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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34980-2003Aug23.html

By Leslie Walker
The Washington Post
Sunday, August 24, 2003; Page F07

Evidence is popping up that the record industry has millions of Internet music pirates on the run — but not the heavy-duty song swappers the industry has vowed to prosecute.

The NPD Group market-research firm released data last week showing that the number of American households [...]

Up till now the R.I.A.A. subpoena campaign had been limited to those desolate souls who dared to share copyrighted material on the Fast Track network. Apparently all of that has just changed. In the updated August 22nd list of P2P user names with suits filed against then, 11 names from a non Fast Track [...]

From MIT’s The Tech: The Recording Industry Association of America will send MIT a second subpoena seeking the identity of a network user alleged to have been illegally “offering hundreds of copyrighted works to the world-at-large” from MIT’s network through the KaZaA file-sharing system, an RIAA spokesman said last night.

This time, the RIAA will [...]

 
 
FreeNet introduces
NextGen routing  in experimental branch
The most fundamental improvement to Freenet’s core algorithm,
“Next Generation Routing”, is now in the experimental branch of CVS. NGrouting
holds the promise of making Freenet much faster than it is today, while
improving virtually all aspects of Freenet’s performance. To learn more about
NGrouting see
here, if you would like to try it [...]

Interesting article from MP3newswire.net comparing the recent change to the diamond cartel as described in this slashdot post and what P2P really means for the record industry cartel. Both industries increased profits through artificial shortage and are now both threatened by recent entities that will, or already have, ended product scarcity. It reminded me of [...]

p2pnet: Jane Doe’s arguments ‘already rejected’: RIAA

Jane Doe’s legal motion to block an RIAA subpoena demanding that Verizon give up her name says the subpoena violates her rights to due process, privacy and anonymous association, as well as her contract with Verizon.

Her arguments “have already been addressed by a federal judge – and they have [...]

(open source)
giFT is a project designed to completely abstract low-level filesharing protocol communication while allowing seamless support for multiple networks. Currently available plugins include: OpenFT, Gnutella, and FastTrack (third party).
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BadBlue version 2.4.2 – the new release of the popular file-sharing web server – is out. BadBlue is one of the easiest ways to run a web site on your PC and is specifically designed to make it easy to share photos, music, videos, as well as business documents.

New features includes:
Remote administration: you can [...]

Authorities warn the internet does not provide anonymity
A man who has admitted illegally distributing songs on the internet before they were released in shops faces up to five years in prison.
Federal prosecutors said Mark Shumaker, 21, of Florida, who headed the Apocalypse Crew group, has admitted infringing copyright laws.
The Apocalypse Crew obtained pre-release [...]

Statement of Rep. Howard L. Berman – Introduction of the Peer to Peer Piracy Prevention Act
July 25, 2002
Mr. Chairman: I rise today to introduce legislation that will help stop peer-to-peer piracy.
The growth of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks has been staggering, even by Internet standards. From non-existence a few years ago, today nearly a [...]