RealNetworks Rolls Out Rhapsody Over MusicNet
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, comes [...]
Morpheus 3.1 released
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, software, [...]
Donkey-like HUB-Chatrooms for Inhouse-p2p-Sharing: XS-Messenger Version 0.998
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 person can run a [...]
Apple’s iTunes Already Losing Steam?
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 day – first month
Nullsoft Encrypts Communication with WASTE
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
DC++ v. 0.251
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 away message (%Y, %m …) [...]
Copy Protection Is a Crime
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 in one case [...]
KaZaA is download king
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 means that the [...]
Apple halts iTunes’ Internet sharing ability
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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 facility was launched alongside [...]
Is this the legal music service we are all waiting for?
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 place [...]
