America Online on Tuesday said it is filing five lawsuits against individuals and companies that are allegedly purveying bulk unsolicited e-mail, or spam, to its members. The lawsuits, filed with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, seek at least $10 million in total damages along with court orders to immediately stop [...]

Countering speculation that it is close to buying Vivendi Universal’s record label, Apple Computer said Wednesday that it has never offered to make such an investment or purchase. In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said there was no substance to comments by one of Vivendi’s directors to Bloomberg News that Apple would make a [...]

Canadians view software theft as less serious than swiping office supplies or embellishing facts on a resume, a trade group said Monday. More than half of 1,156 Canadians consider it “not a big deal” to steal software for personal use — a smaller crime than pilfering towels from a hotel or keeping incorrect change given [...]

iMesh is a peer-to-peer file sharing program that lets you find, download, share, and even publish audio and video files, computer games, images, photos, and just about any document in a growing community of millions. Files are located on the computers of other iMesh users who have agreed to share them. Files can be transferred [...]

A prominent computer security researcher has proposed a technical solution aimed at forging a middle ground in the increasingly bitter battle by Hollywood and Silicon Valley over the best way to protect digital content from consumer piracy. Cryptography Research has begun circulating its proposal, which it calls Self-Protecting Digital Content , among entertainment companies. It [...]

According to Slyck OverNet has hit 1 million users. This is odd as eMule is an extremely popular client which would appear to have overtaken eDonkey2000 as the client of choice for the eDonkey network. So what is going on here? Obviously the inclusion of the OverNet protocol alongside the normal eDonkey protocol within the [...]

Excerpt: In 1999, the last time music sales increased, there was an increase from 33,100 new releases in 1998 to 38,900 new releases in 1999. More new releases, more purchasing. Seems a simple explanation. But, something you DON’T usually hear the RIAA mention. In 2000, the number of new releases dropped to 27,000, and that [...]

The time has come. Now you can use applejuice with Linux, there is a new version of it, ajclient.0.28.46.415. try AppleJuiceNet.

Funny article that mocks the RIAA’s claims that file trading is hurting record sales. The music industry has been wailing that the proof comes from the direct correlation between the rise in file trading and the fall of record sales. OK, guess what? DVD sales are up 61% this year alone. So the author has [...]

In what is turning out to a possible bidding war, Microsoft insiders have revealed that MS is also interested in acquiring Universal Music from Vivendi. To read the full story click Here

The latest update to Soulseek supposedly further decentralizes the network, thus making searches faster as well as more advanced. Currently, the old network (version 139 and earlier) is down, due to excessive stress on the central server. Nir explains: “If you’ve suspected the announcement made on the old server about the availability of client v. [...]

Finally the final has been released after lots of testing and Release Candidates. What’s New: – Added chat – Added navigation bar to the start page, it can open webpages and search on Google/IMDB/Altavista/Hotbot/etc. – Added F1 as shortcut to the help file – Added supernode localisation option- Added K-Sig 1.1.0 as a replacement for [...]

Allpeers, a new P2P-focused company, has published the first part of a whitepaper series entitled Towards a Peer-to-Peer Business Model. The whitepaper argues that both sides of the P2P debate (the “information should be free” advocates and the recording industry) are wrong. The paper calls for a new model for P2P file sharing that takes [...]

Kazaa Lite Toolbar is a customizable toolbar and web address bar integrated to Kazaa Lite interface. It’s useful to open favorite web pages, web email, shared folder or external tools (like Antivirus, Windows Media Player, Volume Control, AVIPreview, Sig2Dat, etc.) directly from Kazaa Lite. Also works with Kazaa Media Desktop. The toolbar also includes a [...]

Changes: 1. Improved the speed and look of the folder selection dialog. 2. Added a progress bar to see how much and what chunks are complete in a download. 3. Added a “users online” estimate indicator. 4. Converted all “more info” windows to dialogs not popups so they can be moved. 5. Lots of changes, [...]

In a follow up article to Apple’s interest in buying Universal Music, Jack Russell of The Inquirer explains how this may affect the way online music is distributed by the major labels in the future. To read the article click Here

A very interesting article on the rise of the Indie music scene. Despite a slump in the mainstream world of CD sales, Indie labels are experiencing record growths despite not having airtime on popular radio stations. To read the entire article from The Christian Monitor website click Here

File Spree v1.2.1 has been released after a long time in development. In older versions, there were conflicts with certain OS’s, and a few other issues. This fixes most of the old problems, and is now fully optimized. Here is the changelog: Fixes: + File Saving Loop Bug Fixed + File Scanner File Count Missmatch [...]

Richard Menta over at MP3newswire.net has posted a solid commentary reflecting on the news that Apple may buy Universal Music Group. He makes a good point that with HP now selling its starter PC for 80 bucks less than the mid-level iPod, it may be time to reevaluate the company’s direction that may morph it [...]

Ares is a peer-to-peer program to search and download files of any type. Ares features multiple source downloads, auto-search and resume to complete downloads, easy to use filelist manager with intuitive author/genre sorting, rich searches and results, adultfiler and virus protection, built-in audio/video player with playlist and web-browser Changes: All new chat commands have been [...]