File sharing network owner, Sharman Networks is set to give its private anti-trust action against the major record labels and Hollywood studios, another bash, after it failed to get a court to take it seriously last time, saying it didn’t offer evidence of harm from the defendants. Now it has come back with another suit, [...]

A little background first… Barry is a former developer that started working on creating a Kademlia client. His original goal was to create a completely new client based only on Kademlia. Also the idea was to make that client a Overnet compatable client.. Barry got some of the basic functions of it working, then disapeared [...]

DC++ is an open source C++ client for the Direct Connect protocol. Direct Connect allows you to share files over the Internet without restrictions or limits. Changes: — 0.263 2003-09-30 – * Fixed a mouse click crash (thanks sed) * Fixed so that donating is done in euro’s from the help menu (why don’t you [...]

Jim Griffin, the ex-Geffen Records new media boss described by CNN as “one of the sharpest minds in digital music”, today heads Cherry Lane Digital, a company focused on the digital delivery of art, meaning music, movies, books and other means of creative expression. Here, Jim explains why the online music business needs a radical [...]

The Associated Press Originally published September 30, 2003, 9:50 AM EDT NEW YORK — The son of a fashion photographer has sued Madonna, saying his late father’s images were copied by the singer in a set of videos for a song called “Hollywood.” Samuel Bourdin brought the lawsuit Friday, saying he holds the rights to [...]

Downhill Battle has set up a defense fund for the targets of the recent RIAA lawsuits. The fund is based on a p2p model—donations go directly from donors to RIAA targets with no middleperson collecting or distributing the funds. This mechanism solves both the trust and tax issues that would plague a centralized defense fund. [...]

From AP: Hollywood implemented an anti-piracy plan Tuesday banning special DVDs and videotapes for Oscar voters, angering champions of smaller movies that have taken home an increasing share of the film industry’s highest honors. Academy Awards voters will have to catch most of their movies in theaters after the major studios and their trade group, [...]

Ad-free Kazaa Changes in Current Version: Removes Gator adware (GAIN) installed files, temp files, and registry entries Kills annoying ‘Kazaa Plus’ advertisment on search page for Kazaa 2.52 MyBar Uninstaller status window is now visible while the DK options window is open DK DX will auto pause for 10 seconds when you Right Click in [...]

September 29, 2003 By Ted Bridis The recording industry on Monday announced settlements with 52 of the 261 Internet users it sued over allegations they illegally permitted others to download music from their computers using popular file-sharing software. The Recording Industry Association of America, which plans to file hundreds more lawsuits in October, did not [...]

Poisoned is a file sharing application for Mac OS X. Poisoned may look like your average file sharing application at first glance, but it is so much more. Unlike applications like Limewire or Kazaa that connect to only one file sharing network, Poisoned can connect to several seamlessly. Unlike Kazaa and several other file sharing [...]

09-27-2003 Interviewer: Bullet of unitethecows.com 1) Bullet: Can you shortly tell us your eMule developer experience ? >DonGato: It all started when eDonkey was left by Jed for OverNet development and so eMule started as a SourceForge project by Merkur with not even a nice forum as they have now. Not long after that I [...]

P2P file-share group goes ‘official’ http://www.p2pnet.net/article/8210 P2P United, the industry trade group organized by some of the most popular commercial file-sharing software developer companies, today officially launched ‘the banner of P2P United’ and its web page. Calling for Congress to repeal copyright owners’ “extraordinary authority to bring discriminatory and counterproductive lawsuits against individual file downloaders [...]

From News.com: Musicmatch on Monday announced its entry into the digital song-selling business, and sources say PC maker Dell will be one of the first companies to promote the new download service to consumers. As previously reported, the Internet music software company’s service, which will provide a new online rival to Apple Computer’s iTunes and [...]

New on this version: * Multi windows bug fixed, won’t open another Maileet window when there is already one waiting for incoming segments. * User can re-request missing segments even when the sender finished sending all the segments (Sender client keep listening for re-send request). * Fixed a bug regarding the segments sent on re-send [...]

BOSTON — In a possible case of mistaken identity, the recording industry has withdrawn a lawsuit against a 66-year-old sculptor who claims never to have even downloaded song-sharing software, let alone used it. Sarah Seabury Ward, of Newbury, Massachusetts, and her husband use their computer to e-mail with children and grandchildren, said Electronic Frontier Foundation [...]

A.C.L.U. Challenges Music Industry in Court New York Times By JOHN SCHWARTZ Published: September 29, 2003 Stepping up its involvement in the legal conflict over file sharing, the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a motion to stop attempts by the music industry to get the name of a Boston College student who is accused [...]

September 28, 2003 Thomas Mennecke First, the good news. Since last we spoke with Kevin Hearn, President of FrontCode Technologies, the estimated release date of late October isn’t completely off the table. In fact, initial testing is scheduled to begin soon. “I think I had mentioned late October in our last correspondence as a rough [...]

eMule is a filesharing client based on the eDonkey2000 protocol. This means you are able to connect to official eDoneky2000 clients and visa-versa. Changes in Current Version: Improved search function New preview Full support of the advanced Lugdunum 16.40 server protocol download

Magnatune is a record company with a catchy slogan. They highlight: 1) We’re a record label. But we’re not evil. 2) We call it ‘try before you buy.’ It’s the shareware model applied to music. 3) Listen to hundreds of MP3′d albums from our artists. Or try our genre-based radio stations. 4) If you like [...]

One of the best, or the best, EMule mods is The Black Hand and today came out a new version. Come here and download the new version. ChangeLog: BugFix Freeze Bug The Black Hand No more freezing for The Black Hand! Update SpreadBars SlugFiller Updated SpreadBar code (.37a version) to work better with less cpu [...]