Opera 7.0 final is out
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
Net Cafe loses music download case
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)
Open Content Network Goes Live
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 [...]
Retailers Try (again) to Sell Digital Music Dowloads
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 [...]
Zeropaid News on Video
This is a new thing we are trying out, the weekly news on video, read by our own Jessica Bower. Check it out here:
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Locutus Prototype 0.3 released
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 [...]
Hey, you–the unindicted federal felon
“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 [...]
eDonkey BETA HYBRID released
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 in [...]
Don’t let Hollywood make the rules
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.
The Future of WinMX
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!
