Although U.S. legal threat letters may have been a suprise to Australian ISPs, New Zealand has been pushed around by U.S. media companies for a quite a while. It looks like the U.S. media companies try to push everyone around. Legal threats from giant US media house Warner Brothers are causing a stir among Australian [...]

There has been talk recently about the decline of gnutella, with user numbers steadily decresing into the 50,000 range. However, it turns out that these low user statistics were not accurate, due to outdated protocol used by Limewire’s host crawler. From a story on Slyck: “The host crawler previously used only counted clients using the [...]

Source: Reuters Global recorded music sales look set to fall for the fourth straight year in 2003 thanks to piracy and the economic downturn, and its bosses are desperate for solutions. Executives gathering for the global music industry conference Midem in southern France this weekend know it’s make or break time. The bruised industry needs [...]

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It seems that Finnish equivalents of American RIAA, Teosto, which represents songwriters and publishers, and Gramex, which represents music producers and artists, want to force Finnish day nurseries to pay royalties every time nursery staff sings along with kids. Currently most of the Finnish cities have an existing deal with Gramex to use pre-recorded music [...]

Mutella uses the Gnutella network and is a command line client with a built in web server allowing remote control (I run it on a server with a fast connection and control it over a modem). So far it is the best Gnutella client I have found for Linux. Cheers. Home Forums Download

Apple Computer has forced a developer to stop distributing a plug-in that turned its iTunes music player into peer-to-peer music-sharing software. The plug-in, called iCommune, allowed iTunes users to browse the music libraries of other Macintoshes over a network and stream or download music from them. On Wednesday, Apple notified developer James Speth that he [...]

http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/reuters20030117_378.html Battered Record Execs Set to Face the Music Jan. 17 — By Bernhard Warner and Merissa Marr LONDON (Reuters) – Global recorded music sales look set to fall for the fourth straight year in 2003 thanks to piracy and the economic downturn, and its bosses are desperate for solutions. Executives gathering for the global [...]

From Wired. Following links from one Web page to another may soon require users to run special stealth applications, if a Danish search company’s experience is a sign of things to come. To link directly to some newspapers’ content, Danish search firm Newsbooster now must use the sort of decentralized subterfuge utilized by companies that [...]

From News.com In its new study, “Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The Growth of an American Surveillance Society,” the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) blames the unchecked use of technological tracking features for an increase in surveillance by both the government and the private sector. “The explosion of computers, cameras, sensors, wireless communications, GPS (Global Positioning [...]

Winny is a new filesharing client based on freenet. It is developed toward high-speed scalability and great anonymous. It also works as the P2P servant who implements anonymity BBS it operates. And it is the most popular filesharing client in Japan. If you want to get Japanese animeshare and Japanese culture, it is the better [...]

Dear Zeropaid readers, this is Erik Möller. We may have lost a battle, but we can still win the war. In Eldred v. Ashcroft, the United States Supreme Court decided that the “limited times” clause in the US constitution should not be taken too literally. Copyright is now, for all practical purposes, perpetual. Perhaps, if [...]

I found this on ZDNet: it shows the importance to keep uptodate and critical to the RIAA and BSA: check it out at: David Coursey, Executive Editor, AnchorDesk Today, I’m asking all AnchorDesk readers to contact their members of Congress in support of an important piece of consumer-protection legislation. Passage of the Boucher-Doolittle bill–officially called [...]

The rumor mill churns out another hit. Listen.com, home of the Rhapsody music subscription service, is rumored to be in shutdown mode. A post to the Exploit Systems BBS says the following: “Rumor has it massive layoffs abound at online music company Listen.com. Word is after four years in business, a dozen business plans, and [...]

Microsoft will on Wednesday announce it will provide the underlying code of its Windows operating system to governments for the first time. The world’s largest software group has decided to make nearly all the Windows code available to government and government agencies free in an effort to encourage them to use its software. It has [...]

On the TV news footage, a DVD player was playing the credits of Die Another Day, but the pirates had added a sub-credit onto the video which read, “Catch me if you can, Chen Ding-nan!” Chen said it was unbelievable that Taiwan’s pirates would dare to challenge law-enforcement officers by humiliating them in the illegal [...]

In what was likely a blow to Lawrence Lessig’s upcoming appearance before the Supreme Court, the SCOTUS today upheld the legality of Congress’ power to extend copyrights. More can be found in the USA Today article here

Upon hearing of an Edmonton punk band that made the nervy decision to also go by the name of Metallica, the original Metallica’s lawyers have issued some stern requests to the counterfeit band. By Friday they must cease using the name. If the band does not comply serious legal action has been promised. Unless these [...]

http://www.emule-project.net/content.php?s=downloads 15.1.2003: eMule v.25a is here! Here is the first eMule release of the new year. There are a lot of new features to play with in addition to a lot of changes in the core coding.. We also gained a new member, Barry. Again, if you have any major problems, return to v.24b. Here [...]