Johnny Deep and Madster (previously know as Aimster) have been involved in a long running legal case against the RIAA and the MPAA, a case that now looks set to hit the Supreme Court. At the end of 2002 Madster lost a preliminary injunction in their case in Chicago. Deep initially ignored this ruling resulting [...]

The noisy legal battles that once defined online music may be fading but an equally contentious public relations war for the hearts and minds of consumers is only just beginning. This week just as the Napster (news – web sites) music service announced a deal with Pennsylvania State University to offer thousands of students access [...]

Last Tuesday, in committee room A3G-3 of the Altiero Spinelli building of the European Parliament, just across the road from Gare Leopold in Brussels, a group of MEPs and administrators gathered to hear Janelly Fourtou argue that I should be sent to prison.Of course, they didn’t mention me by name, but Ms Fourtou, an MEP [...]

At an Apple financial analyst conference on Wednesday CEO Steve Jobs admitted that Apple makes no revenue from the online download service, the iTunes Music Store, that he launched in April. As iTMS is the leading download service, with 80 per cent market share (or so Jobs claimed), where’s your 99 cents per song going? [...]

Angry at what they see as a misuse of their funds, some Pennsylvania State University students are protesting their college’s new deal with the Napster music service. The new service was announced Thursday with considerable fanfare, touted by university officials and the company as a way to provide students with a legal alternative to downloading [...]

News.com has an excellent picture of DRM’s role in today’s digital distribution picture, including viewpoints from Scour founder Travis Kalanick. Travis recently considered running for governor of California under a file sharing flag. As the head of peer-to-peer content distribution company Red Swoosh, he was naturally curious to try Roxio’s new Napster download service when [...]

The US “broadcast flag” system aiming to prevent online piracy of digital TV programming will not work, say computer experts. On Tuesday, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that all hardware digital TV receivers built after 2005 must be capable of responding to a copyright protection mechanism embedded in digital broadcasts. But computer scientists [...]

From The New York Post: Less than a month after Pepsi announced a blockbuster deal to give away 100 million downloads from Apple’s iTunes music service to its customers, McDonald’s is close to a announcing a much bigger deal, The Post has learned. In a dramatic move that gives a thumbs up to the music [...]

From Cnn.com: More than a million households deleted all the digital music files they had saved on their PCs in August, a sign that the record industry’s anti-piracy tactics are hitting home, research company NPD Group said. NPD credited the ongoing anti-piracy campaign by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and said publicity about [...]

Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG said they plan to merge their music units, creating the second-largest record company as piracy and declining demand erode sales in the $31 billion global industry. The companies will each own half of the venture, to be called Sony BMG, Bertelsmann Chief Executive Officer Gunter Thielen said at a press [...]

ExoSee is a P2P file sharing program. ExoSee allows you to search for, download and transfer any type of file with anyone on the ExoSee network. ExoSee works with all file types including MP3, MPEG, AVI, ASF, MOV, JPEG, and GIF. Have easy uncensored access to the information you are looking for. Instead of a [...]

From BBC News “The final part of the Matrix trilogy is released at the same time in major cities across the world on Wednesday. The Matrix Revolutions hits screens at 1400 GMT in London – which equates to 0600 in Los Angeles, 0900 in New York, 1700 in Moscow and 2300 in Tokyo. It will [...]

Some 7.7 million tracks were bought and downloaded since the end of June – compared with four million CD singles sold, Billboard magazine reported. The figures show the success of new legitimate music download services. But some say online and CD single sales cannot be compared because so few singles are now released on CD. [...]

On its Web site, the Motion Picture Association of America provides a handy FAQ to help people understand the “broadcast flag,” the latest copy-protection scheme that Hollywood wants the government to mandate. According to the MPAA, the idea is a near-perfect solution to a pernicious problem — the threat that the coming age of high-definition [...]

Paedophiles are swapping thousands of hardcore images of child sex abuse in a new form of computer child pornography that police believe is feeding a demand for more real-time victims of abuse. The Guardian has established that the demand for child porn through the use of file-sharing technology – normally associated with swapping music and [...]

The stable version 0.93 of gtk-gnutella was released. Changes include full partial file sharing, support for GGEP altlocs and static hostnames (for example dyndns.org) More information can be found on the GTKG homepage Supported operating systems include Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin/PowerPC, Solaris 8/SPARC, Tru64 Unix/Alpha and SGI IRIX 6.2/mips.

Although we aren’t responsible for the development of WinMX 4.0, despite the impression of some, there’s a bit of news from FrontCode that requires additional patience. Read more at Slyck.com

November 3, 2003, 3:40 PM PT (Reuters) Even as entertainment companies remain locked in legal battles against file-sharing services, some are quietly experimenting with ways to use the networks to their advantage. One company, called BigChampagne, is tracking music downloads for radio giant Clear Channel. Another, Jun Group, is deliberately releasing music to Web file [...]

Legitimate downloads of songs has now exceeded sales of CD singles in the United States according to this BBC News Story. “Music fans in the US are buying almost twice as many singles in digital form over the internet as they are on CDs from stores, according to a report. Some 7.7 million tracks were [...]

Create a personal Peer-to-Peer network that lets you retrieve and update documents between your computers or share your files (photos, reports, etc.) with family, friends, and colleagues. How FolderShare Works: A FolderShare Library is the center of your own private Peer-to-Peer network.Create a Library with invited friends/colleagues and build a collection of files (documents, photos, [...]