RIAA Sues 80 More Swappers
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 [...]
University of Florida’s ICARUS to be Released
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 [...]
New Kazaa beta makes debut
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 on [...]
Gator changes name.
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 to [...]
RIAA nemesis, Senator Coleman voices his thoughts online
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 that [...]
Copyright Office Upholds Copy-Protection Law
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 a [...]
ISP with P2P License
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 [...]
DC++ 0.301
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 to be [...]
