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Apr 28 2003

Hackers have fun with Madonna decoy

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 downloaded [...]

Apr 28 2003

Consumers are next

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

Apr 27 2003

Rx for Music Industry: Seek Out the Old Geezers

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 in [...]

Apr 27 2003

eMule v0.28a available for testing.

eMule v.28a is now available for testing. (it’s in alpha status)
Find out more here.
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Apr 27 2003

Nova 1.6

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 all types of files, not [...]

Apr 26 2003

Wilco rewards fans online

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 personal [...]

Apr 26 2003

Indie ISPs Fight for Survival

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 say [...]

Apr 26 2003

Morpheus 3.0 released

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 turbulence of [...]

Apr 26 2003

DietK mostly likely discontinued

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 as [...]

Apr 26 2003

US Court: Sharman Operates FastTrack ‘Root Supernode’

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 extensive worldwide [...]

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