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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 a vast catalog
of major-label [...]

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 on Monday that [...]

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
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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 search status [...]

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 compression [...]

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 rational discussion of [...]