from News.com The recording industry’s wave of subpoenas that target individual computer users has drawn the critical attention of at least one influential lawmaker on Capitol Hill. Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., who chairs the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on Thursday that criticized its [...]

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ChangeLog Version 2.0.1.1 Fixed several bugs Closed file handles Less cpu and memory usage The size and position of the main window is saved now Added a progress bar and a manual download link to the Upgrade window Internationalization: you can choose between English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese and Swedish now Internationalization: limited support [...]

SBC Communications Inc. is joining a legal battle with the recording industry with a lawsuit questioning the constitutionality of the industry’s effort to track down online music swappers. In a complaint filed late Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, SBC unit Pacific Bell Internet Services alleges that many of the subpoenas served against [...]

Last week Buy.com tried to take a bite out of Apple’s successful iTunes Music Store by rolling out a low-priced song-download service said to be simple and reliable. But in an example of the technological trickiness involved in offering users the freedom they desire while giving music labels the protections they demand, early customers have [...]

The implementation of EUCD will have staggering consequences to Swedish computer users. Not only will it limit the consumers’ rights to make copies of CDs and DVDs for personal use, but it will also criminalize peer-to-peer file sharing. The Swedish government is proposing a law which would require the permission from the copyright owner before [...]

Tuesday, Musicmatch Inc. announced plans for a service similar to Apple’s Itunes Music store. The service, which would be integrated into the Musicmatch Jukebox software, is planned for release this fall. Of particular interest is the announcement of licensing agreements with three major and 6 independent labels for personal burning and multiple PC playback, the [...]

BadBlue PE is the first peer-to-peer software package to combine file sharing simplicity with a complete, customizable Web server. It can provide dramatic improvement in a wide range of business processes with its live sharing of Word files. learn more here

Following the example of the music business the movie industry is targeting individual peer-to-peer pirates with an advertising campaign currently running in cinemas and on television across the US. The ads, which can be viewed at RespectCopyrights.org, are designed to show the pirates how their activities affect the ‘little guys’ in the movie business, hoping [...]

In a unanimous decision, members of the U.S. FTC (Federal Trade Comission) chastised Vivendi Universal and Warner Communications for restricting competition in the sale of “The Three Tenors” – Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti – audio and video products. It seems that PolyGram (a company later bought by Vivendi) conspired with Warner “to [...]

They are the country clubs of the file-sharing world, exclusive Internet networks that require knowing the right people and having a wealth of content on your hard disk to get into the clique. These private file-swapping networks have surfaced just as the music industry has been granted dozens of subpoenas seeking the names of those [...]

Diet Kaza removes banners, popup ads, spyware, and more from KaZaa before they are even downloaded. It can also filter your proxy to remove any spyware communications. It makes searches quicker with more results. Removes all ads from the interface of the program, including the BonziBuddy/shopping icons. Adds quick search buttons to the system tray. [...]

The Recording Industry Association of America has tapped a former Republican Senate staffer to replace Hilary Rosen as chief executive, firming up the group’s leadership during one of the most controversial moments in its history. The big record labels’ trade group said Monday that Mitch Bainwol, former chief of staff to U.S. Senate Majority Leader [...]

Download This version will have all the new features (ChangeLog) of version 2.0.0.9 already available for beta-testing. It will be bundled with a nice installer for the win32 platform, and will come with an Updater module.

Author: Mo Program Type: Freeware File Description: MoGLO is a tool that complements Direct Connect clients like DC++ and Neo-Modus. The main purpose of this program is finding files on hubs using the Direct Connect protocol. It will open up multiple sockets to increase the scan time, and depending on the connection, you may scan [...]

From News.com Roxio says its revamped online music service, Napster, will debut in time for the holiday season and will give people access to music through a subscription or via an a la carte option. The new service, Napster 2.0, will likely debut with the largest legal music catalog in the world with close to [...]

The EFF web site has just added a new feature to their subpoena search service. You can now check for subpoenas by IP address as well as username. This is a useful addition because others in your family might be using Kazaa under account names that differ from your own.

AllPeers, who announced the first part of their whitepaper “Towards a P2P Business Model” on Zeropaid in April, has now published the second part of this paper. Entitled “Kazaa and the One Night Stand”, this new installment argues that P2P firms have succeeded in building impressively large user bases but have failed even to begin [...]

THE BATTLE is heating up between the recording industry and those who download copies of their favorite music. the Recording Industry Association of America is bringing hundreds of lawsuits nationwide against home users of peer-to-peer (P2P) software, including students at Boston College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah recently used [...]

Direct Connect offers a community-oriented, open, user-controlled network. Moreover, its network architecture is built on a peer-to-peer foundation; users run, control, and maintain the network. Users are able to share any type of file – absolutely no restrictions. These files are easily viewed through a familiar organized windows-explorer interface. To conveniently access the plethora of [...]