The record labels have secretly been in cloak and dagger mode behind the scenes. Busier than two cats, we may think the focus is on litigation alone. No, the battle lines have many fronts matey, as the labels fight fire with fire to protect their assets. Apparently, as this report indicates, peer-to-peer “special ops” have [...]

Californian woman has filed a case against the music industry lobby group RIAA in order to get a subpoena that was filed against her, to be overturned. According to her — she has filed the case anonymously and is only referred as “Jane Doe” in court papers — lawyers, RIAA’s methods of seeking individuals’ personal [...]

Morpheus 3.3 file-sharing software is free to users, includes no spyware, and is quick to install and easy to use. Enhanced privacy and security upgrades provide users the ability to autoscan downloaded files with their antivirus software, enable users to easily shred a deleted file making it unrecoverable, and conceal host IP addresses to protect [...]

New research has confirmed what many already suspected – music download services such as Napster and KaZaA are a major factor in driving CD sales. Many music fans use services such as KaZaA, and previously the now defunct Napster, in a ‘try before you buy’ capacity – finding out what new music they like before [...]

Microsoft will be forcing people to upgrade to newer versions of its instant messenger application and is shutting its doors to third-party IM products such as Trillian. “As of Oct. 15, users of Microsoft’s free Web-based MSN Messenger and its Windows XP-based Windows Messenger will need to upgrade their software to a newer version or [...]

The campaign launched in May by the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA) to target individual music sharers appears to be scaring punters away from file-sharing services, the latest figures from market watcher NPD appear to show. NPD tracks consumer file-sharing activity. It calculated that 14.5 million US households downloaded music files in April. In [...]

MakeTorrent is a complete Win32 rewrite of CompleteDir. It has many more features such as automatic piece size, auto-update of tracker lists, and multiple modes of operation. Changes in Current Version: Major multi-tracker fixes Multi-line comment support View/Edit torrent is now multi-tracker enabled A little more of Advanced mode implemented Several minor internal bug fixes [...]

Now in stock – Zeropaid Clothing, clothing geared towards individuals whom wish to be seen wearing file sharing not just talking about it. We have reordered our classic file sharing t-shirt as well as 4 new designs in all sizes. If you are a p2p junkie or a soldier, we have the gear to represent [...]

JENIN, West Bank, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ — In response to the email received today from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to Earthstation 5 for copyright violations for streaming FIRST RUN movies over the internet for FREE, this is our official response! Earthstation 5 is at war with the Motion Picture Association of America [...]

From News.com : Record labels and movie studios said Tuesday that they have appealed an April federal court ruling that held for the first time that some file-swapping software was legal. That ruling, made by a Los Angeles federal court judge, Stephen Wilson, came as a sharp blow to copyright holders’ strategy of suing peer-to-peer [...]

Gluz is an improvement on Limewire IMHO. Unlike Limewire however, Gluz works only on Windows. Gluz has pretty much all the features that Limewire has PLUS: * its skins DO work and there are three of them packaged with the app including the familiar blue color scheme. * magnet link technology (just like Shareaza) * [...]

2.0.2.0 changes: Fixed several bugs Duplicate torrents (already in the list) cannot be added The download and upload speed is always updated if main window is visible The size of the columns in My Torrents are saved now Added minimize and maximize buttons to the main window Added download bar snapping Config path is $HOME/.azureus [...]

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. “the amendment made provision for the imposition of a levy on blank audio recording media to compensate authors, performers [...]

A record number of albums were sold in the UK in the last year because they are now cheaper than ever, industry figures have revealed. More than 228 million albums were sold in the 12 months from June 2002 – up 3% on the previous year – according to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). And [...]

The Recording Industry Association of America has told Sen. Norm Coleman that it is not going after small violators in its campaign against online music swappers. The RIAA’s written assurance was made in response to questions Coleman sent to the group over its tactics, which he has labeled “excessive.” Coleman, chairman of the Senate Governmental [...]

In a recent interview, Timothy R. Butler talks to Richard M. Stallman about several topics including DRM. Here is a sample from the interview. In September of 1983, a computer programmer working in the Massachusetts Institute for Technology AI Lab announced a plan that was the antithesis of the proprietary software concept that had come [...]

The Rolling Stones, one of the last marquee holdouts against online music distribution, have finally agreed to sell their music online, according to record label EMI Music. The venerable rock band’s appearance online is both a signal of the increasingly rapid mainstreaming of digital music and a welcome relief to online music companies, which have [...]

GLT Poliane 2.09 has been released! This new version is for correct some urgent bugs. GLT Poliane is a web-based p2p that share only mp3 files. If you don’t tested it yet, do it now! Are only 181KB the full download… and is free of adware/spyware/popup banners. download it at http://www.gltpoliane.com/baixar.php Www.GLTPoliane.com

The British film industry is to join forces with the government in a new task force to fight UK film pirates, it has been announced. The sale of bootleg videos and DVDs is a growing problem, up 80% in the last year, according to the Federation Against Copyright Theft. That means piracy has cost the [...]

DICE is hybrid server to host IRC clients and opennap clients, and has capability of web server, on Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows Server 2003. DICE version 0.81 was released (2003/08/17) What’s new + Changed burst transfer scheme + Added WWW.xml to the installer package + Modified CPU type display for Pentium 4 and Celeron + Fixed [...]