the changelog: Ornis: file completion working now! (thx to the users testing this version with us successfully) Unk: fixed AutoConnect on startup Ornis: fixed wrong colormapping on the selector Ornis: Systray-icon speedbar: color selectable in stats-preferences Ornis: removed titlebar-preferences-menu for [...]