Since the Recording Industry Association of America began its campaign against file-sharing services and unauthorized song swapping online in 1999, it has offered one chief justification for its actions: downloading songs is stealing money from the pockets of musicians. But the musicians themselves have conflicted responses to file sharing and the tactics of the association, [...]

EFF wants you to sign this petition: *** To The United States Congress: We are the customers and former customers of the member labels of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). We love music and will gladly pay a fair price for it, but we are outraged by the RIAA’s tactics in suing ordinary [...]

Computer addicts nonchalantly offering and downloading music and films on the Internet in Germany now face legal crackdown as the country’s new copyright law comes into effect this weekend. Around three billion pirate copies of CDs and DVDs are produced in Germany every year. New copyright legislation which takes effect starting Saturday will now change [...]

New Windows Vulnerability: Microsoft Urges Customers To Install New Patch Anti-virus experts fear time is running out to avert a new outbreak similar to the recent Lovesan (aka Blaster) epidemic Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-039 (824146) reports, “A security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker to remotely compromise a computer running Microsoft® Windows® [...]

Hello ZP members, Just wanted to inform you that Maileet 1.2 is out. Main new features include: *Moved from Beta to Release status. *Added a service that detects incoming files and auto launch Maileet in receive mode (You can receive files even if you are logged out and even if Maileet isn’t running in receive [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – The Beatles management company said on Friday it is seeking a court injunction against Apple Computers Inc., insisting the computer maker’s iTunes online music store breaches the band’s trademark. Apple Corps., the company formed in 1968 by the Fab Four to manage its business interests and serve as the band’s music label, [...]

From the forums of Sourceforge WASTE 1.1 comes WASTE 1.3c After the apparent loss of interest in continued development of the Wasted .12b project and WASTE 1.1 sourceforge project another developer has come along to fill their place. “We have our own MSI style installer you can use, that has an updated version that disabled [...]

TORONTO – Canadian legal experts say those who swap music files online should be cautious but not overly worried about authorities here replicating the U.S. recording industry’s recent lawsuits against individuals. Differences between American and Canadian legislation, along with other practical issues including the amount of resources available, will likely dissuade the Canadian recording industry [...]

Activity on file-sharing networks has not missed a beat this week despite the record industry’s high- profile lawsuits against individual song-swappers, industry trackers and executives said on Thursday. “There’s no mass exodus, that’s safe to say. Ironically, usage this week and this month is up,” said Eric Garland, a spokesman for BigChampagne, a research firm [...]

Slyck.com speaks with Bram Cohen about the success of BitTorrent and insights into the next version. Slyck.com would like to thank Bullet for giving the interview and Bram Cohen creator of BitTorrent (BT). 1) Bullet : Did you think BT would become so successfull so quickly when you were first creating it? –Bram Cohen : [...]

AT&T will spend US$3 billion in capital expenditures this year to completely transform its global network from having a voice-based carrier infrastructure into a single Internet Protocol (IP)-based network, the telco said on Wednesday. The project is expected to be completed by 2005. “In essence our objective is to try to evolve and we are [...]

MultiNet – v0.55 Upgraded to OpenFT 0.2.1.1 Upgraded to giftd 0.11.4 again. You can now play files from within MultiNet when they are done downloading via iTunes. (sorry no preview yet). Default look is now Aqua. You can change the look via Preferences. Home Page

Join the EFF in fighting the RIAA. sign their petition today! The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is on a rampage, launching legal attacks against average Americans from coast to coast. Rather than working to create a rational, legal means by which its customers can take advantage of file-sharing technology and pay a fair [...]

Just as the Australian Recording Industry Association said it would not follow suit in the RIAA’s rampage of suing it’s customers, the UK international music trade body has _wisely_ also reached a similar conclusion. “The UK and international music trade bodies have said they’re unlikely to follow US colleagues in suing individuals for copyright infringement, [...]

Recording artists across the board think the music industry should find a way to work with the Internet instead of suing people who have downloaded music. “They’re protecting an archaic industry,” said the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir. “They should turn their attention to new models.” “This is not rocket science,” said David Draiman of Disturbed, [...]

News.com is running a in-depth interview with Janus Friis, co-creator of Skype & KaZaA. Skype is a new method to phone friends and family over the internet using Peer-to-Peer technology. In Skype’s first week of beta testing, over 60,000 internet users downloaded the software. In an interview with CNET News.com, Friis discussed the upcoming challenges [...]

ARIA: We won’t sue By Nui Te Koha September 10, 2003 AUSTRALIAN record companies will not follow US leads and sue music file sharers. The Recording Industry Association of America took court action against 261 Internet music file sharers yesterday. It also announced an amnesty program for file sharers to confess to sharing music illegally. [...]

From MLDonkey World: The G2gui Team is proud to announce: G2gui, the Next Generation MLdonkey Frontend has been released as version 0.1 after more than 3 months of precise planning and implementation. G2gui is a (almost) fully feature-complete beautiful GUI to control the MLdonkey Core and is the successor of MLdonkey’s “famous ugly” mlgui. The [...]

The US music industry has said a slim majority of the public supports its campaign against online song-swappers. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) released a survey showing that 52% backed the move. It questioned 800 people for the poll, two days before targeting 261 individuals for distributing songs on the internet without permission. [...]

Peer-to-Peer Trade Group to RIAA Bullies: Come Out and Fight Us If You Want, But Leave the Little Guys Alone !!! Wednesday September 10, 3:45 pm ET Group Will Reimburse 12-Year-Old’s Mom for $2,000 Strong-Armed by Record Industry WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ — The head of a newly-formed Peer-to-Peer industry trade association today said his [...]