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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 [...]

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 Industry [...]

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, engineered [...]

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
• Navy medical records
They [...]

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 piracy that goes [...]

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 Hollywood [...]

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 [...]