The Recording Industry Association of America yesterday hired the director of the ATF to handle its own law-enforcement issues. Bradley Buckles, who headed the ATF for the past four years, will lead the RIAA’s Anti-Piracy Unit. Just call it the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and File-Sharing. “Brad’s appointment should signal to everyone that we continue [...]

A Los Angeles police captain with 28 years at the department was arrested at the Hollywood Area station today for allegedly selling pirated and counterfeit DVD movies. Julie D. Nelson, 52, was booked at the La Palma Police Department after investigators there found more than 100 DVDs of mostly current titles in her home in [...]

Yeah I know it’s been a while since I did some software guys, so I figured I’d throw this together.  Perfect for Universities, Colleges, High Schools, Businesses, etc. with things blocked. It works in almost all locations.Features:ZERO network configuration (it configures itself)does not rely on UDP (for networks that have it turned off)adjusts to filtering [...]

DRINKS giant Coca-Cola is launching a music download site — with songs costing 99 cents a track. The company announced yesterday it will offer 250,000 tracks by 8,500 artists from next month — the internet’s largest collection of legal downloads. Users of mycokemusic.com must be over 18, and pay with credit or debit cards. A [...]

While Kazaa Lite’s future in the P2P world remains in deep question, the fight against spyware and adware doesn’t end with this client. For almost two years DietK, formerly known as Diet Kaza, has been turning those official Kazaa Media Desktops into spyware/adware-free clients with all the functionality of Kazaa Lite. Change Log: v2.60 — [...]

Major retailers such as Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Circuit City are selling some new releases for less than $10, a price not seen consistently in a decade. Universal Music Group, the world’s biggest music company with artists such as Eminem (news – web sites), Shania Twain and Jay-Z, has cut wholesale and suggested list prices [...]

Earlier this year, a judge ruled that major US record companies engaged in price-fixing and a $143 million settlement was agreed to. The 3.5 million customers who bought CDs between 1995 and 2000 and registered will receive checks for $12.60 each. The entire cash payout to consumers amounts $44 million and $75 million is going [...]

MLDONKEY V. 2.5.4.2. (Kazaa, Edonkey, Gnutella1/2, Bittorrent, WASTE) MLdonkey is a powerful peer 2 peer (p2p) application for accessing the Edonkey2000 network as well as a others like FastTrack (KAZAA), Bittorrent and Gnutella2 (SAHREAZA). The opensource MLdonkey p2p client is being developed for Running on Windows, but is also compiled and running on Linux and [...]

Several proposals to collect money from Internet service subscribers to pay for online music swapping are bubbling to public attention in the United States and Canada. A trade group representing Canadian songwriters and music publishers argued in front of that country’s Supreme Court on Wednesday that ISPs should pay into a nationwide pool–similar to a [...]

Speaking with RatFaced, one of the Kazaa Lite forum moderators today and our contact at K-Lite, I have uncovered news that the Kazaa Lite K++ project has been shut down by Sharman Networks on grounds of copyright infringement. The project, which had been set up to block spy and ad ware within the Kazaa Media [...]

A federal judge Friday freed movie distributors to send copies of films to awards voters – a decision seen as a victory for independent film producers as awards season approaches. U.S. District Judge Michael B. Mukasey lifted a rule imposed by the Motion Picture Association of America that blocked studios from sending the videotape copies, [...]

You can download it from SourceForge.net by following this link Or browse Release Notes and ChangeLog by visiting this link Changes: * Fixed disappearing queue items bug * Fixed displaying of upload compression in progress bar * Added compression ratio column and %[actualsize] and %[actualsizeshort] to log formats available * Fixed doubled name when downloading [...]

BadBlue version 2.44 – 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. Now it also includes OfficeSurfer… More [...]

Just when you thought it was safe to fire up your peer-to-peer file-sharing program of choice and troll for pirated MP3 song files, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is back. The trade group representing the five major labels filed 41 new lawsuits yesterday, targeting individual users who were making tracks available for others [...]

The recording industry has filed 41 more lawsuits against computer users in at least 11 states it said were caught illegally distributing songs over the Internet, continuing its aggressive campaign against online music piracy. The latest copyright suits this week bring to 382 filed since the Washington-based Recording Industry Association of America (news – web [...]

The recording industry this week claimed progress in a controversial legal campaign targeting individuals who use peer-to-peer networks, but the group’s optimism appeared to clash with at least some of the evidence, which remains murky at best. By some measures, usage of peer-to-peer software such as Kazaa has been cut in half since the Recording [...]

A new nonprofit organization aimed at welding file-swapping and open-source computing advocates into a political force is launching online this week. Dubbed “Click The Vote,” an allusion to the successful Rock the Vote efforts focused at the MTV generation, the group hopes to make digital copyright and computing matters an issue in the 2004 election [...]

Shareaza is a p2p file sharing program that delivers more Gnuetella firsts. It gives you the power to take advantage of all the latest Gnutella features, and keeps you in control every step of the way. Partial file sharing, real live upload queuing, ultra-friendly home tab, library organizer, more stability, more compatibility, power user features, [...]

Downhill Battle (downhillbattle.org) has teamed up with RIAA Radar to bring their consumer-information effort off the internet and into CD stores for the Christmas shopping season. Are you in? The Music Activism group has created 1″ x 3″ CD labels, both using the red white and black RIAA Radar design. One says “WARNING: Buying this [...]

I bet you have all waited for this to happen… The Gnucleus team (err… Swabby) Has released a new version. This version includes: – Gnutella2 support ( Click here for more info) – Partial filesharing – Tigertree hashing (along with MD4 and MD5 and the standard SHA1) – connection compression – Non abusive use of [...]