According to a new survey by The Yankee Group, teens are more concerned about their connection speed, than legal issues. It appears that suing a couple college kids out of their life’s savings for file sharing a short while ago didn’t do the trick. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again? Yankee Group [...]

Source: FilePortal A new Ares build has comes out that features an abundance of changes internally (network wise) and some external improvements as well. Ares is a peer to peer application that lets you download any file type and includes a media player, browser, chat, and a virtual library to organize your media. Changes? Some [...]

Yet another revolutionary program created by Justin Frankel and Nullsoft was snuffed in it’s crib by mega-corp AOL. “Waste” a P2P file sharing program for private groups was originally released on Wednesday, but when AOL found out about it, took immediate action to snuff it out of existence. Justin Frankel and Nullsoft are the original [...]

It’s the case of the dumpster-diving DMCA fighter. Monsterpatterns.com operator Derek Gendron says he didn’t see anything wrong with posting for sale the discontinued sewing patterns he’d found in the trash heaps near some Jo-Ann craft shops. But sewing pattern giants McCall Pattern and Simplicity, makers of the patterns, disagreed. In February, the companies successfully [...]

In a move VERY similar to when Pop Princess Britney Spears’ hit single (You Drive Me)Crazy was turned into a movie of the same name, Avril Lavigne’s hit single “Sk8er Boi” is going to be turned into a movie. Paramount Pictures has optioned the song and hired “ER” writer/producer David Zabel to adapt its words [...]

Thomas Mennecke WinMX has always been at the forefront of P2P development. When its OpenNap support base took a back seat to the WPNP (WinMX Peer Networking Protocol), its popularity and resourcefulness soared to new heights. While the networks’ number 1 complaint remains the queuing situation, a grand process is in motion to resolve this [...]

John Borland Mark Ishikawa was eating dinner at the Los Angeles Hilton a few weeks ago when he overheard a couple discussing the virtues of downloading music using free services like Kazaa. As CEO of BayTSP, a company that tracks copyright infringement on file-swapping networks for record labels and movie studios, Ishikawa had a professional [...]

Powerful File Sharing Gets Easier with Shareaza 1.8.9 – Bringing P2P Together Shareaza is a powerful file sharing program that connects you to 4 popular P2P systems: G2, eDonkey2000, BitTorrent and Gnutella1. Share with (almost) everybody! As many users have found out already, there’s nothing quite like swarm-downloading a file from 3 networks at once. [...]

Sue Zeidler and Caroline Humer A legal dispute that threatened to derail Gateway Inc.’s groundbreaking plan to load music on its computers has been quietly resolved amid growing interest in such offerings by rival PC makers, executives and analysts said on Thursday. Months after announcing a first-of-its-kind deal in December to preload 2,000 tracks from [...]

From linuxtoday.com According to the German publication Heise Online, the City of Munich maybe using Linux desktop systems after all, despite recent offers of discounts from Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer. The decision, which is apparently not quite official yet, seems to indicate that Munich government officials in the SPD party are indeed leaning towards migrating city [...]

In a bid to boost its online music presence, RealNetworks Inc said on Wednesday it would begin distributing its newly-acquired Rhapsody service and phase out the struggling MusicNet service in which it owns a minority stake. Real’s roll-out of Rhapsody, which also cut its CD burning fee to 79 cents from 99 cents per track, [...]

Morpheus 3.1 delivers more search results with faster and more reliable downloads than the previous Morpheus 3. The latest version includes improved technology and a new user interface to make file sharing faster, easier, and safer. You can search for, share, and download all types of digital media, including music, audio, video, films, games, photos, [...]

28-May-2003 – Double XS Updates XS Client has been updated and now features a quick-setup wizard, more icons, more chat commands and a few bug fixes. XS has p2p filesharing features, CRC hashing, Chat, Private Messaging, Bandwidth Throttling, News/Forum Area, User Icons/Avatars and more. XS is a client, which needs like Edonkey a server, Each [...]

iTunes launched April 28, 2003 Wired.com 200,000 per day – first day 1 million sold by May 5 (1st week) News.com 143,000 per day – first week 2 million sold by May 14 (first 16 days) News.com 125,000 per day – first 16 days 3 million sold by May 28 (4th week) NYtimes.com 100,000 per [...]

Nullsoft has released a beta version of a new tool called WASTE designed to secure communication within small groups of users. The brainchild of Winamp creator Justin Frankel, WASTE utilizes encryption and public keys to keep sensitive data hidden from prying eyes. Read full story here http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1054126479

Released May 28, 2003 Changelog: — 0.251 2003-05-28 – * Fixed 100% cpu bug in new search (thanks opera) * Fixed a bug with queue selection counts (thanks sed) * Fixed a problem with percents not being escaped correctly in user commands (thanks sed) * Added so that you can use time formatting in the [...]

Original story. Copy Protection Is a Crime Digital rights management sounds unobjectionable on paper: Consumers purchase certain rights to use creative works and are prevented from violating those rights. Who could balk at that except the pirates? Fair is fair, right? Well, no. In reality, our legal system usually leaves us wiggle room. What’s fair [...]

KaZaA is download king By electricnews.net Posted: 28/05/2003 at 07:47 GMT Sharman Networks, the company behind the KaZaA file-swapping service, said its software has been downloaded a staggering 230.3 million times. In an announcement this week, the company said that the KaZaA Media Desktop has become the most downloaded software, with 230,309,616 downloads worldwide. This [...]

Source Apple halts iTunes’ Internet sharing ability By Tony Smith Posted: 28/05/2003 at 09:54 GMT Apple has knocked on the head iTunes 4′s ability to stream music over the Internet. The modification comes in iTunes 4.0.1, released yesterday and downloadable from Apple’s Web site and via Mac OS X’s Software Update system. iTunes’ music sharing [...]

Do you remember the Chris Myden Guide to creating amazing mp3’s that was posted some months ago? I kind of fell in love with the Lame –alt preset standard encoded mp3’s and have found it hard to accept music files that were encoded with an inferior method. But it was some job to join a [...]