From P2PForums.com In some recent news most readers will find refreshing the controversial new software anti-piracy method, know as product activation suffered a major setback on Wednesday. Microsoft made P.C. users familiar with product activation with the launch of Windows XP. This was to bring an end to the piracy of the Windows operating system. [...]

Cisco Systems Monday launched a major push to equip cable operators for new services such as voice and video, announcing a flurry of products designed to help them deploy the new offerings easily and at low cost. Also among the benefits of what Cisco introduced Monday, cable operators will be able to crack down on [...]

Underground Internet file-swapping circles were buzzing Wednesday with rumors that a copy of “The Matrix Reloaded” had been released online, a day before its theatrical opening date. Information posted on several widely read hacker sites described a two-CD release of the Warner Bros. film by a group that had earlier claimed to have posted the [...]

EMI’s copy-protection technology has resulted in a Melbourne resident doing exactly what the company is trying to prevent – copy a music disc in order to listen to it. Stephen Marovitch, creative director of the Simon Richards Group which is based in Port Melbourne, picked up the latest Norah Jones album on April 25, and [...]

A new version of peercast was released today. This latest version streams Windows Media (WMA/WMV/ASF) from either Windows Media Encoder or straight from any ASX link, has better packet routing and some new flow controls that reduces traffic over the network.

K-Lite Codec Pack 2.03 Full (7.43 Mb)K-Lite Codec Pack 2.03 Basic (3.39 Mb) Features in red apply to the full version only Features: – BSplayer [version 0.86.494] – DivX Pro [version 5.0.5] [Encoding] – DivX Pro [version 5.0.5] [Decoding] – DivX MPEG-4 Low and Fast motion [version 4.1.0.3927] – XviD [Koepi's build 03/05/2003] [Encoding] – [...]

Australian students nailed in world’s first Net piracy criminal charges http://www.p2pnet.net/may03/aus.html Three Australian students have acquired a distinction they’d rather not have. Tommy Lee, 21, Charles Cok-Hau Ng, 20, and Peter Tran, 20, all from Sydney, are the first people to face criminal charges for alleged internet music piracy. A criminal action, rather than the [...]

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58817,00.html NEW YORK — Universal Music Group said Monday it is seeking to join a $17 billion suit brought by music publishers against Bertelsmann AG alleging it aided the once hugely popular Napster Internet music service in piracy. The suit by the publishers, which included rhythm-and-blues pioneers Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, was filed in [...]

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58813,00.html LOS ANGELES — A new and complex computer virus called “Fizzer” spread rapidly across the Internet on Monday, infecting computers around the world via e-mail and the file-swapping service Kazaa, computer security experts said. Businesses in Asia were the first to report the attack, followed by reports of tens of thousands of infections in [...]

13/05/2003 BUGFIXES * Transfers with “Waiting for Network…” as status couldn’t be canceled * Nicknames that were longer than the NICKLEN parameter of a network weren’t trimmed and thus caused troubles in the negotiation of a transfer. Transfer status would be stuck on “Trying to join channel” * Exceptions that happen because of connection failures [...]

Microsoft charged ahead with plans to turn MSN’s free content services into fee-based subscription services, and pledged more paid services later this year. The launch Monday night of MSN’s Radio Plus service, reported earlier, is hardly the first of MSN’s paid services. The Web portal already charges for its MSN 8 online service, with or [...]

COMMENTARY–WASHINGTON–Should the people who invent technology be legally responsible for what other people do with it? The Recording Industry Association of America thinks so. It recently sued four college students for running programs that create a searchable index of files on a local area network. Their offense: The utilities, which go by names like Phynd [...]

eMule is a p2p client that runs on the eDonkey 2000 network, currently shared by the original eDonkey client, eMule and Shareaza. eMule is free of spyware and adware. It is also open source. Change Log: Ornis: Categories: extented choice of the function of the old “all” tab, switchable to Video,Audio,Transferring,Erroneous ,… Ornis: Upload-, Queue- [...]

RIAA apologizes for threatening letter By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com May 12, 2003, 3:16 PM PT WASHINGTON–The Recording Industry Association of America apologized Monday to Penn State University for sending an incorrect legal notice of alleged Internet copyright violations. The notice and subsequent apology appears to mark the first time that a faulty [...]

ML-Donkey Official Windows 2.4 Released Got the news from sharereactor: Shareaza gets in competition! The new Windows-ML-Donkey and Gnutella2 Client is officially out, while Shareaza is just a beta. MLdonkey 2.4 has Been Released – and it is the first combining Gnutella with Donkey! MLdonkey version 2.4 introduces support for three major p2p technologies, namely [...]

Apple lets it rip Napster success made clear what consumers want David KirkpatrickFORTUNE.com Posted at CNN.com (FORTUNE.COM) – On Sunday I was flying into LAX. As the plane flew over East Los Angeles, I was reminded of Los Lobos, one of my favorite music groups. One of its superb albums is “Just Another Band from [...]

Apple’s online music coup ignites a budding industry CUPERTINO, California (AP) – Allen Evans of Middlesex, Vermont, is no stranger to digital music. About two-thirds of his music collection was downloaded for free from Internet file-swapping networks. The rest comes from CDs he and his family already owned. Recently, Evans downloaded four songs — and [...]

Source: FilePortal 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. What’s new? You can now [...]

NEW ORLEANS – Even though major hardware makers will support Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) from the start, Microsoft Corp. expects user adoption of its nascent security technology to be slow in the first year after launch, a company executive said Thursday. “A small single digit percentage of PCs shipped in the year after (NGSCB) [...]

Record labels and movie studios are eagerly anticipating the potential file protection capabilities of Microsoft Corp.’s Next-Generation Secure Computing Base technology, but new research contends the architecture’s security features may also help pirates and file swappers protect their ill-gotten gains. At the heart of the issue, according to a paper due to be published this [...]