BadBlue version 2.43 – the new release of the popular file-sharing web server – is out. BadBlue is one of the easiest ways to run a web site on your PC and is specifically designed to make it easy to share photos, music, videos, as well as business documents. New features includes: Users get their [...]

America Online’s gated Internet community may just have gotten a bit more secure. On Friday, the company said it had turned off Microsoft’s flawed Windows Messenger service–a data exchange mechanism for networked computers that shouldn’t be confused with the software giant’s instant messaging application–for nearly 15 million of its users over the last two weeks. [...]

This application is freeware , without ads, spyware and mostly anonymous if you wish. This version of PEERanha is really just a Beta Version to get people to give ideas to help the program grow in the future. This is a very unstable version but that is why we need feedback for it So give [...]

Regulators Seek Pre-Emptive Strike Against Digital TV Piracy Friday, October 24, 2003 WASHINGTON  — Federal regulators are looking at making a pre-emptive strike against Web surfers who share digital television shows across the Internet. The Federal Communications Commission will decide as early as next week whether some new video equipment should be made to recognize a “broadcast flag,” [...]

Hollywood Preaches Anti-Piracy to Schools Friday, October 24, 2003 SAN FRANCISCO  — As part of its campaign to thwart online music and movie piracy, Hollywood is now reaching into school classrooms with a program that denounces file-sharing and offers prizes for students and teachers who spread the word about Internet theft. The Motion Picture Association of America paid $100,000 to [...]

The U.S. Senate as early as next week will consider a permanent ban on taxing people’s Internet access bills, a measure that has sparked concern among state tax regulators. The bill would make permanent a moratorium on access taxes, called the Internet Tax Freedom Act, that was first passed in 1998 and then extended in [...]

Study: Most movies leaked on Net tied to biz LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) — Pirating movies for distribution on the Internet is mostly an inside job. That is the conclusion of a new study that found that 77 percent of all popular movies being illegally traded over the Internet initially came from people who worked [...]

Report: EMI to Offer Digital Music Online LOS ANGELES — EMI Music, whose artists range from the Rolling Stones to Coldplay, is granting a file-sharing network the rights to its entire digital music catalog, according to a published report. The deal between London-based EMI and Wippit, a British company that distributes authorized copies of songs [...]

EMI Music Canada puts a lockdown on unreleased music downloads EMI Music Canada will be using Musicrypt’s security technology to prevent music from being leaked onto the Internet prior to its intended release. EMI and other labels that use Musicrypt’s security will have their content protected from the initial stage – the recording studio. Each [...]

Court Rules AM/FM Simulcasters Must Pay Royalties The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has upheld a ruling by the U.S. Copyright Office requiring radio stations that stream broadcasts over the Internet must pay royalties to recording companies and artists as well as to composers. Traditional over-the-air radio stations only pay royalties to [...]

Apple cracks open the iPod, slightly The iPod, which turned two years old this month, spent its first months focused on doing one thing–playing music. Apple added other features, such as address and calendar information, the ability to store notes and a couple of games. Now, the computer maker is starting to let other companies [...]

Maileet version 1.3 released. New Features Include: Multi windows bug fixed, won’t open another Maileet window when there is already one waiting for incoming segments. User can re-request missing segments even when the sender finished sending all the segments (Sender client keep listening for re-send request) Send Via MAPI works, users behind MS exchange server [...]

Oct. 22 — Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes music software rips and burns songs. It’s links you to a legal music store. It’s easily downloadable. And now it’s available to the 95 percent of computer users who depend on Microsoft Windows operating systems. ITUNES FOR WINDOWS is as fully featured as the Mac software – and [...]

GLT Poliane provides many of the features that made audio galaxy famous. It connects to a centralized server, and uses a web based interface. It provides an excellent alternative to other p2p programs, and its small size means it won’t drain your resources. Read More

Hopefully this will be the last release candidate. There are a number of important new features and fixes in this version. Shareaza Goes Unicode Shareaza is now a Unicode application, complimenting the existing Unicode support in Gnutella2. You can now import, share, search for and download files in any language, including languages with non-Latin characters. [...]

In an effort to improve its corporate reputation, adware company Gator has launched a legal offensive to divorce its name from the hated term “spyware”–and so far its strategy is paying off. In response to a libel lawsuit, an antispyware company has settled with Gator and pulled Web pages critical of the company, its practices [...]

Destiny’s Child taken to court over hit song. There’s an old saying in showbiz, ‘Where there’s a hit, there’s a writ’, and the latest pop sensations to find this out the hard way are Destiny’s Child. Beyonce and co have been slapped with a lawsuit worth 200 million dollars from Miami songwriter/producer Terrence ‘T-Robb’ Robinson. [...]

Apple Computer plans on Wednesday to release an updated version of its iTunes program intended to fix bugs encountered by some Windows users. The company is in the process of posting to its Web site version 4.1.1 of iTunes, which aims to remedy some initial glitches with the jukebox software that Apple released last week. [...]

News.com‘s Declan McCullagh breaks down the current state of P2P in congress: Even casual observers of the moral swamp called Washington, D.C., may remember the notorious Hollings bill, a mandatory copy protection proposal last year, which Hollywood’s lobbyists loved and Silicon Valley hated. Because Sen. Ernest “Fritz” Hollings, D-S.C. is retiring, the entertainment industry has [...]

From the Shareaza Forums Shareaza Release Candidate 1.8.9.34 (Y) Available NowHopefully this will be the last release candidate. There are a number of important new features and fixes in this version:Shareaza Goes UnicodeShareaza is now a Unicode application, complimenting the existing Unicode support in Gnutella2. You can now import, share, search for and download files [...]