“A website which says it has found a legal way to offer music online without the consent of the major labels faces a fight with the record industry. Puretunes says it is taking advantage of a loophole in Spanish copyright law so that it can sell songs online without the direct permission of the record [...]

Version 3.04g This release fixes a number of problems with the previous version it will also help those users that had problems registering their nick names. Filetopia.org Filetopia FAQs/Help & Resources

RIAA VS The Economy from:boycott-riaa.com # Introduction The news these days is plastered with stories of the untold billions of dollars the recording industry is losing to digital piracy. On a recent plane flight from coast-to-coast, after the main movie the airline showed a series of short films, including one about how digital pircay was [...]

Changes: Major: * Implemented a faster substring search algorithm for share and file listing searches (the QuickSearch variant of the Boyer-Moore) * User commands now work from search as well * Fixed a major bug where queue items without sources were not loaded from disk on restart * Fixed slow favorites opening / excessive saving [...]

IT’s Still All About Fashion Arriving fashionably late but in time to make a fresh statement By: Camille Jacks Fashion is about being of the moment. Certainly the great pains it takes to create not just clothing but a work of art is no stranger to the same would be evolution of information technologies and [...]

Digital rights management, or DRM, is an attempt to maintain “remote control” over digital content. For example, Stephen King might like to sell a new book online (though this is doubtful given his previous

Slightly off topic, but I know Metallica’s principles aren’t well liked here, so thought this might be an ammusing story. “Heavy metal music and popular American children’s songs are being used by US interrogators to break the will of their captives in Iraq. Uncooperative prisoners are being exposed for prolonged periods to tracks by rock [...]

Despite the loss of its original administrator, a student- operated computer file-sharing network at Ohio University continues to hum away in the face of continued efforts by record industry and university officials around the country to target students suspected of using similar networks to illegally obtain copyrighted music and movies. On May 8, The Athens [...]

According to a statement from Microsoft, the company will license SCO’s Unix patents and the source code. That code is at the heart of a $1 billion lawsuit between SCO and IBM, which is aggressively pushing Linux as an alternative to Windows in corporate back shops. Microsoft’s Windows has a monopoly in the market for [...]

Access by the disabled provides challenge to controversial DMCA. Electronic books should be the easiest books for the blind to “read.” Software can instantly translate the digital files into sound or Braille. So why can’t the 10 million Americans who are blind “read” the latest Michael Crichton thriller or George Pelecanos mystery? A copyright law [...]

From News.com: “Roxio, a developer of CD-burning technology, will pay $12.5 million in cash and 3.9 million shares of its common stock to Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, the joint owners of Pressplay. Accounting for Roxio’s stock price as of Friday, the acquisition is valued at $39.5 million, excluding $1 million in transaction [...]

Several French online magazines and at least one big radio channel told about this story last week : RetSpan, a French association that is supposed to fight against online piracy, has publicly released the identity of several people who use P2P networks to download and distribute music. They wanted to prove that they are really [...]

Companies selling DVD-copying software received a legal blow on Thursday when a judge hearing Hollywood’s case against one firm said she is “substantially persuaded” by previous cases that the software violates the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The case against 321 Studios is being heard in San Francisco by District Judge Susan Ilston, who said [...]

BadBlue is an easy, free and tiny web server that can be used to share photos, music, business documents, databases and other media types. It is P2P-enabled so that users can establish private, secure sharing networks using optional password protection. The free download of version 2.3 adds a variety of new features: Full-text search support: [...]

The fastest growing star in the exploding file sharing scene maybe Bit Torrent. It has become very popular in the Emule/ED2K community, and IRC community especially. Bit Torrent was originally intended to be a replacement for IRC file servers. Bit Torrent is much more efficient because as soon as a downloader on Bit Torrent gets [...]

Taken from The Shareaza forums Shareaza 1.8.8.3 public beta has been released. Changes in this version Reduced CPU usage for hubs (and seems for leafs too) Rejected incoming connections (security ban list) are now never accepted. Previously they were accepted then closed. This is more efficient Does not ID as emule 0.1 Uses “endgame mode” [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – This disc will self-destruct in 48 hours. That is the warning The Walt Disney Co. will issue this August when it begins to “rent” DVDs that after two days become unplayable and do not have to be returned. Disney home video unit Buena Vista Home Entertainment will launch a pilot movie [...]

A story directly from P2P Forums. It looks like the R.I.A.A. has found a target that is easier to hit then the powerful P2P programs. It looks like sites that provide Lyrics, will be feeling the heat in upcoming months. According to B.B.C. News the popular lyric site Lyricfind.com has been forced to remove all [...]

Taken from method’s website: XS is a collection of P2P programs that work together, the main one being XSC (XS Client) XS is similar to Direct Connect, FileShare and other server/hub-client type applications. XS has p2p filesharing features, CRC hashing, Chat, Private Messaging, Bandwidth Throttling, News/Forum Area, User Icons/Avatars and more. Main focus for XS [...]

When Hollywood studios go into court Thursday to argue that DVD-copying software is illegal, they’ll stand alongside a lawyer who has quietly had as much influence on the Net as any well-known code-slinger. Movie studio attorney Russ Frackman is the same lawyer who has represented the recording industry against Napster and a host of other [...]