The recording industry sued 80 more music fans for copyright infringement on Thursday. It’s the second wave of lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America. In September, the music trade group sued 261 people, many of whom said they had no warning that they were targets of legal action for sharing songs on [...]

LimeWire 3.6.9 BETA Available for Download Now at the limewire site

According to an article in the Independent Florida Alligator. The ICARUS system which has caught 1,520 students using file sharing programs is to be released this spring. Other universities, ISPs and businesses have expressed interest in it with the article saying,”Already 110 universities have asked about it, along with eight major Internet service providers and [...]

Sharman Networks, maker of peer-to-peer file-sharing software Kazaa, has announced the release of a new beta version of the popular program. Released Wednesday, the new version, 2.6, allows people to run multiple searches at the same time and is designed to let content providers sell their wares over the P2P network, enabling them to save [...]

The Redwood City, Calif.-based company plans to provide more details Thursday of its decision to adopt a name that better reflects its other businesses. The name change to Claria, however, is already reflected on Gator’s Web site. Shortly after its creation in 1998, the company began distributing a browser plug-in that millions of people use [...]

Senator Norm Coleman is the leading figure in the US government who is showing concern about the Recording Industry Association of America’s legal suits against music lovers. The Washington Post this week posted a transcript on its web site of a chat session where questions were put to Senator Coleman. Coleman’s position has always been [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Copyright Office has opted to leave a controversial software-protection law largely in place, despite protests that it interferes with consumers’ rights to watch movies and listen to music as they wish. The Copyright Office late Tuesday created four narrow exemptions to the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which makes it [...]

PlayLouder, one of the UK’s leading digital music companies, has today unveiled a new venture, PlayLouder MSP, a world first, and a groundbreaking innovation which will have dramatic ramifications for the besieged record industry, suffering severely from illegal file-sharing. PlayLouder MSP (Music Service Provider) is the world’s first ISP network to license from music companies [...]

Download.com has Napster 2.0 available for download. Download.

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: Fixed usercommands in hub frame (kick for example) Other fixes to usercommands (thanks sedulus) Fixed reading of DCTC file lists I think (haven’t tested) (DCTC of course has [...]

According to the Freenet website, “Next Generation Routing” – Freenet’s fundamental new way to locate and retrieve information – is now considered “stable” and may be downloaded from their website. This represents a major change to the way Freenet searches for data, while still preserving the underlying principles of its operation. For example, Freenet now [...]

From Billboard.com: Rap music mogul Sean “P. Diddy” Combs’ Sean John clothing line is under scrutiny from a workers’ rights group for allegedly using laborers from a Honduran sweatshop. The director of the anti-sweatshop National Labor Committee, Charles Kernaghan, plans to release a report today (Oct. 28) detailing poor working conditions at the Southeast Textiles [...]

Fixes: Availability more reliable Publishing your location more often Lower network overhead Fixed never completing bug Added ‘banner’ command so you can see the banner id of ads that are throwing popups. Safe Mode. Press F8 on client startup to allow the app to reset to minimal settings if you can’t start up Upload Slot [...]

Ease of use – just install, run, and search Ability to search by artist, title, genre, or other metainformation Elegant multiple search tabbed interface “Swarm” downloads from multiple hosts helps you get files faster Unique “ultrapeer” technology reduces bandwidth requirements for most users Integrated file library with built-in audio player Integrated chat Browse host feature–even [...]

* —- IMPORTANT —- Security update, upgrade unless you want to risk losing files anywhere on your hd (this is for all versions prior to this one) (thanks fusbar for bringing it to my attention) —- IMPORTANT —- * Some code cleanup * Added vertical tiling of windows * Nick and password are now taken [...]

Two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a system for sharing music within their campus community that they say can avoid the copyright battles that have pitted the music industry against many customers. The students, Keith Winstein and Josh Mandel, drew the idea for their campus-wide network from a blend of libraries [...]

2get is an opennap client supporting basic opennap features such as multiple server connection, WinMX queueing, download resumption, and client-to-client direct browsing. It is currently available in English, French, Italian, and Japanese.Changes:fix: serious long ip converter bug! no longer 2get connects invalid ip peers. *every* 2get user should update to this version.fix: file transfer performancefix: server [...]

Changelog: ———————- – Oct 23th, 2003 – ———————- bluecow: Fixed multi threading problem with a completing file which was concurrently uploaded. ———————- – Oct 22th, 2003 – ———————- Ornis: added ability to import partial downloads from Overnet/eDonkey when having used the “old style” format bluecow: Fixed potential exploit due to memory corruption in webserver [MoNKi] [...]

TorrentAid – Tools for Decentralised Torrents!The popular BitTorrent download system is an excellent way to distribute large files that are in high demand quickly and efficiently. However its reliance on a “tracker server” makes it part of an older class of peer-to-peer systems which depend on central components, vulnerable to attack or overloading.TorrentAid is a [...]

The U.S. Department of Defense will give radio frequency identification technology a massive boost with a new policy requiring its suppliers to use RFID chips. The RFID policy, announced Thursday, is the latest step toward wider adoption of the controversial technology, which civil liberties groups fear could lead to unprecedented surveillance of consumers. Advocates say [...]