EMI Recorded Music today announced plans for the biggest European music download initiative by a record company in Europe to date. The company will make available for sale online over 140,000 tracks from over 3,000 EMI artists. As well as upping the amount of tracks available, EMI’s new programme gives consumers more flexibility over how [...]

“Blur say they are happy their new album was leaked on to the internet prior to its release, claiming they may have done it themselves had somebody else not beaten them to it.” “The gigs are going down really well,” he said, “helped by the fact that [the album has] been on the internet for [...]

What kids in the UK feel about downloading music. I thought this was interesting as it gives the views of some of the younger generation. “Record companies are worried about falling CD sales. They say it’s because loads of people are illegally downloading music off the internet. Some downloaders say they do it because CDs [...]

Two major record labels filed suit Monday against venture capital firm Hummer Winblad Venture Partners for its investment in Napster, alleging that it contributed to rampant music theft through the former file-swapping network. To read the rest of the story from CNET News.com click Here.

New Version Features Version: 1.56 Date of Release: April 22nd, 2003 Increased efficiency: • In addition to 1.5 features… • better control the bandwidth usage in network options • Automatic throttling control added for query flood prevention • improved search horizon • All around performance improvement based on weeks of internal testing 1.5* builds and [...]

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (April 21) – Penn State deprived 220 students of high-speed Internet connections in their dorms after it found they were sharing copyrighted material, the university said Monday. “Basically, we received a complaint,” said Penn State spokesman Tysen Kendig, who said he could not reveal who registered the complaint. “Upon investigation, we found [...]

New releases for PC & *Nix have been released, GUI and CLC. Changelog: fixed a lot of crashes fixed dllink in the command line client Support for up to 4 Gb files implemented fixed a bug causing it to wait to ask sources don’t say a file is corrupt when we don’t have the part [...]

It’s here — the latest version of iMesh, without any of the spyware, adware, etc. I don’t have it on the web at the moment, so here are some hashlinks: Magnet Sig2dat ed2k The file is about 2 megs. If you want to mirror it on the web and post a link here, that would [...]

Apparently iMesh will soon be offering a premium version that comes with no adware or spyware and offers direct technical support. With a one-time price of $25, it should be obvious that even with the loads of spyware iMesh contains, it’s still not profitable for them. See the incomplete iMesh Premium website here: http://imesh.com/premium Keep [...]

Time to face the musicBlame the Internet, greed or artists PETER GODDARDENTERTAINMENT REPORTERFor the record business, there’s bad news, worse news and even worse news still.The bad news is that sales of CDs are in a freefall, representing a $250 million loss over the last two years. In short, a Canadian business worth $1.2 billion [...]

A couple of interesting new MP3 portables were announced this week. The first one is Bantam’s BA1000 that has near-identical size and weight dimensions to the iPod, but offers a number of features the older Apple doesn’t like the ability to record from an internal FM radio. Choosing to offer the player in only 2GB [...]

· Fixed a serious bug with Sig2Dat quicklinks · Updated the start page Official Mirror Direct Download Homepage

Changes: * Updated compile.txt with some notes on submitting patches * Perhaps fixed the multicpu/hyperthreading issue (could someone try and report to the bug tracker?) * Various optimizations of the socket code to regain some of the upload performance that some seem to have problems with (keep in mind that SFV-checking, when enabled, slows things [...]

Apparently in response to Madonna’s recent tantrum against bootleged copies of her May 22nd 10th studio effort American Life, copies of the album appeared on her website Madonna.com. After trying to defeat bootleg attempts by flooding file-sharing networks with fake mp3s that contained nothing but “What the fuck do you think you’re doing!” courtesy the [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government sided with the recording industry in its dispute with Verizon Communications Inc. on Friday, saying a digital-copyright law invoked by record labels to track down Internet song-swappers did not violate the U.S. Constitution. The move, while expected, came as a blow to the Internet provider as it struggles to [...]

Well, after 6 months of building in parallel, MoS++ and GLO-Search have finally joined to create the best search tool for the direct connect network. Together we will be able to produce more advanced features in a much quicker timeframe. The new client is based of the last version of MoS++, but has undergone some [...]

Soulseek is an ad-free, spyware-free, just plain free file sharing application. All SoulSeek users should get this version as the olders no longer connect! Download SoulSeek

The digital audio market is poised for explosive growth, industry experts predicted yesterday. According to analyst firm In-Stat/MDR, prospects for the sector are improving as online subscription services gain momentum, portable devices become more appealing and consumers become more interested in home jukeboxes and receivers. The high-tech market research, Turning Up the Volume for Online [...]

RIAA Naval academy bust: 85 rapped By Ashlee Vance in San Francisco Posted: 16/04/2003 at 19:08 GMT The U.S Naval Academy dolled out a relatively mild punishment to 85 of its midshipmen busted for using government provided internet connections to swap copyrighted music files, The Baltimore Sun reports. These are the same midshipmen who had [...]

AtomWire has started fresh and is now in beta testing. AtomWire is now coded in C# and utilizes the GnucDNA. This version of AtomWire is the worlds first public release of a .net Gnutella application that utilizes all aspects of the GnucDNA. AtomWire will be going open source via the GPL in about a week. [...]