For all the glitz surrounding the unveiling Monday of Apple Computer’s new music service, a quick look suggests that it’s a solid, but hardly revolutionary, addition to the market. The company has certainly put on display its experience with ease of use. Apple’s new online service lets Macintosh owners buy digital downloads of songs from [...]

Soon you won’t need a Mac to strike up your iTunes. Apple Computer is developing a version of its jukebox software for Microsoft Windows-based PCs. According to a job posting on the company’s Web site, it is looking for someone to design and build “Apple’s newest Consumer Application, iTunes for Windows.” The Mac maker said [...]

Spyware Crusher is an adware, spyware, trackware, thiefware, and bigbrotherware removal utility. It scans your memory (for active memory ad components, which are not stored on your hard drive and last only as long as the computer is powered up), registry and drives for known spyware parasites and scum-ware components and lets you remove them [...]

If you downloaded Morpheus 3.0 on or before 4/28 you should receive an update message. The update addresses performance issues and other bugs. This is a critical update which fixes problems with poor searches and other things. Download it directly from here. Does contain ad supported software.

eMule Plus Official Web Site eMulePlus-1e.Binary.zipSourceForge – Mirror – MirroreMulePlus-1e.Source.zipSourceForge – Mirror – Mirror eMulePlus-1e.Installer.exeSourceForge – Mirror – Mirror FEATURE: caching for webserver images is enabled [kuchin]FEATURE: when opening the search window make the Name field active automatically [Ultras]FEATURE: when closing search tabs set focus to the next tab instead of first one [Ultras]FEATURE: UDP [...]

NeoNapster is a free file-sharing program based on the Gnutella protocol. Similar to Napster and Morpheus, NeoNapster gives users the ability to search for, download, and share music, videos, software, and more with millions of others. NeoNapster supports the most powerful Gnutella features, such as multihost download swarming, SHA-1 file hashing, Ultrapeer compatibility, download resuming, [...]

*Taken From Limewire Beta Forum* The primary changes include using even more connections between Ultrapeers (now 32) and a lower “time to live” (TTL) for outgoing searches (the number of hops the search will propagate on the network). This version also uses better dynamic querying of the network and includes the server side of using [...]

The recording industry is turning file-swappers’ own tools against them with a new campaign that will send warnings to people who are offering copyrighted materials online. Tapping into the chat functions built into software programs such as Kazaa and Grokster, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on Tuesday started sending automatic messages to people [...]

“Chief executive for the Recording Industry Association of America, Hilary Rosen, is helping draft copyright legislation for the New Iraq, according to investigative journalist Gregory Palast.” “”Who’s really going to win this war? It looks like Madonna,” Palast told Democracy Now radio. “Where before, they feared Saddam Hussein, now they have to fear Sony Records [...]

April 28, 2003 By Lance Ulanoff Last week, Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux and the effective leader of the open-source movement, made what, I think, is his most heretical statement ever: “DRM [Digital Rights Management] is perfectly ok with Linux!” I say bravo, not because DRM is always good, but because we need a [...]

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters/Hollywood Reporter) – Anyone who thinks they can control the Internet received an object lesson during the past week. It all started when Madonna literally lent her voice to a popular antipiracy technique. Warner Music Group had audio files purporting to be her new songs uploaded onto peer-to-peer file-sharing services. Anyone who [...]

This was in USA Today: The article essentially said that the next target will be the individual consumers who are downloading. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-04-27-swap-crackdown_x.htm

Note: Harry Shearer played the roll of Derek Smalls in the movie “This is Spinal Tap” and the voice over for characters in “The Simpsons” Here’s a business model with a future: sue your customers. That’s what, as of this month, the recorded-music industry has been doing. It filed suit against four college students involved [...]

eMule v.28a is now available for testing. (it’s in alpha status) Find out more here. Download

Changes: 1. Fixed a critical bug which caused Nova to crash. 2. Added an executable to run Nova as opposed to a batch file. 3. General speed improvements, fixes and enhancements. Description: Nova is an open source client operating on the Gnutella network. The aim of Nova is to provide an uncluttered environment to share [...]

Wilco, one of a handful of major bands to embrace and exploit the Internet’s music-distribution capabilities, will offer six new songs on its Web site, Wilcoworld.net, beginning at midnight Tuesday. The songs will be free to fans who bought copies of the last Wilco album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Listeners who put the CD into their [...]

If they don’t fight for their right to exist, independent ISPs soon will be replaced by huge cable television and telephone companies supported by misguided FCC regulations, according to Kushnick, who addressed an audience Friday at ISPCON, an annual gathering for Internet service providers. Extinction is not the only trouble bedeviling ISPs. Owners and workers [...]

Morpheus 3.0 was silently released yesterday. From what those of us who were brave enough to download it can tell it isn’t much different from Morpheus 2. A piece of what download.com had to say about it: “This latest version of Morpheus gives prior users a compelling reason to give it another try, after the [...]

DietK once used to be the only, and the best Kazaa add-on that there was. Dietk even had its own upgrade to DietK with Lemon which allowed its donators to experience even more features like unlimited search and ability to set Kazaa to your own homepage. What happened all of a sudden? Well, as soon [...]

original article at http://slyck.com/news.php?story=143 US Court: Sharman Operates FastTrack ‘Root Supernode’ April 26, 2003Ciarán Tannam Back last September StreamCast Networks and Grokster Ltd sought a summary judgement in the FastTrack case. One of the reasons for the length of time in the delay in yesterday’s motion was that the US court was involved in an [...]