First discovered by a member of UTC, it seems that Google has removed a few results from their search engine. A quote from the search page: In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 8 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA [...]

Recording industry lawyers have claimed that detailed analysis of the data in MP3 music files can prove the files were downloaded illegally from an online file-sharing network. The revelation came with the release of court documents relating to a case against a New York woman. She is accused of sharing 1000 songs through a peer-to-peer [...]

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has levelled a full legal barrage at the sole Kazaa user fighting its attempts to identify file-swappers, saying she was indisputably a major copyright infringer. In papers filed this week with a federal court in Washington, the RIAA said it did not oppose the anonymous Kazaa user’s request [...]

I’m happy to announce that a new version of Maileet is out. Among the new features on this version: – Encryption: Maileet uses AES encryption by default and you can set your own encryption password (key). It is virtually impossible to know what you are sending or receiving. Notice that this version will not work [...]

From the rise of Napster and the hottest P2P apps to the Recording Industry Association of America’s subpoenas, TechTV brings you the latest from the front lines of the file-sharing Music Wars. On Friday, Sept. 12, musicians, lawyers, industry leaders, record executives, and representatives from groups including the RIAA and the Electronic Frontier Foundation will [...]

Kazaa Scanner 1.4 Keep newly downloaded Kazaa and WinMX (+ other P2P program) files in private quarantine while sharing others. Kazaa Scanner is a free simple P2P add-on utility to move downloaded files immediately into ‘quarantine’ (an unshared folder). Other users will still be able to upload your existing files but newly downloaded files are [...]

In early September, the U.S. music industry is planning to break every known rule of corporate public relations by suing hundreds of high school valedictorians, pilots, firefighters, entrepreneurs, and other seemingly upstanding citizens for stealing songs online. The legal confrontation will pit a small group of powerful, technophobic oligopolists against a hip, youthful army of [...]

mIRC 6.1 released on August 29th A fresh new version of mIRC! With this new release we hope to address most, if not all, of the comments, requests and remarks we received after the release of version 6.03. Discussions about the changes and features in this new version are very welcome on the message board. [...]

In the most recent list of Subpoenas filed by the record industry, Gnutella has joined MP2P, and Fast Track. It is quickly becoming obvious that simply not using Kazaa, or another F.T. client will not be enough to guarantee your safety. Users of three different Gnutella clients appear on the newest list. BearShare,Shareaza, and LimeWire. [...]

Ad-Free version delivers more effective search and download, customer service and enhanced virus protection Online Distribution (AOD) SA, a subsidiary of global software publishing house Titus Interactive Group, today announced the launch of Kazaa Plus, a premium, paid for version of Kazaa Media Desktop, the world’s most popular peer-to-peer file sharing application. Kazaa Plus, developed [...]

The Webcaster Alliance has filed a suit against the Recording Industry Association of America and five major record labels for anti-competive behavior. The case arises from a deal last year, details of which were first reported by The Register, between a handful of small webcasters and the RIAA to set performance royalty rates. The WA [...]

Record-label hackers should wipe out the computers of people who swap MP3s. That’s the nuclear option Utah senator Orrin Hatch recommends. Meanwhile, peer-to-peer special ops have already begun. The courts have been busy – and are likely to get busier – with Recording Industry Association of America lawsuits. The labels have also quietly contracted elite [...]

When most people think of Freenet, they think of an ultra-anonymous, but ultra-slow P2P network that has a pretty quirky user interface. That could change very soon. The Freenet developers have been working on what they call “Next Generation Routing” which holds the promise of making Freenet smarter and faster than anything we have seen [...]

Music Industry Unveils Tracking Methods Wed Aug 27, 5:10 PM ET Add Entertainment – AP to My Yahoo! By TED BRIDIS, AP Technology Writer WASHINGTON – The recording industry provided its most detailed glimpse to date Wednesday into some of the detective-style techniques it has employed as part of its secretive campaign to cripple music [...]

From News.com: Reid Burch, network services manager for the Promina Southern Regional Health System hospital near Atlanta, was having a problem with slow networks early this year. Applications were poky, pipes were full, and the hospital was inching toward buying new, expensive connections to keep up with the demand for bandwidth. But before paying the [...]

From News.com: The Recording Industry Association of America leveled a full legal barrage at the sole Kazaa user fighting its attempts to identify file swappers, saying she was indisputably a major copyright infringer. In papers filed Tuesday with a federal court in Washington, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said it did not oppose [...]

Obtained from Tech Central Station Blame Canada -By Jay Currie A desperate American recording industry is waging a fierce fight against digital copyright infringement seemingly oblivious to the fact that, for practical purposes, it lost the digital music sharing fight over five years ago. In Canada. “On March 19, 1998, Part VIII of the (Canadian) [...]

From News.com By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 26, 2003, 5:22 PM PT Hollywood studios and record labels are getting allies in their quest to overturn a court ruling that said file-swapping software companies aren’t responsible for the copyright infringement of their users. Several groups, including a list of legal scholars, international copyright [...]

Yet another nice Gnutella client with a minimal user interface, perfect for users of older PCs or PCs with slower processors. It has no adware or spyware, requires only about 10MB of hard disk space and runs on Microsoft Windows. Find out more about it and download it here

Taken from here Apparently I have been subpoenad, personally, on 8-17-2003 by an as-yet unknown entity under the DMCA clause, because of xmule, when it went on to gov’ment radar w/ the e-matters.de alert The subpoena lasts, suposedly, until Dec 6, when i must stand infrotn of a federal appellet court 100% of My job [...]