LOS ANGELES — The movie industry is trying a new approach to stop people from downloading pirated copies of films over the Internet: It’s asking them nicely. Movie studios were launching a campaign Tuesday with television ads and in-theater spots featuring makeup artists, set painters and other crafts people saying that piracy robs them of [...]

Pop icon Michael Jackson comes out against locking up music pirates Pop superstar Michael Jackson on Monday hit out at a proposed new US law that would make the musical piracy on the Internet punishable by a possible jail sentence. The self-styled “King of Pop” feels that, while he would like to see the practice [...]

  Freenet‘s Next Generation Routing Protocol A revolutionary change to the core of Freenet’s operation that has the potential to make Freenet as fast, and in some cases even faster, than the World Wide Web   The core idea behind the Next Generation Routing design is to make Freenet nodes much smarter about deciding where [...]

A body representing 175 artists worldwide has attacked the Recording Industry Association of America’s latest attempt to shut down peer-to-peer music sharing networks. Dust Traxx manages 27 house and techno labels and claims to have been the largest producer, manufacturer and distributor of house music in the world during 2002. It’s promotions director Chuck Paugh [...]

Boycott-RIAA.com, a site set up to offset the music industry’s Recording Industry Association of America, has called for public rallies against the RIAA across the US on August 1 and 2. Site founder Bill Evans said the call had gone out following the RIAA’s move to go after individuals – mostly American teenagers – “illegally [...]

2get is an open source file sharing client licensed under The GNU Public License. Supported platforms: Mac OS 8.1 or higher Mac OS X 10.1 or higher Supported protocols: OpenNap SlavaNap Available languages: English French Japanese Supported features: Auto resume of incomplete downloads Freeloader blocking Connect to multiple servers Multiple concurrent searches Search result filter [...]

Linkin Park, whose Meteora is one of the biggest selling rock albums of 2003, has joined the likes of Kid Rock, Metallica, and Green Day in nixing Internet sales and downloads of individual album tracks. The bands only want their full albums available for sale via Internet download. Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington told LAUNCH [...]

True musical fandom is a measure of devotion unlike any other in the entertainment world. As a teenager, I remember standing in line at midnight to be among the first to buy Pink Floyd’s epic “The Wall.” I had already taped the entire double album when New York radio station WNEW-FM played it on a [...]

I’m not an author of Azureus so I didn’t signup for the Developer section to post this and I want everyone to know it exists so… The new release is out. It’s a java bittorrent client thats the best so far. It makes it much easier for me to seed torrents longer and in one [...]

Exciting news over at Music Industry News may provide a much needed solution for the online music community. A BETA release of BluFilter: Authorize software will allow artists to list thier material in a web based BluFilter database and set prices. Then P2P network facilitators such as Kazaa, Morpheus etc. can plug in the BluFilter [...]

Freenet 0.5.2.1 fixes amongst other things a major vulnerability in the HTML filter. Anyone running Freenet should upgrade. Freenet Home

This is an important story regarding a couple of Bills to be introduced and debated in the following months. Given the current events, it’s time to contact your representatives! Leonadis McKinney, Medill News Service Grant Gross of the IDG News Service contributed to this report. July 18, 2003 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Proposed laws to fight [...]

Peer-to-peer traffic is one of the biggest headaches for Internet service providers, but now a Swedish company says it has developed technology that can help handle the load. Last week, Stockholm-based Joltid said three major service providers in Europe licensed its PeerCache technology–software designed to reduce costs of network traffic by caching frequently traded digital [...]

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. [...]

Scroll down for numerous sources. The music industry has won at least 871 federal subpoenas against computer users suspected of illegally sharing music files on the Internet, with roughly 75 new subpoenas being approved each day, U.S. court officials said Friday. The effort represents early steps in the music industry’s contentious plan to file civil [...]

Rolling Stone Ad Targets 60+ Million Sharing Files in U.S. Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Advisory San Francisco – An ad from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) intended for the more than 60 million U.S. residents sharing music files online appeared in Rolling Stone’s August 9 issue, hitting the stands today. The EFF ad — part [...]

WRITTEN BY MICHIGAN’S John Conyers, the senior Democrat on the House judiciary committee, the Author, Consumer, and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act (ACCOPS) represents Congress’ boldest attempt yet to shutter peer-to-peer networks, which the major record labels and movie studios view as a serious threat. Currently, under a little-known 1997 law called the No [...]

Full article available at News Scientist Interest in anonymous internet file-sharing networks has surged since the music industry revealed plans to sue individuals illegally offering copyrighted songs to other users. Ian Clarke, who coordinates development of one of the best known anonymous file-sharing systems, Freenet, told New Scientist that traffic to the project’s web site [...]

The site torrentse.cx recieved a cease and desist letter during the day of Wednesday, July 16, 2003 for copyright infringement. The entire website has been removed and will not return.

From News.com:The Recording Industry Association of America on Wednesday said it sent out subpoenas to Internet service providers, in preparation for lawsuits it plans to file against hundreds of individuals who illegally distribute songs over the Web. “This should not come as a surprise to anyone. Filing information subpoenas is exactly what we said we’d [...]