BadBlue 2.43 released
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 own upload [...]
AOL closes a Windows service
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.
Spammers have [...]
Peeranha 1502 Beta
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 it [...]
Regulators Seek Pre-Emptive Strike Against Digital TV Piracy
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,” a marker [...]
Hollywood Preaches Anti-Piracy to Schools
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 deliver its [...]
Senate to ponder permanent Net access tax ban
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 2001. [...]
Study: Most movies leaked on Net tied to biz
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
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 on [...]
EMI Music Canada puts a lockdown on unreleased music downloads (at least will try to)
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 [...]
Traditional radio stations have to pay royalties for Net streaming
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 [...]
