Playing in The Dark: The heat is on and music swappers are taking their battle underground By ANITA HAMILTON Monday, Sep. 29, 2003 Muffin man has more than 2,000 songs on his hard drive, and he’s happy to share them. He’s a big fan of bands like Pearl Jam and the White Stripes, so there’s [...]

Despite lawsuits, traffic on file-sharing sites is booming. It’s been the summer of fear online because of the music industry’s campaign to sue file traders. But after millions of instant-message warnings, some 1,600 subpoenas and at least 261 lawsuits, there’s been no discernable effect on piracy. Traffic on Kazaa dipped thirty-five percent after the Recording [...]

PeerGuardian is a tiny firewall program especially designed for P2P software users, but also to anyone who is concerned about the investigations that corporations and authorities perform on the internet. PeerGurdian blocks connections for the configured IP ranges and logs the blocked connections. It uses an online IP database for the blocking, but IP ranges [...]

There’s a whole raft of stuff out there which depends 100% on technology. It sounds like sh*t without it. Then you have live performance recordings. With them, you sense the atmosphere, you know the groups and/or individuals you’re listening to are REAL (bum notes and all : ) and there’s ambience instead of the sterile, [...]

When a staff group experimented with Kazaa’s Find More from Same User feature, among other ‘personal’ files they found: • Military information on chemical warfare • Correspondence from the office of a state senator to constituents • Internal correspondence on state political organization • Sensitive business correspondence, including memos on board of directors decision making [...]

U.S. Is Only the Tip of Pirated Music Iceberg By MARK LANDLER Published: September 26, 2003 RUSSELS, Sept. 25 — Hang around any schoolyard in Germany or college campus in Indonesia and it becomes clear that the recording industry’s problems with the illegal online distribution of music in the United States pale beside the rampant [...]

House Committee Approves P2P Security Bill By Roy Mark Just one day after it was introduced, the House Government Reform Committee approved legislation Thursday aimed at protecting the security and privacy of federal agency computers from the risks posed by peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. No comparable legislation has been introduced in the Senate. Both the [...]

The locals tell of the massive pirate ships sitting beyond the 12-mile limit, loaded to the bulkheads with millions of dollars of high-end disc stamping equipment. This is the source of the fabled DVD-9 brand of supposedly bootlegged DVD movie. You can get pristine first-run movies not yet released in the US. Ladies and gentlemen, [...]

In a hotly contested lawsuit before a federal appeals court, two peer-to-peer companies are about to gain a vast army of allies: America’s librarians. The five major U.S. library associations are planning to file a legal brief Friday siding with Streamcast Networks and Grokster in the California suit, brought by the major record labels and [...]

A computer security expert who contributed to a paper deeply critical of Microsoft has been dismissed by his employer, a consulting company that works closely with the software giant. Dan Geer, a longtime computer security researcher, and several colleagues released a controversial study on Wednesday that called the ubiquity of Microsoft software a hazard to [...]

Changelog below: -Files now only get allocated as they’re downloaded and don’t fragment the hard drive -Large torrents no longer hose the CPU -Better network utilization and more consistent download rates -Poorly seeded torrents get out faster -Several important bug fixes Download it here.

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Computer security experts issued a joint report on Wednesday saying that the ubiquitous reach of Microsoft Corp.’s MSFT.O software on desktops worldwide has made computer networks a national security risk susceptible to “massive, cascading failures.” The report, unveiled at the Computer & Communications Industry Association’s meeting of industry leaders and government officials [...]

Israeli Music Industry to Get Tough on Downloaders Wed September 24, 2003 09:51 AM ET n By Gwen Ackerman JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s music industry vowed Wednesday to crack down on local online song swapping and said it would show zero tolerance. “We have decided to do anything in our capability to protect the assets [...]

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24 — If Hollywood executives have learned anything watching their peers in the music business grapple with online file sharing, it is how not to handle a technological revolution. While the major labels in the music industry squabbled among themselves about how best to deal with Internet piracy and failed to develop [...]

Kazaa Media Desktop without all the spyware and adware and with a lot more useful features like unlimited search more and many more. What’s New in Kazaa Lite K++ 2.4.3: – Updated KL Extensions to 0.56a – Updated K-Dat to 1.2.1 b9 – Updated K-Sig (Sig2Dat Tool) to 1.2.2 b5 – Updated KaZuperNodes to 1.4.6 [...]

Well the new KMD is out. This version is still full of spyware-adware and files that will mess up your computer. Download KazaaLite (K++) instead. For those that are interested…. here is the download link.

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. Changelog: * Added arrows and tri-state sorting (thanks saurod) * Fixed a crash with certain queues when opening queue frame * Fixed a bug in the search frame not [...]

mlMac is a GUI for mldonkey. It manages the daemon for you: it downloads it on the first launch, and can update it when a new version is available. You absolutely don’t need to worry about where is the daemon, etc.. For confirmed users, mlMac allows us to choose a custom folder for the .ini [...]

LimeWire 3.6.0 Beta We’ve released the beta version of LimeWire 3.6.0. As usual, the free version is available here and the pro version is available from your pro download page. The major improvement in 3.6.0 is the use of “out-of-band” replies to your searches. This is pretty technical change, so I’ll describe it in some [...]

LOS ANGELES — Turning the tables on record labels, makers of the most popular file-sharing network are suing entertainment companies for copyright infringement. Sharman Networks, the company behind the Kazaa file-sharing software, filed a federal lawsuit on Monday accusing the entertainment companies of using unauthorized versions of its software in their efforts to snoop out [...]