A Massachusetts district court today dealt the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) a serious setback by rejecting its Washington, D.C., subpoenas for the identities of Massachusetts students. For the moment, MIT and Boston College need not respond to the RIAA demands. “Today’s ruling requires the recording industry to file subpoenas where it alleges that [...]

Author: Aldo Vargas Program Type: Freeware File Description: Aldo’s Kazaa GUI Hacker lets you modify some aspects of the user interface of Kazaa / Kazaa Lite K++. The idea of the tool is provide quick access to all Kazaa windows and allow to have a very small semi-transparent window in a corner of your desktop [...]

Author: kRYPT Program Type: Freeware File Description: burst! is a new client for the BitTorrent network. It uses a modified version of the original python client as the back-end, and replaces the front-end with a native Win32 application. It uses less system resources (with multiple transfers), and has more features then the other clients. Changes [...]

Version 3.4.3 adds the following: Fixed bugs that caused instability in previous beta versions. First stable version including find more sources button. Get the new LimeWire Beta here

http://www.FolderShare.com ChangeLog: *Detect when a library is subscribed to a folder that does not exist *Fixed crash on end of web download *Better validation of paths during library subscribe *Fixed several assertion failures FolderShare will create a personal Peer-to-Peer network that lets you retrieve and update documents or share your files (photos, reports, etc.) with [...]

From News.com The key supporters of a software-licensing bill that critics say promotes corporate rights over those of consumers have, in the face of mounting opposition, decided to quit lobbying for its enactment. The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA), drafted four years ago, is meant to protect software developers from intellectual property theft by [...]

TechTV begins a three-part series tonight, interviewing Nikki Hemming, the CEO of Kazaa. The series continues Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, at 8pm eastern, 5pm Pacific. The article and complete video of the interview is also posted online here HERE’S A TASTE: To the RIAA, Nikki Hemming is public enemy No. 1. That didn’t stop the [...]

Microsoft is beefing up the peer-to-peer capabilities for its Windows XP operating system. The software giant recently released a development kit for building peer-to-peer applications and an update to Windows XP that adds support for the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) networking protocol. As previously reported, both of these Windows XP tools are aimed at [...]

eDonkey2000 combines the strengths of Gnutella and Napster while avoiding their problems. It doesn’t rely on a central server yet searches are quick and your client doesn’t get bogged down with endless search requests. You have the ability to search all the files being shared anywhere on the network. It automatically resumes interrupted transfers from [...]

RIAA’s scare tactics bound to backfire By Declan McCullagh CNET News.com August 4, 2003, 12:22 PM PT The Recording Industry Association of America’s efforts to scare peer-to-peer users who violate copyright laws began with a promising start exactly one year ago. Last August, the RIAA asked a federal court in Washington, D.C., to force Verizon [...]

Universal Music Defends DRM; P2P Litigation By Ryan Naraine NEW YORK — Larry Kenswil, the president of Universal Music Group’s (UMG) eLabs unit, is defending the recording industry’s decision to use Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology alongside a litigation strategy to stamp out music piracy, arguing that the survival of the industry was dependent on [...]

Universities are considering ways to bring legal Internet jukeboxes to dorm rooms, including entering deals with commercial service providers that would see online music charges included alongside tuition fees or picked up by the schools themselves. The effort is proceeding on several fronts, the most advanced charge being led by a committee of university and [...]

From News.com Legal services giant Landwell says it will prosecute 4,000 peer-to-peer file-traders in Spain because they have been identified as “serious” unauthorized downloaders of copyrighted songs, films and software. If it goes ahead, the action will be the largest crackdown on P2P users in Europe to date. Landwell, the legal arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, earlier [...]