THE Australian music industry group is planning further legal action against internet users sharing MP3s, as the federal Government flagged legal changes to allow larger damages payouts for copyright infringements. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6661868%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

Bars can’t have TVs bigger than 55 inches. Teddy bears can’t include tape decks. Girl Scouts who sing “Puff, the Magic Dragon” owe royalties. Copyright law needs to change. Jonathan Zittrain A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO I WAS TALKING WITH A LAW SCHOOL COLLEAGUE about cyberlaw and the people who study it. “I’ve always wondered,” [...]

“If 50 Cent was a rapper in Australia,” says one local club DJ caustically, “he’d have been arrested rather than making the record industry $50 million.” One minute you’re mixing CDs in your bedroom, the next, the federal police are knocking on your door. And if you’re a DJ, you can expect a visit, too. [...]

So after the news that the Recording industry will begin collecting evidence and preparing lawsuits against file sharers who illegally offer music online, I wanted to share some knowledge with people concerned about this latest news. What exactly is going on? I can only speculate on how the RIAA nerds are doing this, but you [...]

DC:PRO is an open source file sharing program for the DC Networks. It is been described as “a filesharing program on steroids for the DC Networks”. Main features include nice user-friendly interface, multi-hub connections, text chat with colors and images, fast threaded peer-to-peer transfers, multi-source and resumable file downloads, total user control of the files [...]

“TROY, N.Y. — One of four college students accused by the recording industry of making songs available for illegal downloading says he collected the money for his $12,000 fine online. “Thanks to the many generous people out there, I have recovered my savings,” read a posting on 19-year-old Jesse Jordan’s Web site. “Please don’t send [...]

The music industry has dramatically escalated its attack on internet file-trading networks by announcing plans to sue individuals who download copyright-protected music. However, some experts say the tactic could backfire by pushing traders to switch to newer, more anonymous networks, as happened following the demise of the original network Napster. The Recording Industry Association of [...]

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Beating the RIAA in court to as Morpheus and Grokster in showing file-sharing networks have substantial non-infringing purposes isn’t enough! With the RIAA already announcing earlier today a large scale campaign to attack the very users that support the music industry (yes, file sharing helps the music industry!) by making examples of file-sharers with their [...]

After learning that a version of its film, The Hulk, had become available for illegal downloading on the Internet two weeks before its theatrical release, Universal initiated an immediate investigation and then referred the matter to the FBI. The Department of Justice took immediate action on the matter and today, Kerry Gonzalez, the individual who [...]

PeerBuddy brings a relatively new concept to Peer-To-Peer (P2P) file sharing networks. It was birthed mainly as a test to see how successful it would be to track segments of files based on hash IDs. The result of this experiment turned out to be very successful, thus “PeerBuddy” was born. This new concept to file [...]

LimeWire enables individuals to search for and share computer files with anyone on the Internet. LimeWire is compatible with the Gnutella file-sharing protocol and can connect with anyone else running Gnutella-compatible software. This version includes better success rates for search results from firewalled machines on the network. **Users who download this version must already have [...]

This morning I had an in-depth conversation with a man who would like to remain anonymous regarding the actions that will be taken to stomp out worldwide piracy by the recording industry of America. We discussed the future of safe computing and what that means for the average p2p user. He sent me an email [...]

The first version of Soulseek Isle is now available. The first version of Soulseek Isle is now available here. Here’s a short Q&A to try to explain what it is we’re trying to do and what you should expect: Q: What are the differences between Soulseek Isle and the regular Soulseek client? A: Virtually nothing, [...]

HONG KONG, China (Reuters) — Japanese videogame maker Nintendo said on Thursday it has won one of its “most significant anti-piracy judgments ever” against a Hong Kong firm that sold devices capable of copying its games and putting them on the Internet for limitless downloading. In the ruling, a Hong Kong judge ordered Lik Sang [...]

If you find an e-mail from Bill Gates in your inbox, the chances are that the message is a computer virus. Security experts are warning that a mass-mailing worm is spreading widely across the internet, sometimes posing as an e-mail from the Microsoft boss. The Windows virus, called Sobig-C, forwards itself to any addresses found [...]

The Kazaa Media Desktop is a second-generation peer-to-peer file-sharing service with which you can search and download media files from other Kazaa users. You can also organize, view, and play your media files through an integrated media jukebox, publish your own work, reach an audience, and communicate with other Kazaa users. Kazaa supports audio, video, [...]

A former Microsoft employee was arrested Monday for allegedly ordering more than $17 million worth of software via an internal purchasing system and then selling it to keep the proceeds for himself. Richard Gregg, 43, was also indicted Monday on 62 counts of mail and computer fraud, according to court papers. Gregg allegedly ordered 5,436 [...]

New Bittorrent Client that supports multiple downloads in one instance and distributes bandwidth between the downloads. Also has integrated MegaSpy and ReTracking capabilities. It allows you to throttle downloads, shares upload bandwidth between downloads automatically allowing you to have open a number of files you are seeding and will maximize your upload bandwidth. It gives [...]

eMule is a new filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network, but offers more features than the standard eDonkey client, because it’s opensource but under the restrictions of the GPL License. Changelog: bluecow: Dragstart of category-tabs not hypersensible anymore Unk: Irc: Now detects UnderOps. Unk: Desc ping to servers are now done less [...]